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what’s a value that I learned as a child that has really helped me become the man I am today and pursuing to be. And the one that I remember the most, it was preached to me by my dad is this, don’t half-ass it. Don’t half-ass it. Boy, that never goes out of style, does it? I mean, think about it. If you’re gonna do something, if you’ve chosen to do something, whatever it is, easy, hard, if you give it your all and you don’t half-ass it, win, lose, draw, get what you want, don’t get what you want, whatever the outcome is, if you don’t half-ass it, at least you’re not gonna have to wonder, ooh,

would the outcome have been different? What if I did give it my all? And boy, wondering that is what keeps us up at night.

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There may be some days I get up with poopy pants and I’m like, you know what man, fuck this man. Like, what am I training for? I have no race in the docket. Why am I having such a structured life, why? And I’m like, you know what, I’m good, I’m done. I retire every day, I’m done with this shit. And I sit around and I say, okay. And then this is my thought process. So you want to be normal. So you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world, not knowing the power that’s in them. Being fine with being mediocre. You want to go back to who you were, huh David? I’m like, fuck that man.

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If tomorrow never comes, how far would you go today? If tomorrow is not a guarantee, how far would you push? If you thought that today was your last opportunity to ever do the thing, how far would you go? If today was the last day you were ever going to work out, to ever be able to train for a certain event, how far would you push? If you were a football player in college and this is going to be the last game you’re ever going to play, how far would you go? How fast would you run? How much would you sacrifice knowing you’re never going to lace it up again? And it’s really not.

living with regret is kind of the point of the message is if I’m being honest man, like I’ve I live with some regret man and not just regret on things I’ve done. It’s regret on how much I didn’t do.

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All the shit that you have to do when you’re going through buzz training the six months of breaking you down and building you back Up, they teach you you could do anything just by by making you do anything. So you will Understand how you can pass your limits. what you thought your limits were are no longer your limits. That’s what I feel like is missing from a lot of people that are getting into motivational this and motivational that they doing shit. You got to go do something. That’s the number one thing. right is fucking action, take action.

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And so I’ve been suggesting to young men in particular, it’s like you want to get your life together? Take the path of maximal responsibility. Not because you should, even though you should. That’s not why. It’s because that’s the pathway of maximal adventure. So you say, well what’s the meaning of life? It’s like, it’s the meaning that reveals itself when you take the pathway of maximal responsibility.

That’s exactly the message of the crucifixion. That’s precisely the message. Pathway of maximal responsibility. And that’s a terrifying thing. There’s no difference between that and the dragon and treasure stories that are unbelievably archaic. The greatest possible treasure is to be found where the danger is most intense.

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No one is going to beat you at being you. If it… so one of the things I like to say is like, find what feels like play to you, but looks like work to others. So it looks like work to them, but to you it feels like play. It’s not work. So you’re going to out-compete them because you’re doing it effortlessly. You’re doing it for fun. They’re doing it for work. They’re doing it for some byproduct. To you it’s art, it’s beauty, it’s joy, it’s flow, it’s fulfilling.

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So, your brain needs pressure. It needs constant pressure. And stress and pressure is not a bad thing. We have this thing where we feel like stress is bad. It’s bad for you. Bad. You know, you need to relax, man. You need to chill. Stress will kill you. No, being bored will kill you. Not having anything to do will kill you. It’s much more dangerous than stress. Yes, you can work too hard. You can work where there’s no soul involved. I work like a fiend because I’m writing a book. And it’s a very hard process for me. And I’m working far too much. But man, I love it. It’s fantastic, right?

And it could kill me. The stress could kill me, gave me a stroke. But I’d rather die under the stress than be bored and have nothing to do. Okay? So, feeling that pressure, it makes your eyes pop open. It makes your brain focus. It makes you alert. It makes you want to live. It makes everything seem exciting to you. You’ve got to get things done.

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If you want to be really great at something,

you kind of have to be out of your f***ing mind.

But you also have to have an iron will.

Yeah.

You don’t want to work out every day.

There’s going to be days you just want to eat cake and sleep.

Yeah.

But if you want to get past the guy who eats cake and sleeps,

you don’t eat cake and you don’t sleep.

Yeah.

That’s will, dude. That’s will.

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Most people say now man, you know working all the time traveling man. That’s my excuse man. Couldn’t get to the gym You know, I got a good excuse. Sure. You got an excuse.

But if you want it bad enough, you find a way. If you don’t want it bad enough, you find an excuse. difference between winners and losers and solutions Where the losers find the excuse? Well, the excuse finds them something to make them happy to being second best, third best, you know, middle of the field. You don’t have to be that way, guys. This workout right now, about to go into Miami fitness, hit it a hit a gym workout. But this workout doesn’t have to be in the gym. Meaning this workout ensures that when you go on travel, you know,

you’re in a hotel room in your bedroom Wherever you are you get to maintain and build what you’ve already built the ponds when you come back to the gym You haven’t lost an inch not a step man. You’re still right there to win it.

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Be willing to change, to try something new. Keep your mind open and fluid and flexible. Be willing to accept feedback from your environment and correct your course. This is a key quality of peak performers. They’re not rigid, they’re flexible. Remember, it’s not what you have, but what you do with what you have that separates winners from losers. It’s not what happens to you, but how you respond to what happens to you that counts. In the final analysis, your response to the adversity of life is the real measure of who you are and what you’re made of.

The Greek philosopher Epictetus once said that circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal him to himself.

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The more you do things that are natural to you, the less competition you have. You escape competition through authenticity, by being your own self. If I had to summarize how to be successful in life in two words, I would just say productize yourself. That’s it. Just figure out what it is that you naturally do, that the world might want, that you can scale up and turn into a product, and it’ll eventually be effortless for you. Yes, there’s always work required, but it won’t even feel like work to you. It’ll feel like play to you.

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People are born and people die. Inside that realm, there’s also births and deaths on a daily basis. There’s a sunrise and sunset. There’s an ability to be educated in something. Meaning if you’re a typist and you’re typing all the time, right, if you don’t continue to practice that, your skills will go down. The words per minute will go down. You’re playing basketball and you’re shooting free throws and you have to align when the pressure’s on you. If you don’t constantly, when no one’s watching, drill it and drill it a thousand buckets a day. When it matters, maybe you miss.

If you’re in the military, you’re Delta Force something. If you’re not in the range, firing thousands and thousands of rounds. Well then when you pull and fire, maybe you’re not putting one in the head, one in the chest. Maybe you’re missing it. And maybe in that split second, it costs you your life. All these things eventually will be tested.

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a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. Now I’m talking about talent, like some God-given ability, talent that sometimes you have to hone and you have to work on and you have to harness yourself. And they just walk around on their phones, clueless to how powerful they are.

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Like I want to wake you up at 3 o’clock in the morning and go,

come on man, we’re going running.

Like I want to see what you do when you’re tired.

Let me see how you push yourself.

Come on man, get up. Get up again tomorrow.

Get up again tomorrow. Get up again tomorrow. The next day.

Get up. Get up. Get up.

Keep going.

How long can you maintain a positive attitude?

Where’s all this teaching?

You’re teaching people you can’t do shit yourself.

You need to show people that you can do it.

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But if you think about like a workout, a sprint, a whatever, it’s like, did you really go 100? Did you really lock in your mindset and say, if this was for everything, if the end state meant this, like, you know, my kids’ lives are literally on the line. If I do not run at absolute 100%, how far would I dig in? How far would I go? How hard would I hit? Like, how hard would I go? Like, what is 100% look like? And a lot of people never touch it. They never understand their full capability, their full threshold because they never reach it.

They’ve never sit down, they’ve never connected mind and body and gone, what is 100? Like what is absolutely everything? I feel like I did it for a long time. I’d save it for tomorrow. Like I’d save it for the next time. Like I’m going to save a little in the tank. What if you never have an opportunity to use anything in that tank ever again? What if today’s the last time you’re ever going to do it?

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As you grow up, they tell you that you were a chunky kid. You were a big kid when you were born. You were clumsy. And you start believing the fact you’re supposed to be fat your whole life. You’re supposed to be clumsy your whole life. And then you start believing the fact that, hey, because dad works three jobs and dad’s always broke, that you’re supposed to be broke. That’s just how it is in our family. That is not. You could be the one in your family to change the trajectory of your bloodline. I’m the one in my family. I’m the one.

And it is important for you to take that pen back that people have written in your book of life and realize there’s many other pages that are blank that you could start rewriting how the story goes. But you have to give yourself permission first, permission to heal, permission to realize that you’re not broken, that you are lovable, you are worthy, that you are capable. You have everything you need. There’s not a goddamn thing that someone else has that you don’t have. Thank you.

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In order to be your best, you need to maximize your physical, your mental, and your emotional. And we’re talking about physical, you’re talking about talent, which is great. And that’s a, that’s a, that’s a great bar to set. You need to have the height, the weight, the speed, the ability, the physical ability, but then you need to meet the ability to learn process information, taking lots of information to be able to apply it, take what you’re learning from the meeting room out to a field. And then you need to bring a competitive stamina to practice every day to be your best.

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The biggest thing you have to do is shut off technology. You have to go dark. Remind me about that is you have to be quiet in your mind. Get away from people. We love being around people. We love talking. We love parties. We love all that shit. It’s okay to be alone. It’s also okay to be unhappy. It’s okay to be unhappy sometimes, man. It’s okay to say, you know what, man? I’m fucked up. So you gotta go to the truth first. Who are you? Get really accountable and say, okay, who am I? What’s the truth about me? Get to that dark place in your mind.

Figure out, it may take months, it may take years. Figure out your purpose. Figure out what you wanna be in life. And then from there, okay, I have my purpose. It may take a long time. No one knows their purpose because it’s too loud. Find your purpose. From there, all right, you gotta start planning. People love the planning phase because it’s very comfortable. Then from the planning phase, you gotta go to execution. So the execution phase is what we all hate because that’s where the real work begins. And that’s when the failure happens and the failure and the failure.

But that’s kinda how you have to do it.

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You know, if you were 2000 years ago, you’re born on a farm, your choices are very limited, right? You’re going to do stuff on that farm. Now you can literally wake up and you can move to a different city. You can switch careers, you can switch jobs, you can change the people that you’re with. You know, you can change so many things about who you are and who you’re with and what you’re doing that there is infinite opportunity out there for you, literally infinite. And so it’s much better to treat this like a search function,

to find the people who need you the most, to find the work that needs you the most, to find the place you’re best suited to be at. And it’s worthwhile to spend time in that exploration before diving into exploitation. The biggest mistake in a world with so many choices is premature commitment. If you prematurely commit to being a lawyer or a doctor, and now you’ve got like, you know, five years invested into that, you might have just completely missed. You might just end up in the wrong profession, the wrong place, the wrong people for 30 years of your life grinding away.

And yes, the best time to figure that out was before, but the second best time is now. So just change it.

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Don’t need any weights for it. You don’t need you don’t need a gym membership. You don’t need any any barbells You don’t need any equipment. All you need is this motherfucker. That’s your weight, your body weight, and we’re gonna move in. is so many different barrages, Because, last I looked, The person that finishes the race with their handheld. Isn’t it about the You know how big they are how tough they are their potentials or perseverance? Meaning it’s not about the dog that’s in the fight, It’s the fight within the dog Well, yes a shitty situation. I gotta go to work.

I gotta pay the bills and support my family But you know, it doesn’t mean at the shortcut my success and what I’m doing. I’ll find a way to work this out How do you do that? You gotta have a little ingenuity. I provide that for you guys All you have to do is follow it. I promise you. when you go on vacation, you go on work, travels, You step outside the gym for however long you want. Here’s a workout that goes with you.

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I’ve seen a lot of people make a lot of things. I’ve seen a lot of people fail a lot of things. My point of view on this or my observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker doer in one person. If we really go back and we examine, did Leonardo have a guy off to the side that was thinking five years out in the future what he would paint or the technology he would use to paint it? Of course not. Leonardo was the artist but he also mixed all his own paints.

He also was a fairly good chemist, knew about pigments, knew about human anatomy, and combining all of those skills together, the art and the science, the thinking and the doing was what resulted in the exceptional result. There is no difference in our industry. The people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers.

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you know, worked really hard because I developed this work ethic in high school and I realized, man, if I want to be good, I got to, I got to wake up in the morning and I got to do the extra work.

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I don’t think people realize how much, how many training sessions you need to become like one of the most elite athletes in the world, in any sport. You need to dedicate your whole life. And my dad’s been at literally 95% of the training sessions since I was eight years old. So that’s a lot. But I wanna be like, I wanna be like all in. Do you know what I mean? So if it doesn’t work for whatever reason, and I think it’s gonna work obviously, but at least I can look back and be like, you tried your best. And that’s all that anybody can ever ask is that you tried your best.

And that was both feet in, I did everything right from nutrition to the mental side of things, to training twice a day, to the routine, to the sleep, to the physiotherapy, to everything. I wanna tick every single box so that in five years or 10 years, I can look back and go, look, you tried your best. And that’s all I can do.

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All life form strives to the max of its potential except human beings. All life form strives to the max of its potential except human beings.

How tall will a tree grow?

As tall as it possibly can. You never heard of a tree growing half as high as it could. No, trees don’t grow half.

A tree drives its roots as deep as it can, reaches as high as it can, produces every leaf it can, every fruit it possibly can. To the max. Every life form strives to the max except human beings. Now why not human beings? Jot this down. You’ve been given the dignity of choice. You’re not a robot. You don’t have to repeat this year the same as last year. You can tear up last year’s plan, develop a new plan.

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And I was talking with my friend earlier this week and he was like, what separated you on the football field? And I was like, I think I was, there was a degree. There was part of me that was a psychopath out there because I was extremely hyper-competitive every day. I didn’t feel like, okay, let’s get to Sunday. And then now it’s the time. Like every day was the time. And every day is the time to give your best. And even if it’s practice, do your best in practice. And I learned that in college. Like if I didn’t do my best in practice, I wasn’t gonna play on the weekend.

Because there was no entitlement.

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It hurts, it’s heavy, but it builds you up. Every time you wanted to quit, every time life tried to break you, you chose to stand tall. That’s what makes you great. Today ain’t just about a piece of paper, it’s about the grind, the sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whisper when nobody was watching. It’s all about those moments when you could have folded but you didn’t. You see, the underdog story is the realest story there is. Because when you come from nothing, you appreciate everything. You hustle different, you love different, and you lead different.

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You always do is you focus on the starter, the second guy. You don’t worry about what you’re focused on. You came here to be the best. I want you at this program. And if you’re going to be the best, you got to beat out the best. And he goes, you got to start working with this guy named Greg Hardin, who was another mentor in my life. Greg just came out with the book a few days ago. And Greg had been a sports psychologist at Michigan. And like, you know, we got to start building this knowledge and we got to create a strategy and a plan. And he would said, you know,

I would complain all the time that the guys ahead of me were getting more opportunity than I was. There was a certain amount of repetitions in practice. The starter would get 20, the backup would get 10 and I would get two. And I’d go in and I’d say, well, how can I ever get better? All these guys get all the reps and I only get two. And he said: just go in there and focus with the two that you got and make them as perfect as you possibly can.

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You only start really liking stuff when you get good at it, in my opinion. And you only get good at it by doing it a lot of times before you’re good at it. And so if you, this is why I’m a big believer in this, is that when you are starting out, I think you got to find the thing that’s the pain. And like pain motivates significantly faster and stronger than pleasure does. Like people are like, no, passion is the right way. It’s like point a gun at a family member, all of a sudden 10 out of 10 motivation, pain. And so like, I think people should use their pain more.

And if they don’t have enough pain, then one, maybe that’s fine. And you’re a dreamer and that’s okay. But I will tell you that a word that I can, I read in my like six month journey between when I wanted to quit. And when I actually quit, there was this word that just like pissed me off. And it was this in the self-help or entrepreneur book. And it said, there are entrepreneurs and there are watcher partners.

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difference between me and the other kids is that they would go to chess practice. they would maybe even do their homework, but they weren’t living and breathing sort of the game that in the way that I was. I think about it all the time, like I’m thinking about the game while I’m sitting on this chair, like I’m still analyzing a game that I played today, like it never goes completely out of my mind. And I think a lot of very good chess players do that, but like casual chess players, no of course not.

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It’s up to the individual to allow the dreariness to set inside. Do we worry about external factors or do we worry about what’s inside of ourselves? Those two different things are the two measures of confidence, positive and negative confidence. Negative confidence is the egocentric person. Basis is all their performance trying to achieve third party’s agreeability, their likeness, their thumbs up, because we value their opinion. Those kind of people allow this mood and the weather and everything that’s set in to dictate their performance of the day.

There’s also another side, the positive side of confidence starts from within. That’s called pride. That doesn’t value rain, sun, if there’s someone in the corner looking at them, if it’s five in the morning, five in the afternoon, that pride is always awake, always turning, always burning for the ideology of greatness to be matured into reality.

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So many people just want it the easy way it I’m sorry man. It’s not so what they start to do is they build this narrative It’s okay When the narrative should be you need to fucking work harder. You need to fucking discipline your mind better We need to help people more than just saying it’s okay It’s okay that you’re not fucking willing to fucking help yourself out. That’s not okay. It’s not okay. It’s not acceptable.

Even though it’s your life if that’s if that’s acceptable that’s unacceptable and There’s a lot of people in this world me included that if I accepted that I wouldn’t be anywhere So yeah, a lot of people just can they start creating a narrative about themselves that make it? Okay, the ultimate get out jail free card. and now the world is set up to have so many get out jail free cards. Everything is okay and you can’t say a motherfucking thing about it.

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It’s very easy to take credit for the thinking. The doing is more concrete, but it’s very easy for somebody to say, oh, I thought of this three years ago. But usually when you dig a little deeper, you find that the people that really did it were also the people that really worked through the hard intellectual problems as well.

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So today, I want you to do three things. Stay humble, never forget where you came from. Stay hungry, keep that fire in your soul. And stay true, always be real with yourself and the world. Because the world don’t need no more copies. It need originals, and trust me, ain’t nobody else that can do what you do like you do. Smile wide, hold your head high, and when they ask you how you made it, you tell them, I believed in myself when nobody else did. Keep pushing, keep winning, and remember, it’s always the underdogs who end up running the game. Trust me, that’s why I’m running the game.

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The point is that there’s some games you don’t get to play unless you’re all in. And the other thing that’s so interesting about being alive is that you’re all in.

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is that we need these things to perform. But we don’t take a second to realize the purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us because the very purpose is you. You are always the purpose. There may be another purpose, like being a SEAL or going to college or whatever, but the main purpose in life is you. So if you wake up in the morning and you don’t want to do something, you don’t care enough about yourself. And that’s what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself? Because that is the number one purpose in life, is to better oneself.

So that’s the only purpose I fucking need. So the reason I get up every day, even though there’s no races, there’s no school, there’s nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself.

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Most people are sleeping right now because it’s dreary. You know, if you look at 365 days of the year, a good third of them are dreary. One third of your opportunity becomes something this year. You’re going to let it pass by? You’re going to get the fuck out of bed and make it happen. You might think that bed’s warm. Feels all comfortable. You come here, you kill it. Give it everything you have. Leave it all here. The warmth you feel after that? Second to none, man. Second to none. No chic can provide that comfort for you.

When you give it all here, guys, and you leave it all here, you are your weakest state, bottom of the barrel. What’s about to happen? Your greatest triumph. You kill yourself on pride in here, leaving nothing to spare. What’s going to come? The growth of opportunity. There’s going to be sun out here real soon. I guarantee it. Let’s go.

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So I had to work hard to prove to my teammates, hey, I’m ready to go.

I gotta be there. I gotta show up. I gotta be ready.

I gotta treat this game like it matters more than anything. Well, when my teammates feel that,

guess who else has to raise the bar?

My teammates, because I’m bringing the juice every day. Rising time.

Exactly. So that’s what leaders do.

Leaders don’t have days off. They show up every day and they’re like, I’m giving my best. Well, why? That’s for me, great, but it’s also gonna make them better. And then when they’re better, we’re better. And then we don’t have to wait to Sunday to get better. We could get better on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, because that’s the competition. And then the season ends March, April, May, June, when no one’s watching, what are we doing? And if we’re all getting better, 5% better or 8% better, and they’re not, well, over time, who wins? The guys that are getting better.

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They’d put me in for those two, man, I’d sprint in there like it was Super Bowl 49. Let’s go boys, here we go, we’ll play we got. And I did really well with those two because I brought enthusiasm, I brought some energy, and I had a little more confidence in myself. And it went from two reps to getting four reps because those two were pretty good. Then I had four good reps. Then I got 10 good reps. And before you knew it, through this new attitude, through this new shift that Greg had said to me, focus on what you can control. Focus on what you’re getting, not what anyone else is getting.

Whenever you get an opportunity, you take advantage of it. You treat it like it’s the Super Bowl. You treat it like it’s game day. Go out there and treat practice like no one else does.

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It can’t find me, doesn’t even know where to look, and it dawned on me. Fear is not real.

The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity, Katar. Now do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

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that everything that you’re worried about is going to be gone like that. The people that are criticizing you, they’re going to be gone, you’re going to be gone. All this hand-wringing worry and concern over how are people viewing me, and someone said something bad about me, and you get so upset about it, is wasted time and energy. Marcus Aurelius says your only focus should be on getting better at what you’re doing. Focus on what you’re doing, get better at what you’re doing, everything else is a complete waste of time.

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I need you to keep talking about what you were just saying.

It’s warm on the couch. Your missus says stay in bed. It’s comfy. It’s cozy. You’ve got work later on. You had an argument last night. You’re slightly hungover.

I know every motherfucker ain’t gonna do what I’m gonna do. So this is how you level up. That’s how you level up. I know there’s a whole bunch of people with that right there. That fires me up. That makes me fucking happy with you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there’s so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours. Refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that’s where I gain the advantage.

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We’re on our mission because this universe, we are the center of our own universe. We continue to do the path that we believe in. It doesn’t change in a biased nature of someone else’s opinion or the sun or the… No! Head strong, confident, pushing through it. And in the end state, you’re sitting in the sun after a good workout. You’ve paid your dues today. Maybe pay them again later because it felt so good. What is that feeling guys? What am I talking about? I’m talking about the pride. That was a chest workout. Building a pictorial pride guys.

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Are your dreams big enough? Why don’t you dare to dream bigger? The first secret of self-made millionaires is simple. Dream big dreams. Allow yourself to dream. Allow yourself to imagine and fantasize about all your career goals and the kind of life you would really like to live. Think about the amount of money you would like to earn and have in your bank account. All self-made millionaires begin with a dream of something wonderful and different from what they have today.

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No one thought in my family that, or even through my friends or through my mum and dad’s friends, whoever was around us, no one thought that we’d ever be anything. No one thought that like our art could sell and we could make money that way and we could build careers that way. Everyone always expected us, especially my grandad, just expected us to go into the family business.

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If you’re good at running, all you want to do is run. If you’re great at reading, you have several books. But we don’t do those things that we’re not good at. So for me, I realized, shit, man, like I keep on running away from these things I’m not good at, I have to dive into these things. I have to become one with these things, and that’s what happened. So I owned them both, and I talked very openly about them both.

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It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result, but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment. Success really just boils down to this. You gotta want it more than you hate what it takes to get it. If you’re willing to suck at anything for a hundred days in a row, you can beat most people at most things.

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I was in pain every morning, really. Pain. Pain was never going away. All day, both sides, both of my Achilles. Just, I just, sometimes I felt a bit better, sometimes not, but every morning, I was in pain afternoon, night, for 10 years. So I’m at home with my daughter, and she comes, she comes close to me, and she touches me and she goes, you it! And she ran. I wanted to run, I couldn’t.

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Some people can sit around and wait for the opportunity to change, like this, and then they get the fuck up. Some people strike when that iron is hot All the people just keep on striking until the fucking blade so hot it slices through anything Some people get up in the middle of a snowstorm or a rainstorm Pushes through listen to their pride not their ego and what happens the Sun comes out birth of a new day new opportunities. We’re living. We’re not waiting for it to pass by.

I Said it a thousand times in this workout guys Your greatest moment your greatest hour Will be right after your worst hour is spare because in that worst hour to spare. Who are you? Who are you? You know one? The foundations that you build yourself on your looks or your money or your family or your friends have all left you at that point Haven’t they? What’s left? Just you Mono to mono who’s talking inside?

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Everybody, it’s Groundhog’s Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about three o’clock in the morning and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing. Not a car or a person in sight. People wanna know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from, there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car, there’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hating it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it. I’m loving that.

Where everybody’s getting weaker, I’m getting stronger. It’s not about the running, the swimming, the pushups, the sit-ups. It’s about what those things do for your mentality. You don’t get better on the daggone couch. You get better by coming out here and getting the fuck after it every daggone day. Stay hard.

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And these people that don’t want to, stay home, man. Stay home and do your thing. Good luck to you. I wish you all the luck in the world. There’s gonna be a small group of hungry savages out there that are gonna run every one of you over. And you can sit home and you can cry and complain about how you didn’t get yours and it’s because this person had this opportunity that you didn’t have. It’s all bullshit, crybaby stuff that’s going on. And the whole world, like you said, but more so in the United States like I’ve never seen before.

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Imagine spending 10 years of your life only thinking about one thing every waking hour of the day. We agreed not to drink, we didn’t do drugs, like we didn’t date, we didn’t do anything. We just literally obsessed from the time we woke up to the time we went to bed. That’s literally all we did.

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People, Earth, I need to say something, listen to me. I hope every one of you behind the screens or in this arena can feel this level of happiness just one time in your life. I hope all of you can feel how happy I am just one time in your life. But guess what? You’ll never feel this level of happiness if you don’t go for something in your own life when they knock you down, when they try to hit on you, when they talk about you and they try to put their foot on your neck. If you stay down, you will never ever get that resolve.

Fortify your mind and feel this level of happiness as you rise one time in your life, but I’m blessed to be able to feel this again and again and again and again and again.

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See in your life Everybody has a turn back moment. You have a moment where you could go forward or you can give up. But the thing you have to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up, The guarantee is it will never happen. That’s the guarantee of quitting: that it will never happen, No way under the Sun the only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you never Give up no matter what Because God is always coming He’s never too late at at your worst moment look man When they told me I had to be in New York. I saw no way I could get there. But that God don’t.

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If everybody who’s like at the bottom and feels like they have nothing going for them, reframe that as I have nothing going for me, which also means that I have nothing to lose by taking action, it makes you a much more dangerous person. And I think that was the flip that I’ve had repeatedly shown to me in my life that allowed me to take the step that I was afraid to take.

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Whatever I’m afraid to do, I do it. And that’s how it is. I was afraid for the Rory fight. I was scared of the fight. I was 100 pounds overweight. I was however old, 54, 53. And I said, let’s do it. Anything I’m afraid of, I confront it. And that’s my personality. Like right now, I’m scared to death. But as the fight gets closer, the less nervous I become because it’s reality. And in reality, I’m invincible.

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What was the main drive? The main drive was, I am not like everybody else. I don’t want to be like everybody else. I have something inside which is burning. And I look around and this life and everything I see is not for me. I’m supposed to be something different. I have to be something different. And I’m gonna change my life with bodybuilding. I don’t know exactly how it’s gonna change, but I can continue down this road and be a criminal or not. And I have something else. The other guys, maybe they don’t have something else. I have something here and I want to do this.

And hey, maybe I can be like a, I don’t know, a British champion one day. Maybe I can have my own gym. This was how I started, you know, and then quickly I got very successful.

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is thinking this will be the story that I will one day tell. And that means the harder it is, the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story, and by consequence, the more epic the hero. And if you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen, and losers define themselves by what happened to them.

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I’m not talented enough to do that. Some people are. Some people can start at one. Some people don’t have to start at all. If you lack talent, you can’t sit back and say, I’ll start in half an hour. I can’t do that. I gotta start now. And then after I get back from starting, I gotta start again. And then when I get done with that run or that study session, if it wasn’t good enough, I gotta go back again. Because repetition is what taught me everything. So you can honestly outwork anything.

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Had to stop thinking normal. I had to stop thinking normal. I can no longer be a common man walking around doing common things. but no one taught me this stuff. It wasn’t like I had you know, I paid a trainer to come train me Jenny Craig didn’t come down a miracle my ass None of this happened. It was on me and that’s what didn’t get to realize. Everything you do, you may have some support, you may not, but it’s on you. You have to make the decision whether you want to be a badass Or whether you want just want to be mediocre and everything’s okay.

but being a badass hurts Real bad and that’s why I want to do it.

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That’s your moment. It’s not the all is lost. When you’re feeling the most trapped and down and nothing can’t go right, I feel like those are the moments that define you. Those are those character canon moments that are like, what am I gonna do now? You know? How do you respond to that? And thinking your way, feeling your way, working your way through those things on the other side, it’s like, you know, I don’t know who said the saying, but like usually, you know, you’re the closest to getting what you want is always the hardest. It’s always the feeling when you’re getting ready to, you know,

people give up right before they get what they’ve always wanted to get. People quit and they give up. And I will not be the person who quit before I got what I wanted or what I needed or what I felt I was supposed to have, you know? Like, and if that wasn’t for me, it wasn’t for me. I’m gonna keep grinding. I’m gonna keep knocking on the door until I get what I feel. That’s been something I’ve always felt.

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Because this is why it is. People forget about anything that you can think of. You need to love pain to be an athlete. And I know, no pain, no this, whatever, all the, you know, the, oh my. No, this is real. You need to love pain. However, mentally, physically, love it. You need to love it. If not, stay where you are.

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the greatest achievement of somebody comes right after their worst defeat. When they hit rock bottom, hit the bottom of the barrel, they got nothing left. Everyone’s giving up on them. They’ve lost all their worldly possessions. They’re dead broke on their back. It’s at that point guys, when everything’s lost, that everything can be gained. There’s no more ego there, is there? They let go of, you know, what if I fail? What if it doesn’t work? What if I don’t like, what if this person rejects me? The animosity, the pressures of society, let it all go because they’ve lost it all.

They’re just now left with the intestinal fortitude, the pride within, do I wanna stay on the bottom of this barrel or climb the fuck out of this hole? And that is a spark of what turns out to be their greatest moment, their greatest hour.

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It’s so easy to be great nowadays my friend because most people are weak Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile. Most people don’t want to find that extra because it sucks. It’s miserable It’s lonely you talk about that. You were kind of you know lonely by yourself. I Was the same way and that used to hurt me growing up now. I can thrive in that shit. That’s the only place to be.

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That’s what it takes to do anything successfully in life. You’ve got to want it as bad as you want to breathe. And if you want it that bad, if you’re willing to give it that much, you get a big piece of what you want. And life and dreams do come true. Anything you want can happen and become a reality. I believe that sincerely, and I’ll die on that thought, okay? And I say that not from something I read, that’s from something I lived.

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Every time you tell your sad, pathetic story, all you do is you reinforce the fact That you’re sad. You’re pathetic. You’re undeserving.

Effectively you reinforce the fact that you’re okay with being a loser. I don’t want you to be a fucking loser. What if you told people the story of: hey, I had a fucked-up life, but I don’t want to tell you that. I’m gonna tell you what I’m gonna do next and I’m gonna go out and do it Right? that is what self-development is about. that is what peak performance is about. that is what breaking through self-limiting beliefs is about is Rewriting the story, because as long as you have breath in your lungs, as long as your heart is beating, as long as you have consciousness in your mind,

You can go and rewrite the story of how your life ends and how your life Continues from this day forward, the legacy that you live.

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Wherever you want to go, to ensure when you come back to the gym it’s like that best friend you haven’t seen forever Years go by when you see him: boom, not seconds past, not second will pass. you won’t miss a step When you’re progression for success in the gym. this workout, the bodyweight beatdown, full bodyweight stuff Six part module meaning there’s six parts of the body. We got shoulders, which is a push. We got back, which is a pull. chest, another push. arms, basically, with bicep stuff, triceps, We’re gonna do a pull right there, hit dominoes in a lake- six things.

We’ll do two cycles of that round Robin’s. all two sets per each exercise For one rotation, one cycle. then we’ll go into the next cycle, every single set to failure.

Then when you come back to the gym I’ll get you stronger than you were when you left. like that that works, man.

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So what if you were molested? So what if you were beaten? So what if you were mentally and emotionally abused? Those are all superpowers now because you are the type of person that went through that and came out the other side a stronger person. You have more resiliency, you are more resourceful than people that have not gone and suffered through adversity and abuse. That’s the reality. We are more resilient. We are more emotionally strong, mentally tough, and we can deal with so much shit, but we have to first let go of the mental

crippling crutch that we carry, which is this victim mind hood, right? When I let go of that 10 years ago, that I was a victim of sexual abuse, that I was a victim of physical abuse, that I was a victim of being bullied, that I was a victim in every category, and I realized, you know what? All those things I went through and I’m still standing. I’m still going strong.

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I got to a point I’d be running. I was like, okay, man, we could do 10 miles today. I Get I get to 10 miles back on I’m a fucker that fucking demon that I let out every fucking morning that walks the streets at night He comes saying no bitch not today, man There’s somebody out there that you don’t know have never fucking met in your entire life That is doing 12 13 14. You’re gonna do another one, And when you meet him You ain’t gonna be fucking ready. So Goggins kept on running.

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I knew I was going to do something different, and I knew I had to put my heart and soul into this bodybuilding. I had to change my life. I had to. I didn’t want to. I had to. It was my destiny. And, honestly, looking back on my life, it’s almost like a movie that played out that was predetermined. Deep down, I knew this was going to happen. I knew that I was destined for something different, and that was the motivation. Change my life. Get out of this, everything what’s around me. I don’t want it. And for me, this was a huge motivation. Do or die, really, like, this is not for me.

And this is what I’m supposed to do. This is what I’m good at, and I love doing it.

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And I want to see you develop into the 2.0 version of yourself. And that only happens when you are ready to let go of living like an average human and start living like a savage who deserves success, abundance, happiness, security, prosperity, legacy, meaning, fulfillment, significance, purpose. Doesn’t that sound sexy? Like you’re either going to play video games, sitting on a couch, having fucking Cheeto dust in your belly button. That’s going to be the highlight of your day, telling your sad victim story to others.

Or you could literally take the pen back and start rewriting the story of how your life goes from this day forward. That takes fucking work. And if you’re willing to do the work, you will achieve the outcome.

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You have to go to a different focus. The focus has to be so heightened that very few people, they even understand that, but they have it in them. They have it in them to go there, but you have to go to a place of fear, of suffering, of pain, of doubt. And that’s when your mind, if it knows it’s not gonna quit, it opens up. And once it opens up, that’s my 40% rule. Once you can open your mind up when it knows it’s not gonna quit, it finds more. It finds more focus, it finds more power, it finds more drive. And that’s what gets you through the 31 miles.

That’s what gets him so hyper-focused on that one little nodule to put his finger on. And that’s what you find in those moments. But without those moments you don’t know what you’re capable of, because you’re living a very unstructured life without risk.

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This workout is going to test you guys.

It’s going to break you too.

But in doing so, it’s going to grow you.

Just like life itself, man.

You go at things. You try them.

Even if you fail, you get back up. And you continue to try and fail, continue to try and fail,

and ensuring you never fail to try.

Because nothing’s impossible. Just the spelling of impossible is spelled I’m possible.

Today we make belief of that.

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Build momentum, build confidence and momentum with each good decision that you make from here on out. You can do it. Anyone can do it. We live in unique times. We live in one of the rarest times in human history where you can choose almost all the input that comes your way. Whether it’s the movies that you watch, the books you read, the podcasts you listen to, you can choose to be inspired. Do that. Do that and be the hero of your own movie.

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I needed was somebody to say, look, you’re a young guy with a lot of energy. You need to learn to control that energy, and you need to learn to put it into things that are gonna grow you, that are generative. Basically, two kinds of people in life. They’re winners and they’re losers, and the definition is this. Losers take things that happen to them and that they feel inside that suck, and they wallow, and they use it for self or outward destruction. Winners take whatever they feel, they feel it, it sucks,

and they transmute it into things that are good for themselves and for the world, period, end of story. And so when I say it’s like devil, God stuff, it’s actually that way. That’s how it works. There’s no in between where you just kind of feel lousy and do a little bad and a little good. And I think from it, what I said, the reason I said the distance from the ditch thing is over the years, I’ve had my struggles that have continued. I wanna make that clear.

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You have the time right now to repair that, to ensure the skills don’t get spoiled like some fruit and fresh and easy. See the thing about life, we’re going to die, right? Eventually we’re going to die, but our legacy can live on. The impact can be non-perishable forever, but it’s got to be built right. And we got to take advantage of the time we have right now. You guys that had busy days and you’re working out three or four days, but then you know, you got to travel for work for three or four days, then you come back when you weren’t able to work out, man, sucks. Because you have a setback.

You know you’re hitting hard and you’re getting good gains, all of a sudden you jump out of the gym, perishable. Use it or lose it. You must always use it, always maintain it, always build it.

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Be the hero of your own movie. If your life was a movie and it started now, forget about whatever financial disasters you’ve had, personal failures, relationship failures, what would the hero of your life’s movie do right now? Do that. Do those things. We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. We look at our past and we say, well, that’s me. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who’s learned from those failures and you can choose to be the hero of your own movie right now. Write down your goals. Write down things you want to improve.

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I believe so much in myself and I have a bulletproof mind and when I go out there I know what I’m able to do and I do it good.

Please do not offend me, I don’t need to prove nothing.

Even if I don’t score the goals today and I have a lot of respect for Véla.

He is a good player but you did one mistake,

you compare him with me.

That was your biggest mistake.

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It’s so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile. Most people don’t want to find that extra because it sucks. It’s miserable. It’s lonely. You talk about that you were kind of, you know, lonely by yourself. I was the same way. And that used to hurt me growing up. Now I fucking thrive in that shit. That’s the only place to be.

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I got, I’m unbeatable. I’m totally and completely, unequivocally unbeatable. But you didn’t know that before, right? No, I didn’t know how unbeatable because I’d never been beaten that badly. It’s like a fighter, just look at it as a fight. There’s plenty of times you go in the ring, you fancy the job, you’re unbeatable. It’s all in the head. Other times you go in the ring, think, this geezer’s too good for me. You’ve lost before you start. It’s in the head. But over a period of time, you learn a little bit more about yourself because you have more experience in different circumstances.

Then you find out what you really are. I found out I’m unbeatable. I can’t be beat. This is impossible. You can dent me. You can damage me. You’re never, ever going to beat me. I’m too happy to, I’m too happy not to exist.

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Nobody else at the moment has the power to change you unless you have that initial spark and say I must do something. I don’t want this anymore. Because if somebody is still sitting there and says no I want it like this, it doesn’t matter how many videos that person is watching or how many exercises that person is doing. In order for something new to come, something old must go.

And that old can sometimes mean let go of what you know until now.

Empty the cup and start from the beginning. It’s not easy to do but at the moment it’s the only way that I see how something that is blocked can be brought back to movement. You must spill the old tea and pour in new one. Then things look different.

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You’re not going to be ready when the time comes. It’s this magical thing, purpose, that we’re all looking for. But what’s funny about it all is that we need these things to perform, but we don’t take a second to realize the purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us because the very purpose is you. You are always the purpose. There may be another purpose, like being a SEAL or going to college or whatever, but the main purpose in life is you. So if you wake up in the morning and you don’t want to do something, you don’t care enough about yourself.

And that’s what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself? Because that is the number one purpose in life is to better oneself. So that’s the only purpose I fucking need. So the reason I get up every day, even though there’s no race or there’s no school or there’s nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself.

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And for the people who are listening, who do have, that doesn’t feel like they can change their circumstances with the way they think or they feel, just hold on. Just endure, endure. Look at things differently. Challenge yourself to look at things as the glass half full. Challenge yourself to think four steps ahead. Think your way through it. Like now we have so many tools. We have so much information. It’s a lot of misinformation out there, but there’s so much information to be curious. Find something that does resonate with you.

Even if it’s not in the world that you ever thought you would be in. Find something that you align with. Because everybody aligns with something. And that’s not an excuse I’m willing to take from anybody. Align with something and find your positivity, find your intuition within that thing. And be obsessed about it.

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If you want to be great, you want to be the best motherfucker ever at what you do, you’re going to be misunderstood by everybody because you’re going to be so fucking obsessed and so driven to get there. That’s what it takes. That’s the truth. It takes every second of your fucking life. Anybody says balance? Yeah, balance is important for a lot of fucking people. It is. But if you want to fucking go to that edge where people do not like you, don’t understand you, question everything you fucking do, you’ve arrived. When you are misunderstood,

to the point where fucking people think you’re psycho and you’re nuts and you’re this and that, why are you in the fucking gym at one o’clock in the fucking morning? You just got through doing an op for fucking 13, 14 hours at the ranger school, man, at the gym. What’s wrong? You will never understand what is wrong with me. And that’s why I’m so fucking glad you don’t because I’m in the right fucking spot. When people don’t understand you anymore. you’re in that spot of obsession and drive where people are like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?

I don’t want to talk to you, man, because you’re not going to get it. You’re not going to get it. Boom. Don’t want you to get it. Yeah. Don’t want you to get it.

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If you give up on your dreams, if you give up on your dreams, what do you have left?

Nothing. I can’t live that way. I can’t live that way. I have to live on the edge. If it wasn’t bodybuilding, I’d probably be a motorcycle or cross-country jumping cars or something. I don’t know, something crazy. But that’s why I’m in this business. It’s never been about the money. It’s always been about the love of the game and the energy I gain from it. And that’s really, you know, when it’s about the money, you get in trouble. Money should be a side effect to what you love to do. And that’s what I bring to the gym every single day.

And that’s what I work, when I work with Sergio Oliva Jr. and other body, the top guys and guys you don’t even know, and David Hoffman, that’s what I try to bring to the table. That energy and that thirst of where it’s not just about, oh, I hope I do well.

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How can you not love this, guys? I mean, exhaustion, sure, but how can you not love it? I mean, where else in life can you put work into some endeavor every single day and get a reward for it? It’s like going to the bank and giving them a dollar, coming back the next day, even later that day, and a dollar and a quarter. It doesn’t work that way in life, always. And here we own the ins and the outs, man. Non-subjective. Harder you work, the more you get. But there you are in here to yourself and honest, the greater the return on investment. It’s so pure.

When you’re in here, man, everything else out there doesn’t always go your way. You give it your all in here, not only do you create the body that can withstand the test of time out there, but you create the invincible will. Starting your day in the morning, have a positive feeling about your day, going out into the business world, the subjective side of the world, as you’ve already paid your fucking dues, feeling alive, you’re not just getting up and stuff. Invincibility, guys.

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I’ve been obsessed with getting my team right. I’ve been obsessed with getting the right personnel on the right brain frequency and getting everybody on the same page to accomplish these things that we need to go accomplish because I truly believe it’s gonna be better for everyone. I think it’s really gonna make an impact, you know? And so there’s a obsessiveness- that you gotta have to over-communicate, to follow up, to be redundant, to be consistent, you know, that you need. And I’m obsessed about it, you know? Strengthening my family, I’m obsessed over it, you know?

To lead by example, you know? And break generational trauma and curses, I’m obsessed over it. And I’m obsessed over every project that I lend myself to.

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As much as, if you were gonna, if you started suffocating in this room, you’d find every way to get out of here. You’d be knocking the doors down, yelling, screaming, breaking windows. Whatever you got to do to live, right? That’s what I brought to the gym. I don’t know why this happened to me. It was a gift. I didn’t have a choice. In 1970,

or date myself, 1977, we all, I went to Gold’s Gym, 50 bucks and a plane ticket. We all went to Gold’s Gym like anointed zombies. Anointed zombies. We didn’t care about the money. All we wanted to do was train together in the same gym.

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I’m unbeatable. I’m totally and completely, unequivocally unbeatable.

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If you show up, then you have a chance. If you don’t show up, the outcome’s simple. Never there, like an audition. If you show up to the audition, there’s a chance you might get the part. If you’re too scared to show up and you sit back at home, wondering what if and everything else, no one in hell is going to call you an opportunity, because you weren’t present. The winners always show up. They’re willing to lose in order to gain. Big mental thing there, guys. This body is great as you are, as sharp as you make the arsenal. It can’t do anything.

If you don’t have confidence in yourself, we all fall down in life. The question is, who gets back up? You go after it, and you give it all you have. If you lose, at least you tried, man. I failed. It’s 10 times more of a man than someone said, what if? Because what if never went to the arena? When you guys find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you. I love fear. And the reason why, behind every fear is a person you want to be. You want to be that person.

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That’s it. He’s that guy. He’s that special guy. Nope, and that’s the thing that makes me so pissed off in this world, man. The one thing, that only thing, gets me mad nowadays Is that so many people die with untapped potential because they think that someone else is fucking better than them. and they were born, You know, not with the greatest tools. You don’t need it. You need the ability to fucking grind your ass into the fine fucking powder, And we need that fine powder. find a way to build that motherfucker back up repeatedly and it’s possible.

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From a personal standpoint, I will say this, winning will cost you everything, but will reward you with so much more. It’s gonna cost you everything. And every decision I’ve made, I knew what the consequences was, I knew what the cost was going to be. It may have not been at that particular moment, but I knew down the line, if I go do this decision, if I go work with this individual, or I decide to do this now, somewhere down the line, this is what it’s gonna cost. This is what it’s gonna cost me.

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I need you to keep talking about what you were just saying.

It’s warm on the couch. Your missus says stay in bed. It’s comfy. It’s cozy. You’ve got work later on. You had an argument last night. You’re slightly hung over.

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It’s an addictive feeling to have a thought and see it come to fruition, to create something out of an idea, and to be persistent, and to see it, and to manifest it. Manifestation, I just love it. You know what I mean? It’s cool. So that’s something that I’ve been really, really locked in with. And I think it’s also something that is going to help people. You know, there’s always a, I don’t want anything that’s not multi-hyphenate. I want anything that I’m involved in, it has to have layers to it. How do you help? How do you educate? What’s to leave behind?

What blueprint am I leaving for the next generation? You know, I got a nephew now that is looking up at me constantly. Yes, because of height, but also because of the example. And he’s mimicking everything I do.

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You repeat that every single day. No one’s catching you, man. Separation between you and second place is forever. They’ll never be able to close that gap. But then again, the little things you do every single day that you choose to do could be the demise of you. All those little tiny hiccups, the little bit of bad form, all those little things, and what adds up to be failure or success. You get to create each one every single day. You get to say, OK, yes, that’s good. I’ll do that. But it’s good or bad. That’s on you, on your shoulders. I love it, man. Fucking rock and roll.

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You know, people need to have purpose to get up. They need purpose to perform. You need to get to a point in your life where there’s nothing on the docket. There is no 5K. There’s no, I’m going to get into school to be this or that. And still perform to the highest level. Because what people don’t get is one day that thing’s going to come up. And if you’re not constantly performing without purpose, you’re not going to be ready when the time comes. It’s this magical thing, purpose, that we’re all looking for. But what’s funny about it all is that we need these things to perform.

But we don’t take a second to realize the purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us. Because the very purpose is you. You are always the purpose. There may be another purpose, like being a SEAL or going to college or whatever. But the main purpose in life is you.

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Yeah, and as I’ve said since day one, it’s motivation is a feeling that comes and goes and it doesn’t matter whether it’s there or not. Discipline is infinitely more important. So no matter how you feel, get up and do what you’re supposed to do. That’s it. And that’s discipline. That’s not motivation. If you only did what you were supposed to do when you were motivated to do it, that’s leaving it to chance. But if you’re disciplined, you go do what you’re supposed to do. That’s the way it works.

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Fear is self-imposed, meaning it doesn’t exist. You create it, you can destroy it too. It’s an intangible. If you face your fears, guys, you will realize it’s not that big. And once you face it, you go, oh my God, man, I spent all this time running from it. It was so small. If I just faced it, my God, not only did I face it and I beat it back, energy’s never lost, transferred. That negative energy, that fear, is destroyed. It comes back and it’s confident. You’re like, what else am I capable of? What else am I holding my back from that I’m capable of more?

Or where am I running from when I don’t need to? What else can I overcome? You face your fears, you become the person you wanna be. You run from your fears, you’re not living. You’re alive, but you’re not thinking. The freedom, you’re not running the day. The day’s running you. You always be the fucking servant, not the master, guys.

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I have nothing to lose. And that was when I think in the last podcast, we talked about this where it’s like, if everybody who’s at the bottom and feels like they have nothing going for them, reframe that as, I have nothing going for me, which also means that I have nothing to lose by taking action, it makes you a much more dangerous person. And I think that was the flip that I’ve had repeatedly shown to me in my life that allowed me to take the step that I was afraid to take.

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I kind of was feeling pretty stale about the whole process, stepped out of it, and I thought, you know, maybe it’s time to get back on the saddle. So it just actually happened to be the most compelling best story that I read. It could have been something else, but it was that one, and it was good enough to go to work on, and I liked it.

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You want to know. if you’re a, you’re talking about young men that might not have any direction right now. go. go do something That’s hard. Go try and accomplish something. That’s hard. You may win, you may lose. you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what you’ll be better if you avoid those things that are hard, if You don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water And you sit on your couch and eat Doritos I?

Can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that Don’t do that. Just get up, move towards that challenge. whatever that challenge is, move towards that challenge and go attack it and you may be successful and you may not be successful, but you will be better. and the next challenge You can be more prepared for. and the next challenge after that you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

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you’re out running on a track, working out, and you start talking to yourself saying, man, my knee is really sore right now. Maybe I’m doing too much. Sounds like me. Maybe I need to back off. Man, my lungs are burning. Maybe I can just slow down here. I’ll do like an extra two sets tomorrow. You know, it’ll be okay. Right, that sort of stuff. Like that stuff’s dangerous. And that’s when you just gotta say, you know what? I’m not negotiating with myself. The deal was already made. The deal was made when I set out at the beginning of the summer and said, this is the training plan I’m doing.

I signed that contract with myself. I’m doing it.

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Every day is a new challenge, right? Every day is a day that we can prepare ourself even more. So for us, we would call it putting money into the bank. So at the end of the year, when we had a major international competition, we could withdraw that money that we had saved throughout the year. And look, I’ll be the first one to tell you, there were a lot of days where I did not want to get out of bed. And I guarantee you, if I ask the question here, if everybody is excited to get out of bed every single day, if I saw a hand, I’m gonna blatantly call you a liar.

Because we all know that is far from the truth.

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for me just coming from where I come from, bro,

and just understanding that, man,

I’m built different, period. I was built different, man.

And I’ve always had a discipline and a work ethic that I’ve had at a young age that I just kinda, I just apply it to everything that I wanna do.

So I would say that,

rarely go out, reading,

you know what I’m saying? Trying to reverse engineer how to be successful.

Like how do I start my own production company? How do I do this? How do I do that?

And I always felt like if other cats was out partying and I was home studying, I would have the edge.

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Almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year, but many years of doing work without reward, where they have to do things that other people find boring, and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting, that most people want to do during that entire season of their life. And they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most.

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If every day you wake up with this, see people are haunted, but they obviously like horror films because they keep watching the same fucking movie. I don’t like horror films. A lot of people like horror films. So I don’t say much to them. I say exactly what I said to you, right there, because I was once you. I didn’t like horror films, so I changed it. Some people are just, they become, like you said, it gets real small when you’re lazy and you’re fat. Your will, their will is so small that they don’t have any and you can’t give it to them. There has to be something.

This is what I’m talking about now, because this isn’t a hack. This has to be in you. Something in you has to wake up. And usually the only person that can wake it up is you.

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I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast. Because my goal is to be a Navy SEAL. I don’t have time to stay here and feel bad for myself for weeks and months and years because I’ll lose that time. So the big thing is know that if you have big goals and big dreams, along the way failure is going to happen. So how fast do you get up from that? And you got to teach yourself that. But the biggest key to success in anything you do is you got to have an unlimited supply of fucking fuck you. This drive and passion, and it may come from nothing.

Like for me, there was no passion, no drive, no nothing. But I had this fire that I’m going to be somebody. And it has to be there because on all those bad days, on all those days you don’t want to do it, you have to be your own motivator, your own coach, your own trainer, your own everything. So to do that, you have to come into work and work as whatever your work may be, ready to go.

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Passion is free.

Nobody can nobody can charge you for passion. Nobody can tell you what passion looks like because that’s all about you. Effort, effort is isolated. The reason why effort is isolated because nobody can dictate it. Effort is 100% in the mind. No coach, no player, nobody else can make you run to the ball. Nobody else can make you finish a tackle. Nobody else can do it. That’s why it’s the most isolated things in this earth right now is effort and when you finally figure it out how to win real battles is found through fundamentals. That’s what wins championships. That’s what wins battles.

Blocking, tackling, blocking, tackling, and today get tired because you don’t know what tired feels like.

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I’d say one of the strongest mental frames that has gotten me through my hardest times is thinking this will be the story that I will one day tell, and that means the harder it is. the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story and, by consequence, the more epic the hero. and If you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen and Losers define themselves by what happened to them.

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What I realized on my journey was a lot of us don’t believe that we can achieve the impossible. And along my journey, I started realizing man. I got I can tell some people about this shit, man Like I discovered something that some people have But don’t even fucking know all of us have it but along this way. I wasn’t like I said, I wasn’t a theorist I became a practitioner and I was like my god I’m busting down so many barriers of like I’ve learned disability Okay, but I’m catching up with everybody. I figured that out.

I figured out all these negative things in my life that were keeping me in this hole Like I gotta tell people man that hang on a second man You can fucking achieve the absolute impossible. You don’t need great parents. You don’t need, like, a private school, You don’t need to have this humongous GPA and all sorts of shit. What you need is the one thing I talked about my book, which is straight-up, brutal work ethic. you have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world.

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If you ask most people what their number one fear is, what do you think it is? Most people’s number one fear is public humiliation. Okay. I don’t give a fuck anymore. I’m not afraid of it because I’ve had plenty. And now it’s just time for me to say I’m tough because what does not kill you makes you stronger.

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And what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday, but you come to work like people like, man, you just lost everything. How the hell are you just fucking damn motivated? Because this is what it takes. This is what the fuck it takes. And you got to get it from wherever you can, whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated. whatever gets you motivated, it’s got to be here at the tip of your brain at all times. Because in those dark moments, you got to pull it out. So that’s the big thing for me, man.

I was always fired up at all times.

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The greats do things when they don’t always want to. And that’s the separation. For me, that’s what I’ve found. Because I can sure as hell tell you that there were days where I hated my coach. There were days where we got in fights, we got in arguments, we couldn’t stand what we were doing. I would do things purposely to piss him off, but that’s a different story. But I think that was just really how we worked. Like he was somebody who was so perfect for me that if I ever swam for anybody else,

I never would have had the chance to do what I did because he challenged me in ways and forced my mind to think differently. You know, for me as a kid growing up, I’m huge into music and music is a big part of my life. And I’m a huge Biggie Smalls fan. And he wrote a song called The Sky Is The Limit. And as a kid growing up, I believed that. I believed that whatever I put my mind to and if I was willing to make sacrifices and I was dedicated, that I could achieve absolutely anything.

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If you find a fear, the quickest, the easiest way you can beat it is initially, right when it comes in. If you allow it to sit, it will grow roots and start breaking you down, destroying the potential of the person you can be. Again, they’re champions, guys. It’s not their potential, it’s not their genetics. It’s their perseverance to always show up, always willing to fail, because then failure, that’s part of success. Success is not a marathon of life of just ups. Success is formulated through failures, through facing your fears, through falling down and getting back up.

That’s what creates the champion. Success does not define us. We define the success.

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So if you wake up in the morning and you don’t want to do something, you don’t care enough about yourself. And that’s what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself? Because that is the number one purpose in life, is to better oneself. So that’s the only purpose I f***ing need. So the reason I get up every day, even though there’s no race, there’s no school, there’s nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself.

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It’s hard to learn a new language,

But I want to do stuff that I’ve never done before I want to feel so uncomfortable I can’t stand it. I want to be able to manage it.

I don’t want to have a nervous breakdown.

But that’s why I have Adam here Adam watches me and says, okay, that’s enough.

But you know,

I’m very fortunate been very fortunate in life and bodybuilding it’s been great to me,

but What I’m here to tell you is that life doesn’t happen to you.

We all think that life happens to me.

Right life happens for you. It happens for you.

I mean, opportunities will come to you every day.

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So sometimes when you think you’re making the wrong decision or you have to making the toughest decision because you’re thinking about somebody else and the consequences,

if you think the price of winning is too high, wait till you get the bill from regret.

And that bill from regret is generational. And there’s a lot of people listening to this that that bill has been passed on from generation to generation and you are holding that bill right now. And somebody in some one of your generations has to pay that bill off in order for the generation to move on.

And the only way that bill gets paid off is you gotta be willing to make the hardest decisions.

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I think continuing to have the belief in myself and not letting that veer off since I was young, since I’ve been told from my teachers that I would never amount to nothing. The bullying or the things that you face, the adversity you face, the discrimination and just continuing to keep your head up, continuing to march on ahead towards your dream and never lose insight in that. I think that’s definitely for sure, the most difficult thing is keeping your goal and your eyes set on that and not being distracted, not giving up.

I think the easiest thing in life is to give up on whatever you’re focused on or whatever you’re hopeful for. The hardest thing is to keep going, but we have to. We have to continue to hold on. I would imagine for so many people out there that is probably the most difficult thing.

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that’s your moment. That’s your moment. It’s not the all is lost. When you’re feeling the most trapped and down and nothing can’t go right, I feel like those are the moments that define you. Those are those character canon moments that are like, what am I gonna do now? You know? How do you respond to that? And thinking your way, feeling your way, working your way through those things on the other side, it’s like, you know, I don’t know who said the saying, but like usually, you know, you’re the closest to getting what you want is always the hardest.

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Life isn’t fair at all. At all. So what are you gonna do about it? I knew that no one was coming back to help me. No one was gonna miracle me to be somebody special. Everybody that called me nigger, my dad, my mom, all my situations were on me now. And solely on me. So I had to start developing an indestructible mental toolbox. So I sat there on that couch and I realized, man, I am a piece of shit. And even though the world helped me get here, my false reality helped me even more. And listening to somebody else’s dialogue further helped me get here.

So I sat there and I had this bright idea, being 297 pounds, to go be a Navy SEAL.

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The biggest mistake a person can do right now, no matter in which situation you are, is to give up.

You might not reach the best best version of yourself in this lifetime, but a better one than you are right now. The main point is to find something that you are not standing still where you are right now.

At least prepare yourself slowly, step by step, to get out of that hole right now.

And I think there are so many different approaches also out there. I can only tell you the one that is working for us over here. But you have other people that you have also talked to in the past. I think if there is something in common when it comes to people that are not living in these holes.

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People give up right before they get what they’ve always wanted to get. People quit and they give up. And I will not be the person who quit before I got what I wanted or what I needed or what I felt I was supposed to have. And if that wasn’t for me, it wasn’t for me. I’m going to keep grinding. I’m going to keep knocking on the door until I get what I feel. That’s been something I’ve always felt, since having the name Michael Jordan and understanding that there’s another guy out there named Michael Jordan that was the best ever to do something.

And being teased and picked on about that and made me for a moment not wanting to play sports. But then it was like, nah, I’m actually going to make sure I’m going to compete. At least I’m going to compete. You’re going to at least see me. I’m going to be somebody that it’s not going to be, oh, his name is this. It’s going to be, oh, no, but he can play. Or, oh, no, he can, oh, he has something about him, something that is formidable, that is above average, that is unique to him. And it gave me a healthy chip. So it’s been good.

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A man provides for his family. This costs me my family. When you have children, you always have family. They will always be your priority, your responsibility. And a man? A man provides.

And he does it even when he’s not appreciated, or respected, or even loved. He simply bears up. And he does it because he’s a man.

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You know, what I have will not keep me on this earth for one more day.

I never looked at things as problems. I look at them as opportunities. Maybe that’s something I can say. You know, someone, ah, but she did this and I’m like, well, what an opportunity you have. Yeah, well, the world, you know, because they did this and said that. Yeah, well, what an opportunity you have to make a difference because you never know who’s watching.

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I think we are. I think a real man is born to serve and serve means provide for those that are in your sphere of you to provide for. It means to protect. It means to encourage. It means to teach and to train. And sometimes it means to step back and let them hit the wall. Sometimes the best service you can do for somebody is to when it’s all done, walk up and look down and say, did that hurt? You know, that’s that’s what they needed. But we won’t do that because it makes us look bad. And even in our service to others, we do it for ulterior motives, you know. But but yes.

I believe that very strongly. I believe I believe if you spend your whole life to yourself for yourself, you have no purpose of being here. This this planet is not in any way better for you having been here.

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Never forget one time. I was running by a graveyard. I mean, I was fucking just trying to become I was fat and I ran by a graveyard and I looked out there and I have all these epiphanies man. I’ve always fucking moments of like, of It’s crazy man, of this thought come always by myself. I’m always in deep fucking thought about how to be better. and look out there, my man, wonder how many you motherfuckers in there Fucking just are so upset with how you lived your life. Mmm, I can just regret how you lived it and I’m running at 300 pound man thinking man,

Don’t fucking die like this, bro Don’t die like this. So people wonder where the shit comes from. from me It comes from such deep thought, of trying to see what this is all about. what is this life all about? what am I all about? Why am I here? You know I had, I had to find purpose.

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Right, listen to me, Finn. She was right. You need to be a fucking man.

People get tired.

Working in a fucking factory gets you tired. I don’t go around apologising, do I?

There’s an empty space here to be filled.

Do you understand? So, be a fucking man.

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And that was when like the reality of the situation of like, there was no escape. There was no one who was going to come to save me. And there was, I couldn’t blame my dad. I couldn’t blame my mom. I was the one who had chosen this life. But the alternative was that I had to go back to my father of failure and have him look me in the eyes and say, I told you, come here,

don’t worry about it. I told you this gym stuff,

this fitness stuff,

this starting room, it’s for later. It’s fine. Just go back. Hey, you’ve got this great degree. Just go to the business school.

I knew exactly what happened, but what would have happened after that is that for the rest of my life, he would have had absolute authority over everything that I did. And that felt like death. And so that was what I ran away from when I was in that moment. Like whenever I felt like my back was against the wall and I didn’t know what to do. And it felt like the Instagram reels of like the motivation weren’t going to get me through what I was going through because no one cared that I was sleeping alone. I let them know I’m sleeping on the floor. And a month later,

when you’re still sleeping on the floor, everyone’s like, don’t care. Like great.

You’re pursuing your dream, right? Early days.

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You’re gonna continue being out, because every day you wake up, like he says, not like get the coffee, make the pancakes, kiss the girl, kiss the kids. You wake up, right to work. Immediately your mind is in action. No one wants to do that. No one. And I don’t blame them, but don’t be mad. When you’re laying there in your fucking bed, and you’re in the fucking hospital, and you’re 70, 80, 90 years old, and you’re thinking, man, I feel like I didn’t fucking do something. Because you did. You didn’t do it. You didn’t do shit.

You may have lived a great life, man, but you’re always gonna feel empty inside. I don’t feel empty. So call me what you want. There’s not one empty bone in my fucking body, because I have figured out that really, the magic potion, it leads to my life. And it’s very rewarding.

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How’d you become that guy? You know what I grew up not that guy Yeah, so a lot of people put a title on me. They want to. They see me now. They see me now as the guy that, with this shirt off, who can do four thousand thirty pull-ups in 17 hours, You can run 205 miles in 39 hours, who can do all this crazy shit. but what they don’t understand is they don’t understand the journey that it took me to get to this point, and- And What got me to this point was I was just the opposite of what I am today. I was that guy who ran away from Absolutely everything that I got in front of me,

but not many people knew that I had two people, had the Like. the real me was like this: very scared, insecure, stuttering, Got beat up by his dad, all this kind of stuff, And I built this fake person that walked around like my shit didn’t stink, you know, you know, Yeah, so that was that’s kind of how I did it and I do. process of time, I realized that I was lying to myself and lying to people.

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you don’t understand how hard it must be easy for you or whatever. No, fuck off, bro. Everybody’s got challenges. Everybody’s got things that they’re struggling with. Man up. Fucking man up. The world is as easy and convenient as it’s ever going to be, and you’re complaining about the fact that, oh, the existential weight of fucking living. Everybody’s got that. Everybody has to face this stuff. So… I don’t think there’s enough people saying, man up. Yeah, and I don’t mean ignore your emotions. I mean, fucking integrate your emotions. Talk about them.

Manning up also includes being mature about your emotions. It means crying in front of your friends and being vulnerable and open. This isn’t like some ancient archetype of patriarchal toxic masculinity. This is me saying, fucking transcend and include your masculinity. Transcend and include the challenges that you’ve been through.

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the personality of a person, the ways of a person, the thoughts, the deeds, the actions, is all based around his heart. For what is a man? A man is his heart. A lying, cheating heart means a lying, cheating man. A loving, merciful heart means a loving, merciful man. A living heart means a living man. A dead heart means a dead man. Regardless to man’s title, regardless to man’s wealth, rank, or position, if the heart is not great, then he cannot be great. But if the heart is great, that man remains great under all circumstances, rich or poor,

large or small, so does the heart that makes one large or small.

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They don’t care, you know? The effect that I have on the universe is so freaking small. Nobody cares. I’m the only one putting the pressure on me. Nobody gives a damn about it. So that’s why they help me to perform now. That’s how some younger guys, they say, oh, I’m nervous, how do you? I heard you don’t sleep well the night before. I say, yeah, it’s true, I don’t sleep well. They say, what is your trick? How do you find a way to sleep well? I was like, I don’t really sleep well either nowadays. They say, but how do you feel better about it?

I just know that I’m not gonna sleep well and it’s not gonna affect the outcome of the competition. It’s just a normal thing. You learn how to deal with it better. You’re not gonna change it. Just accept it. The stress is your friend, man, that’s gonna make you react. That’s gonna be on the edge.

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You’re a man, you are a man, stand up and be a man, make the hard decisions, make the sacrifices, make the unpopular decisions and become comfortable in your own skin. And if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with, that is the one person in this universe that you have full power, full right and full responsibility to change, okay? I don’t have the right, I don’t have the desire to and I do not have the right to try to change my wife’s personality and who she is. I don’t have the right to change anybody except myself.

Now there’s people out there I don’t like and if I don’t like them, I just walk away. I’m 55 years old. I’ve done without that person my whole dang life. I don’t need them now and I don’t have the right or the desire to try to change them. But if I don’t like me, if I don’t like me, if I’m not comfortable being with me, well, that’s a different story.

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I became obsessed. I became obsessed with being the baddest motherfucker that God ever created. Am I that? I don’t care. I believe it. And I was trying to tell him, once you become obsessed with something, obsessed, it’s okay to be unbalanced for a while. It’s okay. Don’t be all this stuff people say. You got to be balanced. To be the best in the world at what you do. It’s not about being a Navy SEAL, people. The best at what you do, you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of fucking energy and strength that you have to pull it off. Then you get balanced once you become great.

And then you help other people become better from you being the best in the world.

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I watched a lot of movies and I was really big into visualization and I always equated working out to struggle and I struggled my whole life but I ran from it. So I started realizing that I gotta start facing the struggle and I gotta be mentally strong for the struggle So that’s why I started coming up with like I’m training for life Mentally, I’m training for life. I’m not training for like So to lift 400 pounds. and I found out on my own pretty much is that through this, through through discipline, through self-discipline, through Repetition, through tons of repetition,

the same thing that you don’t want to do And that’s it. That’s the key thing through repetition the things you don’t want to do you develop mental like Like an armor for your mind start to armor your mind. Okay, we suffer we suffer every day It’s what we do. We do stuff that sucks every day. So then when the suck stuff comes, You’re ready for it, and that’s how I started coming up. you know, I just started being very uncomfortable. now It’s like a, just a way of life.

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It’s time, okay? It’s time. I gotta do something. Right? Try and save my f***ing life.

That’s what I’m doing. Okay? No one else is gonna save my life. Right?

If I just sit here and diddle around, what am I gonna have? Nothing. Okay? And all this sh**, like, what does it matter? What does it matter? It just passes. Yo, if I disappear, like, who cares? Nobody cares, man. Seriously. Yo, and that’s okay. That’s life. That’s life. No, for real. Okay? It just passes. It just f***ing, f***ing passes.

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So if your family doesn’t understand, why are you so daggone crazy? Because I’m trying to be the best I can to give you the best that I am. And it takes being fucking obsessed to where people think you’re crazy. People look at me and say, oh my God, you’re a masochist, you’re this and that. I’m not going to get into how bad I was and all these races and SEAL training. I had 21 stress fractures going through Hell Week.

21 stress fractures. You know what I did? I taped my ankles up. Roger that. I want to be a SEAL. So I did it. Become obsessed with being great. It changes everything.

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This man out there, he won’t give it to me. The head of the studio.

What’s his name?

Waltz. Waltz. He won’t give it to me. And he says there’s no chance. A month ago, he bought the movie rights to this book. A bestseller. And the main character is a guy just like me. Why, you know, I wouldn’t even have to act. Just be myself. Godfather, I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do.

You can act like a man! What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turn down a Hollywood spinoff, you know, that cries like a woman? What can I do? What can I do? What is that, Nonson? Ridiculous.

You spend time with your family?

Sure I do.

Good. Because a man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.

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The average man, I believe, the average real man, does not need to go get therapy for the battles and the burdens he’s carrying inside. What he needs is for those that he’s carrying them for to recognize that they’re there and to respect it and to be grateful for it. They don’t need to talk it out to get rid of it. They need the one that they’re going through this hell for to recognize it’s there and to be grateful that the man is carrying this for them. They don’t need therapy, they need gratitude.

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You hear people say, you don’t lose, you learn. And I’m really grateful to have a win and such a learning experience. David Goggins, he wrote me last night. And I can’t repeat what he said verbatim, but the basis of his message was, be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don’t be afraid of being hurt. Don’t be afraid of a sacrifice of some blood.

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to know that I’m gonna fight Saturday night not knowing if I will be badly injured or humiliated, I’m afraid. And then I realized that, man, I need to make peace with it and there is no shame to admit that you’re afraid because there’s no courage without fear. And when I made peace with that, it changes everything in my life because I made peace and I said it to, even in my openness, like, yeah, I’m scared of you but, no matter what, I’m gonna freaking walk the walk on Saturday night and there’s nothing you can do.

And the way you counter fear, whether you’re a fighter, an entrepreneur, whatever, it’s with the preparation. The more well you prepare,

the more you will build up your confidence. And if you have confidence, remember, confidence is not the absence of fear. It’s knowing that you have what you need in order to succeed.

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Fighting is efficient in close quarters, but don’t make a plan of fighting. That is a very good way to lose your teeth. There’s so much to remember. If you try to remember, you will lose. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water, my friend.

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Everywhere we turn on the TV or scroll through the internet, We are inundated by people who refuse to take responsibility For the life that they have created. and I got bad news for you: There’s nobody coming. There’s nobody coming to save you. There’s nobody coming to help you. A knight in shining armor isn’t going to ride in and save you.

You are the only one that’s going to be able to save you and all this time You point your finger and you say I can’t do that because I was born here Or I can’t do that because I have this issue or I can’t do that because they made fun of me And you know what’s gonna happen? Nothing, you’re gonna get more of the same. You’re gonna get laughed at more. You’re gonna be ashamed more, You’re gonna be frustrated more and you’re gonna really regret at the end of your life that you put off taking responsibility for yourself and building yourself into what could be.

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Like, when do you become a man? You become a man when you become responsible for other people. And part of that is taking accountability. And so like, I’m very new to this being a man thing, and I’m still not there, and I’m on a path. But I didn’t have no like, I grew up in a culture that told me going to war made you a man, going to prison and coming back makes you a man,

and making a million dollars makes you a man, you know, and it doesn’t. And you don’t know it till you’ve done all these things and realize, damn, I’m still a little fucking boy. Or been around people who’ve been there a bunch of times. You know, I don’t know nothing about being at war like Kevin, but I know a bunch of soldiers that come back and are still fucking little boys. Can’t wait to get back out.

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It’s not okay. It’s necessary. What the hell are we going to do without men? You look around the city here, you see all these buildings go up. These men, they’re doing impossible things. They’re under the streets, working on the sewers. They’re up on the power lines in the storms and the rain. They’re keeping this impossible infrastructure functioning. This thing that works in a miraculous manner. They work themselves to death. And often literally. And the gratitude for that is sorely lacking, especially among the people who should be most grateful.

You see university professors, especially of the social justice bent, who are among the most protected and privileged people that the world has ever produced. They take everything they have for granted, failing to understand entirely that there’s a massive infrastructure of unbelievably hard-working, solidly laboring, working-class men breaking themselves in half on a regular basis, making sure that everything that always breaks works.

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What did I learn about myself from the highs and lows of my life? The highest point of my life and the lowest point of my life, what did I learn about myself?

And I said, I learned that I don’t let the highs and lows affect me too much. Because we’re going to have wins, we’re going to have losses. We’re going to have successes, we’re going to have failures. We’re going to have good nights, we’re going to have bad nights. We’re going to have good relationships, we’re going to have bad relationships. We’re going to have good ideas and bad ideas. We’re going to make money, we’re going to lose money. All these things are going to happen. And if you oscillate emotionally up and down drastically, it’s going to be problematic.

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Listen to me, like I didn’t give up. And so I’m saying to everybody, we all go through pain. Some of us go through pain and it becomes our tombstone. Some of us go through pain and it’s a scar. And we live a life of reward. So I’m just gonna say again, 2025, do me a favor, check you. So you’re in the ballot box and you’re looking at all these options, doctor, lawyer, teacher, whatever you see, president, mayor, governor, do me a favor, before you check off any of that S&P 500 real estate, before you check any of that, check you.

Before you check anything, check you and go look at yourself in the mirror and go, yo, I’m my lottery ticket. I’m my ticket out of the neighborhood or I’m the broken curse. Like whatever you wanna call yourself. But the day I stopped saying my mom, my dad, this person, the police, the cops, the day I stopped doing that, the day I said you, check you.

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Just somebody at work you you watch and you look and people at work. They’re going through a hard time just hey, are you? All right Anything I can do to help just in your life in your life Be an agent for good. It’s kind of like people say I support the troops. I Support the troops. What do you do for the troops? Do you send them care packages? No, do you walk up to them when you see them in a restaurant in the airport uniform? And do you stick your hand out and say thank you for your service? No, I don’t do anything, but I support the troops.

No, that just means you’re not against the troops and Going through life, become a good man or Woman, all right. Now, there’s there’s that’s a lifetime right there study. Okay, but start, start working on that.

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the human brain evolved under immense amounts of pressure, okay? That’s how the brain works, and I almost like to think of it in terms of barometric pressure. So, in your brain, when you’re feeling that barometric pressure, it’s like, I gotta get this done, or I’m gonna fail, and this project won’t happen, and people will laugh at me. You work like a fiend. Energy, your whole body responds, right? Your blood gets moving. You accomplish things that would normally take you months. You do it in days because you feel that pressure. You take away that pressure, and you don’t know what to do.

And I’ve got like three years, I could do this or that. You just wander around, you’re lost, you have no energy, you have no focus. You know, you’re maybe playing video games, maybe you’re watching porn, you’re kind of distracting yourself in the moment.

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most people’s definition of work is a negative one, which is why they abhor it, which is also why they misunderstand so many people who quote, I’ll say quote here, are successful or ahead of them or whatever, is that both people, one person says the word work and the other person hears the word pain. And so the first step to like becoming more successful is understanding the language that the people who are successful are using. They’re actually defining the word differently. And so,

whatever that thing is that you actually enjoy doing where you lose track of time when you’re in it, even if it’s challenging, but usually it is challenging, right? Like it’s not easy because then it’s boring, right? Which is also why the uncertainty thing is so key, right? To not knowing if it’s going to, if it’s going to work or not, you are going to work though either way, um, is that the people who are quote addicted to work, make it easy to be addicted to work because they do things worth doing.

And I think a lot of it is coming down to making sure that you take the few precious seconds that we have to do the few things that are worth doing for the rest of your life.

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So I’m getting ready to board my plane yesterday and this NFL football player comes up to me He goes guys cash your question. How do you keep that dog mentality? I said me ask you a question when you were younger. What did you want to be? He said NFL football player, but once I got there, I lost that dog mentality He had a finish line in his brain. Guess what a true dog mentality. I have a dog at home I can feed that motherfucker all day long. He never gets full. It’s not enough you made to the NFL beat a fucking MVP. It’s not enough You ran a 5k win a 10k. It’s not enough.

You became a doctor be a better doctor It’s not enough. He lost 50 pounds go out there do something with it. Guess what? It’s 109 out here But guess what? It’s not enough. stay hard.

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Be a dangerous man. Now being dangerous is not being a threat. There are two different things, all right? And it’s not about going out and lifting weights and getting a bunch of tattoos and wearing leather jackets and walking around with your chest and shoulders up, hulking around saying, I’m dangerous. That’s very rarely is that a dangerous man. Often the most dangerous man in the room is the quietest man in the room. When we were in Wyoming, this last trip, I was talking to the neighbor behind me, the manager of all this grazing land, ranch land.

And across the road, he and his wife had just a few head of sheep, not very many, 10 or 12. And we were talking about, and he was talking about, this is here and this is over here. And he said, no, I don’t recommend you go over and check out the sheep. He has one of those great Pyrenees dogs over there. He said, that dog doesn’t know you and he might eat you up protecting those sheep.

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Well, that’s what I realized for myself was I wanted that comfort zone that everybody looks for, that pat on the back. They don’t want to hear all the bad shit. They want to hear everything that they’re doing right. And I realized that’s what kept me in this world. That’s what kept me in this world of not accomplishing anything. So, what I did was I became that big, bad, nasty motherfucker that you don’t want to walk into at nighttime. I became the roughest critic in the world on myself. And that’s what changed me. I literally saw myself in the mirror.

I saw the truth versus saying, you know, my dad did this to me from, you know, from beating me, kids in school from calling me nigger, did this to me, my life did this to me, my fucked up, broken foundation did this to me. I took that and said, you know what? Well, some people may help this happen, but now I have to own this. No one’s going to come back to save me.

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You don’t have to feel good about it, you just have to keep going. The feeling will pass, but you will remain. You are greater than your feelings. Going to bed late and waking up early to work for a few days won’t kill you. You’re not going to burn out, you’re doing what it takes. If you’re one of those people that push work-life balance, just remember, the people who like working a lot don’t care. I’ve never regretted trying harder at anything ever. Hard times last long, but an epic story feels like a lifetime.

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Who teaches you to be a man? But fame is a monster.

We all have these ladders or battles or roads we have to walk in our given lives, be you famous or whoever’s out there listening. We all have our individual challenges. It’s cliche, money don’t make it better. It don’t. Fame just magnifies the problems and the opportunities.

What do you say to these, the men around the world who are watching this interview from someone who is their hero, regardless of it’s from the screen?

Thank you. Stay on your knees.

Watch me, but listen to God. Don’t listen to me. I hope that the words in my mouth and the meditation of my heart are pleasing in God’s I’m human. I’m just like you.

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When I was in Ranger school, my squad got spot-checked. The Ranger instructor was looking for three items. One of my guys didn’t have the items, so the whole squad got smoked. The R.I. was sitting there smoking us, and the more he smoked us, the more my squad looked around looking for someone to motivate him. The Ranger instructor shouted out, I’m gonna bury you motherfuckers. So I saw that my squad needed some extra motivation. So I said, ain’t no grave that can hold us down, motherfucker. Ain’t no grave that can hold us down.

Right now in life, your family’s looking for that one guy right now. They’re looking for that one guy who’s strong, who’s that pillar for the family in hard times. Make sure they look around. They look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard. Stay hard.

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It’s funny because a lot of us want traits, right? We want to be patient, we want to be humble, we want to be, you know, long suffering, whatever words you want to use. But in order to, if I would say, hey, how would you create, if you had to create a human, what would you put them through to make them tough? It probably wouldn’t be a really chill life. Yeah. What would you put them through to make them patient? We probably wouldn’t give them things immediately. And so it’s like, we want these traits, but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it.

And it’s just like, do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing? And so I think if people reframe the period of life that they’re going through as the price that they’re paying out of their wallet, but the wallet is their time, it’s the seconds of life that they’re trading for it, then I think more people would be willing to make the trade. Because at least when I look at myself, like when I’m 80 something years old, I’m looking back on my life, I want to have these traits. But in order to have those traits, I know I have to go through these things.

And I think for me, that’s given me a lot of comfort in hard times.

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I was looking through these sayings, these maxims, and that was one of them. The meek shall inherit the earth. But I’ve been using this site called Bible Hub, and it’s very interesting. It’s organized very interestingly. So you have a biblical line, and then they have like three pages of commentary on each line. And so, because people have commented on every verse in the Bible, like, to a degree that’s almost unimaginable. So you can look and see all the interpretations and all the translations, and get some sense of what the genuine meaning might be.

And the line, the meek shall inherit the earth, meek is not a good translation. Or the word has moved in the 300 years or so, 300 years or so since it was translated. What it means is this. Those who have swords and know how to use them, but keep them sheathed, will inherit the world.

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Just like in fighting, I wasn’t Mike Tyson. I wasn’t born Mike Tyson. I got my ass kicked. I got knocked out a lot. I had to learn the rules. I had to learn the game. I had to learn to be disciplined and never give up. Don’t care if you get knocked out a hundred times, never give up. That’s what life is about. I wanted to be up more than anybody in the world wanted me to be down. I didn’t care about nothing. I knew I was going to be the best.

I’m proud that I’m ferocious out there when my daughter’s playing. I want to fight when she’s playing. Especially if somebody says something that I may consider disrespectful. .

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But like, man, it’s just the air smells a little bit better right now. You know, when you say you’re going to do something and then you follow through and you do it, not at the end when you cross the marathon, you finish it, or your hand’s raised. I’m talking about right now. The small steps in between the big successes that everyone sees. No one sees this. Right now I’m saying like, there’s a confidence to it, man. There’s a bad motherfucker that’s right here, you know, that’s getting ahead of the competition. There’s an overwhelming sense of fulfillment and pride and satisfaction with that.

You know, I didn’t have to shoot up anything. I didn’t have to drink anything. I didn’t have to go party or anything. All I had to do was just go work out. And now what’s going to happen is the residual effect of that. Not only does my body grow, but my belief in whatever my current endeavors are.

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That’s what I’m doing right now, that’s what I have done. The training has been phenomenal, my coaches, my team, everyone’s been in sync together and we’ve had a great camp and we’re very, very happy here. Obviously it’s good to be back in Las Vegas, I haven’t been in Vegas in a while. I’m very excited, very happy.

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No one’s gonna come back on this fucking couch and say, hey, it’s okay. You’re gonna be okay. No, I’m not. I’m not gonna be okay. I had to realize I had to take a stand. I had to make a real stand. And it was painful to look at who I was, what the world and myself created. It created a very lonely, depressed, insecure man that would do anything just to have a friend. And I saw that as very pathetic. When you look at the truth, it becomes very ugly and pathetic.

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But your energy is just being dissipated in like 20 different directions. So your brain needs pressure. It needs constant pressure. And stress and pressure is not a bad thing. We have this thing where we feel like stress is bad. It’s bad for you. Bad. You know, you need to relax, man. You need to chill. Stress will kill you. No, being bored will kill you. Not having anything to do will kill you. It’s much more dangerous than stress. Yes, you can work too hard. You can work where there’s no soul involved. I work like a fiend because I’m writing a book. And it’s a very hard process for me.

And I’m working far too much. But man, I love it. It’s fantastic, right?

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Going back to the work thing, another one from you that I absolutely adore. It just takes work. Shitloads and shitloads of work. Every time I try and dress it up or cut a corner, I get brutally reminded, the work just needs doing. The work doesn’t care who you are, it just cares that it gets done.

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And so a little gratitude for that is in order. And it’s very useful to tell everyone, not just men, that they have an important role to play, a necessary role. And that if they act properly and honestly and forthrightly, that they can put their lives together and they can help their families . And they can make their communities better. And that that’s not toxic masculinity, that appalling phrase. It’s what keeps the world going round. And if we had any sense, we’d understand that.

Instead of doing everything at every possible moment to label what we have in the West as oppressive and patriarchal. And fundamentally predicated on power of all the insane propositions.

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If I make money and I, and I’ve heard all excuses, cause there’s guys who have a problem with me saying that. All right. Um, but if I make money, I make money for me now I’ve got, you know, my wife definitely benefits from it. And you know, my children, although they’re grown, they benefit from it. But ultimately in the end, uh, if, if I’m poor all my life into making money, that’s for me, you know, but if I, if I pour my life into as many people as is fitting and I don’t know, um, their life is better for me having come through.

I ultimately I want, and I’ll never know in some tiny way I would. What means the most to me is that when you leave here today in some small way, your life is better for us. Having sat down and talked.

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When I was in the military, we’d go on these instructor-led runs. Most of the time we knew the start and end point. So on the way back, I started seeing people getting happy and shit because the end was near. But there were some asshole instructors that would hear the happiness and go right on past the end point. When that happened, everybody stopped talking, heads would stop dropping, and I started taking fucking souls. At that time, I knew what happened in their minds. They were living off the hope factor. They hoped the instructors would stop running. They hoped the water was never cold.

They hoped the weather was fucking good. I don’t live off that hope shit. I wish the water was cold. I wish them motherfucking instructors keep on fucking running. I wish for fucking rain. When the ending is unknown and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the fuck you are. Stay hard!

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And it could kill me, the stress could kill me, it gave me a stroke, but I’d rather die under the stress than be bored and have nothing to do. Okay? So feeling that pressure, it makes your eyes pop open, it makes your brain focus, it makes you alert, it makes you want to live, it makes everything seem exciting to you, because you’ve got to get things done. So I’m writing a book right now. I could take 12 years to write it, but that wouldn’t be very nice, I wouldn’t feel good about it, so I give myself deadlines.

I gave myself a deadline of finishing this chapter by July 31st, here it’s August 10th, I haven’t finished it, but now I’m working double hard to try and finish it in time, because if I didn’t have a deadline, I would take forever. Manana, manana, manana. Yeah. So create pressure for yourself is a good thing, you know? I gave a talk recently in which I talked about Thomas Edison, the great inventor.

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They all just synergetically go together into a movement, a force that’s very unstoppable, man. And with that success come a lot of people that are going to applaud you, but the majority will hate you, man. They really will. They’re going to hate you because your success is a spotlight shining down their misfortune. They fucking hate you for what you’re doing is reminding them of their missed opportunities and stuff.

So, you know, it’s lonely, man. It’s like being the only car out in the parking lot. But if you’re cool with that, man, if you’re cool with walking in the shadows of yourself and the only person you got is the man right there in the shadow, man. How you doing? Pretty good. How you doing? All right, man. Cool, cool. It’s kind of weird having a conversation with you, but ain’t no one else around because everyone else has faded way back then, way back there. You know, if you’re cool with that kind of walk of life, what’s out of you, man?

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And when we look around at the world, and we look at all the problems, and we look at all the chaos, we have to take responsibility for ourselves for creating it. You’re not living the best life that you want to live. You’re not the person you want to be. You’re not the person the eight-year-old you wanted to be. And I bet you’re not even taking steps to become that person, are you? And that’s what’s wrong with the world. That’s what’s wrong with this country.

We have a bunch of people that want to point fingers and defer responsibility off to anything and everything except the one thing that can change their entire lives. And that’s looking in the fucking mirror and saying, fuck you, man. You did this to me. You made me this way. And I’m going to fix it. And I’m going to fix it by controlling all the things I could control.

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I had a conversation with a friend one day, and we were talking about family and life, and I asked him, how do you see your kid’s future? And he said to me, my grandfather walked 10 miles to work every day, my father walked five.

I’m driving a Cadillac,

my son is in a Mercedes, said my grandson will be in a Ferrari.

But he said my great-grandson will be walking again. So I asked him, I said, well, why is that? And he said to me, tough times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, weak men create tough times. He said to me, many will not understand, but you have to raise warriors. That’s what coaching instilled in me, and so many like me. The strength and courage of a warrior.

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You are not ready. I know. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

May it be well with you, Mike.

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Children, gather round.

No retreat, no surrender. That is Spartan law. And by Spartan law, we will stand and fight.

A new age has begun.

An age of freedom.

And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

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There’s a quote at the beginning of Fear and Loathing that says, he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

And that quote, a lot of people don’t realize it, that quote is Hunter. You know, that quote is Hunter, because he had to get rid of the pain of being a man.

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A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control. And you know, you also see that, like one of the central female stories, let’s say, if the hero archetype is the central male story, there are variants of hero archetypes that are relevant to women, and one of them is beauty and the beast. And you know, beauty isn’t interested in the guy who isn’t the beast. She’s interested in the guy who’s the beast, and that’s exactly right. But she’s interested in the guy who’s the beast that can be civilized and disciplined,

right, and who can use that in the service, well, let’s say, of a family. And that’s exactly, well, that’s exactly how it should be.

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There’s 10,000 times more going on inside the head of a man than you have any idea.

He’s carrying burdens that you don’t have a clue about and he don’t know how to express them and he don’t know what to do about it and he figures if he puts it out there and communicates it, he’s just going to be shot down, called a fool, called weak, so he carries inside and you have no clue the burdens and the hell that most men are carrying inside and not even showing you.

I wish more women understood that.

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I know so many dudes can’t wait to get back out. You know, guys that we know, you know, warriors, but even warriors don’t make you a man. That’s right. You know, also my definition of warrior has changed. Me too. You know, I didn’t really know what that meant. And really it’s about bringing others back. And that’s my whole fucking mission, though, it really is just to like dudes who been where I’ve been or something similar, just know it gets better. It does like, it don’t make no sense. It doesn’t make no sense. It’s irrational.

It doesn’t make any sense on paper that I could have joy in abundance in my life, that I could feel any kind of joy in my life after being what I’ve been. It doesn’t make- The path isn’t clear. It’s not lit up. You gotta find it. Yeah, and also you gotta get the fuck out of the way. And that’s where the work really, really is. It’s like getting out the way.

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I don’t want to live in a hole anymore. It makes me feel poor.

We are poor, but we’re happy. Come si, come sa. Anyway, the views are better above ground.

Honey, I’m seven non-Fox years old now. My father died at seven and a half. I don’t want to live in a hole anymore. And I’m going to do something about it.

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I was trying to join a gang. I was hanging out with a bunch of Harpey’s members and was like fully jumped in and was a part of a gang and trying to talk to him about, he’s looking at me like, bro, you don’t know, you got a bunch of tattoos and like, okay, great. You got jumped in a park. You don’t know anything about this, you know? And he was generous with me. He could have just wrote me off, you know, as a person with no depth and no weight because I hadn’t experienced it in my life compared to him. But now we speak more like contemporaries because he knows how to bend to hell in a real way.

And he knows while we were talking, I was there. And this is kind of part of being a man. It’s like, you kind of got to get all up a little bit. I think so. I think part of learning is dying. I think part of learning is you got to die a little bit because what is learning? Learning is me giving up on my old shit, my old ideas. Those ideas have to die for me to be open to some new shit. And so me learning how to be a better man, I had to die a little bit.

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You need to work on yourself. If you just try to be pampered, and if you’re trying to be soft, and if you’re trying to be the victim, you’re not going to go anywhere. We need to get stronger. We need to get bossier. We need to get tougher. We need to not be afraid of failure. We got to go and do the work. We got to face adversity. Adversity breeds character. The strength and fighting and resistance does not only make the muscle grow, but it makes also your head grow, makes you a stronger person. We have to be willing to go through hardship, through suffering, through pain,

through crying periods. All of that stuff, don’t shy away from any of that because it just makes you stronger.

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Soft times create soft men. soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times. we’re. we’re in the time of toxic masculinity, right where you could be toxically male. and Then if you’re if you’re suppressing masculinity, you’re you’re going to bring on hard times You’re going there’s it doesn’t mean masculinity doesn’t mean you’re mean doesn’t mean you’re angry. It means strength,

it means Discipline it means the ability like like you need a military and if you don’t think you mean you need a military You need to go and pay attention to the rest of the world because there’s militaries all over the world They’re doing horrific things if you don’t have a military in this country that can combat that and at least Act as a deterrent to them doing things you’re gonna get taken over. That’s what’s happened.

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You were scared you’re gonna fail. you’re scared. if you started, you never finish it. You didn’t want to tell anyone about. you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it. until something Can hits, you, get fired or somebody else gets success, remind you what you could have been, and then the key spark is born And, no matter what happens, I’m never gonna be in this boat again. And you get up and you go, even against knock down, you keep going, keep going. you a wild man, and life has never been So sweet. that can happen in early age, it can happen at a later age.

It’s gonna happen to somebody. everything, no, no matter what’s gonna happen to you. And when it does happen to you think you’re lucky stars that finally you’re alive. It’s time to unwrap the potential. you can be Superior man. it’s within you, It’s within every single one of us, and the people that have that have risen to that level. We’re no different than any one of us. it says they believed it and they’re willing to work their keen ass off to get it.

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except the one thing that can change their entire lives. And that’s looking in the f***ing mirror and saying, f*** you, man. You did this to me. You made me this way, and I’m going to fix it. And I’m going to fix it by controlling all the things I could control.

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I learned that I don’t let the highs and lows affect me too much.

Because we’re going to have wins, we’re going to have losses. We’re going to have successes, we’re going to have failures. We’re going to have good nights, we’re going to have bad nights. We’re going to have good relationships, we’re going to have bad relationships. We’re going to have good ideas and bad ideas. We’re going to make money, we’re going to lose money. All these things are going to happen. And if you oscillate emotionally up and down drastically, it’s going to be problematic. So finding a good, stable,

centered way to be and look at the world and take everything that you see with a little bit of a grain of salt. And don’t get swayed too drastically in one direction or the other, you’re going to be okay.

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How do I want to be remembered? and that’s the problem, man. like nowadays, People don’t give a fuck How they remembered. they don’t give a fuck about their family. Everybody’s equal their mom is equal to them. Their dad’s equal to them. They’re growing- everybody’s fucking equal. So it’s a tough question to ask, because when I grew up, My mom worked three fucking jobs and all I wanted to do and she got her fucking ass damn near murdered It took her down a dark hole and I saw this It helps that helped me grow up to say all I want to do is Retire my mother when I get older.

That’s all I want to do and Thank God I did that. but the thing about it with a lot of people they don’t have that in them. The parents raised the kids very differently now, so the kids don’t have that sense of self.

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But Goggins gave me a really good reminder, just, John, you should want this fight to be miserable. You should want this to hurt. Be the guy who thrives in that. And I felt like I was that guy tonight. I had to earn this position. I think about the first person to climb Everest. I’m sure people died. Lots of people died. And I respectfully say that. The first man who ran a four-minute mile, I’m sure he was hurting bad. To be the first person to do anything, you should look like this.

So that makes the victory even sweeter.

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I don’t have the right to change anybody except myself. Now, there’s people out there I don’t like, and if I don’t like them, I just walk away. I’m 55 years old. I’ve done without that person my whole dang life. I don’t need them now. And I don’t have the right or the desire to try to change them. But if I don’t like me, if I don’t like me, if I’m not comfortable being with me, well, that’s a different story. All right. So it doesn’t provide all the answers. Probably doesn’t provide any answers. I don’t know. But maybe there’s a little bit of encouragement there.

Maybe somebody there’s a little seed, a little step, a little something that you can say, hey, you know what? I think that helped me. And listen, just be strong. Stay strong. Ladies. I’m not bashing women, but I am bashing this, this, this godless, hateful movement that is destroying this country and destroying the men in this country.

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So then you’ve got your faith, you’ve got your finances. Great, what about fitness? And on the fitness side, I believe that physical fitness is the gateway drug to emotional and mental fitness. Most people who do get fit physically completely neglect mental and emotional hygiene. And they are living stressed, overwhelmed, addicted to vices, or financially broke because they completely forgot about the other F pillars. And so that fitness is really about can you be physically fit? Because think about what level of focus, consistency, delayed gratification,

discipline that is required for a man to get lean, jacked and stay lean and jacked for a prolonged period of time. That’s a lot of you gotta do in terms of how you eat, how you train, your nutrition, your sleep, et cetera, your environment. And that bleeds into, well, maybe I can have some greater control, going back to locus of control, I can have some greater control over my mental health, emotional discipline.

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There’s a moment when every boy realizes no one’s coming to save him,

and that’s when he becomes a man.

And some boys never get there and stay children forever.

That guy was you that said that.

And it’s important when we step out of this, like this stuff matters because no one’s effing coming to save you.

No one’s going to make you better at your business. No one is going to get you to be a better persuader of people or framer of people other than you.

And I just feel like that’s one of the more profound philosophical comments. There’s a lot of grown men and women that are still boys and girls because they think someone else is coming to change their life.

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those people misunderstand the dynamic of opportunity taking. Why do you think it says, take the opportunity? It doesn’t say receive the opportunity. It doesn’t say have the opportunity granted to you. It doesn’t say get lucky with the opportunity. It says, take the opportunity. You know what that means? That means you have to seize it. That means you have to take it. No one’s going to give it to you. No one’s going to come and say, here, I got this path. You can make a million bucks a year or 10 million bucks a year. If you do, no one, that’s not how it works, bro. True high achievers,

they look for the lane and then they take the opportunity by taking initiative.

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You have control of this. This belongs to you. This is yours. You’re the captain, you’re the master, you’re the foreman, you’re the general, you’re the head. Don’t give control of this to nobody, especially the devil. Do not let Satan come in here and function and operate because he has one mission, to keep you off course, to make you not think it’s possible, to make you think that God don’t hear you. His job is only to destroy you, to make sure that you don’t become what God intended for you to become. That’s the mission of the devil.

Now, if you don’t believe in the devil, this conversation ain’t for you. If you don’t believe in God, this conversation ain’t for you. I’m not talking to you. I’m talking to people who are spiritually based.

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Because what I was here to do as a man, and men may not even want to hear this, it sounds so barbaric, that’s the pride in which you have as a man, is that you see your mom, you see your girl, you see your kids, you see all this sh**, you see them doing well. That’s all a real man wants. They don’t give a f**k about how they dress, how they look, what they’re driving, they don’t give a sh**. Because why? Your trophies are your family, and they’re all walking around. Every man that sees you, they see you walking in with some sweatpants and sh**, but they know your family’s f**king balling.

Because you put the f**king time in, you put the effort in, you put the work in, and as a man, we don’t want none of that sh**. We just want f**king respect.

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A friendly reminder that in three generations,

everyone who knew us will be dead,

including the people whose opinions stopped you from doing what you wanted all along.

Imagine that someone you know achieves every dream and hits every goal they have.

Years later, they get old and die. Two years after that,

how much do you care?

About as much as everyone else will if you accomplish your goals and dreams.

Do it for you.

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You’ve always known that you were here to create because you always do know what you’re here to create. It’s that little version of yourself that hides deep inside your heart that you are so afraid to even talk about because you’re afraid the people around you are gonna laugh. Well, guess what, mother fucker? They’re gonna laugh. And they’re gonna laugh more if you don’t do anything. You’re gonna get criticized no matter what you do. If you go hard, people are gonna criticize you. If you stay a lazy piece of shit, people are gonna criticize you.

So you gotta realize that it’s up to you to decide what it is you truly want. And it’s up to you to accept what pain you are willing to accept. Because if you struggle and you flounder and you refuse to take responsibility for yourself and become that version that you know you’re supposed to become,

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You have a specific plan like this where you’re willing to do the ugly and run the numbers, Your fear level diminishes to an extent. the notion that’s gonna go away completely isn’t true, Yeah, but there’s something about doing the ugly thing that reduces fear. It not only increases your chance of winning, but you’re like the possibility Mathematically of me losing now is rather small, But when you’re not doing these things the reason you’re living with so much fear is you know the possibility of you not winning is Rather great.

Yeah, and so you’re living with a fear that’s self-imposed, Self-induced and your fault, because you’re not willing to do the ugly, and I think that’s why sometimes, when I look back at those days, I Have that same look you have. there’s also an internal part of me that goes: man, I actually did those ugly things when I didn’t want to, when I didn’t Have any desire to, and I wasn’t sure it was going to work. But I was actually almost ensuring it was going to work, based on the math part of it.

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It wasn’t about the potential. It wasn’t about the genetics. It was about the perseverance And it was about being the hardest working worker in the room That’s what got him there and it didn’t happen overnight They got knocked down more than he ever stood up But they kept going and kept going and kept going and kept going because what else is the alternative to be average again? That sucks, man, and it really sucks when you’ve tasted success at one point in your life.

When you when you when you have sex with a woman and it’s the best sex ever you wanted to have some sex with her again When you eat a great juicy steak man, you want to have that again?

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Take responsibility for what you’re doing. Take ownership of your world. Take ownership of your life. There’s number one. Number two, the second book, Dichotomy of Leadership. Be balanced. Be balanced. Don’t be extreme. Extreme, look, do you have to sometimes get out there in the fringes a little bit? Occasionally, you probably had some business situations where you’re like, all right, I gotta let go half of my staff right now. That’s an extreme move, but that’s how we’re gonna survive. Do you have to do that sometimes? Yes, you do. But don’t let that be where you live.

Live in the center, live in a stable area, and then finally, discipline equals freedom.

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We only have faith in God and Jesus, so to speak, our law. We have faith. We can’t prove. You can’t put your life and say, I know Allah did this, or I know Jesus did this. But his faith enhanced us from a humanity perspective. And we have faith and believe people are good. And people can be good. Because we believe there’s a man out there, like maybe Jesus or Prophet Muhammad, or Allah. And these guys can make people happy and make the best for people and give us the best insight and give us the best rationality in dealing with the tragics that happen in the world today.

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Yeah, there you go. There you go. Energy, let it out. Seven, eight, nine, ten. A machine here. There you go. Nobody works like David in this house. 13, come on. 14, come on. 15, shut that muscle down. 16, come on. Get it. 17. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 18. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 19. They don’t know me, son. Yeah. 20. You got some more in you. They don’t know me, son. 21. Yeah, get it again. Come on, we want to see it. Good. 22. Who’s going to carry the boats and the logs? That’s you, buddy. Come on, 23. Come on, 24. One more, David. Who’s going to carry the boats?

You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You did it. Yeah.

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If you want to be exceptional, you’re going to be different from everyone else. That’s what makes you exceptional. You can’t fit in and also be exceptional. Both have discomfort. When you fit in, you have internal conflict because you’re not being 100% you. When you’re exceptional, you have external conflict because everyone sees you as different. Pick one. When your friends start to say, you’ve changed, remember it’s because they don’t know how to say, you’ve grown.

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It’s not okay. It’s necessary. What the hell are we going to do without men? You look around the city here, you see all these buildings go up. These men, they’re doing impossible things. They’re under the streets, working on the sewers. They’re up on the power lines in the storms and the rain. They’re keeping this impossible infrastructure functioning. This thing that works in a miraculous manner. They work themselves to death. The gratitude for that is sorely lacking, especially among the people who should be most grateful. You see university professors, especially of the social justice bent,

who are among the most protected and privileged people that the world has ever produced. They take everything they have for granted, failing to understand entirely that there’s a massive infrastructure of unbelievably hard-working, solidly laboring, working class men breaking themselves in half on a regular basis, making sure that everything that always breaks works.

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Everything is easy. They don’t suffer. And I think it’s… They don’t care. I don’t mean only a few in Manchester United, but all the teams, all leagues in the world, the youngest, they are not the same of my generation. But we cannot blame them because it’s part of the life. you know, the new generation and the new technologies that avoid, they distract them from another thing. So, but they are not the same. They listen, but this is why we have two ears. You listen from one side and they go away from another side. So…

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What I promised myself as a little boy, I said, I can never leave the gym knowing I have 5% left. That 5% is magic. That’s the magic place where very few people go. You can go there. I’m giving you permission to go there. We have people behind you. If you fall down and drop the weight on the floor, who cares? Who cares? But if you make it, I care. I want that. I want you to fail, and I want you to get up and do it again. The same thing in life is the same thing here. If you can do this, you can do anything, anything. Right now, you’re 5% away.

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The idea is a very simple one. The Mamba mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself. That’s what the mentality means. It means every day you’re trying to become better. It’s a constant quest. It’s an infinite quest. So starting at the age of two when I first started playing the game and on and on and on I always asked questions. I always tried to get better every single day.

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And then you put a goal in your mind. How are you gonna feel man when you accomplish this goal coming from that shit? Coming from the fucking hell you came from a lot of people start from a good starting point. They have a good foundation What if you can surpass all these motherfuckers? We have everybody who was fucking way up here Started up here and you had you started with no legs You had to grow fucking legs to even start walking and then crawling then running and then you start passing people at all That’s given to him.

I Had to use all this negative shit that was making me weak and horrible as a person. I had to use this as the power that now few of me had to flip it on his head and say: hold up, This might be exactly what I need. The darkness is exactly what I need is how you look at your situation, And I was looking at it all up.

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You will be miserable. 100% you will have every single regret a human being could ever fucking have in their entire lives. And the flip side is this. You could put in the work, you could put in the time, you could say, I am not going to settle. I am going to become exactly who I’m meant to become because I know that it’s not just going to serve me. It’s going to serve my family. It’s going to serve my community. It’s going to serve my city, my state and my country. And it’s going to create an immeasurable ripple effect of people who know that they can do it too.

And guess what? That’s going to be hard.

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People think that you should be weak and you should be docile and then you you should be a pacifist He goes no, you should be a monster. He said you should be a monster, You should be ruthlessly ambitious and then learn how to control it. And it’s that old expression. It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

It’s an old expression, but it makes sense because it doesn’t mean that you can’t be kind if you’re strong But it does mean you can’t be strong if you’re weak. Yeah, if you’re weak, you’re fucked, and There’s a lot of weak people in this country right now that are trying to take control, So I think that’s a good thing.

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When you go out and you train hard to play baseball and you connect and you hit the winning home run, you want to feel that way again. When you taste these finer things of life, all the pain, all the work, all the sacrifice to get them is well worth it. If anything, it’s a small down payment for the price and the reward you got in that feeling. Once felt, how do you ever turn your back on it? Stop running from the potential of what you can be, guys. It’s inside of you. It’s always been there. Grab a buddy of yours. Say, man, me and you are going to f***ing do this together.

And you’re going to be on my ass if I start slacking. I’m going to be on your ass if I start slacking. And I’ll never accept mediocre again.

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what actions I’m willing to take despite the judgment of others. And so a lot of times, it might be because I have more insecurity than everyone that I think like, man, I want to do this thing. And then I hear all these other voices of reasons why I shouldn’t do it or why somebody else will say, like, that’s bad or you’re bad or like, that’s wrong, whatever. And so I think I’ve had to come up with a lot of these devices to get around my own insecurities to take action despite those insecurities.

And the biggest one that I think about is that it doesn’t matter whether I achieve all of my goals or I don’t achieve all of the goals in three generations, I’ll be forgotten. And the only people who were naysaying against me will also be dead. And so then it’s like, just do it for me. And then when I wake up every day, there’s only one voice I have to listen to.

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It’s harder to find balance. It’s harder to find balance in business. It’s harder to find balance in life. It’s hard to find balance. And what we have to do is we have to be attuned to the feedback that we’re getting. We have to be attuned to the feedback that we’re getting. So if we’re talking to our wife and she says, you’re not gonna be home for dinner again tonight for the ninth night in a row that you’re gonna stay late at work. Okay, you need to be paying attention enough to say, oh yeah, guess what? I’m a little too focused on work right now.

And then the other end of that spectrum is my boss says, hey, Jocko, you’re leaving early again. Well, you know, it’s wrestling season. My daughter’s got a wrestling match, so I’m gonna leave. Okay, I need to be attuned enough to say, yeah. If I focus 100% on my job, I’m gonna lose my family. If I focus 100% on my family, I’m gonna lose my job. We as humans are supposed to be balanced.

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I don’t respect a whole bunch of people, but the few that I did respect are the people who were uncommon amongst uncommon people. And what that means is those people who weren’t afraid to stand alone. Those people who have morals, values, who did not go with… If all you guys are going left, it’s that one person who say, you know what? Left’s not the right way. I’m going to go right. Who didn’t follow the crowd. That person who’s not afraid of doing what they believe is right in their heart and not following someone else because someone else said, let’s go this way.

And they agree with everybody. I don’t like yes men or yes women. If you’re right, you’re right. We’re going to follow you. But I like people who stand for something. They believe in something. And this is the way I’m going to go whether you like me or not.

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You need to work on being a good man. Now, before you throw your hands up, there are a lot of people out there that don’t know what it means to be a good man. Especially, now I’m gonna kick over a hornet’s nest here, especially in the deeply religious world. They don’t know what it means to be a good person. Listen to me, the absence of evil is not an automatic indication of the presence of good. All right? I’m gonna say that again. The absence of evil is not an automatic indication of the presence of good. You’ve got negative, you have positive, and you have neutral.

Neutral is there’s no negative, but there’s no positive either, which means it’s a big zero.

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But at the end of the day, even if you come up short, even if you don’t become exactly what it is you want to become, you will have created so much good in this world that you will not have regrets when you die. So the choice is yours. The choice is stay how you are. Keep pointing the finger, keep blaming everybody and we’ll continue to be this shitty version of society that doesn’t take responsibility for anything and defers responsibility to all these people that want to sick and fat and lazy and dependent on them. Or you can say, I am done with this.

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I’m always gonna give it my hundred ten percent. That’s the only thing I can ever say. a Solid day’s work. That’s all that will ever find peace in. if you guys do not do that, I promise you your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. If there’s potential inside of you which you know it’s there But you’re too scared to tell anyone else about it, and you go on and on, get older and older, and older and older, and The windows are between start to close and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it, I promise you it will haunt you. It’ll be more.

it’s a living nightmare, dude. That fact that you had the ability to do something and you’re too weak to can turn the key and start the engine on it Is a greater disappointment and a greater burden to carry than any. this physical sweat, equity or pain in the gym or sewer or sacrifice- all that is just Nothing compared to a life For your burden by regret, guys.

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Is it good if you and I are working together and I say, hey, shut up and do what I said. Is that good? No, it’s not good. So can you take aggression too far? Yes, you absolutely can. Can you get to a point where you’re not even asserting yourself at all and you’re getting what? Yes, you can. Is that good? No, that’s not good either.

So there’s a bunch of traits that we could run through that are considered traditional masculine traits. And if you take any of those traits and you take them to an extreme, they’re going to be bad. Stoicism, right? Being stoic, being unemotional. Is it good to have no emotions whatsoever? No, that’s called a sociopath, right? Is that good? No. Is it good, like I was talking about earlier, to let your emotions run your life and make your decisions based on your emotions? No, that’s not good either. What do we want to be as a human, as a man? We want to be balanced.

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When I was in the military, we go on these instructor-led runs. Most of the time we knew the start and end point. So on the way back, I started seeing people getting happy and shit because the end was near. But there were some asshole instructors that would hear the happiness and go right on past the end point. When that happened, everybody stopped talking. Heads would stop dropping. And I started taking f***ing souls. At that time, I knew what happened in their minds. They were living off the hope factor. They hoped the instructors would stop running. They hoped the water was never cold.

They hoped the weather was f***ing good. I don’t live off that hope s***. I wish the water was cold. I wish them motherf***ing instructors keep on f***ing running. I wish there f***ing rain. When the ending is unknown and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the f*** you are.

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When do you become a man? When you get a driver’s license? Like, what do we do? You’re 16, we give you a driver’s license. Okay, well, like you get a job? Like, when do you become a man? You become a man when you become responsible for other people. And part of that is taking accountability. And so like, I’m very new to this being a man thing, and I’m still not there, and I’m on a path. But I didn’t have no like, I grew up in a culture that told me going to war made you a man. Going to prison, coming back, makes you a man.

Making a million dollars makes you a man, you know? And it doesn’t. And you don’t know it till you’ve done all these things and realize, damn, I’m still a little boy. Or been around people who’ve been there a bunch of times. You know, I don’t know nothing about being in a war like Kevin, but I know a bunch of soldiers that come back and are still little boys. Can’t wait to get back out. I know so many dudes can’t wait to get back out, you know? Guys that we know, you know, warriors.

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Today is the day that I will look back 10 years from now and say that was the day that everything changed. and because you took that responsibility, and because you took that responsibility, and because you became that person that you know You’re supposed to become, the world will become a better place. and until all of us understand that, nothing changes. Society doesn’t change. until we recognize that we are society and we must change. Until that happens- to you, to me, to your neighbors, to your brothers, to your sisters, to your parents, Nothing will change. it is on us.

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Because what you have is substantial. You just haven’t gone over the list and taken inventory in a long time. But the fact that you can walk, that’s a blessing. The fact that you woke up, that’s another blessing. The fact that you can see, think, reason, that’s another blessing. The fact that you can go somewhere and get yourself something to eat, that’s another blessing. The fact that you can go and turn the key and call some place home, that’s another blessing. The ability to dream is a blessing. The fact that you have an opportunity to get it right is another blessing.

The fact that you’re beautiful, that’s another blessing. The fact that you have any measure of health, that’s another blessing. And I’m just talking to you, I don’t even know you. I could give you 50 things you ought to be grateful for right now, I don’t even know you. Start coating your mind with gratitude. It’ll change everything for you.

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I define words a lot because it helps me kind of like made sense of the world. And like exceptionals, it’s like an obvious one, right? We use the word exceptional, like you are not like everyone else, even saying it like that, like you are not like everyone else. And so if someone says you’re not like everyone else, then you can just reframe that as like, I’m exceptional. And that’s not a bad thing. And most and I don’t, and I actually think that most people have like. this might be counter to most people’s beliefs. But I think most people have the potential to be exceptional.

And because most people are peculiar in their own way, they just stifle that because they want to be accepted by most people, but in so doing, never accomplish what they want to do because they conform. And so like, if there’s probably a lot of things about the world or even your world around you that you’re like, this never made sense to me, but then you do it anyways. And so.

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We have a big problem in society these days, and you’re a part of it. Everywhere we look, everywhere we turn on the TV or scroll through the internet, we are inundated by people who refuse to take responsibility for the life that they have created. And all this time you point your finger and you say: I can’t do that because I was born here, or I can’t do that because I have this issue, or I can’t do that because they made fun of me. And you know what’s going to happen? Nothing. You’re going to get more of the same. You’re going to get laughed at more. You’re going to be ashamed more.

You’re going to be frustrated more, and you’re going to really regret at the end of your life that you put off taking responsibility for yourself and building yourself into what could be.

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For we all know what’s right and wrong in a sedentary state. We all know when we’re relaxed exactly the person we want to become. The question is, do we believe we can become it? Without that belief, every journey will run into a debate. That debate is when pain starts to fill the body. You wait a temporary pain for a said lifetime of pride.

What are you going to do? How bad do you want it? There’s two options to continue forward, pushing upward. And if you do, that dream is given birth and forever you will live in the reality of it. If you stop, quit, throw in the towel, I promise you there’s no distance you can travel far enough to never find that dream again. For it is dead. And in its death, it’s replaced by regret.

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In that list of who you are, what makes you fucked up, all these other things, it goes back to once again, accepting. You have to first accept it before you can fix it. A lot of people walk around, oh, man, I’m good, I’m good. No, you’re not. You have to accept what you’re not. And people don’t want to do that. That’s the only way you can fix it. You have to accept it first before you can go on the journey. A lot of folks never even start the journey, man. They never start the journey because they live in this fake life that who they want to be,

they act like they are, but they’re not because they haven’t fixed all this stuff yet. You got to fix this first before we can start our journey in life. So that’s why I have them make this list. You fix these problems, now your journey can begin because you no longer care about how people are judging you. When you care more about how someone’s judging you, you’re going to stay right there. There’s no forward momentum. So that’s the whole thing about that list.

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It’s very useful to tell everyone, not just men, that they have an important role to play, a necessary role, and that if they act properly and honestly and forthrightly, that they can put their lives together and they can help their families and they can make their communities better, and that that’s not toxic masculinity, that appalling phrase. It’s what keeps the world going round. If we had any sense, we’d understand that, instead of doing everything, at every possible moment,

to label what we have in the West as oppressive and patriarchal and fundamentally predicated on power of all the insane propositions.

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we need to go look in the f**king mirror. How are you living? Are you the best physical shape that you can be? Are you the best mental shape that you can be? How’s your finances? What’d you do today? Did you do what you’re supposed to do? Or did you f**k off another day and put your dreams off until tomorrow? And then tomorrow you’re gonna do the same thing. And then the next day you’re gonna do the same thing. And eventually you’re gonna run out of time and you’re gonna say, oh s**t, that was my life. And when that happens, guys, you’re gonna wish you had the time back. I love you guys.

I love this country. And I know it can be great and I know you can be great. But we have to start taking responsibility for ourselves. We have to stop putting it off and making excuses for why we aren’t where we want to be.

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dudes who’ve been where I’ve been or something similar, just know it gets better. It does, like, it don’t make no sense. It doesn’t make no sense. It’s irrational. It doesn’t make any sense on paper that I could have joy in abundance in my life, that I could feel any kind of joy in my life after being what I’ve been. It doesn’t make- The path isn’t clear. It’s not lit up. No, no. You gotta find it. Yeah, and also you gotta get the out of the way. And that’s where the work really, really is. It’s like getting out the way and allowing this bigger thing to work in your life.

Because the bigger thing is working in your life whether you know it or not. And you’re either gonna let go willingly or you’re gonna get dragged. But either way, you’re gonna be humbled in this life.

And there’s nothing you can do about it.

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There’s a lot of young people on there that are getting on and commenting and they’re just lost. I just, they’re just lost. And a lot of young men are, are realizing that they’ve been sold a bill of goods and they haven’t, they haven’t been prepared for life. And some not so young men are waking up too. And, you know, I’ve been asked a number of times, what’s some advice, you know, I could give for young men. And so this morning I just want to. I want to give five things that you could start developing in your life to become a man among men,

to become that man that you need to be and that the world around you needs you to be.

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And once you get it come on over this side of the fence You don’t see in problems anymore, man. Uh-huh. You see situations You see possibilities and you can’t wait to get them started man. You’re like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn’t matter about the past. It’s today. What we doing today? Are we gonna engage now and once we engage we commit there’s no half commitment. There’s no quarter commitment There’s no three quarter. It’s full commitment. Once we engage, it’s every fucking day we engage,

Because that’s the better life and the people you will surround yourself are like-minded and they’re better friends Friends and family for life man. They have your back They’re solid individuals doing solid tasks leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That’s a fucking solid life, man. It’s your option, though.

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But the only thing I want is for my family to look at me and say, that’s the man right there. And men don’t have that. They don’t know what that feels like. So until you know what that feels like, you’re never gonna seek that feeling of when things are bad, my family looks to me. As they should. As they should. That’s your job. That is my job. And I earned that. It’s not given because you wake up and you’re a man. And it feels real good. It feels amazing. When anything goes wrong in my family, if there’s a flat tire, they don’t call a triple A. They call David fucking Gagas.

Mom’s got a problem, David. My mom’s sick, David. She don’t call the fucking doctors, David. Anybody, they call David. And that’s earned. And that’s a good feeling.

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We all get to choose what hard are we going to have? Are we going to have the hard of creating and becoming and being a great example for everybody else, honoring the people who came before us and setting a great example for the people coming after us? Or are we going to cruise? Or are we going to coast? Or are we just going to be another poor little me, another drag on society, another person that dies with all the hopes and dreams and amazing ideas that could have helped people while you were here, who says at the end of their life, I coulda, I should have, I wish I had.

Are you going to be the person that says at the end of their life, I didn’t.

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I go out of here every morning, I bust my butt putting up with them crackers every day because I like you. You’re about the biggest fool I ever saw. It’s my job. It’s my responsibility. A man is supposed to take care of his family. You live in my house, fill your belly with my food, put your behind on my bed because you’re my son. Because I like you, because it’s my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you. Now let’s get this straight right here and now before I go along any further. I ain’t got to like you. Mr. Rand don’t give me my money, come pay day because he like me,

he give it to me because he owe me. Now I don’t give you everything I got to give you. I give you your life. Me and your mama worked that out between us and liking your black ass wasn’t part of the bargain. Now don’t you go through life worrying about whether somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they’re doing right by you. You understand what I’m saying? Yes sir. Then get the hell out of my face and get on down to that A&P.

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Comes a day where being average being mediocre is just sickening to you It’s just sick and he makes you want to throw up Because you’ve seen people with far less talent than you as you’re growing up with them their childhood buddies wherever else They didn’t have what you had yet. Now they’re gonna become something that you haven’t. there comes that day. It’s either when you’re young, you know, And it strikes you in the baseball field because you’re sick of striking out, or it’s it’s when you get fired from your fifth Job,

you know when your wife and kids are on your ass because you don’t have support anymore. There comes a keen day We’re push comes a shove We’re being mediocre being like average. It just King burns. It sucks so much You can’t deal with one more day and you get off your ass and you create something. It’s always been there, It’s always been inside of you trying to come out, But you’ve never wanted to unwrap it because too much campaign and commitment. You.

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People look at me differently because I’m not from a social, a highly social background and no social status, you know what I mean? I’m no educated man and I’m just a person that was blessed to have skills and I’m not, but still that I’m that way, I’m a blessed person, I’m still a grassroots person and my grassroots background, we don’t back down from anyone. And that’s what got me in trouble. I don’t play games, I don’t kiss anyone’s ass and I’m a real man. And that’s why, regardless of being a fighter, I’m a man and that’s why I want to be a man. And if I die, I want to die a man.

I don’t want to die a bitch, a little f***ing poodle in the street, like they treat most fighters. And fighters get abused by these guys and they talk to these guys and fighters still talk to these guys like nothing happened. Next time somebody abuse me, I’m going to do something very bad to them.

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Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces Hard work the grind don’t be afraid of being hurt. Don’t be afraid of a sacrifice of some blood. you know, and You know, the whole week I was thinking I want to finish this fight, I’m gonna finish this fight before the championship rounds. and this is you know that should be able to smash this guy. You.

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more men realizing that it’s not just about the car, the watch, the possessions, working until my eyes bleed. At the project, this thing that we run, the Men’s Personal Development Program, we have the five pillars, and it’s faith, family, fitness, finance, and fulfillment. Obviously, the finance is what most people think about, right? Well, if I just make good money, I’ll be a good provider as a man. Most men think that they’re relegated to just being a provider. Well, I provide a roof over their head. They’re safe. They have food. They have school supplies, but there’s more to being a man.

There is more to being a man. What about a level of faith, as in confidence in yourself, faith in yourself, faith in a higher power, that there’s a path for you?

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You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is. But it’s there. Like a splinter in your mind. Driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about? The Matrix.

Do you want to know what it is?

The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window. Or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work. When you go to church. When you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

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No matter what you do, you’re all in. This is gonna kill you. So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while you’re waiting, because do you have anything better to do? Really? Why not pick the best thing possible that you could do? Why not do that? Maybe you could justify your wretched existence to yourself that way. I think you could. That’s what it looks like. You know, people find such meaning in the responsibilities they adopt, it stops making them ask questions about what life is for. If you have a newborn child, for example.

like unless you’re really in a bad way, psychotically depressed, or maybe your personality really needs some retooling. you stop thinking about anything but ensuring that that baby is doing well.

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And don’t be afraid to dream big. You know, the saying is that if your dreams don’t scare you to death, they’re not big enough. Your dream needs to be bigger than you are right now. If you have a dream and you say, I can fulfill that dream right now, today, that’s not really a dream. And it’s not big enough. And you will only succeed to the level of your dreams. And you won’t get any further than that. You won’t get any bigger than that. You won’t accomplish any more than that. So you need a dream.

A big, exciting, scary, fulfillable dream.

OK. And it has to be your dream. It can’t be your parents dream for you. It has to be your dream.

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You got to believe the delusion. Because it’s only delusional until it works. So is it really delusional?

I’m only going to call it delusion until it don’t work for nobody else to see, but for the whole world to see. And then once the world see it, there’s nothing delusional about it. Now your delusion becomes, oh, he was a genius. We didn’t see it when he saw it. We didn’t understand it when he did. We thought this motherfucker was crazy. But he definitely always figured this thing was the thing to do, and he’s stuck by that shit.

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You can make anything that feels circumstantially negative in the moment. If you ask the question, what would make this thing the best thing ever? And so I would argue, maybe you would agree that you snapping your Achilles was probably the best thing that ever happened to you because it got you here. And right now you probably have your version of the snap to kill ease that’s going on in your life. But there’s also the version of the top 50 in the world podcast that is waiting for you to take action as a result of your snap to kill ease.

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If you’re trying to do something meaningful, if you don’t have the mindset that you’re the best ever, you’ve failed already. So if you don’t have the mindset that you are the best reporter ever, then you already failed. And that’s been my mindset since I can remember. That will be my mindset as long as I can remember anything, that I am the best ever at what I do. And every day that I step on the basketball floor, I will strive to be that. But my mindset will always be as such, as I am the best to do what I do. And that’ll give me a shot at being the best.

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Motivation is just a spark, but those little sparks, if somebody comes by real quick with some water, that fire is out. But if you come by and that little fire, no one touches it, and that little fire which is motivation, which is kindling, and that kindling grows off to like, they call it one hour fuels, two hour fuels, ten hour fuels, ten thousand hour fuels. You want that thing to boil over and catch a nice big log. It’s gonna burn a long time. Then that big log starts catching everything on fire. This is your soul. So motivation a lot of times can be just put some water on it, puts it out.

That motivation needs to turn into drive, passion, obsession to what you want to become. And once you become obsession or driven, it’s a fucking inferno. So now you got to call in tons of firefighters and call in for help from here, call in for help from there, and they’re not putting that out. Only thing that can take that thing out is gonna burn itself out.

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It’s great. This has given me motivation to still work hard and better in my job. But I have to say, to be in my shoes is not easy. But I’m not complaining. I just want to say that I feel happy. All this happened because of a reason. The reason is I’m unbelievable inside the pitch. This is why the people are so much interested in me. In my mind, I’m always the best. I don’t care what people think or what they say. In my mind, not just this year, but always, I’m always the best. I’m always going to say that. Because I think we have two things. We are the best in our area.

So in my area, I think I’m the best.

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And you know, it’s a human condition to be average. It’s not to be as good as you can be. You know, it’s a human condition to survive. Just get along, be average. It’s why when a kid makes an A on the midterm, he misses two weeks of class, or doesn’t go or try, thinking if I get a C on the next test, I still have a B average. Lots of people think that way. That’s normal. So when you get one that comes out for football, and he thinks that way, don’t think he’s got something wrong with him. He’s normal. What we do to get him to play hard, to play tough all the time, to give effort, it’s special.

It’s special to get somebody to be the best that they can be, to understand the work ethic and how important it is to earn it, and you reap what you sow. It’s the perseverance that it takes to stick with it when things don’t go right.

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But you only need one yes or one positive to change your entire life. And so there’s this habit, and that’s where cynicism comes from, where we get so many positive reinforcers for saying no and being right. But it’s only short-term being right, because you have to make big bets to win big. And that also means that you’re wrong plenty of times, and people aren’t willing to look stupid for being wrong. This school bet could go wrong. I’m betting it’s not. But everything has risk. And I’ve been public about it. And so if anything, but I’ve played this out. So I’ll tell you how I played this out.

I was like, if it goes wrong, I’ll document the things that I learned and then I’ll apply next time. And I’ll do what I’ve always done, state the facts and tell the truth.

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hey, okay, we’re going to do this today. No, this f**king really sucks. This is real, dude. This is real. And every day I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back. So, this is what I would tell your boy. This is exactly what I tell him. Every day you wake up, you’re going to probably be set back for the first four weeks before you lose to significant weight because the mind is going to be f**king with you the whole time. There’s no dopamine. There’s no dopamine in there at 300 pounds. You got nothing. Your hormones are shot.

You have to envision something that is more powerful than you. Something has to get you out of bed and you have to create it. It has to be false because you’re not it. You’re a fat piece of s**t and that’s the reality of it. So you have to create a false reality to live in that just to get to work on yourself. That’s the reality.

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When you’re pursuing your destiny, when you identify with your destiny, you have to be selfish, you have to be maniacal, you have to be uncompromising.

And you have to move in a way, when it comes to those three things, when you function completely in a way where it’s an unwavering faith. Like, it don’t matter how fucked up that shit might look. It don’t matter how much it feel like it ain’t gonna work. Delusional. Complete delusion.

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I’ve always figured that why go to a tournament if you’re not going there to try and win?

There’s really no point in even going.

That’s the attitude I’ve had my entire life and that’s the attitude I will always have.

I would explain to my dad,

second sucks and third’s even worse. That’s just a feeling I have.

But on tour that’s not too bad sometimes though.

That’s not too bad but I want to win.

That’s just my nature.

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When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.

But life, that’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader. Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know, if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it.

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400 trillion to one. When you understand that math, how can’t you live your life? That’s how rare it is to be a human being. And what are you waiting for? Like, you’ve been given this ridiculous triple miracle. Like, you’re literally more likely to win the lotto 10 times in your life than actually have a life. So I ask you, my friends, with this one life, you gonna sit on your couch and dwell? You gonna be upset about some shortcoming? You gonna be upset about that thing that happened last week? What the fuck you up? I’m asking you, I’m promising you, please take the swing. Make this at bat.

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It takes more effort to start in the beginning and more people are right about the fact they’re like, hey, you’re not going to hit it big and guess what a month in you’re not, but they’re only measuring on months and at six months you’re also not going to have hit it big yet and they’re going to be like, I’m still f***ing right and at a year you’re still not going to hit it big and they’ll still be f***ing right and every day that you haven’t hit it they’re going to feel like they were right, but they’re wrong because they’re measuring in days and you’re measuring in decades.

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You got to understand how good God is. He ain’t playing with you. He the real deal. He created you, and then he even showed you what he got for you. You gotta start believing in your imagination. You gotta start talking to him about these stuff you be seeing. But you have not, cause you ask not. So if you see the vision, the imagination, but you don’t ask God for it, what you want him to do? He showed it to you. Faith without works is dead. So now you got to put in work. All of y’all sitting in here, you want a better life, correct? Yes. Haven’t you imagined a better life? Yes.

Okay, who you think he showed it to? He showed it to you. Why you think he showed it to you? Cause he wanna give it to you.

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It’s not a bad thing to be unique. It’s not a bad thing to be different. It’s not a bad thing to be comfortable with yourself, regardless of what everybody else around you is doing.

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Everybody thinks they’re a loser. Every young person thinks they’re a loser. At least a young person in the situation I was at. Like I didn’t know I wasn’t a loser until I started winning, till I started doing martial arts. Martial arts taught me that like I could get better at stuff that it wasn’t, I wasn’t really a loser. I just was someone who was like in a fucked up situation, but you could channel all that energy that you have as a young person into something and get better at it. And then all of a sudden people admired me. I was like, this is crazy.

So I went from being someone who was incredibly insecure and basically a failure to someone who was really successful at this one thing that was very dangerous that other people were scared of. And that gave me immense confidence and also a real understanding of the direct correlation between hard work and success.

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You want to be the baddest motherfucker ever at what you do? You’re going to be misunderstood by everybody because you’re going to be so fucking obsessed and so driven to get there. That’s what it takes. That’s the truth. It takes every second of your fucking life. Anybody says balance? Yeah, balance is important for a lot of fucking people. It is. But if you want to fucking go to that edge where people do not like you, don’t understand you, question everything you fucking do, you’ve arrived. When you are misunderstood,

to the point where fucking people think you’re psycho and you’re nuts and you’re this and that, why are you in the fucking gym at one o’clock in the fucking morning? You just got through doing an op for fucking 13, 14 hours at the Ranger School, man, at the gym. What is wrong? You will never understand what is wrong with me. And that’s why I’m so fucking glad you don’t because I’m in the right fucking spot. When people don’t understand you anymore, you’re in that spot of obsession and drive where people are like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?

I don’t want to talk to you, man, because you’re not going to get it.

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But before you can ever reach anything, you have to believe it. You don’t just mistakenly become great at something. You probably at one point, at one time or another, believe that you can be great at that. And then you work to get great at that, and you reach that greatness. But you don’t mistakenly become great. And then you start to believe, oh man, I’m great at that. No, you believed that before, and you work to get that. So I always believed that. And I’ll work every day to reach that.

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But every time he was around certain people he would clam up and be quiet because he was embarrassed that he wasn’t working. And he was a great actor. I said, come on man, it’s all inside of you, let it out. Meet people, shake their hand. Yes, I’m an actor. Boom. Come on, don’t be afraid. Everybody has that voice in their head that says, hey, could you really do this? Is it going to happen? A lot of times we all say somebody blows a whistle and says, all right, come on, you don’t belong here. Get out of here. We’re taking you back. That’s not the way it is.

If you believe it, if you really believe that you could be something, if you have that little voice in your head saying, hey, you got talent, you could do this, then follow that voice.

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Well, you always have to have, and even if it’s not so, you have to have, and that’s where delusion comes in, because delusion is only delusional when you don’t accomplish the goal of making your delusions a reality. That’s what is delusional.

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If you think trying is risky, wait till they hand you the bill for not trying.

If you think investing is risky, wait till you get the tab for not investing. See, it’s all risky. Getting married is risky. Having children is risky. Going into business is risky. Investing your money is risky. It’s all risky.

I’ll tell you how risky life is. You’re not going to get out alive.

That’s risky.

The Englishman says, well, if that’s the way it’s going to work out, let’s give it a go. Right. That’s what it’s for. Give it a go.

Somebody says, yeah, but I’m looking for safety and security. Fine, then huddle in a corner. We’ll cover you with a sheet, bring you three meals a day. And we’ll protect you, feed you, look after you, care for you. We won’t let anything happen to you. And you’ll probably live to be 100.

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Selfish to my father because, in a way, I don’t want to look at it as selfish to him. I was just on some, I don’t want to do what you want to do. That’s not really being selfish. That’s just having a difference in opinion, right? Selfish, when I say selfish, it means my children, right? I’ve had to miss moments that were never gonna get back. And my circumstance, which I obviously contributed to creating for myself, I had to take responsibility for these choices that I made and these circumstances that I created for myself.

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Victims see their past as their fate. Champions see their past as their origin story. And so a lot of people are living through their origin story right now. Or they’re living through the very reason that they’ll never be successful. But it could be the exact same situation. And the only difference between either character is the actions they choose to take. Which means that if you’re, using Joe Rogan’s frame, waking up in your main player character today in this moment, as weird of a construct as this is, the past doesn’t exist. Just gone. It’s not anywhere.

And so the only thing that we actually have control over is the actions that we take right now. And it’s a weird eraser of time to when you really start thinking that like, it only exists in chemicals in my brain, but it doesn’t exist right now. To think about the past that way. But in some ways it’s also very freeing because it means that I get to start with no baggage. And in some ways for me it makes the present feel light.

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You should be very proud of yourself right now. You know? Came in here with a desire, you put action to that desire, that combination explodes and the potential, whatever you want to make happen. This world is your playground, man, if you want it to be. Everything that you ever dreamed of becoming, some human made it happen. The only difference between that human and you, you all have, all create equally, right? Except up here, we have the ability to enhance or to destroy this guy. And that will have a cause and effect if this is enhanced or destroyed.

Right here, guys, that’s why I always say the gym is a mind-body connection. It’s not about just the gym and getting big, it’s a metaphor of life.

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You have to believe in yourself. You have to believe that it’s possible because you can create your reality. The perception that you have of the world, if you think there’s only scarcity, there’s no opportunity, that’s how you are going to interact with reality. If you think that there’s abundance, if you think that there’s opportunity, then these things will manifest themselves to you. So you have to believe that you can, right? And the way that you believe and the way that you can get to that state, because a lot of people are like, and you know, I have a lot of doubt. So do I.

I have it all the time. Even at these levels, right? You’re doing seven figure months. Dude, there’s people doing eight figure months. That’s hard to fathom. That’s hard to imagine, but it’s still possible. Is it difficult? Absolutely, but it’s a mindset shift.

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One thing important is that we all have these moments, these moments in time that either make you or break you, that can determine the rest of your life. The rest of your life can be determined by one simple decision. Nineteen years ago, 300 pounds, I was spraying for cockroach, I made a decision to try to be a Navy SEAL. My whole goal was to go on this path every day after work and to run a mile to a mile and a half. This rock was about the 0.5 mark in my run. This rock was a moment that should have broken me.

I got 0.5 into it, I weighed 297 pounds, I sat on this rock and I had a decision to make. I wanted to quit, I wanted to give up. There wasn’t some inspirational quote, there wasn’t some, there wasn’t nothing, it was me, myself, and it was freezing out here. I had to make a decision. The decision I made was to get up and keep on going. That one moment changed the rest of my life.

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Whatever that goal is, you stay intensely focused on it. And once you fight through that fatigue, you fight through the noise. On the other side of that is your goals. On the other side of that is the accomplishment. On the other side of that is your greatness. And when I say it’s all noise, it’s always all noise. Let them talk shit because at the end of the day, the haters, the ones who talk shit, first of all, their view is always the same. They’re way behind talking shit to you, who’s leading the pack, or they’re way below talking shit up to you. Again, who’s leading the pack.

So let them all talk shit. Let them all make their noise because at the end of the day, you are the only one who has the guts. We have the guts to go to work and show up every single fucking day, day in and day out, putting in the work. Hardest workers in the room, it’s not just some cool saying that we say or a cool hashtag, even though it is pretty damn cool. It’s a lifestyle and it comes from in here. It’s how we fucking eat. So have a productive week. Let’s fucking go.

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you know, that summer, I made a thousand shots a day. A thousand, right? That’s on top of weight training and my conditioning. I made a thousand shots and they weren’t just shots. They were shots that you saw in that game. They were specific shots. I mean, it was coming out of the corner, going to the pinch post, footwork in the post, coming off the screen. It was very specific. So when you download that into your system and you go out in the court and you’re just executing things that you’ve done thousands of times before and you have that dream, then that becomes possible.

Yeah, everything’s been, not choreographed, but it’s been practiced so many times that it’s second nature.

There’s, why reinvent it? Like, I don’t understand that. You go out and play the game and you’re just trying to create something new. No, no, this is what I do. This is what I do extremely well. You’re gonna have to stop me from doing that. And if you do stop me from doing that, I have a counter to that. Done.

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whatever that thing is that you actually enjoy doing where you lose track of time when you’re in it, even if it’s challenging, but usually it is challenging, right? Like it’s not easy because then it’s boring, right? Which is also why the uncertainty thing is so key, right? To not knowing if it’s going to, if it’s going to work or not, you are going to work though, either way, um, is that the people who are quote addicted to work, make it easy to be addicted to work because they do things worth doing.

And I think a lot of it is coming down to making sure that you take the few precious seconds that we have to do the few things that are worth doing for the rest of your life.

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But what a way to live. Right. What a way to live safe and secure. Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure.

Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a hundred years safe in the corner.

And see, it’s not important how long you live. What’s important is how you live. Promising yourself you will never give up.

I said, that’s it. Webster, stand aside. That is the definition. Promise yourself you will never give up.

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How many times has God showed you something in your imagination that you thought was so wonderful and then you took it in there to your family and your friends and you shared it with them and they shot it down? You know why they shot it down? Because they couldn’t see it. You know why they didn’t see it? Because God didn’t show it to them. He showed it to you. Stop telling your visions to other people because they’re not going to see it. Why you think you keep imagining opening a business? Why you keep imagining graduating, getting a better job? Why do you keep imagining buying a house?

Why do you keep imagining driving a really nice car? Why do you keep imagining getting rich one day? Why do you keep imagining that? Because God is talking to you.

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My entire life has been spent only in one industry, which is this one. But I’ve been in it now for about 15 years and I’ve seen a lot of people make a lot of things. I’ve seen a lot of people fail a lot of things. My point of view on this or my observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person. If we really go back and we examine, did Leonardo have a guy off to the side that was thinking five years out in the future what he would paint or the technology he would use to paint it?

Of course not. Leonardo was the artist, but he also mixed all his own paints. He also was a fairly good chemist, knew about pigments, knew about human anatomy. Combining all of those skills together, the art and the science, the thinking and the doing was what resulted in the exceptional result.

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We destroy that here tonight. It’s 2am right now. No one here. Mono to mono. Me and you. And where we want to go tomorrow. 2am. What I love about 2am is that we’re not living by the clock, man. If you go to the clock, it says it’s 10 o’clock time to go to sleep. Or 9 to 5 time to go to work. That’s bullsh**. If you’re in bed right now, and you’re rolling around, you can’t fall asleep, get the f*** up. It probably means you haven’t done an honest day’s work to earn that rest at night. 2am. Not a f***ing person’s here. I can scream my f***ing ass off. No one hears me. I can cry.

I can sh* * myself. I can put in an honest day’s work in here that more than anyone does in a week. And no one sees it. Because it’s supposed to be that way.

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But if you don’t work, if you don’t ask him for it, he cannot give it to you, because he created us with the power of choice. We make choices every day. If you decide that you will be poor, there’s nothing I can do. You gonna be poor. If you decide to be rich today, who gonna stop you? Who? If you decide you want to be rich, all you gotta do is start. Why not? Who gonna stop you? Unless you tell it to the wrong person. Mama, mama, listen to me. I’m going to be rich. Ain’t nobody rich in this family. Go in there and sit down somewhere. Get yourself a good job. Oh, mama, you must be right.

No, mama could be wrong. Because what you have in your imagination, God didn’t show it to your mama. I’m sorry he showed it to you.

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Focus on your light. Be creative. None of this matters if you’re not doing something that is really interesting and striking. Focus on that. If you’re really talented, they will find you. Somebody will find you. Somebody will get behind you. And I just, I mean, you know, just being over here and just seeing everything that’s going on, man, it’s really your time. It’s your time. Like nothing is stopping you. Nothing.

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If you’re that kid that dropped in the hood, like what do you revert to? You just revert to what you know. You do whatever it is that you know, you just try to do that to survive. Well, one thing we do know is Demarcus is a great basketball player. So at that point, then you just go out there and you do what you’re great at. And everything else will fall in line. But I think it’s also on us. You know, that kid has a much better chance to survive than if he get with the right group of friends in that neighborhood. It’s on us as his teammates to help pull him through, you know,

to get whatever we can out of him to help make us a better team and do whatever we can to put him in the best position to be successful.

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the situation that became a real life situation for me left me very few choices. So there was a choice where I could be there for everything and then the money ain’t where it need to be or I’m gonna do what I love, not just because I love it, and it brings me joy and it brings me peace of mind, because I would go to the studio and when I’m in that studio and I close the door and then I’m in those four walls, I don’t have to argue with the child’s mother. I don’t have to argue with my woman.

I don’t get talk back from people that choose to have a debate about shit that ain’t even worth debating about. All of the unnecessary distractions, I can leave outside of that room.

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I am so tired of people stopping because their uncle critiqued them or their mom made fun of them along the way or their girlfriend doesn’t think that they can do it. You’ve got one at bat, 400 trillion to one, please do something about it. We are living through the greatest era to be alive ever. Yes, there’s stuff. I got news for you. There’s always stuff. But when you take control of your at bat, when you put it all on yourself, when it’s your fault and your wins, when you own it, that’s when it starts happening. So please, please squeeze the shit out of your one life.

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Because even my parents didn’t want me to do martial arts. They didn’t want me to fight. They didn’t want me to do standup. There’s like, you have to understand like who you are. And then in the face of other people’s either criticism or. You know, lack of faith in your ability to succeed, you push through and there’s great benefit in that, and then you realize that you can kind of apply that to other things in life. You can apply that to critics. You can apply that to social media commentators. You can apply that to a lot of things. If you’re alive, you can shift things.

I mean, if you’re 90 years old and you know you have a month to live, you can apologize for the things you think you did wrong and maybe sort of reconcile and shape relationships that you have with the people that are around you better so that they feel differently about you after you’re gone.

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And what the power is, is finding that uniqueness. What makes you, you and how you can mine that and how you can go deep into it and use that to create a career path, right? And so I tell people when you’re a child, when you’re four or five or even younger, you have what the great psychologist Maslow called impulse voices. They’re little voices in your head that say, I love this, I hate that. I like this food, I don’t like when mommy moves this way. I like when daddy comes from here. You’re very cued into who you are and what you like and what you don’t like.

And these voices kind of direct you in certain ways, right? And when you’re very young, they direct you towards intellectual, mental pursuits as well. And there’s a book I recommend for everybody. It’s Howard Gardner’s, Five Frames of Mind. It’s helped me immensely.

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Life isn’t easy, but you can create the delusion of scarcity or the delusion of abundance. And I just decided to create the delusion of abundance that it was possible that I could make more money, that I could build better Networks, that I could actually provide value to people. and as time went on and I gained more experience and as I became more developed, These opportunities began to show themselves to me. And what I tell people is that money is a lagging indicator of success. money doesn’t come right away. Yeah,

you have to be able to put in the hours in the work and have The mindset of a CEO and have the mindset of a boss to do so to to be able to say no to the paycheck Because the paycheck is the instant gratification of your labor. Mm-hmm. The CEO is the last one to get paid. Yeah, The CEO is the one that takes the risks. But no risk, no Ferrari. and we know this to be true. if you want to win the game of life, if you want to take It to the top, you have to be able to sacrifice who you are today for who you want to become You.

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If you give it all you have, you’re going to get mass potential back. And then who knows what could come. That’s the beautiful thing. If you don’t show up, guys, you know the outcome. You’ll never get the job, never get the part, never get the girl if you don’t show up. If you show up, you’re putting yourself in a situation to create those opportunities. And when you show up, how hard do you go? That’s the faster that opportunity will come to life for you. It’s up to you guys. But I applaud you for being here.

I applaud you for watching this, encouraging you to incorporate this in your workout. You’ll see the gains like I did. And you’ll fall in love with it. Even though it’s tiring and exhausting and you’re sweating your ass off. And your tires can be. Small down payment that you’re willing to pay every day for the large investment of a greater life. You only got one life, guys. Again, if you work it right, you only need one.

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life is there and you’re just going to live in it versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better because it’s kind of messed up in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

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Your teeth can get sharper and stronger too, so that he’s saving himself to use his teeth, but he could have had all of his teeth at the end if he had been using them the whole time. And so, we have this idea, I call it the fallacy of the perfect pick. But thinking that you’re gonna have this one shot, this one pick of this one opportunity, this one podcast, this one whatever, that’s going to take you all the way, but it’s the habit of biting that takes you all the way, not where you choose to bite the first time. And I obviously now have a huge history of this, and you do too,

which is we have learned to just bite and know that our teeth will get stronger and we will learn how to chomp down along the way. And…

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Waiting to begin never got anyone anywhere.

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For me, rival doesn’t exist. The meaning of this word doesn’t exist. Rivals is in a war. We have rivals. In football, no. It’s just a game. I think the numbers, they say everything. I don’t need to say, I’m a minister of football, I’m a legend. The numbers say everything. So, this is why I’m very comfortable.

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and your opinion, what you feel is stronger than anything else. Like I said before winners: their belief overrides the disbelief of the crowd every single time. So no matter what happens, they believe in themselves when no one else is out there. That’s going to be the make or break. That’s going to be the details of success. That’s going to be the cause combined to the effect. That’s the life you want to live. That’s the life you can live. That’s the life you better start living.

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The more I listen to this, the better my life gets. If they don’t have what you want, don’t listen to what they say. There’s no greater waste of time than justifying your actions to people who have a life you don’t want.

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And your focus and frustration is all based on where you are in the depth chart. But how about what you need to do to be a complete player at your position? What have you done to develop the benchmarks of what you need to do to be a complete player at your position so that you can compete to your capacity and play to your capacity and quit worrying about everybody else?

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I don’t know anybody else that’s in the race. I train, I prepare, I focus to run my best race. That’s what I control. That’s what I do. And that’s what we need to get these young people to do now, so that they have a chance to be successful. Because we can’t coach and do what we do in a lab under perfect circumstances. They’re going to have to deal with success at some point in time and remember what got them there. And they’re also going to have to overcome their frustrations when things don’t go the way they want them to go and have a little perseverance to get it that way.

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Well, I always think anything we do will be good enough. That’s the confidence I have in our group. And saying that, you know, I don’t think we necessarily purposely say, oh, like, our defense will be OK in the first half, but in the second half, we’re going to turn it on. I do think we have the ability to say, OK, we weren’t that good and we need to focus more here. Let’s lock in this half on this defense side of basketball. I do think we have that ability. But you don’t go into a series and you don’t go into a game with that mindset. You know, you’re going into the series.

You want to put 48 minutes of great basketball out there on both ends of the floor. And that will always be our mindset. It’s kind of played out the way it’s played, but, you know, that’s never the goal.

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And when I’m in that room, I am fulfilling my destiny, I am fulfilling my soul, and I’m making myself get to a place mentally where my peace of mind is so where it needs to be that not only am I allowed to become, feel, think, and evolve into whatever place my mind takes me, I’m then able to get to that place emotionally, spiritually, mentally, create something, put it in a song, change the effect that I can have as an impact through this thing that I’m blessed with as a gift,

and then I could come down off of that and be in a happier place so that when I do get back around the people that I gotta argue with, I’m in a better place to deal with them.

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You’re always afraid to take the first step, because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road. You’re going to take the professor’s side on this? Don’t give me a line of shit, no. Look, I didn’t want the job. It’s not about the job. I don’t care if you work for the government. But you can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing. What are you passionate about? What do you want? I mean, the guys who work their entire life laying bricks so their kids have a chance at the opportunities you have here. I didn’t ask for this. No.

You were born with it, so don’t cop out behind I didn’t ask for this. You could be a janitor anywhere. Why did you work at the most prestigious technical college in the whole fucking world? Why did you sneak around at night and finish other people’s formulas that only one or two people in the world could do and then lie about?

Because I don’t see a lot of honor in that, Will.

So what do you really want to do?

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But there were certain times along the path that things came up and we set a route. We’re going to take this route. This is a route we’re going to take to get there. But, you know, like I talked about, we got to Guthrie, Oklahoma, and there were wildland fires. We had to take a different road. We had to take a different route. We got to York, Nebraska, and there were snowstorms in Wyoming. And so we sat there in York for four days and we were going to take out of York. We were going to take up a road and go up and come out at Lusk in the Wyoming and come up there. Well,

the weather and the road closures and everything were like we had to change our route. We had to go over to Cheyenne, spend the night in Cheyenne, make sure the road was clear the next day and come on up. There had to be flexibility in our schedule and in the route that we took.

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This is a f***ing means to the end. It’s not the end. All those motherf***ers that come in here, their hair done, the makeup, you know, these guys come in shirts to be seen. Missing the f***ing point, man. Missing the point. You’re not in here to get an achievement. You’re in here to pay your f***ing dues so later in life you never wonder what if. You don’t need to say, I got to burn the midnight oil so I don’t stay awake in the midnight hours wondering what if. We just erase that, the equation. We’re putting the work in now so we never wonder what if. Not run by the clock.

Run by our desire where we want to go tomorrow. Our competition is f***ing asleep right now. We’re getting ahead of that competition.

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I don’t think people are happy if they don’t have puzzles and complex tasks and things that are interesting to them, whether it’s an art project or whether it’s learning something completely new like stand-up comedy. Doing things that are difficult is as much of a nourishment of the mind as food is a nourishment of the body. I think you need things that are puzzling to you, where you have to find your own human potential in the difficulty of the task and work your way through things, at least for me. For me,

I mean I can only speak for me because I’m the only life that I’ve ever lived that I’m aware of. And in my life, that has been 100% constant. I am a very happy person and I have never had a moment where I’m not doing difficult shit. Ever.

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So how about mindset? Yeah, that’s it man. You have to change the dialogue within your head. and one thing I guarantee you: There’s some stat out there about January 1. All that kindling that you started or that motivation usually burn out by about 10 to 12 days later So, let’s see how far you can take that shit people always coming man. Hey, I want a workout program. I no longer give him anymore because you can waste my fucking time, because I know most people out there. Once that one alarm clock goes off the wrong time of the day, I’m not going to the gym.

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If y’all don’t do nothing else, write everything you imagine down. Write it all down, pray about it, and watch what happens. Watch what happens. Cause let me tell you something, if God can fix me, you have no idea who you looking at. You have no idea what I’ve done. You have no idea what I’ve been through. You wouldn’t even talk to me if you knew what I had to do to be here. But God is in the forgiving business. God is in the get your life together business. God is in the turn it around business. God is in the saving business. God did all that for me.

So I’m telling you right now, if God can fix Steve Harvey and turn him into this, I bet he can turn you into that.

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They don’t want to do it if they don’t have it here in their heart. They’ll give it up I said, but they don’t need their parents not to be on their side. I Said be like an oasis for them. They could come home because that’s what my parents were to me They used to say to me son. Don’t worry. You’re gonna do it. You’re gonna make it Okay Because if they don’t have the will to do it, don’t worry. They’ll quit. You’ll quit because you just can’t do it, because it’s too damn hard. It really is. So encourage your children, or be encouraged yourself.

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But there are many forms of intelligence. There’s the intelligence that has to do with words. There’s abstract intelligence that has to do with patterns and mathematics. There’s kinetic intelligence that has to do with the body. There’s social intelligence. He has five of them. And the idea is your brain naturally veers towards one of them. It can veer towards two of them, that happens. But generally one of them kind of dominates, right? And it’s like a grain in your brain that’s going in a certain direction. You want to go with that grain because that’s where your power will lie.

So when you’re young, if you go back and think about when you were four or five, you can maybe get a picture of some kind of direction or voice inside of you that was impelling you towards this.

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The margins between first and loser, the second place finisher, growing and growing and growing. They’re all going to fight for second place. They won’t be able to keep up with you. That’s being on the right path, man. Never looking back to our past. The past is great. We’re proud of it. But it’s not the current day. All that has created who we are right now, where life begins and how we feel, where we want to go, using that information to excel ourselves to the future of where we want to be tomorrow, which is right now, last I looked, not when the sun comes up,

it’s when we’re ready to get up.

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well, we can just guard him this way, or like we can do this, or, you know, like we don’t have to put too much focus into him. we still got a, because it doesn’t look the same, it’s not as pretty,

but boy is it effective. and so you know where a lot of those guys that I just named are like natural, God-given scores. Kawhi isn’t that. you know. Kawhi didn’t come into this lead as a score,

yet he’s one of the best scores we have in the league now, and so it just doesn’t look the same, but the results are the same, and or better. and you know he’s really worked to get to where he is today. well, with that type of work that he’s put in, also comes a different mindset, because you also understand how much you had to work to get to where you are today.

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The way I like to frame it is when you were born, you are a phenomenon, you are unique. Your DNA has never occurred in the history of the universe, going back billions of years. It will never occur in the future. Your life experience with your parents and everything that you experienced in your early years going on up is unique, it’s yours. You’re one of a kind, right? So that is your source of power. To waste that is just the worst thing you can do in your life.

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Find a thing you like. Try to find a thing that you really enjoy. Try to find a thing that you’re passionate about. Like an activity. Yes. For me early on, it was drawing. It was illustrations. It was comic books. I wanted to be a comic book illustrator. And then it went from comic book drawing and illustrations to martial arts. But it was just another thing that I was very, very passionate about. And that was my vehicle out of my dilemma. That was my vehicle out of my own anxiety and trauma and my own issues and insecurities. And find something. Find a thing that you genuinely enjoy.

Because getting good at things you genuinely enjoy is extremely beneficial for young people. And I think that’s what I’ve learned.

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In life, folks, you cannot change your life unless you change something. If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.

No matter what it is. Many times you say to yourself, I gotta lose weight, I gotta lose weight, I’m too fat. And then you know what? During the day you eat, you eat at night, and the next day you get mad at yourself. Well, what do you want? What do you want? You gotta change something. Well, you know, a lot of actors, you know, I don’t wanna go see that, you know, they feel funny, they don’t wanna see a director or see people. I go, no, you gotta try. You gotta get out there. You gotta fake it till you make it. Do something. You know, they get embarrassed because they’re not working.

I said, well, then if you don’t wanna meet people, you’ll always be not working. You gotta get out there.

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something a little bit different. You know, there’s a dog inside of me. It was interesting because during the countdown, his coach was like, you know, for the Ty-2 to visify, we focused on bringing out Cyril’s dog. And I don’t feel like that’s something your coach has to, should have to like teach you about being a dog. Either you have it or you don’t. And I know that I’m a dog. At the end of the day, I have a dog in me. I have a lion in me. I have a vicious warrior inside of me. It’s who I am. And losing is not an option. This is not just a sporting event to me. This is my life.

This is my image. This is my legacy. This is me.

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If you’re out there looking to promote something, you have to embrace the negativity because the negative people are so loony, they’re so batshit nuts, that these people will stay on there all day fighting with everybody to make it, and it kicks you up into the algorithm and actually makes your post more popular. This is what a lot of these big corporations don’t understand. Like these big corporations wanna, we wanna get into social media and everything else. Well, you better get ready for some negativity. But most of them can’t handle negativity, so they try to stay away from it.

We live in a hard world. People are mean, and people say mean things, and people do mean things. That’s been that way since the beginning of time, and it’s never gonna change.

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Because when you get to 70 miles of a race and you felt the way I did, to me it was humanly impossible to even think about going 30 more miles in that shape. And once you do it, what came over me when that shower hit me and the reality hit that I just went 101 miles. And that last 31 miles was something that I can’t even describe to people. And she’s like, we gotta get you to the hospital. So at the time my mom was seeing this doctor and he was like, you know, so she’s describing to my mom, I’m going through. He’s like, you gotta get in the hospital now.

And I just said, just just shut up and let me enjoy this pain. I don’t want anything to numb it. I don’t want anything right now, because what I had done was I just in my mind and people will take this wrong and take as long as you want to. I don’t really care. I had just climbed a mental wall. That was amazing.

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Stay in, day out, sacrifice. Stay in, day out. Just die. This time when you run and you just want to stop, you don’t want to give up. To hell with this, I just want to go home. The day when you get up and you know what, you have a training today, you know it’s going to be intense and you’re like, oh God, I don’t want to go today, but you got to go. And it’s so hard and a lot of people don’t know.

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The biggest risk to your future isn’t your competition, it’s the distractions you insist on keeping in your life, rather than doing the things you know you should be doing but aren’t. People delay doing things they don’t like for longer than it takes to do them.

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I’m open-minded to the fact that, okay, if I do five pull-ups on the minute for so many hours, I can get so many pull-ups in. How much time do I have to rest? I was breaking the math down. You have to be open-minded to the possibilities that I can do this. Once you shut your mind down to the possibility that it can be achieved, there’s no way it can happen. So that’s why my eyes and my body light up about things, because I know that if you’re in a fight, you have to attack. You have to keep attacking. The enemy has to know he is not going to give up.

You must break the soul of whatever the fuck is in front of you. That’s what I realized. I was never breaking the soul of anything in front of me. So that’s why I came up with a thing called taking souls in my book. I started to devise ways to break a soul of a human being, of an object, of whatever’s in front of me. If you keep on attacking something, nothing wants to stand in front of anything that is relentless. Nothing.

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There have been so many times in my life where I knew I needed to do something, and then I filled all this extra time not doing that thing. And then the moment I did it, I was like, wow, that took way less time than I thought it was going to take. And not only that, it took way less time than it took me to delay to actually get to this point. And if I had only started with just doing what I was supposed to do, I could have done four or five other things that I was also supposed to do by this exact same point. And so thinking about it from that perspective,

I’ve tried to eliminate as much time between I think I should do this thing and beginning doing it. And I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle that occurs every time you start, I call it pulling the thread. It’s like, I just need to start pulling the thread. And then all of a sudden what feels really unknown becomes very tangible. And you’re like, oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing. But now I know the problems. And then it feels like you can wrap your arms around it. And then you can start taking it one bite at a time.

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It’s 44 degrees and it’s nice and rainy outside, But no one cares about that. It’s not about the rain. It’s what the rain represents. Life is always giving you a test, Trying to give you a way out, Trying to give you an excuse not to show up. This is my excuse today. But guess what?

You got to have the mentality to show up every fucking day of your life, No matter what life throws at you. it’s our responsibility To show up to the Coliseum of life Prepare for fucking battle. I don’t care what you’re going through What life’s throwing at you? It’s your responsibility to find your new hundred percent. Take it upon yourself to do that. Stay hard.

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You’re not grinding hard if if you’re worried about something that someone did to you years ago You’re being a pussy to yourself man. You’re not getting out there and squeezing that fucking soul out every day. Yeah, if you grind hard, man, I got time to worry about your monkey ass. I ain’t got time to worry about you, man, because tomorrow I got to go back to the grind, And tomorrow I go back to the grind again and again and again and again I don’t have time to put you into the hate bank. There’s no hate. It’s all filtered out, man, through the grind. People don’t get it. There’s.

there’s great joy in the grind, great joy in the suffer It’s. it totally cleanses your body out, man, of any kind of hate, makes you grow up.

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A friendly reminder that in three generations,

everyone who knew us will be dead,

including the people whose opinions stopped you from doing what you wanted all along.

Imagine that someone you know achieves every dream and hits every goal they have.

Years later, they get old and die.

Two years after that, how much do you care?

About as much as everyone else will if you accomplish your goals and dreams.

Do it for you.

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Sacrifice is to get anything of value,

you have to sacrifice.

I know that, dad, but I think if we continue down this road,

it’s going to be too detrimental for the kids.

It’s just too hard.

Do you know that the hardest thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing?

Nothing that has meaning is easy.

Easy doesn’t enter into grown-up life.

It’s the right thing to do.

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You’re getting soft, brother. Soft and weak.

It’s how the barber for Sundays, eh?

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And my three questions are, what do you want? How badly do you want it? And how much are you willing to suffer? And very often, everything revolves around the first question, what do you want? Because a lot of people are unclear what they want from life. They don’t sit down and think through. We are writing our own life story every day, and yet we don’t think about it. Who do we want to be? Where do we want to live? What life do we want to lead? When we’ve finished our life, come to the end of our life and look back, what do we want to say that we’ve done?

So, what do you want is a very powerful question.

And then, if an athlete says, I want to be the best, Bill, fine, how badly do you want it? Because it’s going to, you’ve got to pay a price to be the best. The best pay a big price.

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But we don’t take a second to realize the purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us because the very purpose is you. You are always the purpose. There may be another purpose, like being a SEAL or going to college or whatever, but the main purpose in life is you. So if you wake up in the morning and you don’t want to do something, you don’t care enough about yourself. And that’s what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself? Because that is the number one purpose in life, is to better oneself. So that’s the only purpose I fucking need.

So the reason I get up every day, even though there’s no races, there’s no school, there’s nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself.

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Yet up there on the surface,

no one even knows they exist.

They’re monsters.

There’s a monster inside all of us.

What? No.

No, no, it’ll kill me.

I’d like to let you in on a very important secret I learned when I was about your age, boy.

You see, power, real power doesn’t come to those who were born strongest or fastest or smartest. No, it comes to those who will do anything to achieve it.

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You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life. Okay? I’m gonna throw a jab in the jaw. Alright, one to the gut. Now, every time he punches this guy, what’s he doing? Staring him back at me. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it, or get out of the way.

So…

I’m gonna leave you two alone for a while.

Good luck.

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I’m trying to build people up. I’m trying to armor their mind. I’m trying to get them to belief because this world we live in is tough. It’s tough. It will beat you down. The world and the life that we live in is the ultimate competitor. It will try to take you out. It will find your weakness and it will fucking just hammer you.

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Because I think there are a lot of people who are very talented who can make it there. There are very few people who can deal with the pressure and the stress that happens when we’re there. So that’s why I say we had to make sure that we were physically, emotionally, and mentally ready because I had to be ready to be able to kind of manage my emotions through that week. Yeah, winning a gold medal is absolutely incredible. There’s nothing better than standing on the podium listening to your national anthem play after you had just won a gold medal.

But for me, I’m somebody who I knew that I had seven other events after the first day. So I have to throw that in the back of my head. I’ve got to throw that race out. Even though if I’d, you know, even like in 08, I broke world record, won my first gold medal. I was like, cool, like things are starting really well. So I have to put that behind me to then get ready for the next race.

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What statement are you making? The psychology of savagery. I wasn’t the best runner. But what I did was I found the worst schedules out of my competition and I made sure they saw me running day and night. I tried to get in their f***ing heads. I got a video the other day of this UFC fighter Ferguson. This mother f***er weighs in and the UFC is f***ing cancelled. He wasn’t just weighing in. He was getting the f***ing head music components. What he did was this. He wanted you to remember his f***ing hands and elbows slice you the f*** up. Remember this. Stay hard at all times. Savagery.

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And I think, if you look at the greats in anything, that in any walk of life, The greats do things when they don’t always want to, and that’s the separation For me, that’s what I’ve found because I can sure as hell tell you that there were days where I hated my coach There were days where we got in fights. We got in arguments. We Couldn’t stand what we were doing. I would do things purposely to piss him off, but that’s a different story. But you know I think that was that was just really how we worked like he was somebody who was so perfect for me that if I ever swam for anybody else.

I would never would have had the chance to do what I Did, because he challenged me in ways and forced my mind to think differently.

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So if I can help you build belief, build confidence to the point where nothing can hurt you because you know exactly who you are, you’ve faced your demons, you’ve been able to go on an audio book in your mind, maybe you didn’t write a book, but in your mind, you were able to hear all your past traumas. You were able to listen to them. You’re able to fucking say, okay, now I can now talk to people about what I went through. I’m no longer embarrassed. I’m no longer ashamed. Being ashamed is one of the biggest things that kill people nowadays.

In their minds, kill them from moving forward, I’m ashamed of myself.

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the most driven individuals,

they live a life for many years and certain times without balance. Everybody strives for balance, balance, balance. And in order to be that obsessed with something over and over again.

So if you say something that was missing, but it was actually a gift,

was his lack of balance. You know there were times now you can’t be the best at something and try to balance everything else around your life. There is gonna be times where things are gonna be out of balance. It just is.

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Do you fear anybody?

No. No. If you’re up, willing to fight me, we can fight, no problem. Come and try me, anyone.

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So I think about death all the time because it’s probably the central theme. It’s probably the thing that I think the most about and I think that influences how I see time and also how it influences agency, like what actions I’m willing to take despite the judgment of others. And so a lot of times, and it might be because I have more insecurity than everyone that I think like, man, I want to do this thing. And then I hear all these other voices of reasons why I shouldn’t do it or why somebody else will say like that’s bad, or you’re bad, or like, that’s wrong, whatever.

And so I think I’ve had to come up with a lot of these devices to get around my own insecurities, to take action despite those insecurities. And the biggest one that I think about is that it doesn’t matter whether I achieve all of my goals or I don’t achieve all of the goals in three generations, I’ll be forgotten. And the only people who were naysaying against me will also be dead. And so then it’s like, just do it for me. And then when I wake up every day, there’s only one voice I have to listen to.

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You know, for me as a kid growing up,

I’m huge into music,

and music is a big part of my life.

And I’m a huge Biggie Smalls fan,

and he wrote a song called The Sky is the Limit.

And as a kid growing up,

I believed that.

I believed that whatever I put my mind to, and if I was willing to make sacrifices, and I was dedicated,

that I could achieve absolutely anything.

And you still do. I still do.

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Don’t ever be ashamed of anything you’ve done in your life. Face it, fix it, make it better. We are humans. But then again, if you always think that we’re humans, you will always just be a human and always make the same mistakes. You must take this knowledge that you learned from all this shit is knowledge. So I’m just trying to give people that strength to go in the archives of your life. Because while you’re probably fucked up, there’s probably something happened to you in your life. Go through the archives, dig it up, study it, and then use it for yourself.

That’s the main purpose for me right now.

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When you finish the journey, you get people thinking like, oh, it’s possible, another human did it. Oh, if they did it, I could do it. And so by the third one, you got about 10 people finishing with you. And by the fifth one, you got hundreds of, are you listening? So how something great happens is you got to start and you got to finish. And if you can start and you can finish, do me a favor. Somebody said: listen to me, somebody told me a long time ago. they said: if you ain’t going to do it right the first time, when are you going to have time to do it right the second time?

So we’re not starting this habit of starting and then starting and then quitting and then starting and then quitting. Finish the dog on PhD, you started it. Finish the book, you started it. You want to build your credibility? You don’t build it by being loud. You don’t build it by talking. You build credibility by finishing what you start.

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You need more balance, you need more balance, you need more balance. You don’t find balance, you create it. And it’s different for every individual out there. What the balance I’ve created may be completely different than the balance you’ve created. And there’s certain times in your life that the scales are definitely gonna be weighing towards one side more than the other. In early part of Kobe’s career, it was about basketball and winning, about basketball and winning. And towards the end of his career, and he played for 20 years, it became more or less about winning.

It was still about basketball, and it became more focused, became more on spending time with the family. But you have to surround yourself with people, and this is very important to the listeners. You have to surround yourself with people when your life is unbalanced, with individuals that would be selfish for you.

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As you all know, it’s a hot motherfucker Nice heat wave mother nature’s a pissed-off motherfucker, but guess what so am I so who gives a fuck? Today I was running and this guy passes me in the car It’s about 100 degrees out here 70% humidity and the guy comes back around looks at me. He pulls his car by me and says Why the fuck are you out here? I said because you’re not Sometimes your motivation needs to be Because no one else wants to fucking do it. We need doctors. We need fucking lawyers. We need Dennis. We need teachers. We also need fucking savages.

This message I do is not for fucking everybody Someone see that soft bullshit about do you have sunscreen on this message is dangerous. It’s too hot I’m not asking you to fucking be like me. Do you? Stay hard?

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This thing, you’re doing it for yourself. You’re not doing it for anybody else. Yes, your family supports you. Yes, your friends support you, but you’re doing it for yourself at the end of the day, and you’re the only one who’s going out there on the track. So you got to motivate yourself, and you got to want it as much. One thing I’ve learned over the years from my coach is that the last one is the most important one. That’s when you improve. So if you run, if you got 16, you’re in fire, and you’re tired, you’re dying,

you got to even take a little bit more rest time, take one more minute and go, because that’s when you start improving. That’s when the work pays off now, because your legs are dead, and you got to push your body. You got to overcome. It’s like you’re moving past a barrier, or moving a step forward. A lot of people just want to stop because they’re dead tired. You got to do that extra one. That’s when you improve.

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Think about the young man who was running track and and I don’t know what happened to kill his heel I don’t know what happened, but he couldn’t run no more his daddy came from the stand He grabbed his son and he put his son’s arm around it and he told He told all the umpire the refs all whoever they were get go get out of here. No, we not. Uh-uh, my son and I are going to finish and I don’t care how much pain he’s in man, I don’t care how disappointed he is and I don’t care how distraught he is. He gonna finish. Lord, help us finish Like the young man’s father. help him finish,

And we’ll be so careful when you help us to finish to give you all praise on and glory We pray these things not because we’re worthy as we ask for forgiveness of sin in Jesus name Amen, amen, and amen. It’s your boy, ET, finish, finish. finish what you start.

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It’s warm on the couch, your missus says stay in bed. It’s comfy, it’s cozy. You’ve got work later on. You had an argument last night. You’re slightly hung over.

God, I know every mother ain’t gonna do what I’m gonna do. So this is how you level up. That’s how you level up. I know there’s a whole bunch of people with that right there. That fires me up. That makes me fucking happy what you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there’s so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours. Refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that’s where I gain the advantage. It’s so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak.

Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile. Most people don’t want to find that extra because it sucks. It’s miserable. It’s lonely. It’s lonely.

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When life was unfair, boxing was around to make it fair. And I’ll tell you how. On one given night, if you worked hard enough, if you dream big enough, if you were tough enough and you made yourself tough enough, you sacrificed enough, you became polished and savvy enough and and technically equipped to do things that you had, then you learned those things and you just worked yourself to the bone.

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First, access to the river, so I can bring in my fuel directly from any provider in the world, straight to my tanks. Second, it has over 10 million gallons of storage capacity, so I can buy in the summers, when the price is low, and sell to my customers and, more importantly, my competitors when the price is high. I will no longer just drive trucks. I will control my fate.

But the real answer to your question is that when it feels scary to jump, Ian, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise, you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

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What stops you from finishing? Huh? What is it? Is it circumstances outside of your control? What is it? Your emotions? You get in the mood? What is it? You get tired? You get burnt out? What is it? Like, what’s that thing that’s stopping you from finishing? My second question is, what can we do about it? What can we do to fix it? Now, here goes one thing we could do is we could pray.

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one of the most difficult things to accomplish incredible things, like he’s a fighter, a fucking cage fighter at the highest level of the game. Talking about a guy who knocked out Conor McGregor. You know what I mean? He’s a beast. Oh yeah. So like his ability to like get things done is exceptional. Yeah. You know, he’s an exceptional person. And so his understanding of that fact, that you can’t just wait for things to get perfect. You gotta, you just go out and do stuff. I always tell people that about working out, like fuck your motivation. Fuck your motivation.

You need discipline because motivation’s not there every day. Motivation, I’m missing motivation most days. Wow, really? Some days, yeah, sometimes I got motivation. Sometimes I’m like, fuck yeah, today I felt good. I can’t wait to get to the gym. But a lot of days, like gotta get to the gym. And then once I get going, then I feel great. Yeah. And I feel great when it’s over. But it’s that beginning part that’s hard because your body wants to stay comfortable. Your body will trick you like, man, today’s should take the day off Theo. Feel good.

Theo, what did you get, like six hours sleep last night? That’s not enough.

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So I started making these mixtapes with all of these hate messages about people talking shit. And it became such a source of fuel that it was amazing because I know why you hate me. You hate me because you’re probably in the bed right now, you’re probably an underachiever, you’re probably somebody who doesn’t want to do anything with your life. So I make you question everything about yourself. So I’m going to continue making you question yourself by coming out here and being even more successful. So I listen to that while I run.

I sometimes play it in the house and it sometimes gets on Jennifer’s fucking nerves because I’m sitting and listening to somebody talk mad shit on a loop about me. And she’s like, why do you do this shit? It’s half comical and it’s half inspiring. I’m actually inspired by it. I’m inspired by it.

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You want to get closer to balance? Don’t continue to add stuff. Get closer to balance by deleting the unessentials. Delete the unessentials. The most successful people, and the success, when I talk about success, I’m not just talking about from a financial standpoint. Whatever success means to you, and whatever success means to you in your life,

they’ve learned how to disconnect. They’ve learned how to delete the unessentials. Because you spend so much time being obsessed and paying attention to the details that you don’t have time, you don’t have focus for the unessentials. The most successful people have the smallest circles.

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No matter where you came from, no matter what part of the world, no matter who your parents were, no matter what your poverty level may have been, may not have been, no matter what you had, what you didn’t have, no matter what people had told you, didn’t tell you. All of that. If you made yourself and took advantage of that opportunity and got yourself ready and you were ready to behave like a champion, you could get in that ring on one given night and make the world fair. And have your hand lifted and be called champion of the world. That makes boxing special.

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You know, it’s hard to say it’s hard to say whether it’d be the toughest challenge or not, you know, I I can’t predict the future You know my first Gulf season fight. I wasn’t I wasn’t expecting him to put on the fight He did and it was an absolute war. I am ready for whatever. I’m ready to dominate. But if I don’t dominate and the fight goes five rounds, I’m ready to press forward and I’m ready for dogfight. I’m ready to bleed and sweat and leave my heart out there. I’m ready for however it goes. I’m pretty prepared for victory.

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and this whole COVID thing, people don’t wanna go back to work and they wanna stay home and all this bullshit, man. You can’t build a real business with people staying at home. You need that connection. You need to be in the office with your like-minded group of people and you need to be brainstorming and working and coming up with ideas to take the company further. And this next generation is just such a fucking group of pussies, man. I just, for the small group of savages out there, run these fucking kids right over, man. Run them all over. You can’t beat hard work. That’s it, that’s it.

And that was always my mentality. Nobody’s ever gonna fucking outwork me. So it should be yours. You out there that are listening right now, there’s never been more opportunity than there is today.

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Alright, breathe through your mouth. Deep breaths, kid.

Deep. You are up on the cards. You’re winning this. You are gonna win this. But just keep smart and keep away from it. He’s going to sleep this time. He’s going out this round.

I should have stopped this round with your father. I’m stopping this one now. Don’t, okay?

Let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what? I’m not a mistake.

Look at me. I never got a chance to thank Apollo for helping me out after Mickey died. But it’s nothing compared to what you’ve done. You taught me how to fight again. I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna fight this thing. But if I fight, I want you to fight too. I want you to go across this ring and knock that son of a bitch down. Can you do it? Say it.

I’m going to knock that son of a bitch down.

I know you are. You know why? Because you are Creed and I love you, kid.

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John Jones, who’s in the UFC still, has never been beat. This guy has beat everybody. And when you talk about real fighting, you know, when you talk about who the baddest man on the planet is, when you talk about that, the real definition of what that means, you throw two guys in a room and who comes out? Yeah. Okay? That’s the baddest man on the planet. And it is hard to not say that John Jones is that guy right now.

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I have my arms wrapped around her going up the stairs and every flight of stairs I have to lay down because I can’t stay upright for too long or I’m going to pass out. So I finally get in the house and when I get in the house, I’m once again on the floor. I’m in the kitchen on the floor just laying there. I finally make it to the bathroom, into the tub, I get rolled in the tub and she puts the water on me. I’m just laying there with the water coming on me and what I pee out looks like Coca-Cola. and I’m laying there in the worst pain of my entire life.

I’m shaking, I’m jacked up and all I could think about was: I can’t believe what I just done.

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That’s a lesson that people need to hear and learn. It’s so important because everybody just wants to be comfortable. Everybody wants to sit in the car, I don’t want to go outside, it’s cold. I don’t want to do this, it’s hot. Like you’ve got to do things that you don’t want to do because you show your body that your mind is the boss. Your mind is telling your body what to do and then you have control.

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My motivation is to become the best man that I can be, be a reflection of God’s love and His forgiveness, and ultimately have fans from around the world to see the Christ that’s inside of me. None of us are perfect, and we all have ups and downs in life. I genuinely believe that my imperfection makes me very relatable to a lot of people. One of my goals is for people to one day see if a person like John could love Jesus Christ, and if a person like John could have a relationship with Jesus Christ, then I’m sure that would be a great thing.

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I feel like this next generation is coming up and I don’t mean to smash all of them, but they seem like a bunch of pussies to me. So because of that, there’s never been more opportunity than there is right now. If you’re a f***ing savage and you get out there and you grind hard and you want it bad enough, you can run all these guys over, man.

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Winners focus on winning and losers focus on winners. People who find themselves having losses, not reaching what they want to create in their life, it’s because they focused on winners. They focused on throwing shade at other people. They focused on comparing themselves to other people. So comparison is the thief of joy. Winners continue to focus on winning.

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and you can’t control what’s happening, control how you respond to it. That’s where your power is, control what you can control. That’s the first thing I go to, all right. In this moment, if it’s going out of my way, if it’s going out of control, if it’s spinning out of, what can I control in this moment? I can control my attitude, I can control my words, I can control my perspective, I can control the lens in which I see it. What can I control in the moment when I can’t control something externally, right? Because if I can control what I can control in the moment,

what’s happening externally is not going to affect and impact my true potential and my true advancement as a person, which is the things that I can’t control when I’m viewing a situation, when I’m responding to a situation. Most importantly, can I use it?

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So really the truth is, most people need to shut the up and focus on that version of themselves they want to become and actually be willing to become it. And that’s what’s ultimately going to create the fulfillment that you’re looking for. It’s not gonna be your cold plunge. It’s not gonna be your morning routine. It’s not gonna be your journaling. It’s not gonna be your grounding. It’s not gonna be your granola lunch. It’s not gonna be you living in the fucking van. It’s not gonna be your therapy. It’s gonna be the work that you fucking do to become that version of yourself.

that is the exact version that you know you’re supposed to become and then being proud of it. That’s what’s going to create the fulfillment that you’re searching for. And all of this other shit is just band-aid shit to try and fix something that you know is a real problem in yourself.

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If you look at any business plan, anything that tries to grow, it’s all about community, about sharing with others and finding that connectivity that we may be from different backgrounds. I mean, at the end of the day, that’s the premise of my book. My book is about my grandfather, but there’s other people who have had mentors or family members that they were connected to like that. And so the importance of community and sharing your experiences with other people and not necessarily forcing it on people. Cause even like with a plant-based lifestyle or anything,

a lot of times people don’t want things forced on them, but sometimes you gotta nudge it. You gotta keep at least giving them the information and it may take them a while to actually try it.

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When you talk to people that went to SEAL training that didn’t make it, most of the time it’s some reason.

There’s a medical reason, there’s a family problem.

There’s very few people that look at you and say, I quit because it sucked. Which is what, by the way, which is what happens to the vast majority of people. The vast majority of people that don’t make it through SEAL training, and by this I mean 80, 90% of the people that don’t make it through SEAL training, they didn’t make it through because they quit.

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When you’re nothing, nothing, and change yourself into something like me, you call it happiness, peace, whatever the fuck you want to call it,

people are missing exactly what went on with David Goggins. Why don’t you smile? I do. I do. But I figured something out. That’s why I am never, you’ll never hear me say I’m missing something. I found it years ago. You find it in the suck. You find it in the suck and you find it repeatedly in the suck to the point where you know exactly who you are. Most people are missing something because they don’t know who they are. They never examine themselves. They’ve never done this experiment on themselves. The lab rat, we’re all lab rats, but you’re also the scientist. You create your own self.

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This workout, headstrong. Because that’s how you have to be, mentally tough up here. If you guys mentally believe you can do it, your body will find a way physically to make it happen. If you are short up here, it doesn’t matter what you do with these guys. It will never materialize into anything. No dream will ever become reality. You guys have got to believe in yourself. Headstrong, mentally tough. That’s the only way through the bullshit here in life. Winners,

the difference between them and the spectators is that the winners have a belief that overrides the crowd’s disbelief every single time. Their belief is so strong, even though they hit failure, they get knocked on the ass, they’re finding intestinal fortune to stand back up again, facing the same challenge, learning from the previous mistakes, and make it happen.

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You say during times of continuous failure the mind seems to constantly get into thought loops of feeling not enough, resentful, and pity, or what others have dealt with, or what you have dealt with, and eventually sour about others’ success, which is to be human. Show yourself the grace, realize that you were in a wrong thought loop, because without an abundance mindset and realizing that other people can be successful around you and it doesn’t deter or add to or take away from your success because you are on your own journey, that’s where the rubber meets the road. That’s where the rub is.

Everyone else’s path, everyone else’s journey, everyone else’s road that they are on, whether it’s very, very, very successful or failed numerous, numerous times, does not deter you increase or decrease your chances of success.

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sometimes life’s gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is gonna fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it,

and like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking, don’t settle.

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And I’m looking at myself in the mirror going like, God, dog, dude, you are something else, man. Like you have created a character. I want to be the cool guy table. And whatever I could do to get attention, I did. It wasn’t me. It wasn’t who I was inside. But I was scared for anybody to know who I was inside. So in that accountability mirror, I call it, I got real with myself. I said, you have a third grade reading level, which is hard to admit when you’re a junior in high school that you copied on every single thing you did because you’re a junior.

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Things are not going to go your way. Things are not going to work out the way you planned. Things are not going to be the way that you wanted them to be.

Part of it is suck it up, buttercup, get up, keep on going, dust yourself off because everyone else you have looked up to has failed, myself included. And if they were able to move from setback to setback without losing steam, without losing the faith, then why can’t you? Life is a series of seasons, sometimes setbacks, sometimes springboards. And the best is yet to come for he or she who continues to believe and he or she who continues to put the work in.

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When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person that walked into it. That’s what the storm is all about. When you can’t control what’s happening to you, control how you respond to it, that’s where your power is, right? They asked the elderly couple one day, they said, how have you guys been married for so long? He said, we come from a generation when something is broken, we don’t throw it away, we fix it, right? And when you think about calm and happiness, it’s not real calm and happiness and quiet too. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship,

then you see the true potential of the mind. You think perspective, you think peace, and you think more so controlling how you respond to a situation. Right? It says that’s where your power is, right?

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Go do something that’s hard. Go try and accomplish something that’s hard. You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what, you’ll be better. If you avoid those things that are hard, if you don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water, and you sit on your couch and eat Doritos, I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Just get up. Move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. Move towards that challenge and go attack it.

And you may be successful, and you may not be successful, but you will be better. And the next challenge, you’re going to be more prepared for. And the next challenge after that, you’re going to be even more prepared for. And you’re going to fail. And you’re going to fail. And you’re going to fail. And then you’re going to win.

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most people are missing something because there’s so much trapped in there. I don’t even wanna say potential. I think that’s word used out too much too. There’s so much in you that God or wherever the hell you believe in or if you’re an atheist in you that you have not unlocked that you walk around with this gorgeous wife or great husband and all this money like, God, I feel like I’m missing something. Yeah, because it’s about 75% of you is still fucking in there. Still chained up because you just didn’t wanna find your willpower.

Didn’t wanna find your soul, your will, your heart, your determination, your guts, your courage. And what that looks like, it looks scary.

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I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

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Just saying, I didn’t get promoted, okay, it was my fault. Period. That doesn’t solve the fact that you didn’t get promoted. I’m not getting called back to do this other contracting job. It’s my fault. Does that mean you get called back? No, it doesn’t mean anything.

Taking ownership means that you actually have to identify the problem, you know you’re responsible for it, and then you actually have to solve the problem. That’s what you have to do. Just taking ownership of the problem doesn’t make it go away. You have to take ownership of the problem, you have to take ownership of finding a solution, and then you have to take ownership of implementing that solution. So this is real straightforward.

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if you have no point of reference or experience, but you have people around you who are telling you, hey, we know this business, this is what you need to do to become a leading man and to become a movie star. You can’t be what you were, you have to be what they are. Then you realize, well, actually, the most important thing is to be what I was and am and will be tomorrow, and that’s real. And again, that’s when everything starts to conform, Hollywood conformed. And I find like, what I have found, and I’m sure you guys will agree,

is that when you take that kind of action and that kind of step of following your gut and your intuition, taking that step, whatever it is.

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Winners fail a million times. What makes them a winner is that they believe in it. Their head’s strong. Nothing’s going to stop them. The spectators have tried it and failed it and remain sitting down. They don’t get up anymore because they don’t believe in it enough. The naysayers disbelief overrides their ability, potential, and mental capacity that they can’t be more than that.

Champions of life are headstrong.

You come in here headstrong for this workout.

It’s going to take everything. This is madness. This is a super f***ing psycho workout.

But if you have it up here and you go through it out there, guys,

you will leave here not only physically dominating, but mentally unstoppable. It all starts today if you’re ready to transform.

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and being cool, you don’t have a title on yourself. So I started cheating. I was dumb and people say, oh, you know, you have a learning disability. I don’t learn disability, but I realized I was lazy.

So I called myself out there. I called myself out every which way possible. I didn’t call myself out. I was just honest. I was honest. Look at yourself, man. Look at yourself. And it was that day. in a couple of days after that. I just got real with myself and every day I came home. I called the accountability mirror. What am I going to do today to change what I see in this mirror?

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Disappearing means doing the work. It means doing the work in the dark. It means building in private what you don’t need to prove in public. It means doing the work when no one’s watching. You stop worrying about what people think and start valuing what you believe. Because a life that looks good or sounds good is nothing compared to a life that feels good. Now, this all might seem like strange advice coming from someone whose entire career exists online in the public eye. But I would not be where I am today if I didn’t disappear not once, but twice.

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If you were to go to the gym, right, it’s like exercise, right? If you go to the gym and you work out and you come back and you look in the mirror, you will see nothing. And if you go to the gym the next day and you come back and you look in the mirror, you will see nothing, right?

So clearly there’s no results, can’t be measured, it must not be effective. So we quit, right? Or if you fundamentally believe that this is the right course of action and you stick with it, like in a relationship- I bought her flowers and I wished her happy birthday and she doesn’t love me, clearly I’ll give up. You know, that’s not what happens. If you believe there’s something there, you commit yourself to an act of service. You commit yourself to the regime, the exercise. You can screw it up, you can eat chocolate cake one day, you can skip a day or two, you know, it allows for that.

But if you stick with it consistently, I’m not exactly sure what day, but I know you’ll start getting into shape. I know it.

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to wake up every day and say, I’m stupid, but I want to figure out a way to be smarter. Versus saying, man, I just can’t do that. So you limit this box. So your box becomes so small of things you can do. My box wasn’t even a box. It was a fucking little pinhole. And then through examining myself, getting some willpower, some courage, it became bigger than this table. But that’s what we all do. That’s why I wanted to come here today and talk to you about real shit. Not no fucking like hacks. There’s no hacks, bro. It’s you against you. You against you.

And if you misunderstand that, you have a real problem. Real problem. I can understand you misunderstand me running down the street, shirt off. Fuck this, no, yeah. I can get it, I get it. If you misunderstand what I’m saying right now today, the problem is you. And you don’t want to fix it.

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When I think about change, right? I just think about stacking days, stacking days. My son is small, right? He’s small, just like I was. And I’ve talked to him about the training and how hard it is and this, that, and the third. But he’s finally starting to see a little bit of change, right, in his game or whatever, in his ability. And all I keep telling him is just keep stacking days. Just keep stacking days. As long as you keep stacking days, I promise you, I promise you, you will see the change. But my coach used to always say, everything that you want is on the other side of hard.

Right, he had another, I think I said in the book, he said, reps removed out, right? Reps removed out. My biggest frustration with my son used to be, we would go outside at the house and he would shoot a shot and he’d be mad. He’d be like, dang. I’d be like, what you mad for? You don’t get up enough reps, you know? So.

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Good is a positive, enough is a negative. That’s an oxymoron right there. It’s hypocritical in its own sense. There is nothing that’s ever good enough. The only thing that’s enough is at the end of the day, the nth hour, the final hour, whatever you’re fucking going for, that your hand is raised victoriously. That’s when you know it’s enough. And you’re in the gym right now to ensure that that event goes your way. And it will never go your way, guys, if you’re saying today is good enough. If you never say good enough today, I promise you tomorrow will always be enough.

Whenever good enough isn’t enough, you can bet tomorrow you’ll have enough.

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All my life, I was the underdog. They told me I wasn’t good enough. They told me I was dreaming too big. They said the kid from the LBC couldn’t make it. But guess what? I didn’t let none of that stop me. I stayed true to myself. I stayed focused on the vision. And I turned them no’s into yes’s. See, adversity is like the gym for your soul. It hurts, it’s heavy. But it builds you up. Every time you wanted to quit, every time life tried to break you, you chose to stand tall. That’s what makes you great.

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The difference is how do you look at it? How do you approach it?

How do you deal with it? How do you admit it and see it for what it is? What do you do about it? You cry about it? You mope about it? You drink about it? You sleep around about it? You get mad and get in fights about it? You just hang around?

Just turn the world out? Just zombie about it? You fry yourself of marijuana about it? You say, Dwayne, I’m sad. Dude, that’s a part of life. You think you’re the only man on this planet that’s sad? You say, Dwayne, I’m going through depression. Well, welcome to the world. Welcome to the rest of us. You think I don’t go through depression sometimes? You think I don’t get sad sometimes? You think I don’t just feel wore out and burnt plum down to the bottom of my soul? We all do. We all do.

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If I was to try and sum up some of this idea about being a man or being a good human, it’s like those books, I wrote a book called Extreme Ownership. Number one, take responsibility for what you’re doing, take ownership of your world, take ownership of your life. There’s number one. Number two, the second book, Dichotomy of Leadership, be balanced, be balanced.

Don’t be extreme, extreme. Look, do you have to sometimes get out there in the fringes a little bit?

Occasionally, you probably had some business situations where you’re like, all right, I gotta let go half of my staff right now. That’s an extreme move, but that’s how we’re gonna survive. Do you have to do that sometimes? Yes, you do. But don’t let that be where you live. Live in the center, live in a stable area, and then finally, discipline equals freedom.

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You crying about something that happened to you when you was a kid. You ain’t even no kid no more. You a grown man. Take full ownership. The stupid stuff you doing, your parents didn’t make you play no video games. And what you crying about? So what your daddy wasn’t there? Your mama end up getting married. What you crying about? He went to work every day. He never beat you. He never abused you. Your mama did the best she knew how to do. What you crying about? You grew up in a house. What you crying about? You was never sexually assaulted. What you crying about?

Did somebody beat your butt because you did something you wasn’t supposed to do? What you crying about? Nobody just came home and start whipping you. Man up. Principle number two. Man up. Stop crying. My teacher don’t like you. Why? Why she don’t like you? Maybe you talk too much. Maybe you disrespectful. Why don’t, don’t say she don’t like you. Go look in the mirror and take full ownership. Why does she not like me?

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The margins guys in life that dictates a champion, someone that’s remembered and not forgotten, the legacies of life, the role models, the one that stands those tests of time I always talk about, don’t know terms like good enough. It’s too f***ing hard. And they failed over and over and over again so many times that they’ve learned what it takes to succeed. With failure comes success and with success comes blueprints of fundamental principles that lead to success.

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But think about how much I’ve built. Everything I’ve ever done in my life, I didn’t want to do. Everything, every day. I’m a lazy piece of shit. And I’m one of the hardest working people to ever step foot on this planet Earth. And I’m saying that very proudly because I know what I do. Not cocky. I’ll tell you I’m stupid and I’ll also tell you the exact opposite of what I’ve done. It’s the truth. It is the truth. So imagine how much I’ve developed in that time frame. But this is the scary thing. Why most people don’t want to do that, build that willpower, is because it is scary.

It unlocks a whole bunch of things about who you are and who you’re not. And a lot of people don’t want to go down that journey to discover who they are and who they’re not.

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It’s not about intensity,

it’s about consistency.

You go to the dentist twice a year,

your teeth will fall out.

You have to brush your teeth every day for two minutes. What does brushing your teeth twice a day for two minutes do?

Nothing, unless you do it every day,

twice a day for two minutes.

It’s the consistency.

Going to the gym for nine hours does not get you into shape.

Working out every day for 20 minutes gets you into shape.

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It’s about the grind, the sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whisper when nobody was watching. It’s all about those moments when you could’ve folded, but you didn’t. You see, the underdog story is the realest story there is, because when you come from nothing, you appreciate everything. You hustle different, you love different, and you lead different. So today, I want you to do three things. Stay humble. Never forget where you came from. Stay hungry. Keep that fire in your soul. And stay true.

Always be real with yourself and the world, because the world don’t need no more copies. It need originals, and trust me, ain’t nobody else that can do what you do like you do.

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Stop listening to the normality of life and everyone saying the way it is is the way it’s going to be for you. The way it is for you is blood, sweat and tears today to create a foundation, the strength of tomorrow. Those days combined into whatever dream you want to be a reality. We are always fighting for that edge, always fighting for that opportunity. So it’s not past, it’s not missed, but lived. We’re not going to cry about those opportunities. We’re going to smile, remember them and thank God they came because we were ready when they came.

You won’t be ready if today isn’t pushed with the strenuous nature and the pressure of the moment in the future that everything rides on.

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He was like, the only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you and then you’ll forget they exist. And that’s when he said, he said, success is the only revenge. He’s like, it’s not the best revenge. He’s like, it’s the only one. There’s no other revenge. Because everything else is petty. Everything else does show that you were thinking about these people all day long, which means they win by default. He’s like, all you can do is think about your goal and winning. He’s like, and when you win,

that’s when you become so big that they shrink into irrelevance. You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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Whatever you’re going to call me, you’re going to call me. Whatever I’m going to be, I want to geek, but whoever I am, you’re going to see me. You’re going to see me for who I am because I need to change who I’m not. And that accountability just became raw. And I became fat over the years, because I fell back in the hole. I called myself fat because I was fat. And people don’t want to do that. They want to say, oh, don’t call yourself fat. Don’t call yourself dumb. If you’re not real and raw with who the fuck you are, nothing’s going to change.

And in this nice new world that we live in, we want to hear, you’re just a little big. No, man, you might be fat. And it’s okay to hear that from yourself and from Maribel. So that’s where it started at. And it’s raw. It gets ugly sometimes with me in that mirror, but I’m also proud of myself to be able to tell myself that and then fix what’s in that mirror.

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either you have to have a reward that is, that, that incentivizes you the way towards or away. It’s either we’re going away from pain or we’re going towards pleasure. And I think a lot of people are really looking for that passion that’s gonna be towards, but I think early days, and I talk a lot about this, but like, I think negative motivation is poo-pooed too much. Like if you are angry, use it. If you are sad, use it. Because like, what else are you gonna do with it?

Like you might as well let it help you. Like, or it uses you. You know what I mean? And so I always like to see when I was in my earlier days, I felt like I was wielding my anger at least in a direction. And I think also a lot of people think that they have to get like it right on the first shot. But one of the beliefs that I had was that I just wanna be directionally correct.

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There’s a moment when every boy realizes no one’s coming to save him, and that’s when he becomes a man. And some boys never get there and stay children forever. That guy was you that said that. And it’s important when we step out of this,

like this stuff matters because no one’s effing coming to save you. No one’s going to make you better at your business. No one is going to get you to be a better persuader of people or framer of people other than you.

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I can be a product of my environment. You know what I mean?

If I’m in with the wrong crowd, I just kind of become whatever.

You know what I mean? So that’s why I like to be isolated.

And that’s why this has helped me coming out here and being locked in an apartment on my own,

building back up my leg, going from rehab to home to rehab to home,

because there was no outsiders.

It was isolation. It was visualization.

It was motivation and it was dedication.

There was no nothing else going on in my life. You know what I mean?

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The superpower of learning to be alone and enjoying it. Yeah. Well, I think it’s critical and I do think that these times where you just think about things, just be alone and think about things are so rare these days. And I think during those rare times is when you really get to understand what you actually believe or don’t believe.

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Well, everybody, it’s Groundhog’s Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about three o’clock in the morning and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing. Not a car or a person in sight. People wanna know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from, there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car, there’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hate it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it.

I’m loving that. Where everybody’s getting weaker, I’m getting stronger. It’s not about the running, the swimming, the pushups, the sit-ups. It’s about what those things do for your mentality. You don’t get better on the daggone couch. You get better by coming out here and getting the fuck after it every daggone day. Stay hard.

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I think the underlying truth is that yeah, it creates a lot of wins, but it creates a lot of difficulty too, and a lot of mental anguish because you’re not like everybody else. You know, when you’re built different than everybody else and you have this desire for more and this desire for achievement and this desire to win, everybody else looks at you like you’re fucked up. And they’ll tell you that too. You know, what the fuck is wrong with you? Like, why can’t you just relax? Why can’t you just do this? Why can’t… Because I’m just not built that way, man.

And as I’ve gotten a little bit older I’ve gotten better at accepting it

and sort of embracing the fact that this provides a lot of good, but there’s a lot of things that you have to deal with that come that aren’t so good.

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Or one decision away from changing your life and you have to accept that your one new meeting one new relationship one new contact one new action one new decision Away from shifting your life from where it is right now to a totally different place. So what’s the decision? You already know I could go backstage now. There’s something you’ve been hesitating on There’s a contact you need to make isn’t there? There’s a job you need to quit. There’s a relationship you need to engage in. maybe there’s a relationship you need to leave. I don’t know what it is,

But I know there’s a decision that you need to make to take you to the next level, Just like I know. that’s true for me, because decisions shape our destiny when they’re backed up by some massive ass action.

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This is the reward right now. This is where you get to show it all off. Like what are you talking about? He goes hours and hours to the late hours of the night. thousands of them been on that mat, wrestling in the weight rooms, lifting, running, training and training and training. And you get to take all those hours, put them all together and explode them on the motherfucker on the other side of the mat tonight. This is where you get to show them all off. It ain’t time to be nervous. It’s time to be excited, Time to be pumped up And you get to grab all that ability.

you’ve been training so hard and you get to show it off. If you’re nervous right now, it’s because you didn’t put the time in in the past to make the moment today, the present, forever. That’s the only time you can be nervous right now.

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If you can see it here, and you have the courage enough to speak it, it will happen. So I see these shots, I see these sequences, and I don’t shy away from them. A lot of times people believe in certain things, but they keep to themselves. They don’t put it out there. You truly believe in it, if you become vocal with it, you are creating that law of attraction and it will become reality. I knew he would overextend, and I knew I’d catch him.

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I think people need to stop judging people on how the fuck they live. That’s what I think. I think if you want a certain outcome, it’s gonna take a certain amount of effort, and that’s reality. If you wanna travel the world in a van and go camping, and that’s all you wanna do, that’s not gonna take a whole lot. If you wanna build a multi-billion dollar operation that changes people’s lives, that’s gonna go down in history as one of the great iconic American companies, that’s gonna take a little bit more than living in your fucking van. Okay, and then there’s levels in between.

The ultimate lesson here is this, everybody’s on their own path, and I don’t wanna judge someone for wanting to be free and easy. I just want you to understand that there’s a cost to that, and the cost that you’re going to have to that isn’t going to come until later.

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smile wide, hold your head high, and when they ask you how you made it, you tell them, I believed in myself when nobody else did. Keep pushing, keep winning, and remember, it’s always the underdogs who end up running the game. Trust me, that’s why I’m running the game. So do some great things and make your family proud. Make the people who trusted in you and believed in you, make them proud.

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Like people say, hey, how come you haven’t retired yet? I built all this willpower.

Do you think it’s going to let me just retire because my knees hurt? It’s telling me every morning, I wake up like, man, my knees hurt, my legs hurt, my body hurts. But you can still run. So why aren’t you running? If you can still run, there’ll be a time when you can’t lace them up anymore, but you can still run. So I still run. When the time comes I can’t run, the body will say, you just can’t run. But if I can still do something, that willpower that I have created, it makes me do it every fucking day.

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So never give up. Without commitment, you’ll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish. Keep striving, never give up, fall down seven times, get up eight.

Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.

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You need that X factor. You need that leg up. It’s too fucking hard. This workout will ensure that you never have to question your intensity. You make it through this, guys, you’re going to make it through life. I said leg up, because that’s what this is. It’s a leg workout. And it will bring you a leg up in life. It’s intense, man. I’m not sure I’m ready for it. But the challenge of that inspires me to reach barriers I haven’t been to . And I’m excited to share them with you. And you guys watching this, share them with yourselves and your friends.

And together, we’ll be part of a society that doesn’t take second place as first. There’s first place, and then it’s forgotten.

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Beneath it were the words, stay hungry, stay foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay hungry, stay foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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builds a human being is you start with the small building blocks. And before you know it, man, you become something that you, it doesn’t even make sense to most people because it’s just who you are now. That’s why I can still run at 50 with broke, at 49 with broke down knees and broke down body because my body knows you still can. Therefore I do. Second you stop, the willpower is gone. And that’s beautiful. I’m so glad you brought that to me because I always wonder, what’s this separation thing now? At 24 years old,

I started building something that I didn’t even know was going to be what it is now at 49. And that’s all it was, was just that.

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If someone’s trying to build confidence from a work perspective, we do the same thing. Whether it’s a business, a company, give that person a task, a project that they can handle and help them build their confidence. Now, as far as you as an individual human being, it’s a very similar process. Train. Study. Work. Practice. Train. Study. Work. Practice. Train. Study. Work. Practice. And eventually, you will increase your confidence.

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You’re only gonna get out of it what you put into it. But I would say fall in love with the work, right? Like I always say about the NBA, , I’ve had guys, I’ve had teammates and it’s fine. Some guys be like, I don’t watch basketball when I go home because I play too much. I don’t know. I’d be like, listen, you think if somebody work on Wall Street, when they go on vacation, they not checking the stock exchange, you know, but to each his own, right? So if you fall in love with the work aspect of it, then the success and the accolades that come with it, but you gotta fall in love with the work.

Don’t just fall in love with the showers of people telling you how good and great you are. Like if you fall in love with the work aspect of it, then everything else I promise will fall into place.

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Thank God. Gracias a Dios. Alhamdulillah. God gave me everything. This would not have been possible without the Spirit. I want to go ahead and give a message to the children. Believe in yourself. Don’t fear failure. Dream big. Work hard. Stay positive. Enjoy the journey.

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So again, I would love to be able to give you this profound anchor that people need to have.

But it’s like, do you wanna do this or not?

Which is what I think a lot of it boils down to,

do you actually wanna do this or not? Do you actually wanna do this or not?

Cuz if you actually wanna do it, what’s gonna stop you? Nothing.

And if you don’t really wanna do it,

what’s gonna stop you?

Just about anything that comes up. Just about any obstacle that gets in your way becomes an excuse,

it becomes a reason,

it becomes a rationale for not proceeding down that path.

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So now you know why there’s so many people that fail in this world to figure out their purpose, their purpose in life. Where do I go? Because to grow that, while you may not look like me, how my daily life looks, it don’t look fun. Don’t look fun. So it’s a choice that people have to make in life. But what’s so funny about it is even the richest of rich, who have everything, they always ask me this question. I feel like I’m missing something. I don’t feel like I’m missing shit. I don’t have what you all have. But you’ll never in my life hear me tell you I’m missing something. Everybody is.

They’re missing this feeling. I found it a long time ago. I found it right there in that willpower thing.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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entrepreneurship journey is not for the faint of heart because it is a very, very lonely road and it seems as though everyone can spit venom your way and point fingers at you, but you are the man in the arena. You are the woman in the arena, and he or she who is in the arena doesn’t need to worry about the fingers being pointed, the venom being spit, the words being said, the insults being hurled by those on the sidelines, or even those who are advancing themselves, maybe those who are on the same journey as you. If they want to throw shade your way,

it says so much more about them than it does about you.

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Powerful agents to the uninitiated. But we are initiated. Aren’t we, Bruce? Members of the League of Shadows. I think you’re right. And you betrayed us. You fight like a younger man. There’s nothing held back. Vulnerable, but mistaken.

Oh, you think darkness is your ally. You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man. By then it was nothing to me but blighting.

The shadows would say you, because they belong to me.

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Could you go to the rock climbing gym? Yes, you could. Could you go to the CrossFit gym? Yes, you could. Could you go to the- Yeah, the soccer field, football field, whatever. Yeah, you can do that stuff. So yeah, go do that stuff. Go do that stuff. That’s shared suffering together with a group on a regular basis, whether you want to or not. That’s some, those are all little components of being in the military, being in the SEAL teams. That’s what it is. That’s what you’re doing. What does a SEAL platoon do? They train to get ready for, go to war. How do they do that? They go to the desert.

They carry their guns. They run through little choreographed moves. They get hot. They carry weight. It’s suffering. It’s just shared suffering, and they’re working together, and they’re learning skills. That’s what you’re doing in a jiu-jitsu gym. That’s what you’re doing on the soccer field. So go out and do those things with other human beings, and it’s going to make things better for sure.

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A race began. And it’s a race that started that first day when you were born to the last day of your life. And that race is to finally reach the ultimate version of you. You’re chasing down the person you were born to be, that you were destined to be. And since that day started, the world, the people around you, are trying to get you to conform to average. They’re trying to get you off that track to finally meet your twin someday, the best possible version of you. Every single day has to be a pursuit to get better, to improve, to grow, to stretch.

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I clap my hands for you. You’re one of the few, you’re one of the few that’s making a difference in your life and eventually make a difference in society’s life. You’re not the critic out there who’s at the bar right now drinking down, getting their drink on. No, you’re getting your life on. You’re getting your future on right now in this moment. You don’t need to go to sleep to start a new day. It can begin right now. It can continue right now. And for all those critics out there that have never really done it, never really smelt the air of adversity and nervousness and butterflies,

seeing it from the view of the field instead of the spectator’s booth, fuck off, man.

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Hard times create hard men. Hard men create soft times. Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times.

We’re in the time of toxic masculinity, right? Where you can be toxically male.

And then if you’re suppressing masculinity,

you’re going to bring on hard times. It doesn’t mean, masculinity doesn’t mean you’re mean. It doesn’t mean you’re angry. It means strength. It means discipline. It means the ability, like you need a military. And if you don’t think you need a military, you need to go and pay attention to the rest of the world. Because there’s militaries all over the world that are doing horrific things. If you don’t have a military in this country that can combat that and at least act as a deterrent to them doing things, you’re going to get taken over. That’s what’s happened.

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one decision away from changing your life. And you have to accept that. Your one new meeting, one new relationship, one new contact, one new action, one new decision away from shifting your life from where it is right now to a totally different place. So what’s the decision? You already know, I could go backstage now. There’s something you’ve been hesitating on. There’s a contact you need to make, isn’t there? There’s a job you need to quit. There’s a relationship you need to engage in. Maybe there’s a relationship you need to leave. I don’t know what it is,

but I know there’s a decision that you need to make to take you to the next level, just like I know that’s true for me. Because decisions shape our destiny when they’re backed up by some massive ass action.

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When you don’t have the resource to accomplish this, you build the resource and you start building resources. My dad was a tremendous auto mechanic and I’ve seen him stand there looking at a vehicle and he needed a specialty tool to work on this vehicle. And I’ve watched him go and take a wrench and take a blowtorch and start twisting and bending that wrench and then cut part of it off and then take another piece of steel and get a welder and weld it. He didn’t have the resource to fix the car. So he went and built the resource first. I love it. And then took it and fixed the car.

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When you think of the stories and the people that inspire you, the reason they inspire you is because what they went through to get where they are, not because of just where they are. All right. And that’s you too. You have the ability to make an incredible success story, but you’re not making it because you’re afraid of all these things that are going to happen no matter what happening. And that’s making you freeze up. And bro, there’s all these people that have all this potential to be successful, to contribute, to create, to build,

that we don’t even know what they were supposed to do on this earth because they were too afraid to go. Think of all the amazing ideas. Think of all the, the cures to disease. Think of all the inventions. Think of all the entertainment. Think of all the music and all of the art and all of the things that would have been created. If the people were just courageous enough to go down the path and they never did, we’ve lost more amazing things than we have available to us because of that fear over the course of human history.

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When you go to a grave site, guys, you see xyz buried here right a year a birth, a dash and a year death. It’s what you do in the dash That will make someone come to visit that fucking gravestone Whether it’s to give respect to you to be sad or be a passion or to find inspiration from you Even though you’re dead and gone. It’s a legacy you live on past. That’s what creates the stories that make somebody You know past your time come better through your actions. That’s how you reach out. put souls, guys, what you do in the dash When you come to the gym. you have a birth and a death as well.

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It might be April where you are and you’re expecting nice weather and shit, but it’s 20 degrees so You might be somewhere where it’s too fucking hot so You might have sore legs sore back sore shoulder so The struggle is real It never gets any easier You got to get harder. I was out yesterday Getting after it Had one of the best runs I’ve had in a long time. PR that bitch. so No one cares what you did yesterday, It only matters doing today. Those who take me literally. so I’m a cheerleader for those who want to be better, Not for those who want to stay the same. Stay hard.

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We’re going to have wins, we’re going to have losses, we’re going to have successes, we’re going to have failures. We’re going to have good nights, we’re going to have bad nights. We’re going to have good relationships, we’re having bad relationships. We’re going to have good ideas and bad ideas. We’re going to make money, we’re going to lose money. All these things are going to happen. And if you oscillate emotionally up and down drastically, it’s going to be problematic. So finding a good, stable,

centered way to be and look at the world and take everything that you see with a little bit of a grain of salt and don’t get swayed too drastically in one direction or the other, you’re going to be okay.

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The man who never fell, the man who never fell has no glory. The man who fell and got back up, that’s where his glory is. The man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times, that man has even greater glory. Wow. That man has more courage, way more courage than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never fell. There’s no glory in that. You know, it’s not… And so I just try to encourage guys to say, hey, we’re humans, but we have inside of us, we have a courage, and we have a determination, and we can have a strength and a gentleness at the same time.

And that’s our glory.

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If you have a dream of where you’re going, you don’t look at, I don’t have the resources to get there. None of us do, man. So you start building the resources in order to build the dream. You build the hammer and you build the nails with which you’re gonna build the house. If you sit there and say, well, I can’t build a house because there ain’t no hardware store nearby, you don’t want a house very bad. So it’s not a lack of resources, it’s a lack of courage.

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You’re focused on more energy, more intensity, more focus, because these people you see speaking here, they’re not smarter than you. We’re not better than you. I don’t like when we get up here, I’m rich, you know what, who cares if I’m rich? I care whether you’re rich. I want you to live richly. And I can tell you, I don’t like it sometimes when we come to events like this, because you always see the after. If this was a weight loss ad, we’re all ripped up here. The power of the weight loss ad is: you see the fat lady, then she’s the skinny lady, right?

You don’t see the before, you’re only seeing afters here. The before with me is an introverted, shy guy, insecure guy, low self-esteem, afraid of public speaking. That’s the before me, a broke me.

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You walk into the gym, that’s your birth. You walk out of the gym, that’s your death. It’s what you do in the dash of the gym. That will create something. That inspires somebody else to come to the gym. They give you some leg muscles. Some calf muscles. They give you the fucking mindset muscle. That you can overcome not only in your physique in the gym. But the third parties, objective natures out there. That are constantly saying no, no, no to you. And you keep on saying yes, yes, yes. And you find a way around that motherfucker. And once you get on top of him, you piss on that motherfucker.

I told you yes and it is a fucking yes. Life is yes guys. Excuses create nos. We eliminate excuses through hard work in here. Finding the meaning in the dash.

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You can’t be weak. And in this country, being weak is thought of as a virtue. Jordan Peterson has a really interesting way of looking at this. He said it to me once and it made a lot of sense. He said, people think that you should be weak and you should be docile and then you should be a pacifist. He goes, no, you should be a monster. He said, you should be a monster. You should be ruthlessly ambitious and then learn how to control it. And it’s that old expression. It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

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went through some trauma together, they stick together. So, yeah, if you frame things right in your life, if you frame things, if you frame a business challenge as an opportunity to build a stronger team, if you frame a personal challenge as an opportunity to overcome and improve yourself, these things that seem so horrible are actually very positive components of your existence, and they’re going to make you better.

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you have nothing to lose. And so the thing is, is people always fear being the new entrant, but when you have nothing to lose or you have nothing going for you, it also means you have nothing to lose. And that means that every position on the board always has an advantage because anybody who has achieved this big thing that you have was also once a 22 year old who had nothing going for them. And you’re at zero. Right. You can’t get worse than this. You have unlimited shots on goal. And so not taking the shot is like saying, life,

I don’t wanna scratch off this lottery ticket, but the lottery ticket’s free. Why would you not scratch it off and try it? And so the first advantage is you’ve got energy. Next advantage is you have nothing to lose. Third is you also have time and you have very low responsibilities. And so you have not only the ability to put all of yourself into something, you also have no circumstantial things that are preventing you.

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But you get focused on the lead character. Here’s the good news. A leading character can decide to live a new script at any point she wants. She walked in here one character, and she says, you know what? I am the lead character. This is some stupid script my parents gave me, or a script my boss gave me, or a script someone else gave me, or my husband gave me. You know what? Screw that. I’m the new leading character. This woman’s more beautiful, more confident, more influential, more resilient, more evangelical. This woman’s just a little stronger.

And you leave here in the break, and you just feel different. You decide I’m a new character. I’m a new leading character in the book of my life. Because the more you decide to take control of the narrative, of the script of your life, and you live your dream, the more likely at the end of your life you’re gonna meet that dude.

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I asked the cameraman up there, I’m like, hey, I said, how did Goggins look?

And he’s like, well,

he had his shirt off and it was cold rain,

he’s had his shirt off and he was saying,

they don’t fucking know me.

I’m like, who is he? He’s like, they don’t know me, son.

And doing, saying all this stuff.

I said, who is he saying that to? And he’s like, there’s nobody up here.

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some games and some moments you’re getting a little bit more upset. For example, after they were still eliminated penalties against France, take two days because it’s a special moment pressure. But that’s it. Listen, third day, go back to the gym, work because you have more to show. You understand? Life continue. You cannot live in the past. I’m really good on that. You understand? I learned by the years that listen, Cristiano, let’s go. Because pain, you’re going to have all the time uncertainty and constant work, constant work, constant work.

It doesn’t matter what’s going to happen in your life. You have to continue. This is the way I see the life.

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So the question is who should you defeat in the final analysis and the answer is you should defeat your former self.

You should be constantly trying to do that.

And you’re the right control for yourself too because you’re the one who’s had all your advantages and disadvantages.

And so if you want to compete fairly with someone then you should be competing with you.

And it is the case,

and this is what we were talking about too with regards to the self-improvement of the fighter.

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Spit them out, start now. Because if you’re a kid right now and you’re eating Doritos off your belly, I know they taste good and there’s some immediate gratification and I get that. But I’m going to tell you, it starts right now. Throw that bag of Doritos away. Get rid of it. Go do some push-ups. Go spend $12 at the hardware store and hang up a pull-up bar in your room and start doing pull-ups. And if you can’t do one pull-up, hang on that bar and you’re going to start to get a little bit stronger. You’re going to start to get a little bit healthier. You’re going to start to get more focused.

You’re going to start to become more resilient and you’re going to start to be able to do a pull-up and you’re going to start to eat healthy all the time. And you’re going to start to understand the world better. And you’re going to start to progress in every aspect of your life.

And you’ll see that if you have that kind of discipline right now, you’re going to end up with freedom. Go to Beadaholique.com for all of your beading supply needs! And don’t forget you can always count on Beadaholiquecom for all of your beading.

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And I saw what everybody said I was going to be, which was nothing. What I said I was going to be, that conversation you have, that’s who I was. So that’s why I lied to people to tell them a different version of the truth. I had to make all those lies reality. I had to make them real. I had to become a real person. So that’s when I put in my mind that I’m going to go to the toughest military training on the planet. And where it has the most water, the thing I was scared of the most, I had to go back. So a lot of us run away from our fears.

And we box ourselves in to a lifestyle of this is all we can do. Because I’m afraid of everything outside this box. So I’m comfortable inside this box. I jumped the box for the first time in my life. Mentally I jumped the box and said, hey, I got to come out here and play. I got to come out here and play.

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you’re going to have some trades. Now I take things to the logical extreme and say, okay, well, Bezos has kids, Bill Gates has kids, Warren Buffett has kids. This is just, if you want it to be, you know, business successful, it’s like, okay, well then that can’t be a reason that I can’t be successful. And so, whatever reasons that we usually give ourselves in the beginning for why we can’t achieve something, you can almost always find not only just someone, but someone who’s achieved world-class levels of success with worse conditions than you currently have,

which then means it’s absolutely possible. And then the only thing that it takes to get there is work. And so, um, I, I, I just want it to be very clear that if you are 20, you know, if you’re 22 years old, like the world does not hate you. You’re just not good at anything yet.

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We’ve all made decisions that we regret. That decision took me off course. That decision put me further away of being the best life I could have, the best version of me. When you were a little girl or a little boy, there was somebody who knew you were special. It was your grandma, your uncle, a coach, a teacher. There’s been one person in your life, hasn’t there? They’re the one who knew you were special. There’s always one. If you’re blessed in life, you may have two or three of those people. Just picture their face for a second. Who was that person that?

when you were a little girl or a little boy, if they just looked at you a little different, they just knew you were special. They knew you were great. They knew you could do something great with your life. See, I think the key to being great in business is being that person in other people’s lives.

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Progression, man, is the key to happiness. Always in a progressive state of progress. You stop progressing and start moving towards progress, then all of a sudden you lose purpose in life. When you’re always moving forward and having a belief in something, then all of a sudden what you’re doing actually has purpose and that makes it very valuable. Perseverance will always override potential, always override genetics. And perseverance isn’t this marathon of life. It’s not this long race that we have to pursue. It’s a lot of short races back to back to back.

Every day we get up and we fight for it. And we plant those seeds in the ground of what we want to bear fruits on. So what I got here guys is 20 exercises you probably haven’t seen before. All these exercises are gonna move and shake and create those opportunities we want. If you wanna go through the pain here, if you wanna sacrifice today, that sweat equity today for tomorrow’s betterment, meaning you’re willing to plant that seed on fertile ground of something that you wanna see blossom in your fruits of your labor that you can harvest later. It begins today, guys.

You must be that person now that you want others to remember you by later.

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We have we run a program like that at Escalon Front where we teach We teach people like some basic tactics and we have these high-speed laser tag guns and we send them out on missions and there’s explosions and there’s gunfire and there’s role players that are screaming and yelling and it’s it’s mayhem and Those teams that go through that they bond. They also learn how to make decisions under pressure. They also learn how to detach. They also learn the fundamental principles of combat leadership that you can apply not just to the battlefield,

But you can apply to business and you can apply to your life as well. So yes, is that helpful? It absolutely is.

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You know, people find such meaning in the responsibilities they adopt,

it stops making them ask questions about what life is for.

If you have a newborn child, for example.

like unless you’re really in a bad way, psychotically depressed,

or maybe your personality really needs some retooling. ,

you stop thinking about anything but ensuring that that baby is doing well.

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So every decision you make in business, every call you have, whether you go to the gym or not, you need to put it through this paradigm, through this barometer. Does this decision, does this relationship I’m in, does this choice I’m making right now put me closer to becoming that man or woman, or further away? Listen, you gotta get a little bit more intense about your life, about your business. You gotta stop being so dad-gum casual. You gotta get in the game. If you’re gonna play the game, let’s play to win it. Let’s play to max it out. Let’s play to 10X it.

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You know what you’re supposed to do. Deep down inside, I think everybody does. A lot of people just don’t go after it. You know, like most people start out, they say, I want to be a this, but I’m going to get that to make sure I have something to fall back on. And what you’re doing is you’re setting yourself up for failure because you’re going, there’s a possibility that I’m going to fall back. And when you put that out there, then you fall back. But if you just say, hey, this is what I want to do, and you go do it, you usually get your stuff the way you want it, man.

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We’re the sound every moment, guys, the choices we make. our character is defined by the choices we make on a moment-to-moment basis. It all adds up to the win. And don’t give me that shit doesn’t matter if you win or lose, how you play the game, all that bullshit. If that was so true, then why are there scoreboards? Why do people give a shit and keep score of anything? Fuck that man. Always you will win. always you’ll win. sometimes you win immediately, But always definitely. you know what means. you might not win it today, But your efforts done today, even the failure felt today,

All measures that create the moment later. And if you failed on the way back and got there you got knocked down found it doesn’t afford to get back up try that Same endeavor then you find yourself victorious in that endeavor. That’s the sweetest victory of all that builds a confidence. That’s unbreakable.

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Since you play more, you learn many, many, many things. And one thing that I learned in a few years is like, enjoy the moment. Enjoy the moment. Live the moment, because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.

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Got a special for you guys here, man. Got a whole new workout, abdominal workout. We can call this the abdominal assault. That’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to assault the objective. Everybody wants these abs in life, right? Everybody wants a six-pack, because in this world, man, image is everything. If you’ve got abs, it means you’re in shape. But you know, you’ve got to go after and make that happen. That opportunity doesn’t just present itself. Opportunities don’t come knocking on the door. They present themselves when you knock the door down. So today, we’re going to go in there,

and we’re going to start planting the seeds of the harvest that we’re going to bear fruits of later. It doesn’t just happen one day. You don’t just wake up with abs in every day. But it comes every single day, man. It’s called perseverance. Every day, showing up, hitting your fucking dudes. It’s not going to happen one day. We just wake up and have them. And you’ve got to earn that shit. You’ve got to take what’s yours. You can’t expect someone to give it to you.

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It’s an old expression, but it makes sense. Because it doesn’t mean that you can’t be kind if you’re strong, but it does mean you can’t be strong if you’re weak. If you’re weak, you’re fucked. And there’s a lot of weak people in this country right now that are trying to take control. And they’re gathering up all the other weak people and they say, yeah, let’s all be weak together. And they’re willing to embrace all sorts of ideas that have been disproven. Not just disproven, that have caused the deaths of untold millions of people. And Mao is China and Stalin is Russia.

It’s crazy. And they’re short-sighted. And they’re short-sighted because in the short term, they want their tribe to win. And there’s so many weak people that’ll join along with them. There’s so many just simple-minded dullards that just want to promote their tribe.

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But there’s also way more areas where there’s no limits if you’re willing to put in the time and basically do the fucking two things that need to happen, which is one, you need to be able to learn from your mistakes the first time or the second time you make them at the latest, ideally the first time. And second, you have to be able to go through and deal with all the shit and not quit. And if you could do those two things, you can improve your skillset and you could push down the path. It’s impossible not to win over time.

It might take somebody a little bit longer because they started in a little bit lower place, but that’s reality. If you started out with nothing, guess what? You’re gonna have to go further. That’s the reality. We can’t artificially set the start point and the end point. That’s not how it works. If you started off with not much, you’re gonna have to go further, and that’s what you have to accept.

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I would say not just huge value, but the value.

The value. You wanna know if you’re talking about young men that might not have any direction right now, go do something that’s hard. Go try and accomplish something that’s hard. You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what, you’ll be better. If you avoid those things that are hard, if you don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water and you sit on your couch and eat Doritos,

I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that.

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when you do something that you don’t want to do and you strengthen the connections in it by doing things that you don’t want to do, especially when you really don’t want to do them. So you’re hypertrophying. It’s this exact sort of intuition that you’ve got that some people would call it resilience or willpower or whatever, but this is neurologically represented in the brain. These connections get stronger. So I think it’s so funny. Gym bros will need a gym analogy in order to be able to believe that their brain changes,

but it’s really useful to think, hey, you’re hypertrophying this area of your brain. I snapped an Achilles. I had to do a very particular series of rehab movements in order to grow it back. This is just the same.

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Yeah, most people who are doing motivational speaking should stop They should stop you just robbing people. You’re not even motivated yourself. Like I want to say I want to wake you up at 3 o’clock In the morning go come on man. We’re going running like I’m gonna see you want to see what you do when you’re tired Let me see how you push yourself. Come on, man. Get up get up again tomorrow. Get up again tomorrow Get up again tomorrow the next day get up get up get up get up. Keep going How long can you maintain a positive attitude? Where’s all this teaching you’re teaching people?

You can’t do shit yourself. They. you need to show people that you could do it. the best motivational speakers to me are guys like David Goggins because that that guy that that’s in that fucking that coin right there That guy does it every day and he’s got videos He just did a hundred mile race the other day put up the results on Instagram You can see him showing up 22 hours after the race starts He finishes a hundred miles like those type of people those are motor if you ever you ever seen Goggins is a Instagram page But this is insane. Oh, he’s a fucking animal.

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So we have to really understand that like, bro, these people that you think are great, aren’t great because they’re great. They’re great because they went and you’re not great because you won’t go and do the things that you have to go through. Those are all character building things. These are things that make us like every hardship that I have had to go through. Everything that I’ve had to deal with getting stabbed in the face, being broke multiple times, getting laughed at, getting made fun of, being told no a million times, being told I’m never going to be able to do that.

Having nobody believe all these fucking things, bro. I’m glad they happened to me because they made me who the fuck I am now. And you guys listen to the show and you think I got some sort of superpower. I don’t have a superpower, bro. I just show the fuck up every day and I don’t let it stop me. And that’s that. And if you do the same, you’re going to become an inspiration to people around you at whatever level you want to take it to.

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If you really want to avoid all the criticism, see I welcome the f***ing criticism. Because all that says is that, dude, you’re doing something to impact their lives. They respond negatively because they’ve never done anything in their life. That’s why they’re a critic, never a player. Because they’ve never done anything, all they can do is cast votes and negativity to someone that has done it. Because they weren’t mad enough to ever do it in the first place. And if you really want to avoid all the critics in your life, then do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

And you’ll never get their attention. But if you are something and you’re doing something, you become something, guess what? You get their attention. And that pisses them off, because they can never be what you are now. So the only thing they can do to make themselves feel good is try to bring you the f*** down. I say thank you for that. Thank you for acknowledging the fact that I’m doing something. Because I don’t know who the f*** you are, but you seem to know who I am.

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Just get up,

move towards that challenge,

whatever that challenge is.

Move towards that challenge and go attack it.

And you may be successful and you may not be successful,

but you will be better.

And the next challenge,

you’re gonna be more prepared for.

And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

And you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail,

and then you’re gonna win.

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A lot of people won’t even go down the path because they’re afraid of that stuff happening when that stuff is going to happen. Like you can’t avoid it. You cannot avoid looking stupid. You cannot avoid being laughed at. You cannot avoid making mistakes. You cannot avoid your family making fun of you. You cannot avoid your friends deciding that you’re a loser because you work all the time and won’t go out and fucking party with them. You can’t, you know, avoid your girlfriend saying that you’re a loser because you’re not making any money. Right? Like you, these are things that happen.

That’s a normal part of business. That’s why you have to build yourself into someone who is resilient enough and mentally tough enough and has the fortitude and the grit and the belief and all of the things required to push through these difficult times that most people aren’t even willing to go through. There is nobody that you look up to that became that person without a tremendous amount of hardship. There’s nobody that you look up to that became a successful, you know, inspiration to you without going through a lot of pain. Thank you.

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I think the more, at least for me, the more I’ve tried to create space between how I feel and what I do, the more consistent my outcomes have been. So if I need to create content and I’m not feeling it or I’m feeling tired or things like that, the more times I give into that excuse or that feeling, then the more superstitious I become about doing it in the future. Whereas a lot of times if I can just start when I am tired or when something is painful and then still execute about the same as before, I look at game tape or I look at video or I look at the content from those sessions,

for example, and I see that I remember feeling terrible during the session, but you can’t really see anything. And I think the more times you get that loop going, the more you can separate how you feel and what is required. And the more times you do what is required to the more times you get what you want.

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The other thing that’s so interesting about being alive is that you’re all in.

No matter what you do, you’re all in this is gonna kill you So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can While you’re waiting because do you have anything better to do really? Why not pick the best thing possible that you could do? Why not do that? Maybe you could justify your wretched existence to yourself that way. I think you could. that’s what it looks like.

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Just go do something like what you did by taking a job when you would show up at a gig and you’d be working there Tuesday through Sunday and then take a day job and work nine to five that is more hustle and more hustle mindset Than anything you’re ever going to get out of an anthony robbins book like that is like just doing it Just doing it makes you do more like do more hardship makes you do more hardship Understand that you want it bad. So you’re willing to put into work and do things you don’t want to do.

It’s what makes you have that Confidence that you know how to push through and the the mentality that i’m the type of dude to get done Like i’m gonna show i’m not gonna waste my day just sitting around a fucking hotel room. No, i’m gonna go to work. I’m gonna work all day. I’m gonna drive five hours and keep that radio gig and then drive five hours and spend 10 hours of the fucking 24 in a day in a goddamn car for to do gigs.

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And glory comes from our faults, accomplishing what we accomplish in spite of our faults.

And without the faults,

there is no glory because there’s no victory.

And so, you know, all the failures in business,

all the failures in everything, you know,

as a husband, as a father,

all that stuff.

But you know,

we look where we are today and say, we didn’t quit.

We kept on. And so it’s like, yeah.

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Dedication, hard work, dedication, hard work. I’m a one man army, one man army. The world can go against me, but I’m still coming out on top. I got God on my side. All I say, any fighter, he can say what they want to say. You put him in front of me, I’m going to beat him. You better believe that. I’m the king.

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It’s like a knife driving through it. It’s painful as shit guys. But you know, in a weird way maybe I’m sick in the head, but when I know that knife’s coming in there, then I know my muscles are going to a point, down a path that’s not beaten. . They’re creating their blaze trail, making a new path. They’re going down a path that no one’s been on, especially them. Pushing their means of what they’re used to. That knife represents growth. Every success in life guys, is masked by temporary pain. Everything in life that’s worthwhile,

every prison you want to unwrap and you want to get in the inside of that prison to get it, because you want that prison so bad. Every prison that’s worthwhile to you in life is wrapped.

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What’s the biggest problem? What’s causing the most stress? Family? Okay, sit them down. Explain where you are at. Be blunt, be upfront, and then give them the simple plan of how you’re gonna get things back on track. Don’t sugarcoat it. You give it to them straight. Next, you got some late payments. Call those creditors up. Explain to them what’s going on. Set up some kind of a minimum payment plan so you can start making some progress and get them off your back. And then you got your job, right? You’re falling behind at work. Okay, talk to your boss. Face it.

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The big thing is you gotta put some big runs in followed by some medium runs. Yesterday I did a 50k. My legs were all beat down. What was me? Tired. Felt like shit. But guess what? I know. How about days off? One day but not today. If you’re training for a nice big race, get your legs all tired, mucked up, jacked up, where your mind and body say, I don’t wanna fucking do shit anymore. And guess what you do? You go out and get some more miles in. So yesterday I did a 50k. Today I’m gonna do a nice 15 miler. Nice and easy. Legs feel like shit.

But that’s how they’re gonna feel at miles 60 and 70 of a 100 mile race. Get after it. Like I said, not today. Get after it.

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So as you grow up, they tell you that, you know, you were a chunky kid. You were a big kid when you were born. You were you were clumsy. And you start believing the fact you’re supposed to be fat your whole life. You’re supposed to be clumsy your whole life. And then you start believing the fact that, you know, hey, because dad works three jobs and dad’s always broke, that you’re supposed to be broke. But that’s just how it is in our family. That is not you could be the one in your family to change the trajectory of your bloodline. I’m the one in my family. I’m the one.

And it is important for you to take that pen back that people have written in your your book of life and realize as many other pages that are blank that you could start rewriting how the story goes. But you have to give yourself permission first, permission to heal, permission to realize that you’re not broken, that you are lovable, you are worthy, that you are capable. You have everything you need. There’s not a goddamn thing that someone else has that you don’t have.

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I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. You all you do is you focus on the starter, the second guy. You don’t worry about what you’re focused on. You came here to be the best. I want you at this program. And if you’re going to be the best, you got to beat out the best. And he goes, you got to start working with this guy named Greg Harden, who was another mentor in my life. Greg just came out with the book a few days ago. And Greg had been a sports psychologist at Michigan. Like, you know,

we got to start building this knowledge and we got to create a strategy and a plan. And he said, you know, I would complain all the time that the guys ahead of me were getting more opportunity than I was. There was a certain amount of repetitions in practice. The starter would get 20, the backup would get 10 and I would get two. And I’d go in and I’d say, well, how can I ever get better? All these guys get all the reps and I only get two. And he said: just go in there and focus with the two that you got and make them as perfect as you possibly can.

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rest at the end,

not in the middle.

And I took that to heart.

I believe there’s time for resting at the end,

but for me,

that time is not now.

Thank you for this tremendous honor and acknowledging my basketball career,

but I’m far from done.

My next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream,

sacrifice for it, and never,

ever rest in the middle.

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I’m not saying it’s easy man. The results you get you’re gonna love them man. It’s gonna make all the sweat equity, all this pain right now all worthwhile. The thing about pain is like you feel it right now it’s temporary man, but later in life you don’t remember the pain. You just remember like the glory and the good times. I also went through West Point, you know, or Ranger School. Man, there was some really dark hours, dark days and dark years in my life man. But looking back on it, I mean, I just remember the good people and the good times. I don’t remember all those fucking, you know,

times where I was just so fucking done and worn out. I don’t remember that. I just remember that I made it through it. You know, and that exhilaration of pride and achievement man. That outweighs all the pain and struggle, you know, and that sweat equity to get there. It really does as long as you get there. That’s why when they say pain is temporary, pride is forever. That’s what they’re talking about.

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Just keep stacking days. As long as you keep stacking days, I promise you, I promise you, you will see the change. But my coach used to always say, everything that you want is on the other side of hard. Right? He had another, I think I said in the book, he said, reps removed out. Right? Reps removed out. My biggest frustration with my son used to be, we would go outside at the house and he would shoot a shot and he’d be mad. He’d be like, dang. I’m like, what you mad for? You don’t get up enough reps.

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Because if I kept believing this false narrative that I’m an immigrant, I’m always going to be blue collar, that I don’t belong here, that I’m unlovable, because I was molested, because I was beaten, because I was bullied, because I was told I’ll go back to my own country, because I’ve got learning disabilities, that I’m supposed to be broke, that I’m supposed to be desperate, that I’m supposed to be approval seeking, validation seeking, putting other people on pedestals, because of that shit, fuck you. Don’t ever for a moment undersell yourself.

See that’s the thing, man, everyone’s waiting for permission. Everyone’s waiting for permission from some higher power to tell them that it’s okay to break through the seal, that it’s okay to achieve more, want more, get after more.

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I’m broken, then I just found my limitations. and

Until I know what my limitations are How can I push him?

How can I get better?

but once, Once I see it, Once I feel it, once I see where I was broken, then I can attack that weakness, I can fill in that gap, I Can reinforce that breach.

If you break, it means it’s time to fortify your will, to make it stronger.

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It’s pushing the water and there’s a jogger actually. Look at this. Wow. The Florida man right there for you, Blake, jogging in the hurricane.

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Well, so-and-so’s a roofer, he works harder than you. Yes, at what? At driving nails into shingles. Okay, no offense, but that’s not a high brain capacity situation. We’re talking about strategically designing your life to become what it is you want to become. Okay, and no disrespect to anybody who wants to go do whatever they do or work very hard. I have massive respect for that. But if you want to graduate from having to work hard into the situation that everybody says, it’s work smart, not hard. No, it’s work very hard and then smart. And then the starts to come together.

In the beginning, you’re gonna have to work your balls off. The point is this, if you develop the ability to adhere and you develop discipline and you practice it over and over and over again, there’s literally nothing that you can’t become, create or build if you win day by day by day.

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Every present that you’ve ever received in life, to unwrap that present, to peel the paper off that present, to get inside, to get the reward, you must peel away the pain. Any present that’s wrapped with pleasure

is ridden of pain on the inside that you will pay year after year for the rest of your life. Welcome the pain. Unwrap the pain. Find life.

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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn’t be a reason to not pursue it. That’s exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain, and there was no risk? The only true failure is shrinking away from life’s challenges.

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And it went from two reps to getting four reps because those two were pretty good. Then I had four good reps. Then I got 10 good reps. And before you knew it through this new attitude, do this new shift that Greg had said to me, you know, focused on what you can control, focus on what you’re getting, not what anyone else is getting. Whenever you get an opportunity, you take advantage of you treat it like it’s the Superbowl. You treat it like it’s game day. Go out there and treat practice like no one else does. And I did that every single day. And there was a lot, it was taxing on me.

There was a lot of stress for me, even in high school. And I look back at those times, it wasn’t probably like a typical college experience because I was really motivated to play, but I had to take it to a new level that the other guys wouldn’t.

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So this morning, I was getting ready to go for a run with a few guys. So I was taking my shirt off and they saw my stress marks. And one guy asked me, where the f*** you get those stress marks from? Try to share with this guy what all this scarring was. That was 297 pounds, insecure, had doubts, had a f***ed up, just a f***ed up mind. So there’s a lot of scars we have on our bodies that people can see. And they tell a story. But a lot of us have scars in our brains about f***ed up lives, bad childhoods, bad adulthood. Where the f*** you’re going through?

Those scars in your brain, we don’t talk about. We hide. Scarring is proof that our past is real. But the one thing we do is we allow it to control our lives and we get off the log. Well, it’s time to get back on the log and not have those scars define the rest of your f***ing life. Sometimes you gotta fight pain with pain. Stay hard.

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The more you do right, the more you can do. So if you’re working hard at something and you’re starting to feel like it’s getting a bit too much, the pressure’s a bit too much, you carry on doing it. You’re gonna come out of it. It’s not like you’re just gonna end. Nothing ends. You just figure out different ways to actually make it successful or something will work and you’ll be like, oh, fuck, then your energy goes back up and you start going down there and it works. I don’t think, I don’t know. I think there’s a lot of negativity around working hard and I don’t like that.

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There’s all kinds of different ways to break. You can break physically, you can break mentally, you can break your heart, you can break your spirit, and none of those are fun, and all of those are gonna leave a mark.

But the mark that they leave can be the mark of victory, or it can be the mark of defeat.

Because every time you break, and in every way that you break, while it’s a chance, it’s definitely a chance for you to give up and for you to just to fall apart.

But there’s also opportunity.

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But are you willing to do the work to break the seal and overcome those limiting beliefs? Or are you going to constantly butt up against that glass ceiling in your life and take the path of the victim? Because I’m telling you right now, you might have a moment of dopamine hit when you take the path of the victim by telling someone your story and then you get some kind of awesome feeling about the fact that they feel bad for you and they feel sorry for you. But big picture, every time you tell your sad, pathetic story,

all you do is you reinforce the fact that you’re sad, you’re pathetic, you’re undeserving. Effectively, you reinforce the fact that you’re okay with being a loser. I don’t want you to be a fucking loser. What if you told people the story of, hey, I had a fucked up life, but I don’t want to tell you that. I’m going to tell you what I’m going to do next. And I’m going to go out and do it.

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If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today? Forget everything else. Forget everything else. Forget that there was any sunlight left. What would you spend today thinking about? Yourself or the man that’s beside you? Or the man that you know you’ll give everything in your heart for? We get one opportunity in life, one chance in life to do whatever you’re gonna do. To lay your foundation and to make whatever mark you’re gonna make. Whatever legacy you’re gonna leave, leave your legacy. And it’s found through effort.

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And I think the concept of specific versus general ambition ladders up to bundled terms. I want this big thing, but I haven’t broken that thing down into what I can actually do. Once you get specific into the actions, you don’t have a lot of anxiety because you can see what is required in order to get it. And so to circle the loop back on sadness, which is because some people who are listening to this may be sad. So this is for you. To get out of sadness, and I’ve been sad many times in my life.

The thing that’s helped me get out of it is realizing that a perceived lack of options is what causes sadness, not a lack of options, a perceived lack of options, which means that all I have to do is figure out what I need to do and figuring it out becomes the option. And so then I have clarity on the one thing that I need to do to pull myself out of this moment of sadness, which is, oh, I just have to figure out what to do. And that is how I get, at least for me, have gotten out of my sadder periods.

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So it’s very different. in today’s age, which I actually think is a little,

You’ve got to create a Lot of different emotion to to heighten your sense of awareness and focus, like for me, anger was good. Anger was good because it was motivating. the more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go on, kill those guys. Now I knew I was gonna kill him physically, but man if I could just What did they say, you know and What did they look like? Did they disrespect me at all? You know? and did that asshole say something like? those are little, little little things that Can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran on the field and I said let’s go,

It was really let’s go, kick some ass, That’s what we were doing.

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Because if you push through the pain to achieve the pride, you forget about the pain was ever even there. But if you can’t push through the pain and the pain stops you and breaks you down, then that pain is forever. Because you never got pride to outbalance it. Go through this man, you start feeling the pain. It’s all good man. Welcome it. Welcome it man. Go right past pain, and it’s forever pride man. We all love that, don’t we?

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My response is that I’ll support them in any of their dreams. Whatever makes them happy makes me happy. I would encourage everyone to play football for the simple reason that it is hard. It’s hard when you’re young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out, knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. It’s hard when you’re on your way to practice, weighed down with all your gear, and it’s 90 degrees out, and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach, and your body is already completely exhausted from workouts in two days.

It’s hard to throw, catch, block, and tackle, and hit kids when they’re way bigger and way more developed than you, only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained but knowing you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again. But understand this, life is hard.

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Tell him that you’re gonna step up your game. Tell him you’re gonna be at work early. You’re gonna be at work late You’re gonna be at work during lunch. You’re gonna be wherever you need to be, whenever he needs you to be there. Tell him you’re gonna get after it and tell him that you’re a hundred percent committed to supporting him and the company and the mission.

and then you get started. and

I’m gonna tell you right now It won’t be easy It will be hard because life is hard. That’s what life is and

these challenges, These challenges that you face, They’re gonna do their best to take you down.

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Because you are the type of person that went through that and came out the other side a stronger person. You have more resiliency, you are more resourceful than people that have not gone and suffered through adversity and abuse. That’s the reality. We are more resilient. We are more emotionally strong, mentally tough, and we can deal with so much shit. But we have to first let go of the mental crippling crutch that we carry, which is this victim mind hood, right? When I let go of that 10 years ago, that I was a victim of sexual abuse,

that I was a victim of physical abuse, that I was a victim of being bullied, that I was a victim in every category, and I realized, you know what? All those things I went through and I’m still standing. I’m still going strong. Dude, I must be one resilient, one resourceful, one relentless motherfucker if I’m still going strong.

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I don’t have motivation a lot of time. It’s actually more about discipline. It’s about just getting it done, get up and get it done. Like with anything, with work, with working out, with creating a product, with building a brand, with relationships, whatever, it’s discipline over motivation. Motivation is a small thing that can last two minutes or an hour. Motivation can come from listening to a song on your iPod. If you’ve got discipline, you’re willing to do it every single day of your life. And knowing that it’s gonna take so long to do it, you just get up and do it.

You don’t even think about motivation. Yeah, I guess it is an instruction manual. I guess it’s a list of things that you must do for yourself to become what you wanna be. And I guess it’s a deciding factor on whether you’re gonna do something or not.

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Our feet become heavy, lungs start to bleed, and our hearts race in. It’s in this state that we get to find out the true value of our dreams. We all know what’s right and wrong in a sedative state. We all know when we’re relaxed exactly the person we want to become. The question is, do we believe we can become it? Without that belief, every journey will run into a debate. That debate is when pain starts to fill the body. You wait a temporary pain for a set lifetime of pride.

What are you going to do? How bad do you want it?

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It’s 44 degrees and it’s nice and rainy outside. But no one cares about that. It’s not about the rain. It’s what the rain represents. Life is always giving you a test. Trying to give you a way out. Trying to give you an excuse not to show up. This is my excuse today. But guess what?

You gotta have the mentality to show up every fucking day of your life. No matter what life throws at you. It’s our responsibility to show up to the Coliseum of Life. Prepare for fucking battle. I don’t care what you’re going through. What life’s throwing at you. It’s your responsibility to find your new 100%. Take it upon yourself to do that. Stay hard.

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My goal is things we talked about earlier, but my personal goal is to squeeze every ounce of potential out of whatever I have. I think that if you feel like you have potential left over, then it will eat you alive until you do something about it.

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everybody’s different they’re everybody’s similar, but everybody’s different and Your attitude has a giant effect not just on your life, but on other people’s lives around you That’s the other thing about it those. I can’t catch a break guys. Yeah, get them the fuck away from me I can’t I can’t be around those guys. I don’t want to hear that shit. I don’t want to hear that shit I don’t buy it because everybody has bad breaks. Yeah, I’ve had a shit ton of bad breaks. but you know what I did? I Stayed up, yeah,

and I thought through it and I figured out what the fuck I did wrong and then I went back. It’s like I fucked up everything I’ve ever done a hundred times. There’s no way, there’s no other way to do it. and I’ve had a bunch of shitty breaks- everybody has. but you got to realize When you have those shitty breaks what that is. it’s an opportunity for you to Reassess, reboot, get better, figure out another way, find another way through. it’s just little challenges.

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Ran by a graveyard and I looked out there and I have all these epiphanies man I’ve always the moments of like of it’s crazy man of this thought come always by myself I’m always in deep fucking thought about how to be better. I look out there, my man, wonder how many you motherfuckers in there Fucking just are so upset with how you lived your life. Mmm, you can just regret how you lived it. and I’m running a 300-pound man thinking man, Don’t fucking die like this bro. Don’t die like this. so people wonder where this shit comes from.

from me It comes from such deep thought, of trying to see what this is all about. what is this life all about? what am I all about? Why am I here? you know, I had, I had to find purpose, and

My suffering, it had a purpose. it had a fucking purpose.

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People think that you are not a threat, but I know differently.

Out of all of my sons, it was you I wanted to bring here. And it is you that I believe is the most important to the future of our people.

Just about prepared to believe that. Shut up and listen, idiot. You have many gifts. Andrew is a gift. What is in here is a gift. You do not think like other men. You are unpredictable. And that will serve you well.

Use your anger intelligently. And I promise you, my son, that one day the whole world will know and fear Ivar the Boneless.

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Wins and losses come a dime, a dozen, but effort, Nobody can judge effort Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain’t got nothing to do with nobody else. So that team to think they ready to see you, They think what they seen on film They ain’t saw what film shows, Because every day is a new day, Every moment is a new moment. So now you got to go out and show them that I’m a different creature now Than I was five minutes ago, Cuz I’m pissed off for greatness. Cuz if you ain’t pissed off for greatness, that mean you okay with being mediocre.

Ain’t no man in here okay with being just basic. So let’s do what we do tonight.

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There’s two options.

To continue forward.

Pushing upward.

And if you do, that dream is given birth.

And forever you will live in the reality of it.

If you stop, quit,

throw in the towel.

I promise you there’s no distance you can travel far enough to never find that dream again.

For it is dead.

And in its death,

it’s replaced by regret.

Right now, it’s your choice.

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When you come from a town of 8,000 people, it’s like we had a local plant, Great Dane. You’re like, you know what? I want to work at Great Dane and get a house next to my mom. That’s what you know. So many of us come from these small places in our mind that we’re not willing to think outside of only what we’ve seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment. And one thing I was able to do was to dream. Many people, but don’t make dreams your master. But I was able to dream outside those four walls of that small town. And until you’re able to really put yourself into that dream,

but don’t make dreams your master, that’s where you truly become what you’re destined to become.

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because it is all the things that I have done over the course of my life that have produced this in a repeatable system year by year by year. A lot of people will say, oh, live hard. You’re only, it doesn’t, you got to do it over and over. No shit, bro. Just like you got to take a shower. Discipline’s a perishable skill, like playing guitar. If you don’t practice guitar, you’re going to suck at guitar. If you don’t practice a jujitsu, what’s going to happen? You’re going to get your ass beat. If you don’t practice shooting guns, you’re not going to be good at shooting guns.

If you don’t take a fucking shower, you’re going to fucking stink. Okay. This is the idea of discipline as well. It is a perishable skill. If you do not practice it over and over and over and over again, you get mentally weak and then you cannot win the days. Go do a live hard program. Live it every single fucking year. It’s less than half the year of a commitment to being perfect, which creates a situation where you’re generally getting almost everything out of your life that you want.

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Man, if I want to be good, I got to wake up in the morning, I got to do the extra work, and I got to show up when other guys aren’t, and I’ve got to learn, I’ve got to continue to be open to learning. And my freshman year, I redshirted. Never played, barely practiced, but I learned a lot. My second year, I had improved a lot physically through that work, and I started to compete in a way that the coaches would notice me a little bit.

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Alright, everybody, you see me smiling. why? because it kind of sucks out here in New York City they’re expecting some big blister to come in. so I was kind of praying to the Snow gods for worse weather to come in. because why? in worse weather we get better. I’m kind of happy, but I was hoping to be a lot worse I’m gonna do a nice little run today and no I’m not thinking it’s warm and 70. I like to live in reality It sucks. It’s about seven inches of snow And I’m extremely ecstatic right now. pain is just a feeling, you see, it’s happiness Why? because it sucks.

that’s why I’m so happy right now.

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Remember, Per told me in the middle of the shoot, he goes, hey man, you must love pain. You should put yourself through a ringer. I mean, I don’t, you know, it’s not that I love pain. I just, I just don’t have a problem enduring the pain because I do love what the pain produces. Which starts with a P as well, called pride, prosperity.

And so today we did that. And we continue to do that. You know, all the opportunities that come, I’m not saying every single day, but every time you have an opportunity to go an extra distance, I encourage you to do so because as much as that hurt, I don’t remember that. I just, I get a ride home right now in traffic. Maybe not because it’s so late. Just sitting there very relaxed, man. Just there chill. Why am I chill? I left it all here. So I’m excited for what’s going to come. Not worried about what’s coming, but excited about what’s going to come.

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No matter who you are,

there are bumps and hits and bruises along the way.

And my advice is to prepare yourself.

Because football lessons teach us that success and achievement come from overcoming adversity.

And that team accomplishment far exceeds anyone’s individual goals.

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And the people that look at those challenges go, why do I always have these challenges? They’re cancer. Those people are dangerous to be around. They will rob you of your enthusiasm. They don’t give you any fuel They’re the opposite of fuel. Yeah, like the fuel people They’re the people that are kicking ass the people that are out there just fucking hustling always always getting things done They got like my friend jaco every morning. I’ll check his instagram page 4 30 shows a picture of his watch get after it He’s out there working out 4 30 in the morning. He does it every fucking morning.

Why? because because he doesn’t want to. and that’s how you do it: you go and get after it. You don’t make any excuses and those kind of guys are fuel, but those I can’t catch a break guys They’re the opposite of fuel. They’re just pissing on your fire. They’re no fun.

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when Things go wrong. They always seem to happen at once and they just compound on top of each other and it’s It’s pretty easy sometimes to to feel beaten When you’re faced with all those issues and all those problems, and they all hit you at the same time. but Let me tell you that That doesn’t mean Give up.

in fact, it means the opposite. It means it’s time for you to fight harder, to dig in Means. it’s time for you to go on the war path.

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And so when you have that vision in sports, it’s a direct competition. Like I know how hard they’re working. I know how hard we’re working. I know what their strategy is. I know what ours is, you know? So it’s a little different. So when we went into NBA, it was like, yeah, we expected to do that. But now we’re going to come back and we’re going to do it again, you know? And so it’s that constant, like, all right, you’re churning. You win one championship, I’m back in the gym the next day, working, getting ready for the next one. Now it’s different because it’s not about the awards. You know,

you just wind up trying to create something that’s going to inspire someone that hopefully, through that inspiration, they can inspire somebody else. And what I’ve come to learn as my career went on is that’s more significant than any championship.

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There’s a time in the military you have this. you know you have this army physical fitness test you to do. It consists like push-ups and sit-ups and a two-mile run, and a two-mile run is the last portion of it. So you know what your points are.

go after the push-ups and the sit-ups. So if you want to break the record, you know exactly the wrong time you need to the second and you have stopwatch

And you’re running. you’re running and yet the halfway mark. you know You got a half mile left. a quarter mile left and you’re looking at your clock and you know You have a fucking balance of time right now,

Meaning what’s inside you is about to come up you got the puke it all out Everything’s shutting down fast.

Like it’s like an engine. That’s just the blue transmission.

Everything’s just about to blow up Your body’s about to blow up your body says stop stop stop stop. We’re done. We’re done. But mentally you want the fucking record.

you know you want it so bad and you push through it.

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People say, but you have no idea how hungry I am. Really? Yeah. What did you do about it today? Oh, not today, but tomorrow. You ain’t hungry man. You just think you’re hungry. You are not hungry. You may be hungry to go eat lunch, you may be hungry to go have dinner. Fine, I’ll give that to you. You ain’t hungry to come into the market place.

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I don’t recommend you wanting to be like me. He says, because you don’t know how many hours I work. You don’t know what it’s like to be thinking about wanting to win. You don’t know what it was like every night going to sleep, you know, thinking Tesla’s about to go out of business. When people say, hey, you think Tesla’s stock’s going to go down, it’s going to go up, it’s going to go down, it’s going to go up. But as long as Musk is behind it, he is so flippin’ hungry, which is urgent. He’s so urgent about executing things now that no matter what he touches,

it’s going to grow because today he’s hungry. This may change 10 years from now. This may change 20 years from now. But he’s so hungry today.

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When we lose a loved one, if you’re my best friend and I see you hurting and you my brother, if you hurt, I’m hurt. We ride together, ride or die. So, you know, with my dad going to prison, me all by myself, coming out to Las Vegas, getting a big contract, but then being controlled, not being able to be who I really want to be. I want to be flashy. I want to be flamboyant. I want to be proud to say, I come from nothing and look what I got.

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What separates me from a lot of people is they go into a daunting task and the task is overwhelming. When I heard the pull-up record was 4,020 4,020 pull-ups and I was talking about breaking this record, people were like, oh my God, I went right to a pen and paper. They’re like, what are you doing? I’m doing the math, man. What are you talking about? I’m open-minded to the fact that, okay, if I do five pull-ups on the minute for so many hours, I can get so many pull-ups in. How much time do I have to rest? I was breaking the math down.

You have to be open-minded to the possibilities that I can do this. Once you shut your mind down to the possibility that it can be achieved, there’s no way it can happen. You have to keep attacking. The enemy has to know he is not going to give up. You must break the soul of whatever the fuck is in front of you. That’s what I realized. I was never breaking the soul of anything in front of me. So that’s why I came up with the thing called taking souls in my book. I started to devise ways to break a soul of a human being, of an object, of whatever’s in front of me.

If you keep on attacking something, nothing wants to stand in front of anything that is relentless.

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Fear is never reaching your potential. That’s it. That always falling short, always quitting before you’re done, always procrastinating, always not doing the right thing. And then one day you’re an old man. Yep. And you look back and go, God, I could have been great. Yep. I could have been great.

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All right, Donnie, get into your stance. Make a small target, turn sideways. Okay. You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life. Okay? Now throw a jab in the jaw. All right, one to the gut. Now, every time you punch this guy, what’s he doing? Start holding back air. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it, or get out of the way.

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huge life, huge business, badass physical condition, Awesome lifestyle- all these things go into what I want, Okay, and then I back that down into a day by day by day System and then I just look at it. Did I win today? Did I win do I win tomorrow? Do I win the next day? and I don’t think of it as this massive thing, I just think of it as you know one day at a time and and dude that is the only way you can fucking win And it’s by the way the only way that you can guarantee success You cannot fucking lose if you win every day. You can’t lose there is no X-factor there is no magic.

There is no failure villain. It’s gonna come in and shit up. bro, If you win every day, you cannot lose at life.

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Bet against me. Tell me it’s not going to happen. Tell me it’s going to fail. I love it. I love every minute of it.

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it’s just piece by piece. And it’s the consistency of the work, which I feel like a lot of parents are missing today because we’re not teaching that to our kids. We tend to say like, kids don’t wanna do the work, but in reality, it’s when we’re failing them, because we’re not leading them the right way and teaching them how to fish. You know what I mean? And so like the consistency of work, Monday, get better, Tuesday, get better, Wednesday, get better, right? And you do that over a period of time, not like one month or two months.

I mean, it’s three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 years, and then you can get to where you wanna go.

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The people that surround them are all idiots. Because only idiots want to be around I can’t catch a break guys. Only the dummies stick around. After a while, even if they’re your good friend, you gotta be like, bro, you gotta fucking stop. You gotta stop with all this I can’t catch a break bullshit. All the time you’re complaining, you could be instead hustling. You could be instead chasing your dream. You could be instead figuring out what you’re doing wrong, trying to prove certain aspects of your life, getting your shit together, reading a book, meditating, something.

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But before you can ever reach anything,

you have to believe it.

You don’t just mistakenly become great at something.

You probably at one point, at one time or another, believe that you can be great at that.

And then you work to get great at that, and you reach that greatness.

But you don’t mistakenly become great.

And then you start to believe, oh man, I’m great at that.

No, you believed that before, and you work to get that.

So I always believed that. And I work every day to reach that.

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A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure, or dream about being a SEAL, or dream about being an astronaut, and all it is is a motherfucking dream. They don’t put the work behind the dream. That dream has become their fucking master. When you become the master of your fucking dream is when you say, I wanna go be a Navy SEAL, and you say, okay, I’m gonna lose 106 pounds in less than three fucking months. The dream was the one thing I thought about, and the dream was now gone. Now, what comes in, the dream goes away,

and the fucking laundry list of fucking details and tasks come up. Gotta do this, gotta do this, gotta do this, gotta do this. That’s when you become the master of your dream.

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I am urgent about getting problems solved now, so my business plan is going to be hit. Whatever numbers I’ve got in place, it’s going to be hit because I want to get things done now. That’s the element of being urgent. You go and assess all your friends and your family and decide who’s the hungriest, you’ll say,

oh my gosh, this makes so much sense, Pat. You know what? That one guy in my life, he freaks like this. All the time. And he is so flippin’ urgent about things. Exactly. That’s how you determine who’s the hungriest.

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If I would have shut down, you know, and give in, I wouldn’t remember that pain anymore. It’s a funny story, because I have a picture of me puking. But I don’t really physically remember the pain of it. I remember the accomplishment of it. So at those times where you’re questioning if you have anything left, no, a day from then, a week from then, a month from them, a year from them, you will never remember the discomfort of the pain. You will always remember the pride of the accomplishment. That lives on. That’s why pain is temporary. Pride is forever, guys.

You give it your all, you get it all. Tenfold. Craig Plitt, help me stay fit, man. That’s the headstrong workout, man. You strong enough?

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If you had the ability to adhere to every single plan, every single dream, every single goal that you have set forth for yourself from the time that you were 10 years old to however you are now, what would your life look like? It would look completely different. So fix that fucking problem of adherence and everything takes care of itself. Because now you can say, I wanna be this. That could be, I wanna be a superior athlete. You could become that. I wanna be this. It could be an accomplished musician. You could become that. I wanna be a black belt in jujitsu. You could become that.

I wanna build an amazing company. You could become that. I wanna build an amazing relationship. You could do that. There’s literally nothing you fucking can’t do if you can develop a plan and then adhere to it. It’s not that people don’t know what to do. It’s that they can’t fucking do it. So fix that problem and you fix your whole life.

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There wasn’t a lot of smiley faces with me out there. There wasn’t a lot of smiley faces with Michael Jordan. There weren’t a lot of smiley faces with Kobe Bryant. There weren’t a lot of smiley faces with Tiger Woods. Right? Tiger wasn’t trying to be friends with anybody. Tiger had no friends. Tiger’s friends were guys that he knew he could kick their butt. Those were Tiger’s friends. And they were very happy to have their butts kicked by Tiger Woods to be his friend. So Tiger had them right where he wanted them.

And I think for me, even when I watch sports today and I see like, golf’s a good example. I see these guys on the range. They’re all buddies and their caddies are friends. And I’m like, that’s not the killer instinct. That’s just not. I don’t know how you can want to crush the competition because they are your competition.

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If you actually want to build something that’s going to stand the test of time and make you very successful and rich and happy and bring other people with you, it’s going to take everything. I fully believe that. I don’t think you can half-ass it. I don’t think it can be a side project and I don’t think it can be something that’s just three hours a day. I think you’ve got to go fully into it to become like high level achiever, like actually a winner.

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That pain you feel, that’s the pain of success. You must be willing to shoulder that pain to get the success. The success is something that’s a very lonely path in this world, because fewer willing to make that down payment of pain for that futurement of success, the better life. Very few are. And when you get the success, what comes with that is many, many that love you, but the majority will hate you for it, because your success is a spotlight shining down when there are missed opportunities, where they came up short, where they didn’t quite have it inside and never went back to revisit it,

where failure is what stood instead of improving failure for success.

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And we’re not on this stage just because of talent or ability.

We’re up here because of 4am. We’re up here because of two-a-days or five-a-days. We’re up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way.

If anything tried to bring us down,

we used it to make us stronger.

We were never satisfied, never finished,

will never be retired.

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And we’re not on this stage just because of talent or ability.

We’re up here because of 4am. We’re up here because of two-a-days or five-a-days. We’re up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way.

If anything tried to bring us down,

we used it to make us stronger.

We were never satisfied, never finished,

will never be retired.

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There’s opportunity to get stronger and get smarter and get faster and get tougher and get more stable and get more resilient and get

better.

when You break,

You have the opportunity to show the world, The whole world, what you are really made of. So. So if you break, if, if you break, The fight isn’t over. In fact, if you break, The fight is just beginning.

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A lot of us out here are pushing real hard, but we’re afraid to go to that dark side. In your mind, when you push real hard, you have this door in your mind, and a lot of us don’t want to open that door. Because once you open that door, you’re in a tunnel. It’s a dark-ass tunnel, and you can’t see shit. But there’s one thing about being in dark places. If you have the courage to stay in there long enough, your eyes will start to adjust to the darkness. Your body and mind will always adjust to more suffering, to more pain. If you want to push harder, know this.

Your mind quits way before your body does. So you have to be willing to go way into that darkness and find more of yourself. Stay hard.

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What will happen at the thing? The Earl will deal with some criminal offenses, and then we’ll discuss the summer raids. And where will you go? The Earl decides. He owns the ships.

He will send us to the east, as always, to the Baltic lands. But I want to know what’s to the west. What cities and gods are over there. I’m not satisfied with this.

Odin gave his eye to acquire knowledge.

But I would give far more.

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Failure is part of the recipe for success. You fail a thousand times before you succeed. Every single person has. It’s the losers that fail once and quit. Every winner has done and failed. The loser and the winner both have failed. It’s just that the winner gets back up and does it again. Very lonely road to success is. Know that coinage, but it’s the only road that will lead to a life of remembrance.

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To be successful at anything, the truth is you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t. Consistent, determined, and willing to work for it. No shortcuts. If you look at all my teammates here tonight, it would be impossible to find better examples of men who embody that work ethic, integrity, purpose, determination, and discipline that it takes to be a champion in life.

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And as you crawl up and out of that dismal and wretched place covered- and you’re covered in blood and sweat and dirt and filth- as you rise above what you were and as you take the form of of Who you are supposed to be?

You will see That in the very act of standing up, in the very act of fighting on, you will become and you will remain unbroken.

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A lot of times people don’t want things forced on them, but sometimes you gotta nudge it. You gotta keep at least giving them the information and it may take them a while to actually try it. And when I think about change, I just think about stacking days, stacking days. My son is small, right? He’s small, just like I was. And I’ve talked to him about the training and how hard it is and this, that, and the third, but he’s finally starting to see a little bit of change, right, in his game or whatever, in his ability. And all I keep telling him is just keep stacking days.

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And the biggest thing that you get is you get the ability to have the choice to do what it is you want to do with your life because you have built the skill of discipline and you can adhere to any plan that you set forth for yourself. It’s not that you don’t know what to do. It’s that you can’t fucking do it when it’s not comfortable for you to do and that’s why people lose. So what would your life look like if you were able to adhere perfectly to every model? Plan that you ever set out for yourself from the time that you were born to now. Would your life look completely different?

The answer for every single person listening to this is yes. So fix that problem now and you will have the choice at a bare minimum to become whatever it is that you want to become.

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My enemies are many, my equals are none. In the shade of olive trees, they said Italy could never be conquered.

In the land of pharaohs and kings, they said Egypt could never be humble.

In the realm of forest and snow, they said Russia could never be tamed. Now they say nothing. They fear me, like a force of nature, a dealer in thunder and death. I say I am Napoleon. I am Emperor.

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Once again it’s on. My f**kers wanna know where Gagas has been. I’ve been in that mental lab. See? There’s all kind of months. Some folks got Sober October. They got all kind of s**t for people going through trying to better themselves. I got f**k you everyday. Get after it everyday mentality. That said, when you push that hard, you go to the well. Well, my well was f**king empty. The cookie jar in there has stale molded cookies. They weren’t working no more. I had to find something else. Had to get that conqueror’s mindset back. Where I just don’t give s**t about anything. Just f**king grind.

A lot of people out there talk about they’re missing something in their lives. And they don’t know what the f**k it is. You don’t know what it is because you live in a soft environment 24 7. Learn and get out of it. Stay hard.

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It is the mark of a great fighter when he has character plus skill,

because a fighter with character and skill will often rise and beat a better fighter because of this.

Character is that quality upon which you can depend under pressure and other conditions.

Character makes the fighter predictable.

Character helps him win. Thank you.

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And for me, just coming from where I come from, bro, and just understanding that, man, I’m built different, period. I was built different, man. And I’ve always had an eye, a discipline, and a work ethic that I’ve had at a young age that I just kinda, I just apply it to everything that I wanna do. So I would say that, you know, rarely go out, reading, you know what I’m saying? Trying to reverse engineer how to be successful. Like, how do I start my own production company? How do I do this? How do I do that? And I always felt like if other cats was out partying and I was home studying,

I would have an edge. Yes, you know what I’m saying? If cats was out here doing this and that, being hung over the night before, I would have an edge if I wasn’t. Did I go out and party? Yeah. Did I have a good time? Yes.

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You have the chance to change your life, your family’s life. You could be something very special. Don’t you want to be champion? You could be champion of the world.” I didn’t pay no attention to it. He said, really? You could be champion of the world. You could devastate the world. No man could take it but you. You just got to believe it. I looked at this guy and then I started thinking. I said, this guy’s really crazy. He said, you do what I tell you to do. If it doesn’t work, then you can leave. I said, okay, bet. I did everything he told me to do and I won. I won every championship.

From the amateur championships, I won all the championships. I’m going to cry. I won every championship that he told me because he told me what to do.

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Fear is your friend, and nature gave us fear in order for us to survive. And I give the example of the deer crossing an open field and coming to the forest, and instinct telling them danger is present in the trees, perhaps in the form of mountain lion. At that moment, the adrenal gland injects adrenaline into the bloodstream, the heart beats faster, enabling the deer to perform an extraordinary feat of agility, sufficient to get out of the immediate danger. Now we, as human beings in my opinion, retain these qualities, though they’re somewhat dormant because we live in a civilized atmosphere.

But nevertheless, faced with a situation that intuition tells us danger is present, these natural assets that nature gave us to survive come to the surface. And if we don’t panic, if we maintain a discipline and a control over them, we can use them. And they not only will help us survive the particular incident, but continued success will give us a confidence that is so strong and a foundation so powerful that in time you can get to overcome almost anything.

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I got big goals this year, but in true Godness fashion, there will always be setbacks. So people think I killed that 300 pound man of mine. Oh no, he lurks. That’s my inner bitch. Whenever I’m in a setback or defeated, he pops up in my mind. Every morning I wake up and get a nice green smoothie, get after it. This morning, I smell in the kitchen, bacon and eggs cooking. That big boy in my mind, he’s always waiting with a knife and fork in one hand. Bib on there so he don’t get all fucked up. Waiting to call me back to the dark side. Oh no, not today, motherfucker. I know how you look.

I know how you sound. There’ll always be complications and setbacks before the finish line. We must be ready for him. Stay hard.

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If I’m eating food, I’ll save the best for last. You know what I’m saying? I’ll eat around it to the one part that I really want, I wanna eat, I’m gonna save that. I’m a delayed, you know what I’m saying, gratification. I’m that type of person. So I’m literally like, all right, I will party later. I work hard now so the second half of my life I can do whatever the fuck I want. That’s been my mentality. I’m not gonna trick off my early years for partying and then worry about struggling, how I’m gonna make it, how I’m gonna take care of my family, how I’m gonna take care of everybody else.

That’s not gonna be me. I’m gonna grind it out now. You know what I’m saying? I’m gonna set up the foundation so I can enjoy myself later. That’s always been my mentality. And that is what works for me.

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who has, who can barely learn, barely learn, who has a twisted body, messed up genetics, sickle cell, this and that. Let me give him everything that pretty much disqualifies you from the military. But back then it wasn’t as, and let’s put him in this and see what comes out of it. So to do that, friction, you don’t wake up in the morning time and go to the coffee maker. Matter of fact, sometimes you don’t even sleep. What it requires is when I’m at two o’clock in the,

it’s two o’clock in the morning and my brain is thinking about a fucking drug and I got to get up and look in my book to see if that drug is how I remember it. And this is every day of my fucking life. That’s why when I train a fighter or I train someone, I’m like, you have no fucking idea how great you really are because you are using such minimal, minimal of what you have.

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Children, gather round.

No retreat, no surrender. That is Spartan law. And by Spartan law, we will stand and fight.

A new age has begun.

An age of freedom.

And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it. Ho! Ho! Ho!

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It’s a wild way to live your life, to decide that for the glory and the challenge and just the overwhelming difficulty of becoming a world-class fighter or a world champion fighter that you put yourself through so much. It’s…

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This is what it comes down to, and it looks like it’s easy for you to receive, because you have your ego. You have to believe in yourself. No, you have to believe that you’re here for a purpose, to enrich the world. No, you have to believe this deep down inside, this is why I’m born. This is why you’re across from me. This is why you’re across from me. Why do you think you’re here? You think you’re here by osmosis? This is just, you’re lucky and this is a break that you had in your life and you and me are across from each other, because that’s what you want. That’s what you wanted, right?

Oh, yeah. And that’s what happens. And it’s the same thing with the championship. Definitely. It’s the same thing. It’s like the switcher, when the championship comes to you, your destiny is in your mouth and in your mind. Definitely, man. And the person who, once you receive that level of confidence, you know what I mean, and it’s practiced properly, it will surpass a genius. There’s nothing more supreme than confidence. Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence. Applied properly, you’re inconquerable.

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I think a man’s role on this planet is also another thing that we need to redefine to some degree, right? I think a man’s role on this planet has changed, but from the dawn of human time, a man’s role has always been the capability for violence. This is what men were, right? You have to look at—when I look at the world, I look at it from a societal perspective and I look at it from an animalistic perspective. Society has told us to be certain ways, and then our animal instinct tells us to be another way. So society tells you to marry one woman and be loyal, right?

And then you have me saying men are not supposed to do that. We don’t want to do that. Any man who sits there and says, I want to do that is lying. He wants to keep the woman he loves and he wants the woman he loves to be happy, of course. But if he could keep the woman he loves and keep her happy and have other women, he would. You’re lying if you say that’s not true, right? So from an animal perspective, a man’s primary role was the capability for violence. We went to war, we conquered stuff, we built stuff, we conquered. That’s what men did. We conquered.

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The most frustrating thing in the world for me is when normal people judge a man like myself on what it really takes to extract greatness from nothing. It takes every bit of who you are if you choose that route. If you don’t, Merry Christmas, do what you got to do. But yeah, all these things for me, like I told you, I’m going to keep it real. I’m not coming here to talk about like, you know, perform without purpose. Because I go through, when I write these books, I go through and I try to dumb down David Goggins. How can I give normal people, and I’m normal,

but I found something that most don’t want to find. How can I speak to people and give them something from this crazy, psychotic brain that I’ve developed? How can I give them that? So I sit down with Jennifer for years and write down, perform without purpose. Callous your mind. Armor your mind.

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It’s it’s it’s funny that you bring that kind of up because It’s hard to talk to people about why you do it if you don’t understand it, right? Like if you’ve never done combat sports or ever have that desire to fight and just be one of the best It looks crazy to anybody on the outside. We look like we’re absolutely lunatics, but It’s it’s competition to us. I don’t look at a fight and think I’m gonna kill that person because I just want to be violent. It’s like I want to be better than that person. I want to be and I want, you know you want to achieve something.

that’s Seems crazy to other people and I think that’s what obsesses a lot of us about it Is that you want to do something that 99% of the people in this world are terrified of doing? And walking to that cage is definitely one of the scary things. Aside from like anybody of active military and does all that kind of stuff, That’s another. that’s where. that’s what I can’t imagine.

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To this day still now, if you look at men, many of them are still trying to conquer the world one way or another. Why did you start this podcast? Attention, make a bit of money. Conquer the world. Yeah. This is what I’m saying, right? Why does the CEO work 15 hours a day for some fucking conglomerate while the women don’t wanna work that much or they’ll work hard but they wanna also have a life outside of work? Why do men give up their lives for work? Is it just for money or is it because they feel important and they feel like they’re conquering? This is what I’m saying.

Men have that drive inside of them. And this is since the dawn of human time. Why did I fight? Why did men climb Mount Everest? Why did the Romans melt rocks, make swords, and walk in random directions to find somebody, anybody, to fuck them up and take their stuff? This is who we are. So this is what men always were. And I think now that’s got a redefined. Obviously we wanna live in a peaceful society now, right? We can’t just run around with swords.

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This is my third workout of the day, so it was supposed to be a cool down workout, but this cat wanted to start racing somebody, so he started racing me. He didn’t know who the fuck he was racing. He didn’t know it was me. I’m under an alias. See, a lot of motherfuckers, when they think it’s me or somebody else and they want to chase, they got a carrot in front of them. He had no carrot. It was him versus him. I’m under some fucking initials. He wanted to test my resolve. He wanted to test my ability to go to the limit. He wanted to see, well, here’s where it ends and mine begins.

This ain’t no fucking game. This is my motherfucking lifestyle, son. Hey, yeah, I’m fired up. This is what I do. When someone gives you hell, make sure you push them right back and give them hell.

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I’m feeling really good, I’m enjoying my training. I took, I just took my, you know, I listened to myself, what I needed to do in my training setup and outside of the gym, and I executed them. I followed what I said to myself that I needed to do, and it’s given me energy, it’s given me focus, and I’m happy now, you know, I’m enjoying my training. I’m just focused, I’m just committed. You know when you say to yourself, right, you know what you’ve gotta do, right? We all know what we’ve gotta do. We say to ourself, I’ve gotta do, I should do it this way, or I should do this,

and when you don’t do that, and then you carry on, you feel, you know, like I always say, doubt is removed by action, so if you’re not working, then that’s where the doubt seeps in. So I knew things I should have been doing and things I shouldn’t have been doing, and I still did them and didn’t do them, if you get me. But now I’m listening to myself, and I’ve followed my internal instruction, and it’s just given me more passion, and more focus, and more drive, and I’m doing what I feel I need to do, and it feels good.

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When did you start getting really into like conquerors? When you start really… When I was 15. When you were 15? Yeah. What introduced you to it?

I was at the table eating with Cuss and a friend of mine named Craig Walsh said a statement which he was wrong, but it sounds really good to make me investigate. He said Alexander the Great at his time was like 6’5″, so at 6’5″, 300 years before Christ, that was a giant, which was wrong. He was very small. The armor was too big for him. He was a very small guy. He wasn’t big at all.

And so just that alone, him saying that got you interested in Alexander the Great?

Yeah, I went in, I told you, with the monks, he was a massive guy, but then I found out he’s just a small man, average guy. You know, he’s not a mack monster at all, not a big man at all.

But you got interested in the mindset of the conquerors to… Yeah.

Well, listen, this is what I want to know.

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A lot of you are trying to find inspiration and motivation with a depressed mindset. You’re depressed because you’re not doing shit with yourself. You don’t find inspiration by not living in the grip of life. You need to live in the grip of life to find inspiration. Put challenges in front of yourself. When you put a challenge in front of yourself and you attack it, that’s when you find inspiration. Try to be 10% better than you were last week. So if you’re running 30 miles a week, run 33. If you’re swimming 500 meters, swim 550.

If some of you aren’t doing shit, you’re 10% is just getting off the fucking couch. The more you walk away from accountability, the weaker you become. Find yourself in the grip of life. You can’t find yourself by doing nothing.

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To me, fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. And unless one understands fear, he can never learn as quickly as he should.

Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you can make it work for you. If you let it get out of control, it can destroy you and everything around you, like a snowball on a hill.

A snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and do whatever you want with it. But let that snowball roll down the hill. It gets so large, if you try to stop it at that point, it’ll crush you. So fear is like that. We learn to understand fear. Most people think of fear as something to be ashamed of, something to be really embarrassed about. But I teach these boys that fear is a normal, healthy thing. I often ask them, who is your best friend? Well, they try to name individuals. I tell them, no, your best friend is fear.

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Around 2010, 2011, I went through this huge spiritual thing where I became obsessed with the power of the mind. And I got into it deep, like really deep. Just meditation, visualization, and just realizing how powerful our minds actually are, like how we really do paint our world with our thoughts and our level of self-belief.

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Why would one person think that he could fucking own the whole world? One person? Why would he have that mind? Who would think like that? Why would a man person? Why would that’s not a fucking person? That’s just something When your ego just got so out of whack. Well, you just can’t think rational. How do you think like that and you’re a nice person? It was a guy before him, a couple hundred years before him, named Cyrus the Great. he was just like he was a conqueror, but he was a conqueror for Liberty. He wanted to conquer all the slaves and let them go conquer all the slave masses.

Let them go He got killed for that too. But he knew that maybe that sounds that sounds cool too, right? Yeah, that’s good That’s a good thing. But listen think about it Who the fuck is he to take somebody else’s property take somebody else’s stuff because he believe it’s wrong Which it probably is wrong. I think it’s wrong. But who the fuck is he right?

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So this morning, I was getting ready to go for a run with a few guys. So I was taking my shirt off and they saw my stress marks. And one guy asked me, where the f*** did you get those stress marks from? So I had to share with this guy what all this scarring was. That was 297 pounds, insecure, had doubts, had a f***ed up, just a f***ed up mind. So there’s a lot of scars we have on our bodies that people can see. And they tell a story. But a lot of us have scars in our brains about f***ed up lives, bad childhoods, bad adulthood, whatever the f*** you’re going through.

Those scars in your brain, we don’t talk about. We hide. Scarring is proof that our past is real. But the one thing we do is we allow it to control our lives. And we get off the log. Well, it’s time to get back on the log and not have those scars define the rest of your f***ing life. Sometimes you gotta fight pain with pain. Stay hard.

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Second ago pain, as it’s almost like excruciating, seconds later, it like flows out of you, like you just pulled the plug on your sink and all the water and all the pressure just goes. It’s a greater feeling than what the pain was. Meaning the pain you felt doing that, man, is overridden with pride. And when you feel when you pull that plug and all the water goes out and all the pain leaves, because what’s left there after all the water leaves, more capable. So don’t let the pain rob you of your pretension, guys.

Don’t let what you can’t do in the moment interfere with what you know you can do. Meaning don’t let the pain fucking rob you of your belief of what you can be. Because your body hears everything your mind says.

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And everything happens for a reason. Even when my dad was incarcerated and he went away, I still hear his words in the back of my mind. Continue to work hard. Nothing is going to come easy.

I worked hard. I worked extremely hard to get to this point. And every day I know I’m blessed. I’m truly, truly blessed. And I don’t take anything for granted. And nobody in here can take anything for granted. I had a game plan.

And when I say TBE, it’s no disrespect to no legendary champion. Because every fighter that’s in this room has to feel that he’s the best. If not, you in the wrong sport.

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Like running is running. It sucks, but you have a choice to make. Do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were? No. So this is what it takes. It takes that misunderstanding of people, and they’ll never get it because they were never David Goggins. So that is what it takes for me to do what I do. It may take you something differently. So for me, everything has to be in the studying. Everything has to be into this. Everything has to be in everywhere I am has to be there, me, focused where I am. That’s why you’re my second podcast I’ve done since Rogan since the book came out.

I don’t have time for that shit. Because if I want to be great, I’m not trying to maximize money or maximize people knowing me. I do these things because maybe someone out there will understand me and get it and say, I can grow from this guy. It’s not about me.

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You just got to grind. Yeah, I feel like this next generation is coming up and I don’t. I don’t mean to Smash all of them, but they seem like a bunch of pussies to me, you know. so because of that, There’s never been more opportunity than there is right now. If you’re a fucking savage and you get out there and you grind hard and you want it bad enough, You can run all these guys over, man and this whole Koba thing. People don’t want to go back to work and you know they want to stay home and all this bullshit. man, You can’t build a real business with people staying at home.

You need that connection you need to be in the office with your with your like-minded group of people and you need to be brainstorming and working and coming up with With ideas to take the company further and you know This next generation is just such a fucking group of pussies, man. I, just For the small group of savages out there, run these fucking kids right over. man, I’m all over can’t beat hard work. That’s it. That’s it. And that was always my mentality Nobody’s ever gonna fucking outwork me. So It should be yours. you out there that are listening right now.

There’s never been more opportunity than there is today.

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Winners fail a million times. What makes them a winner is that they believe in it. They’re headstrong. Nothing’s going to stop them. The spectators have tried it and failed it and remain sitting down. They don’t get up anymore because they don’t believe in it enough. The naysayers disbelief overrides their ability, potential, and mental capacity that they can’t be more than that.

Champions of life are headstrong. You come in here headstrong for this workout. It’s going to take everything. This is madness. This is a super fucking psycho workout. But if you have it up here and you go through it out there, guys,

you will leave here not only physically dominating, but mentally unstoppable. It all starts today if you’re ready to transform.

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And my ultimate goal was to become a $100 million fighter. Once I seen guys like Mike Tyson, and I seen it myself with my own eyes, when I seen that Bentley at the boxing gym, and I seen that diamond Rolex, I said, I want that. And I knew what it took. So I know when my opponent is asleep, I’m out there at four or five in the morning, chopping trees, working, to this day, because I can retire today. I’m well off, very comfortable, but I got the will to win.

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Do you know the difference between being afraid and being yellow, or the difference between a hero and a coward? And I tell them there’s no difference between a hero and a coward at all. How they feel, it’s what they do that makes a difference. That’s what makes the difference between a hero and a coward. Now the people who watch you do what you do, judge you on what you do, not how you feel. If you go out there and you do what you do, and you do it in what people call it, in heroic manner, they think of you as a hero.

If you do things as a person does, that’s often referred to as cowardly or whatever, they think of you in that way. But the hero and the coward feels exactly the same. You have to have the discipline to do what a hero does, and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does, or the so-called coward. Everybody’s a coward, more or less.

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And anytime you have any kind of discourse or we used to be subject to the discomforts of the situation Your body remembers that and your body’s just a messenger I’ve a purity right here is it just delivers whatever this says Have you start thinking you can’t do in that pains like how it feels I can’t the pain you think that body’s gonna tell you I mean the boss of the world. Hey, man, we can do it. Bullshit. It’s like a little shit body is. it’s just like: okay, We’re done. then The body hears everything your mind says.

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I see people training and they training hard or doing this and that and I’m just like bro This is crazy like like most of us in the UFC already right? I was like guys. There comes a point where, like you’re pretty much good, like everything can get you by, you got here already, But now the only thing different that’s gonna get you to the top 15 is mental. and then from 15 to 10, The only difference between those guys is mental. and then from from 10 to 5, same thing, and from champion and everybody else.

It’s a mental it’s a mentality thing is this something that to do with IQ and something that’s the only thing change like We’re all good. We’re all at the Mecca of fighting The UFC is where everybody wants to be but what makes you a champ what makes me a champion you not? Something gotta be it you can live more ways to me though You know, I mean like we’re the same if we’re the same weight class you’re stronger than me. You’re faster than me What is the difference? I’m willing to do something that I don’t know if you even thought of doing it or if it’s Presented with you that,

if you’re gonna take that chance.

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I am a conqueror now because I’ve conquered myself and my demons. You know, not because I’m at that time. I’m never born to. I’m born in the right time. Most of them couldn’t conquer their demons. That’s why they ask for forgiveness from God, all of them. Because, just like

the gentleman that discovered

Alcoholics Anonymous, you know, he inspired. Maybe he had a problem with alcohol at the end, but how many people have he inspired? That is so much bigger than him succeeding or not with his problem.

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I teach you how to fish. I don’t fish for you. I tell these guys I can put you in a position to fight for the title, , but you have to win the fights. I can’t fight for you.

I don’t, I put on my shoes, I put on my clothes, like everyone in here, I have good days, I have bad days.

I’m only gonna have my bad days in a boxing gym

because I’m an under the lights type fighter. Because when I go under them lights, no matter how I win, I win.

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Every second of the day, he is trying to extract more from something.

He’s constantly thinking, he’s constantly disciplined,

never going off the path. Whatever is injured on him, he figures away. It’s a conqueror’s mindset. And very few people, if any, can really understand what that is. I’m almost 50, and I’ve been this way for almost 30 years. What do you do for fun?

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But I want to know what’s to the west, what cities and gods are over there.

So I’m not satisfied with this.

Odin gave his eye to acquire knowledge, but I would give far more.

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Send me message, like location, location, I’m gonna come. Wherever you want, doesn’t matter, Ireland, New York, Brooklyn or Moscow, doesn’t matter. Tell me.

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It’s a good separation for me, you know, emotionally, to be able to put myself in a place where at practice or when I’m training or doing games, I switch my mind to something else. I switch my mode into something else, right? For me, it’s the equivalent of Maximus, Desmus, Meridius, and Gladiator picking up the dirt, smelling the dirt, it’s go time, right? So that was my mental switch. It was like an actor getting ready for a film. You gotta put yourself in that cage. When you’re in that cage, you are that character. And then when you leave there, it’s something completely different.

But when I’m in that cage, bro, don’t fucking touch me. Don’t talk to me.

Leave me alone.

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I’m the king here. I will stay a long time. I’m gonna come for everybody. I kill everybody Everybody everybody I come here for everybody kill everybody. I’m the champ. I’m the king here.

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to let your fear go something like this. All people are afraid. Being afraid is a very normal healthy thing. If an individual were not afraid, I would have to send them to a psychiatrist to find out what was wrong. Nature gave us fear in order to survive. And of course fear is our best friend. Without fear we would all die. We’d do something foolish or stupid which would cause our death or being crippled. Fear is something which has to be controlled. I always compare it to fire. Fear like fire must be controlled. And once it gets out of control like fire can destroy everything around you.

Not only the individual but everything around you. But once you control fear like fire you can make it work for you. Without fire we wouldn’t have the civilization we now recognize. The fighter who controls his fear can now function in a manner far over and beyond anything he was capable of before.

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So I took myself from being very average minded to actually believing that I was the shit and believing that I could be the shit and that I could be the GOAT and be the greatest and never lose and to like. I took myself to a different place mentally and a lot of it came from mental practice and meditation and visualization and just seeking knowledge from people who are strong believers- guys like Les Brown and Tony Robbins and guys like that. I just became really obsessed with just learning about the power of the mind, so I used to meditate.

now I just kind of I have a lot of things that I’ve that stuck with me, a lot of ways of believing that stuck with me, that just subconsciously I know who I am what I’m capable of and how I believe and how powerful my mind actually is.

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My mental preparations for the game are very different than most. I try to relax myself. I’m a jokester, a prankster, if you want to say it that way. I try to, I listen to music, I joke around with the guys, I take my whole mind away from the game itself, and then when the time comes to focus on the game, I focus on my athletic skills and putting it together with the team, and somehow collectively going out and doing our jobs each and every day. I challenge myself to be the best basketball player every moment that I’m playing the game of basketball.

And sometimes that means tricking yourself in your mind to say that you can’t do this, or your weaknesses are here, but yet you still try to work on improving those weaknesses. A lot of people may say, well, Michael Jordan never had weaknesses. Michael Jordan had weaknesses. He just had to dig deep inside himself to figure out what they were and challenge himself to improve those weaknesses. So mentally, I like to challenge myself to go out and play a perfect basketball game. Although I know you can’t do that. It’s practically impossible to play a perfect game,

but that doesn’t mean you can’t challenge yourself to do that.

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All right, gather around! All right, Durand 64 is down.

We’re going back in to get him.

That’s crazy. Is there anyone alive on there?

Doesn’t matter. No one gets left behind. You know that.

Wasting time here.

All right. Hey, talk to me.

I can’t go back out there.

Thomas, everyone feels the same way you do.

All right?

It’s what you do right now that makes a difference.

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And right now the meal plan could be your content plan. It could be your showing up to work on time plan. It could be the time that you want to put towards your side hustle, it doesn’t really matter. But if there’s one muscle that you can flex, it’s learning to do the same thing over and over again. Like one of the values that we had at Gym Launch is do the boring work. Because boring is what makes you rich, right? It’s writing the followup sequence to the purchase page that you don’t feel like doing, but you know you should do. It’s running the split test for the 10th time.

It’s actually going through and prepping for 20 minutes before you have the meeting. Because it’s amazing how much smarter you can appear with 20 minutes of preparation. Like you can appear 50 IQ points smarter if you just prepare for meetings for 20 minutes.

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Yeah, well, you know, like creativity is in everything, you know, like even in consistent, like what I’ve found is creativity a lot of time comes from structure, parameters and the structure, then within that you can be creative. But like, if you don’t have the structure, you’re just aimlessly doing stuff. You’re just like, you know, where are you going? You know, so like having a clear structure of understanding, okay, this morning I’m going to, like when I was writing a Wizard of Oz series and outlining legacy, I come in in the morning, 7 a.m. and I’m there.

I’m writing backstory from seven to 12, then go pick up my kids and then I come right back and I’m writing again. So like within that structure, you know, my mind when I go to sleep is already like planning of what the next day is going to be because I know, you know, what it is I have to do. It’s that consistency and structure.

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Listen, when you make mistakes, they add up. They add up. One mistake compounds and leads to another, which leads to another, and they can lead you to a downward spiral of destruction.

Here’s the thing. You know what else adds up? The positive things. The good moves. The small sacrifices that you make to do things right. The adjustments needed to correct problems. The daily discipline required to get you where you want to get to. Those little positive things add up too.

And it’s obvious, and we know it. But here’s the question. Why don’t we do them? Why don’t we do them? Well it’s because, in most cases, it’s because they add up slowly. They add up so slowly.

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And the same with the relationship. It’s not about the events. It’s not about intensity. It’s about consistency. Right? You go to the dentist twice a year, your teeth will fall out. You have to brush your teeth every day for two minutes. What does brushing your teeth twice a day for two minutes do? Nothing! Unless you do it every day, twice a day, for two minutes. Right? It’s the consistency. Going to the gym for nine hours does not get you into shape. Working out every day for 20 minutes gets you into shape. So the problem is we treat leadership with intensity.

We have a two-day off-site, we invite a bunch of speakers, we give everybody a certificate. You’re a leader! Those things are like going to the dentist. They’re very important. They’re good for reminding us or getting us back on track, learning new lessons. But it’s the daily practice of all the monotonous, little, boring things like brushing your teeth that matter the most.

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I think mental health is extremely important. It’s an issue that is now coming to the forefront, but in the past it’s been an issue that’s been pushed down, neglected, either out of embarrassment or believing that you’re the only one that is experiencing that. But now it’s coming to the forefront, and I think it’s a great time to be able to address some of those issues and some of those challenges to try to use those as a source of strength. At first I think it’s getting over the stigma of it being something that is embarrassing or a sign of weakness. It is not a sign of weakness.

I think that’s step one. And then it’s opening up and sharing that experience with others. That’s how you build a community of strength, right? By getting others to open up and share their journeys and share their stories, you wind up inspiring each other. And you know how that goes. Once that inspiration goes back and forth, that energy feeds on itself. And I think the best thing that we can do is not ignore it.

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and the significance of the consistency of doing something over and over and over and over and over in a moment that is a controlled environment. And so it doesn’t look to be as if it’s something significant because you’re doing it and it’s not an opponent. You’re doing it and you’re envisioning it. You’re doing it consistent and there’s nobody there, right? You’re in a controlled environment. Now when the match happens, muscle memory, you do it without even thinking about it, right? Because you practiced it in a consistent way in a controlled environment.

And so now when it really matters in a situation, in a circumstance, like I say to cats all the time, can we be committed to the process of what we’re doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what we’re doing?

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I think the wake-up call is important, but it’s not the key. I think you have to take care a little bit of your body, but without obsession. If you start today, you’re going to have benefits in the future. It doesn’t matter the time. What is important is what you want to achieve. Yeah. What you want. You want to live a good life. Yes, I like to drink. I like to eat a burger. Okay, you’re going to pay the bill in the future. I think the most important thing is to find the balance. Sometimes I can eat a burger or chips. It doesn’t matter. It’s important for your mind too.

Sometimes I sleep at 2 o’clock in the morning because last night I was in the UFC here in Saudi Arabia. And they might invent it’s 2 o’clock. Yes, it’s quality of life too. But the most important thing is the consistency. If you have consistency, you’re going to be good in the future or you’re going to be better than other ones in the future. This is my opinion.

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I just don’t stop, right? Because like, I go at things and I just believe like, man, I’m gonna just be consistent. Now I might alter my aim, but I just don’t stop, right? You know how when most people get a break and they like, oh, it’s a break, I’m about to chill. I’m gonna keep going, right? So I never have to get to that mind state of, all right, I gotta get back going again. I gotta readjust, I gotta put it back on the wall again. Now I’m gonna just keep going, keep going, keep going, I’m gonna alter it certain days. I might adjust it certain days, might pivot certain days,

but I’m gonna try my best to stay consistent. Yes. Because I believe when I’m consistent, I can build on consistency, not just in my life, but in several areas and aspects of my life that are tied to different people. And so I believe in the power of consistency, not saying that one has to just stay going at whatever it is that they doing, because you might need a break and it’s all good, But just speaking to me and my purpose and how I operate,

I believe in staying consistent and sometimes just changing my aim and my focus and altering it on certain days when different situations and circumstances pop up.

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when you’re not willing to do something, but you have to do it. This is the main point. This is why I say our mind, it’s a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it’s hard. It’s what many people say. You like to go to the gym every day. Of course, no, it’s not true. Nobody likes to go to the gym every day, but you have to do it. Probably. Yes. Because your mental strength is coming from that, from that moment that’s in a hard moment, you know, you should do it. So, and I do it because after that, maybe in the beginning, you feel hard to start,

but after when you finish the gym or cold plunge or, or even the training, you will feel better. I think it’s, it’s, it’s the big key there.

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But you cannot fail. It simply is not possible. You were created by God. And he gave you all the tools that you could ever possibly need to fulfill your purpose. Live out your visions. People fall short because they give in to that negative voice. It clouds their confidence and their belief in that they will succeed. Not because they didn’t have what it takes. So whatever it is that you are after, whether you want to start a YouTube channel, or own your own art studio, or start an online business, or become world champion at something, it is there for you.

It is patiently waiting, hoping that you do not give in to evil’s deception. Because that is all that it is. Deception. When you don’t feel like doing the very thing that will put you closer to your goal, I mean, just listen to how non-sensible that is.

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Consistency, consistency, consistency, man. That’s the name of the game, bro. Don’t get much simpler than that.

If you keep going every single day and don’t stop, they ain’t ready for prime time. They ain’t trying to really get it right. They take days off, this day off, that day off. They lazy, I’m tired. No, grind every day, one foot in front of the other, bro, and I promise you,

I’m gonna be lapping these folks, bro. Give it a year. Watch what happens.

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So, we let these things slip. Because it takes so long to see the progress, we let them slip. And when we don’t do them, it becomes zero times a hundred, or zero times a thousand. And that nets out to a zero.

When you do anything, it adds up. When you do nothing, it amounts to zero.

So, take the small steps every day. Do what you’re supposed to do. And don’t expect some incredible results in one day, or two days, or ten days. Worthwhile things take a hundred days. They take five hundred days. Maybe they take five thousand days. They take time.

But it’s little steps that add up.

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For me it’s not a big deal. I do it in a comfortable way, in a happy way. For me it’s not sacrifice. You say, yeah, sometimes you don’t want to go to the gym. Of course not. Sometimes I don’t go to the gym. But I go because I have a compromise with myself. But I’m not so happy every day. You think I wake up off the bed every day happy or with my wife or with my kids. Sometimes I’m not. But it’s part of our time. We are both the same. We feel this every time. To mention again, the most important thing is to have a routine. Consistency. Not obsession. Good. Don’t be like Cristiano.

Because Cristiano is crazy. Okay. But 20%, 25% is too much? Yeah, be more consistent. Yeah, it’s a little bit. Come on. Make effort in your health. It makes sense.

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You do not feel like doing the very thing that will put you closer to your goal. Whether that is the gym because you have a fitness goal or you want to obtain a certain physique, or if it’s making a daily video because you want to grow your audience or breaking out the canvas because you want to develop your artistic skills. It only makes sense that if we do these things, it will bring us closer to what we are after. So why in the world would we not want to do that? It comes from an external force that is doing everything in its power to stray you away from your path. You are under attack.

You are not the problem. You possess capabilities that make you a target for the evil forces in this world. That is the situation here. So understand that when you do give into that temptation to not do that thing, you are allowing evil to get a win over you. At the end of the day, that choice is yours. Do not take your gift of choice for granted.

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It’s just consistency. You gotta really put that, you don’t gotta even work as hard as people think. You gotta just be, you gotta just put that work in. You gotta do something. It can’t be no days when you sleep all day. It can’t be no day, you can’t let nobody, if you a female, you can’t let a dude stress you out. You can’t have a female stressing you out. You gotta understand that you gotta invest that time into your life. And right now, it don’t really matter. The future is what really matters. You get what I’m saying?

So, none of this shit go, you could be in a bucket, no gas, you’re stressing out. Can’t think, you can’t think about the painful part of it. You gotta keep rocking and putting that work in and everything will change for you.

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There comes that day. It’s either when you’re young, you know And it strikes you on the baseball field because you’re sick of striking out or it’s it’s when you get fired from your fifth job You know when your wife and kids are on your ass because you don’t have support anymore. There comes a fucking day Where push comes to shove? We’re being mediocre being like average shit just fucking burns. It sucks so much You can’t deal with one more day and you get off your fucking ass and you create something. It’s always been there. It’s always been inside of you trying to come out,

But you’ve never wanted to unwrap it because it’s too much fucking pain and commitment. You were scared you’re gonna fail. you’re scared: if you started, you never finish it. You didn’t want to tell anyone, but you knew it was there, But you never wanted to embark on it until something fucking hits, You get fired or somebody else gets success, remind you what you could have been, and then the fucking spark is born And, no matter what happens, I’m never gonna be in this boat again. And you get up and you go, even against not, you just keep going, keep going. you a wild man.

and life has never been So sweet.

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I had 24 hours and I was going so slow, taking so much time. This is when I realized that the human mind, once everything gets connected, once the mind knows you’re not going to quit something, it’s going to try to find more. It’s going to try to give you more. Once it realizes you’re not going to take the path of least resistance, you’re going to stay here until it’s done. My mind and my body and my spirit became one for the first time ever. For the first time ever it became one. And I went to a level that I never thought was humanly possible for myself or anybody else.

In that shape that I was in, I was able to run 19 miles. And I ran 19 miles, did 100 miles, actually did one more mile. I did 101 miles in 18 hours and 56 minutes. I’d overcome so many obstacles in my life and this was the final crucible for me. And I got through it. And at the end of this race was such clarity to me.

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I’m telling you what when once you get it come on over this side of the fence. You don’t see fucking problems anymore, man Uh-huh. You see situations you see possibilities and you can’t wait to get them started man You’re like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn’t matter about the past. It’s today what we doing today or we’re gonna engage now and once we engage we commit There’s no half commitment. There’s no core commitment. There’s no three core. It’s full commitment. Once we engage,

it’s every fucking day we engage Because that’s the better life and the people you will surround yourself or like-minded and they’re better friends Friends and family for life man. They have your back They’re solid individuals doing solid tasks leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That’s a fucking solid life, man It’s your option though. What are you gonna do?

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It might be April where you are and you’re expecting nice weather and shit, but it’s 20 degrees so You might be somewhere where it’s too fucking hot so You might have sore legs sore back sore shoulder so The struggle is real It never gets any easier You got to get harder. I was out yesterday Getting after it Had one of the best runs I’ve had in a long time. PR that bitch. so No one cares what you did yesterday, It only matters doing today. those who take me literally. so I’m a cheerleader for those who want to be better, Not for those who want to stay the same. Stay hard.

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The thing is with me is I don’t give a fuck.

I don’t give a fuck. Yeah.

I give a shit when anybody says or what anybody thinks I have this mindset.

I know exactly who the fuck I am.

I have my circle of people that I hang around with who know me and know what I’m about and whatever.

And, uh, anybody else who doesn’t like it or doesn’t want to. Bad. Okay.

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right hand. just I want to see you hit the bag, just like this. you’re not gonna try to do it hard, I just want you to do it constantly. and most of them have hit a bag or something before a little bit. and so I say, don’t you, don’t worry about hitting it hard, I just want you to hit it and don’t hurt yourself. and you’re gonna do it for 20 seconds at a pretty fast clip and then you’re gonna rest for 10 and do 20 seconds, rest for 10 and do that a cycle for a cycle of eight. that’s good for cardio, right. so they’re doing on the bike. it’s great on the bike, it’s great for cardio.

it’s one of the best ways to develop cardio- is the Tabata interval. for whatever reason, I don’t know why, but so we did that at the end. so we did the kettlebell workout and then we do the sled and then we hit the bag. I was putting them through like real workouts.

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consistency. He’s like, you have to make sure that you’re inconsistent. He’s like, because if you are consistent and you have none of the other attributes, he’s like, it’s, you still might be successful. He’s like, it’s, it’s very tough for people who are consistent to not be successful. And he makes an especially pointed point about consistency, because in my opinion, it’s one of the most difficult of the virtues for humans to do because we’re so attracted to novelty. And so, like I mean, I used to do with this with you know, people on their diets all the time.

I remember I ran gyms and so someone would come in and I would always ask the question, so have you been following the meal plan? And then they would say, yes. And so then I started changing the way I asked the question. So I’d say out of the 21 meals that you were supposed to eat, how many of the 21 did you have exactly the way it was on the meal plan? And then they would be like, oh, I mean, at least half. And they would say it as though that was a mark of success.

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Healthy lifestyle eating right exercising why? Because for 51 years I didn’t do it. Now it’s the point that I’m making on consistency That the earlier we become consistent in good habits the more those good habits compound in a positive way just as if I Consistent in bad habits. They compound in a negative way, and my father taught me the value of good habits and Living this incredible, unbelievable Consistent life.

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when you build willpower and think about how much I’ve built. Now that you know about this, I didn’t know about this, but think about how much I’ve built. Everything I’ve ever done in my life, I didn’t want to do. Everything, every day, I’m a lazy piece of shit. And I’m one of the hardest working people to ever step foot on this planet Earth. And I’m saying that very proudly because I know what I do. It’s not cocky. I’ll tell you I’m stupid. And I’ll also tell you the exact opposite of what I’ve done. So imagine how much I’ve developed in that time frame. But this is the scary thing.

Why most people don’t want to do that, build that willpower, is because it is scary. It unlocks a whole bunch of things about who you are and who you’re not. And a lot of people don’t want to go down that journey to discover who they are and who they’re not, because it’s not a pretty journey.

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Without commitment, you’ll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish. It’s not easy. If it was easy, there’d be no Kerry Washington. If it was easy, there’d be no Taraji Henson, P. Henson.

If it were easy, there’d be no Octavia Spencer. But not only that, if it were easy, there’d be no Viola Davis. If it were easy, there’d be no Michael T. Williamson, no Stephen McKinley Henderson, no Russell Hornsby. If it were easy, there’d be no Denzel Washington. So keep working, keep striving, never give up, fall down seven times, get up eight.

Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.

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For everybody that want a feature, man, I only rap three hours a day. You know what I’m saying? I only rap three hours a day. I get in the studio at six o’clock and I’m done around nine o’clock in the morning. You know what I’m saying? So you don’t hit me between them hours, you can get ugly. You know what I’m saying? So I, I, I rap three hours a day. The rest of my day, I do regular shit. I ride my bike. I go to the grocery store. I spend time with my son. I wash my cars. I, I buy shoes and, and, and drink smoothies. And it’s all the regular shit because I don’t really like rapping too long.

It give me anxiety. You know what I’m saying? So I feel energy and I’m in the studio. I knock it down right there. Matter of fact, sometimes though, it might take me three days to do one song, but I might just do like the intro of that motherfucker. Then the next day, but the thing is consistency. So if I do three hours a day every day for 365 days, I just did outstanding numbers. You know what I’m saying? It ain’t what you do. It’s how you do it. You know what I’m saying? So long as you stay consistent with it, you’re going to win every time. I only do three hours a day. I’m not a rapper.

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If the situation and circumstances change, does it change you? Right? Now we’re in a different environment. Now the circumstance and situation is different. Right? But it didn’t change who he was. It didn’t change what he had practiced. Right? Because now, this is not what I do. This is who I am, bro. Because I did it in a controlled environment when nobody was present and nobody was clapping. See, most people live for the applause. Right. So you die when it’s not there. Not die physically, your drive, your dedication, your commitment, it dies.

When there’s no validation, when there’s no clapping, when there’s no cheers. Right? But when you work when it’s none of that, when you get that, it’s cool, it sounds good, you’re grateful for it. But that’s not what makes you show up and work and be who you are every single day.

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any sport, any job, I think it’s part of the life.

It’s like that.

Utsaldi, the opposite, they are not part of this world, in my opinion. If you want to achieve success, it’s the only way.

You’ve probably seen a lot of footballers, athletes.

I see everything, everything, everything, everything.

Not only sports,

any job is the same way.

The same. If you are not consistent more than other ones,

if you don’t do it, add something more than other ones,

you’re never going to be number one like me.

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Ignoring it is the worst thing we can do because then it festers and it becomes something that has control over us versus the other Way around we rise, but we rise step by step It’s not one quantum leap Right. So you know, I see too many kids get so discouraged because they’re expecting to make this quantum leap and when that quantum leap doesn’t come, It feels like it’ll never come. Right, but that’s not how it works. It’s step by step, one foot in front of the other, day by day, get better every single day,

And then when you look back and then you look down and you realize the mountain that you just scaled Right, but you can’t jump from the bottom of Everest and get to the top of Everest like that doesn’t happen You know Superman is only in comics. I think. for me it’s a. You know, mental health is a challenge that we need to accept, Not ignore accept the challenge. We accept any other challenge that’s presented in front of us. mental health is no different. So let’s face the challenge individually, but understand that we’re facing that challenge collectively.

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Leadership is exactly the same. There’s no event. There’s no thing I can tell you you have to do that your people will trust you. It just doesn’t work that way. It’s an accumulation of lots and lots of little things that anyone by themselves is innocuous and useless, literally pointless by themselves. People will look at little things that are good leadership practices and say, that won’t work. You’re absolutely right. But if you do it consistently and you do it in combination with lots of other little things, like saying good morning to someone, looking them in the eye.

My friend George, who’s a three-star general in the Marine Corps, he says his test for leadership, and I love this, he goes, his test for a good leader is if you ask somebody how their day is going, you actually care about the answer. The number of times we’re walking to a meeting, we’re rushing, we go, how are you? Not good. I got to get to you later. I’m late for a meeting. If you ask the question, you are standing there, and you are listening to the answer. It’s those little innocuous things that you do over and over and over and over.

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So so put in the daily effort. let that be your reward, reward yourself, feel gratification from knowing That you move the needle even just a little bit.

Rome wasn’t built in a day. the the Grand Canyon took millions of years to form, and

Whatever it is you want to do isn’t gonna happen in one day You have work to do and I know it’s just a little bit I know it’s just a little tiny movement forward, but that work Is what it takes?

So go do it.

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Because the harder that you try, the easier it gets. And so it’s like, if you can just learn to love what trying hard feels like, then all of a sudden it becomes unreasonable that you can’t win. So like, if you were to say, what would it take for somebody to be unreasonably good, that it would be impossible for them to not be a top 1% salesman, or a top 1% content creator? And you said, what would that person need to do? Irrelevant from outcome, what would be the actions or evidence that they would have to do prior to that thing that would make it unreasonable that they couldn’t succeed?

And then you do those things, what happens is you realize that it’s actually not that hard because you put so much work into it, and the bar from other people working is so embarrassingly low that they then ask you how you did it, and it must be easy.

Consistency doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be successful, but not being consistent will guarantee that you won’t reach success. You have a productivity hack, an easy productivity hack, instead of spending time getting in the mood to work, just stop working, confront the work. People think they need perfect conditions to start, when in reality, starting is the perfect condition.

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piece by piece and it’s the consistency of the work, which I feel like a lot of parents are missing today because we’re not teaching that to our kids. We tend to say like, kids don’t want to do the work, but in reality, it’s when we’re failing them because we’re not leading them the right way and teaching them how to fish. You know what I mean? And so like the consistency of work, Monday, get better, Tuesday, get better, Wednesday, get better, right? And you do that over a period of time, not like one month or two months. I mean, it’s three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

10 years and then you can get to where you want to go.

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Dreams without goals are just dreams, and ultimately they fuel disappointment. Exactly. On the road to achieving your dreams, you must apply, this all comes from Pastor Bernard, I just stole it. It sounds familiar. Yeah, it sounds familiar. You must apply discipline, but more importantly, consistency, because without commitment, you’ll never start, but without consistency, you’ll never finish.

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Master consistency. Become loyal to your path. Continue to remain focused on your destination and refuse to be distracted. Isolate your mind. Surround yourself with things that align with your vision and your vision only. Utilize every minute of your day to cover more ground, bringing you closer to success. You may be asking how to achieve this mindset, but my question to you is, why would you choose otherwise? Why would you choose to be inconsistent? Because at the end of the day, it is all a matter of choice. So why? So you can feel comfortable? Comfortability fosters stagnation.

And I assume if you’re watching these videos, a stagnant life is not what you are in pursuit of. So what is it? I know what it is. You do not believe that you will be rewarded for your struggles, for the discomfort that you tolerate in efforts to stay loyal to your path. But you must know that if you try your hardest at anything, you will find success. You cannot lose. How do I know this? Because every one of us possesses a power that originates from God. This is the most pure and powerful energy that exists. And if you become close to it and empower it,

there will be nothing in this world that you cannot do.

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One day in the gym, one day in the gym is basically imperceivable. Two days in the gym, you don’t recognize any change whatsoever. A hundred days in the gym and you’re almost a new person, right? You’ve seen those before and after pictures. One day of playing guitar, one day of playing guitar, you can barely play one chord.

A hundred days of practicing guitar and you can play literally almost any song. An hour of writing, an hour of writing and you’ve got a short kind of junky thousand word essay. A hundred hours of writing and you got yourself a whole book.

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was the same thing. It’s about transition. If you were to go to the gym, it’s like exercise, if you go to the gym and you work out and you come back and you look in the mirror, you will see nothing. If you go to the gym the next day and you come back and you look in the mirror, you will see nothing.

Clearly, there’s no results, can’t be measured, it must not be effective, so we quit.

Or if you fundamentally believe that this is the right course of action and you stick with it, like in a relationship, I bought her flowers and I wished her happy birthday and she doesn’t love me, clearly I’ll give up. That’s not what happens. If you believe there’s something there, you commit yourself to an act of service. You commit yourself to the regime, the exercise. You can screw it up, you can eat chocolate cake one day, you can skip a day or two, it allows for that, but if you stick with it consistently, I’m not exactly sure what day, but I know you’ll start getting into shape.

I know it.

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Consistency is not your problem. The reason you cannot make any progress in reaching that goal or building that business or whatever your thing is, is because you have a lack of belief in that you will succeed in whatever it is you are after. If someone told you that if you do this, this, and this each and every day, you will achieve your dreams in one year, and it was 100% guaranteed, you fully believed in that, you wouldn’t for a second hesitate to do those things. You would show up every single day, regardless of how you feel, because you know that you will win in the end.

But there is a voice in your head that tells you, you might not pull this off. You very may well put in all of this effort and endure all of this struggle just to fall short. And in fact, 99% of people don’t succeed. So who are you to think that you will?

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trial and error, you grow up and you make game winning shots and it’s awesome. And you come back the next day and miss a game winning shot and it’s misery. And then the next day comes and you’re back playing again. And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it’s, what you do on Monday is fantastic, but then Tuesday is a bad day, but guess what? There’s Wednesday. So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? Versus just staying like this and understanding that it’s really just a journey of evolution every day.

It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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Do I like suffering? I like suffering in the way that is competitive. Yep. That brings out the absolute best in me and in everybody else. Mm-hmm. So like, I want to see a man be defeated. Mm-hmm. I want to see a man get broken and say, fuck you. I love these men. These men I love, but there’s very few of them. There’s very few of them. And there’s very few that are willing to go there more than once. Mm-hmm. A lot of people, even people who’ve gone through special ops, it kicks the shit out of them to a point where in their mind,

what got me bad in pair rescue was when I was going through it, I said, I’m only going to do this one time. And so many people in special ops, whether they believe it or not, in anything, special ops, in anything, that’s hard. I’m only doing this one time. Once you say that, you fuck yourself. Mm-hmm.

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You better make sure, in the next season of your life, that the person who walked away from you Know what they’re missing. You better do something with your life. Did you look at me you better do something so strong and so big with your life That they have to sit on the couch and say that’s the one that got by man I should have just stayed in there a little bit longer. I should have. I should have been a little more patient. I should have prayed a little bit harder. do something with your life that makes them regret turning you away and turning you over.

That means getting better and not bitter.

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when you say you’re gonna do something and then you follow through and you do it, not at the end when you cross the marathon, you finish it or your hands raise. I’m talking about right now. The small steps in between the big successes that everyone sees. No one sees this. Right now I’m saying like there’s a confidence to it man. There’s a bad motherfucker that’s right here, you know, that’s getting ahead of the competition. There’s an overwhelming sense of fulfillment and pride and satisfaction with that. You know, I didn’t have to shoot up anything. I didn’t have to drink anything.

I didn’t have to go party anything. I just, all I had to do was just go work out and now what’s gonna happen is the residual effect of that. Not only did my body grow, but my belief in whatever my current endeavors are, they’re just, they seem closer. They seem like, you know, I can reach out and grab them now.

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You know, knowing that you put the work in and have the confidence to let it show. What I tell people is just be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story. Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t. It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, what you have too much of,

but all you need to have is faith in God and undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. Make sure you live in the moment and work your butt off every single day. And I hope I inspire people all around the world to just be themselves, be humble and be grateful for all the blessings in your life. And I’m truly honored to be your MVP this year.

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Imagine that you’re in a movie and imagine the movie begins now and you’re the hero of the movie. Yeah. What would that guy do? Yeah. What would that guy do right now? Yeah. Because you are.

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Some days I win,

Some days I don’t,

But each and every day I get back up and I move forward with my fists clenched toward the battle,

toward the struggle, and

I fight with everything I’ve got to overcome those weaknesses and those shortfalls and those flaws,

as I strive to be just a little bit better today

Than I was yesterday.

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And so many people, they need to have a 5K, a 10K. I need to have a course in front of me. I need to have something in front of me for me to get my fucking ass up and do some shit. And that used to be me. And nowadays, you know, shit, for past 20-some years, I don’t need fucking purpose. And people miss out on this, man. The purpose, we’re all looking for this golden purpose. Is it this, is it that, is it making money? Is it my family? Motherfucker, the purpose is you. We forget that. Every fucking day I wake up, I don’t want to do some fucking shit.

I’m like, okay, man, do you want to be a bitch today? Do you want to feel like a little bitch? Do you want to walk around all day knowing that you could, but you didn’t? So it’s performed without purpose. You have to learn how to get up and do shit when you ain’t got no fucking 5K, no 10K, nothing. Nothing exists. Your life fucking sucks. You’re in the fucking dungeon. But guess what, motherfucker? I’m still going to get it.

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I never thinking about, oh, if this happen, I always go with the mentality to win and enjoy. I never think about lose. I never think about lose. I always think and train for the win. And yes, I do. I think about if I get knockout, how I’m gonna reaction, and DEC, what I’m gonna do. We always train about that. Wow. We prepare ourselves for everything, of course, but I never think about losing.

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You can be physically strong, But at the same time you could be mentally weak or you could be the opposite. You could be mentally weak But at the same time physically strong. and I would love to be able to Put a priority on one of those. and I know I’ve said before that Knowledge is the most important thing.

But the reality is, if you don’t have The strength or actually the health To back that up or even to function as a human being physically, then your knowledge and your mental strength Doesn’t really even matter. so That comes into play, and being big and strong is also totally useless if You’re mentally weak and you quit You.

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But whenever I get to a low point where I think, why do I even bother? I just remind myself, this is where most people stop, and this is why they don’t win. And this relates to another one, which is a reminder for the gladiators in the arena who feel beat up and scarred with no hope in sight. Building a business is hard. Hard feels shitty. This is what hard feels like. And this is why most people can’t do it. But you can.

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So there’s a lot of pockets of weakness nowadays. And we try to fill those pockets with lies. I did it for many years. So I’m out here in Colorado for a conference. I go to the gym, and this trainer calls me over to talk to this group of people he’s training. He says, hey, man, what are you doing out here? So I tell him. He says, what kind of workouts are you doing? I said, well, one workout I’m doing, I’m climbing up this mountain, 3,000 feet, 3 miles. Because I do that every day. So the next day, I’m out looking for him. Didn’t see him. Couple days later, looking for him. Didn’t see him.

So here I am on the mountain again, climbing it. And there’s a gondola that takes you up, takes you down. I’m going up it. I see a gondola. I’m about five minutes from the top. I look up at the gondola. I see him, face pressed up against the window, looking at me, our eyes meet. It’s called the look, when you take a motherfucker’s soul. Don’t talk about it. Be about it. Practice what you preach. Stay hard.

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Think about that. Writers write, actors act, directors direct. I know that sounds redundant, but it’s true. If you want to be an actor, get out there and act. Nobody’s going to knock on the door because they saw you in something. They have to see you do something. Director, make friends with writers, actors, network, network, network. Get your stuff out there so people could see. The biggest advice I could give you right now, the biggest advice that anybody could give you, and this is not my words, Woody Allen told me this. He said, I said, Woody, what’s the secret to success?

He said, 85 to 90% of life is just showing up. Show up. If you show up, there’s a chance something could happen.

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I’ve wasted my life hanging out with a bunch of guys just like you. And they all go away at a certain point.

And I realized this guy’s kind of telling the truth. He’s showing me a truth about him.

This is coming from somewhere. And then all of a sudden, he still hung around us. He still liked us. but then he started making it a point to touch base with some of his high school friends that were still around. So he’s not just hanging out with guys four years younger or five years younger than him. Anyway, I’m turning 25 around this time. So I’m having my own little, okay, well, what have I done with my life so far? So far, fucking nothing.

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Being mentally strong should actually lead you to being physically strong, because if you are mentally strong,

then you can work and train to become physically strong.

But if you’re mentally weak,

then you will not hold the line on the good foods and the good workouts,

and you won’t get physically strong or healthy.

So, can you be weak and strong at the same time? Yes, but I say be strong.

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So my awe moments now are like, oh, I ran today, I went to the gym today, I did this and this today, I studied today, I have about eight hours off. And those eight hours are glorious to me. And every day you go back out and you start earning that. And every day you wake up, it sucks, and when it’s over, you feel better. It sucks, you feel better. And as you get going, every step you take in that journey, as you’re like, for me, I run every day, I hate it. But every step I take, I’m like, all right, motherfucker, you’re beating the demon again.

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I have something here and I want to do this and hey, maybe I can be like a, I don’t know, a British champion one day. Maybe I can have my own gym. This was how I started, you know, and then quickly, uh, I got very successful. Within two years, people were telling me I was the best bodybuilder in the country. I did then win the British championship to be, uh, to get the pro status. So it was not something where I wanted to attract the girls or I wanted to be stronger, to protect myself because I was already, okay, this was not the motivation.

The motivation was to change my life because what I see around me is not for me.

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So as weak or soft people out there who want to pick apart the messages, just tune it out. Life ain’t about medals, ain’t about f***ing certificates, it ain’t about houses, money, cars, fame, all that bulls***. It’s about scars. So when you get judged, when everything is said and done with, you won’t get judged on your medals. You get judged on your scars. Those scars show your willingness to get to the other side. They show your failures. They show your willingness to start from scratch. They show what you’re willing to do to go the distance, to see what you’re capable of.

So make sure in life, don’t be afraid to get scars. Stay hard.

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You can’t wait for everything to be perfect to start living your life.

And that hit me. I mean, he packs a powerful punch, and that, damn, he hit me with a damn word punch, you know, with a word hook.

Because that’s what I’ve done.

My whole life has been like that. Inside of me it has been. And as soon as it’s all lined up, I’m gonna show you myself.

As soon as I’ve got it all looking the way I want, I’m gonna show up for you. And for me.

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If you were tough enough and you made yourself tough enough, you sacrificed enough,

equipped to do things that you had then, you learned those things, and you just worked yourself to the bone. No matter where you came from, no matter what part of the world, no matter who your parents were, no matter what your poverty level may have been, may not have been, no matter what you had, what you didn’t have, no matter what people had told you, didn’t tell you, all of that, if you made yourself and took advantage of that opportunity and got yourself ready, and you were ready to behave like a champion, you could get in that ring on one given night and make the world fair,

and have your hand lifted and be called champion of the world.

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Train your physical strength and exercise your mental strength by doing the right things, the hard things, The things you know you’re supposed to do. Do them and be as strong as you can- mentally, physically and emotionally- for yourself, for your team, for your family. Hold the line and be strong.

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I am particularly proud and happy about the young filmmakers, actors, singers, writers, producers that are coming up behind my generation. Without commitment, you’ll never start, but more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish. Keep working, keep striving, never give up, fall down seven times, get up eight.

Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.

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a human being is not so human anymore. We have the ability to go in such a space, if you’re willing to suffer, and I mean suffer, your brain and your body, once connected together, can do anything. And this 30 miles was the life-changing moment. I was out of it. I was in the worst pain in my entire life. I was, to me, on the brink of death. And I was able to chunk this 30 damn miles into small pieces. I was so driven, and I’m not gonna say motivated, because motivation’s crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever’s in front of you will get destroyed.

So I sat in this chair, and I was so driven to succeed in this race. And at this time, everybody goes, were you thinking about the guys that died? And I’m not gonna lie to you, I wasn’t. This became a personal thing.

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It says patience,

the thing that goes beyond hustle and hard work,

the discipline of patience,

the thing that goes beyond hustle and hard work, right?

Because we all talk about hustle, we talk about working hard, we talk about grinding, this, that,

and the third, but nobody talks to you about patience.

Nobody speaks about that patience,

because in the patience,

that’s where you’re going to make it or you’re going to break. Thank you.

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People think that my knees are bad from a lot of running and they’re wrong. I’m I wasn’t born healthy I wasn’t born with some great body alignment some great. No, I have sickle cell. I’ve all kind of shit. I have all kind of health issues, you know all kind of. I’m fucked up. So I had a choice to make and the choice was: you know, growing up, you know, okay, this hurts, that hurts. We can just sit down and do nothing or we can see how far we can push the human body.

So on that journey as I started getting more and more into my mind and start realizing that while what I’m capable of doing My mind got stronger. So that so the pain in my knees While it sucked I’ve been doing it for so long. It was like it became my new norm, like, okay, my knees hurt, Okay, stop. you know, and I call it like I’m stop feeling sorry for yourself, but you sometimes have to ignore your feelings. I

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those days when I’m tired or worn out or Just Basically sick of the grind. What do I do on those days? I Go anyways. I Get it done. Even if I’m just going through the motions. I Go through the motions. I Don’t really want to work out. I I Really don’t want to hammer on a project. I Hammer on the project. Don’t really want to get up and get out of bed. Yeah, I get up and get out of bed.

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And with that success come a lot of people that are, you know, going to applaud you, but the majority will hate you, man. They really will. They’re going to hate you because, you know, your success is a spotlight shining down their misfortune. They fucking hate you for what you’re doing is reminding them of their missed opportunities and stuff.

So, you know, it’s lonely, man. It’s like being this only car out in the parking lot. But if you’re cool with that, man, if you’re cool with walking in the shadows of yourself and, you know, the only person you got is the man right there in the shadow, man. How you doing? Pretty good. How you doing? All right, man. Cool, cool. It’s kind of weird having a conversation with you, but ain’t no one else around because everyone else has faded way back then, way back there. You know, if you’re cool with that kind of walk of life, I’ll tell you, man,

the world is your playground.

You will rewrite the book on it all.

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I don’t want to have a normal job. I don’t want to be unemployed. I don’t want to get a wife and a kid and a small house and a job and a normal life, whatever, what’s ever is normal, but that’s the average existence. Was not for me. I knew I was gonna do something different and I knew I had to put like my heart and soul into this bodybuilding. I had to change my life. I had to. I didn’t want to, I had to. It was my destiny. And, honestly, like looking back on my life, it’s almost like a movie that played out that was predetermined. Deep down, I knew this was gonna happen.

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When I was going through training, we had to carry these heavy-ass boats on our heads. We had six people carrying these boats. The heaviest part of the boat was in the front, so those weaker people would always look for the very back of the boat. The back of the boat is where the boat would barely be touching your head. We had a name for it. We called it ducking boat. A lot of people put their head down, crouch under it, so that boat wouldn’t be breaking your fucking neck. A lot of people in life out here are riding the back of the boat. They’re ducking that fucking weight.

They’re part of a team, but you’re the weakest person in that team, and everybody knows you’re ducking the boat. You don’t want that boat to touch your head. You don’t want it to hurt your neck, but you want to be part of the team, but you don’t want to do any fucking work. In life, it’s important to not always draft. Sometimes you got to lead and block the fucking wind. Stay hard.

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Now, these could be signals that you need some time off. And those signals might be right. They could be correct. But don’t take today off. Not today. Wait until tomorrow. Don’t give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear.

Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

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The reason why most people retire poor is they never put the initial savings aside to start with. You’ll find that successful people in any field are those who have far more experience in that field than the average. And there’s nothing that replaces experience. Whether it’s in business or entrepreneurship or management or parenting or selling or anything else, many people do not take the risks that are necessary to move out of their comfort zone because they’re afraid it won’t work out.

But the fact is that until you move out of the comfort zone and get the experience from making the mistakes, it’s not possible for you to grow and become capable of earning the kind of money that you desire.

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everybody has dreams. And as much as you wanna be able to listen a little bit, cause somebody’s gonna give you a gem, but nobody knows but you. You can’t get advice on what you should do with your life. Right? Nobody knows what you are. Like even sometimes you don’t really even know what you are. You gotta take your shot. And it’s like, as much as you want people to agree and you want the people around you to be supporting your dreams and all, it’s not gonna be like that all the time. You gotta do it alone. And people will help you. And when you get the ball rolling, people will jump on.

But if you don’t believe, nobody else is gonna believe. People come along because your belief is so insane.

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And there was like one night that I had what I used to call, I would do it every once in a while. I haven’t done it in a long time, thankfully. I would have a Quentin Detest Fest, where I’d stay up all night long. And rather than give myself excuses, I would look at everything that I’m fucking up in my life or everything I’m not doing or whatever, and just not give myself any fucking excuses out, just like nail it. And I would spend like all night laying out everything I’m doing that’s wrong. And then I would spend the last two hours figuring out how I can change it.

And as opposed to just doing it and then going to get some sleep and then you forget about it and fall back into your routine,

I decided to change my life.

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And the only way to see who the baddest motherfucker is, is to suffer. You can’t do it by writing a paper. So let’s go. Because why? What I found out through my life was I thought of myself as some weak little bitch kid. And what I found out and the only message I want to get across to people is once you change one thing, your mindset, you can attack everything. And I find it fascinating. I’m fascinated. Because I’ll be in these moments, I put these guys on some fucking pedestal. Yeah. Which people do with you? They do with me, and they shouldn’t.

And I was this guy who was a piece of shit, looking at these, oh my god, how are you guys this amazing? But once I worked my way up there, I said, my god, man, we can all compete, motherfucker. Let’s go.

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I knew that I was destined for something different.

And that was the motivation. Change my life. Get out of this, everything what’s around me. I don’t want it. And for me, this was a huge motivation. Do or die, really, like, this is not for me. So, and this is what I’m supposed to do. This is what I’m good at. And I love doing it.

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If when tomorrow comes, you still feel like you need to rest or you need to take a break, then okay, take it.

But the chances are you won’t. You won’t need that rest. Chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. It was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path. And by simply going through the motions, you overcame that path. And you stayed on the righteous path, the disciplined path. You stayed on the war path, which is right where you know that you belong.

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This became me against this race, me against the kids that called me nigger, me against me. It just became something that I took so violently personal. And I broke this thing down into small pieces. I said, okay, I got to get nutrition. I got to be able to stand up before I can get off this curb and get off this chair and be able to go 30 miles. So I went through all these small steps and I was able to stand up. And then from staying up, I was literally walking around with my wife at the time. And she goes, you’re not going to make the time. She goes, you’re walking like 30 some minute miles.

I got to mile 81. And the second she said that I’m not going to make the time, I ran the last 19 miles nonstop.

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If you’re not loving you, if you’re not taking care of you, everything and everybody is second to you taking care of you. Following your dreams is a lonely, solitary, scary, dangerous pursuit. You can’t wait for somebody to think you can do it. It’s a lonely, scary, dangerous pursuit. And you got to be willing to risk everything to become that seed of what you believe is in there. You got to be fearless. You got to be relentless.

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is that when it feels scary to jump, Ian, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise, you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

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So basically the 40% rule is I am a strong believer that we quit, because why? How the fuck does a 297 pound cockroach guy who quit on everything is now considered one of the best men on the planet? How is that possible? It means I had to change one thing, my mindset. So there’s no way in hell that that was in, but that was. That guy was in me. Well that guy came down here and said, hey, guess what man? You’re a fat ass. But I’m going to now make you a bad ass. I want to miracle this shit to be a bad ass. No, it was in me. I had to believe and make that belief work.

And through hard work I did that.

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You know you do your own thing, you know, especially when everyone else isn’t doing and they call you crazy Whatever else. Oh you in here and people driving by being like the fuck I got doing up so late well What’s up so late mean? I don’t know. It’s the moments in life, the decisions you make on a moment to moment basis that add up to be the guy Or not the guy. Tonight I did something. you know That I feel more of a guy for me, who I am, my guy, You know repeat that over and over and over again It’s just one. It’s a better life. You feel like more confident.

You have a better sense of reality. You know the way you go about your day is is in a more productive fashion, You’re more goal-oriented. they all just synergetically go together into a movement of force. that’s, It’s very unstoppable man.

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A person’s strengths are often their biggest weaknesses. And so that also means that their weaknesses can be their strengths.

So, me, I am weak. In all those ways that I listed, I am weak,

but I don’t accept that. I don’t accept that I am what I am and that that is what I’m doomed to be. No, I don’t accept that. I’m fighting. I’m always fighting. I’m struggling and I’m scrapping and I’m kicking and clawing at those weaknesses to change them, to stop them.

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But when you watch television, waste time, hang out, fool around and so on, all of that counts as well. And it’s going on the negative side of your ledger. A person who has a great life by the law of accumulation is a person who has accumulated far more credits, more pluses on the credit side than debits on the debit side. And here’s an important point. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s probably moving you away from your goals. Nothing is neutral. Everything that you’re doing is either moving you toward the things that you want to accomplish in life,

the person you want to be, the wealth you want to accumulate, or it’s moving you away. Everything counts. The law of accumulation says that everything counts.

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when you get in a horrible situation in life, your mind, I call it my one second decision. When you get in a horrible situation in life, your mind immediately says, get the fuck out of here. Everybody does, even if you want to be there. But it starts to have all these different questions in your mind in that one second. It says, okay, why are you here? Why are you doing this? Why this? Why that? And then you start to say to yourself, if you don’t want to be there that bad, I have a beautiful wife at home, man. Why the fuck am I doing this, man? Like, this is stupid.

This is gonna get these guys injured. Like, they’re gonna pay for this for the rest of their lives. I’m not gonna break my body up to do this. Your mind starts to say, yeah, this is stupid. But if you are already knowing that this is gonna happen to you, you have all the answers to these questions that your mind starts to give you when you’re in suffer mode.

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Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why?

Why do you do it? Why? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you’re fighting for something, for more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom or truth, perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose, and all of them as artificial as the matrix itself. Although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson.

You must know it by now. You can’t win. It’s pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why do you persist?

Because I choose to.

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I’m gonna say something to you. You’re smart. You’re talented. You know a few things, But telling me is nothing in this game if you don’t make the right choices There’s plenty of talented people out there. We never see the light of day anymore. lasting takes discipline Because this whole game is one big long shot And if you don’t have the discipline to stay away from the Flyers or from the gambles or whatever else you want to call a Stupid move then my friend. I’m afraid to say one day you will go down. It’s inevitable. You want my advice?

Make a list of everything you want now and then plan on spending the next 25 years of your life getting it slowly, piece by piece.

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I’m going to say something to you. You’re smart, you’re talented, and you know a few things, but talent means nothing in this game if you don’t make the right choices. There’s plenty of talented people out there who never see the light of day anymore. Last thing, take discipline, because this whole game is one big long shot, and if you don’t have the discipline to stay away from the flyers or from the gambles or whatever else you want to call a stupid move, then my friend, I’m afraid to say, one day you will go down. It’s inevitable. You want my advice? Make a list of everything you want now,

and then plan on spending the next 25 years of your life getting it, slowly, piece by piece.

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Now, here’s the key to discipline. Start with the little disciplines, get excited over the little disciplines and get right on those because those will lead to the big ones. You can’t handle the big challenges in life unless you take on the little ones. Make a list of all the things you can do, get right on those, discipline yourself for those, both for the results and for the muscle and for the practice. So that when life hands you some big challenges, you’ll be ready, you’ll have the muscle. But see, if you don’t handle the small ones, you can’t take care of the big ones.

Okay, here’s what else it takes for life change. Self-motivation, key phrase, self-motivation. I don’t know why we call it self-motivation, it’s really the only kind there is. You got to motivate yourself because I found out you can’t change people, they can change themselves, but you can’t change them. Lord knows some I’ve tried. But see, it won’t work.

People have to change themselves.

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If I’m trying to convince myself, ah come, just five more minutes, that’s a bad idea. Yeah, so that’s why I really got used to it rings and then it’s really like in a way I try to get out of bed as quick as possible. Then it’s done. But in the moment where I start to get comfortable again, it becomes just more difficult. Yes, because that mind always wants to trick you and test you and challenge you if there’s not something that he can still like readjust you. No, but discipline in a way really means it rings wake up.

Because that feeling of not wanting to wake up, that feeling of, ah, but it’s hard, I’m tired, whatever, it will pass after some time.

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I’m not this thing is crazy. I wasn’t even in Michigan for four months. I was on the road. I came back, went to like the Myers and I just brought. one day I bought one thing and they gave me coupons for everything I buy. All right, somebody watching me How they know I eat that? I eat that And I eat that and I ain’t bothered in the world. They just gave me a coupon for they watching you.

You just thought the mail came randomly. A Car came to your crib credit card. You’re trying to start a business. You’re broke. We’re about to give you $50,000 at 2 million dollar interest. You didn’t read that part. it was so small, he was just geek. I got a credit card. I prayed and the credit card came. no, Don’t put that on God. You didn’t make your holy a credit card. Holy. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I know but I I know but they get mad. Let me stop They don’t value delay gratification. You’re undisciplined.

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People are gonna think that I am maybe lying or maybe fibbing or Exaggerating. No, I am literally I was the lowest form on earth No talent No ability to learn and I literally know what it is to be rock-bottom and to build that up So that question about learning it’s a pain in my ass and I don’t have to do it It’s the thing about I’m 49 years old. I am a multimillionaire. I Don’t have to do anything. So I thought about when I was growing up is: I can’t wait to one day get to the point Where I no longer have to do this stuff. But what happens? I got older, it became a way of living.

So how I do every day is how I do every day. It’s a it’s a discipline. It’s a regimen. It’s a, it’s a. it was A choice I made.

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You’re supposed to be bigging up me, anything. We come from the trenches. I come from the streets, you come from the streets. You’re supposed to be bigging me up. You’re supposed to be giving that no negative attention. You know what I’m saying? Like for a hotline, there’s something gonna always be out. Like, it’s my fault, all that, but it’s out now. So it’s just like, it ain’t no my fault, or whatever, whatever it is. It is what it is, you know what I’m saying? I ain’t even tripping off him. Like you said, like, I’m trying to get to where I’m going and ain’t nobody gonna stop me,

or whatever going on, the talking, the captions, or whatever the memes. It can’t stop me because it’s a vision that I have, and it’s goals that I have, that I set out for myself, that I gotta get there no matter what.

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And doing the tasks that you don’t necessarily want to do but that you know will help you or help your team. facing your fears Takes discipline. to face your fears so you can conquer them, and that’s what discipline is. Discipline means taking the hard road, the uphill road, to do what’s right for yourself and for other people. It’s so often the easy path. The easy path. it calls to us To be weak for that moment, to break down for that moment, to give in to the desire and the short-term gratification.

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People are holding doors or it’s all these small things these small disciplines. Why do you make your bed in the morning time? When I was in the military never forgot. I was like, why the fuck are we folding our shirt up this way? Why why am I making these hospital corners 45 degrees and then 40 my bed back six inches the size of a dollar? Why am I doing this? all these small things that we do in life are Building your mind up for discipline, and all those disciplines are gone. You.

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So once you really commit and also commit to a certain type of practice, that means you need to bring out that discipline. It is that discipline that is fueling up this drive. Because we know that it’s not easy. But no pain, no gain. Not even coming from the Shaolin temple, worldwide known, that sentence. But it’s like this.

I can only give the pain to others that I have received already. My bones can only be as hard as I have hit whatever was hard like that. And so that means, take it as a challenge. Everything that hurts you, find a way to overcome.

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Discipline, it does start with waking up early. It really does.

But that is just the beginning. And I always say that discipline is the root of all good qualities,

It’s about disciplining your emotions so you can make good decisions. It’s about having the discipline to control your ego, so your ego doesn’t get out of hand and control you.

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But you just gotta keep your eyes on the horizon. You can’t get worked up on the daily ins and outs and struggles and external factors that beat on you in life. If you really want it, it takes work ethic, sacrifice, due diligence, sweat equity to get there. And you can get there. And you learn those lessons in the gym that transform yourself from A to B. Discipline is in the gym, right? You don’t wanna go to the gym, but you get up anyway and you go to the gym. And why? Because you believe in a higher cause. So you do that over and over again.

Small steps lead to big steps, lead to the big picture of who you are and what you can be. Then all of a sudden, you look in the mirror, you’re like, wow, look what I look like. But what have you really gained? You gained a mental toughness, confidence of who you are, that you can take that lesson learned in the gym and transcribe that into all theaters of life, whether that’s your social life, your marriage life, corporate America, building up a mailroom to CEO. Valuable lessons that are the bedrock of someone’s character that are developed in the gym.

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Now, once you’ve decided on the discipline you’re going to develop, the key is for you to launch strongly on your new discipline. Resolve to never allow an exception until it becomes permanent. If you fall off the wagon, immediately restate your affirmation as a command to yourself and begin trying it again. This is the only way you can develop the habit of discipline in that particular area. The best part of this process of developing disciplines is the direct relationship between self-discipline and persistence. The more you persist in any endeavor,

the greater self-discipline and self-confidence you’ll develop. It’s been well said that persistence is self-discipline in action.

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So when I first joined the Navy, I had to join the Reserves because I couldn’t get into active duty because I was so fat. So being a Reservist, I got titled a lot of times as a weekend warrior. In the Reserves, you work one weekend a month, two weeks a year. A lot of us live our lives that way. We can’t work out without purpose. We need to get into our dress for the wedding. Summertime’s coming, so we want to look all good. Our high school reunion’s coming up, so we got to lose weight. The biggest purpose in life, getting all that shit, is how you respect yourself. How you look at yourself.

That’s an everyday f***ing journey. So every day you should be getting after it. We look at determination, self-discipline. We look at hard work. All these terms, it’s almost like we dread them. Almost like a f***ing punishment. Those are the biggest words of all time as far as respecting yourself. So don’t look at them as dread and punishment. Look at those words as a lifestyle. Stay hard.

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Let me tell you something. There was a lot of stuff I was feeling and that stuff took me homeless. That stuff had me living in the back. I ain’t feeling my parents with no curfew. I had a curfew. I was one of the only ones on the block with a curfew. My parents gave me a curfew. I was still getting punished and whipped. You know what I’m saying? Like, they still like holding me accountable at 15, 16. I’m like, yo, my friends doing what they want to do when they want to do. I promise you I wasn’t feeling what they were talking about. But I left home at an early age and it was like, uh-oh.

I should have been feeling them because I ain’t feeling being homeless. I ain’t feeling going without eating. I ain’t feeling not being able to go shop. I ain’t feeling being able to not get clothed. I ain’t feeling being able to keep up with my friend getting shoes done. Like, yo, I wasn’t feeling what they, and I left home, I sure wasn’t feeling homelessness. I should have stayed at the crib. You don’t have to feel everything. If it’s right, it’s just right. Don’t matter how you feel.

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But the discipline will not allow that. the discipline calls for strength, and fortitude and will. It won’t accept weakness. It won’t tolerate another breakdown. the discipline can seem

Like it’s your worst enemy,

But the reality is,

Discipline is your best friend. It will take care of you like nothing else can, And it’ll put you on that path, the path to strength and health, and intelligence and happiness.

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It’s like you’re trying to discover what your limitations are when you’re when you’re in your 20s so that you can hit that edge So that you can sustain yourself across the decades. And so yeah, cuz you don’t you don’t want to you don’t want to have too much fun All right too much fun takes you out. You don’t want to be the oldest guy at the disco, you know It’s not. it’s not fun being the 40 year old at the singles bar. precisely So you want to make sure that what you’re doing is age-appropriate and you want to push yourself in every direction that you can,

But you should be doing that with an aim in mind. It’s like you’re trying to make yourself into a better and more competent person, And so some discipline, along with the fun, is a good idea. So to take care of yourself and the people around you, that’s a.

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I lived a life so disciplined that everybody that I once looked to, these fake characters, in my mind, I became that. And that’s what kept me going a lot, was I had this pipe dream of becoming a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Because when you have no parents raising you and you have no role models growing up, that I once looked at all these guys, now I look at myself like, God, who the can do that? I can. But what it takes is a discipline that no one can ever even—they just don’t understand it. They don’t understand it.

Everybody has the ability to do it, but they just don’t want to.

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You know, something as simple as food and eating, it’s not about your body as much as it is about your mind. It’s getting command of your mind to be able to choose actions that are in your own best interest. Every day, we are choosing shit that’s not in our own best interest, right? So, if the world is attacking you and the world wants to fight you and the world’s trying to hold you down, so you’re gonna kick yourself in the balls? You’re gonna stop yourself from getting what you dream. Self-discipline is the center of all material success.

You cannot win the war against the world if you can’t win the war against your own mind.

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Well, I can be cookie and say,

I give you the map.

You are willing to do that?

Yeah.

It’s the main point because everyone wants to be Christiano,

but I give you the map. You think you will do it that?

It’s difficult.

It’s the discipline.

The discipline is the most difficult thing,

not only in the sports,

but in the life.

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A lot of you could be millionaires, but because you’re not disciplined, he pulls on a couple. Some of you, because you’re not sexually disciplined, you’ve had people take stuff from you when you’ve been in places and relate. I just saw two young women that lost their lives that was on some dating thing and went to some man. I was like, yo, where they do that at? Where do you just trust somebody online that you don’t even know?

What was it about you that you had so such a low self-esteem and then was twins? It was sisters. That you’re just going to go to some man’s house you don’t even know?

Come on. Then another young lady just went to jail. Her man told her he killed somebody and she took a saw and saw. I’m like, boo, you’re about to go to jail. I’m like, wow, is love that deep these days? People buying stuff. I’m like, well, you ain’t grateful for what God, you got to get the extra hookups?

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You’re a loser, you’re a born loser, so it’s okay. And I was hoping my dad was going to give me that confirmation and he was a loser himself. But at the end of the day when I left there, I realized, well, shit, man. This is all me. My dad’s f***ed up, my mom’s f***ed up, the people around me are f***ed up. They’re not going to save you. You got to f***ing save yourself, my friend. So that’s when all that reality hit me when I went to Buffalo to see my dad and I drive home. I was like, man, this rest of your life is going to suck. It is going to suck, not because you’re going to be a loser,

but because you’re going to f***ing finally start to win. And winning is not easy, my friend.

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But guess what happens, the alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m. to train.

I don’t want to be a SEAL today. I don’t want to be whatever today.

I’ll start tomorrow. And that’s the usual pattern of people’s lives.

That’s why I talk about clearing out the mind.

Until you really want to do something,

you’re always going to be a talker.

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When you make a person feel like a winner, you feel happy. When you discipline yourself to complete a task, you give yourself a buzz. Everything is hard before it’s easy. And everything at the beginning is difficult, but later it becomes easy and automatic. You have to force yourself to discipline yourself at the beginning, but after that, it becomes easier and easier, and you actually feel happy. Now here’s the most wonderful thing. When you discipline yourself to start and complete a task, or a part of a task, you feel like an athlete.

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Self-discipline is a learnable quality that anyone can attain through hard work and repetition. While this process may seem simple, it’s not easy to do. Everyone can become a great leader and have better self-confidence and achieve success if they continue to do the right things in the right way. The fact is that you can develop whatever qualities you consider desirable and necessary. For some people it will be easier, and for others it will take more time and effort.

But each person has the inborn ability to shape his or her character and personality in a positive way by being clear about his or her future intent and determined enough to press forward through the difficulties, resistance, and setbacks that you will always experience. The process of developing discipline is simple, though not easy. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

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Good nutrition in my opinion. It’s all component not only these components but you have a few more that helps you to be good in my opinion, so Small details in the end of the day will make the big difference in my opinion. So as you say and I will Keep repeat I fight against my mind. Yes. Sometimes it’s it’s up and we are we are all human beings We are we are not happy every day. We are you know, not in a good mood every day. It’s normal, It’s part of it’s part of us.

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So the human brain operates by pleasure and pain. What is pleasurable we’re attracted to, and what is painful we naturally recoil from. And if things become too painful, we never do them. And if things become pleasurable, we get addicted to them, often with bad consequences. Alright? So, if the idea of discipline, of consistently doing an action, is only associated with pain, with tedium, with being by yourself in a room, doing one thing over and over and over again, you’re never going to get over the mountain, because it’s associated with too much pain,

and the brain naturally shrinks from anything that’s painful. Okay? So there has to be pleasure involved. Discipline has to have an element of pleasure. Consistently doing your work has to have rewards. Reward is the key word here. Right? So if you never feel a direct pleasurable sensation from what discipline is giving you, then it’s never going to work.

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It almost has become a joke amongst me, my friends, people that listen to me, is you got some kind of a problem in the world? You got some kind of problem in your life? Go train jujitsu. There’s a reason why I say that. Because the things that you just mentioned, discipline. Guess what you need to go train jujitsu when you’re tired and you don’t feel like it? Discipline. Guess how you feel when you’re done? You feel awesome? You get a bunch of dopamine? Guess who you’re there with? A bunch of dudes that you can relate to? And guess what you’re going to do together? You’re going to struggle.

You’re going to go through some hardship together. You’re going to sweat. You’re going to choke. You’re going to get your arm broken. These things are going to happen.

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And doing the tasks that you don’t necessarily want to do, but that you know will help you or help your team.

It’s about facing your fears. Takes discipline to face your fears so you can conquer them.

And that’s what discipline is. Discipline means taking the hard road, the uphill road to do what’s right for yourself and for other people.

It’s so often the easy path. The easy path that calls to us to be weak for that moment, to break down for that moment, to give in to the desire and the short-term gratification.

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Life is a. it’s a training ground and, like going through buds and Ranger school, very few people make it through. While you may live a long life, It doesn’t mean you’ve graduated At the top of the class. you just live the long, boring, despicable life, and that’s not what I wanted to do. so Sergeant Jack started me out young and I had to learn these lessons on my own, through the discipline of hard work and Cutting the grass and raking the leaves and doing all these things before school and after school, And he just built a mindset in me that was like: okay, One day I can fall back on this.

but I realized that Sergeant Jack taught me something That I’m gonna have to go back to for the rest of my life.

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But you just gotta keep your eyes on the horizon. You can’t get worked up on the daily ins and outs and struggles and external factors that beat on you in life. If you really want it, it takes work ethic, sacrifice, due diligence, sweat equity to get there. And you can get there. And you learn those lessons in the gym that transform yourself from A to B. Discipline is in the gym, right? You go to the gym, you wake up at 5.30 in the morning, it’s raining outside, you don’t want to go to the gym, but you get up anyway and you go to the gym. And why? Because you believe in a higher cause.

So you do that over and over again. Small steps lead to big steps, lead to the big picture of who you are and what you can be. Then all of a sudden, you look in the mirror, you’re like, wow, look what I look like. But what have you really gained? You gained a mental toughness, confidence of who you are that you can take that lesson learned in the gym and transcribe that into all theaters of life, whether that’s your social life, your marriage life, corporate America, building up from mailroom to CEO. Valuable lessons that are the bedrock of someone’s character that are developed in the gym.

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It’s the big challenge. It’s when you’re not willing to do something, but you have to do it. This is the main point. This is why I say our mind, it’s a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it’s hard. It’s what many people say. You like to go to the gym every day. Of course not. It’s not true. Nobody like to go to the gym every day, but you have to do it. Probably yes, because your mental strength is coming from that, from that moment that in a hard moment, you know you should do it.

So, and I do it because after that, maybe in the beginning you feel hard to start, but after when you finish the gym or cold plunge or even the training, you will feel better.

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People talk about discipline and fucking determination and fucking, you know, repetitions and all this shit. consistency. Why people fall off the wagon so often is because their mind is full of shit There’s no room in that mind for discipline. There’s no room for consistency They may do it once or twice But then the mind takes over in that cluttered fucking garage Comes in and then it’s like a circuit breaker man a circuit breaker Just overloads and fucking sparks and our minds. That’s. that’s our mind, man. It’s like a fucking circuit break that so much shit in it. You keep on loading it.

You can’t put any more into it So I’ve talked about in there man so much about Clearing space in your fucking mind. So then you have room for all those discipline, waking up early, taking those, because they Do mean something, but we don’t get to that fucking dark matter that is keeping you from clearing out that mental garage.

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Set a time to try and train at that time. set a time to go sleep, go to sleep at the time. set a time To get up, get up at that time. Don’t don’t tell yourself you need to do something and then don’t do it. That’s what I was talking about What are you I said, I said I knew in my head I was saying get up at this time I got up. I didn’t get up at that time train at this time. I didn’t train at that time. Don’t eat this. I had that. don’t drink that I drank. and these are just infiltrate my mental strength. Just little kind of defeat Instead of wins, and it just culminates into,

oh and you just don’t want to be here. So I’m just feeling in the server like I’ve never felt in server before.

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Decide upon the one discipline that can be most helpful to you in your career at the moment. Don’t try to change several things about yourself at once, or develop several disciplines for yourself simultaneously, no matter how attractive and desirable they may be at the moment. Your basic need is to focus and concentrate on the development of a single discipline until it is locked in and becomes a part of your personality. Then you can move on to the development of the next discipline on your list. Once you’ve chosen a discipline to develop,

begin to think about how you would behave if you already had this discipline or habit. See yourself acting or reacting in a situation where you want to practice this discipline. Then create a positive affirmation for yourself to continually reinforce this new discipline. You will actually become what you say to yourself about yourself over and over again.

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Discipline was huge, but then we always fall back on what’s comfortable to us. What’s comfortable for me was if it’s easy for me, you know, I’m going to do it. And so when I was going through peer rescue training, I ran up against an obstacle that I didn’t think I was going to run up and it was the water. I fucking hated the water. And I tried hard to get over that and I would go to the pool and I would try and I would try. But my mind wasn’t strong enough. David Goggins, even with all the discipline, I didn’t have that next fucking level. When you’re truly committed to something.

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People aren’t holding doors. It’s all these small things, these small disciplines. Why do you make your bed in the morning time? When I was in the military, I never forgot. I was like, why the fuck are we folding our shirt up this way? Why? Why am I making these hospital corners 45 degrees and then folding my bed back six inches the size of a dollar? Why am I doing this? All these small things that we do in life are building your mind up for discipline and all those disciplines are gone. So that’s the one thing that we’re definitely missing. It’s self-discipline.

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Whether it is disciplining yourself to wake up early, disciplining yourself to go to sleep early,

disciplining yourself to dedicate an amount of time to what you want to do,

disciplining yourself to block friends out.

You know, and I’m encouraging you,

I’m motivating you to tell you to go get up and be disciplined.

Go ahead, write down what your problem is,

what you doing that isn’t good,

what you’re not doing enough of.

Write it down and start doing it.

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like to go to kidding and that becomes your marathon there and back. and now you just want to do it six weeks out. announce the goal on social media so that you have public accountability, and watch how quickly you start building consistency, focus and discipline- the three millionaire success habits that will amplify and force multiply the skills that you’re so desperately trying to develop, thinking that if I just get these skills I’ll make more money, if I get these skills I’ll be more fit. you don’t think you know how to eat right? you don’t think you know how to work out right?

of course you do. the skills are available to you for free. on YouTube. there’s free nutrition programs and workout programs. why are you still fat and floppy, with gelatinous titties that I can milk? because you don’t have the trait of discipline to do it. you don’t have the consistency and focus, goddammit, to do it. I love you guys so much.

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It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit but to really execute and demonstrate those principles Nipsey Hussle said it takes discipline. Come on somebody it takes discipline and faith Those are the two factors Nipsey, huh? What two factors? Self-discipline and faith- That I believe separate the good great the success from the failures All right, so put three things real quick write this down Self-discipline. All right.

So here’s what I want you to do for me All right I want you to discipline yourself like if you hate your mama whipping your butt you hate your mama taking Video games from you hate your daddy taking video game. You hate privileges being taken away from you Can’t do certain thing. Whatever taking your phone. Why did he take my phone? They don’t got the right to take my phone. Listen to me, Self-discipline means you do it. So nobody else has to do it. All right, that’s what self-discipline means.

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But the discipline will not allow that. The discipline calls for strength and fortitude and will.

It won’t accept weakness. It won’t tolerate another breakdown.

The discipline can seem like it’s your worst enemy.

But the reality is, discipline is your best friend. It will take care of you like nothing else can. And it’ll put you on that path.

The path to strength and health and intelligence and happiness.

And most importantly, it’ll put you on that path to freedom.

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Develop your discipline. You don’t like the way things are going in the world? Develop your ability to achieve. Stop telling yourself every fucking year, over and over and over again.

This is gonna be the year. This is gonna be the year. This is gonna be the year. This is gonna be the year.

The reason it’s never the year is because you don’t ever focus on the right things to develop. You go at it like it’s a game, like you’re rolling the dice. Like this might be the year that things happen. Achieves great things in this fucking life, in this world, in this universe, goes at it with that mentality. You may think they do, but they don’t.

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The more consistently you practice your chosen disciplines,

the more you will like and respect yourself.

You will feel more confident and optimistic.

You will become more effective in every area of your life.

When you develop the disciplines of leadership excellence,

you will become a more powerful and resourceful leader,

get more done, have greater self-confidence,

and succeed at higher levels in everything you attempt.

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If you’re subconsciously telling yourself, I’m a lazy person, I’m the kind of person that kind of gives up. I’ve got no work ethic, that gives up easily. Then you will always show up lazy. You will always show up and give up when things get a little tough. If you start saying that my identity is that I’m gonna be a disciplined human, I’m gonna be a disciplined woman, I’m gonna be a disciplined man. Once you take on that identity, now you have to do the things that discipline requires. Discipline doesn’t care if you’re tired. You’re tired? Do it anyway. Discipline says, you don’t feel good.

Well, do it anyway.

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Learn to act on stage. Don’t rely on social media. Put it down. Turn it off. Shut up. Be quiet. Learn. Read. Relax. Get better. First part of your life you learn. Second part of your life you earn. Third part of your life you return.

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You don’t have to feel good about it, you just have to keep going. The feeling will pass, but you will remain. You are greater than your feelings. Going to bed late and waking up early to work for a few days won’t kill you. You’re not going to burn out, you’re doing what it takes. If you’re one of those people that push work-life balance, just remember the people who like working a lot don’t care. I’ve never regretted trying harder at anything ever. Hard times last long, but an epic story feels like a lifetime.

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pushing back a ton on it, because everything about it is accountability. Everything about it is self-discipline. Everything about it is no one’s gonna save you. No one’s gonna come out of the woods and say, hey, I got your back, man. I wanna take you from all this shit. Some people get that, but very few of us do. So the only person coming to save you is yourself, and that’s what the book’s about, man. Don’t look around the corner hoping, I wanna sit on this couch and hope for a fucking miracle. It might come to that 1%, but it ain’t coming to most of us. So you better start getting to work.

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Discipline says it’s raining outside and it’s cold.

It’s windy do it anyway It becomes the identity. I’m a disciplined man.

To do anything outside of what a disciplined man would do Makes me an irresponsible man,

makes me a weak man,

And I don’t want to be in the irresponsible weak man because our country already has too many of those,

Which is why we’re eroding as a country.

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You come from the streets, you supposed to be bigging me up. You supposed to be giving that no negative attention, you know what I’m saying? Like for a hotline, there’s something gonna always be out. Like, it’s my fault, all that, but it’s out now, so it’s just like, it ain’t no my fault, or whatever, whatever it is, it is what it is, you know what I’m saying? I ain’t even tripping off him. Like you say, like I’m trying to get to where I’m going and ain’t nobody gonna stop me or whatever, going on the talking and the captions or whatever the memes.

it can’t stop me because it’s a vision that I have and it’s goals that I have, that I set out for myself that I gotta get there no matter what.

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So if you’re not disciplining yourself, you are now putting people in a position where they have to discipline you. I just need you to make sure this makes sense. So if you get up you nobody got to call you out my mom woke me up. I was sleep She woke me up. She getting on my nerves No, no No, if you wake you up your mama ain’t got to wake you up If you wake you up your grandma ain’t got to wake you up. Are you here what I’m saying? So self-discipline. So number one discipline yourself. We talked about a schedule: wake up, and nobody’s got to wake you up.

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it can’t stop me because it’s a vision that I have and it’s goals that I have, that I set out for myself that I gotta get there no matter what.

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Get yourself disciplined. Well, why? Well, not so you’re a slave, but so that you could be a master. To use a terminology that you’re not supposed to use anymore. But this is in relationship to yourself, not to others.

So yeah. And to begin with, you have to accept an external master, because you just don’t have the wisdom to do that for yourself, or the ability, or the opportunity often.

Everybody knows this. They feel bad when they decide they’re going to get themselves in good shape, and go to the gym, and lasts like three attempts. And then no one’s happy about the fact that they quit. And they berate themselves for it. And we know that we need to go through a disciplinary process. And we need to subjugate ourselves to a disciplinary process. That’s part of the problem with the constant harping about the oppressive patriarchy. So you need a disciplinary process.

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of any game, in any, whatever you do, you’ve got to be a little bit gone to it. You’re not all there. You’ve got to be almost insane to your craft. Not a lot of people can understand that. That’s why I don’t know about nothing else. I do not pay attention to nothing else. There was games of football on yesterday, there was rugby, there was this, there was that. And like normal society is like, let’s talk about this and let’s engage in this. And I just don’t, I can’t do it. I just don’t, I’m, people are talking to me and in my head, I’m counting something.

I’m counting up a number or I’m knee deep in a sequence on the mat or on the feet. That’s my life, sequences and numbers, nothing else. I cannot pay attention to nothing else.

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Self-discipline is self-love. If you wanna be happy, you have to love yourself, which means you have to discipline your behavior. The road to sustained happiness is through disciplining your behavior.

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Want to do all these things that I previously told myself. I’m not good at because I want to shrink that box That I’m not good at make it so tiny that one day it’s gonna go poop So, how do you develop those millionaire success traits that will pour in into every area of your life your mindset your health fitness Relationship and your money. Well, you need consistency, focus and discipline, and the secret to developing that is to set yourself a Target, to do something. that’s difficult, that requires a high amount of focus, Consistency and discipline because there’s a deadline to it.

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I developed a very early trust and recognition of the importance of that. And it’s led me through my entire life. Everything that I ever did that was like a big risk was like a calling to me. Every single thing that I ever did, from getting into martial arts, I went from not doing it to doing it every day, all day, seven days a week. It was a calling. It was like my mind interfaced with whatever that was, martial arts was, and said, this is my ticket out of here. So when you’re obsessed with something, it doesn’t require discipline because you can’t wait to do it again.

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I’m running from real world deep savage deep end shit. And the beauty of that, when I go up against these savage great minds, these great people who are smart, and the whole world knows them, and just a fraction of people know me. But every day, I put no money into marketing, put no money into shit. It’s just grit, hard work, and the Sergeant Jack disciple of discipline shit that got me there. So all these motherfuckers who think they may be stupid, who think they may not be able to get it done, I got something to tell you, you can compete with the top minds in the world,

if you’re willing to armor and callous your fucking mind, and outwork them motherfuckers, and dig deep. Where most people see four walls, I see a massive empty space, that deserves all kind of creativity, to make it look beautiful.

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Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes and it doesn’t matter whether it’s there or not. Discipline is infinitely more important So no matter how you feel Get up and do what you’re supposed to do. That’s it. And that’s discipline. That’s not motivation. If you only did what you were supposed to do when you were motivated to do it, that’s leaving it to chance But if you’re disciplined you go to what you’re supposed to do. That’s the way it works.

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Motivation is for average people. Discipline is where everybody who’s ever achieved anything great that you admire, that is what they value. Stop asking, what do I need to do to get motivated? And start asking, how can I become more disciplined? Because discipline is the ultimate superpower. If you can learn to execute against the tasks that will get you to where you want to go, regardless of what’s happening in your life, regardless of the pain you’re feeling in the moment, regardless of any outside circumstances, how can you ever fucking lose? You can’t.

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There’s one special quality that you can develop that will guarantee your greater success, accomplishment, and happiness in life. Of a thousand principles for success developed over the ages, this one quality or practice will do more to assure that you accomplish wonderful things with your life than anything else. The quality is so important that if you don’t develop it to a high degree, it’s impossible for you to ever achieve what you are truly capable of achieving. . The quality that I’m talking about is the quality of self-discipline.

It is a habit, a practice, a philosophy, and a way of living.

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There’s no room in that mind for discipline. There’s no room for consistency. They may do it once or twice, but then the mind takes over and that cluttered garage comes in. And then it’s like a circuit breaker, man. A circuit breaker just overloads and sparks. And our minds, that’s our mind, man. It’s like a circuit breaker that has so much shit in it. You keep unloading it. You can’t put any more into it. So I talk about it in there, man, about clearing space in your mind so that you have room for all those discipline. Waking up early, taking those, because they do mean something.

But we don’t get to that dark matter that is keeping you from clearing out that mental garage.

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So don’t look at it as every day I suffer. Go into it an hour a day.

Learn from yourself, learn from life, learn from your failures, learn from your insecurities, learn from your self-doubt.

Don’t just say I’m afraid to jump off an airplane. What makes you afraid of it? Study it. That’s why I studied my mind, why I became so powerful in the mind because I realized I was weak. So instead of running away from the mind I dove into it and said what is making me weak? Oh, this makes sense. I came from hell. I came from a place that beat me down to nothing which is why I’m afraid. All this makes sense. So systematically, one by one, I went back and met every single person in my mind, every situation. I went one-on-one with them again in my mind and said okay,

let’s now revisit this and that’s how you do it. That’s how it works you.

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But if I didn’t sleep well, if it’s raining, if it’s cold, if I got indigestion, if I had a nightmare, if I just woke up on the wrong side of bed because I’m a little f*****g baby b**ch, then I’m not going to go work a workout. I’m just going to, I’m just going to dog it. Listen, you can’t just do the things that you want to do when you’re motivated or when things are going in your favor. You have to do these things. Even when you’re not motivated, even when you’re tired, even when you’re exhausted, even when it’s cold, even when it’s snowing, even when it’s raining,

even if you had a nightmare and even if you’re a sad little baby boy. a** woke up on the wrong side of bed, which happens to me often. I wake up bitter and angry some days, but I’m not looking for motivation because I have discipline. No matter what happens, I will still do the things I’m going to do to create the outcome that I’m focused on and that I consistently work towards.

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What I really look for when I’m evaluating talent and people I want on my team is their self-discipline levels because I know those people are going to max out their own capacity. Extremity expands capacity. The process of self-discipline is like a muscle that you can grow. I think the mistake many people make is they start with these huge things that they think require self-discipline and unless they do these huge things, they lack it. You’re 52, you’re working harder than you’ve ever worked in your dadgum life. Why?

I have built all these structures around me and eliminated most of the things that take my focus and discipline away so that I am wired with a ton of energy to create and innovate and think and be present because I have self-discipline. Self-discipline is a process, is a habit. It is not something someone’s born with. What has to happen though is you’ve got to do it for a while.

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If you don’t work out you don’t get a muscle, right? So I always tell people this is there’s a daily practice like priming. if you don’t do that, If you get up and you have no discipline whatsoever, You get no value of anything. and diets don’t work when you don’t do them. exercise doesn’t work when you don’t do them. But most of people have some experiences that they want to shift and once you shift those things your whole life changes But life is constant growth. My life isn’t here because I went to one seminar one time and now my life is fit for life.

I, I work out, I train my mind, I train my body. it becomes a lifestyle. It’s not just like you’re depending upon somebody else. I’m not here to become somebody’s guru. I’m not here to give them a gift. I’m here them to open up their own gifts, and that’s really what my work has been.

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So I never read anything. you know, I could barely read, you know, so I wasn’t reading. back then I just saw. I watched a lot of movies and I was really big into visualization and I always equated working out to struggle. and I struggled my whole life but I ran from it. So I started realizing that I gotta start facing the struggle and I gotta be mentally strong for the struggle So that’s why I started coming up like I’m training for life Mentally I’m training for life.

I’m not training for like To lift 400 pounds and I found out on my own pretty much is that through this through through discipline through self-discipline through repetition Through tons of repetition the same thing that you don’t want to do and that’s it. That’s the key thing.

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Dad didn’t give it to them. So they’re still trying to fill that hollow spot. but if their identity is then, dad said so. the man that I looked up to said so, and therefore I am. if You show up with that identity, You’re you’re never gonna become the disciplined person. And so you first have to shed your false identity and

Say who do I want to be known as and you can rebuild yourself Every man has the time and the ability to rebuild themselves. No one takes the pause to go How do I want to rebuild myself? Or what do I want to rebuild myself into do I want to be a better entrepreneur better husband like the actual intent? Behind the action versus just like okay, I’m gonna go I’m gonna go work today now. I’m gonna go work out, and that I and so you’re kind of Robotically going through life but not really having intention.

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most people who claim to be perfectionists are not perfectionists. They’re actually procrastinating because they’re not doing anything. And so it just is a socially acceptable label because the real perfectionists feel this sickness where they like wanna itch their skin off until the thing’s done, but they are trying to get it done. Whereas the perfectionist or the procrastinator uses that to say like, I’m not sure, I’m just getting it right. But like the person who’s an actual perfectionist,

one wants to finish and is working every hour of every day on the thing and seeing progress towards it. Because if you don’t know how your thing is getting better, you’re not a perfectionist, you’re just ignorant.

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I understand the discipline of this stuff,

but what I don’t like about it is just that without cannabis,

it doesn’t matter to me, I just get mean.

I don’t like the mean stuff.

I don’t like I might snap at my wife or my kids.

That’s what I don’t like.

Wow, I don’t care how good you are at anything, you don’t have discipline, you ain’t nobody.

You’re nothing without discipline because you give up on the slightest struggle without discipline.

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The younger generation quits, not everybody. So I gotta put that, people get their butt hurt. So not everybody. Most of this generation quits the second they get talked to. You did this wrong, you did this wrong, or they get yelled at. It’s so easy to be great nowadays, because everybody else is, most people are weak. This is a softened generation. So if you have any mental toughness, any ability, if you have any fraction of self-discipline.

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And that means self-esteem, self-awareness, self-belief, self-motivation, self-discipline. So when you don’t have that, you attract the people in your life that you’re most like. And I was most like a loser. So I attracted a lot of fucking losers. And when you are in that mode of life and you’re not around people getting up at three, four o’clock in the morning grinding, saying, come on, motherfucker, let’s go. I’m not talking about the gym. I’m talking when it comes to making money, when it comes to fucking anything,

these people who are fucking just out of their mind obsessed and what happens is that becomes who you are. So my biggest regret is not building myself fast enough to not go through the beginning of my life in the dungeon. It took too long to come out of the dungeon, almost too long to where there would have never been a David Goggins.

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Mike Tyson said best. he said discipline is doing something you hate but doing it like you love it. Mm-hmm, you know, like when you’re in training camp- like Mike Tyson was for a big heavyweight fight- You’re pushing the limits of your physical endurance and recovery because you’re trying to achieve an adaptation. You can’t maintain fight ready fitness all year round. one thing that people don’t understand about:

like fight ready When a guy like Islam Makachev who is the UFC lightweight champion the pound-for-pound best fighter on earth When that guy is fighting when he gets into the cage on the day, whatever it is that Saturday night. This is a peak of performance and training that cannot be maintained.

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And then it went from that to, can I scale it by hundreds and thousands through Fit Body Bootcamp, our franchise, right? Can I do this worldwide? And then I realized what I love most about personal training and helping people get fit is really the mental edge that they develop. You know this, we talked about this. When you get fit, you develop this mental edge. Because again, to be able to push yourself over and over again through sets and reps of discomfort, of lactic acid building up in your muscles and you feel that burn, you’re like, I don’t have to be here, but I choose to be here, right?

No one’s making you stay at the gym. That is a high level of personal development. That is a high level of personal discipline.

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If you spend all of your time on highly productive tasks, by the end of the day, you will have crowded out all the unproductive activities that might have distracted you from your real work and from what’s really important. On the other hand, if you spend your time on low-value activities, the reverse happens. Those low-value activities will crowd out the time that you need to complete the task that can make all the difference in your life. And the key to this attitude toward time and personal management is always self-discipline.

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Well, everybody, it’s Groundhog’s Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about 3 o’clock in the morning, and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing, not a car or a person in sight. People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car. There’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hating it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it.

I’m loving that. While everybody’s getting weaker, I’m getting stronger. It’s not about the running, the swimming, the push-ups, the sit-ups. It’s about what those things do for your mentality. You don’t get better on the daggone couch. You get better by coming out here and getting the fuck after it every daggone day. Stay hard.

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Through repetition of things you don’t want to do,

you develop mental, like,

like an armor for your mind.

Start to armor your mind, because your mind’s like, okay, we suffer,

we suffer every day.

It’s what we do.

We do stuff that sucks every day.

So then when the suck stuff comes,

you’re ready for it.

And that’s how I started coming up.

You know, I just started being very uncomfortable. Now it’s like a,

just a way of life.

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I judge them like I would judge my teammates, not my boys. So I’m honest, I’m direct, and I push them high. But they choose if they want to do it. It’s not like I tell you, I oblige you to do it. Like I would bring them to training. Let’s say we were living in LA, which you are familiar about the traffic there. It’s not a normal traffic. You go and I drive one and a half hour to bring them to training. And I said to them, you do 200% in training. Because me bringing you to training, I do it for you, not for me. I could do something else, but you give 200%, or else I’m not doing this.

But in the end, you’re doing it for yourself. Because every time you step on the field, when players get angry at coaches, teammates, or whoever surrounding, or media, they forget every training they do is not for the surrounding. You do the training for yourself.

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Right? Discipline. I’m talking about discipline, y’all. I’m talking about being on the airport, being in the airplane, flying, you know, from wherever to wherever. Other people watching movies, other people, you know what I’m saying, playing games, you know what I’m saying, whatever. ET on there studying. I hate, I hate studying. I’m on the plane studying. Are you hearing what I’m saying? I’m doing research. I got papers, I’m highlighting, I’m underlining, I’m taking notes, right? But I knew that why I didn’t need that PhD at that particular time and why I didn’t,

I knew I didn’t probably need a PhD for the rest of my life. I knew that PhD would open up doors. I knew that PhD would attract certain people. All right. So it’s your boy ET listening to me very closely. Self, you heard it from Nipsey himself. He says two factors that separate the great, the good from the great, right? The weak from the strong. You hear me? The has from the have nots. And one of them is self-discipline. I know you a boss. I know it’s in you. Now it’s time to bring it out.

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What these guys had was courage, character, commitment, discipline. These are things that every human being can work on on their own. You don’t need talent. You need discipline. I said, man, I have that. So I started gravitating more towards the everyday person that went way beyond. They went to that blue to black line I talk about in the book. That blue to black line where you reach greatness. And I started realizing that’s what I can do. I cannot work a mother f**ker. I can outwork everybody. That’s what it takes. I can’t dunk.

But over here, everything that I want is over here in this f**king pile of s**t. Hard work, dedication, sacrifice. I can do that. I can do that all f**king day long. I can get up at 3 o’clock in the morning. I cannot work you. That’s where I found greatness over there.

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The ability to not want to do it, but still do it. People have a hard thing understanding. I hate to run. And what makes me so crazy, it doesn’t need more, is people go, well, why do you run if you hate it? What are you talking about? I don’t want to take showers and eat either. I hate that too. That’s life, man. And it wasn’t until I changed that mentality that I became somebody. I hated going to school, so guess what? I was dumb as shit. One plus one is two. But if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness. That’s what people don’t understand.

By me running, I am callousing my mind. I’m not training for a race. I’m training for life.

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If you lack the discipline to manage your time correctly, you will end up with no free time. If you have self-discipline, if you have the discipline to save your money and work hard and invest your money properly, if you have the discipline to manage your time correctly and not waste a bunch of time, if you have the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, you will end up with freedom. And I know it’s a counterintuitive, it’s contrarian,

but I’ve seen this over and over and over again. If you want freedom in your life, you have to have discipline.

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Fortunately, the quality of self-discipline is something that you can learn by continuous practice over and over until you master it. Once you’ve mastered the ability to delay gratification, the ability to discipline yourself to keep your attention focused on the most important task in front of you, there is virtually no goal that you cannot accomplish and no task that you cannot complete. I have studied successful men and women for more than 40 years, and in the simplest of terms, successful men and women are those who work almost all the time on high-value tasks.

Unsuccessful men and women are those who waste their time by wasting the minutes and hours of each day on low-value activities.

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I’ll repeat that. If you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something, not even yourself. I watched Arnold fall down. Nobody remembers when he fell down. When he was, you know, Arnold wasn’t the glorified winner as he was in the first 70 through 75. He got up. I may become a famous film star. He became governor. He kept getting up and getting up. I saw Trump do the same thing. I saw a lot of these guys I admired in business do it. And that’s what it takes to do anything successfully in life. You’ve got to want it as bad as you want to breathe.

And if you want it that bad, if you’re willing to give it that much, you get a big piece of what you want. And life and dreams do come true. Anything you want can happen and become a reality.

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Some people didn’t understand When I say I’m training for life.

2020 was the perfect example of that. a lot of people lost jobs, lost businesses, lost family members. a Lot of folks been a lot of time in the hospital on ventilators. That should have caused a lot of demons in your brain. Folks see how much that work out. They think I’m running from demons. It’s not demons, It’s discipline, and I’m a disciple of discipline. you cannot run your demons. You always find you Only way to beat them, motherfuckers, is look at him eye to eye and make him. your bitch Mind says the only thing That gets you through hard times.

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You can be a person of greater income, impact, and influence. I think that is success. Anyone that is willing to work out hard consistently and eat right throughout the day to be jacked, that’s automatic self-development. Like there are a few things in life that have a byproduct of self-development without being a self-development course, right? Like being an entrepreneur is the highest level of self-development. There’s no doubt about that.

If you decide to start a business and be an entrepreneur that builds a business that is gonna be profitable and has employees and has the day-to-day problems that businesses do, you will very quickly begin to develop great personal discipline.

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But for an extended period of time, five or six years, I went every single day without missing a single day. I never got sick. I was in the water on Christmas, birthday, holidays, everything. It didn’t matter. And the thought process behind that was when you take a day off in the sport of swimming, it takes you two days to get back to where you were. So when somebody is taking off on a Sunday, they’re not back until Tuesday from where they were on Saturday. So I have that many days ahead of them. I was putting all of that, we would call it putting it in the bank.

We were storing all of this good work that we were doing, this hard work that we were doing, continuous hard work, and it was going to pay off at some point. So we just kind of kept grinding.

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Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don’t be afraid of being hurt. Don’t be afraid of a sacrifice of some blood.

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One way to think about it is just kind of basic math, like if you just look at the numbers.

if you were able To improve by 1% each day for an entire year and those games compound,

you would end up 37 times better at the end of the Year.

and if you were to get 1% worse,

you would whittle yourself almost all the way down to zero.

What’s interesting here is that everybody wants a transformation, right?

Everybody wants a radical improvement, one rapid success.

But we fail to realize that small habits and little choices are transforming us every day already.

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I don’t want anything that’s not multi-hyphenate. I want anything that I’m involved in, it has to have layers to it. How do you help? How do you educate? What’s the leave behind? What blueprint am I leaving for the next generation? I got a nephew now that is looking up at me constantly. Yes, because of height, but also because of the example. And he’s mimicking everything I do. He’s mimicking anything. I can say something, do something, I can sit a certain type of way. Oh snap, he’s doing it too, it’s crazy.

So it clarifies your intention when you do things because you want it to have purpose and intention.

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One way to think about it is just kind of basic math, like if you just look at the numbers.

if you were able To improve by 1% each day for an entire year and those games compound,

you would end up 37 times better at the end of the Year.

and if you were to get 1% worse,

you would whittle yourself almost all the way down to zero.

What’s interesting here is that everybody wants a transformation, right?

Everybody wants a radical improvement, one rapid success.

But we fail to realize that small habits and little choices are transforming us every day already.

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Simple simple, if you don’t work out, you don’t get a muscle, right? So I always tell people, this is, there’s a daily practice like priming. If you don’t do that, if you get up and you just have no discipline whatsoever, you get no value of anything. Diets don’t work when you don’t do them. Exercise doesn’t work when you don’t do them. But most of the people have some experiences that they wanna shift. And once you shift those things, your whole life changes. But life is constant growth. My life isn’t here because I went to one seminar one time and now my life is fit for life.

I work out, I train my mind, I train my body, and it becomes a lifestyle. Wow.

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So a dude screamed to me the other night, hey Will, I wanna be an actor, man. I wanna be an actor just like you. You know, usually people say stuff to me like that. I’m like, yeah, man, you know, you do it. Just give him an encouraging word. But I was just sitting here thinking and it dawned on me, 99% of people that say stuff like that are not willing to do what it takes to make their dreams come true. The Marines have a saying, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. And that’s just real. At the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self-discipline.

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I work out, I train my mind, I train my body, and it becomes a lifestyle. Wow.

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When you were young, when you were a child, if you learned a sport, or you learned a musical instrument, or you learned chess, you knew that in the beginning, day by day, it was boring and shit, you hated it, it wasn’t fun. But if you stuck with it, after three months, six months, wow, I can play this tune. Yeah, I can make a three-point shot. Yeah, I can win a chess game here. Alright? There’s a reward. And then you push through and you go further and further and further and further. Okay? If you never had that experience in your childhood, then it’s pretty rough.

I think most of us have had that in some kind of endeavor. But if you’ve never experienced a reward from discipline, it’s going to be very difficult for you. But you have to know that after the three months or the six months of sitting in your office and writing every single day, over and over and over again.

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Why don’t you trust yourself? Because every time you tell yourself that you’re going to do something, you break your own promise. If you can’t trust yourself as an autonomous individual, no wonder you’re not gonna advance in life. Dude, if I told you every single day, right, and we were gym buddies, if I told you every single day that we were gonna go to the gym, and I didn’t show up, but you showed up, right? Or you said, hey, are we going to the gym, like your body tells you, hey, we need to go to the gym, or how your friends tell you, hey, we gotta go work out.

If you told me 10 days in a row, and I committed, hey, we’re going to the gym, but then the morning came around, and you came out of the room, and I was there eating chips and watching Netflix, and I didn’t go to the gym with you, on the 10th day, would you believe me? You had not a chance. Would you trust me? No, yeah. So the problem is most people don’t trust themselves, and the reason they don’t trust themselves is because they are in auto self-sabotage mode 24-7. Everything that they do, they’re sabotaging themselves. No wonder you can’t trust yourself.

No wonder you don’t have any courage. No wonder you think you’re going to fail. It’s because your mind is literally telling you, dude, I can’t trust you. I can’t trust you. So you need to start on the small wins.

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I’m training for the time when I get that two o’clock in the morning call that my mom is dead or something happens Tragic in life. I don’t fall apart. I’m training my mind in my body, my spirit- So it’s all one- so I can handle what life is gonna throw at me. because the life I’ve lived, It throws a whole bunch at you And if you’re not physically and mentally prepared for that, You’re just gonna crumble and you’re good for nobody.

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people like you have got this, Let’s say, warrior mentality. That’s a part, deep part, of their temperament, and then you have some choices about what you might do with that. you might try to discipline it and bring it under voluntary control and integrate it into your character, in which It then it can make you someone who’s stalwart and indomitable and and who will move forward, you know, in the face of tremendous risk and Well, that’s the optimal. That’s the optimal a pathway. if you have that kind of temperament- and I think like it’s the men that have the most, What would you call it?

it’s not aggressive exactly, but we’ll leave it at that. aggressive and fearless temperaments- that can be the best men, but It’s like having a very powerful dog. You better civil, you better discipline it, because otherwise it’s going to be a monster.

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I give you the map. you are willing to do that. Yeah, it’s the main, the main point, because everyone wants to be Christiano. but I give you the map. You think you will do it. that it’s difficult, It’s the discipline. the discipline is the most difficult thing, not only in the sports, but in the life.

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Like I think everything about discipline everything about discipline and every day and Every day every day like, you know Train sleep eat repeat. Yes, It’s have to become your lifestyle. and everything here in mental. you know everything about mental. you know it’s like. like people ask me,

like When you become champion what you feel like and I said no in my mind I was always champion in my mind all the time when I see someone compete like in my weight classes and I think okay Like since when I like you when UFC signed me it was like 2012 2013 14 like that time I will think about I’m gonna beat these guys. I’m gonna, I can beat all of them. You know like everything about mental.

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All successful men and women are highly disciplined in the important work that they do. All unsuccessful men and women are undisciplined and unable to control their behaviors and their appetites. And when you develop the same levels of high personal discipline possessed by the most goal-oriented, successful people in our society, you will very soon begin to achieve the same results that they do. It’s no miracle. All great success in life is preceded by long, sustained periods of focused effort on a single goal, the most important goal,

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First, why self-discipline? Because you can’t really control the world, but you can always control you. And here’s my blueprint for self-discipline. Most people go start the day with small wins and accumulate the wins early. I go the inverse. I start my day with the mega projects and mega tasks, and I execute on those fairly early on. What I’ve learned is that if I leave the big things for later on in the day, makes it very difficult for me to have enough emotional capital as well as energy to do those things.

But if I do them early, then what happens is I’ve got the capital, I’ve got the attention, I’ve got the time, I’ve got the kind of the energy and the spirit to do the thing that needs to get done. So as I build up that momentum, I execute throughout the day.

Cut out the distractions. It’s not about focus. Same thing, like it’s not about motivation, it’s about discipline. It’s not about these fancy, glamorous things. Focus, it’s not about that. If you cut out all distraction, the only thing that’s left is focus.

So cut out all the noise, and I think for once you’ll actually enjoy working.

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especially true for people in their 20s, is that you should push yourself beyond your limits of tolerance in your 20s to find out where it is. How much can you work? How disciplined can you become? Like, can you work 12 hours a day? Can you work 8 hours a day? Can you work 3 hours a day? Like, flat out. Where’s your limit? And how much work can you do and how much socialization? You should find out. Push yourself past and then back off to that point where it’s optimally sustainable.

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I think pushing yourself physically is the number one factor of life. That is the true spot where you can really dive deep into. Life’s about self-discipline. It’s about self-discipline. We tend to do the things that are easy. And that is, it builds no mental toughness, it builds no mental hardening, it builds nothing. When you work out, working out is where you can build that the fastest. Because it’s a constant, it gives you instant feedback. Instant, yeah, you may not lose the weight you want to real fast, but the discipline it takes, it transfers over to all aspects of your life.

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because if you do a thing in spite of being scared of doing the thing, that is bravery. There’s no such thing as fake bravery. Like you just, if you do the thing and you’re scared, that’s bravery. If you don’t do the thing and you weren’t scared, that’s not bravery, right? The same thing goes for discipline. Doing the thing in spite of not wanting to do the thing is discipline, right? You don’t need motivation to get yourself up to go and do a thing. Make the promise small, build it up step by step. Know that you are going to have setbacks, and this is my favorite rule from James Clear,

which is a habit missed once is a mistake. A habit missed twice is the start of a new habit. Never miss two days in a row. So ideally go for a month, build it up. But after that, if you ever miss one day, go, okay, mistakes are gonna happen. Tomorrow I double down. Tomorrow I go on time, absolutely perfect. I’m straight up out of bed, or I go to the gym, or I walk the dog, or I do my meditation or whatever. And that’s a good heuristic. Stops errors snowballing into new habits.

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can walk through the fire complaining along the way, or you can walk through the fire and create an example for everyone else so that the trials and tribulations of their own life seem trivial because they’re comparing themselves to the way you handle things, or the way you handle things with grace and dignity and discipline can show other people that they can handle their life this way. And there’s beauty in that. There really is. And there’s so much inspiration to be gathered from other people if you’re a charitable person, if you’re charitable and compassionate, and you can look at people,

even people that I don’t like, I try to look at the best aspects of how they live their life and recognize those aspects, admire them, give them credit for it. There’s something that we can all get out of watching the way other people live their lives.

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Organize my man. You’re looking at fucking I gotta take care of the kids the kids schedules all fucked up my husband my wife You know, I’m a fucking I’m going by McDonald’s to get this and I’m rushing my schedule. Everything’s just fuck Where’s greatness in that man? You can’t you you can’t fit discipline into that. You can’t fit structure. You can’t fit Consistency, you can’t fit to grind. and then when you try, it just gets fucking. it gets fucking overrun By the fucking clutter and you fucked up mental garage.

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The younger generation quits, not everybody. So I got to put that. People get their butt hurt. So not everybody. Most of this generation quits the second you did this wrong, you did this wrong, or they get yelled at. It’s so easy to be great nowadays because everybody else is, most people are weak. This is a softened generation. So if you have any mental toughness, any ability, if you have any fraction of self-discipline, the ability to not want to do it but still do it, people have a hard thing to understand. I hate to run. And what makes me so crazy, it doesn’t need more, is people go, well,

why do you run if you hate it? What are you talking about? It wasn’t until I changed that mentality that I became somebody. I don’t know.

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And I’m obsessed with being the best version of myself. And that’s a daily thing, you know? And some days are better than others.

Finding myself in a world where there’s so many seen opinions about yourself, when everybody’s telling you who and what you are, you know, learning how to live, you know, growing up in, like, and it’s so wild, I’ve been doing this for 25 years, straight, you know? And that’s a wild thing to think about. But man, more than half of my life has been my identity, was been through the work that I’ve been doing. And growing up in with, you know, social media, what didn’t exist, now it does, at a point where I’m old enough to understand what that can do.

So I’m obsessed with finding myself now, after, and not having to prove anything to anybody other than myself.

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Don’t get discipline from your parents from your grandparents from your older brothers and sisters You don’t get discipline from an external source You have to get it from you. That’s what self-discipline is. you get it from yourself, you get it from you. so There’s people from every possible background, from no parents to crazy parents to, You know, drug addicted parents to super squared away parents and Everywhere in between on that spectrum that are completely disciplined people, More disciplined than anyone I know.

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So when I first joined the Navy I had to join the Reserves because I couldn’t get an active duty because I was so fat So being a reservist I got titled a lot of times as a weekend warrior In the Reserves you work one weekend a month two weeks a year a lot of us live our lives that way We can’t work out without purpose. We need to get into our dress for the wedding Summertime’s coming. So you want to look all good our high school reunions coming up. So we gotta lose weight. The biggest purpose in life isn’t all that shit.

It’s how you respect yourself how you look at yourself That’s an everyday fucking journey. So every day you should be getting after it. We look at determination Self-discipline we look at hard work all these terms almost like we dread them. It was like a fucking punishment. Those are the biggest words of all time as far as respecting yourself. So look at miss dread and punishment, look at those words as a lifestyle. stay hard.

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For the rest of this talk, there are four stages of habit formation. I’m going to take you through each of those four. So the four stages are noticing, wanting, doing, and liking. Noticing, wanting, doing, and liking. One of my favorite things about noticing, one of my favorite strategies for discussing it, it’s called implementation intentions. Many people think that they lack motivation when what they really lack is clarity. They think that they need to get more motivated, that they need willpower in order to execute on a habit.

If I just felt like writing, if I just felt like meditating, I felt like working out, then I would do it. But in fact, they don’t have a plan for it. And so they wake up each day thinking, I wonder if I’ll feel motivated to write today. I wonder if I’ll feel motivated to work out today. But instead, you can take the decision making out of it by explicitly stating when, where, and how you want to implement the habit. It sounds easy to say, let’s just start a plan. Let’s, you know, write down exactly what you should do, and then maybe you’ll follow through.

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There are several disciplines that you need to develop if you want to achieve your full potential. The first of these is the discipline of goals. This means that you sit down with a pad of paper, a pen, and ample time to think. You think through and then make a written list of all the things that you want to accomplish in the next one, two, three, four, and five years. You organize the list into the various areas of your life, your career, your money, your family, your health, and the other parts that are important to you.

Interestingly enough, if you can be clear about your goals and write them down, there’s nothing that can stop you from achieving them. But if you’re not clear, that means that you haven’t written them down, there’s nothing that can help you.

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Now, if you instill discipline, it is painful, right? Not having to hang out with certain people, having to establish a routine, having to establish healthy lifestyles, having to establish healthy eating habits, having to cut out the bullshit in your life, saying, hey, no, I’m not going out tonight because I got things that I need to accomplish in order to live a life that is not full of regret. Now, on the other side, you have the pain of regret. This regret usually comes from a lifestyle that is massively hedonistic,

a lifestyle that is massively promiscuous, that has no limitations, no boundaries, and instills zero discipline. Most people live this lifestyle because they think that they’re never gonna have to pay the piper, that they’re never gonna have to pay the bill for the decisions of their life, for the actions. Now, we understand by Newton’s law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, that for everything that you input into the universe, you will receive an equal proportion in output.

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What’s very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized when I was really big I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable. So I realized for me to find growth I had to face all of these different things that made me very, very uncomfortable. One thing I faced was running. I absolutely hated running. But I knew for me to grow I had to do this thing every single day. I wanted to start callusing my mind. I wanted to start becoming a better person. And how you become a better person, how you gain mental toughness,

how you become the person you want to be is constantly facing the things that you don’t want to face. If you constantly run away from things that you don’t want to face, how is there growth? How is there mental toughness? I can give you a class all day long about self-talk, visualization, eat an elephant one bite at a time. But if you’re never putting yourself in a situation to actually practice these things.

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You need discipline because motivation is not there every day motivate. I’m missing motivation most days Wow days Yeah, sometimes I got motivation. So I’m just like fuck. Yeah today. I felt good I can’t wait to get to the gym a lot of days like gotta get to the gym And then once I get going then I feel great. Yeah, I feel great when it’s over. but it’s that beginning part That’s hard, because your body wants to stay comfortable, your body to trick you like man.

today’s should take the day off. Yeah, feel good, Theo. what did you get?

like six hours sleep last night, that’s not enough.

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If you’re subconsciously telling yourself, I’m a lazy person, I’m the kind of person that kind of gives up. I’ve got no work ethic, that gives up easily. Then you will always show up lazy. You will always show up and give up when things get a little tough. If you start saying that my identity is that I’m gonna be a disciplined human, I’m gonna be a disciplined woman, I’m gonna be a disciplined man. Once you take on that identity, now you have to do the things that discipline requires. And discipline doesn’t care if you’re tired. You’re tired? Do it anyway.

Discipline says, oh, you don’t feel good. Well, do it anyway. Discipline says, it’s raining outside and it’s cold, it’s windy, do it anyway. It becomes the identity. I’m a disciplined man. To do anything outside of what a disciplined man would do makes me an irresponsible man, makes me a weak man. And I don’t wanna be an irresponsible weak man because our country already has too many of those, which is why we’re eroding as a country.

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The other thing you should do if you’re not very industrious is discipline yourself. And so what do you do with that? Eat three times a day at regular meal times. That’s a good thing to practice, because that starts to put some stability into your life. Get up at the same time. I would highly recommend all those young people out there who are listening, like you want to get a jump on life? Get the hell out of bed in the morning. You know, as I’ve got older, I’ve got up earlier and earlier. Now that’s partly because you don’t need as much sleep,

but it’s also partly because I’ve got more and more discipline. Like, get up early in the morning and get your things done. Man, learn to get up at six in the morning and you’ll be one deadly creature, especially if you can get to work. You’ll have half your damn day done by the time other people haul their sorry asses out of bed. And so that’s a massive, massive advantage.

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And you can hear it now, man. I fucking yell when I talk to people, man, because I go back to those moments where there was no talent. It was just try again, try again, try again. And that sucks, man. It builds an anger. It builds a fucking anger, man, when you see people just floating through life. But like, you’re going back to Michael Jordan. We’re both born February 17th. Jim Brown, great running back. February 17th, I was like, oh my God. And as I started getting older, I realized, man, I can’t even dunk a fucking basketball. Man, I can’t fucking run, man. My legs are all fucked up.

I can’t run a football. I’m not these guys. So that’s when I started gravitating towards like the Crawfords, the people like that that are in the book, just the normal everyday Joes.

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that you can actually, in the three month time, you have absorbed the self-discipline. That’s why I always tell people, it’s not a one night event. To get vitamin and learning to say no in everything is not easy. Setting your priorities right is not easy. Avoid complaining in anything is not easy. But if you combine the three things, you can have self-discipline. And without those three, then there is no self-discipline. That’s what I mean by actually trying to tell people, self-discipline is the key to any professional sports person or sportswoman.

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Everyone says discipline is so important, but they never want to tell you why. I’ll tell you why. It’s the strongest form of self-love. It’s ignoring something you want right now for something better later on. Discipline reveals the commitment you have to your dreams, especially on the days that you don’t want to. The future you is depending on the current you to keep the promises that you made to yourself yesterday.

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Some people didn’t understand when I say I’m training for life.

2020 was the perfect example of that. A lot of people lost jobs, lost businesses, lost family members. A lot of folks spent a lot of time in the hospital on ventilators. That should have caused a lot of demons in your brain. Folks see how much that work out and they think I’m running from demons. It’s not demons, it’s discipline. And I’m a disciple of discipline. You can outrun your demons. They’ll always find you. Only way to beat them motherfuckers is to look at them eye to eye and make them your bitch. Mindset’s the only thing that gets you through hard times.

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To do anything successfully in life, you’ve got to want it as bad as you want to breathe. And if you want it that bad, if you’re willing to give it that much, you get a big piece of what you want. And life and dreams do come true. Anything you want can happen and become a reality. I believe that sincerely, and I’ll die on that thought, okay? And I say that not from something I read, that’s from something I lived.

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You know when you’re 16 years old you don’t know the value of discipline You don’t know that the what you’re the way you’re acting right now is gonna affect you in five years You don’t know that you can set yourself your whole life up to be pretty awesome. Yeah, you don’t know that. yet You’re just like worried about where you’re going on a Friday night, right? yeah, so this guy knows and he wants it and He’s looking for where he can find it, and where he can find it is in the mirror.

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By no means am I an expert at this, but I do know a lot about living in the sewer of life. I’ve been getting a lot of emails from different loved ones about people who have killed themselves. My next door neighbor two months ago, she just killed herself. Tons of veterans I know, they killed themselves. I got an email two weeks ago from a family member that an 11-year-old boy killed himself from people at school bullying him. One thing about life is that people in life, they are the ultimate puppet masters.

They exploit your weakness and they love to walk you around life and own space in your head. One of the biggest ways to cut those strings and walk on your own two f***ing feet to your own destination in life is to build self-respect, self-esteem, self-discipline, all those things. Stay hard is not just about going to the f***ing gym. Stay hard is about going that extra step when you f***ing can’t. That’s what builds self-esteem and self-respect. Stay hard.

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A game changer is a mother that says, I’ve been training my entire life to take the big shot. I’m not talking about a basketball shot, man. I’m talking about a person that knows their value and knows that when they come to the table, it’s the best in the world. That’s why now my price is so high at everything I do. And everything I do, everything is high. Because I am a game changer. Not being arrogant. A game changer has built that belief through hard work. They know who they are. And they bring the difference to the table. Game change is everything, man.

But it’s very few people who have that ability to do that. No, a lot of people can do it. But very few people want to put in the discipline, the hard work and the dedication to become a game changer.

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You say, the emotionally immature man seeks out motivation to do something hard one time. The emotionally mature man uses discipline to do something hard a thousand times. Why is emotional maturity related to motivation and discipline?

Good question, because when you have emotional maturity, you realize that some days you’re not gonna sleep well. Some days you’re gonna wake up and you’ve got your schedule and everything’s planned out and the poop hits the fan. You gotta eat those shit sandwiches, right? And whether things go well or not that day, the emotionally mature man will still do what he has to do to stack his wins, to focus on his purpose. Whereas the emotionally immature man will say, well, I didn’t sleep well, I had nightmares, so I’ll stay in bed.

I didn’t sleep well, or it’s raining outside, it’s cold outside, I don’t feel good. I just woke up and the airplanes hit the World Trade Center, so I guess I have to change my pattern of life. You have to stay the course no matter what. And it takes a high level of emotional maturity because your emotions dictate your motion.

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And often with these kind of ideas or questions, I find the focus wrong and I like to look at it differently from a different angle. So the human brain operates by pleasure and pain. What is pleasurable, we’re attracted to, and what is painful, we naturally recoil from. And if things become too painful, we never do them. And if things become pleasurable, we get addicted to them, often with bad consequences. All right. So if the idea of discipline, of consistently doing an action, is only associated with pain, with tedium, with being by yourself in a room,

doing one thing over and over and over again, never going to get over the mountain because it’s associated with too much pain and the brain naturally shrinks from anything that’s painful. So there has to be pleasure involved. Discipline has to have an element of pleasure. Consistently doing your work has to have rewards. Reward is the key word here. So if you never feel a direct pleasurable sensation from what discipline is giving you, then it’s never going to work.

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But they’re not normal everyday jokes. What these guys had was courage, character commitment Discipline these are things that every human being can work on on their own. You don’t need talent You need discipline. I think man. I have that so I started gravitate more towards the the everyday person That went way beyond They went to that blue to black line. I talked about in the book That blue to black line when you reach greatness, and I started realizing. That’s what I can do. I Cannot work a motherfucker. I can outwork everybody. That’s what it takes.

I can’t dunk but over here Everything that I want is over here in this compile is shit Hard work dedication sacrifice. I can do that. I Can do that all fucking day long I can get up at 3 o’clock in the morning. I cannot work you. That’s where I found greatness over there.

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Sure, there’s some people who they love exercise, so they exercise. And that requires, I would actually argue, less discipline than someone who’s like, I won’t exercise on my own. So I’m going to create a mechanism or make a commitment that makes me more able to do the thing. Tom Brady does not need discipline to play football. He needs discipline to not play football. And we’re all like that. We have the things that are easy for us and the things that are hard for us. And I would define discipline as the ability to do the things that are hard for us, even though we don’t want to,

even though we’re not seeing the immediate rewards or gratification for that thing. I tried to expand the definition of discipline. Discipline is not the sheer force of will that makes you do something. Discipline is the temperament or the strategies or the systems that one comes up with get to the place that they want to be.

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Discipline.

Nice. I believe in discipline. Discipline will keep you alive, will bring you to wherever you want to come. I believe it’s very important. I think it’s the most strongest, but it’s the most difficult. I believe. I follow discipline, and I try to teach them what discipline is.

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Start focusing on the small wins, get groomed, clean your room, start hanging out with good people. Read a chapter in a book and say, I’m gonna read a chapter, and you sit down and you read it, right? I’m gonna read this news article and you sit down and you read it. I’m gonna eat good food and not bad food, and you do it and you start building trust with yourself. Trust, trust, reputation, rapport, and then you realize, wow, I can actually do anything that I want because I trust myself to do it. So learn how to trust yourself by doing the small things right.

And how you do the small things is how you do the big things. So focus on the small things, focus on laying down the bricks. And soon when you zoom out, you’ll have a wall of China that’ll be so big beyond comprehension, people won’t be able to even understand what was built. It’s pretty hard.

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Man, why are you always working out? Stop looking at it that way. This is the foundation of life. When you look in the mirror, every morning we all look in the mirror to get ready to go to work, to go anywhere. The first thing you see is your reflection. If you don’t like what you see in the morning, you lost the war already. It’s not about even liking what you see, it’s about looking in the mirror and you may start, man, I feel different. That reflection maybe not, that reflection is not everything, it’s a feeling you’re supposed to get.

So you have to, in life, once you leave your house, the war begins. In your house, you have some control. And that reflection in the mirror, you have to control that reflection in the mirror. That’s how you start your day. If you leave your house feeling like, okay, I can fight. I’ve established the mentality to fight. And all that comes from working out. It’s not just from, you know, you can’t find that in the office.

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Discipline is art. Yeah, I think it is because it’s beautiful for me to see when I see someone who’s really truly disciplined Who like a David Goggins someone who just like truly? Maximizes the grind I feel like there’s an art to that and there’s an there’s an art to kindness Like there’s people that are really kind and really sweet and when I’m around them, it’s beautiful It’s like there’s an art to them.

And so the harder it is, the more you start to push back and And the more you push back, and then it’s not right for people to talk about, not right for, Like let’s say you are fat. I was fat. That’s why I talk about it. Go ahead and say something motherfucker I was fat too and it was hard as fuck every fucking day to get up I know what it feels like when you roll your fat ass out of bed All you want is some fucking damn cinnamon buns and shit and fucking Chuck and chocolate milkshake I know what it is. No, it’s like it is,

but I can’t want it more than you And so many people just want it the easy way it I’m sorry man, it’s not so what they start to do is they build this narrative Of it’s okay When the narrative should be you need to fucking work harder. You need to can discipline your mind better. We need to help people more than just saying it’s okay.

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you’re trying to write a book or a novel, whatever. It’s boring, it’s hell. But man, I’m going to reach that moment in three months and four months, there’s going to be a reward. And I’m going to feel it. And I’m going to get addicted, I’m going to get hooked to that. You get hooked to those rewards to the point where other kinds of immediate pleasures don’t have the same effect on you. And you want this again and again and again in your life- the highs that come from actually reaching your goals. So you have to think in the moment of this, where you’re trying to discipline yourself,

of what will be the reward of the visualize it and feel it. I’m going to have this skill at the end, I’m going to have this business that I’ve started, I’m going to have the sense of pride, I’m going to have the sense that I got where I wanted to, and literally visualize it and imagine it and feel it in your body. And know that that’s where I’m going to, I’m going to have that reward at some point. And if it’s, if it’s too much drudgery and tedium, you’re never going to get past that point. So that’s sort of my main lesson.

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It’s called ownership, right, it’s called ownership. and if you’re if you want to blame other people For the problem and I say this all the time If you don’t take ownership of the problem the problems not gonna get solved so if you blame your parents for not having raised you In a disciplined environment you’re not gonna solve that problem You’re looking at your parents saying if you would have done a better job Being more disciplined for me. I would be more disciplined now. So that means that means you can’t do anything. the fact the matter is it’s wrong.

You actually can do something and it doesn’t matter what- how your parents raised you and brought you up. You can have the discipline you need to decide to do it.

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But the buzz is a positive addiction in that it makes you happy when you do it. So every time you start and complete a task, you feel like a winner. And when you feel like a winner, you want to do it again and have that winning feeling. If you want to raise happy, healthy, self-confident children, one of my programs, 21 Great Ways to Raise Happy, Healthy, Self-Confident Children, one of my 21s, is what you do is you make your children feel like winners all the time. If you’re happily married, make sure that your spouse feels like a winner all the time. How do they feel like a winner?

It’s when you praise them or compliment them, thank them for what they did, acknowledge their success, whatever it happens to be, make them feel like a winner.

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Like, I think everything about discipline. Everything about discipline and every day. And every day, every day, like, you know, train, sleep, eat, repeat. Like, I think like you guys understand me, like…

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It’s when you praise them or compliment them, thank them for what they did, acknowledge their success, whatever it happens to be, make them feel like a winner.

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And the new excitement is called discipline. Major step to human progress, discipline. If there’s one thing to get excited over, that’s it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things. What could you make yourself do starting tomorrow that would change it all? No telling.

Now, see, that’s exciting. On any given day, you can massively change the direction of your life.

Murder is a clear example that any one person on any given day can forever alter the course of their life. It just happens to be a negative act.

But just as sure as you can commit a negative act, you can also commit a positive act and forever alter your life.

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People think it’s easy. It’s not easy. Because everybody think, hey, I train, I go do individual skills, I go do that, I get an agent, I get this coach and I’ll become a pro. Doesn’t work like that. It has to be about luck, hard work. Where you come, it’s meant that you should be where you are. And it’s easy to say, hey, I could have been a pro, I would be the best in the world. No, it’s not like that. It’s all this combined and then we see what happens. They have to be happy, healthy, but with discipline they have to do the things.

Because my philosophy is, why be normal when you can be the best? I don’t want to be normal. I want to make the difference. So everything I do, I want to make the difference. Because when I make the difference, I’m the best. And that is not arrogance, that is confidence for me.

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Everybody just wants to be comfortable. Everybody wants to sit in the car, I don’t wanna go outside, it’s cold. I don’t wanna do this, it’s hot. Like you’ve gotta do things that you don’t wanna do because you show your body that your mind is the boss. Your mind is telling your body what to do and then you have control.

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Dark matter, you know, like fucking Stephen Hawking’s that’s if that’s his name. I said it right that mother fucker studied the space Yeah, that’s where I consider myself man. You know, I was on a journey just like you said, I mean you you couldn’t sit any Better and so many people get it wrong. I don’t give a fuck man. You can’t for me. I cannot help people. There’s a lot of cookie cutter shit out here in this world. Oh Discipline wake up early take cold shower. Fuck this. Fuck that whatever. It’s all fucking bullshit, It’s not.

But what they don’t teach you within the cookie cutter is like our minds are like a fucking garage and The garage if you open a garage, it’s all cluttered up. It’s all fucked up You can’t put your car in there. You got fucking boats and you got fucking kids, toys and everywhere. But if you organize that fucking garage and you put everything is rightful spot, You can pull that car in there, You can put two cars and you put bikes in there and that’s like with the mind You.

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I believe that self-discipline is the definition of self-love. That when you say that you love yourself, that means that you have behavior towards yourself that is loving. It’s like you say to yourself: hey man, look, I know you want to eat that pizza and it’ll be really good, but I can’t let you eat that, man, because if you eat that pizza you’re going to feel like shit, you know, and I just, I love you too much to let you eat that. And I think the word discipline has kind of gotten a bad name. We think about it in terms of punishment. I’m not talking about discipline in that way.

I’m talking about discipline in the sense that you forego immediate pleasure for the exchange of long-term self-respect.

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I’m talking about discipline in the sense that you forego immediate pleasure for the exchange of long-term self-respect.

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you don’t even reach the state of being able to immerse into your daily life because you’re still in figuring out 24 hours a day what to do. You’re still thinking about your life. Yeah, but thinking is something different than experiencing, than sensing, than feeling life itself. This is why all these methods, stop thinking, meditate, discipline your thoughts, stop thinking too much, don’t go into the past, don’t go into the future, be in the present. Why? Because only then it’s possible that the mind is free, the capacity is free and now you can completely immerse into whatever you are doing.

And this means you have arrived. You have arrived.

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The most important question to ask is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Anything worthwhile is going to require some degree of pain and struggle. So if you’re oriented toward the pain and the struggle, you’re probably going to be more aligned with what you’re capable of accomplishing, Rather than if you just orient toward the pleasures. So good, because we say, find the thing which you enjoy the most, But really what you’re finding is what is the pain you’re prepared to swallow the most?

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And this means you have arrived. You have arrived.

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You know, you’re lifting something that’s at the edge of your ability, and you’ve got a spotter. You want to push, and you can barely do it, and you want to make sure that you’re not going to, like, pull your arm down and rip the hell out of your muscle. But you’re right on that edge, and that’s the place of maximal gain. And that sense of meaning, that’s what puts you on the border between chaos and order. Right? Because too much order means you’re just practicing what you already know. And then you stultify and stagnate.

And too much chaos means you better look out, because you’re going to hurt yourself. You’re pushing yourself beyond your limits. You stay right on that edge. That’s where there’s maximal meaning. And the way to find out where that edge is, is to push it. Yeah. Now, one of the things I recommend to young people, especially true for people in their 20s, is that you should push yourself beyond your limits of tolerance in your 20s, to find out where it is. How much can you work? How disciplined can you become? Like, can you work 12 hours a day? Can you work 8 hours a day?

Can you work 3 hours a day? Like, flat out. Where’s your limit? And how much work can you do and how much socialization? You should find out. Push yourself past, and then back off to that point where it’s optimally sustainable.

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Yes, discipline, it does start with waking up early. It really does.

But that is just the beginning. And I always say that discipline is the root of all good qualities, but you have to absolutely apply it to things outside of just waking up early. It’s everything. It’s working out every day, making yourself stronger and faster, and more flexible and healthier. Discipline is eating the right foods to fuel your system. It’s about disciplining your emotions so you can make good decisions. It’s about having the discipline to control your ego, so your ego doesn’t get out of hand and control you.

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Where you fight, anger is your biggest tool.

Fighting angry, that drains you twice as fast.

Yeah, the guy in the ring is your enemy,

but if all you’re trying to do is kill him,

then you expose yourself. You leave yourself vulnerable.

God protects yourself. Make his mistakes be his destruction.

Right now, you got two weapons,

a shotgun and a grenade.

All power, no precision.

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people want to know how I’m always motivated,

it’s the unseen work, which Jesus says, a true statement. Those are false dopamine hits that people are giving you, man. There’s no belief in that. These are teamwork dopamine. Like I’m out running at two o’clock in the morning, one o’clock in the morning, in the gym, long sessions by myself. That’s real. How I’m able to just extract dopamine, the good dopamine whenever I want, man, I’ve trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on the back. I did all of the work alone. And while I’m still hard on myself, I know what I did.

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Definitely knows how to sway the jury. It’s gonna leave you Standing there like an idiot. So how do you compete with that? How do you compete with that? It’s actually pretty simple and pretty straightforward. Don’t play the game. Don’t play the game, don’t argue, don’t discuss, don’t negotiate. you tell that Snake of a lawyer that’s in your head to shut up.

Tell me you don’t want to hear it. Tell me you don’t need to hear it because you are not the guilty party. You’re in the right, you are on the side of strength and Stability and you don’t need approval from this lazy lawyer To go and do what you’re supposed to do. So don’t listen to that lazy lawyer in your head. instead, Just go get to work.

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But sooner or later, if you do not surrender, if you do not give up, if you do not give in, it will subside. Listen to me, you can talk like a victim, you can act like a victim, or you can be a victor, and you can say, despite the odds, I will defy the odds. Now, I say it all the time. It’s not gonna be easy. If it was easy, everybody would do it. It’s not gonna be easy. But if you’re willing to master the levels, if you’re willing to get in your lane, stay in your lane, and dominate your lane, one day, my friend, you can get out of your lane and get in they lane, and dominate they lane,

and leave a dynasty. So it’s your boy ET saying, please, my friends, stop being a victim. You are a victor. Make the rest of your life the best of your life.

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If you do not have style, if you just say, well, here I am, you know, as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now that way, you won’t create a style because style is a crystallization, you know, I mean, that way it’s a process of continuing growth. Hand wise is very slow. And you push it out. But all the time you are keeping the continuity going, bending, stretching, everything, you know, suppose, you know, I mean, you just keep it moving. It’s like a ballet dancer there. Yeah, it is. I mean, to them, you see, the idea is running water never grows stale.

So you got to just keep on flowing.

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There is a period in everybody’s journey where they are so different because they’ve started to do new things that they no longer fit in with their old set of friends, but they’re not sufficiently developed that they’ve gained their new set of friends, and they’re unsure. Should I go back? Should I lean back into getting a bag in with the boys on a weekend? Is that the highest, you know, way that I can live my life passion-forward? Because that’s what everybody else does. And all of my friends are taking the piss. Oh, not drinking again. Too good for us, are we? Not going out again this week.

Oh, okay. Well, like, enjoy staying in home and reading, f***ing nerd. So you’re going to feel the pain of being ostracized from the group of friends that you used to have, but you’re stuck in this messy middle where you haven’t yet worked out who you are on the other side of this. And that lonely chapter that’s in the middle is something that I would say almost nobody that I’ve ever met who has gone from a place where they are to a place where they want to be hasn’t gone through.

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Minute you look at them. You got to say this is gonna take longer than we think it’s gonna take. Let’s start moving on it now and then set yourself a really tight Timelines to make things happen, and that what that’ll do is they’ll make you realize how far behind the power curve you are. That was one of my rules when I was in the SEAL teams was I was always saying: Let’s be as far ahead of the power curve as power as possible as we possibly can. so Is that a normal expression? power curve like that’s the thing that you’re trying to stay ahead of because it’s gonna smash you.

So I would always- you know just we didn’t slow down the power curve. if we got we thought we were ahead- go ahead further, but I Always had a really good sense that that power curve was coming to crush us. Huh. so That’s what you have to do: get as far ahead of it as you can, tell everyone where it is, Set some small goals say oh, you don’t think this is gonna this projects gonna take long. Okay, cool Let’s just finish this first 6% which means this this and this and let’s have that done by tomorrow afternoon Tomorrow afternoon comes and they’re not even close. Okay. Guess what?

We need to align? We need to get a sense of urgency going so we can get this done.

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That whenever I’m down, I’m like, oh, hang on, motherfucker. Oh, you know, you know the truth. You know the truth. You know the darkness of the fucking dungeons and the fucking demons that fly. You know, and then from there, it’s like, okay, you were there. You know this. There was no one there to pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat, to pick up the log, to go in there. It was you. It was you. There was no patting the fucking back at 300, at 275, at 250, at 220. No, that was you. So those things that come out of me, that extract from me in the darkness,

people are looking for that pat on the back. Where is it? Oh, I don’t need it. Because what I’ve done is in the fucking unseen work, I’ve built Frankenstein. So whenever shit gets nasty, David Goggins goes, you had nobody anyway, motherfucker. So see how I’m talking to myself right now? That’s me. That shit fires me the fuck up. That shit makes me fucking nuts.

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Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing. Telling people you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Writing a banger tweet about how you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on other people who have done the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Hating on the obstacles in the way of you doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Fantasizing about all of the adoration you’ll receive once you do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how to do the thing isn’t doing the thing, reading about how other people did the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading this essay isn’t doing the thing. The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.

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We talk about the path And we talk about discipline and we talk about living clean. but it is not an easy path. it is filled with temptations and pitfalls and hazards and traps And it’s hard to stay on the path And if you fall off it can seem even harder to get back on. But you can do it. You got to be honest with yourself do not be a slave Don’t be a slave to drugs or booze or emotion or whatever Weakness is trying to be your master. Don’t allow it. Tell the truth, call out your own weaknesses. then impose Discipline, impose your will and climb back up onto the path and set your self free.

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The best way to fight the demons that chase you in the night is to stop and turn around.

Turn around. Face them.

Man up. There’s a thing about manning up.

Don’t you feel better when you’ll accomplish something and you’ll work through something and you man up?

You know what?

Your parents don’t want to go for a test, you make that appointment for them.

You take them there.

Or yourself, if you have to go, go.

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For me, I was more miserable trying to make everyone else happy than I am now with everyone else unhappy with me.

And so I think like from the social group I had before I quit my job, if we’re going all the way like ground zero to today, I talked to no one from that time of my life compared to today. And I was absolutely miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled. And I would say that the majority of those people probably don’t like me today because I changed. I didn’t do what I was supposed to do. He thinks he’s so fancy now, et cetera, et cetera. And I think I’m just okay with that. And so I think coming to terms with the idea that I could be absolutely rejected by everyone I know, but like me,

I was more okay with that because the alternative was I didn’t want to live anymore. And so obviously there’s degrees and there’s continuums and there’s stages of where people are at with that. But as that being the taken to its logical extreme, would I rather live for them than live for me? I would rather be hated by everyone than like myself.

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One on one with that fucking guy. He’s missing something. his life still sucks because he hasn’t faced something that bothered him his whole fucking life. Something is still eating that motherfucker up, almost everybody, everybody eating you the fuck up. But maybe you found a good way how I did growing up on how to ignore that voice as saying You ain’t facing some shit Period man. I’m not special. I just stopped listening. I listened to that voice. It’s why I talk so fucking aggressive. people said: man, do you believe in God? you cuss so much.

when I say fuck It’s it’s letting you know what I’m thinking if I try to make it all pretty and shit. That’s not what my life was. It was a violent, violent struggle, Daily to get where I’m at today. I’m not gonna water it down. I’m not gonna water it down. It wasn’t fun, Ain’t fun. today I’m happy.

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Ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself. Now it is very difficult to do. I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool and all that. Or I can make all kinds of phony things, you see what I mean? Blinded by it. Or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that, my friend, is very hard to do. And you have to train. You have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it, it’s there.

When you want to move, you’re moving. And when you move, you are determined to move. Not taking one inch, not anything less than that. If I want to punch, I’m going to do it, man, and I’m going to do it, you see? So that is the type of thing you have to train yourself into it.

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You all saw that picture of my dad. And a lot of people don’t know why I started working out, only myself and I told my mom today, because I was telling her about all the stuff that was going on with this whole situation. I never knew that I’d have a following. I mean, if you look back on my Instagram, I think it goes back to 2015 or 2014, when I started my fitness page, and I was just posting my workouts still. And I had like 50 followers. But I was doing it just because I love to work out. My passion was, that picture you saw,

was that my dad left my mom when I was in second grade with six kids. So I have five brothers and sisters. And that was the only picture I had of him. So when I got older and I graduated from my rehab when I was 21, that was the only picture I had. And I told myself that I want to be a better man. I want to be bigger than him. And I’m never going to be anything like him.

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So whenever times get bad for people, all this, who’s gonna carry the boats and all, that’s real. I hate that people know me for that guy because that guy is not every fucking day, like when they see me, they want that energy. That’s not me every day. I can extract it immediately when I need to because when you train alone, and I lived alone for so many years in this misery and you’re able to get out by yourself, I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion and purpose. And like the feeling I get is something I can’t even explain by myself. I don’t need anyone.

That’s why people come to me to motivate them. No one can motivate me. I have a resume full of fucking motivation.

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You’re able to make decisions based on how you feel internally. So number one, we have time alone. Number two, spending time alone will clear your subconscious mind up so you can make your own decisions based on how you feel. So that’s number two. Third thing is going without. I want to say going without. That means there’s times where you can go without your friends, you can go without going out, you can go without other people around you. Going without eating, going without this, going without that. There’s a thing in the Bible that says when you fast, you fast for a purpose.

You fast because things become clear in your life.

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every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you’re going through. And it’s the lonely chapter. It’s the chapter where you don’t fit in with your own friends, but you don’t have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends. And you’re doing this thing, you’re consuming content on the internet, you’re doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and where do I host this thing? And you’re going through this and you’re like, is this even worth it?

Because you have no signs of success, right? But if there’s anything that you can take away from what we’re saying right now is that the sign of success is the hate that you get along the way. And what you can’t do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the conformity because it’s comfortable and it’s warm. Because like in the matrix, when Trinity opens the door, when Neo’s about to go take the red pill and he wants to get out of the car, she says, Neo, you’ve been down that road and you know exactly where it leads. And I know that’s not where you want to be.

And then he closes the door.

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So every day I would look in the mirror at the gym, I’d remember that picture. And it started out when I was just getting started. And I envisioned myself being bigger and I pushed myself and I fought every day, I pushed myself. And now you guys might not know that or know my story,

but I take this seriously. And that’s the reason why it bothers me so much. That’s the reason why I defend my natural status is because I fought for it, because no one gave it to me, because it was just me, me alone in the gym, me alone in the mirror, me alone in my head. No one did it for me. I worked for it and I’m never gonna let someone else take that from me. I don’t care if you’re D-Tren, what a loser, that he wants to pull others down because he’s unsure of his own self. Because I worked hard for what I have,

that he wants to try to pull me down or anyone else that’s natural and belittle them. My content was always made to encourage and to advise and to help.

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The superpower of learning to be alone and enjoying it. Yeah. Well, I think it’s critical. And I do think that these times where you just think about things, just be alone and think about things are so rare these days. And I think during those rare times is when you really get to understand what you actually believe or don’t believe.

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The Lonely Chapter describes a time in which you’re growing, you’re changing as a person, and you’re now so different that you can no longer resonate with your old set of friends, but you’re not sufficiently developed that you’ve got the new set of friends that you’re going to grow into. And this is the Lonely Chapter. And the problem with it is that you’re always… the desire to sort of regress back to where you were is always going to be there. And you’re going to have… There’s not even the promise of glory or success or triumph when you get through the other side.

What am I pushing toward? You’re telling me that I’m not going to go out on this night out with my friends, which I’ve done for the last five years or 10 years in the town that I grew up in or went to university in or whatever. You’re telling me that I’m not going to do that because I’m going to get up and I’m going to meditate or read. Who even knows if meditation works, right? You’ve got all of these questions in your mind and all of your friends and all of the dynamics and the temptations pull you back toward that. It pulls you back toward the old version of life.

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My biggest advice to give everybody in the world is like I say, we live in an external world. Everything is, you got to see it, touch it, it’s external. If you can for the rest of your life live inside of yourself, stop listening to people who are calling you fat, gay, transsexual, nigger. Everything that is makes no sense. All these insecure people putting their insecurities on you, you got to flush it out. You got to just be whoever the hell God or whoever the hell you believe in. If you believe in nothing but yourself, I don’t care what it is. You got to take everything and throw it away.

You have to believe in one thing and that is yourself. And I’m not saying don’t believe in God or what you believe in, but right now for you to find greatness in yourself, you’re not going to find it by looking in a book or by even hearing me. I may give you the spark, but you’ve got to go inside yourself to find it.

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Most people struggle their whole life to find out who they are Struggle their whole their whole life to find out what defines them what they actually enjoy and what they don’t you start putting yourself in Situations that suck you’ll find yourself Yeah,

you’ll find it real quick.

That is the thing right and that’s one of the things that I’ve gotten from paying attention to you is that You what you’re preaching what you’re talking about is finding yourself through struggle.

That’s it. It’s only way to find yourself. You don’t find yourself if you like bench pressing and you bitch press all the fucking time What are you finding out if you like to swim? That’s all you want to do is swim What are you finding out? Put that you know people always people talk about triple down on your fucking strengths, right? That’s the fucking weakest shit in the world.

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You know, it’s interesting a lot of people are afraid of being alone because they think that being alone means that you’re lonely I was walking down the streets here in London and there was a homeless man. It said hungry and lonely I’m like, hmm, you know sometimes you know, I Slept in my car, but I never felt lonely. I was with myself because I developed a relationship with myself. So solitude is extremely important because most people don’t create the time, the space in order to converse with themselves, in order to think, in Order to get to know who they are know they self.

Yeah, why because if you know yourself, you know your tendencies You know your habits, you know your behaviors, you know what you’re good at you’re bad at what’s your weakness? What’s your strength you can develop a strategy a plan to to build yourself up? If you don’t know who you are, you don’t know where you’re going. You’re gonna end up in limbo Solitude is key because it creates the silence in the space in order for you to grow. Mm-hmm and in the darkness. Putting in the work in the quiet hours. That’s where winning is mean.

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If I’m running on a treadmill and I get to mile nine and I get complete cramp in one of my legs and I know I’ve told myself I’m gonna run 10 kilometers today, he goes, I will have to limp the last mile even if no one’s watching because I can’t let the demons in. And if I let the demons in, they’ll show up in the 11th round of a championship fight when there’s 50,000 50,000 people watching me in the audience. And I know deep in myself story that I’m the type of person that quits when things get hard because I got off that treadmill at mile nine when no one was watching.

It would modify my self-story. The commitments we keep to ourself and what we do when no one’s watching is the most persuasive evidence that governs everything we then do every day thereafter. And this is, for me, it was a huge revelation in my life because you can look at certain people in your lives that are struggling in certain situations and oftentimes it’s a result of continually unkept commitments to themself.

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That’s the thing about being alone. It’s not that you feel like you don’t have anybody. It’s like you feel like nobody has you. And man, and I know when, especially when we’re young, that’s so, we can’t even put it into words, but we can feel that. And I could, I remember a lot as a child feeling that way. You know, just feeling like nobody has me.

And the only thing I want was being alone or being less connected to others, you know?

And not only did I miss out, could I miss out on caring about people, but I missed out on feeling probably a lot of the love that people had for me.

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You have to be willing to go there. You have to be willing to really go there. Not surface. I don’t live on the surface of anything. Surface is what got me where I was at. It got me from 175 pounds to 300 pounds. Telling everybody I’m good. I don’t give a damn. I’m good. No, they’re hollow words. A lot of us speak in hollow words. I used to speak in hollow words. I don’t do it anymore. Everything that comes out of my mouth has substance. It’s real. It’s real. We all have these feelings in our bodies, in our minds, in our souls. I act on mine. A lot of us who are afraid of something,

we allow our minds to choose the path that leads resistance so we go a different route. I’m afraid of something, it’s telling me you must conquer that. You must do that. You have to go that way. Most of us don’t understand that mentality. We go left and we wonder why we haven’t fulfilled something in our lives. It’s because we continue to take the journey that is mapped out.

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this lonely chapter is a period through which I think everybody needs to squeeze. Anybody that decides to go from a place they are to a place that they want to be is going to have to let go of people who can’t go there with them. And this isn’t a value judgment about the people that are doing the personal growth thing are better than the people that are already fine as they are and are happy leading a different sort of life. It’s that, if you know that there is something that you’re meant to do, if you know that there’s something that you’re meant to change,

you will have to let certain groups, friends, routines, places, activities, recreations that you do, you’re going to have to let those go. And there is this, you know, the rocky cut scene lasts for 90 seconds in the movie, but it can last for five years in your life. And you have no idea whether or not it’s even going to work. And that’s the bit that always got to me. The bit that always got to me was I didn’t even know if it was there was going to be any glory on the other side. It’s like ordering an Uber and never knowing if it’s going to arrive or not.

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Like right now, this moment that you’re going through is Trinity opening the door and being like, you could go back, but then you’d have to remember exactly what the reason was that you decided not to go out to begin with. Like because you are starting to live in some of that hell where you look in the mirror and you’re like, I can do more. And you start to see the person that you could be and you’re like, this does start to feel like hell.

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Shut the fuck up, go in a room, stop talking, search your soul, search your mind, search your abilities, and you’ll find it. But if you’re not looking for it, you won’t find it. So you got to go start your journey. And the journey starts with you finding, why the hell am I here on this planet Earth? Why am I here? And if you don’t know that, you will live the rest of your life searching, always asking the question, why?

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And when you go out and you don’t do it anymore, it’s very, very clear that you’ve made the right decision because your friends will still be doing that. And you’ll find yourself that you don’t fit in with that crowd anymore. You just don’t fit in. Ah, nah, I got something to do. You know, you’ll start getting away from people that are negative. You only want to be around positive. You’ll start, like, not wasting your time on things that aren’t productive. And you will start taking your time and energy and putting it into things that you enjoy doing that are productive for yourself.

So once you find yourself, you will find your creativity and you will find the true purpose and what God created you to do. But first, you have to be willing to go through these sacrifices and these steps that I told you. Spend time alone. Do things that you’re used to doing. Separate yourself. Go on a nutritional program. Eliminate the fat out of your diet. All of these things. Be willing to sacrifice and things will come clear to you.

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You had nobody anyway, motherfucker. Look around you. There was no fucking team. It was you. There was no weight loss program or mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it. You can be better. Trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. You did that. So as times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as fuck. It’s real. It’s tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I’m reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. So that is what people don’t get.

That is what motivates David Goggins is the unseen work. But everybody needs that pat on the back. They need that training partner. They need that accountability coach. I don’t hear that shit. And neither do they. But it’s what we’ve trained ourselves to believe that we need.

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What no one else does, run three o’clock in the morning because no one else is running three o’clock in the morning. If they’re training three hours, you train four hours. You train when the gym is closed. You know, when the gym is closed and you’re already trained, you train again. You know, you have to do what no one else is doing.

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All I care about is fitness. All I care about is being a better man. And you guys just don’t understand that. You look at the finite details and you try to compare yourself to me, but you don’t have the same story as I do. So don’t ever do that. I would rather you leave me alone. I would rather never have this platform and continue to push forward and be a better man. But I want to inspire people because I came from nothing.

So don’t ever disrespect me. You don’t know me.

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Fighting is efficient in close quarter, but don’t make a plan of fighting. That is a very good way to lose your teeth. So much to remember. If you try to remember, you will lose. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, Like water. now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. now water can flow or creep, or drip, or crash. Be water, my friend.

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You are not ready.

I know.

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win,

but never to accept the way to lose,

to accept defeat.

To learn to die is to be liberated from it.

So when tomorrow comes,

you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

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that they can catch early is a hundred times easier to cure than when it’s too late. So don’t wait. Don’t be afraid. If you’re listening to this out there, don’t be afraid. Just go. Because you know what? What is that old saying? A hero dies once, a coward dies a thousand times. Because you’re going to be, this will be on your mind. I should go every day. You’re going to feel this thing in your side, your neck, your back. I don’t know if I should go. I don’t want to go. No, it’ll be okay. Oh, it comes and goes. Go.

Go to the doctor. Check it out. Any man, and I say this honestly, should not die of a heart attack anymore. Seriously. Should not.

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There are certain good things about being alone.

You have time to do the things you want to do, like study and plan, but you can’t have dinners like this or be physical with a person, I mean outside of flirtationship.

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You don’t feel like doing it. Of course you don’t. It’s hard.

Whatever it is. Could be a workout, could be a run, could be starting on a project, could be doing the damn dishes. Whatever it is, you don’t feel like doing it.

And you rationalize and you justify and you make excuses like a high-priced defense attorney trying to win the case for weakness. And boy, I’ll tell you what, that lawyer in your head is good. Real good. He’s got all kinds of legalese in his pocket that he’s gonna throw at you. He’s been doing this for a long time. And I hate to tell you this, that lawyer, that attorney for weakness that’s in your head, is smarter and better at debate and discourse than you could ever hope to be. He’s smarter than you could ever hope to be.

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So what I’m saying actually you see, I mean it’s a combination of both. I mean here it is the natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme you will be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme you become all of a sudden a mechanical man. No longer a human being. So it is a successful combination of both. So therefore it is not pure naturalness or unnaturalness. The ideal is natural naturalness or natural unnaturalness.

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I’d say one of the strongest mental frames that has gotten me through my hardest times is thinking this will be the story that I will one day tell. And that means the harder it is, the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story, and by consequence, the more epic the hero. And if you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen, and losers define themselves by what happened to them. And the difficult part of the lonely chapter is that the rocky cut scene lasts 90 seconds in the movie and lasts five years in reality.

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Oh, you think darkness is your ally. You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I will show you where I have made my home whilst preparing to bring justice.

Then I will break you.

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It’s hard when you’re young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m. to go train and workout, knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. It’s hard when you’re on your way to practice, weighed down with all your gear, and it’s 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach, and your body is already completely exhausted from workouts in two days. It’s hard to throw, catch, block, and tackle, and hit kids when they’re way bigger and way more developed than you, only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained,

but knowing you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again. But understand this, life is hard.

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There is a period in everybody’s journey where they are so different because they’ve started to do new things that they no longer fit in with their old set of friends. But they’re not sufficiently developed that they’ve gained their new set of friends. And they’re unsure. Should I go back? Should I lean back into getting a bag in with the boys on a weekend? Is that the highest, you know, way that I can live my life passion-forward? Because that’s what everybody else does. And all of my friends are taking the piss. Oh, not drinking again. Too good for us, are we? Not going out again this week.

Oh, okay. Well, like, enjoy staying in home and reading. Fucking nerd. So you’re going to feel the pain of being ostracized from the group of friends that you used to have. But you’re stuck in this messy middle where you haven’t yet worked out who you are on the other side of this. And that lonely chapter that’s in the middle is something that I would say almost nobody that I’ve ever met who has gone from a place where they are to a place where they want to be hasn’t gone through.

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Learn to say, fuck you, to the world every once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, stumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nitpicking, piss-trickling, nose-sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball-poking, finger-pointing, alleyway-sneaking, long-waiting, small-stepping,

evil-eyeing, back-scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just do.

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What I realized on my journey was a lot of us don’t believe that we can achieve the impossible. And along my journey, I started realizing, man, I gotta f***ing tell some people about this s***, man. Like, I discovered something that some people have, but they don’t even f***ing know. All of us have it. But along this way, I wasn’t like I said, I wasn’t a theorist. I became a practitioner. And I was like, my God, I’m busting down so many barriers of like, I have a learning disability. Okay. But I’m catching up with everybody. I figured that out.

I figured out all these negative things in my life that were keeping me in this hole. Like, I gotta tell people, man, that hang on a second, man. You can f***ing achieve the absolute impossible. You don’t need great parents. You don’t need like a private school. You don’t need to have this humongous GPA and all this other s***. What you need is the one thing I talked about in my book, which is straight up brutal work ethic.

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the only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you and then you’ll forget they exist. And that’s when he said, he said, success is the only revenge. He’s like, it’s not the best revenge. He’s like, it’s the only one. There’s no other revenge because everything else is petty. Everything else does show that you were thinking about these people all day long, which means they win by default. He’s like, all you can do is think about your goal and winning. He’s like, and when you win, that’s when you become so big that they shrink into a relevance.

You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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I just realized for myself what I’m wishing for is impossible, which means no matter with what type of intention I’m trying to bring out these things, I can very well understand why the suffering in this world, according to our Buddha who is sitting behind us, he said, it is greed, hate and ignorance. That fits extremely well. The thing is, I can’t change anything about the greed of other people. I can’t change anything about the hate that people feel.

I can only change something about myself.

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You lose Every time you bite with it, and I’m the one that pays for it,

And you won’t get off his corners You’re gonna leave his people be or you don’t want us gonna find yourself a new plug.

You don’t mean that, the fuck, I don’t.

I’m built it me brick by brick and I’ll be damned if I let you tear it down Just cuz you don’t like the way another talk.

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Out for a run, alone, something we’re never supposed to do.

Us are decamos, right in front of me.

I go for my cutlass, shoots his pincer right through my shoulder.

Next thing I know, we’re over the cliff, falling 30 meters, straight down into the river. We settle, onto the bottom.

It’s on top of me, but it’s not moving. And I realize, he’s trying to drown me. I’m thinking, I’m gonna die.

I’m gonna die.

I cannot believe this is how I’m gonna die.

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And I hate to tell you this, that lawyer, that attorney for weakness that’s in your head is smarter and better at debate and discourse than you could ever hope to be. That lawyer knows just what to say.

That lawyer knows all the legal loopholes and definitely knows how to sway the jury. Definitely knows how to sway the jury. It’s gonna leave you standing there like an idiot. So how do you compete with that? How do you compete with that? It’s actually pretty simple and pretty straightforward. Don’t play the game. Don’t play the game. Don’t argue, don’t discuss, don’t negotiate. You tell that snake of a lawyer that’s in your head to shut up.

Tell him you don’t wanna hear it. Tell him you don’t need to hear it because you are not the guilty party.

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while I’m still hard on myself, I know what I did. So whenever times get bad for people, all this, who’s gonna carry the boats and all, that’s real. I hate that people know me for that guy because that guy is not every fucking day. Like when they see me, they want that energy. That’s not me every day. I can extract it immediately when I need to because when you train alone, and I lived alone for so many years in this misery and you’re able to get out of it by yourself, I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion and purpose.

And like the feeling I get is something I can’t even explain by myself. I don’t need anyone. That’s why people come to me to motivate them. No one can motivate me.

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along the way to mastery you walk the way alone. This is not my sentence. I think it is a sentence I heard within the field of martial arts. Of course you can say, why if you practice martial art with all of the passion that you have and other people also have passion, then the group becomes stronger. It makes it easier for you to stay on this field. It is one perspective, yes.

But self-mastery, mastering something is always about yourself. And if you want to master yourself, well, you are going to challenge and face yourself. And this is happening alone.

It is also like recently.

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I have much confidence in you, and even though you are tormenting yourself, the work you do is very good. Try to do something bad. Try to do some bad work. The worst thing you could think of is see what happens, but mainly relax and let everything go to hell. You are not responsible for the world. You’re only responsible for your work, so just do it. Don’t think that your work has to conform to any preconceived idea, form, or flavor. It can be anything you want it to be. But if life would be easier for you if you stopped working, then stop. Don’t punish yourself. However,

I think that this is so deeply ingrained in you that it would be better for you to do.

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You have to be willing to outwork Everybody in the world and that that that’s the hard part That’s the hard part. This isn’t like some Five-step process where you can do these five fucking steps. You’re gonna end up with this magical world. No, I’m basically teaching you how to callous over your victims mentality. I’m teaching you how to Like. I did 67,000 pull-ups and training for the pull-up record. I was seriously calloused in my hands to protect them What I’m trying to do with people is teach them how to find more themselves To where they empower themselves. I’m all about the underdog.

So that’s all that. So that’s what the books all about, man. It’s all about having that step process, and I had to share this with people.

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And yeah, and with this sentence I just realized the higher I started to, it’s a nice picture,

I felt like walking up a mountain. Why? Because the higher I walk the mountain, the more I can speak out and the whole valley is going to hear it. That’s why in a way it makes sense to be on top of the hill. Because from there if you shout, the complete valley is going to hear it. At the same time, the higher you climb the mountain, the more difficult it becomes to breathe.

So there’s something which goes hand in hand there. You want to reach more people, okay, but at the same time it’s going to become more difficult.

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I want to say, Salamat, say Dios, thank God. Gracias, adios, alhamdulillah. God gave me everything. This would not have been possible without the spirit. I want to go ahead and give a message to the children. Believe in yourself. Don’t fear failure. Dream big, work hard, stay positive. Enjoy the journey.

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So every day I would look in the mirror at the gym,

I’d remember that picture.

And it started out when I was, you know, just getting started.

And I envisioned myself being bigger and I pushed myself and I fought.

Every day I pushed myself.

And now you guys might not know that or know my story.

But I take this seriously and that’s the reason why it bothers me so much. That’s the reason why I defend my natural status is because I fought for it.

Because no one gave it to me. Because it was just me.

Me alone in the gym. Me alone in the mirror. Me alone in my head.

No one did it for me.

I worked for it and I’m never going to let someone else take that from me.

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I’m still, I’m still chipping away at David Goggins every single day. If I spend so much time being occupied by that, I cannot chip away at what’s important. What’s important is I’m still figuring out this, you know, different things. I got the equation figured out, but now the real journey has begun. So I’m still chipping away at life, still chipping away at life.

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Either yourself or others. what you have to realize is that time is going by very fast And when you have projects that are due, the minute you look at them You got to say this is gonna take longer than we think it’s gonna take. let’s start moving on it now And then set yourself a really tight Timelines to make things happen, and that what that’ll do is it’ll make you realize how far behind the power curve you are. That was one of my rules when I was in the SEAL teams was I was always saying: Let’s be as far ahead of the power curve as power as possible as we possibly can.

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More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever. Make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your weird humor. You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool. Make your own uncool. Make your own. Make your own world. If you fear, make it work for you. Draw and paint your fear and anxiety. And stop worrying about big, deep things such as… To decide on a purpose and way of life, a consistent approach to even some impossible end or even an unimagined end. You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty.

Then you will be able to do.

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You’re going to lose sleep. You’ll doubt whether it’ll work. You’ll stress to make ends meet. You won’t finish your to-do list. You’ll wonder whether you made the right call and have no way to know for years. This is what hard feels like, and that’s okay. Everything worth doing is hard, and the more worth doing it is, the harder it is. The greater the payoff, the greater the hardship. If it’s hard, good. It means no one else will do it. More for you.

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Of course you don’t feel like doing it. Of course you don’t. It’s hard. Whatever it is, could be a workout, could be a run, could be starting on a project, could be doing the damn dishes. Whatever it is, you don’t feel like doing it.

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If your job is to try to be the best basketball player you can be, to do that you have to practice, you have to train. You want to train as much as you can as often as you can. So if you get up at 10 in the morning, train at 11, 12, say 12, train at 12, train for two hours, 12 to 2. You have to let your body recover, so you eat, recover, whatever. You get back out, you train, start training again at 6. Train from 6 to 8. And now you go home, you shower, you eat dinner, you go to bed, you wake up, you do it again. Those are two sessions. Now imagine you wake up at 3, you train at 4.

You go 4 to 6, come home, breakfast, relax, so so, la la la. Now you’re back at it again, 9 to 11. You relax and now all of a sudden you’re back at it again, 2 to 4. And now you’re back at it again, 7 to 9. Look how much more training I have done by simply starting at 4.

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Hello everybody, it’s Groundhog’s Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about 3 o’clock in the morning and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing, not a car or a person in sight. People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car, there’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hate it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it. I’m loving that.

While everybody’s getting weaker, I’m getting stronger. It’s not about the running, the swimming, the pushups, the sit-ups. It’s about what those things do for your mentality. You don’t get better on the daggone couch. You get better by coming out here and getting the fuck after it every daggone day. Stay hard.

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I had the idea, you want to reach more people, somehow it’s going to be easier for you, because maybe people are somehow going to help you up on the way, I don’t know what type of, but it’s not like this.

I realized, you go higher, you go even more alone. Why? Because nobody is willing anymore to invest their energy in going higher, because it’s becoming more difficult.

They say, oh, it’s already okay here, why do you still want to move up there? The air is getting thinner over there, it’s getting more hard to breathe, it’s getting more dangerous, whatever. So that means, along this way, the higher you want to go, the more likely you’re going to walk alone. This is the next thing.

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I think a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard. Because in the early days, hard was, ooh, stop, this isn’t good. This is a warning sign. This is a red flag. I should slow down or I should pivot. But the more I think about it as a competitive landscape, as I’m clear on what this path is supposed to look like, and these rocks and these dragons are things that I’m going to have to slay along the way to get the princess or get the treasure, I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow.

It’s a selection effect. And I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this, then it flips from being this thing that you’re like, oh, poor me to, oh, poor everyone else who’s going to have to fucking try. And I think that is so much more motivating as a frame for the exact same circumstance. Yeah.

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I have a resume full of fucking motivation. That whenever I’m down, I’m like, oh, hang on, motherfucker. Oh, you know, you know the truth. You know the truth. You know the darkness of the fucking dungeons and the fucking demons that fly. You know, and then from there, it’s like, okay. You were there. You know this. There was no one there to pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat, to pick up the log, to go in there. It was you. It was you. There was no patting the fucking back at 300, at 275, at 250, at 220. No, that was you.

So those things that come out of me, that extract from me in the darkness, people are looking for that pat on the back. Where is it? Oh, I don’t need it. Because what I’ve done is in the fucking unseen work, I’ve built Frankenstein. So whenever shit gets nasty, David Goggins goes, you had no body anyway, motherfucker.

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I have an agonizing reappraisal of my work and change everything as much as possible and hate everything I’ve done and try to do something entirely different and better. Maybe that kind of process is necessary to me, pushing me on and on. The feeling that I could do better than that shit I just did. Maybe you need your agony to accomplish what you do and maybe it goads you on to do better, but it’s very painful, I know. It would be better if you had the confidence just to do the stuff and not even think about it. Can’t you leave the world and art alone? Also quit fondling your ego.

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whatever you’re doing at that moment is what you’re doing at that moment. You know, it’s like that’s where the obsessiveness is having the attention to detail for the action that you are performing at the time you’re performing it. And if you can have that kind of focus, you can’t help but to have a certain level of obsession or attention to detail.

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The key to those organized plans is to set priorities and determine what is more important and what is less important. And always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. The key to concentrating on the most valuable use of your time is to stay at the task until it’s finished. Persevere without distraction or diversion. Keep at it. Hammer, hammer, hammer until your most important tasks are finished. And finally, finally develop that sense of urgency. Do it fast. Do it now. Fast tempo is essential to success. Fast tempo goes hand in hand with energy, with happiness, with enthusiasm,

with self-esteem. So make crystal clear what you want to do. Make crystal clear the steps. And start working on those steps and do something every day to move you toward the most important goals of your life. And if you do that, you will be an excellent time manager, an excellent personal manager, an excellent life manager. You will have a great, great life.

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I told you it’s possible, we can win a bout from the UK. I told you. Now look at me now. Look at me now. I told you I could do it. I told you.

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If this room is completely dark, I am alone. Even if somewhere behind there I see a spark of light, I see a spark of hope, which is behind there. Yeah, but for me experiencing here, there is still the gap of darkness in between me and the spark of hope. So around me, for me it’s dark. And I don’t have anybody left and right for me.

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I can see my blood bubbling up, mixing with the sunlight, shining through the water.

And I think, wow, that’s really pretty.

And everything slows down.

I see his pincer through my shoulder, and I decide I don’t want that in there anymore.

So I pull it out, and he lets me go.

And more than that, I can tell it can’t find me.

Doesn’t even know where to look.

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And so now you do that, and as the years go on, the separation that you have with your competitors and your peers just grows larger and larger and larger and larger and larger. And by year five or six, it doesn’t matter what kind of work they do in the summer, they’re never going to catch up because they’re five years behind. So it makes sense to get up and start your day early because you can get more work in.

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I know what darkness looks like. I know what it feels like to be alone with no motivation, no drive, no passion. And what has to come out of your fucking soul in the darkest of times is what you just did right there. So that’s what I do. So people always, like for the first 20 some years of my life, it was just darkness. But if you are able to get up every morning, have no passion, no drive, no motivation, no shit, and still get up with that kind of fire, you will be successful in life. I guarantee you that.

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Is that a normal expression? power curve like that’s the thing that you’re trying to stay ahead of because it’s gonna smash you. So I would always- you know Just, we didn’t slow down the power curve. if we got, we thought we were ahead- go ahead further, but I Always had a really good sense that that power curve was coming to crush us. Huh? So That’s what you have to do: get as far ahead of it as you can. tell everyone where it is. Set some small goals say oh you don’t think this is gonna this projects gonna take long. Okay,

cool Let’s just finish this first 6% which means this this and this and let’s have that done by tomorrow afternoon Tomorrow afternoon comes and they’re not even close. Okay, guess what? We need to align? We need to get a sense of urgency going so we can get this done. That’s it.

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If you see there basically being no shortcuts toward getting the thing that you want, there are ways to be more and less efficient, and there are ways to do things with more and less of a positive disposition, which can actually make the journey feel an awful lot easier. But ultimately, if you assume that largely everyone needs to go through the same challenges that you’re going through, every single difficult thing that you do is kind of like a massive wall that you need to get over, and you go, wow, fuck, I’m so glad that I’ve got over that wall,

and think about how many people are going to be selected out. It’s like the Hunger Games, you know? Think about how many other people are going to fall that wall there.

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You have to make that start. You have to separate yourself from the pack. You have to be willing to spend time with yourself. You have to be willing to start cutting things out of your nutritional program, eat healthy, get enough rest, get enough sleep. All of these things come into play of finding your purpose. And it’s almost sacrificing. You have to sacrifice. Greater the sacrifice, greater the reward. This is so true. And when you do these things, you’ll start seeing that, okay, well, I used to do this. And when you go out and you don’t do it anymore, it’s very,

very clear that you’ve made the right decision because your friends will still be doing that. And you’ll find yourself that you don’t fit in with that crowd anymore.

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For too long in my life, and it got me in trouble, for too long in my life, I wanted to be accepted. Growing up, I lied, I fucking did what I could. If you fucking like UFC and I didn’t, I love it. I love it, man, let’s go fucking watch it, man. Be my friend, be my buddy. That fucking weak ass shit, I found out through this path of life, who is David Goggins? Who am I? To go through all, I did it alone. There was no fucking trophy on the fucking wall, on the mantle, that trophy’s in my fucking brain. No one helped me get there, no one paid my fucking bills, no one did shit for me,

no one ran those fucking miles, lost that fucking weight, went through it. I suffered on my own, and developed this man who said, it’s who I am, man. A very competitive, ultra competitive dude that, take it what you want, man.

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bunch of pain that forces you to come out of your comfort zone, because If it’s done, no other way you will never reach great. It’s impossible. That’s why, when you think about the mentality of greatness, There are no breaks. I hate to tell people that right, because Today’s time everybody wants it. fast. You can be popular, But to be great, Hmm, Monday on top of Tuesday, Tuesday on top of Wednesday, Wednesday on top of Thursday, Thursday, I’m not proud of Friday on top of Saturday, Saturday, Sunday, And start over and start over, and start over and start over.

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every Monday, you’re going to get one post from me a week. And I take about maybe an hour to hour and a half after. So I’ll post it. I’ll do it. And then I get away from it. I’m gone. Here’s your post. And I’ll make sure that every single post is not about me. So this shit ain’t about me, man. I’m about you figuring out you. Some people take it personal. Some people get you a little butthurt. This is about you figuring out your self-talk has to change. The most important conversation you ever have is the one you have with your fucking self. You walk around with it all day.

You act on it pretty soon. Good or bad. I want you to change who you are.

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Time alone makes you see, first of all, who God is. Second of all, it lets you see who you are. And the third thing, it lets you see what will fit you, what will fit in your life. You need time alone to discover these things. And some people fight being alone. They fight being alone. They fight being single. They don’t enjoy it. They just, anything, just invite anybody over. You invite people over you don’t even like, just come on over, girl, come on over. Let’s just hang out because you’re afraid of being alone and you’re avoid of thinking. Time alone is important.

Time alone gives you, first of all, God discovery. You begin to understand who God is. You cannot understand who God is in a crowd. And Jacob was left alone with God and God called Abraham alone. And Moses went to the backside of the mountain and was alone. It’s always when you’re alone when God reveals himself.

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Promise others that you’ll have your work done. It’s a powerful way to act as what is called a forcing system. A forcing system is something that motivates you to stay at it. Because if you don’t set a deadline and give yourself a forcing system, you fall into the trap of what is called Parkinson’s Law. Now, Parkinson’s Law says that work expands to fill the time allotted for it. That if you have two hours of work to do and eight hours of time, you will stretch that work over eight hours. Parkinson’s Law also says that work contracts to fill the time allotted for it.

If you have eight hours of work to do, and because of an emergency, you have to have it done in two hours, you will get it done in two hours. Highly effective people are always setting tight, stringent, disciplined deadlines on themselves so they get more work done in a short period of time rather than less work done in a long period of time.

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I was you when I was around you. I was Mary around Mary. I was John around John. There was no David Goggins. And along this journey, when I started losing weight and I had so many bad days in my life, so many bad days from growing up, even now, there was nobody fucking there but David Goggins. God was there. But God said, hey, motherfucker, I’m testing you today. And I’m going to test you tomorrow. And I’m going to test you again. I’m going to let you alone, man. Pray all the fuck you want. Pray.

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People only root for people who don’t need it.

Like the amount of times when I was on my lonely path where I was too different from the friends that I had but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with,

that’s when you want people to root for you. That’s when you want people to support you. Once you’ve already won, people are like, he’s amazing, he’s so good. But like that’s the time when you need it the least. And so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. And it’s usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap that’s just you, rooting for you.

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getting away from people that are negative, you only want to be around positive, you’ll start not wasting your time on things that aren’t productive and you will start taking your time and energy and putting it into things that you enjoy doing that are productive for yourself. So once you find yourself you will find your creativity and you’ll find the true purpose and what God created you to do. But first you have to be willing to go through these sacrifices, these steps that I told you, spend time alone, do things that you’re used to doing,

separate yourself, go on a nutritional program, eliminates the fat out of your diet, all of these things, be willing to sacrifice and things will come clear to you.

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So the more I realized this is my journey and the more I realized where’s all my friends.

They know we’re around.

It was you. so you better figure out who the fuck you are On this journey and those few people who don’t.

many people don’t like you.

so be it.

But you first had to figure out you,

because a lot of people die With a lot of untapped potential because you’re trying to be somebody that they’re not.

Yeah, so I was able to figure out my own potential by figuring out me.

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I know that you or anyone can only work so much, and the rest of the time you are left with your thoughts. But when you work or before you work, you have to empty your mind and concentrate on what you are doing. After you do something, it is done, and that’s that. After a while, you can see some better than others, but also you can see what direction you’re going. Sure, you know all that. You also must know that you don’t have to justify your work, not even to yourself. Well, you know I admire your work greatly and can’t understand why you are so bothered by it,

but you can see the next ones and I can’t. You also must believe in your ability. I think you do. So try the most outrageous things you can. Shock yourself.

You have at your power the ability to do anything.

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And I tell you, I am playing by the rules. The very rules that you and I all agreed upon. The very rules that you and I all wrote together. So, yes, I’m guilty as hell, but then so are all of you. Yes, the system is corrupt, but you wanted a guardian at the gate like me, and why? Because you know I will do whatever it takes. And you have all enjoyed it, been party to it, and benefited by it. Oh, don’t deny it. You’ve loved it.

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If I start earlier, I can train more hours. And I know the other guys aren’t doing it because I know what their training schedule is. So I know if I do this consistently over time, the gap’s just going to widen and widen and widen and widen and widen and they won’t be able to get that back. So to me it was just common sense. I’m like thinking, how can I get an advantage? Oh, start earlier.

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And my truth is powerful as fuck. It’s real. It’s tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I’m reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. So that is what people don’t get. That is what motivates David Goggins is the unseen work, but everybody needs that pat on the back. They need that training partner. They need that accountability coach. I don’t need that shit, and neither do they, but it’s what we’ve trained ourselves to believe that we need.

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because you’re not like everybody else. You know, when you’re built different than everybody else and you have this desire for more and this desire for achievement and this desire to win, everybody else looks at you like you’re fucked up. And they’ll tell you that too. You know, what the fuck is wrong with you? Like, why can’t you just relax? Why can’t you just do this? Why can’t, because I’m just not built that way, man. And as I’ve gotten a little bit older, I’ve gotten better at accepting it and sort of embracing the fact that this provides a lot of good,

but there’s a lot of things that you have to deal with that come that aren’t so good.

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You’re in the right. You are on the side of strength and stability and you don’t need approval from this lazy lawyer to go and do what you’re supposed to do.

So don’t listen to that lazy lawyer in your head. Instead, just go get to work.

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People struggle to do things alone and the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. Rather than fighting that or bemoaning it, see it as an indicator that you’re on the right path because if everyone else were cheering you on, then it means you’re not in the right place because it means you’re just like everyone else and that’s not where you want to be.

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If you walk into any kind of event, whether it be physical or mental, if you walk in with already putting that block on your mind, if man, this ain’t going to happen. People go, how did you run 135 miles to Death Valley? How did you run 100 miles with no training? Because I went into it not thinking I can’t do this, man. I went into it with a strategy. I had an open-mindedness. So until your mind is open to the possibilities that I can do this, you would never be able to do it. Once the mind starts to believe it can be achieved, it then, only then,

does it start to break down tactically how we can do this. Until then, you’re going to always lose.

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I don’t care if you’re D-Tren, what a loser, that he wants to pull others down because he’s unsure of his own self. Because I worked hard for what I have, that he wants to try to pull me down or anyone else that’s natural and belittle them? My content was always made to encourage and to advise and to help. It was never for myself. It was never just to put myself out there and be famous. I never cared for that. All I care about is fitness. All I care about is being a better man. And you guys just don’t understand that. You look at the finite details and you try to compare yourself to me,

but you don’t have the same story as I do. So don’t ever do that. I would rather you leave me alone. I would rather never have this platform and continue to push forward and be a better man. But I want to inspire people because I came from nothing. So don’t ever disrespect me. You don’t know me.

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to build yourself up, to have a certain amount of let’s say responsibility for yourself. This is why I’m emphasizing all the time in all of these years, make yourself strong, make yourself strong. We all want peace, yes, but here in our place we not just want to have peace, peaceful and strong. This combination I prefer better.

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for me the most important things is for you to look yourself and say I can do it better I can I can tell I can help the team much much more. The system is important, yes, it’s important, everything is important. the small details make the huge difference in the end of the day. but for me, the most important thing is the mentality: for you to be professional, help the team, the right mentality, self-talk, positive. I think it’s all the details depend of you, not the coaches, the fans, the press. depends of you.

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Fear is not real.

The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist.

That is near insanity, Katar. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story.

And that day, mine changed.

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You don’t actually need me to stand for anything. You just need me to stand, to be the strong man, the man of action. My God, you’re addicted to action and slogans. It doesn’t matter what I say. It doesn’t matter what I do. Just as long as I’m doing something, you’re happy to be along for the ride. And frankly, I don’t blame you. With all the foolishness and indecision in your lives, why not a man like me? I don’t apologize. In the end, I don’t care whether you love me or you hate me, just as long as I win. The deck is stacked. The rules are rigged.

Welcome to the death of the age of reason. There is no right or wrong. Not anymore. There’s only being in and then being out.

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It’s funny, man. People want to know how I’m always motivated.

It’s the unseen work, which Jesus says is a true statement. Those are false dopamine hits that people are giving you, man. There’s no belief in that. These are teamwork dopamine. Like I’m out running at two o’clock in the morning, one o’clock in the morning, in the gym, long sessions by myself.

That’s real. How I’m able to just extract dopamine, the good dopamine whenever I want, man, I’ve trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on the back. I did all of the work alone.

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The greatest fear that we face is ourselves, actually. I think it’s not anything that’s external or anything that’s superficial. I think the greatest fear you face is yourself because we all have dreams and it’s very scary sometimes to accept the dream that you have. It’s scarier still to say, okay, I want that. It’s scary because you’re afraid that if you put your heart and soul into it and you fail, then how are you going to feel about yourself? So being fearless means putting yourself out there and going for it no matter what. Go for it. Not for anybody else, but for yourself.

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And they call for you,

the general who became a slave.

The slave who became a gladiator.

The gladiator who defied an emperor.

A striking story. Now that people want to know how the story ends,

only a famous death will do.

And what could be more glorious than to challenge the emperor himself in the great arena?

You would fight me?

Why not?

Do you think I’m afraid?

I think you’ve been afraid all your life.

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I’m I wasn’t born healthy. I wasn’t born with some great body alignment some great. No, I have sickle cell I’ve all kind of shit. I have all kind of health issues, you know all kind of I’m fucked up. So I had a choice to make and the choice was: you know, growing up, you know, okay, this hurts, that hurts. We can just sit down and do nothing, or we can see how far we can push the human body. So on that journey as I started getting more and more into my mind and start realizing that while what I’m capable of doing My mind got stronger. So that.

so the pain in my knees While it sucked- I’ve been doing it for so long. It was like it became my new norm, like, okay, my knees hurt, Fuck it, stop. you know, and I call it like I’m stop feeling sorry for yourself, But you sometimes have to ignore your feelings.

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You have to let it all go, Neer. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

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May it be well with you, Mike.

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every single person that I know that is incredibly successful in a balanced way and has a good perspective on it, elects to do very hard things regularly. It humbles them, it reminds them that they’re just mortal. And it also means that if the entire mainstream media apparatus tries to come down on top of you, let’s say just as a hypothetical, let’s say that that occurs, that you can deal with it because you know that you’ve dealt with a thousand disgusting kettlebell workouts followed by a cold tub or whatever. And then the performance without a purpose thing is from David’s new book as well.

And I found that very interesting because a lot of the time people need an excuse to perform. They need a race to be working toward, a goal, a holiday, a photo shoot, a wedding. And that is what drives them forward. And that’s not nothing, that’s an incredibly powerful, potent motivator.

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You grow up and you make game winning shots and it’s awesome. And you come back the next day and miss a game winning shot and it’s misery. And then the next day comes and you’re back playing again. And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it’s, you know, what you do on Monday is fantastic. But then Tuesday is a bad day, but guess what? There’s Wednesday. So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? You know, versus just staying like this and understanding that it’s really just a journey of evolution every day.

It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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You need to get on it. You need to be in here every day. The you’re, you’re almost out of time. You’re 22. You’re late. Because I realized I saw a lot of people that didn’t have any sense of urgency in their life. And when you don’t have a sense of urgency, things aren’t going to happen. You need to make things happen. As we already discussed, they’re not just going to happen for you. You’re not going to become a good fighter unless you make it happen. And you’re not going to do anything in life unless you make it happen.

So if you feel like right now you’re looking around with and you’re lost or directionless, I would take about 15 minutes and figure out what the hell you want to do with your life, and I always start getting after it. So that’s, that’s my advice. Take 15 minutes and figure out something that you’re into and go crush that thing and, and make it happen.

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So therefore, how to translate this into our nowadays lifetime? Maybe it means we need to make us stronger again. Very simply said, this society is too weak.

And why? Because of all the technology which is available right now, so you don’t need to use your body anymore. I always think about the Stone Ages. Do you think somebody in the Stone Ages had depression?

Or even a more modern variation, the Spartans. Do you think they had depression?

Maybe you are laughing, but all of these groups, they are too busy with their body, they are too busy with activity to be depressed. .

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It might sound too philosophical, but it’s acting, acting, or acting, un-acting. If you… You’ve lost me. I have, right? So what I’m saying, actually, you see, I mean, it’s a combination of both. I mean, here it is the natural instinct, and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you will be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become all of a sudden a mechanical man, no longer a human being. So you… It is a successful combination of both. So therefore, it is not only…

I mean, so therefore, it’s not pure naturalness or unnaturalness. The ideal is unnatural naturalness or natural unnaturalness.

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and you can’t control what’s happening,

control how you respond to it. That’s where your power is, control what you can control. That’s the first thing I go to, all right.

In this moment if it’s going out of my way,

if it’s going out of control, if it’s spinning out of,

what can I control in this moment?

I can control my attitude, I can control my words, I can control my perspective,

I can control the lens in which I see it. What can I control in the moment when I can’t control something externally, right?

Because if I can control what I can control in the moment,

what’s happening externally is not going to affect and impact my true potential and my true advancement as a person,

which is the things that I can’t control when I’m viewing a situation,

when I’m responding to a situation.

Most importantly, can I use it?

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We made some changes about our training camp. About now I know more about him because I face him in the ring. And I’m happy that I have this chance again. And I’m focused. I’m in the training mode and fighting mode. I would like to be in this party and enjoying. But you couldn’t. Even the day before when we were on the dinner, I couldn’t enjoy 100%. Because I’m in my training camp, in the training mode.

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When you’re winning,

everybody’s telling you how amazing you are. Oh my God, let me tell you, dude,

you know what? You’re the best.

You’re amazing.

You’re just better than that guy, and you’re better than this guy.

And it always takes me back to that quote of Marcus Aurelius,

who had a slave that would sit behind him and always whisper to him, hey,

you’re just a man. You’re just a man. You’re just a man.

That’s right, 40 Laws of Power, right? You’re just a man. You’re just a man. You’re just a man. You’re just a man.

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If you need to perform, you need to be very, very humble. And like, if I’ve got an event that I’ve got to do, I’ve got a mission that I’ve got to do, I’ve got to train, I’ve got to prepare, I’ve got a plan and that whole, all of that is driven from humility. Right? I, I don’t think I’m ready. So I’m going to, I’m going to prepare more. I’m going to rehearse more. I don’t, I’m not thinking clearly about what the enemy will do. So I need to come up with a better plan. Like, I’m going to be very humble and I’m going to therefore prepare very hard and very extensively.

But at the moment I put my night vision goggles on and I, and I, I lowered them down over my eyes. There’s like a switch that goes off that I am 100% going to win.

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don’t follow what most people do because you don’t want the results that most people get. The average person is obese, likely to be divorced, and has less than 1K in the bank. It feels safe to do what everyone else is doing, but it’s actually a terrible decision.

It’s like the best way to guarantee to not have the life that you want is to do what everyone else is doing.

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I think about death all the time. It’s like, I’m going to die. And I think you have to agitate the pain for yourself. Like you have to stoke the pain. Like if you can’t get through through, cause like it would be, it would be odd that you would be motivated by some weird passion. Like not everyone’s Mozart and just like, I just love music. And I’ve been, I see in, you know, see numbers and colors, you know, whatever. Like some people are like that, but most people aren’t. And so if you’re not that,

then you only start really liking stuff when you get good at it. In my opinion. And you only get good at it by doing it a lot of times before you’re good at it. And so if you, this is why I’m a big, big believer in this is that when you are starting out, I think you got to find the thing that’s the pain. And like pain motivates significantly faster and stronger than pleasure does. Like people were like, no, passion is the right way. It’s like point a gun at a family member, all of a sudden, 10 out of 10 motivation pain.

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But here I am, as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now that way you won’t create a style because style is a crystallization, you know? That way it’s a process of continuing growth. Hand wise it’s very slow and you push it out but all the time you are keeping the continuity going. Bending, stretching, everything. You know, suppose, you know, I mean you just keep it moving. It’s like a ballet dancer there. Yeah it is. I mean to them, you see, the idea is running water never grows stale. So you gotta just keep on flowing.

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So as God just passed me, he said, Goggins, just be average today. Some of you just don’t understand. Some of you’ve been average for so damn long, you don’t know what it is to do hard work. But there’s a lot of you out there who want to be much more than average, but just don’t know how to do it every single day, the grind. You need to find someone to oil those fucking gears up. So check it out. This is a mindset, maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But there’s a motherfucker out there who wants what you have, who wants the position you are, who wants the job you have,

who wants the wife that you have, or the husband. There’s someone out there hungry and wants everything you fucking have. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But if it is, it’s gonna be your ass. So make that a motivation for you. Stay hard.

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Oh, you need a day off today? You can’t take a day. You can take it tomorrow. So if you wake up tomorrow, today, and you’re like, Oh, I feel like crap today. Cool. Feel like crap today. Go do what you’re supposed to do. If you wake up the next day and you go, yeah, I’m really, I’m, I’m hurting. Cool. Take that day off. Because you can get through today, even if you need a day off, but if you really, truly need a day off and you plan and you take it tomorrow, I’m okay with it.

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I expected us to win championships. I expected us to win five. Quite honestly, I expected us to win eight. And so when you have that vision in sports, it’s a direct competition. Like I know how hard they’re working. I know how hard we’re working. I know what their strategy is. I know what ours is, you know? So it’s a little different. So when we went into NBA, it was like, yeah, we expected to do that. But now we’re going to come back and we’re going to do it again, you know? And so it’s that constant, like, all right, you’re churning.

You win one championship, I’m back in the gym the next day, working, getting ready for the next one. Now it’s different because it’s not about the awards. You know, you just wind up trying to create something that’s going to inspire someone that hopefully, you know, through that inspiration, they can inspire somebody else. And what I’ve come to learn as my career went on is that’s more significant than any championship. It’s how do you connect with somebody that can then connect with another?

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I just believe that I could be better. I know how I could be better.

And the part about my dream, it’s become a little bit smaller, to be honest. And now I have another feeling, I say, I want rematch. I wanna close this subject with this opponent. I wanna win him. And it’s,

this wishes to win him, I think, not less than to be undisputed. Revenge? Yeah. That’s a different feeling. Yeah, a little bit different feelings now. It’s just about to fix what it was before. I wanna fix my,

this part in my life, I wanna fix, and I wanna do it better for me.

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One of the most profound things that you can do to become more confident. Is to become okay with saying, yeah, I’m not exactly sure what to do right now. And if you can say that all of a sudden the world becomes just a lot easier. And you know, if we’re in a meeting and we’ve got some, you know, uh, a project that we’re going to get started on and it’s something I’ve never done before and I’m the boss and I say, Hey, Chris, I’m not really sure what to do right now, well, that’s okay. And you go, well, actually I, at my old company, we did the same thing. So let’s make this move.

And I go, okay, that sounds like a good place to start anyways. And so now we get started. Whereas if I come in and I’m like, I don’t want Chris to know that I don’t know how to do this, or I’m not sure of myself right now, or I’m lacking confidence, so I’m going to pretend to be confident. I think that’s problematic. So I think, look, no one knows everything. No one makes all perfect decisions. No one is, uh, understands every element of the world. So I think a good way to gain confidence quickly is to admit the fact that you don’t know everything and just be okay with saying,

yeah, I’m not really sure what to do here.

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To me okay. to me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself. Now it is very difficult to do. I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool and all that. Or I can make all kinds of phony thing, you see what I mean, blinded by it. Or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, that my friend is very hard to do. And you have to train, you have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it, it’s there.

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Guess I’m not in the mood today.

Mood? What’s mood to do with it?

Will it be that bad?

You don’t get it, do you? You don’t really understand the grave nature of what’s happening to us.

For 80 years,

Arrakis belonged to House Harkonnen.

80 years of owning the Spicefields.

Can you imagine the wealth?

In your eyes, I need to see it in your eyes.

You never met Harkonnen’s men before I have.

They’re not human, they’re brutal!

You have to be ready.

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I think people should use their pain more. And if they don’t have enough pain, then one, maybe that’s fine. And you’re a dreamer and that’s okay. But I will tell you that a word that I can, I read in my like six month journey between when I wanted to quit and when I actually quit, there was this word that just like pissed me off. And it was this in the self-help or entrepreneur book. And it said, there are entrepreneurs and there are watcher partners. And I was like, and it was like, watch burners are people who read these books and don’t do anything. And I was just like, I don’t want to be.

I was like, I am one of these right now. And I just, it just like felt so powerless. And I think that my entire life has been a lot of trying to have power. And I mean that in the true sense of just being able to direct influence and events. Um, I’ve wanted to have more power to protect myself, protect the people I care about, et cetera. Um, and I felt very powerless.

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Yeah, because I think that emotions most of the time doesn’t help us to deal with something. Of course, emotions is like spices for your life, but when you have some hard situation, you shouldn’t use your emotions. This is how I think.

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What separates me from a lot of people is they go into a daunting task and the task is overwhelming. Like when I heard the pull-up record was 4,020 4,020 pull-ups and I was talking about breaking this record. People are like, oh my god, I went right to a pen and paper. They go, what are you doing? I’m doing the math, man. What are you talking about? I’m open-minded to the fact that, okay, if I do five pull-ups on the minute for so many hours, I can get so many pull-ups in. How much time do I have to rest? I was breaking the math down.

You have to be open-minded to the possibilities that I can do this. Once you shut your mind down to the possibility that it can be achieved, there’s no way it can happen.

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I think it, I think it lowers the bar of self-expectation, not to a negative point where it’s like, Oh, I’ve got low expectations of myself. But if I was to be coming up here to, to sit down with you and have this talk, and I was thinking, what if he asked me about something I don’t know about, what am I going to do? And I’d be a little bit panicked. And then you’d ask me about, uh, uh, car racing, Formula One racing, right? Which we were talking about before we started this. And now, all of a sudden you said: well, Hey, in Formula One, the, the, the drivers do this.

What do you think of that protocol? And I was like trying to formulate in my head, pretend like I know what I’m talking about when I don’t. So instead I just say, Oh yeah, I don’t know anything about car racing. So you tell me. And, and that means the whole drive up here to come and sit down with you and get interviewed by you instead of me being paranoid that you might ask something I don’t know about. And my confidence is now shaken. Instead of rolling in here like, Oh yeah, if he asked me some stuff I don’t know about, I can say, Oh yeah, I’m not really a hundred percent sure about that.

What do you know? Or what’s your opinion?

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You can look at anybody, champion, champion, champion, you know. We don’t need nobody. We have 30, like almost 30 killers inside one gym. Why we have to invite some people? And he come to me, he’s like, oh, in holidays, I want to go to Mexico. And I told him, brother, you’re Mexico, you’re family, everybody have to wait. If you want to become best in the world, you have to be inside the room. Same thing. If you want to become the best, there is no family. If you want to spend time with your family, kids, okay, be with them. You’re going to become best family man.

I am not against family people. I just say, if you want to become best in this business, you have to sacrifice. Sacrifice your time, sacrifice your health, sacrifice everything good you have. Other way, I don’t know. I was in this game, not only like coach, like fighter too.

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If you’re in a fight, you have to attack. You have to keep attacking. The enemy has to know he is not going to give up. You must break the soul of whatever the f**k is in front of you. That’s what I realized. I was never breaking the soul of anything in front of me. So that’s why I came up with a thing called taking souls in my book. I started to devise ways to break a soul of a human being, of an object, of whatever’s in front of me. If you keep on attacking something, nothing wants to stand in front of anything that is relentless. Nothing.

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The way you can change is you have to put aside enough money to give yourself a window, And then you have to have a plan and you have to spend all your waking hours, outside of whatever shit job you do, Planning your escape, and you have to come to the realization very clearly that you fucked up and you got yourself stuck. So, whatever you’re doing, you have to Do it like your life depends on it, and whether it is you’re trying to be an author and you’re gonna, you’re gonna.

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I’m always gonna give it my hundred and ten percent. That’s the only thing I can ever say. a Solid day’s work. That’s all that will ever find peace in. if you guys do not do that, I promise you your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. If there’s potential inside of you which you know it’s there But you’re too scared to tell anyone else about it, and you go on and on, get older and older, and older and older, And the windows are between start to close and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it. I promise you it will haunt you. It’ll be more.

it’s a living nightmare, dude, That fact that you had the ability to do something and you’re too weak to turn the key and start the engine on it. It’s a greater disappointment and a greater burden to carry than any. this physical sweat, equity or pain in the gym or or sacrifice- all that is just Nothing compared to a life For your burden by regret, guys.

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I just eliminate all external distractions, you know, that’s what’s going on and just focus on the process itself and enjoying it every single day chopping wood, carrying water. You know, greatness is not meant for a few chosen people. It’s meant for those who persistently pursue their dreams every day and make that choice when they wake up.

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What you doing here? Don’t you have practice?

Not anymore, I quit.

Oh. Well, since when are you the quitting kind?

I don’t know, I just don’t see the point anymore.

So you didn’t make the dress list. There are greater tragedies in the world.

I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad. To prove to everyone that I worked… Prove what? That I was somebody.

Oh, you are so full of crap. You’re five feet nothing. A hundred and nothing. And you got hardly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you’re also going to walk out of here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.

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The whole universe is change and life itself is but what we deem it. Life itself is but what we deem it. The eight most profound words in all the philosophy. What he means is that things are going to happen. You are going to have experiences in life. Almost all of the important impacts of how those experiences change you are going to be the story that you tell yourself about what that experience means.

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The only way you can be open big is you have to be a champion. And not plug in a book on this, but really champions think, champions do daily what everybody do occasionally. Everybody else does. You just do it daily. You’re not. You’re not extraordinary, you just do the ordinary extra. That’s it. That’s what makes you, separates you. Every day you come on, you do the phone tap every day. But you just do it a little extra. That’s it. Like the entire show. I could do a phone tap, but I’m not gonna do it every day. I’m not gonna be extra with it. I’m not gonna dig deeper.

Like when that lady’s on the phone and she’s saying this, you’re gonna take a one more step. That’s it.

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You’re always afraid to take the first step, because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road. You’re gonna take the professor’s side on this? Don’t give me a line of s***, no. Look, I didn’t want the job. It’s not about the job. I don’t care if you work for the government. But you can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing.

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There’ve been so many times in my life where I knew I needed to do something, and then I filled all this extra time not doing that thing. And then the moment I did it, I was like, wow, that took way less time than I thought it was going to take. And not only that, it took way less time than it took me to delay to actually get to this point. And if I had only started with just doing what I was supposed to do, I could have done four or five other things that I was also supposed to do by this exact same point. And so thinking about it from that perspective,

I’ve tried to eliminate as much time between, I think I should do this thing and beginning doing it. And I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle that occurs every time you start, I call it pulling the thread. It’s like, I just need to start pulling the thread. And then all of a sudden what feels really unknown becomes very tangible. And you’re like, oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing. But now I know the problems. And then it feels like you can. you can wrap your arms around it and then you can start taking it one bite at a time.

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I want more. Always want more. Go post, go back. Oh, we’re in the end zone. Moving back again. Oh, man, we got pretty high. There’s another level. So I just, I’m always trying to get better.

And I just believe this is what I’m supposed to do. The wise man picks me up in the morning. How you doing? I woke up. Everybody else is fucked because I woke up. That’s how I look at it. You all had a chance until I woke up. It’s a day’s mind. That’s just what it is.

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Just a mentality really. As much as I would love to be up here and tell you guys all of what I’m thinking, I just know that the process itself is something I need to focus on rather than trying to appease anybody in here. You know, the game itself is the most important thing. It’s the object to win. So, just gotta stay focused on that. And I tweet that because I know other people are watching and other people are looking at you know kind of my social platforms for the same thing that I was looking for when I was a kid. Some type of inspiration.

Aspirations come from people that do amazing things, but they’re really ordinary people just waking up every day doing it, doing the little things that other people aren’t doing. So, chop wood, carry water. I gotta stay poised is definitely something that I’m always living by every single day.

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There comes a f***ing day where push comes to shove. Where being mediocre, being like average and s*** just f***ing burns and sucks so much. You can’t deal with it one more day and you get off your f***ing ass and you create something that’s always been there. It’s always been inside of you trying to come out. But you’ve never wanted to unwrap it because it’s too much f***ing pain and commitment. You were scared you were gonna fail. You were scared if you started you’d never finish it. You didn’t want to tell anyone about it.

You knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it until something f***ing hits. You get fired or somebody else gets success to remind you what you could have been. And then that f***ing spark is born. And no matter what happens, I’m never gonna be in this boat again. And you get up and you go, even if it gets knocked down, you just keep going, keep going, you’re a wild man. And life has never been so sweet.

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Caring only makes you weak.

They think you care, they’ll walk all over you.

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That one and a half hours a day that you have to write, God damn, you better be caffeinated and motivated. You gotta go, you gotta get after it, and you gotta have discipline. That’s, most people don’t have those things. Most people don’t understand what it’s like to, to really go for something. And to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific.

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And when people try to talk with me, give me like some excuse what they have to do. I’m like, I just see this guy, he can be just regular fighter, like thousands and thousands of other people. Just regular, regular fighter. He’s going to make money, he’s going to be good, but he’s never going to be champion. You can say whatever you want, but I know this game much better than this guy who tried to explain to me. He has to go to holidays, spend two weeks, for example, in Mexico and come back. You know, and when I see how Islam, Omar, Usman, myself and all other guys from our gym,

I call it sacrifice. We sacrifice all our life to be the best in the world.

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So why we think physical training, physical activity, practice is something that teaches more than just how hard can you punch, how fast can you kick. It’s not about that. I don’t care how hard or how fast somebody can punch. But I care about how is the mindset. What happens if you walk through this lifetime, something unexpected comes.

And then there it is. Something that we call choice. You have the choice. The suffering comes and you run away or the suffering comes, the pain comes and you face it.

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I start watching those instructors on the side because you know, there’s there’s three shifts There’s eight instructors three shifts because you know the guy’s going through through hell week They’re up all day and all night for 130 hours This is the promised land of mental hardening for me. I love this place And you have the instructors who you know. you know they’ve been there, done that. now they’re instructing you, So they do the eight hour shift.

They have their parkas on- it’s usually cold coffee- drinking their coffee And they’re beating the crap out of us and when I started realizing I started playing mind games I was like, you know what? I bet these fuckers are looking at us Judging themselves about when they were going through hell week about let me see. I’m looking at goggins right now I was better than him. I was better than that guy, better than that fucker over there, and I was like: Okay, Okay, you gotta judge me, right?

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Okay, let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what?

I’m not a mistake.

Look at me. I never got a chance to thank Apollo for helping me out after Mickey died.

But it’s nothing compared to what you’ve done.

You taught me how to fight again.

I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna fight this thing. But if I fight, I want you to fight too.

I want you to go across this ring and knock that son of a bitch down.

Can you do it?

Say it.

I’m gonna knock that son of a bitch down.

I know you are.

You know why? Because you are Creed and I love you, kid.

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how to actually execute in the moment. And I realized you go up to take a shot, like, first of all, going to tack or going hunting, you’re training all the time, cause you don’t want to miss the shot. You got to be humble. You know how hard it is. You’re going to be out of breath. The pressure is going to be on. And so you’ve got to train, train, train, train, prepare, prepare, prepare. But when you get up there and you like knock your, your arrow onto your bow, you’ve just got to be like, oh, I’m going to slay this right now. Hey, I’m walking up.

I’ve trained, but now I’m going to just go slay this thing. And all that performance anxiety is gone. You go up, get confident. Yeah. I’m going to, I’m going to, I’m going to punch this thing right through that target, no factor, and you do it. And I think that’s a good thing to think about when it comes to execution. Like, yes, be humble, be prepared. But when you knock that arrow or you put your night vision goggles on, or you step into that meeting to do that presentation, you should be like, oh, I’m about to slay this right now.

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How do I finish when I start? I get two weeks into it and then I stop. Well, here’s the thing about it. People forget one thing about me. I used to be you. I used to be a fat guy, a guy that didn’t care much, a guy that got D’s and F’s in school, a guy that blamed other people, a guy that was under mediocre. I wasn’t even average. So, here’s the thing about it. I’m gonna tell you what people don’t wanna tell you. Why you stop is because you’re lazy. It’s because you don’t mind getting bad grades in school. It doesn’t bother you enough to be mediocre, to be average,

to sit around and watch people do great things. You don’t mind it. So, there’s your answer. Your answer is you don’t care enough about yourself so you don’t stay in the fight. Stay hard.

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Sometimes you have to let other people’s dreams for your life die for yours to live. And for me, it was like when I continued to every day not want to wake up, that was my wake up call where I was like, either I continue to live this way and not want to be alive, or I just risk the fact that I’ll die to everybody else. And I think that it was the hardest decision in my entire life, by far. All the hard stuff we went through, still the hardest decision in my life.

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When do you ever get to enjoy it? I don’t know.

I need to learn how to mix it, the training mode and enjoying part. But I didn’t learn how to do it. Now I’m focusing on the training camp, about hard working. I didn’t want to come here of course, because I was training. I had to finish my training camp, made a pause and come here, then come back again. It’s tiring a little bit and it’s distracting you.

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I mean, it’s three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 years, and then you can get to where you wanna go.

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I kind of I said to her: you know, Mom, all those people that you’re talking about that are 80 85 87 years old Like they’ve had a full run at it. I’m like I buried my friends that are 27 years old, 30 years old, 31 years old, like That’s that’s horrible. And so people that got this full run man, Be thankful that they got that full run. and right now, if you’re a dude and You’re 22 years old and you feel like you’re directionless, get your, get together, man and and go start making things happen.

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And once you get it come on over this side of the fence You don’t see fucking problems anymore, man. Uh-huh. You see situations You see possibilities and you can’t wait to get them started man. You’re like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn’t matter about the past. It’s today. What we doing today? Are we gonna engage now and once we engage we commit there’s no half commitment. There’s no quarter commitment There’s no three quarter. It’s full commitment. Once we engage,

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You can sit if you want from morning till evening just in front of the screen. And nothing is going to happen anymore. So this is one reason why since almost 10 years our organization and myself are trying to share a little bit into this world. Maybe in a more funny and a light version of everything, . But what we would like to encourage to people everywhere in the world is get more physicality into your life. Simply said. Not much talking around it. Get more physicality into your life.

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You know, what I try to do is just try to be still and understand that things come and go, emotions come and go. The important thing is to accept them all, to embrace them all, and then you can choose to do with them what you want versus being controlled by emotion. You know, a lot of times I’ve seen players- even myself, you know, when I was younger- being consumed by a particular fear, and to the point where you’re saying, okay, no, it’s not good to feel fear. I shouldn’t be nervous in this situation. Like, nah. And it does nothing but grow versus stepping back and saying, yeah,

I am nervous about this situation. Yeah, I am fearful about this situation. Well, what am I afraid of? And then you kind of unpack it and then it gives you the ability to look at it for really what it is, which is nothing more than your imagination running its course, you know?

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Remember, I told you an angry mind is a narrow mind. Whenever you’re angry, you’re only thinking about what you can do to somebody. You’re not thinking about what can happen to you. Now that’s how Justin got you. Isn’t anger good for fighting? No. It’s about emotional content, not anger. Doesn’t that anger make you work harder? No, it just makes you feel like you’re working harder. You’re actually burning out your mind. And where your mind goes, your body follows. It’s better to make your opponent angry so you can control the fight. The real test for you is to calm your mind.

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you could imagine that you are yesterday, meaning you had to carry a 72 pound rock of a 1.5 mile hill that’s got a thousand feet of ascension. Right. The way that I felt after doing that first leg up a very steep incline was painful, but satisfying. I knew why I felt that way, right? The story that I told myself about why my heart rate was 140, 150 and my shoulders were burning and I was sweating and all of this stuff was because of what I’d done. If I felt that spontaneously sat in a car in traffic, I would call an ambulance. I think what the is happening to me?

I’m definitely having a panic attack or a heart attack or something. So the story that you tell yourself in some regard very much is what’s happening. You know, the framing that you place around the present moment largely determines your experience of it. And this is where having faith in yourself, having confidence in yourself, an undeniable stack of proof that you can deal with whatever is put in front of you is super important.

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Be formless, shapeless, like water.

Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

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Are you a man who once said death smiles at us all? All a man can do is smile back.

I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?

You must know, he was your father.

You loved my father, I know.

But so did I.

That makes us brothers, doesn’t it?

Smile for me now, brother.

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Biting is efficient in close quarter, but don’t make a plan of biting. That is a very good way to lose your teeth. There’s so much to remember. If you try to remember, you will lose. Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water, my friend.

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then you see the true potential of the mind. You think perspective, you think peace, and you think more so controlling how you respond to a situation. Right? It says that’s where your power is.

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We are overcoming the suffering.

We are not running away from the suffering.

You are overcoming it.

You go through it until you have become so strong.

Your body becomes so strong.

Your mind has become so strong that it doesn’t matter afterwards anymore.

You feel it,

but it’s not the same like you felt before.

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Whenever you try to do something out of the ordinary,

people will line up to tell you that you can’t do it,

why you can’t do it,

that you’ll lose your time, you’ll lose your money, that you will in effect die in the desert.

Even people who should know better will try to discourage you.

To achieve anything great or worthwhile,

you must train yourself to rise above these people, ignoring them,

and pressing on towards your goal regardless.

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So, as God just passed me, he said: Goggins, Just be average today. Some of you just don’t understand. Some of you’ve been average for so damn long. You don’t know what it is to do hard work. But there’s a lot of you out there Who want to be much more than average? But just don’t know how to do it every single day the grind He defines they want to oil those fucking gears up. So check it out. This is a mindset, maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not, But there’s a motherfucker out there Who wants what you have? Who wants the position you are?

Who wants the job you have who wants the wife that you have or the husband? There’s someone out there, hungry and wants everything you fucking have. Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s not, but if it is, It’s gonna be your ass. So make that a motivation for you. Stay hard.

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Listen to me, more money. Listen to me, better relationships. Listen to me, a better life. Woo! That moment, if you want this moment for the rest of your life, like if you ready to take your game to the next level, in whatever it is, sports, life, business, whatever it is, health, listen to me very closely. You gotta change that mindset. So I told you, my boy Shannon Austin said something deep to me. He said, E.T., I told my son, forget what your coach said. We not just taking 100 shots. Woo! He said, look, I told my son, we not taking 100 shots, we making 100 shots.

That’s the difference, that’s mindset. That’s mindset. That’s the difference between the average and the good. The good and the great, the great and the phenomenal. It’s their mindset.

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You know that expression I always say guys, you burn the midnight oil now, otherwise you stay awake in the midnight hours wondering what if.

We destroy that here tonight. It’s 2am right now. No one here. Mono to mono, me and you. And where we want to go tomorrow. 2am, what I love about 2am is that we’re not living by the clock man. If you go to the clock it’s 10 o’clock time to go to sleep or 9 to 5 time to go to work. That’s bullshit. If you’re in bed right now and you’re rolling around and you can’t fall asleep, get the fuck up. It probably means you haven’t done an honest day’s work to earn that rest at night. 2am, not a fucking person’s here. I can scream my fucking ass off. No one hears me. I can cry. I can shit myself.

I can put an honest day’s work in here that more than anyone does in a week. And no one sees it. Cause it’s supposed to be that way.

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The matter that you show up and try and act week after week, month after month, year after year, with a little bit of intelligence, you start to get better and better and better. You start to become more articulate. So this thing, even if the action is poor action, you’re gonna learn something from it. And it’s so easy to talk yourself out of action, but it’s so important to remember that life rewards action, not intelligence, not smarts in your brain, but action into the world. And discipline is necessary in our life in order to generate consistent systematic action.

But I think until you measure something that matters, you do not know if you’re disciplined.

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You here now you finally made it and this is where you break up. This is where you start chilling. This is where you get comfortable You made it now you made it now you in the big leagues now. They watching you now This is where you make it permanent. Yeah, I saw I saw perfect perfect No practice don’t make perfect practice make permanent This permanent y’all this is permanent. You can go wherever you want to go from here. It does not take talent. You don’t have to be talented Right, you don’t have to be gifted.

You don’t have to be the quickest the strongest You don’t have to be the most intelligent to get to where I am. That’s what you gotta do. You just gotta grind though your grind, you gotta out grind. So many of you heard me say this your father listen to me my own a company your mama might be a millionaire You might come from privilege your daddy might hook you up with a car. He might know people, He might be able to get you a job, but you will not outwork me.

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It might seem like that’s an unwinnable battle, but really, to me It’s not about winning,

It’s the battle itself. It’s the struggle. It’s the daily test. That’s what life’s about,

Not just physically but mentally, Getting that rock to the top of the mountain. That’s not what my goal is. My goal actually is pushing the rock,

because pushing the rock That pushes me, That makes me tougher, that makes me harder mentally and physically.

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You might not reach the best, best version of yourself in this lifetime, but a better one than you are right now. The main point is to find something that you are not standing still where you are right now. At least prepare yourself, slowly, step by step, to get out of that hole right now. But you have other people that you have also talked to in the past. I think if there is something in common when it comes to people that are not living in these holes, there is a reason why you are not in that hole. Because you have figured out another way of how dealing with this world.

Your view has become already a little bit more clear about how things are functioning here.

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You stuck, you cannot move forward. You heard me tell the story with the lion and gazelle. You still stuck, you’re a gazelle. You are a gazelle. You need something to motivate you. What happens to the gazelle when the lion ain’t chasing him? What happens is, nothing, he stops running. Why? Because he always needs something external to motivate him. I’m gonna show you this right quick. I’m gonna show you this, and I’m gonna get you out of here. I told you this story, but now I gotta visually show it. You see, you see, this is why I work. This is why I grind. This is why I work.

This is why I grind. This is why I work. This is why I grind. This is why I hustle.

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If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today? Forget everything else. Forget everything else. Forget that there was any sunlight left. What would you spend today thinking about?

Yourself or the man that’s beside you? Or the man that you know you’ll give everything in your heart for? We get one opportunity in life. One chance in life to do whatever you’re going to do. To lay your foundation and to make whatever mark you’re going to make. Whatever legacy you’re going to leave, leave your legacy. And it’s found through effort. Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you.

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And what you have to decide in your position in the NCAA, you have to make a decision that nobody in this league, in your position,

will outwork you. Listen to me, you better grow up and get to the point as a man that if you ever get beat, you better get beat by somebody that’s just purely more talented than you are. You better not ever get beat by somebody because you beat yourself. You have to take advantage of an opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity. Let me tell you something, you’re sitting in this room, you think you’re gonna be 18 for the rest of your life, you think you’re gonna be 19 for the rest of your life. You got an opportunity right now that you won’t have five years from now.

You have an opportunity right now that you’ll never have. People say, why you grind so hard, E?

I might not be the number one motivational speaker in the world five years from now. I gotta get everything I can get right now. Every book I can write. Listen to me, my school is being paid for by the athletic department. I’m hot right now.

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times where I was just so fucking done and worn out. I don’t remember that. I just remember that I made it through it. You know, and that exhilaration of pride and achievement man, that outweighs all the pain and struggle, you know, and that sweat equity to get there. It really does as long as you get there.

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You can doubt the process, question your talent, be uncertain that you’re making progress, disparage your accomplishments, permanently feel like you’re not working hard enough no matter how hard you work, never give yourself a break, fail to fully feel gratitude, be terrified of never reaching your goals, and still end up in a place that your 20-year-old self could not imagine you’d ever get to. Self-belief is overrated. Generate evidence, says Ryan Holiday. And this resilience of doing good things in spite of you not believing in them,

or believing that they’re going to happen, is pretty miraculous. That for all that I can say you need to… I’m questioning whether or not it’s virtuous to do something virtuous if you don’t feel like you had any other choice. Ultimately you can get to a place that you’d be very surprised by regardless of how motivated you feel to get there.

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A lot of us are off work today, celebrating a man who fought for equality for all. Well, we have a long, long, long way to go. And this world isn’t fair. It’s fair enough. I see a lot of blacks, whites, women, lesbians out here grinding, getting after it, very fucking successful. So where’s your excuse? I see a lot of finger pointing, tons of people playing with other people for different shit. One big thing is this. Fear. Fear keeps a lot of motherfuckers from being successful. It keeps you making excuses for yourself. Fear lives one place and one place only, and that’s in your mind.

Martin Luther King had a dream. Don’t let fear fuck yours up. Stay hard.

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when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe. When you ain’t got nothing left in your tank, you got to think about the people in your life that you doing this for. And then if you could think about them, you could go one more mile. You could go one more day at work. You can find a scholarship. Listen to me, when you doing it for somebody else, when you like that lion, if I don’t grind, if we don’t grind, if I don’t grind, they don’t eat. Are you hearing me? So it’s your boy ET saying, listen to me, this is it, this is, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.

I wish I could back off, but it’s fourth quarter. I wish I could tell you something else. I wish I could tell you, you tired, go take a break. I wish I could tell you, tired, rest for a year. I wish I could tell you that, that it’s going to get easier. I wish I could tell you it’s going to get easier. I wish I could tell you that if you just keep going, it’s going to get lighter. The weight, the weight is going to get lighter. I wish I could tell you that, but that’s not the truth. The truth is you got to find something within.

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Effort ain’t got nothing to do with nobody else. So that team that think they ready to see you, they think what they seen on film, they ain’t saw what film shows. Because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you got to go out and show them that I’m a different creature now than I was five minutes ago. Because I’m pissed off for greatness. Because if you ain’t pissed off for greatness, that mean you okay with being mediocre. Ain’t no man in here okay with being just basic. So let’s do what we do. Tonight.

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Nobody else at the moment has the power to change you unless you have that initial spark and say I must do something. I don’t want this anymore. In order for something new to come, something old must go.

And that old can sometimes mean let go of what you know until now.

Empty the cup and start from the beginning. It’s not easy to do, but at the moment it’s the only way that I see how something that is blocked can be brought back to movement. You must spill the old tea and pour in new one. Then things look different.

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It gives me much more than I give it. I want to struggle. I want to grind and claw and scratch, and I want to dig in and I want to push. And I don’t want it to end.

If I ever got the rock to the top of the mountain and it stayed there,

I’d push it back down myself.

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Yeah, just day after day after day, grind after grind after grind, airport after airport, driving mile after mile. E.T., aren’t you tired? Yes, I might be, I don’t know. E.T., aren’t you ready to take a break? Yes, I might be, but listen to me, I can’t. Why? Because I grind for Jalen, I grind for Jada, I grind for Dee Dee, I grind for my mother. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? I grind for Vanessa, I hustle for, so the days I want to hit that alarm clock, I think about my wife, I can’t quit. My son, $25,000 a year, I can’t stop. He counting on me.

My daughter, I can’t quit, I can’t stop, I can’t get tired.

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Because if you push through the pain to achieve the pride, you forget about the pain was ever even there. But if you can’t push through the pain and the pain stops you and breaks you down, then that pain is forever. Because you never got the pride to out-balance it. Go through this man, you start feeling the pain, it’s all good man, welcome it. Welcome it man, because right past pain, it’s forever pride man.

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When life is over, it will be the people that we lived and laughed and loved with that we remember more than anything else. So don’t be afraid to ask for help from others. It’s a mark of strength and courage and character. And don’t be reluctant to give of yourself to others generously. It’s the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness. The reason the Sahara story was so relevant for me was that because after the Sahara, I never felt that there was anything I couldn’t do. I felt programmed for success for life, although it took me many years to understand it.

And the reason why this story may be of interest to you is because I believe that everyone has a Sahara to cross, perhaps more than one. Many of you are crossing your own Saharas right now. Everyone eventually goes through periods of great difficulty, their own private hells, their dark nights of the soul. But it is by facing whatever life gives us with courage and determination that we grow more surely toward the stars.

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Boy, I can tell bad times are right around the corner again. I can tell by the emails I’m getting talking about, I can’t get a break in life. I hate that damn mentality about can’t get a break. You aren’t giving any breaks in life. You make them for yourself. We are all being tested in life. While my test is different than yours, you will be tested. And how you face that test and how you overcome that test determines the rest of your life. The one mentality that you must have in life is that regardless of what’s in front of you, you still must grind. I’ll never be in the Olympics.

I’ll never be a professional athlete, but still I grind. I fail at most things I do, but still I grind. I don’t want to do half the shit I do, but still I grind. And that one day, you see me on a dark alley, running at one o’clock in the morning, no one thing. I was grinding. Stay hard.

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Life rewards action, not intelligence. Life rewards action, not intelligence. Took me a few years growing up to really learn this. I think my sense in school was I did quite well on exams just through intelligence without having to do a lot of work. And for me, when I was quite young, I valued intelligence over action. And I think one of the dangers is smart people, that the smarter you are, the better your excuses. The more accomplished you are in talking yourself out of taking action, in proving to yourself that every action that you could take is too small,

too meaningless, and not worth it. You cannot do everything, but you can do one thing and another and another. And that’s the way you make massive progress in life, by doing one thing and another and another. This idea that life rewards action, not intelligence.

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how many words I wrote each day, how many words I wrote each week. And early on, it was very painful. It felt like I was putting a lot of energy into writing, but the actual number of words being produced day after day, week after week was very low. And it was only when I really got this measure and made sure that I looked at this measure each morning, each day, each evening, each week, each session with my coach, that I started to realize that so much of the effort was in my head and not turning into words on a page.

And it’s only when you measure something that really clarifies whether you’re getting the actions done, that you start to realize whether you have discipline or not. So be very careful in evaluating your discipline, your capacity to turn ideas into action by some measure of whether you feel like you’re making an effort. Because your mind will cheat you into believing you’re being really busy, you’re being really, putting a lot of effort. For me, it was brutal.

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Right here. You may never get another one some of you after this there may not be another opportunity Let me tell you what I tell after these the worst thing in the world is not growing up in poverty The worst thing in the world is growing up in poverty and coming here and getting worship and not taking advantage of this and you Got to go back to the hood. That’s. that’s the worst thing that could ever happen to a bro.

Traveling and being in hotels and seeing the world and eating like you eat and not taking advantage of this and getting kicked out and going Be somebody that they talk about because you were sweet for four years. you better not lose this. This is an opportunity of a lifetime. No grandma counting on you to do the right thing, your mama counting on you, your cousins, your brothers and sisters are counting on you To cash in on this opportunity.

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And so not taking the shot is like saying, life, I don’t want to scratch off this lottery ticket, but the lottery ticket’s free. Why would you not scratch it off and try it? And so the first advantage is you’ve got energy. Next advantage is you have nothing to lose. Third is you also have time and you have very low responsibilities. And so you have not only the ability to put all of yourself into something, you also have no circumstantial things that are preventing you. Now, if somebody is listening to this and like, I’m 25 and I’ve got a kid, cool. And you’re going to have some traits.

Now I take things to the logical extreme and say, okay, well, Bezos has kids, Bill Gates has kids, Warren Buffett has kids. This is just if you want it to be business successful. It’s like, okay, well then that can’t be a reason that I can’t be successful. And so whatever reasons that we usually give ourselves in the beginning for why we can’t achieve something, you can almost always find not only just someone, but someone who’s achieved world-class levels of success with worse conditions than you currently have, which then means it’s absolutely possible.

And then the only thing that it takes to get there is work.

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Don’t want to rest and I don’t want to coast, and I don’t want to reach a point in my life where I say:

That’s it, I’ve done enough, I’m not gonna give anymore. I’m not gonna push anymore.

No,

that relentless cycle of day-to-day challenges. They aren’t maddening to me. They don’t frustrate me. They Inspire me. Inspire me to drive and push more and to push harder.

That’s what that rock does to me.

so I say: Dig in and get to pushing.

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You got to find something within and that’s got to push you and that’s got to elevate you and that’s got to drive you and that’s got to move you. And when you find out what your why is and your why got to be deeper than you. When you find your why, you don’t hit snooze no more. When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen. So let me just say this to you. If it was easy, boo, everybody would win the Rose Bowl. If it was easy, boo, everybody would be a national champion. Everybody would be a millionaire or billionaire. Everybody’s company would blow up.

Everybody would get a four-year degree or master’s degree. Everybody would have a medical degree or a PhD or a law degree. If it was easy, but it ain’t. But if you find a why, if you find something greater than yourself to move you, then you will make every single dream become a reality. For more information, visit wwwFEMAgov.

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If you quit, it’s really easy to predict your future. How’s that feel? But if you don’t quit, if you go for it with no proof, you can’t quantify it. People are going to call you crazy. Your friends are going to look at you sideways.

But you’ll have the opportunity to play in the game, stop sitting on the sidelines, and you might fail for a while. And you might have to pay your success tax. And you might have to go through seven failures, nine failures, twelve failures. You might be sleepless at night wondering why the heck you’re doing it. But on the other side of that, you get to see who you’re meant to be, who God designed you to be, and tap into your full potential and there’s nothing better.

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Once again it’s on. My brothers want to know where Gagas has been. I’ve been in that mental lab. See, there’s all kind of months. Some folks got sober October. They got all kind of shit for people going through trying to better themselves. I got fuck you everyday. Get after it everyday mentality. That said, when you push that hard, you go to the well. Well, my well was fucking empty. The cookie jar in there has stale molded cookies. They weren’t working no more. I had to find something else. Had to get that conqueror’s mindset back. Where I just don’t give a shit about anything.

Just fucking grind. A lot of people out there talk about they’re missing something in their lives. And they don’t know what the fuck it is. You don’t know what it is because you live in a soft environment 24 7. Learn and get out of it. Stay hard.

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The feeling in me was I was putting a lot of time and a lot of effort and a lot of energy into writing. But those early weeks seeing that it was resulting in so few words being written. Videos, you know, make a video. A video is a very clear measure of whether you finished something or not. So again, reminder this week, life rewards action, not intelligence. Action leads you to grow, leads you to engage with others. Action, everything good in life happens when you’re off the sofa and engaging with the world. So my hope for you this week is find a measure of something that matters.

Pay attention to whether you’re making progress on the actions that lead to that measure. And look at what needs to happen in your discipline so that you value action above thinking or intending to take action.

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You don’t need to say I got a beer burning my oil so I don’t stay awake in the minute hours one underneath We just erase that the equation We’re putting the work in now, so we never wonder what if not run by the clock Well my our desire where we want to go tomorrow our competition’s gonna sleep right now. We’re getting ahead of that competition.

the margins between first and loser the second place finisher Growing and growing and growing they’re all gonna fight for second place. They won’t be able to keep up with you. That’s being the right path man Never looking back to our past the past is great. We’re proud of it, But it’s not the current day. all that has created who we are right now, where life begins And how we feel, where we want to go, using that information to excel ourselves to the future, of where we want to be Tomorrow, which is right fucking now. last I looked not when the Sun comes up, As on we’re ready to get up.

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There are some who drift out in the deserts of doubt and some who in negativity wallow. There are others I know who in piety go because of a heaven to follow, but to labor with zest and to give of your best for the sweetness and joy of the giving, to help folks along with a hand and a song. Why, there’s the real sunshine of living. Carry on, carry on. Fight the good fight and true. There’s big work to do. Believe in your mission. Greet life with a cheer. There’s big work to do and that’s why you’re here. Carry on, carry on. Let the world be the better for you.

So at last when you die, let this be your cry. Carry on, my soul. Carry on.

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When you get to the point where enough is enough when you get to the point where it hurt real bad when you get to The point you can’t take it no more when you get to that point I’m telling you I can’t explain it to you, but doors start opening opportunities start happening But what you cannot do is you cannot quit doing the process You cannot give up because it ain’t what you see you cannot give up what you got to do is you heard it you heard It you read you read it. I sent it out on Twitter. I told you: Champions keep going when they don’t have anything left in their tank.

That’s the difference between the greats That’s that’s what separates them when they don’t have no more when it’s over when they’re tired when they’re frustrated When they’re ready to give up when they spent their last dime. That’s when they get started. Are you hearing me? It’s when you have nothing left. It’s when you depleted all your money, when all your energy go. when you have nothing left,

That’s when it’s showtime when you find a way out of no way when you find breathe breath that you don’t have when you find Energy that did not exist when you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe. That’s when you find a way.

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There’s nothing out there for me.

And that’s the problem. You hung up your cape and your cowl, but you didn’t move on. You never went to find a life, to find someone.

Alfred, I did find someone.

I know, and you lost them. But that’s all part of living, sir. But you’re not living. You’re just waiting, hoping for things to go bad again.

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Most 22 year olds, irrespective of domain, if you, if, if, and that’s why I have these contingent, like if you seek to be good at something, then you have a tremendous deficit in experience and repetitions that people who are ahead of you or have achieved what you want to achieve have over you. And so the only thing that you have now, you do have an advantage. You have a couple. Number one is that you will have more energy than they do, period. And so your ability to work long hours, sleep less, and maintain high levels of focus while maintaining peak fluid intelligence is at its peak. Use it.

The second thing is that you have nothing to lose. And so the thing is, is people always fear being the new, the new entrant, but when you have nothing to lose or you have nothing going for you, it also means you have nothing to lose.

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You like love pot you like listening to pot you like listen to biggie You like to talk about the grind, but you don’t really know what the grinds like I know what the grind is like. I was homeless. I ain’t out of trash can now Go on go on the internet right now. I’m one of the number one speakers in the world I started from the bottom like you like listening to it and see started from the bottom. Now. Yo, what’s your bottom? What is your bottom when you’ve been worshiped since middle school? You’ve been tall your whole life big your whole life.

They worship you so much now that you think it’s about you You don’t even know what the grind look like i’m from detroit homeless Mama got pregnant with me at 17 years old high school dropout took me 12 years to get a four-year degree I’m coming now. It’s in view. You finally made it to the big leagues and now you want to chill. Now you got the big head now. You can’t grind you here now.

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Do I ever feel like Sisyphus?

Yeah, of course I do. I mean, I do. And I’ll tell you, I’ve thought about this and I’ve been waiting for people to start saying like, you put another picture of the sweat and of a squat rack, really?

But I don’t know if they understand. Man, I’ve been getting on that squat rack and grinding it out for 25 years. And I’m not bored with it yet.

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if there is someone right now feeling lost. There is the chance in this lifetime to still bring out the very best version of that person. Yeah, there is the possibility. But like I also said, Kung Fu is not mastered in one lifetime.

What it means is, the biggest mistake a person can do right now, no matter in which situation you are, is to give up.

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What if I told you you’re only six months away from the life you’ve always dreamed of? The money, the body, the mindset, but only on one condition. You have to show up every f***ing day from here on out. Up until now, that’s not a price you’ve been willing to pay. But the reality is, there are graveyards full of men that wish they could be in your spot. Six months to become the man you always knew you could be. Don’t wait 10 years. Don’t wait 10 minutes. Don’t even wait 10 seconds. The time to start is now. Six months away. I’ll see you at the top, dawg.

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and life’s not fair. It’s got a good learning experience for my boys and my little girl that I’ll teach them. Life is tough sometimes and it’s not fair. And it doesn’t care sometimes. But you’re gonna hold true to what you believe and you’re gonna hold true to who you are and you’re gonna be that person whether it’s easier or it’s not. And that’s the standard that I’m gonna hold my children to and that’s the standard I hold myself to. If I can’t do it, then how can I tell them to do it? And so it’s hard sometimes. Life sucks and it’s hard,

but I can assure you life is a lot more difficult for some other people today than it is for me.

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A real man is born to serve, period. And we can’t lose that. Masculinity to protect and to serve and to help. But if we spend all of our time isolated in our gym and isolated in our booth at our laptop trying to make money and isolated in our study, reading the Art of War of Marcus Aurelius and reading all this stuff and we’re by ourself all the time improving ourself, then our improvements has an… We can get to the best we can get and we want it with a net zero.

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I thought this was a really cool Part of your journal that you wrote and you’re talking about Getting through that kind of stuff. So here we go back to the journal. It is easy to be motivated to succeed in the beginning of an endeavor and when you are close to the end. the most difficult part, and the part where people quit, is When they are in the thick of it and it is unclear whether they have the strength and stamina to make it the rest of the way. While I never actually doubted my ability to walk again during my recovery.

I am certainly subject to the inner monologue Rationalizing why it is okay to quit or to not push myself to the goal that I have written down on paper. one way I have recognized to aid in shutting that monologue: the fuck up is celebrating milestones.

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You should be a monster. You know, because everyone says, well, you should be harmless, virtuous. You shouldn’t do anyone any harm. You should sheath your competitive instinct. You shouldn’t try to win. You know, you don’t want to be too aggressive. You don’t want to be too assertive. You want to take a back seat and all of that. It’s like, no. Wrong. You should be a monster, an absolute monster. And then you should learn how to control it.

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You human like they are. listen to me: all men are created equal. Some work harder, Some get up at 2: 30 in the morning. Some are willing to get on a plane from New Zealand and come Brisbane speak at a school, speak that night, get up in the morning. five o’clock gets the airport. Come on, go to Sydney, get up. but, Mel, get up, go to Perth, Come on, then get back up and then go home. Are you here, all of us, to create equal? some of us just grind, some of us don’t make excuses,

Some of us don’t surrender some of us don’t give up and give me what we do with the pressure is we say I gotta Take it. I gotta take it to another level. I’m telling you you can live and I’m not telling you something that I read in a book Why I had two parents some I read in the book when my parents were upper middle class some I read in a book My mama was 17 years old when she got pregnant. I had no advantages.

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It’s time, okay? It’s time, I gotta do something. Right? Try and save my fucking life.

So that’s what I’m doing. Okay, no one else is gonna save my life. Right?

If I just sit here and diddle around, what am I gonna have? Nothing. Okay? And all this shit, like, what does it matter? What does it matter? It just passes. Yo, if I disappear, like, who cares? Nobody cares, man. Seriously. Yo, and that’s okay. That’s life. That’s life. No, for real, okay? It just passes. Just fucking, fucking passes.

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Went through my current failures, my current sick points, and then helped myself to push past them a little bit. That’s the growth, man. That’s what puts a smile on your face. Where you’ve been, you know. Where you haven’t been is exciting. That’s why the smile comes, man. Every set, if you do it that way, like I say, I don’t say goodbye till the pain’s this low. All that’s saying is that you left it all you had in that moment. All that can grow from that is prosperity. Regret doesn’t grow from there because you left it all there. You’re the best you could have been in that moment.

That’s all you ever can be in every moment of life. But very few, if any, ever do that moment by moment a carpe diem and live it all for the most. You guys can control that.

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So motivation a lot of times can be fucking just put some water on it, puts it out. That motivation needs to turn into drive, passion, obsession to what you want to become. And once you become obsession or driven, it’s a fucking inferno. So now you got to call in tons of firefighters and call in for help from here, call in for help from there, and they’re not putting that shit out. Only thing that can take that thing out it’s gotta burn itself out.

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There’s 10,000 times more going on inside the head of a man than you have any idea.

He’s carrying burdens that you don’t have a clue about, and he don’t know how to express them and he don’t know what to do about it. And he figures if he puts it out there and communicates it, he’s just going to be shot down, called a fool, called weak. So he carries it inside and you have no clue. The burdens and the hell that most men are carrying inside and not even showing you.

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I remember him saying it and I thought to myself, like, you want to be able to say that in the mirror to yourself and not laugh at yourself. And the only way that I can do that is know that when no one’s watching, I work harder than when they’re watching. And thinking about it like that has given me this persistent and ever present scorecard or third party that’s like, no one’s watching, which means now you have to work because otherwise you’re full of shit. And so it’s this continuous reinforcing cycle of the me and other me holding the whip behind me to see how much I can take.

But with each lash of the whip that I take, learning that I can take it and continue to trudge on. And so as long as you keep going, you bear witness to yourself of what you are capable of.

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Everything is possible in your life when you believe.

When you believe,

everything is possible.

You have two hands.

Amen.

Everything is possible.

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The hardest part of working toward a goal is when we are either making slow progress or negative progress and having the patience and confidence to know that the improvements we make over the long periods as opposed to the short periods are what matter. Milestones are what remind us that we are making progress even if it isn’t apparent every day. In rowing, I’ve heard of people that count strokes until the finish line using sets of ten. Personally, I like to count two fifties, four making up a race. When I ran the nation’s triathlon,

I picked points ahead of me to make it to and when I got there, I’d pick a new point. Anything we can use to keep our minds from succumbing to the monologue will work. Not only in short-term goals but also in long-term goals like graduating from college or learning to use prosthetics.

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If you want to be great, you want to be the best motherfucker ever at what you do, you’re going to be misunderstood by everybody because you’re going to be so fucking obsessed and so driven to get there. That’s what it takes. That’s the truth. It takes every second of your fucking life. Anybody says balance? Yeah. Balance is important for a lot of fucking people. It is. But if you want to fucking go to that edge where people do not like you, don’t understand you, question everything you fucking do, you, you’ve arrived.

When you are misunderstood to the point where people think you’re psycho and you’re nuts and you’re this and that, why are you in the fucking gym at one o’clock in the fucking morning? You just got through doing an op for fucking 13, 14 hours at the Ranger school, man, at the gym. What’s wrong? You will never understand what is wrong with me. And that’s why I’m so fucking glad you don’t. Cause I’m in the right fucking spot. When people don’t understand you anymore. you’re in that spot of obsession and drive where people are like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?

I don’t want to talk to you, man. Cause you’re not going to get it. You’re not going to get it. Boom. Don’t want you to get it. Yeah. Don’t want you to get it.

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I’m speaking from every aunt that I had to bury for every cousin that I had to hear he got 50 years I try to act like it didn’t hurt when he only 19 years old. He lost his entire life at 19 over some stupid stuff. Every aunt I buried when I took my mother-in-law into that hospital room and I prayed for her before surgery, Not knowing if she was coming out or not, not knowing if she was gonna die. now and that’s my wife’s own. listen to me. She didn’t grow up with her father.

She don’t have any brothers or sis like her mom is hurt that her life It was just her in her mom and my mom’s like yo my wife lose her mom. That’s her life. Like that’s gonna affect us, Like my wife ain’t gonna be the same if her mom dies. You talking about you talking about getting cut, and so when I speak to you, I speak from the pain of taking 12 years to get a four-year degree. I speak to you as a failure who had to get back up every single dog on top and say: brush it off and keep going.

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And you gotta get it from wherever you can.

Whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated.

Whatever gets you motivated,

it’s gotta be here at the tip of your brain at all times.

Because in those dark moments,

you gotta pull it out.

So that’s the big thing for me, man.

I was always fired up at all times.

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That you need to be on the lookout for. and this one is a liar, this one Is a saboteur. Well, this one is a backbiter

and, like the devil himself, he’s a Shapeshifter. he’s gonna disguise himself and make you think he’s got your best interest in mind,

But he doesn’t. This is the instinct that says you’ve had enough. This is the instinct that says you’ve you’ve you’ve given it your best shot. You can. you can stand down, You can back off, You can take a knee.

This is the instinct that says You can rest now.

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Anger was my fucking fuel. Just so, yeah, anger can be a fuel. Anger got me to look into things to become better. I want to show him. But I’ll tell you one thing, when you’re suffering, and you’re fucking at the wit’s end, and you want to fucking quit, that anger is gone, brother. Your mind is thinking about, let’s get the fuck out of here. So I realized, this anger ain’t shit. I didn’t think about my dad beating me up. I didn’t think about kids calling me nigger. I didn’t think about any of that shit. I thought about, man, this fucking water is cold as balls.

Man, I need to get the fuck out of here. So I realized anger was no fuel for me. It may have got me to say, I’m going to be somebody. Anger got me caught up in some serious ego trips, man.

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How can you beat someone who cannot fucking quit? How can you beat someone who every time they go through a hard time, they get better and they get stronger instead of getting weaker and getting demoralized? How can you beat someone who looks back on all the tests that they’ve had and said, yeah, that wasn’t shit, dude. Bring it the fuck on. Okay. As opposed to the person who’s like, Oh my God, I can’t believe this happened. And then fucking two months, another thing happens. Oh my God, I can’t believe this happened.

It’s going to be the person who has a stoic mentality who looks at it and says this. Okay. All right, we’ll get through it. And then the next thing happens. Well, won’t do that again, but we’ll get through it. Right? Not freaking the fuck out like the world’s ending every two weeks, dude. You can’t live like that.

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wants to give you an out, a place to run to, a little little place of sympathy, an Amnesty, a little place of amnesty where everything is forgiven, where all these These failures can gather together in comfort and drown their sorrows in lies and in deception. and And they tell each other, and they’ll tell you: you did the best you could. No, they’ll say: the deck, the deck, the deck was stacked against you.

and they’ll say: it’s not your fault.

And they’ll tell you It’s okay to stop, It’s okay to settle. It’s okay to give up.

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Well, it doesn’t change your worth as a person, you know? You want to do this because you think that it’s good for you, because you believe that it’s good for you, because you care about yourself. You care about Stephen and his body and his mind. You want him to have a long and healthy life. And the same for everybody else that’s listening. They want to have good outcomes from the things that they do in life. You don’t need to lambast yourself because you don’t do a thing that is perfectly designed to make you feel good. Okay, like you missed three days in a row. We get back on the horse.

We go again.

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Look what I overcame if that is a put some badge of honor tattooed in your fucking brain for the rest of your life You can die today talking to Joe Rogan You’re missing the story man. Am I happy? What the fuck do you think? Don’t miss it. Don’t misunderstand the passion in which I speak for not being intensely happy, happiest person in the world. But I’m not done So I’m not gonna speak to you like oh man, everything is great. No, I have a lot more shit to do.

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Don’t need fucking purpose and people miss out on this man the purpose We’re all looking for this golden purpose. Is it this is it that isn’t making money? It is it my family motherfucker. The purpose is you We forget that every fucking day. I wake up. I don’t want to do some fucking shit. I’m like, okay, man Do you want to be a bitch today? Do you want to feel like a little bitch? Do you wanna walk around all day knowing that you could but you didn’t so I? It’s performed without purpose you have to learn how to get up and do shit when you ain’t got no fucking 5k no 10k Nothing,

nothing exists your life fucking sucks. You’re in the fucking dungeon. But guess what motherfucker? I’m still going to get it, because when that time comes, because the time is gonna come, When that purpose is there, You’ll be ready. But most of us can already, because we don’t know how to do without having the golden carrot in front of us. Yeah, and so you’re fucked.

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Most people aren’t built for entrepreneurship because they make way bigger deals out of things that shouldn’t be. They can’t handle the ups and downs. They can’t emotionally take it. They can’t live with what ifs and unknowns, right? And your success is gonna be in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty that you’re able to live with, all right? So if you’re not able to live with uncertainty and you’re not able to tolerate the ebbs and flows and you can’t figure out how to get better, you can’t do it, dude. It’s impossible because it’s such a hard road.

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Raise your standards. one of the most damaging things that any human can do is set low standards And then achieve those standards right. you can’t set average or mediocre as a standard because everyone else around you is blue-collar And therefore you’re gonna be blue-collar and then go: yay, I became blue-collar, Like if you have ambitions of being white-collar, or you have ambitions of being a baller, you have ambitions of being whatever the fuck you want to be. Go for that and surround yourself with people who are that and raise your standards to really high standards.

I would rather you set your sights not on the moon But on the stars, because in the process of shooting for the stars, you will hit the moon- guaranteed- but in the process of Shooting for the moon, you might completely miss it and hit nothing.

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You know that you, you know the darkness of the fucking dungeons and the fucking demons that fly. You know, and then from there it’s like, okay, you were there. You know this. There was no one there to pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat, to pick up the log, to go in there. It was you. It was you. There was no pat on the fucking back at 300, at 275, at 250, at 220. No, that was you. So those things that come out of me, that extract from me in the darkness, people are looking for that pat on the back. Where is it? Oh, I don’t need it.

Because what I’ve done is in the fucking unseen work, I’ve built Frankenstein. So whenever shit gets nasty, David Goggins goes, you had nobody anyway, motherfucker.

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It’s an urge.

Truth be told, every champion has felt it. Every president has felt it. Every king has felt it. Every lion has felt it. Every winner has felt it. Every soldier has felt it. Every victorious person has felt it. The urge to quit.

Don’t you give up on your dream.

I don’t care if you don’t have the money, and you don’t have the help, and you don’t have the family for it, and you don’t have the background for it, and you don’t have the friends for it.

Don’t you give up on your dream. Don’t you do it. Don’t you do it. Don’t you do it.

It may take you twice as long. You may have to take courses and classes. You might not read as fast. You might not move as quick. You might not have as much.

But don’t you quit.

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I don’t know what it is- But I know there’s a decision that you need to make to take you to the next level, just like I know. that’s true for Me, because decisions shape our destiny when they’re backed up by some massive ass action.

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the mind tells you, let’s go home. Let’s take a warm shower. Let’s get some food. This is not right. This is that. If you cannot answer the questions at that moment, because your mind’s gonna start giving you all these questions, all these questions, and if you can’t answer them, you’re going to quit. What I realized when I was going through BUDs, Ranger School, all this 100 mile race, 200 mile races, pull up records, my mind would come creeping in. Like when I was doing 4,030 4,030 pull ups at 2,000 2,000 pull ups and my hands were ripped open, my mind said, look, brother,

we’ve done all these other things. You’ve proven yourself. You’re good. If I didn’t have the answer to respond to my mind and say why I’m here, why I’m doing this, you will always lose that fight. You have to have the response to what your mind is going to tell you.

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You know, when you’re going through something really challenging, how do you show up within it? Do you choose to become a victim of complaining and misery and sh**ty, or do you find meaning in how you show up in the suffering, you know? And this isn’t really my line of thinking- this is like Man’s Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl kind of talked about this and I read that book last year probably, when I said this and I reflected a lot about this honestly, when Courtney was going through labor and she had had the child, and I was like holy f**k, like you are going through this, absolutely like,

like I’ve never experienced that much pain in my entire life, and she just remained calm, controlled her breathing,

did what she needed to do, changed position when I told her she needed to do, was in the tub, was on the bed, was doing all these things, and was just dialed.

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There was no fucking team. It was you. There was no weight loss program or mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it. You can be better trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. You did that. So as times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as fuck. It’s real. It’s tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I’m reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. So that is what people don’t get. That is what motivates David Goggins is the unseen work. Everybody needs that pat on the back.

They need that training partner. They need that accountability coach. I don’t need that shit. And neither do they. But it’s what we’ve trained ourselves to believe that we need.

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Everything you’re going through is preparing you for what you ask God for. You just gotta quit tripping while you in the process because the process is necessary. You may not see it now, but when he get you on the other side of it, you gonna see exactly why it went that way and you gonna be okay with it. But quit tripping during the process. Oh Lord, why me? You ain’t the only one. Oh Lord, why me? You ain’t the only one. Oh Lord, why I lose my job? You ain’t the only one unemployed? Oh Lord, why he leave me? You ain’t the first chick got left.

This might not even be your last time getting left.

Pull yourself together and quit tripping cause you in the process. God is processing you.

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It is not an easy path. It is filled with temptations and pitfalls and hazards and traps And it’s hard to stay on the path And if you fall off it can seem even harder to get back on. But you can do it. you got to be honest with yourself. do not be a slave. Don’t be a slave to drugs or booze or emotion or whatever. Weakness is trying to be your master. Don’t allow it. Tell the truth, Call out your own weaknesses. then impose Discipline, impose your will and climb back up onto the path and set yourself free.

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Everyone does a few reps when it burns start and they stop. No one goes the extra mile and keeps going. Like no one’s in here right now. Why? Because it’s Saturday evening, everyone’s going to party, no one’s in here, just me. You know, no one goes the extra mile. The thing about traffic jams, guys, there are no traffic jams in the last mile of the race. It’s just you and your shadow. In the beginning, everybody’s there. All the pretenders and the contenders, they’re all there. But the last yard of life, the last mile of the journey, ain’t nobody but you and your shadow.

Traffic jams don’t exist that far because everyone else has already given up. That’s what I like too, the mental concept. I’m going that far. I love the physical high of the burn being released. I love the mental high that I just improved myself.

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if you do a thing in spite of being scared of doing the thing, that is bravery. There’s no such thing as fake bravery. Like, if you do the thing and you’re scared, that’s bravery. If you don’t do the thing and you weren’t scared, that’s not bravery, right? The same thing goes for discipline. Doing the thing in spite of not wanting to do the thing is discipline, right? You don’t need motivation to get yourself up to go and do a thing. Make the promise small, build it up step by step, know that you are going to have setbacks. A habit missed once is a mistake.

A habit missed twice is the start of a new habit. Never miss two days in a row. So ideally, go for a month, build it up. But after that, if you ever miss one day, go, OK, mistakes are going to happen, tomorrow I double down. Tomorrow I go on time, absolutely perfect, I’m straight up out of bed. Or I go to the gym or I walk the dog or I do my meditation or whatever. And that’s a good heuristic. It stops errors snowballing into new habits.

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A lot of people have like these big four on mental toughness. All that is crap about self-talk, visualization. It’s true. But the thing about self-talk and all these things, they ask me, what do you think about when you’re on mile 100 of a 205 mile run? What are you thinking about when you realize you’ve run for 24 hours and you have 24 more hours to run and yet another 105 miles? What goes through your mind? What do you say to yourself? I want to know. A lot of people think self-talk works. It does. But it doesn’t work without the suffering before your mind starts saying we need self-talk.

So what I tell myself is I go back to the months and years of preparation to get to that day.

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Don’t you quit. You do make a difference. You do make a difference. You do make a difference. As weak as you are, as tired as you are, as many mistakes as you make, you do make a difference. There is something they would lose if you were not there. There was something that they would miss if you were not there. You do make a difference. You do make a difference. You do make a difference. Keep hopping. I don’t know, but to me this is church. This is church. This is what faith is about. This is what I gave my life to do.

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When I was in Ranger school, my squad got spot checked. The Ranger instructor was looking for three items. One of my guys didn’t have the items, so the whole squad got smoked. The R.I. was sitting there smoking us, and the more he smoked us, the more my squad looked around looking for someone to motivate him. The Ranger instructor shouted out, I’m gonna bury you motherfuckers. So I saw that my squad needed some extra motivation. So I said, ain’t no grave that can hold us down, motherfucker. Ain’t no grave that can hold us down.

Right now in life, your family’s looking for that one guy right now. They’re looking for that one guy who’s strong, who’s that pillar for the family in hard times. Make sure they look around, they look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard.

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You are suffering, but you are choosing to find meaning in how you handle the suffering that makes you so worthy of those suffering, and it’s such a beautiful thing to experience. And you know, when life throws some shit at us, you’re having this baby. You’re not choosing not to have this baby. You’re going to go through this pain. You’re going to go through the suffering. How are you going to choose to show up? Like I was talking about before, there are things out of your control. What’s in your control? How can you take that power back into your own hands?

And what are you going to take from it? What kind of meaning can you find from taking power out of what you feel powerless in?

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Stop making excuses, Simple as that you can make a million excuses why you didn’t work out this morning You can make a million excuses why you missed your wife’s birthday You can miss you can make a million excuses why you didn’t get that raise why you didn’t take that Take that leap of faith. You can make a million excuses, but you know deep down inside and consciousness is eating away you That it’s an excuse. It’s not a reason, it’s an excuse. stop making excuses. And when you stop making excuses, the only alternative is then results.

I’m not saying that everything you do you should be successful at. you will have periods of defeat, But that defeat will be temporary and not permanent, because you will dust yourself off, get back up and try again. But you first have to stop making excuses in order to achieve the higher level of life that you want.

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There’s lots of other people out there that are doing the same shit you’re doing and there’s a limited amount of places for the fucking winner. That’s it. That is reality. Okay. But when you go through a test like this, and not only do you gain a perspective of- uh, you know what it takes to win, and not only do other people quit and you get a real advantage, but you gain the confidence and you gain the belief and you gain the self-esteem and the know that when bad things happen, you can push through them. All right.

So the next time one of these bad things happen where all the storms come together at once and create this shitty situation, you can look back and say, well, I got through that. I got through this. I got through that. That one time I’ll get through this too. Okay. And that becomes a habit. So.

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And that is the instinct. you need to fight, you need to push back, to smash into the ground. Do not take the easy way out. Do not give up based on instinct. if you are forced to stand down, to retreat So that you can rebuild and re-attack, So be it. But make that decision based on logic, not on the instinct of surrender and defeat.

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The hundred men that go into war tensioning, fucking be there. 80 of them are just targets. 10 Do most or nine do most of fighting? one is a warrior and It’s a true quote to life. I saw it going through training. I saw it everywhere I went. there’s so many people who just show up to life that shouldn’t even fucking be around, and There’s a few people who do all the work. I wanted to be part of that nine. I’m working towards being that one, and that’s just how I live my life.

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But the biggest key to success in anything you do is you gotta have an unlimited supply of fucking fuck you. This drive and passion, and it may come from nothing. Like for me, there was no passion, no drive, no nothing. But I had this fire that I’m gonna be somebody. And it has to be there because on all those bad days, on all those days you don’t wanna do shit, you have to be your own motivator. Your own coach, your own trainer, your own everything. So to do that, you have to come into work and work as whatever your work may be, ready to go.

And what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday, but you come to work, like, people are like, man, you just lost everything. How the hell are you just fucking damn motivated? Because this is what it takes.

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The average real man does not need to go get therapy for the battles and the burdens he’s carried inside. What he needs is for those that he’s carrying them for to recognize that they’re there and to respect it and to be grateful for it. They don’t need to talk it out to get rid of it. They need the one that they’re going through this hell for to recognize it’s there and to be grateful that the man is carrying this for them. They don’t need therapy, they need gratitude.

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We don’t rise to the standards we have when others are watching. We fall to the standards we have when no one is watching. The only work that really matters is the work that no one sees. It shows you who you really are, rather than who you say you are.

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What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to forgo? Because a lot of people, like this guy came in one time, I was a trainer, and he goes, man, I can stop doing anything but my frappuccinos. I go, fucking leave. Because I’m looking for that person like me. People, it’s hard for people to understand how I lost 106 pounds in less than three months. I sat down at a table, and I said to myself, what are you willing to give up? Everything. And when people come to me with that kind of mindset, I can work with you.

When you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything, that’s who I wanna work with. Because now, I can mold you into exactly who you want to be.

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But I woke up one day and realized all men are created equal. I don’t need no I’m my advantage You your advantage. Why are you waiting for somebody to call you? Why are you waiting for somebody to liberate you? Why are you waiting for somebody to affirm you? Why are you waiting for somebody to tell you got a dream or go? Why are you waiting for somebody to take you by your hand and give you what’s rightfully yours? However much money you make, whatever kind of life you have, that’s yours. And so, when you hear my message,

the reason why you resonate with my message is not because of the words I say. There are a lot of people on youtube and tv talking the talk, But there’s a sound that you hear that resonates with you because i’m speaking from that pain.

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Struggle and hardship and fucking bad times and tests. Those are all part of the journey, So you can’t be surprised when you, when you get to them- I mean, if you’re gonna take a fucking trip from here to you know California- you’re gonna realize that you’re probably gonna have to go up some hills and then down some hills and there’s probably some flat times, Probably gonna hit some rainstorms, Maybe some snow storms, But if every time the hill went up or every time the hill went down or every time you hit some rain You turned around and went back home. How the fuck you get to California?

You see what I’m saying? So you have to be someone who can tolerate These natural ebbs and flows, emotionally and in reality. If you’re gonna build anything so so it’s more about building yourself into someone who could tolerate it Then it is like Finding a path without those obstacles. Yeah.

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And you need to train that instinct, Your instinct, train it to say: get up, go, fight on.

and if That is what you become, if that becomes your fundamental reaction to adversity, if that becomes your gut instinct,

then You will overcome just about anything that stands in your path.

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So how about mindset? Yeah, that’s it man. You have to change the dialogue within your head. And one thing I guarantee you: there’s some stat out there about january 1, All that kindling that that you started all that motivation usually burn out by about 10 to 12 days later So let’s see how far you can take that shit Let’s see if you can get a fucking challenge from goggins to you usually it’s 10 to 12 days man people always coming man. Hey I want a workout program. I no longer give them anymore because you’re gonna waste my fucking time, Because I know most people out there.

Once that fucking one alarm clock goes off the wrong time of the day, I’m not going to the gym. Call me after you lose some fucking weight running your ass in the dirt and then we’ll work on some other shit. Right, get your base on There, you go, man.

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Failure, this upset, this, this catastrophe- if you aren’t dead, Then it’s just psychological, It’s in your head now. This does not mean that you won’t lose some battles, because you will, we all will.

but it does mean that as Long as you don’t surrender, as long as you don’t give up, as long as you don’t quit, then you haven’t failed.

just means you’ve made a Temporary tactical retreat, means you’ve made a brief withdraw so that you can regroup and re-attack.

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There’s moments you can take it easy. You can pick and choose what moments you want to do. If you’re watching a movie or sit on the couch, whatever else, you can chill at that moment. Don’t fucking chill on the moments that actually create your legacy. Give it all there. And then the belief and the dreams just lives forever. And by the way, the best dreams in the world aren’t the ones seen when sleeping. The best dreams are the ones lived.

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So it is not the message alone. It’s not the words alone that resonate with you, It’s that I am you. I’ve been through what you’ve been through and I got up and I kept going. And so listen to me very closely, you won’t get cut. all that stuff You wrote down, you go. you gonna go through some pressure. So if you ain’t ready for that close that up and say I just don’t want had no dry I don’t know dream. No go. I want nothing in life You’re gonna have a great marriage. You’re gonna go through some pressure, You’re gonna go through some heat and then you won’t get cut.

I’m just trying to give you the three-part process because what’s gonna happen is you won’t see the heat You’re gonna be like, well, I went through the pressure. I thought that was it. Oh, That was phase one, That’s phase one, phase two coming and then phase three and watch what happens. All of us will be successful in life if we don’t quit.

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We know where we’re at from that standpoint, and we know what we have to do. We know that this was a time of year where we hit a lull a couple of times, and we can’t let that happen, no matter what’s going on. Me and 9-1, me and Jan say it to each other every day. Nobody cares. At the end of the day, nobody cares. What we’re going through, how your body feels, nobody cares. We got to do our job. And we emphasize that to each other again today. Hey, I got your back. You got mine. Nobody cares, man. We got to go. And before practice, during practice, after practice,

we’re always just trying to push whoever’s listening. Is it fair? No, because I want to have emotions about things. I want to think about things as a human being.

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How bad do you want this? If it’s as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep, whatever hell it may be, I can work with you. But a lot of people, most people don’t want it that badly. Which is why they always ask the question, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don’t want to do it. So I can’t make you do it in order to have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it. There’s no luck in this game. It may be a little bit of luck,

but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn’t happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might fucking happen. And that’s what people don’t know. But to get there. Luck ain’t going to happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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If you get beat, unless you’re dead, you are not defeated. And you have not failed. What you’ve done is you’ve learned.

You’ve gained experience.

And you’re still alive.

And you have memories to make.

So get up and go get after it.

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Reminder that if you want to be exceptional, you’re going to be different from everyone else. That’s what makes you exceptional. You can’t fit in and also be exceptional. Both have discomfort. When you fit in, you have internal conflict because you’re not being 100% you. When you’re exceptional, you have external conflict because everyone sees you as different. Pick one. When your friends start to say, you’ve changed, remember it’s because they don’t know how to say, you’ve grown.

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That’s also fear. It’s fear of not being perfect. And then on top of that, low confidence. Well, if you have low confidence, guess what? You’re afraid. Your confidence is low. You’re not sure of yourself. So you sit around and think about doing it instead of actually doing it. And then anxiety? Well, yeah, anxiety actually is fear. You’re afraid to do something. And then IQ, now that might be, I guess maybe someone has a high IQ and therefore they’re thinking a lot. And maybe that’s not fear. But let me ask you a question. If you’re so smart,

then why aren’t you taking action and making something happen so you get a big IQ that’s no excuse to sit around and overthink things? Especially because if you’re so smart, why can’t you come up with a quick solution? Why can’t you realize that overthinking is actually causing the problem harm? It’s not moving the problem forward.

So quit thinking so much and take action.

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I had big dreams. A lot of us have big dreams, big goals. And when you have goals that are maybe outside your reach, you have to know that getting to that goal, you’re going to have a lot of bad days, a lot of setbacks. Like when I was losing 106 pounds in three months, the first two weeks, it’s like I was gaining weight. I would lose a pound, gain two. So I was just failing. I kept failing and kept failing and kept failing. So I had to teach myself how to fail right. And what that means is when I fail, I can’t spend much time in that fail zone.

I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast because my goal is to be a Navy SEAL. I don’t have time to stay here and feel bad for myself for weeks and months and years because I’ll lose that time. So the big thing is: know that if you have big goals and big dreams, along the way, failure is going to happen. So how fast do you get up from that? You got to teach yourself that.

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Louis, a moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory. Remember that.

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Inside baby! Side to side, move your head! Watch him now, watch him. Remember he’s got two hands, right?

Damn man, what the hell are you doing? This guy will knock you on your ass!

Come on, Rock, it’s not a game. You want to live in the hospital for five weeks this time? You thought I was tough? This jump will kill you! Alright. Come on, come on, get your head on your shoulders, man. Think about the fight, think about the fight! Come on.

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You ever feel like nothing good was ever gonna happen to you?

Yeah, and nothing did. So what? I’m alive. I’m surviving.

That’s it. I don’t wanna just survive. It says in these movie writing books that every character has an arc. You understand?

Like everybody starts out somewhere and they do something, something gets done to them, changes their life. That’s called their arc. Where’s my arc? You see the arc?

He starts down here, he ends up here. Where’s my arc, Paulie?

I got no identity. Even Brendan Fallone’s got an identity. He’s dead. I kill that fucking email colon. Nothing. I don’t even move up a notch. All I got is nightmares. That Polish Czechoslovak, whatever the fuck he is, is haunting me in my dreams every night.

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No amount of money ever bought a second of time. Smart guy.

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The hardest thing in life, guys, isn’t doing this stuff, isn’t going past your current levels of comfort, hitting new levels, getting knocked in your ass. That’s not the hard part of life. The hard part of life is when you don’t have the time to do this anymore and you didn’t achieve everything you wanted to do and you look back on your life knowing there were pockets throughout your existence where you could have applied yourself. Now, all that’s left is you in a self-arrest, self-paralysed state, thinking, wow, I could have been great. Wow, I could have done something with my life.

Now I’m stuck with this shithole of a life I’m in. Think of that. And you’re in here hurting, man. And you’re wondering, how do you go on? The better question is, how can you not go on?

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Sun don’t stop, for nobody man. Sun don’t fucking stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning, regardless That Sun is gonna be up in the morning, regard, regardless of how I fucking feel and how depressed I am, the Sun Is gonna fucking shine in the morning and a nighttime. the moon gonna be there and you gonna look up. these days gonna keep going By so do you let the days go by and look up and you don’t waste it a year doing what? What do you just pick it up? All right Got to figure it out made some mistakes that life goes on let me figure out life from this point. I’m a life goes on type of guy.

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A person’s strengths are often their biggest weaknesses. And so that also means that their weaknesses can be their strengths.

So, me, I am weak. In all those ways that I listed, I am weak.

But I don’t accept that. I don’t accept that I am what I am and that that is what I’m doomed to be. No, I don’t accept that. I’m fighting.

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Four hours plus a day, I go through and do that. There’s no stick, or there’s only a stick. There’s never been a carrot. Which is why when I speak to people, I have to figure out a way to resonate with them. Because all I want to say to them is,

let me teach you the real life, how it really is. The reason why you’re a loser, and the reason why you’re not fucking making it, and the reason why you’re trying to go to all these, I go to all these fucking conventions, speak all the fucking time. I look in the fucking audience, and these people sign up, sign up, sign up, fucking every year to go to convention, thinking they’re going to learn something fucking different. No, you’re lazy. you know exactly what to do. exactly what to do. Because even me, in my state of, I can’t read and write, I knew exactly what to do.

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Because everybody believes that at some point in time, they’re going to turn it on or some point in time, they’re going to catch momentum or some point in time, they’re going to become what it is they want to become just by circumstance or by default or by breathing the air. That’s not what it takes, bro. People who think that get to the end of their life and they’re like, I wasted my life. Okay. That’s what they ended up thinking. And there’s really nothing worse than that. There’s nothing worse than getting to the end of your life and saying, damn, dude,

I didn’t even really try, you know, and that’s where you’re headed if you don’t go. So, you know, that’s how you do it.

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A lot of people wait for perfect conditions to start, but don’t realize that starting is the perfect condition.

And the part of that quote that I like a lot from Sartre, little French, Sartre, is, uh, your teeth can get sharper and stronger too, so that he’s saving himself to use his teeth, but he could have had all of his teeth at the end if he had been using them the whole time. And so, we have this idea, I call it the fallacy of the perfect pick, but thinking that you’re going to have this one shot, this one pick of this one opportunity, this one podcast, this one whatever, that’s going to take you all the way. But it’s the habit of biting that takes you all the way,

not where you choose to bite the first time. We have learned to just bite and know that our teeth will get stronger and we will learn how to chomp down along the way. Waiting to begin, never got anyone anywhere.

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And if you’re an old man like me And you haven’t gotten on track yet, get on track. get on it now.

everyone, everyone listening to this. Here’s the deal: no complacency, No complacency, no backing off,

no slack whatsoever. fight, Fight, that ticking clock with everything you got, so, like the end of a hard day, You can put your head down with ease,

Satisfied that you’ve given your best.

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And real reality is, no matter how much emotion and feeling you may have or how much hurt you may have, life has to go on. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. So if you don’t process that and understand that, you’re stuck in whatever time period you got hurt forever. Forever. Yes sir, yes sir. So grudges and anger and negativity, I don’t have time for it because I’m living to do so much positive things. I got so much positive outlook on everything else that’s coming in the future. I can’t stand in the past and bathe in what was wrong.

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And I don’t care who you are what race what age what gender I don’t care about any of that stuff But what I do know is that you have a dream inside of you And that dream you have kept hidden from the world you’ve made excuses for it. You’ve delayed it You’ve listened to people telling you to be realistic But deep down in your heart. You know that You’re not living to your potential And life is now something you’re just getting on with I want to lay some some reality on you real quick Where is the wealthiest place in the world? Do you know it’s not China. It’s not Dubai. It’s the graveyard.

Because in the graveyard you will find inventions never invented, businesses never erected, Songs never sung, books never written, ideas never nurtured, people never realized because They were scared to take a risk. scared like you.

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Whew.

Yep. I said it before and I’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.

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but also, Things don’t usually fall apart quickly either, at least at first it it’s. it’s a slow process, a little slip here, a little setback over there, a little wearing down of discipline and will over time.

That’s the thing. success and failure are generally slow processes, either slowly building things up or Gradually tearing them down.

and that’s why I say you’ve got to pay attention.

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You know what? You know what I hear? I hear the clock ticking. That’s what I hear, and the end is nigh, and time waits for no man.

And you young guns out there, 18 years old, 20 years old, 24 years old, listen.

Life goes by, and it goes by quick. Don’t waste those years. Don’t waste them, live them.

Now I know, I know that you don’t think you’re gonna live to be 30, much less 40, but you are and you will.

And the earlier you get in the game, and get on track, the better life you’re gonna have. Healthier, wealthier, stronger, smarter, better.

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And I’m looking at myself in the mirror going like, God, dog, dude, you are something else, man. Like, you have created a character. I want to be the cool guy table. And whatever I could do to get attention, I did. It wasn’t me. It wasn’t who I was inside. But I was scared for anybody to know who I was inside. So in that accountability mirror, I call it, I got real with myself. I said, you have a third grade reading level, which is hard to admit when you’re a junior in high school that you copied on every single thing you did because of fear they’re gonna put me in a special school.

We all know what special means. I’m gonna have a title on myself the rest of my life. And being cool, you don’t have a title on yourself. So I started cheating. I was dumb.

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The most important conversation you will ever have in your fucking life is the one you have with yourself. You wake up with it, you walk around with it, you go to bed with it, eventually you’re going to act on it, whether you’re good or bad. You have to, that’s why the whole thing about this book I have, it’s about you. It is about you. It’s strictly about you finding who you are. So many people die, live a hundred years, never fucking know who they are. Never know who they are. You have to look in that mirror and know there’s so much more in here, man.

Because I can literally right now be a 300 pound guy spraying for cockroaches, still to this day, if I did not look in that mirror and say, there has to be more to this. This can’t be it. And then willing to go into it, dive deep into it, and give all I have to find it. So that’s what all that’s about.

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I’m always fighting. I’m struggling and I’m Scrapping and I’m kicking and clawing at those weaknesses To change them, to stop them.

Some days I win,

Some days I don’t.

but each and every day I get back up and I move forward, with my fists clenched toward the battle, toward the struggle, and I fight with everything I’ve got to overcome those weaknesses and those shortfalls and those flaws, as I strive to be just a little bit better today

Than I was yesterday.

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Whenever I was in college and I was feeling really stressed out and I was overwhelmed at times And I didn’t like what the situation was. I would always say what would I tell my future son? Because if I can’t tell him to get through adversity right now if I can’t tell him to keep pushing through if I can’t say if I don’t live that if I don’t live through that how am I gonna ever give him genuine advice one day to get through it? on his own? So you got to think man like sometimes you go through things and you don’t know the reason at first But it’s not for right now.

It’s to help someone later, like your son or your daughter. Sometimes you’re living through the toughest thing ever and you don’t know why it’s happening to you. But sometimes, guys, it’s bigger than what you can even see right now. Sometimes your son gonna be looking you in the eye It’s like dad how do I get through this and then what are you gonna tell him when you quit before? What are you gonna tell him when you took shortcuts? That’s the point, man. There’s so much stuff that’s bigger than you right now that you’re going through for a bigger purpose than you can even imagine.

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Life is never going to be easy. It’s never going to be quick. It’s never going to be fast. You’re always going to have obstacles. You’re always going to have hardships. You’re always going to be frustrated in certain things. Barely. You’re going to have one great day for every 10 days that are hard. That’s reality. And you’re going to have to learn how to operate when things get hard. That’s it. You know, most people spend their entire lives wishing shit was easy. Wishing it was fair. It’s not fucking fair. Wishing it was, you know. It would line up to be perfect for them.

And because they’re waiting for this and because it’s never coming, they never go. And when they never go, they never become anything. And that’s what leads to a wasted life. So you have to realize conditions are never going to be perfect. Things are always going to be hard. The only hope that you have is to become someone who can push through that hard, regardless of what the fuck is going on. And if you can build that level of discipline, that level of mental toughness to execute when things are not ideal, when things are extremely hard, nothing can stop you.

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It just sucks doing it. It sucks to do it. It sucks to wake up every morning of your life and say, God, man, I’m not smart. So guess what I gotta do? I gotta study the same shit that I got one of the highest scores in the nation on and do it again, do it again, do it again. It’s not just there. It’s not just there permanently for me. So yeah, it’s all stick. It’s all stick. The only care that you have is like, maybe, maybe. Cause whenever I take these tests that are real hard, in the back of my brain, it’s like, the good chance you’re not gonna make it, Goggins.

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It’s not the fault of the games or the news or the social media platforms and the algorithms. It’s not their fault. There’s only one person to blame and that’s you.

They cannot make you look at their junk, at their feed,

but you do it voluntarily.

You click and scroll and look and get that little dopamine hit that they dole out to you over and over again and you snort it up like an addict and we’re trying to blame them.

Are they to blame for that? Are they? Are they to blame for our actions? I actually say no. We are to blame. I am to blame.

We give them control when we click and scroll. We give up our time and our thoughts and our freedom.

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This ain’t you bro. This ain’t you. You weren’t born like this.

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Focus on right now because that is all you’ve got. There isn’t any past, there isn’t any future. Now, now, now’s it. That’s it. When the sand’s gone, it’s gone.

But I can be more effective now by making up my mind who I’m going to be, . And that’s what I recommend you do. Don’t waste your time. Do you know that everybody alive gets exactly the same amount of time we get all there is? It’s what we do with it that makes a difference. Don’t waste your life. Set your goals high. Quit thinking about what’s wrong. Start thinking what’s right. Love a little more, hate a little less. You have no idea what you’re capable of doing. Make up your mind today, you’re going to figure it out.

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If I’m going to stay true to what I feel that I can do, then I need to be the one to convince myself that this is what I’m supposed to be doing. A lot of people that, you know, make it to a certain successful point in life. Because a lot of people, a lot of people can give up. It’s easy to give up. Hell yeah. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. I’m done. I ain’t going. Oh yeah. I ain’t gonna keep going. I don’t feel like going to work. I’m done. Yeah, man. It’s easy. It’s very easy. But what’s hard is going, yo, yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could.

Nothing happened from that. I’m going to do the same thing again today, but I’m going to try to go harder. That’s the hardest thing in the world. To get up every day and give 100% and be in the same position that you were each day, but mentally know that you’re trying and trying and trying. That’s a real grind.

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Although this doesn’t come back to bite me, but I talked to him about, hey, winners focus on winning and losers focus on winners. People who find themselves having losses, not reaching what they want to create in their life, it’s because they focused on winners. They focused on throwing shade at other people. They focused on comparing themselves to other people. So comparison is the thief of joy. Winners continue to focus on winning and they continue to try to seek out wisdom. So Sudarshan, pat yourself on the back and everybody else who has sent in a question today or even listening today,

pat yourself on the back for trying to spend this time right now to gain wisdom. And maybe I haven’t given you one lick of wisdom today. And if that’s true, I am sorry, but maybe a couple of things have resonated with you and you are spending this time trying to better yourself.

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You can be lying to yourself by saying, I’m really happy. That can be a lie. It can be a lie. Hey, you know what, I’m really happy right now.

And there’s a chance you are, right? There’s a chance. There’s a chance that you really are truly happy. I got a good job, I got a good family, I got a house, I’m in pretty good shape. There’s a chance that you’re truly happy in that situation. And if that’s the scenario, good. You know what, don’t worry about getting more discipline. You’re happy, you’re content. You got a good job, you got a good family, you got a house, you got a car, everything’s good. That’s cool. That’s fine.

But there’s a chance that that’s not fine. There’s a chance that you’re lying to yourself. And that’s why you’re asking this question, by the way. The reason you’re asking this question is because you can’t find more discipline, you want more discipline. Why do you want that? Because you know you could be better.

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95% of the game I said before is right up here guys if you guys can believe you can do this You can eat fucking Twinkies and become the fucking man. I. I know there’s no scientific evidence for that, guys, But I swear to you I’ll see. eating right, Resting, you know, and good cardio and everything else- all these things add up to equal weights and they’re all very important, But none of them mean anything Without the metal and state. and today I’m no longer being a fucking loser. Today, I’m gonna change my fucking path. I’m gonna be able to pass success.

I don’t care how long that road is I’m gonna see it through no matter what because you know what I’ve been living enough years in this shit hole I don’t want to be here anymore. I’m not happy with this. I’m tired making excuses I’m tired going through the same search of emotion shit. I Won’t be different and last I look every single day. I’m getting older meaning I’m gonna get old. I’m running out of time.

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If you give it all you have, you’re going to get mass potential back. And then who knows what can come. That’s the beautiful thing. If you don’t show up, guys, you know the outcome. You’ll never get the job, never get the part, never get the girl if you don’t show up. If you show up, you’re putting yourself in a situation to create those opportunities. And when you show up, how hard do you go? That’s the faster that opportunity will come to life for you. It’s up to you guys. But I applaud you for being here. I applaud you for watching this, encouraging you to incorporate this in your workout.

You’ll see the gains like I did, and you’ll fall in love with it. Even though it’s tiring and exhausting, and you’re sweating your ass off, and your tires can be, small down payment that you’re willing to pay every day for the large investment of a greater life. You only got one life, guys. Again, if you work it right, you only need one. Barry Plitt, thanks for watching.

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And that accountability just became raw and I became fat over the years got fell back in the hole I call myself fat because I was fat and people don’t want to do that. They want to say: oh, don’t call yourself fat, Don’t call yourself dumb. if you’re not real and raw with who the fuck you are, Nothing’s gonna change in this nice new world that we live in. we want to hear: you’re just a little big. No man, you might be fat and it’s okay to hear that from yourself and from Marybel. So that’s where it started at. and it’s raw. it gets ugly sometimes of me in that mirror,

But I’m also proud of myself to be able to tell myself that and then fix what’s in that mirror.

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This ain’t you, man.” And somehow, comes back, I passed. I passed again, passed again. But that real me back here every fucking time is saying, that ain’t you, bro. That ain’t you. And I have to outwork that voice. When I’m taking that test and I get to a question, I don’t fucking know the answer. I’m like, fuck, man. And then, say, I told you, man. That ain’t you. You’re 300 pounds, man. You stay at home, you figure out how to do your hair. That’s what you do. How to come to school with the reverse baldness when you’re 16. That’s you. So, there is no get out of jail free card.

This is why I say stay hard. Because when you weren’t given the gifts, the only thing you can do in life is stay hard.

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We do not have to accept this. We don’t have to bow down to these dopamine dealers, these thought thieves, these mind murderers. We don’t have to accept it. Get control. Free your mind. Stop scrolling. Stop clicking. And start living.

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Life isn’t always so fresh or so easy But what’s inside of there a lot of groceries and stuff you buy right? You got the milk, you got the You know your fruits and vegetables and stuff, and all that stuff, man, Very perishable. What does that mean? I mean when you buy it you better eat that motherfucker. Otherwise it goes bad. There’s a shelf life to it, a time trial. use it or lose it. And if you don’t use it, then your investment in that product, You don’t quite reap all the reward of that. So that’s a little metaphor, I think, in life, because life itself is perishable.

You’re playing basketball and shooting free throws And you have to align when the pressures on you. if you don’t constantly, when no one’s watching, Drill it and drill a thousand buckets a day When it matters, maybe you miss. if you’re in the military, You’re Delta Force something, if you’re not in the range firing thousands, thousands around, Well then, when you pull on fire, maybe not put one the head, one the chest, Maybe you’re missing it and maybe that split second it cost you your life. All these things eventually will be tested.

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And then you think, well, what’s the barrier? And the barrier is, are you willing to accept the responsibility? And part of the answer to that is, reduce the damn responsibility until it’s tolerable. You don’t have to fix everything at once. You could just start by fixing the things that you could fix. Or you could even do it more.

You could do it with even less self-sacrifice. You could start by fixing only the things that you want to fix. God, you can get a massive way that way. So, do it! See what happens. That’s what you should have been taught in university, right from the beginning. It’s like, aim at the highest good. Tool yourself into something that can attain it. And go out there and manifest it in the world. And everything that comes your way will be a blessing. And so, all you have to do is give up your resentment and your hatred. I know that’s a hard thing to give up.

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You need to do an assessment and you break out a piece of paper and start to write down these things that you claim to be happy about and Pull the pull pull the stops off like okay What if I if I could have any house I wanted is this house the house I wanted is it Is it is it really you sure about that? You sure about that sure about that. You see what I’m saying? If you ask yourself, hey, I’m in pretty good shape right now You sure about that? You sure about that and you write down? Well, what if if I could snap my fingers and be in a different physical shape?

Is this what I would choose? or what I want? to be a little bit better, what I want? to be stronger, faster. And if we’re lying to ourselves, we’re not gonna find the discipline. It’s it’s going to be more difficult You have to do an assessment. You have to detach from it, You have to write it down and then you have to ask yourself. Is this the truth right here that I’m saying? You?

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But you want to know something else? You’re not in the graveyard yet. And we get one life, right? And every passing moment, we would never get back again. You would never start this video with the same perspective you had when you clicked play. You would never brush your teeth the same way twice in your life. Ain’t no rewind button on life.

I would never get that breath back ever again. See this present moment is so precious. We have to be here. We have to be in it and make the most of it. We have to live our dreams now because they are possible.

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Life is not just the passing of time.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is a collection of experiences, their frequency and their intensity.

Life is not just watching the clock tick away. Life is a collection of experiences,

their intensity, their frequency. When my friend Mark died at age 44, someone says, that’s young to die. But what if he lived four lifetimes in one? Might not be too young. So here’s what, whatever the span of your life turns out to be, here’s what you want to fill it up with, experiences and the intensity of those experiences.

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know I put this out the other day and I

Think it’s important. All right, so Rome Wasn’t built in a day. We all know that, Everyone’s hears that. but Rome also Didn’t fall apart overnight either.

it took hundreds of years for Rome to reach its peak. But it also took time- Hundreds of years- for Rome to decay and fall apart. and

That is representative of Life, because you don’t achieve worthwhile goals quickly or Easily, they take time.

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All you can do is outwork the man that God created, or woman, in you. And what that looks like is unfun. That’s why I said do not do a documentary on me, because people will not see the truth. They will see what they want to see. It’s, I don’t want to live like that. Good, good. And you will live exactly the way you live now, questioning who you are, wondering what is possible, wondering what you are capable of doing. That’s how that looks. Or you can be me, which, am I happy? I don’t know, never even thought about it. Don’t really care about it,

because all I really cared about was when I looked in that fucking mirror, I saw a piece of shit.

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We can have heaven right here, right now. Just a shift in this. Why not? Because somebody said it’s impossible, it can’t be done. I’ll tell you this, there’s never been a statue erected for a critic. Everybody tell you how to do it, they never did it. Moral of the story is, do you, be you. And be here now. Your dreams are possible. Stop obsessing over these celebrities. Kim Kardashian. Live your life. Step into your greatness.

They say the average person dies at 25, but is buried at 75.

You know what that means? Unless you figure it out. Don’t let this negative world get to you. Don’t let it win.

Do not go where the path may lead, but go where there is no path. And leave a trail.

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And there’s something in your mind that’s saying you could be better, and you know it. And you know that the way you could get better, and the way you could do better, and the way you could be more, is by having more discipline.

So, don’t lie to yourself. That’s what we have to do. We have to not lie to ourselves. And this is why JP uses this quote a lot. Because I ended up telling JP, like two weeks later or something, we were at a gig together. Discipline is rooted in the truth we tell ourselves. That’s what it is. Discipline is rooted in the truth we tell ourselves. Because if you tell yourself the truth, if you tell yourself the truth, and the truth is, I’m not happy with where I’m at, that’s the truth. The truth is, I can do more. The truth is, I can be in better shape.

The truth is, I can work harder than I’m working right now. The truth is, I can do more for my family. The truth is, I can do much better than I’m doing right now.

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You Have to watch. you have to watch every single second,

because those seconds, They turn into minutes And minutes turn into hours, and hours turn into days and days turn in two years.

and so that second, That second that just went by, That counted, and so did that second, and so did that one. and in those precious Seconds, you were either Building or you were decaying. you were either gaining ground or you were losing ground.

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Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person that walked into it. That’s what the storm is all about. When you can’t control what’s happening to you, control how you respond to it, that’s where your power is. Mm-hmm. Right? They asked the elderly couple one day, oh, they said, how have you guys been married for so long? He said, we come from a generation when something is broken, we don’t throw it away, we fix it. Right? And when you think about calm and happiness, it’s not real calm and happiness and quiet too. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship,

then you see the true potential of the mind. You think perspective, you think peace, and you think more so controlling how you respond to a situation. Yep. Right? It says that’s where your power is. When you can’t control what’s happening, control how you respond to it. That’s where your power is, control what you can control. That’s the first thing I go to.

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Like I’m 54 years old right now, like that. I mean, it just fucking flew by. And you think when you’re young that you have all this time, you have no time. There’s no time. I mean, one of the quotes on the wall in the gym in there is, you know, there is no tomorrow from Rocky III.

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You’re gonna continue being out, because every day you wake up, like he says, not like get the coffee, make the pancakes, kiss the girl, kiss the kids. You wake up, right to work. Immediately your mind is in action. No one wants to do that. No one. And I don’t blame them, but don’t be mad. When you’re laying there in your fucking bed and you’re in the fucking hospital and you’re 70, 80, 90 years old, and you’re thinking, man, I feel like I didn’t fucking do something. Because you did. You didn’t do it. You didn’t do shit.

You may live the great life, man, but you’re always gonna feel empty inside. I don’t feel empty. So call me what you want. There’s not one empty bone in my fucking body, because I have figured out that really the magic potion, at least to my life, and it’s very rewarding.

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What would you do if you only had six months to live? What would you do if you only had six months to live? Who would you spend your time with? Where would you go? What would you want to do? What would be important? What would be unimportant? If you ask that question over and over again, you’ll have a tendency to keep your life in balance. Everything in moderation. Now, if I could just summarize by saying two or three quick things. The essence of success in time management is goals. The key to goals is to write them down and to make organized plans for their accomplishment.

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It tests you and see how much of this you can take before you say let’s just be finished with this. You know what I mean? It wants to show you something. It wants to see how much you can take, how much you can handle with life. You say you love life, you want to live life, I’m going to show you life. Life is beautiful, but you have to accept the good and the bad as being beautiful. You can’t accept the good, oh this is beautiful, then we lose some of our life sucks. Life is beautiful because life gives us the ability to just know them in our journey in life.

We met them, we love them, we cared about them, they cared about us. That’s the purpose of life, just enjoy what we have, what we journey through it. Thank you. My pleasure, brother.

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Focus on right now because that is all you’ve got. There isn’t any past, there isn’t any future, now. Now, now’s it. That’s it. When the sand’s gone, it’s gone.

Now you see, there’s more sand in the bottom of the glass than there is in the top. Here, boom, I can turn it over. Now I’ve got more sand in the top than the bottom. You can’t do that with your life. I can do it with a sand timer, but I can’t do it with my life. But I can be more effective now by making up my mind who I’m going to be, and that’s what I recommend you do. Don’t waste your time. Do you know that everybody alive gets exactly the same amount of time we get all there is? It’s what we do with it that makes a difference. Don’t waste your life. Set your goals high.

Quit thinking about what’s wrong. Start thinking what’s right. Love a little more, hate a little less. You have no idea what you’re capable of doing. Make up your mind. Today you’re going to figure it out.

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See the thing about life, we’re gonna die, right, eventually we’re gonna die, But our legacy and live on The impact can be non-perishable Forever, but it’s got to be built right? And we got to take advantage of the time we have right now. If you want it bad enough, you find a way. If you don’t want it bad enough you find an excuse. It’s called the body weight beatdown You don’t need any weights for it. You don’t need you don’t need a gym membership You don’t need any any barbells you don’t need any equipment. All you need is this motherfucker. That’s your weight, your body weight.

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Life is not really long. Let’s say the average person 30 years old If you’re 30 years old you are not but about seven years old How can I prove it and up all the seven eight nine hours you slept for 30 years? Out of 30 years, out of all the nights. last night. when you went to bed and woke up this morning, You don’t remember a thing. You’ve been unconscious for about eight years. if you’re 30 years old, you slept about eight years. Okay,

How much traveling have you done in 30 years from the television station to home to another country to another city to school to church You’ve probably traveled two years your life has been just getting back and forth to where you’re going So there’s eight years of sleeping two years of traveling. There’s 30 years out of your life before you accomplish anything.

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Happiness wasn’t on the mirror at 16,

or when I was doing Japan. It wasn’t like, oh my,

I’m looking for happiness.

No, I’m looking, looking at myself in the mirror and say, all right, mother fucker,

you did it again today.

You’re a bad boy,

because that shit sucks.

I have about a couple minutes of that,

when I got the carrot.

Second I lay down and go to bed, the carrot’s gone,

because I’m waking up all through the night to check the work I did that day.

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Because sometimes we don’t understand, like,

what is this? What is my purpose? Why am I here?

Why do I have to go through this pain?

Why do I have to go through this fear all the time?

Why can’t I just be peaceful all the time?

Then there wouldn’t be life.

You know, there wouldn’t be life.

We have to take life at its term,

life on life term,

not life on our terms.

You know, we have to live life on life terms,

not on our terms.

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You have to accept that all your excuses are lies. They are lies, all of them. Think about the things that you tell yourself, the lies you use to rationalize taking the easy road.

Taking the easy road and leaving discipline behind. Think about them.

You don’t have time. That’s a lie. You don’t have support. That’s a lie. You don’t have the equipment or the gear. Lies. You don’t know the best way. Who cares? That’s a lie. Or you’re too old or you’re too young. Of course you’re too old or too young. Lie.

And there’s you’re too busy. Sure you are.

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All right, in this moment if it’s going out of my way, if it’s going out of control, if it’s spinning out of… What can I control in this moment? I can control my attitude, I can control my words, I can control my perspective, I can control the lens in which I see it. What can I control in the moment when I can’t control something externally, right? Because if I can control what I can control in the moment, what’s happening externally is not going to affect and impact my true potential and my true advancement as a person. Which is the things that I can’t control.

when I’m viewing a situation, when I’m responding to a situation, most importantly, can I use it?

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The first thing I would say is, well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful. But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable. It’s like the first thing you want to do is dispense with the idea that you get to have any any permanent security outside of your ability to contend and adapt. It’s the same issue with children. It’s like you’re paying a price by sitting there being miserable. You might say, well, the devil I know is better than the one I don’t. It’s like, don’t be so sure of that. The clock is ticking.

And if you’re miserable in your job now and you change nothing in five years, you’ll be much more miserable and you’ll be a lot older.

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Okay, two years of traveling, eight years of sleeping, three years of school. How many movies have you went to? How many wrestling matches? How much entertainment? How many movie theaters, live plays, baseball games? Probably two years of entertainment. So by the time a man, you older people know him, bear with us, I’m saying, by the time you have children, by the time you have made a way for your children, by the time you’ve paid for your home, you’re pushing 60 years old. So, life is real short. So you add up all your traveling, add up all your sleeping, add up all your school,

add up all your entertainment, you’ve probably been half your life doing nothing. So what am I, I’m 35 years old, 30 more years I’ll be 65. We don’t have no more influence. We can’t do nothing much at 65, your wife will tell you that.

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Starting tomorrow, what are you going to do that’ll make a change in your life’s direction? Good question. What are you gonna do starting tomorrow that’ll make a difference?

Now, see, if you don’t do something starting tomorrow that’ll make a difference, guess what?

It’s gonna be the same.

And see, that way you can guess what the next five years are gonna be like. Look at the last five. Because the next five are gonna be like the last five, unless you, major key, tomorrow, change it all. Or change a little, or change something, or don’t change. It’s choice time. You can do whatever you want. But it’s nice to know any day you wish you can change your whole life.

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You can work on micro-habits with regards to your conscientiousness, and I think the best micro-habits- this is partly to do with this future authoring program processes. I think the best thing you can do with regards to your conscientiousness is to set up some aims for yourself, goals that you actually value, and the future authoring program helps people do that and, basically, it does a situational analysis of it helps you do a situational analysis of your life more than a psychological analysis, I would say. and so the questions are something like: well, alright,

you’re going to have to put some effort into your life and you need to be motivated to do that.

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Do the best you can. These are years that you can’t get back.

Saddest thing in life is wasted talent, guys. So do the best you can and don’t try to like, it’s so easy to waste time. You know how easy it is if you wanna be a failure? It’s very simple. Just don’t do anything. You have to do nothing. Wanna be a failure? Don’t do anything. You wanna do something with your life? You gotta do something.

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And it’s so true. I mean, when you think about like I’m 54 years old right now, like that, I mean, it just fucking flew by. And, uh, you think when you’re young that you have all this time, you have no time. There’s there, there’s no time. I mean, one of the, one of the quotes on the wall in the gym in there’s, um, you know, there is no tomorrow from, from, from Rocky three, you know, there is no tomorrow, fuck that shit. Let’s let’s, let’s get all this shit done today. I’m not, I’m not afraid of death. Not even a little bit. I’m not afraid of it.

Um, I don’t know if that’ll be the case when I’m facing it. You know, when I’m looking down the barrel of it, laying in a hospital bed somewhere, my life is so fucking awesome. I don’t even want to go to bed at night. I don’t even want to go to sleep. I want to stay up. And I wish I could fucking do 24 hours and never have to sleep. That’s how much I love my life. Yeah.

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last I looked, the person that finishes the race with their hand held isn’t about the, you know, how big they are, how tough they are, their potential, it’s their perseverance. Meaning it’s not about the dog that’s in the fight, it’s the fight within the dog. Well, yeah, it’s a shitty situation. I gotta go to work, I gotta pay the bills and support my family, but you know what it doesn’t mean. I have to shortcut my success in what I’m doing. I’ll find a way to work this out. How do you do that? You gotta have a little ingenuity. I’ll provide that for you guys. All you have to do is follow it.

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changes over the long haul, and the way you have to look at it is if these two boats are going in a parallel direction and one of them just shifts five degrees, over the course of time, this boat is going to be in a far different place than the other boat that’s going the same way it was always going.

Dr Darrell Bock. Yeah, and the important thing to realize as well is the next year is going to go by whether you’re doing something about your life or not. I mean, we’re sitting here right now, at the end of February, and the next ten months are going to go by whether somebody is working to make change or whether they’re not. And they may think, you know, oh my God, I’m so far overweight, I’ll never get it under control, or I’m so behind in my bills, or I’m so, you know, just depressed, or everything is so out of control. Well, you know what?

You make those incremental changes, and then you know, pretty soon, in December, you go: hey, I’m way better off than I was at the end of February. . So, you know, you make little changes, and they all add it up. And if you don’t, by the end of the year you’re just in deeper, so every little bit matters.

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You know, my house is awesome. Like, it’s a really good house. And maybe you have to weigh some things out, and you say, you know, my house is pretty good, and if I was to really want a bigger house, I’d have to work so much more that I wouldn’t be able to see my family. You know what, I’m good with it. That’s fine. That’s perfectly fine. But maybe you’re not getting to spend time with your kids in the morning because you’re sleeping late, and now they’re going off to school, and you haven’t said good morning to them,

haven’t sat down and eaten some bacon with them, or done a quick workout with them, and you know it would make you better, and you know it would make them better, but you’re not doing it. Why? Because you’re being lazy. So tell yourself the truth about the situation that you’re in. That’s what we need to do. And it should hurt a little bit, by the way. It should hurt a little bit. There should be aspects of your life that you know you can improve upon. That should hurt a little bit.

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Driven human beings are going to always feel like they’re behind. They’re going to always feel like they’re not doing good enough. They’re going to always feel like they’re not far enough. They’re all going to always feel like you’re losing. Look, winning, this is how it feels. 90% of the time, you’re going to feel like you’re getting your balls kicked in. All right? 8% of the time, you’re going to be confused and you’re frustrated. 2% of the time, you actually win. And those moments come and go, and then you’re back in the 90%. And that’s the reality of a winner’s life.

People don’t understand that. They think it’s all about cruising around in a cool car having a free and happy and easy and go lucky life. And that’s not reality because true winners are built for the f*****g fight. They’re built for the battle. They don’t find peace and joy and happiness in the win. They find what they’re looking for in the fight.

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There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!

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You know what I hear? I hear the clock ticking. That’s what I hear. and the end is nigh and time waits for no man.

And you young guns out there- 18 years old, 20 years old, 24 years old- listen,

life goes by And it goes by quick. Don’t waste those years. Don’t waste them. live them

Now. I know I I know that you don’t think you’re gonna live to be 30, much less 40, but you are and you will in. the earlier you get in the game And get on track, The better life you’re gonna have: healthier, wealthier, stronger, smarter, better.

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Finally, develop that sense of urgency. Do it fast. Do it now. Fast tempo is essential to success. Fast tempo goes hand in hand with energy, with happiness, with enthusiasm, with self-esteem. So make crystal clear what you want to do. Make crystal clear the steps, and start working on those steps, and do something every day to move you toward the most important goals of your life. And if you do that, you will be an excellent time manager, an excellent personal manager, an excellent life manager. You will have a great, great life.

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Said this is my life. You are exactly who the fuck This is it. and I said this ain’t gonna be it for me. So in that restaurant I quit my job, Left my canister in that restaurant- my spray canister- got back in my eco lab truck and I went home And I started working out like somebody I was. I became the most obsessed person on the planet Earth and I was basically. I had to Invent a guy that didn’t exist.

I had to invent a guy that can take any pain any suffering any kind of judgment Be called bigger be called whatever the fuck in the world and be able to stand a fucking room and say go fuck yourself How’d it built I had to build this callous mind and I built it through suffering. I Built it to downright fucking just crushing myself if it was raining outside three o’clock in the fucking morning for snowing The first thing is think is don’t go out there and do shit. My instinct was we got a. fucking go out there.

Anything that was fucking horrible in my life that I would normally say no That was inhumane to most people. I had to go do it and I started callous in my mind at this point in my life.

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I feel like I’m missing something. I don’t feel like I’m missing shit. I don’t have what you all have, but you’ll never in my life hear me tell you I’m missing something, everybody is. They’re missing this feeling. I found it a long time ago. I found it right there in that willpower thing. When you’re nothing, nothing, and change yourself into something like me, you call it happiness, peace, wherever the fuck you wanna call it,

people are missing exactly what went on with David Goggins. Why don’t you smile? I do, I do, but I figured something out. That’s why you’ll never hear me say I’m missing something. I found it years ago. You find it in the suck. You find it in the suck, and you find it repeatedly in the suck to the point where you know exactly who you are.

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You’re not gonna win it. You’re not going to you’re not gonna score on every shot, right? It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take the shots doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to to hit the goal but part of part of being able to continue to take shots is to have the strength of character to tolerate the fact that that In that instance you weren’t on top.

It’s more trivial in games than it is in fights And it’s also the response is much more negative To the fit from the fans. if you lose a fight and complained about it, It is, it’s ruthless there, because they understand that you’ve made a huge character error.

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Now it’s up to you to cultivate it. And that one gives insight because now the mind is free to discover many many things that go on inside of there. And now it’s not just about the martial art movement. This principle of you think a lot about what needs to be done, then it is being replaced and the mind is free. This now we apply to the life itself.

This is the reason why waking up and thinking too much about what to do today, you don’t even reach the state of being able to immerse into your daily life. Because you’re still in figuring out 24 hours a day what to do. You’re still thinking about your life.

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You’re looking around and you think everybody else is like living their, you know, free and easy life. That’s because that’s what they’re showing you on the internet. But I can assure you that anybody who’s built anything real, anybody who’s built anything significant, all right, these people live in a constant state of frustration and aggravation because they’re so driven and they go so hard and they’re so impatient that it actually wills the result into reality. All right. There’s no high level competitor that exists in the world out here that doesn’t feel that way.

If they tell you that they’re lying. All right. Or they’re not very good. I’m not saying they’re not a high level competitor. So like, dude, you know, there’s a fundamental misunderstanding about this. Enjoy where you are and be hungry for the next thing. Like, bro, I don’t feel like that’s the truth. The truth is: you know, and people will judge this- you know people who are not ambitious and who are wired different, they judge this. They say, well, that’s no way to live. Well, it’s no way to live for you because you’re not wired for it.

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And if you’re an old man like me, and you haven’t gotten on track yet, get on track, get on it now.

Everyone, everyone listening to this, here’s the deal, no complacency. No complacency, no backing off.

No slack whatsoever. Fight, fight that ticking clock with everything you got. So, like the end of a hard day, you can put your head down with ease,

satisfied that you’ve given your best.

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But what we do, people who are on the upper level, hearing the haters at the lower level, like I said, you’ll never meet a hater doing better than you. True statement. I started having fun with it. So I’ll go through the comments, while most people don’t go through comments, I go through them intentionally to look for the bad ones. And while I’ll block and delete you because the people on my page don’t need that negative energy, I’ll block and delete you, but I take a snapshot on my phone and I put it in the archive. So what happens is, there’s days where I’m like, you know what,

I really don’t wanna do this today. And I’m like, oh, hang on. So I started making these mixtapes with all of these hate messages about people talking shit. And it became such a source of fuel that it was amazing because I know why you hate me.

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What is life? What the fuck is your life? Are you happy with it? And if so, it’s just the intake and outtake of breath makes you put a smile on your face. That’s something your fucking mother gave you. You haven’t earned that. What have you done with your life to make it something else besides the normality of everybody else?

Intake and the outtake of what you call life is nothing more than time and unless done something with is forgotten about. There’s no footprint of your existence left for anyone else to follow. Life is time. And a life that’s remembered where footprint is followed behind and footsteps of inspiration and motivation is when time is met with opportunity and action. They collide to be a life of remembrance. The problem is most people don’t have a plan. Without a plan of your own life, you become the plan of someone else’s life. You’re not running the day. The day’s running you.

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Have a good time. Enjoy life. Life is too short to get bogged down and be discouraged. You have to keep moving. You have to keep going. Put one foot in front of the other, smile, and just keep on rolling. That’s what really this camp is about.

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It’s about winning. It’s about being the best. It’s about doing something other people can’t do or haven’t done or don’t have the balls to do. It’s a different game. See, people who think it’s about money and success and cars and houses, they get it confused because, shit’s cool. I like that shit. That’s part of my life, but that’s not why I do this. It has nothing to do with it, actually. I don’t really give a fuck. In fact, I drive home to probably one of the coolest houses in the whole, maybe even the whole world, with one of the coolest car collections in the world, for sure,

and one of the coolest headquarters of one of the coolest companies that exists on the fucking planet every single day. That’s my life, and I’m highly dissatisfied with it. Okay, not because… That’s deep, man. Yeah. Not because I want more, but because I recognize that I’m not even close to the best. I’m not close. Like dude. yeah, I’ve provided income, created jobs, I’ve done all that shit. but, like bro, there’s so many people that are so much better than me and have done so much more than me, , and that’s the game I’ve chosen to play, and I’ve dedicated my life to it,

and I intend to fucking win it.

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All right, you got one life. And that one life, the goal for us is to live it to the best of our ability from the beginning to what’s at the end. In the middle, in the beginning, middle, you’re gonna do things, you’re gonna make mistakes, you’re gonna fuck up. You’re supposed to learn and then move forward with the understanding of what not to do. And when you move forward, life may get better, it may not, but somewhere along the lines, it’s gonna click. And everything that I went through back here was supposed to happen so that now that I’m here,

I’m able to go ahead with such a high level of knowledge and I can make other people better, I can make myself better, I can do more for my family. Something happens.

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You hate me because you’re probably in the bed right now. You’re probably an underachiever. You’re probably somebody who doesn’t want to do anything with your life. So I make you question everything about yourself. So I’m going to continue making you question yourself by coming out here and being even more successful. So I listen to that while I run. I sometimes play it in the house and it sometimes gets on Jennifer’s fucking nerves because I’m sitting and listening to somebody talk mad shit on a loop about me. And she’s like, why do you do this? It’s half comical and it’s half inspiring.

I’m actually inspired by it.

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I was growing up with sports and stuff. My dad was a huge huge athlete And I was always playing competitive sports every you know since I was three years old I Remember, you know wrestling and stuff Before the match or stuff. He come and talk to me. So if you ready you ready You know and it’s like the state championship or something, you know, everything’s right, you know, what and everything else He’s like, how you feel high feel I’m like a little nervous a little nervous. Hey, just talk to me. Oh, So fucking nervous for him because I don’t know, I was nervous.

Wow, he goes explain that I don’t stand that. I don’t know dad. I’m nervous man What are you nervous for? I’m nervous me. Never what I lose. There you go Because you won’t lose I know okay, whatever man get away. I don’t talk this right now. He was shut up and he knows

This is the reward. right now, This is where you get to show it all off You.

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The differential between those people is belief. One person with belief overrides 100 people with just intent. Intent is thought process, thinking, wargaming, and never putting a foot forward, never putting their face or their name to the fire. Belief is going after and figuring it out along the way. This workout is going to bring that belief back in your life. It’s a back workout. And after this workout, not only will you have a stronger back, you have belief and confidence put into action. Life. No longer is your life filled with stop signs, yield signs, and halts, and this and that,

and fucking unauthorized motherfucking fines. Life begins now. If it doesn’t begin now, your life is fucking over.

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Thinking is something different than experiencing, than sensing, than feeling life itself. This is why all these methods, stop thinking, meditate, discipline your thoughts, stop thinking too much, don’t go into the past, don’t go into the future, be in the present. Why? Because only then it’s possible that the mind is free, the capacity is free, and now you completely immerse into whatever you are doing. And this means you have arrived.

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You got to start believing in your imagination. You got to start talking to him about these stuff you be seeing. But you have not because you ask not. So if you see the vision, the imagination, but you don’t ask God for it, what you want him to do? He showed it to you. Faith without works is dead. So now you got to put in work. All of y’all sitting in here, you want a better life, correct? Haven’t you imagined a better life? Okay, who you think he showed it to? He showed it to you. Why you think he showed it to you? Because he want to give it to you.

But if you don’t work, if you don’t ask him for it, he cannot give it to you because he created us with the power of choice. We make choices every day. If you decide that you will be poor, there’s nothing I can do. You’re going to be poor.

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Some people aren’t wired to live like that. In fact, most people aren’t. In fact, it’s less than 1% of the actual population. That’s why the 1% is the 1%, all right? So you have to understand, if you’re out there building something, whether it be an athletic career, a professional career, a physique, a business, whatever it is you’re building, you’re gonna spend most of your time feeling frustrated. You’re gonna feel most of the time like you’re losing. You’re gonna feel like most of the time you’re getting your ass kicked. And then some good stuff’s gonna happen, all right?

But then after the good stuff happens, you’re gonna automatically flip your brain over to what’s next, all right? And then the process starts over again. And we can observe this in championship caliber people.

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Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning, but winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they’re being lazy.

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I was just honest. I was honest. Look at yourself, man. Look at yourself. And it was that day and a couple other days after that, I just got real with myself. And every day I came home, I called the accountability mirror. What am I going to do today to change what I see in this mirror? What am I going to do today? And a lot of it was I stopped sitting with the cool guys. I actually tucked my shirt in and went to school looking like, hey, man, this is how I’m going to look. If you don’t like it, so be it. I had to really wear this layer of skin.

I had to develop a really callous skin on me to take whatever you’re going to call me, you’re going to call me. Whatever I’m going to be. I wasn’t a geek, but whoever I am, you’re going to see me. You’re going to see me for who I am because I need to change who I’m not.

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He’s like, people look at champions and try and find something that that champion has that they don’t have. He’s like, but it’s not that at all. He’s like, they lack something everyone else has, which is an off button. They just don’t stop.

And at the end of the day, like if we’re, if we’re optimizing for outcomes, then the most broken person will win. The person who has the absolute biggest, you know, desire for achievement, the absolute biggest fear or pain that they’re running away from and the hardest impulse control now impulse control, most people would agree is a good thing. The other two, not as much. And so what are we optimizing for? What problem are we solving? It’s my favorite. It’s probably the number one most frequently asked question that I asked to our portfolio companies whenever we’re about to do anything,

which is what problem are we solving? If the problem that we’re solving is that I want to be content, well, there’s a lot of ways to do that and you don’t need to do all these other things. If the problem you’re solving is that you want to be the richest man in the world, well, you’re going to have to have a lot of superiority complex. You have a lot of crippling insecurity and you have a lot of impulse control and you have to wait a long time.

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I started realizing through this, through this process, That the fucking mind is what you created. and I started opening different doors that I didn’t think were even there, They didn’t think even existed. and the more doors open up the more I start realizing that my potential is damn near endless And it changed my whole mindset. So I went from David Goggins and I created Goggins, and,

And That journey is a priceless journey that it’s hard for me to even explain to people because it sounds so quick and easy that guys Lost this weight and I went through three hell weeks I went to Ranger school went to Delta Force Lexington, whatever it is. It was brutal It’s a brutal journey every fucking day and it ever was what are you happy? If anybody knows my life story, I’ll try to give you a just a snippet of it. Where I’m at today is in front of Joe Rogan telling you my life to get through where I became, To get through where I’m at now.

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This workout is going to test you guys.

It’s going to break you too.

But in doing so, it’s going to grow you.

Just like life itself, man.

You go after things. You try them.

Even if you fail,

you get back up and you continue to try and fail. Continue to try and fail.

And ensuring you never fail to try.

Because nothing’s impossible.

Just a spelling of impossible.

It’s spelled I’m possible.

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The difference between a dream and a goal is a timeline and accountability. Darrell Bock, Yeah. Accountability’s gigantic. Richard Wagner, You gotta have somebody, whether it’s yourself or a friend or somebody that’s gonna say, look, did you do what you said you were gonna do by this time? And if you don’t, hold your feet to the fire. Because I mean, just sitting around dreaming, someday, you know, someday I’m gonna get a different job. Someday I’m gonna change this. Well, someday ain’t a day of the week. You know, there’s Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Look on your calendar. Someday’s not on there. So you gotta say, okay, I’m gonna take this small step by here, this small step by there, this small step by there. And then pretty soon, you know, we don’t leap tall buildings in a single bound. We take it a floor at a time.

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Why would you not go for it? Why would you not take a chance? You know, Tom Bell was out here. He said, at one point in time, you got to take a chance on you. But see, let me help you understand something, in case you ain’t thought about that. When you take a chance on you, I want you to remember something, that all of us were created in God’s image. So when you take a chance on you, you’re taking a chance on God. Because God is in all of us. You know, I mean, look, man, you might not talk to him as much as you ought to. We might not acknowledge him in every way we should.

But he’s in all of us.

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Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s a part of it. Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s a part of it. And the reason that I’m saying that is because when it says don’t be pushed by your problems, problems are a part of the journey. Opposition are a part of the journey. Adversity is a part of the journey. It’s all a part of development and growth as a person. And so when you got dreams and you got problems, I look at it as it’s interconnected. You got your dream, you got your goal, you got your aspirations. Problems are gonna happen along the way.

Conflict is gonna happen along the way. Uncertainty is gonna happen along the way. But the thing that’s important is putting things in place to fight it. Whether it be people, situation, routines, whatever the case may be, when you encounter problems, situation, circumstances that don’t unfold the way you want it to, what do you have in place to counter the conflict? It’s like when they tell you stay away from negative people, they got a problem for every solution.

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When you feel that pressure inside of you, and it’s very heavy, like weather that’s very heavy and thick, you’re motivated, you feel it. I’ve got to get up in the morning, I’ve got to do this, I’ve got to accomplish this. When that pressure goes away, and you don’t feel any pressure in your life, you can do anything and there’s no consequences for it. You’ll just waste time, you’ll waste years, you’ll waste months, you’ll never accomplish anything. You give somebody a deadline, right? They’ll accomplish in two months what it would take somebody two years to do without a deadline.

It’s that necessity, it’s that sense of, there’s a sword at my back, I’ve got to get it done. It makes you get things done, it gives you the energy.

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Wait another thousand years before you get the next green. Keep that up until there’s no more sand in the desert. Whew! You know how long it just took. I mean, America’s not but 200 years old. We got 800 more years to go before a thousand. So it just scares me to think that I’m gonna die one day and go to hell. I’m on an airplane that might blow up. I’m always traveling. And to go to hell and God is gonna judge my soul. The police, I might kill people. I might rob people. The authorities might not catch me. The FBI, Scotland Yard might not catch me.

But when I die, somebody’s watching me and keeping count. And I can’t get away. And I’m gonna burn forever and ever and ever. I’ll go to heaven. So what am I gonna do when I’m through fighting? I only have 16 years to be productive. Get myself ready to meet God and go to the best place.

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Life was very bad, very fucking bad for my dad. Son got successful, son then took money, gave it to his dad. Here’s your house, here’s your truck, here’s your monthly. At this age, I want you to live your life. You done made mistakes, you can’t rebuild and correct the things that you’ve done. I’m your son, I love you. You can’t go back and redo. You can’t try to keep going backwards. It ain’t about me, you got grandkids. Go be the best grandpop you can be for these grandkids. That’s your focus now. Where’s this energy devoted to? Being a grandpop for the grandkids. Don’t worry about me.

But something happened in your life, something happened that took you in the direction to reap the benefits of your son’s happiness and success. My energy is now contagious enough and I hand it to you. So now you’re able to give that off to all these other people that you’re around. Something happens and that’s in every single life. In every life.

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Most people are missing something because they don’t know who they are. They never examine themselves. They’ve never done this experiment on themselves. The lab rat, we’re all lab rats, but you’re also the scientist. You create your own self. Most people are missing something because there’s so much trapped in there. I don’t even want to say potential. I think that’s a word used out too much too. There’s so much in you that God or wherever the hell you believe in or if you’re an atheist, in you that you have not unlocked.

That you walk around with this gorgeous wife or great husband and all this money. You’re like, God, I feel like I’m missing something. Yeah, because it’s about 75% of you is still fucking in there. Still chained up because you just didn’t want to find your willpower.

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I would love to be able to give you this profound anchor that people need to have.

But it’s like, do you wanna do this or not?

Which is what I think a lot of it boils down to. Do you actually wanna do this or not?

Do you actually wanna do this or not? Cuz if you actually wanna do it,

what’s gonna stop you? Nothing.

And if you don’t really wanna do it,

what’s gonna stop you?

Just about anything that comes up. Just about any obstacle that gets in your way becomes an excuse.

It becomes a reason,

it becomes a rationale for not proceeding down that path.

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I would love to be able to give you this profound anchor that people need to have.

But it’s like, do you wanna do this or not?

Which is what I think a lot of it boils down to. Do you actually wanna do this or not?

Do you actually wanna do this or not? Cuz if you actually wanna do it,

what’s gonna stop you? Nothing.

And if you don’t really wanna do it,

what’s gonna stop you?

Just about anything that comes up. Just about any obstacle that gets in your way becomes an excuse.

It becomes a reason,

it becomes a rationale for not proceeding down that path.

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He goes hours and hours to the late hours of the night. Thousands of them been on that mat wrestling in the weight rooms, lifting, running, training and training and training. And you get to take all those hours, put them all together and explode them on the mother f**ker on the other side of the mat tonight. This is where you get to shovel them all off. You ain’t trying to be nervous. It’s time to be excited. Time to be pumped up. And you get to grab all that ability. You’ve been trained so hard and you get to show it off. If you’re nervous right now, it’s because you didn’t put the time in,

in the past to make the moment today, the present, forever. That’s the only time you can be nervous right now. It’s when you didn’t do the work. You have an untrained ability, colliding with an opportunity. And you’re nervous because you might fail because you didn’t put the work in.

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Turn your feelings off when it comes down to you wanting to be better. What that means is, when that alarm clock goes off, Your feelings got to go away It’s raining outside. It’s cold outside. Well, you don’t want to put those long hours in that work That’s what I’m talking about. Your feelings must go away When you know everybody’s gone home to their families. But you know you want to be the top salesperson in the world Or you want to be the fucking best lawyer in the world. where the fuck it is? When everybody leaves to go home and there’s only one light on in a building,

a 15-story building and only one office, Every office is fucking dark There’s one office with one light on and as those motherfuckers go from the club. They look up every day Two o’clock in the morning. I see that and that fucking lights always on.

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Your better future is a dream for yourself and for your family. Where do you want to go? What do you want to do? What do you want to be? What do you want to see? You’ve got to dream dreams. There’s a Bible phrase that says, without dreams and visions, people perish. You’ve got to have something to go for that inspires the heart and the soul.

Dreams.

From the children of Sanchez, it says, Take the crumbs from starving soldiers, they won’t die. Take the bread from hungry children, they won’t cry. But without dreams, we all will die. You’ve got to dream. Don’t lose your dreams. For yourself, for your future, for your family, the dreams of love and enterprise and travel and doing things, Becoming something unique on your journey here, don’t lose your dreams. Do some dreaming.

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Dreams.

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You can’t be weak. And in this country, being weak is thought of as a virtue. Jordan Peterson has a really interesting way of looking at this. He said it to me once and it made a lot of sense. He said, people think that you should be weak and you should be docile and then you should be a pacifist. He goes, no, you should be a monster. He said you should be a monster. Rather you should be ruthlessly ambitious and then learn how to control it. And it’s that old expression. It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

It’s an old expression, but it makes sense because it doesn’t mean that you can’t be kind if you’re strong, but it does mean you can’t be strong if you’re weak. If you’re weak, you’re fucked.

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I know some people that waste hours, hours playing little games on their phone.

Games that are built and designed to release dopamine and keep you playing.

And the games and the engineers, that’s their focus.

Same thing with the news feed. What are the news feed doing? Constantly updating information on the big story. New big story that you need to stay up to date on. It’s the big thing that’s happening. You don’t want to miss it.

The news, so distracting.

Doesn’t even seem like they should be allowed to run so many stories because it’s distracting you and those game engineers shouldn’t be able to design those games because they’re distracting you.

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Just keep stacking days. Just keep stacking days. As long as you keep stacking days, I promise you, I promise you, you will see the change. But my coach used to always say, everything that you want is on the other side of hard. Right, he had another, I think I said in the book, he said, reps were moved out. Right, reps were moved out. My biggest frustration with my son used to be, we would go outside at the house and he would shoot a shot and he’d be mad. He’d be like, dang. I’d be like, what you mad for? You don’t get up enough reps.

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When you talk to people that went to SEAL training that didn’t make it, most of the time it’s some reason. There’s a medical reason, there’s a family problem. There’s very few people that look at you and say, I quit because it sucked. Which is what, by the way, which is what happens to the vast majority of people. The vast majority of people that don’t make it through SEAL training, and by this I mean 80, 90% of the people that don’t make it through SEAL training, they didn’t make it through because they quit. And even in their mind, they probably don’t believe it.

They probably believe, well, it was my leg, and once my leg was hurting, I knew I was gonna have a hard time on the runs, and since I wasn’t gonna be able to make the runs, that’s why I quit. But it wasn’t really quitting, it was because of my leg.

So it’s, like I said, it’s a very strange and really kind of a mystical thing.

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So it’s, like I said, it’s a very strange and really kind of a mystical thing.

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to wake up every day and say, I’m stupid, but I want to figure out a way to be smarter. Versus saying, man, I just can’t do that. So you limit this box. So your box becomes so small of things you can do. My box wasn’t even a box. It was a fucking little like little pinhole. And then through examining myself, getting some willpower, some courage, it became bigger than this table. But that’s what we all do. That’s why I wanted to come here today and talk to you about real shit. Not no fucking like hacks. There’s no hacks, bro. It’s you against you. You against you.

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to wake up every day and say, I’m stupid, but I want to figure out a way to be smarter. Versus saying, man, I just can’t do that. So you limit this box. So your box becomes so small of things you can do. My box wasn’t even a box. It was a fucking little like little pinhole. And then through examining myself, getting some willpower, some courage, it became bigger than this table. But that’s what we all do. That’s why I wanted to come here today and talk to you about real shit. Not no fucking like hacks. There’s no hacks, bro. It’s you against you. You against you.

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Fear is a mile wide and an inch deep. And so it looks like this ocean that you’re going to step into and drown. But as soon as you step into it, you realize it was not that deep at all, and you can keep walking through it. And I just love that visual because a lot of times when it’s like we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to make, if you actually take the step and realize that it’s not death, you’re not going to drown immediately. There’s plenty of other steps you can take from there, even if you get a little wet.

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My emotions are now leading me down the wrong path. I’m in control. I’m not going to allow my emotions to make my decisions. They’re in the calculus. I’m not saying take your emotions out of the calculus. But they have to be one component of your calculus, not the whole equation. The equation has to include emotions, yes. Logic, yes. Future, yes. Goals, yes. Family, yes. Work, yes. Finances, yes. All those things have to be in the calculus. Emotions has to be a part of that calculus. You can’t pull them out of there, or they’ll bite you.

But you can’t make them the overwhelming denominator of everything that you do, or it’s going to be problematic.

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But you can’t make them the overwhelming denominator of everything that you do, or it’s going to be problematic.

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The ultimate lesson here is this, everybody’s on their own path. And I don’t want to judge someone for wanting to be free and easy. I just want you to understand that there’s a cost to that and the cost that you’re going to have that isn’t going to come until later. All right. So really the truth is most people need to shut the up and focus on that version of themselves. They want to become and actually be willing to become it. And that’s what’s ultimately going to create the fulfillment that you’re looking for.

It’s not going to be your cold plunge. It’s not going to be your morning routine. It’s not going to be your journaling. It’s not going to be your grounding. It’s not going to be your granola lunch. It’s not going to be you living in the van. It’s not going to be your therapy.

It’s going to be the work that you can do to become that version of yourself. That is the exact version that you know you’re supposed to become and then being proud of it. That’s what’s going to create the fulfillment that you’re searching for.

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I’m scared to death up here. Why? When I was in sixth grade, I was in a play, and I stood up in front of a whole bunch of white people that probably didn’t, you know, I was being judged in my mind. Scared the shit out of me. And I stuttered severely bad. I knew I stuttered bad. My line was this long. It was like, hello or some shit.

And I stood up in front of everybody, I was like this. And I walked off stage. So when I walk up in front of 1,200 people, it’s still there. My mind’s telling me, go. Run off the stage. I have to tell my mind something different. I have to remember my resume, what I’ve been through, that all of you in here are just as fucked up as me. We post our real life never on Instagram. We post the life that we want to have out there. That’s not me anymore. I’m going to tell you exactly about me. Who I am. That’s how you get better. That’s how you fix yourself. That’s how you grow.

Because you’re sad, now you’re going to make a bunch of bad decisions because you’re sad. No, no, it doesn’t work like that. It doesn’t work like that. You’re sad. Okay. You get emotional sometimes. Okay. Got it. Now get control of your emotions and carry on with your life. And sometimes you’re going to get hit with those waves. And that’s okay. I think that’s a big misconception. It sort of relates to what you’re saying. Oh, I’m having an emotional moment right now. There’s something wrong with me. No, there’s nothing wrong with you. There’s nothing wrong with you. The other extreme is, oh,

I’m letting my emotions run my life and I’m making a bunch of bad decisions and my excuse is, well, you know, I lost some friends or I had this traumatic experience happen to me. That’s why I’m doing… That’s just an excuse. And it’s a very easy excuse. And instead of saying, hey man, yeah, guess what? It’s time to carry on.

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You grow up and you make game winning shots and it’s awesome. And you come back the next day and miss a game winning shot and it’s misery. And then the next day comes and you’re back playing again. And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it’s, what you do on Monday, it’s fantastic. But then Tuesday is a bad day, but guess what? There’s Wednesday. So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? You know, versus just staying like this and understanding that it’s really just a journey of evolution every day.

It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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You grow up and you make game winning shots and it’s awesome. And you come back the next day and miss a game winning shot and it’s misery. And then the next day comes and you’re back playing again. And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it’s, what you do on Monday, it’s fantastic. But then Tuesday is a bad day, but guess what? There’s Wednesday. So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? You know, versus just staying like this and understanding that it’s really just a journey of evolution every day.

It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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He was like, the only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you and then you’ll forget they exist. Success is the only revenge. He’s like, it’s not the best revenge. He’s like, it’s the only one. There’s no other revenge because everything else is petty. Everything else does show that you were thinking about these people all day long, which means they win by default. He’s like, all you can do is think about your goal and winning. He’s like, and when you win, that’s when you become so big that they shrink into irrelevance.

You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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A lot of people, man, how do you do what you do? At the end of the day, I ask myself one question, can I take one more step? And usually the answer is yes. So if you can answer that question and not take another step, that is real failure. That is real quitting. So a lot of people can take one more step, but they choose not to. I don’t know if you can take two steps. You gotta answer that question after you take the first step. But I can always take one more step, so if I choose not to, that’s on me. And I gotta live with that. Does that link in with the one second decision? Yes, yes.

So the one second decision is, I had to live through that one second decision several times during this race. So this race took me 100 and some hours, okay? And this is what people don’t get. For you to finish that race, even though I DNFed, I still finished in the time. So there’s a lot of pride in that.

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The clock just keeps ticking down and the lower that number gets you realize how fucking amazing now is. The present is a miracle, bro.

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A simple truth in life is things are not going to go your way. Things are not going to work out the way you planned. Things are not going to be the way that you wanted them to be.

Part of it is suck it up, buttercup, get up, keep on going, dust yourself off because everyone else you have looked up to has failed, myself included. If they were able to move from setback to setback without losing steam, without losing the faith, then why can’t you? Life is a series of seasons, sometimes setbacks, sometimes springboards. The best is yet to come for he or she who continues to believe and he or she who continues to put the work in.

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You’re too tired or you’re too sore, or you’re just plain not feeling. it lies, lies, lies, And the list goes on and on and on,

And it doesn’t stop if you don’t make it stop.

so, recognize,

Recognize The excuses are not valid They aren’t they’re trumped up. They’re conjured up. They’re fabricated. They’re lies. And how do you stop the lies you stop the lies with the truth?

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You’re too tired or you’re too sore, or you’re just plain not feeling. it lies, lies, lies, And the list goes on and on and on,

And it doesn’t stop if you don’t make it stop.

so, recognize,

Recognize The excuses are not valid They aren’t they’re trumped up. They’re conjured up. They’re fabricated. They’re lies. And how do you stop the lies you stop the lies with the truth?

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If your definition of success is win or lose,

giving everything you’ve got and growing or learning along the way,

then you’re setting yourself up for success. I really think the biggest cheat code in life is just going after it and not being concerned of whether or not you fail at one specific task.

Instead, understanding the big picture,

what your long-term goal is,

and knowing if you keep driving forward and never fucking quit,

in the end you will succeed.

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If your definition of success is win or lose,

giving everything you’ve got and growing or learning along the way,

then you’re setting yourself up for success. I really think the biggest cheat code in life is just going after it and not being concerned of whether or not you fail at one specific task.

Instead, understanding the big picture,

what your long-term goal is,

and knowing if you keep driving forward and never fucking quit,

in the end you will succeed.

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When everybody leaves, oh man, I wish I was going home to my fucking beautiful family. That is true. But you got to learn to shut your feelings off if you want to achieve greatness. And greatness is only achieved when your feelings about that kind of shit- and let me say that kind of shit. so for those soft people who may be listening to this, don’t put words in my mouth. I’m not talking about your fucking family and all that shit. I’m talking about the grind. The fucking grind. Your feelings have to go away.

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That’s why failure always saves your friend guys because you don’t like that feel It’s like when you’re in the gym and you’re training hard your muscles doesn’t like to be worth that hard So with the rest of nutrition your muscles grow back stronger. I don’t like losing I didn’t lose that much by the way. I didn’t like that lose. So when I matches over, my hand wasn’t raised, dude, I was killing myself to ensure that didn’t happen again, to ensure the next opportunity

Collided in my favor.

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Collided in my favor.

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The truth will set you free. The truth will stand and the truth will deliver you from procrastination and laziness and the downward spiral that comes with a lack of discipline.

So don’t believe the lies, believe the truth. And the truth is you have time, you have the skill, you have the knowledge and the support and the willpower and the discipline to get it done.

So cast out the lies, burn them down.

And listen to the truth and live the truth and go out and get it done.

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The truth will set you free. The truth will stand and the truth will deliver you from procrastination and laziness and the downward spiral that comes with a lack of discipline.

So don’t believe the lies, believe the truth. And the truth is you have time, you have the skill, you have the knowledge and the support and the willpower and the discipline to get it done.

So cast out the lies, burn them down.

And listen to the truth and live the truth and go out and get it done.

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My very last question on the questions to ponder is why not now? There never was a better time.

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you’re more powerful than you think. Way more powerful than you think. I mean, God only knows what you are in the final analysis. You’re blind to your own weaknesses, but you’re also blind to your own strengths. And so then I think, well, if you got your act together, it’d be better for you. And instantly it would be better for your family, assuming they wanted you to get your act together and not everyone does, but, and then it would be better for the community. It’s like, how far could you take that?

If you stopped wasting time and if you stopped lying and if you oriented yourself to the highest possible good that you could conceive of and you committed to that, how much good could you do? Well, I would say, why don’t you find out?

So that’s what I think you should do. You should find out. You don’t have anything better to do and there’s nothing in it, as far as I’ve been able to tell, there’s nothing in it but good.

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I want to feel that. I want to get to the other end of this fucking world and however I’m being judged Whoever’s judging me to look at me and say I did not Fucking know I had you at 185. It has you at this but all this other shit. I was riding as you were living it. I want to. I want to find more All I can. And in that fucking sack of shit You have to dive in that to find more, Because if you’re not willing to go in there and face yourself, I can find anything. You can live right here on surface, man, right here on surface.

So if there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go and there’s a judgment, You’re gonna get there and you might see a chart And that chart may tell you who the fuck you should have been.

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And of course, there’s social media, there’s Twitter, there’s the gram, there’s the Facebooky and Snapchat and TikTok, all 100% designed to lure you in and then keep you trapped in their little algorithm.

So, those are some forces of distraction that we have to contend with. Powerful forces, by the way, designed by brilliant people that are making millions, billions of dollars to keep you distracted. That’s their sole goal, is keeping you focused on that screen and not on your life.

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This ain’t you, bro. This ain’t you. You weren’t born like this.

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Now we’re outside right now. Why are we outside? Because we want to fucking transform man. So why are we gonna do what we’re gonna do? We’re gonna get a little more motivation. I’m gonna tell them motherfuckers out here that we’re here to fucking win. This is my fucking time!

Deadline! That’s how you do it guys. You fucking commit to something. You tell everyone about it. And no matter what they honk and cheer for you, they get behind you. Instead of being one of those subjective nature losers in life. That beats you down because you’re doing better than them and you’re reminding them of their failures.

And here we start. Get their mind right, the body will follow. Tell the world, get a goal. Achievable goal. And then day by day by day, you start to do that goal. To make it the reality guys. It’s not guesswork. It’s a science of intensity. And if you don’t have the intensity, don’t fucking come in.

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You don’t have enough time and no one does no one has enough time. It’s a finite commodity and we’re all running out of time and That is why we can’t waste any time. Can’t waste time Sitting around and doing nothing can’t waste time scrolling through social media. You can’t waste time Flipping through the various streaming movies That are available to you Can’t do that. You can’t waste time, Not a second. In fact. what you need to do every chance you get is: you need to make time.

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that you and I are capable of doing whatever we can see. We can hold it in our head, we can hold it in our hand. We’ve got to step out and do different. We’ve got to quit playing like this is a game. We’ve got to treat life like what it is. It’s sacred. Yet we’re capable of doing anything we want. But we’ve got to do it. It ain’t going to happen for us. You see, I think this is very important we focus on this. Focus on right now because that is all you’ve got. There isn’t any past, there isn’t any future. Now, now, now’s it. That’s it. When the sand’s gone, it’s gone.

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I had developed a lot of anger and I still have it. It will never go away for the normal human beings in this world. Because when you put yourself in the sewer like I was in, and please, if someone saved me, come out and announce it to the world. There was no one. There’s no one. So when you know that, and then I’m sitting at a table with all these smart people who are telling me what to do and shit and guiding me through my life now, when I’m 40 fucking years old, you know, I was, I don’t know, 40 something years old, now I’m 49.

And I’m looking at them all and they’re now trying to guide me on what’s right, on this poison. And so, yeah, what you say is right, but for me, it was more of, I know now. I don’t need you to guide my future. I know what’s good for me and what’s bad for me.

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I look in the mirror, anxiety fills me, stressed out. Because I’m like, man, is that enough time? I’m out of time, I’m running out. I haven’t become the person I want to be yet. I don’t know how much more time’s left. Maybe today’s the only day I got. I don’t know. There’s so much to do and so little time. That’s all I keep thinking about. I never sit back and settle and relax on past fucking accomplishments or anything else. Bullshit. I live in the fucking present or the future. Never live in the past. I never relish in anything I used to do. All that shit’s great, I’m proud of it.

That shit is making me who I am now, strong enough to tackle the next endeavor, the next endeavor, the next endeavor. Always looking forward, never looking back.

I can sit here and be your mom, guys, be your buddy and say, you know what? Doesn’t matter if you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. It’s all about making sure you have fun in life.

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Those days when I’m tired or worn out or just basically sick of the grind. What do I do on those days? I go anyways.

I get it done even if I’m just going through the motions. I go through the motions. I don’t really wanna work out, I work out. I really don’t wanna hammer on a project. I hammer on the project. Don’t really wanna get up and get out of bed.

Yeah, I get up and get out of bed.

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Hating on the obstacles in the way of you doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Fantasizing about all of the adoration you’ll receive once you do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading this essay isn’t doing the thing. The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing. That you can dress it up however you want, the work just needs doing.

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you might be at that job another 10 years,

you might be there another 20 years,

but that opportunity,

somebody’s about to leave and get another job,

hear me very closely,

somebody’s about to quit, somebody’s about to get fired,

and you will not,

listen to me,

you will not be ready at that particular moment to go to the next level.

We’re not talking about the job right now,

we’re talking about an opportunity.

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have been practicing like they the one. They might have been practicing like they was the number two dude, right? They might have been practicing like, ah, now you get it, you running out of time. You never know when your opportunity is that opportunity. It may not be two years from now. It may not be three years from now. It may not be four years from now. Your opportunity might come in the next six weeks. Your opportunity to get your mama out of that neighborhood and get your mama into a new neighborhood. Listen to me, that opportunity might come in the next six months.

And the question is, listen to me, the question is, will you be ready when that opportunity comes? So you running out of time.

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That’s why people love to go on there, because they want to show you the good side of life. I’m not teaching good side of life. So I had to figure out a way when I came on in 2016 of teaching you what life really is for the majority of us is hell. And so while people love to show you the cars and the house and the vacations and shit, all that’s good, all that’s happy. I’m gonna show you the side that I know most of you are going through. And people hide very well. I don’t want to hide anymore. I hid for 24 fucking years. That’s why now I told you, we can talk about whatever you want.

Because as human beings, the first thing we have to learn, I also stuttered real bad growing up. So if you hear me stutter every now and then, it’s because that was part of my life also.

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These could be signals that you need some time off. And those signals might be right. They could be correct. But don’t take today off. Not today. Wait until tomorrow. Don’t give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear.

Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

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So happiness either exists or doesn’t exist. Call me materialistic, but I think if you’re happy and you have money, it’s a lot more happier than if you’re happy and broke. And if you’re going to go and play the game and lose or play the game and win, I think it’s more fun to play than to win. So why not do that? So I can sit here and tell you about, you know, all the things you should do to keep motivated, not burn out, or I can open up my voices in my head to you and tell you what they think.

Publicly, but I’m all out to you. But you know how crazy my fucking mental capacity is at times.

So I wake up and I look at myself in the mirror. I see failure every day. I do.

I’m like, man, you’re not there yet. I don’t know if you got any more time left. You better make today count. That’s what I think.

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We are inundated by people who refuse to take responsibility For the life that they have created. and I got bad news for you: There’s nobody coming. There’s nobody coming to save you. There’s nobody coming to help you. a knight in shining armor isn’t gonna ride in and save you. You are the only one that’s going to be able to save you. and all this time You point your finger and you say: I can’t do that because I was born here, Or I can’t do that because I have this issue, or I can’t do that because they made fun of me. And you know what’s gonna happen?

Nothing, you’re gonna get more of the same. You’re gonna get laughed at more. You’re gonna be ashamed more, You’re gonna be frustrated more and you’re gonna really regret at the end of your life that you put off Taking responsibility for yourself and building yourself into what could be.

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You keep telling yourself you got time and watch what happens. Now, you got to get what I’m telling you. Being average is dangerous. Being average is hazardous. Do you know how many young people right now, you average? Do you know you average because your father was average or your grandfather was average? I told you, I dropped out of school because my father dropped out, because my grandfather dropped out, average. There’s some folks right now because you average, your life is messed up. Your wife life is messed up. Your kid’s life is messed up. Are you hearing me? Because you average.

And because you average, you’re a teacher. Your classroom is average. Your students are average. Your students are not pushing themselves. Why? Because you not pushing them, because you don’t push yourself.

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I want you to learn that the only way you grow is how to look at yourself and say, okay, like I did. Table longer than this. What the fuck I have to do to get somewhere? There was nothing good on there. Nothing. Yeah, I love playing basketball. I left that out. That’s something I love to do. I don’t care about that. That didn’t make the fucking list. Cause the list that I had to live by was the very list that was to get me at this table with you. To talk to you, to the normal human beings was I once was about how you can get somewhere and how it looks. It looks very ugly.

There’s no fucking passion. There’s no fucking motivation. There’s no, oh my God, man. I fucking, this is no. It’s every day of your life, just doing.

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Nobody’s coming to save you, Big Dog! Don’t you get that? Your whole life has led to this point because of you. Your shitty decisions, your fucked up habits, your poor choices have caused you to end up at this point. The only person, Big Dog, that’s gonna get you out of this spot is you! No more fucking excuses! No more coming up with reasons why you can’t! Grab a fucking gear, get focused, get ferocious! It’s time to level up! Let’s go!

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You need to get up earlier. You need to pick up the pace when you’re going to your car, maybe even jog a little bit.

Rest less between your sets when you’re working out. Focus harder when you’re at work so you can get the job done faster.

Put a schedule together and compress your meetings and your calls. See where you can save three minutes, or five minutes, or 10 minutes. How can you move faster with more efficiency and maximum effectiveness? You save those three minutes, you save those five minutes, and those minutes add up.

And those minutes become hours, and days, and weeks. That is how you make time. So get that sense of urgency and go get after it.

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The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

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Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning, but winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they’re being lazy. So if you’re a winner, you ain’t comfortable.

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Who’s the person that you care about the most in this world?

Name me one My mom. Yeah, so if someone came and Took your mom and put her in a cloud in the sky and the only way that you could see her again Is if you built a tower high enough To be able to bring her back down or to be with her again. Would you wake up tomorrow and wonder why you? Would you get building?

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Someone’s sitting in a room by themselves and they figure themselves out and say, God, this is going to fucking suck. Where’s passion when you’re 300 pounds? Where’s the motivation when you can’t read and write? Where is it? So, how did this happen? I just fucking did. I just did. I said, maybe at the end of this journey there’ll be something there for me. If not, I can read. If not, I’m 185 fucking pounds. There’s no magic potion. There’s no, oh, let me wake up and look at some shit. No, all those words are overused. They’re bullshit. It’s all bullshit. Just do your living.

How do you want to live? How do you want to die? How do you want to fucking be remembered? That’s it. That’s it. Period.

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If you are going to rest, that is one thing that you should procrastinate on. that’s the one thing I want you to put off until tomorrow. and if, when tomorrow comes, You still feel like you need to rest or you need to take a break, then okay, Take it,

but the chances are You won’t, You won’t need that rest. chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. it was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path, and

by simply going through the motions,

You overcame that path and you stayed on the righteous path, the discipline path. You stayed on the war path.

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The real change in my life came from being able to separate doing what I want to do and being competent in being able to do what’s necessary. And now I make decisions every single day based on being competent in doing what’s necessary. Is this going to make me better? No. It goes. Is this going to help my life? No. It goes. Is this going to create a brighter future for those around me? No. It goes. And it’s simple as that.

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So when I overcame the water, more courage. When I overcame the fear of myself, the fear of failure, the fear of being judged, the fear of kind of like, so I made, so in this process, I went from David Goggins, I started forming a guy named Goggins. I had to really invent, I realized I had to reinvent a whole nother human being within myself because who I am wasn’t gonna make it. This guy is not gonna cut it. So I had to be a guy who can take any kind of pain, any kind of suffering, any kind of torture, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

I had to have the people who, I had to visualize, everybody that called me nigger, you had to be in a room of people like this. I had to make up these things in my mind, the things I had to overcome, and I started callusing my mind.

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If you’re subconsciously telling yourself, I’m a lazy person, I’m the kind of person that kind of gives up. I’ve got no work ethic. That gives up easily. Then you will always show up lazy. You will always show up and give up when things get a little tough. If you start saying that my identity is that I’m going to be a disciplined human, I’m going to be disciplined woman. I’m going to be a disciplined man. Once you take on that identity, now you have to do the things that discipline requires and discipline doesn’t care if you’re tired, you’re tired, do it anyway. Right?

Discipline says, Oh, you don’t, you don’t, you don’t feel good. We’ll do it anyway. Discipline says it’s raining outside and it’s cold and it’s windy. Do it anyway. It becomes the identity.

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Yeah, life is a full range of emotions. You’re not here to pursue happiness. It’s not that experiencing happiness isn’t something that you shouldn’t want more than experiencing pain. Obviously, I’m going to want pleasure more than I want pain. It only makes sense. But life is a range of emotions. To not want to experience something, one, is inevitable.

But two, it’s the fear of the pain that comes attached to that, that you don’t want. When you understand that, that’s naturally a part of life. You embrace it and you navigate through it because that’s what life has to offer you. And the fact that you’re alive and you get to experience it is the gift, whether it at the time seems enjoyable or not.

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Live in the moment. Stop trying to be alive and fucking start live being. Death is coming. When it comes, are you ready for it? Are you gonna stand up and dance to that fucking celebration? Or are you gonna be wishing, oh my god, cause that’s permanent man. You can’t change it. You can’t reverse the clock. Try to make amends and do it right. You don’t have time to say you’re sorry. And make it right. Now it’s over with. That day comes. It’s like studying for a test. That day is gonna be tested. Do you pass or fail? It’s a huge accountability of today.

Just like I tell you guys, you know, if you wanna get in shape and stuff, you need an end state goal. You need a marathon you’re running in 90 days. A competition or something that makes today accountable.

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Understand that it is you who is responsible for being in the position that you’re in. Not anybody else. You can’t be making excuses. It is you. You are the result of why you are here today. But that’s fine because we can fix this. Okay? What you need to do is identify what needs to change. So you need to take a little bit of time out. Get yourself away from all the chaos and just sit down, think and reflect. Okay? Write down what the problems are. Write down what needs fixing. And write down, ideally, what position you want to be in.

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So as guys just passed me, he said, Goggins, just be average today. Some of you just don’t understand. Some of you have been average for so damn long, you don’t know what it is to do hard work. But there’s a lot of you out there who want to be much more than average, but just don’t know how to do it every single day, the grind. You need to find someone to oil those fucking gears up. So check it out. This is a mindset. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But there’s a motherfucker out there who wants what you have, who wants the position you are, who wants the job you have,

who wants the wife that you have, or the husband. There’s someone out there hungry and wants everything you fucking have. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But if it is, it’s going to be your ass. So make that a motivation for you. Stay hard!

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I’m a disciplined man. to do anything outside of what a disciplined man would do Makes me an irresponsible man makes me a weak man And I don’t want to be in the irresponsible weak man because our country already has too many of those which is why we’re eroding as a country and So the identity change along with the clarity of what you want to like, how do you want to be seen? How do you want to show up? Like not everyone has to show up as Ed Milette and Tim Grover and Andy for Scylla- show up as the version of you.

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I hear that I’m over 40, I’m pushing 50, whatever. Bring it. Back off, negative. Not happening. In fact, I’m stepping it up. I’m training harder, eating cleaner.

I’m training more. I’m learning and reading and studying more now than I ever have in my whole life.

Do I get dinged up? Of course I do. There take some injuries, yeah.

You know what, no factor. No factor, deal with them. Because, you know what? You know what I hear? I hear the clock ticking. That’s what I hear, and the end is nigh, and time waits for no man.

Get to fucking work, you’re a young man. You’re supposed to be like a fighting age young man, full of testosterone and ambition to take over the world. You’re not done working hard right now. Now you wanna take a little bit of time off to do some breath work and do some meditation by all means, but to give up your big goal, which is financial freedom, physical freedom, location free, all of these freedoms that the masculine craves, to be in this state of non-desire is fucking pathetic. I think we need to have more desire.

Now a lot of that will sound like materialistic desire, you know, I want more subscribers, more money, but it’s not actually about those things. We all inherently know this, that once we achieve the big goal, like the subscribers, we’re not gonna feel any different. It was not about the subscribers, the car, the watch, or any of that. It was about the man that you have to become to get to that point. It isn’t that I wake up thinking, oh, my biceps this big. It’s that I had to fucking do a thousand curls and it really hurts, but I kept on showing up to do them anyway.

So that now anytime I walk past the mirror, I’m reminded that younger me did this for me. That’s what the benefit is.

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You’re lazy, you know exactly what to do, exactly what to do. Because even me in my state of, I can’t read and write, I knew exactly what to do. It just sucks doing it. It sucks to do it. It sucks to wake up every morning of your life and say, God, man, I’m not smart. So guess what I got to do? I got to study the same shit that I got one of the highest scores in the nation on. And do it again, do it again, do it again. It’s not just there. It’s not just there permanently for me. So yeah, it’s all stick. It’s all stick. The only care that you have is like,

maybe, maybe, because whenever I take these tests that are real hard, in the back of my brain, it’s like, the good chance you’re not gonna make it, Goggins.

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You chase things that you can’t catch.

You don’t chase things that belong to you.

So people chase happiness because they think that that’s what they need,

when in reality,

happiness is just a byproduct of becoming the best version of yourself.

So instead of chasing the emotion, become the type of person that is experiencing that emotion,

and you can be in that state more consistently.

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If it was three o’clock in the morning, it started raining outside. My mind said,

you got to go get up and go run.

You have to because I was fighting this other person.

So you essentially tried to do everything you didn’t want to do.

That’s all it was. Period. Everything I didn’t want to do is what got me to where I’m at today. Every single thing. So where we find comfort, that’s where I started getting scared. When I started saying, oh, it’s raining, I’m not going out there. No, you cannot say that. You cannot do that. You have got to do this. So whatever my brain thought, I did the opposite. Wherever the comfort was, I went the opposite direction. And over a period of time, boy, it calluses the shit out of your mind. You start to really develop a whole nother being.

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I got 1 90th of a chance today. I can’t blow it up. I got accountability today. Death is the ultimate accountability. It’s only fearful if it comes and you’re not ready yet. That’s when it’s fearful, when you haven’t been able to say goodbye to somebody, when you didn’t live in the moment with a friend or a loved one or a family member, and you no longer have time to let them know what you think. That’s when it becomes scary.

You know, my dogs and my family and stuff, I love them to death. Every minute with them, I embrace, I love it. I never want it to end, but it will end. We come into this world by ourselves. We leave this world by ourselves. We had the opportunity to engage while here, but we leave alone.

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And you young guns out there, 18 years old, 20 years old, 24 years old, listen,

life goes by, and it goes by quick. Don’t waste those years, don’t waste them, live them.

Now, I know, I know that you don’t think you’re gonna live to be 30, much less 40, but you are and you will.

And the earlier you get in the game and get on track, the better life you’re gonna have, healthier, wealthier, stronger, smarter, better, better.

And if you’re an old man like me and you haven’t gotten on track yet, get on track, get on it now.

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And so if you can just make it through this, everything else is downhill. It’s not that the things that the dragons are going to slay aren’t going to get bigger, they are, but you become so much more equipped to slay them back. And you have so many more allies. You have people in the stands cheering for you. You have the audience. You have all of these other things that are behind you. But at the beginning, it’s just you with a stick against a bear. And arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon when you have a nuclear bomb and six nations behind you.

And so it’s not even like the size of the hardship, it’s just also the resources and how few of them you have and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you have, which is time. Because you have no leverage. You don’t have the money to pay other people to help you. You don’t have the resources to go get someone to… No one can learn it for you. It’s like there’s a lot of the things that we care about a lot. No one can work out for you. It doesn’t matter how much money you have. No one can learn skills for you. And so

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It’s going to be the hardest thing you ever did. It’s going to take fucking a long ass time. It’s probably going to take three or four times as long as you think it’s going to take. Along the way, you’re going to lose all your fucking friends. You’re probably going to lose some significant others, too. Along that way, you’re going to get made fun of. You’re going to get bullied. You’re going to get harassed. You’re going to get attacked on the Internet daily. All right. You’re going to struggle. You’re going to make mistakes. You’re going to owe people money.

You’re going to fuck up your bank account. There’s going to be multiple fucking days where you don’t think that you’re going to make it. And those days sometimes last for months. There’s going to be nobody’s going to relate to you. No one’s going to understand why you’re doing it. Everybody’s going to question it. You’re going to have to answer it every single time. And it’s going to piss you off. And, bro, this is the life that you’re choosing. Like you’re choosing it. And then you can’t be surprised that it’s hard. That’s this is what the fuck you’re signing up for.

And anybody out there that says any of that shit ain’t true. I can promise you they built anything. They haven’t built anything. They haven’t built anything.

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So I think a young man should have a huge goal that he strives for 24-7, non-stop. Something that you even lose sleep for. Because it gives your life meaning and direction. When you’re 80 years old, you’re not gonna look back to those moments where you laid around with the guy whispering in your ear, Surrender, surrender. You’re not gonna think back to those moments. You’re not gonna think back to the moments where you just sat on the couch and watched sh**. You’re gonna think back to the times, the hardest periods of your life,

where you conquered, where you had a big goal and you really f***ing worked hard for it. Even if you fail, like you sign up for a Muay Thai fight in the future and you lose, guarantee on your deathbed you’ll still smile thinking about that time. And compare that now to like, Oh, well, you know, I don’t even want to become a fighter anyway, because I don’t even care about the trophy. That’s gay as f***. It’s like, care about the f***ing trophy. Not because the trophy is gonna change your life,

but because that four-month fight camp is gonna be a significant moment of purpose and meaning for you.

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get back to fucking work. It’s time to get back to work.

Stop hearing yourself talk, get off the podcast,

don’t be on social media too much,

cut out all the fucking noise,

get back to the fucking mental lab because that’s where the knowledge came from.

So, for me, I must cap myself so I can come back with better,

more unique knowledge versus all that cookie cutter knowledge that’s out there.

That’s why people buy the books I have because it’s not cookie cutter.

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Go do something. Do the best thing that you can think of. Put the best plan you have into practice. It’s not going to be perfect and it will change along the way, but it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path. And as you become disciplined, you become wiser. And as you become wiser, you become able to formulate better and better plans. So you can start vaguely and confused and develop a plan that’s not so great and you start to implement it and then you accrue incremental wisdom as you implement your flawed plan. And that enables you to fix the plan.

And so that’s part of that process of incremental self-improvement as well.

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So in the early days, it feels so painful because you’re like, you look around to see who can help you and then you’re like, fuck, it’s me again. I think getting comfortable with the idea that each of these things, kind of like Slumdog Millionaire, if you’ve seen that movie where he, I’ll give you the TLDR, he goes through his entire life of randomness and he gets on the who wants to be a millionaire version in India and has 12 questions to make a million dollars. From only 12 random experiences in his life that seemed meaningless at the time,

was he able to answer all of the questions and then ultimately win? The skills that you develop along the way, like Steve Jobs learning calligraphy that then became Apple fonts that transformed how we type, those early days, that little trench winning in the weeds, oftentimes gives you these huge advantages later on because you have more context than anyone else. And so rather than lament them and hate the fact that you’re going through it.

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This ain’t you, the real you, bro. Study all you want to, but the second that fucking computer comes on with 150 questions, this ain’t you, man. Somehow, comes back, I passed. Passed again, passed again. But that real me back here every fucking time is saying, that ain’t you, bro. That ain’t you. And I have to outwork that voice. When I’m taking that test and I get to a question I don’t fucking know the answer, I’m like, fuck, man. And then, say, I told you, man. That ain’t you. You’re 300 pounds, man. You sit at home, you figure out how to do your hair. That’s what you do.

How to come to school with the reverse baldness when you’re 16. That’s you.

So there is no get out of jail free card. This is why I say stay hard. Because when you weren’t given the gifts, the only thing you can do in life is stay hard.

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most people whose life is an absolute mess and they need to change it around, they’re probably not on top of their health. They’re probably not looking their best. They’re probably not feeling their best. And one of the very easiest things that you can do to get yourself in the proper position and mindset to attack these new goals and change your life is to actually sort out your diet, sort out your fitness, okay? It’s connected. Your brain and your body is connected. If you’re eating garbage and you’re not exercising, then you’re gonna have brain fog.

You’re not gonna be in the best mood and you’re just not gonna have that mindset to attack of the day, okay? You don’t have to go crazy and follow some ridiculously over-the-top routine, but just get back into a routine of doing some sort of exercise where you’re pushing yourself. Because usually after doing the exercise, you feel good. You get a rush of endorphins. And if you’ve done something hard then it’s more likely that you’ll be able to continue doing hard things after you’ve been to the gym.

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Shortcomings that everyone complains about and uses excuses while they haven’t achieved something, you use as an opportunity of greatness to override some third-party subjective nature Environments or weather conditions and say true to the path That’s literally Learning how to dance in the rain and not waiting for the storm to pass That’s a good life. That’s the light that’s gonna grow, no matter what you plant in that soil, because it’s fertile. Life begins now. the only thing in life that we don’t have an abundant resources of his time,

and this winter I challenge you: Don’t let that time slip away. use the time we have To make the most of it, because who knows how many more we have? The natural life expectancy could be whatever, But who knows maybe some asshole drunk driver runs to a red light hits you tomorrow That’s all the time you got you don’t know that What did you know? You got that right there in front of you. It’s your choice in the know.

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Everyone, everyone listening to this, here’s the deal, no complacency, no complacency, no backing off, no slack whatsoever. Fight, fight that ticking clock with everything you’ve got so like the end of a hard day, you can put your head down with ease, satisfied.

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There’s no magic pill or a magic potion. All you can do is outwork the man that God created, or woman, in you. And what that looks like is unfun. That’s why I said do not do a documentary on me. Because people will not see the truth. They will see what they want to see. I don’t want to live like that. Good. Good. And you will live exactly the way you live now, questioning who you are, wondering what is possible, wondering what you are capable of doing. That’s how that looks. Or you can be me, which, am I happy? I don’t know. Never thought about it. Don’t really care about it.

Because all I really cared about was when I looked in that fucking mirror, I saw a piece of shit. Happiness wasn’t on the mirror at 16, or I was 300 pounds. It wasn’t like, oh my, I’m looking for happiness. No, I’m looking, looking at myself in the mirror and say, all right, motherfucker, you did it again today.

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There’s some hard things that have happened to me that will never happen to you. And we all have a choice to make. We all get to choose what hard are we going to have? Are we going to have the hard of creating and becoming and being a great example for everybody else, honoring the people who came before us and setting a great example for the people coming after us? Or are we going to cruise or are we going to coast? Or are we just going to be another poor little me, another drag on society,

another person that dies with all the hopes and dreams and amazing ideas that could have helped people while you were here? Who says at the end of their life, I could have, I should have, I wish I had. Are you going to be the person that says at the end of their life, I fucking did it.

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You need to get this in your spirit. You are running out of time. All right, I’m gonna say it again. You are running out of time. You like, E.T., what you on? I’m 15 years old. I got forever. Listen to me. You are 100% right. You might have forever, but that opportunity is not gonna be forever. Are you hear what I’m saying? You a sophomore. You like, E., I’m just a sophomore. Or I’m just a freshman. Like, I got time, you know, to put it in another year. Listen to me. You might put it in year. You might go from average as a sophomore to great as a senior, but you don’t realize this,

that the opportunity that you need is in your sophomore year. It’s not in your senior year. Listen to me. You running out of time. If you’re listening to me, that’s right, you got a job and you knew at it. Yup, you knew it’s your job. And you like, E.T., look, I just got here. I got forever.

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That doesn’t mean I won’t give you what you need and what you want and what you desire. But I don’t need money, I don’t need fame, I don’t need shit. So I give it all away. What I do need is to make sure that that willpower is worked on every fucking day and every night for the rest of my life. Because that’s the one thing that’s gonna keep me feeding you keeping you where you need to be. Because once that willpower is gone, 300 pound David Goggins, he may not be look like it, but I will walk around with it. So the things that are important to you in life, you must do always or you’re nobody.

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Look, man, when you beat me, I hurt all over, and I didn’t want to know from nothing or nobody, not even my kids. But hell, every fighter knows that hurt, and we get sick inside trying to live with it, so don’t back off now, make it right for yourself, or you’ll be sorry you didn’t. We held the greatest title in the whole world, babe. You lost that fight, Rock, for all the wrong reasons. You lost your edge.

Alright, I know your manager dying had you all messed up inside, but the truth is, you didn’t look hungry. Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man, the edge, and now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean? Ha, ha, maybe we could win it back together.

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my first question was, okay, what are you willing to give up? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to forgo? Because a lot of people like this guy can in one time I was a trainer and he goes, man, I can stop doing anything but my frappuccinos. I go fucking leave because I’m looking for that person like me. People, people, it’s hard for people to understand how I lost her and six pounds in less than three months. I sat down at a table and I said to myself, what are you willing to give up? Everything. And when people come to me with that kind of mindset, I can work with you.

When you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything, that’s who I want to work with because now I can mold you into exactly who you want to be.

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We know where we’re at from that standpoint, and we know what we have to do. We know that this was a time of year where we hit a lull a couple times, and we can’t let that happen, no matter what’s going on. Me and 9-1, me and Jan say it to each other every day. Nobody cares. At the end of the day, nobody cares. What we’re going through, how your body feels, nobody cares. We got to do our job.

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When things go wrong, they always seem to happen at once and they just compound on top of each other. And it’s pretty easy sometimes to feel beaten when you’re faced with all those issues and all those problems and they all hit you at the same time. But let me tell you, that doesn’t mean give up.

In fact, it means the opposite. It means it’s time for you to fight harder, to dig in. It means it’s time for you to go on the war path.

And that starts with one of the fundamental laws of combat leadership, prioritize and execute.

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Last year, you got me angry. For this year, I’m trying to be better for y’all. When you say I’m tired, I’m going to keep going. Remember your why. Remember why you play football. Them kids don’t think they got cancer. Do you think they give up? They over there fighting. They came out here to see us. They fight like every day. Look at everybody else. Look at your perspectives around you. Look at the people around you. They got problems too. Keep going.

Tomorrow, let’s go. Don’t give a f*** we got pads or not. I don’t give a f***. I want y’all to give everything you got. Everything.

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Winning is a great feeling in business, in sports, in life, and definitely in gambling. Losing is never fun, but it’s part of the game. You know what I mean? If you want to be in the game and it’s sports, it’s business or whatever, there’s going to be wins and there’s going to be losses. And you have to take them both in stride and you have to be able to, you know, there’s a lot of people, when you gamble, right? And you lose and you go into a deep, dark depression. I’ve seen this with guys that do it, get depressed and gambling isn’t for you. You know,

if you are the type of person that’s on social media and people say horrible things to you and you get depressed and you shouldn’t be on social media. You know what I mean? These are all part of being in the game.

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Quitting guarantees the failure. Once you quit, it rules out any chance of succeeding. The mere waking up every day, putting the next foot in front of the next foot, at least keeps you in the game. And if God is waking you up continually, every morning, once God wakes you up, that’s a sign from God that he ain’t through with you yet. That he has something more for you in store that he hasn’t given to you yet. That’s why you wake up every day. Because God has more for you.

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You see this guy here staring back at you?

Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent.

Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against.

I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life.

Okay?

Now throw a jab in the jaw.

All right, one to the gut.

Now, every time you punch this guy, what’s he doing?

Staring him back at me. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it,

or get out of the way.

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There’s not many people that who can even open their mouth and criticize me when I do fail Because I’m on I’m trying to do shit man that many people aren’t trying to do but I don’t look at failure as failure I look at failure as your first second third fourth fifth attempt. I look at them as attempts. I’m looking at anything as failure, because when you’re willing to try to do some, not trying is failure, That’s that’s and that’s not some after-school special shit. But when you’re able to go out there, there’s no failure, It’s attempts,

because you’re trying to do something that’s bigger than you, whatever you are, Whoever you are. if, if, if you’re paralyzed, you’re trying to walk one step and you didn’t, you didn’t fail, motherfucker. That’s your first attempt, if that’s your biggest thing, That’s how your mindset needs to go into everything. So I don’t look at it as failure is a big word like that gets people down if we give so much power to words I don’t I take the power right away. I didn’t feel shit.

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It’s like you look in the mirror and you smile because you see excellence. That’s not an accident. It’s a habit. You start, you guys need to start taking responsibility for your actions. When you start taking responsibility for your actions, you start to find the belief in what you’re doing, the passion behind it. You create value in what you’re doing. There’s no longer mundane tasks. Everything has a purpose and an instinct. There’s a direction to a designation. If you don’t like a designation, you’re going to. Well, you can’t change that overnight.

You cannot change it overnight, but you can change the direction overnight. So if you are looking at your life right now and what you do every single day, and it’s a one-way street to hell with no return, that’s not so appealing to me, man. I don’t wanna be part of that. So get off that beaten path society says is so right. Believe in yourself and what you’re doing, man.

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I’ve tried to eliminate as much time between I think I should do this thing and beginning doing it. And I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle that occurs every time you start, I call it pulling the thread. It’s like, I just need to start pulling the thread. And then all of a sudden, what feels really unknown becomes very tangible. And you’re like, oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing. But now I know the problems. And then it feels like you can wrap your arms around it, and then you can start taking it one bite at a time.

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Every time I get tired or I think I can’t go no more, I’m thinking, I’m a f***ing wrecker. That ain’t us. We can make it. We got to believe, we got to be mentally strong. When we tired, that’s when we got to put our fundamentals together. That’s when we got to be more focused. When we tired, look across the field and see how tired they are. That’s going to give you more effort, be like, I’m going to beat his ass. I’m going to get fundamentally strong. Everybody’s great when they’re not tired. The champions is when they’re tired, that’s when the real champions come out.

That’s when a real dog come out. Because if you go like a puppy, stay on the porch and let the big dogs eat. Let them all get filled. Have some heart. I get emotional about this. I’m about to cry because I care about y’all. Last year wasn’t it.

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Don’t take today off. Not today. Wait until tomorrow. Don’t give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear.

Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

But if you are going to rest, that is one thing that you should procrastinate on. That’s the one thing I want you to pull it off until tomorrow.

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For me, recovery is sleep. Sleep, yeah? Yeah. Most important things. Between trainings, like at least two, three hours. All my life, I was like daytime, I was sleeping. Like from maybe 11 to 1, maybe 12 to 2, maybe 2 to 4, you know? Between trainings, you have to sleep. Because you train so hard morning, two hours, and night, you have to train two and a half. You need rest? You have to rest. A lot of people, they use morning, they train, go, work. Because most of the people, they have to make money. Not every fighters can just don’t work. And they have to… They’re not focused.

They’re working, training. It’s 50-50. No. If you want to make money, okay, go to work. But if you want to sacrifice your life and become the best, no, you cannot work. You have to rest between trainings. And nighttime, you have to be fresh on training.

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I think if you want a certain outcome, it’s gonna take a certain amount of effort. And that’s reality. If you wanna travel the world in a van and go camping, and that’s all you wanna do, that’s not gonna take a whole lot. If you wanna build a multi-billion dollar operation that changes people’s lives, that’s gonna go down in history as one of the great iconic American companies, that’s gonna take a little bit more than living in your van. And then there’s levels in between. The ultimate lesson here is this, everybody’s on their own path.

And I don’t wanna judge someone for wanting to be free and easy. I just want you to understand that there’s a cost to that. And the cost that you’re going to have to that isn’t going to come until later.

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The margins, guys in life that dictates a champion, someone that’s remembered, not forgotten.

The legacies of life, the role models,

the one that stands those tests of time always talk about Don’t know terms like good enough,

It’s too fucking hard.

And they failed over and over and over again so many times That they’ve learned what it takes to succeed.

With failure comes success,

and with success comes Blueprints of fundamental principles that lead to success.

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your set point of negativity is going to just crush that into the ground. I’m speaking from personal experience, right? As the guy that was chronically unconfident and still has, you know, the imposter syndrome that does creep in. You have to start with action. It needs to be, okay, what would have had to have happened in a week’s time for me to look back on that week and find pride in myself? Pride’s seen as something that you should be ashamed of. It’s one of the seven deadly sins. But David Goggins, I did an episode with him a couple of months ago.

We can put it in the show notes if people are interested. And he said pride is something that everybody misses. That having pride in your name, your performance, the way that you show up for other people is something that you can do. But you need to do something that is worthy of being prideful about.

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I just eliminate all external distractions, you know That’s what’s going on and just focus on the process itself and enjoying it every single day chopping wood carrying water You know greatness is not meant for a few chosen people It’s meant for those who persistently pursue their dreams every day and make that choice when they wake up. So Just a mentality. really, as much as I would Love to be up here and tell you guys all of what I’m thinking, I just know that the process itself is something I need to focus on. rather than trying to appease anybody in here, You know,

The game itself is the most important thing. stop object to win. So for the same thing that I was looking for when I was a kid some type of inspiration aspirations Come from people that do amazing things, but they’re really ordinary people just waking up every day doing it Doing the little things that other people aren’t doing so chop wood carry water. I gotta stay poised. It’s definitely something that I’m Always living by every single day. So not just in the basketball court either. It’s my life.

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What’s causing the most stress? Family? Okay, sit them down. Explain where you are at. Be blunt, be upfront, and then give them the simple plan of how you’re gonna get things back on track. Don’t sugarcoat it. You give it to them straight. Next, you got some late payments. Call those creditors up. Explain to them what’s going on. Set up some kind of a minimum payment plan so you can start making some progress and get them off your back. And then you got your job, right? You’re falling behind at work. Okay, talk to your boss. Face it.

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When you’re in the game, great things happen and really bad things happen. And you got to take it all in stride and you got to pick yourself up the next day, strap your shoes back on and get out there and go to fucking war again. That’s how it works.

Some goggins right there. All right. I love that motivational speech.

It’s the truth though. It’s the truth though. Listen, every day when you get out of bed, life’s standing right there to kick you in the face, man. Could be anything could be. You get up and you walk downstairs, you got a fucking flat tire and you’re late for work and you got this and that life is going to throw all kinds of crazy. Right. And you have to be ready for it and you got to fucking deal with it. Can’t curl up into a ball. You can’t run away from it. You can’t hide. You have to take all this head on.

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I mean, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don’t wanna do it. So I can’t make you do it, nor do I have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it. There’s no luck in this game. And it may be a little bit of luck, but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn’t happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might fucking happen. And that’s what people don’t know. But to get there, luck ain’t gonna happen.

You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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Really, the truth is, most people need to shut the f*** up and focus on that version of themselves they want to become and actually be willing to become it. And that’s what’s ultimately going to create the fulfillment that you’re looking for. It’s not going to be your cold plunge. It’s not going to be your morning routine. It’s not going to be your journaling. It’s not going to be your grounding. It’s not going to be your granola lunch. It’s not going to be you living in the f***ing van. It’s not going to be your therapy.

It’s going to be the work that you f***ing do to become that version of yourself, that is the exact version that you know you’re supposed to become and then being proud of it. That’s what’s going to create the fulfillment that you’re searching for. And all of this other s*** is just band-aid s*** to try and fix something that you know is a real problem in yourself.

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Yeah, sometimes like, you know, I call it you got called audible You know the line of screamers man, like some of the great quarterbacks They’ll be at the line of screamers and they’ll look at the defense the defense is off Defense is shifting. Did he call an audible? In my mind a lot of times man. I’m like doesn’t mean I quit I don’t quit, you know, I may not make it the first time But I’ll come back. I got caught audible. I got a. fucking, I got it. I got a can get my head back in the game.

I got a I gotta figure this shit out It doesn’t mean you leave it means you study it more It means you study it more in and whenever I feel that something people I say, man How do you handle failure man? I feel a lot dude. I feel all the fucking time. They go. How do you handle it? What I’m trying to do and this isn’t being arrogant man. I it’s being real- not many people are trying to do.

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And when I hear people say terms like good enough,

it bothers me to an nth degree. Because they are saying something that is justified at the moment, but not quantitative until a future endeavor of life. So therefore, they are passing judgment on now for a future event that they knew nothing about. They’re bullshitters. Good enough, if you think about it. Good is a positive. Enough is a negative. That’s an oxymoron right there. It’s hypocritical in its own sense. There is nothing that’s ever good enough. The only thing that’s enough is at the end of the day, the nth hour, the final hour,

whatever you’re fucking going for, that your hand is raised victoriously. That’s when you know it’s enough. And you’re in the gym right now to ensure that that event goes your way. And it will never go your way, guys, if you’re saying today is good enough. If you never say good enough today, I promise you tomorrow will always be enough.

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the moment God is done, when you’ve served your purpose here, you won’t wake up. But if you keep waking up, don’t you understand that there’s a higher purpose? Your goal in life is just to get into a relationship with God where you can understand the purpose. And it ain’t gotta match nobody else’s. You know, quit trying to be saved like everybody else. You gotta get saved for yourself. You know, people all the time, I get questioned as a Christian all the time. I can’t believe you’re a Christian, you cussing. Well, I’m a Christian that cuss. I’m still a Christian. Christian, I believe in God.

What you want me to tell you? But if you knew who I used to be, you’d be perfectly fine with this occasional cussing that I’m doing now. You really would.

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If you want to know something about yourself, sit on your bed one night and say to yourself, you got to mean this, like you got to be desperate. This is no game, this. My life is not everything I want it to be, and perhaps it’s not everything that I need it to be. And by need I mean my life is so unbearable that the suffering that’s attended upon that is make me nihilistic, cynical, bitter, resentful, homicidal, genocidal, unable to have a good relationship, prone to punish people for their virtues because of my jealousy,

driving the proclivity to see evil everywhere except within my own heart. Like these are problems, man. And you ask yourself, you sit on the bed and say, okay, man, I’m ready to learn something. Like: what’s one thing I’m doing wrong, that I know I’m doing wrong, that I could fix, that I would fix?

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finding myself in a world where there’s so many scene opinions about yourself, when everybody’s telling you who and what you are, you know, learning how to live, you know, growing up in it, like, it’s so wild. I’ve been doing this for 25 years straight, you know, and that’s a wild thing to think about. But, man, more than half of my life has been my identity, has been through the work that I’ve been doing. And growing up in with, you know, social media, what didn’t exist, now it does, at a point where I’m old enough to understand what that can do. So I’m obsessed with finding myself now,

after and not having to prove anything to anybody other than myself.

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It reads, it’s all in your mind.

Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life.

If you continue to believe as you have always believed,

you will continue to act as you have always acted.

You will continue to get what you have always gotten.

If you want different results in your life or your work,

all you have to do is change your mind.

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Right now, it becomes harder every day. The more you get paid nicely, the more you buy nicer things, the more you go from sleeping on fucked up cots to sleeping on fucking mattresses that are formed to your shape of your body and heat temperature and silk sheets and all this shit, man. Man, it’s hard to get out of bed with some silk sheets, brother. And that fucks people up. That’s why I ain’t got silk sheets. And this is the thing about it. I started going through a time in my life where I started becoming more successful. With more success, it became harder for me to be Goggins.

So what I started doing was I went back to the old school. Like I said, nothing is learned at the top of a mountain.

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You’ve already achieved goals you said would make you happy. You’ve already achieved goals you said would make you happy.

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If, when tomorrow comes, You still feel like you need to rest or you need to take a break, then okay, Take it but the chances are You won’t You won’t need that rest chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. It was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path. and by simply going through the motions,

You overcame that path and you stayed on the righteous path, the discipline path. You stayed on the war path,

Which is right where you know?

That you belong.

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To me, the mentality is a really simple one, in the sense that the confidence comes from preparation. So when the game’s on the line, I’m not asking myself to do something that I haven’t done thousands of times before. So when I prepare, I know what I’m capable of doing, I know what I’m comfortable doing, and I know what I’m not comfortable doing. And so in those moments, if it looks like I’m ice cold or not nervous, it’s because I’ve done it thousands of times before. So it’s one more time.

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You’re in the end zone.

Brock, you are the most influential player on this team. If you walk around defeated, so will they. Tell me you can’t give me more than what I’ve been seeing. You just carried a 140 pound man across this whole field on your arms.

Brock, I need you. God’s gifted you with the ability of leadership. Don’t waste it.

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You give me your best. You keep going. That’s it. No, don’t stop Brock. You got more than that. How you doing? Just rest a second. You gotta keep moving. Let’s keep moving. Let’s go. Don’t quit till you got nothing left. There you go. Keep moving. Keep moving. Keep moving Brock. That’s it. You keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground. Keep driving it. You’re very best. You’re very best. You’re very best. Keep moving Brock. That’s it. That’s it. That’s it. Keep going. Don’t quit on me. Keep going. Keep driving it. Keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground. That’s it. You’re very best.

Don’t quit on me. You’re very best. Keep driving. Keep driving. There you go. There you go. That’s it. You keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground. Keep driving it. Don’t quit till you got nothing left.

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The thing is with me is I don’t give a fuck.

I don’t give a fuck. I don’t give a shit what anybody says or what anybody thinks.

I have this mindset. I know exactly who the fuck I am.

I have my circle of people that I hang around with who know me and know what I’m about and whatever.

And anybody else who doesn’t like it or doesn’t want to?

Too fucking bad.

OK. Were you always like that? Do you think?

Always like that. Wow. I was always like that.

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How do I want to be remembered? And that’s the problem, man. Like nowadays, people don’t give a fuck how they’re remembered. They don’t give a fuck about their family. Everybody’s equal. Their mom is equal to them. Their dad’s equal to them. They’re growing. Everybody’s fucking equal. So it’s a tough question to ask because when I grew up, my mom worked three fucking jobs. And all I wanted to do, and she got her fucking ass damn near murdered. And it took her down a dark hole. And I saw this. That helped me grow up to say, all I want to do is retire my mother when I get older.

That’s all I wanted to fucking do. And thank God I did that.

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If you knew the shit I really did, you’d be A-okay with this cussin’, but I quit worryin’ about people a long time ago. People ain’t got no heaven for you. People can’t save you. And then I was thinkin’ one day, if the scripture is true, that there’s none perfect, no not one, there are no perfect people. But there is a heaven.

If it ain’t no perfect people, who goin’ to heaven? Cause ain’t nobody perfect. So who’s goin’? So I think y’all oughta just get to hopin’ just like I’m hopin’ that when we get up to the gate, God is gradin’ on the curve.

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Why do I think people are drawn to advice telling them to do hard things? Because I think any person, any human realizes that if you want some kind of a good outcome you’re gonna have to work hard for it. And if you don’t work hard for something, you’re not gonna get an outcome that’s really worth much.

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Stop listening to the normality of life and everyone saying the way it is is the way it’s gonna be for you. The way it is for you is blood, sweat, and tears today to create a foundation, a strength for tomorrow. Those days combined into whatever dream you want to be a reality. We are always fighting for that edge, always fighting for that opportunity so it’s not past, it’s not missed, but lived. We’re not gonna cry about those opportunities. We’re gonna smile, remember them, and thank God they came because we were ready when they came.

You won’t be ready if today isn’t pushed with the strenuous nature and the pressure of the moment in the future that everything rides on. That stress of everybody on you and it’s a make or break moment in your life must exist today with no one watching.

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When everybody leaves to go home and there’s only one light on in a building, a 15 story building and only one office. Every office is dark. There’s one office with one light on and as those motherfuckers go from the club, they look up every day, two o’clock in the morning, they see that and that fucking light’s always on. That’s the motherfucker right there you got to be. You can’t have feelings about when everybody leaves, oh man, I wish I was going home to my fucking beautiful family. That is true. But you got to learn to shut your feelings off if you want to achieve greatness.

And greatness is only achieved when your feelings about that kind of shit. And let me say that kind of shit. So for those soft people who may be listening to this, don’t put words in my mouth. I’m not talking about your fucking family and all that shit. I’m talking about the grind, the fucking grind. Your feelings have to go away.

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People in the modern world don’t see God because they don’t look low enough. And so imagine you’re in your messy bedroom, you know, and you’re sitting on the edge of the bed trying to have an honest dialogue with yourself. And the little voice says, you know, it’s pretty disgusting in here. And you think, well, I’m way above such trivial niceties as organizing my room. It’s like, now that’s pride. That’s arrogance. If you’re above

organizing what’s actually yours, how in the world are you ever going to organize anything else? And so you get on your knees and you think, well, it’s time to, you know, take a brush to the toilet. And maybe that’s where you start. And so, and that works, like that works. You start making those micro improvements, like real micro improvements, real on the ground, actual micro improvements to things you know that are wrong. You’ll improve unbelievably rapidly.

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The world belongs to optimists, because if you’re going to do anything big, you have to believe that it can happen. Otherwise, it never will. Sean Poohrey says, The cynics get to be right, and the optimists get to be rich. 99% right, and 100% wrong. They’re right 99% of the time, but they’re wrong 100%, because the only thing that matters is the big one at the end. Your family and friends will say that every girl you ever date is not good enough, except for the one time you find the girl that you’re actually going to marry,

or that this business idea won’t work, and you might have nine failures. My first nine businesses didn’t really amount to anything. Nine. As in, the first one, I spent time on it, it failed. Second one, this one will be different. Spent time on it, failed. And then the third one, this one, failed. And then six more after that. And it’s painful as sh**, because the whole time, everyone is telling you, I told you so. And they’re right. Today. But not forever.

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You got to be willing to do the work. You can speak about it all day. The easiest thing in the world to do is to complain, blame and quit and settle. That’s the easiest thing in the world to do, but it takes real work to deconstruct and to reconstruct the thought process and the mindset of an individual when they’re trying to change something. That’s why I always say to people, what’s more important, what we acquire or who we become, right? What’s more important, what we acquire or who we become. Materialistic superficial is cool, but the people that we become, the thoughts we think,

the words we speak, that’s something that’s going to travel with us forever, right? You can lose a car, get another one tomorrow, but the people that we become as a result of the processes that we lock into every single day for the things that we aspire to get or the people that we aspire to become, that takes real work. And we got to be willing to do that.

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Tell him that you’re gonna step up your game. Tell him you’re gonna be at work early, you’re gonna be at work late, you’re gonna be at work during lunch, you’re gonna be wherever you need to be whenever he needs you to be there. Tell him you’re gonna get after it. And tell him that you’re 100% committed to supporting him and the company and the mission.

And then you get started.

And I’m gonna tell you right now, it won’t be easy. It will be hard because life is hard. That’s what life is.

And these challenges, these challenges that you face, they’re gonna do their best to take you down. Do not let them.

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Those days when I’m tired or worn out or just basically sick of the grind. What do I do on those days? I go anyways. I get it done even if I’m just going through the motions. I go through the motions. I don’t really wanna work out, I work out. I really don’t wanna hammer on a project. I hammer on the project. Don’t really wanna get up and get out of bed. Yeah, I get up and get out of bed.

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what would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week with pride? Okay, maybe stop breaking promises to yourself. When you say, I’m going to wake up tomorrow at 7 a.m. and when the option comes to hit the snooze button, don’t do it. There’s one win that you’ve got for the day. That’s action, right? And it is just, you know, it’s tried to say the Peterson clean your room thing. But the reason that that works is that you start with the smallest ever step and you expand out from that. You want to become a writer. You want to leave your job and become a writer. Okay,

can you commit to writing one blog post on Substack per week for the next three weeks? That would make you feel like less of a loser. If you did that, action has to come first. If you’re the sort of person who is chronically unconfident because you will drag your sense of identity behind you. Mark Manson says that identity lags behind status by about one to two years.

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redevelop self-esteem. You know, by the age of seven if you’re, if, if you’re not good by the age of seven or eight years old, You have a good chance of being fucked the rest of your life. Yeah, so if your parents or or you came up wrong, and then seven or eight if you don’t have the self-esteem But you can grind, you like I want to be better, When you get to that UFC championship or you get to where I got or where I am, It’s almost like you can’t believe the journey like I talked about in that fucking VFW. and I’m in the first chapter, that book man, I’m sitting that audience,

all those people and I’m about to get the, you know, Americanism Award and I was grinding so hard. never took time to reflect in my life and this was like time to reflect.

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What you want? All week you was work hard. End of the week if you don’t tired, this is good question. You have to worry about yourself. This is Saturday. Your sixth day you work so hard. Of course you gonna tired. Tomorrow rest and Monday we gonna begin one more training. If you don’t want, go back to Dagestan and stay with your mom. She gonna give you everyday good breakfast. You don’t do nothing. Stay there. But if you come here, don’t complain. You wanna become best. You wanna become champion. And now you wanna say like you tired. Who cares? You tired or not. Nobody care about you.

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This year, we did what we were supposed to do. We fought as a team. We fought as a team. There will be one Super Bowl champ crowned at the end of this year. That’s it. So the way we feel, somebody gonna feel like that tomorrow, and somebody gonna feel like that in a week. That’s a fact. And the fact is, we gotta come back and go to work to make sure we finish it next time. That’s all we gotta do. Remember that, man. God has never made a mistake. But we done came too far to drop our head. Joe, you played your ass off. You hear me, man?

I’m telling you, man, don’t ever, don’t ever drop your head when it comes to a loss, though, cuz there’s too much pain outside of this that people really going through, this right here makes us stronger.

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You need that X factor. You need that leg up. It’s too fucking hard. This workout will ensure that you never have to question your intensity. You make it through this, guys, you’re going to make it through life. I said leg up, because that’s what this is. It’s a leg workout. And it will bring you a leg up in life. It’s intense, man. I’m not sure I’m ready for it. But the challenge of that inspires me to reach barriers. I haven’t been to . And I’m excited to share that with you. And you guys watching this, share it with yourselves and your friends.

And together, we’ll be part of a society that doesn’t take second place as first. There’s first place, and then it’s forgotten. Leg up begins now.

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If you change your life, if you want to change your life, you must change your ways. You must develop discipline. You must develop strength. I tell you these things because I want to share that with you. I kind of want to wrap it up now and just say that it doesn’t matter where you are in life. It really doesn’t. Because the great thing about life is it’s always your next move. Your next move that counts. No matter where you are. You could be, look, I was dead broke. My electric bill was being shut off. And obviously, there were people even worse off than I was. It doesn’t matter.

You could change your life if you want to. It’s always your next decision. So it’s up to you.

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If you’re gonna watch fight, you just watch fight. They walk out inside the cage, they fight and they leave. You don’t know what happened behind the scenes. This is not your business. Nobody care about this. He was tired, he have personal problem, family… Nobody cares. You don’t know, like, you just see how he fight and he go. Yeah. And for this one, you have to train so hard. If you don’t want… Go back to Dagestan. Nobody gonna ask about yourself. Without you or with you, there is always gonna be champions. With your name, this is your choice. You wanna put your name there?

Okay, work hard. No? Bye-bye. It’s like very simple, nothing special.

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They don’t give a fuck about how they dress, how they look, what they’re driving. They don’t give a shit. Because why? Your trophies are your family and they’re all walking around. Every man that sees you, they, they see you walking in with some sweatpants and shit, but they know your family’s fucking balling because you put the fucking time in, you put the effort in, you put the work in. And as a man, we don’t want none of that shit. We just want fucking respect. And that’s what men don’t give a fuck about now. But the only thing I want is for my family to look at me and say, that’s the man.

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I thrive in chaos. I actually love chaos. I, I, everybody talks about retiring. Fuck that shit. What am I going to do when I retire? What would I do? What would I, I liked, I liked to go to war. I liked the battle. I like to win. Sometimes I lose, but then I have to come back from the loss. And. Uh, I love to build brands. I love to, um, set short term and longterm goals and then knock them all down. You know, um, this is just the stuff that, that, that excites me. And, and, and whether it’s, um, business or, or gambling or I like being a fan of things too, like I like live music.

So when I find a, like a band that I like, I get excited, uh, to, to, to go watch the band live or Celtics game. I love the fucking Boston Celtics and I love, you know, going to the games in Washington. This is the year. Hopefully we’re going to fucking win it this year. Um, these are all things that make me happy and excite me in my life.

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I want to ensure that I am some value to somebody, especially myself. So I’m going to change the direction of where I’m going. That direction can be changed in an instant. It’s a mindset. Just like when we walked in there, that blitzkrieg, what it is, it’s two forces joining. One is the belief in what you’re doing. Like Muhammad Ali believed so much he was a champion. He said he was a champion before he wasn’t a champion. That’s a belief. It has to be that way. That’s the steering wheel of life, the direction. And what’s going to fire that through is the engine.

Your undying will, the conviction to see it through. That was Michael Jordan’s quotes. I failed and failed and failed and failed. And because of that, I succeeded. You learned and learning got stronger and stronger. It’s like that steel going into the lava get hotter and hotter and hotter. And, you know, this hammered into the strength, the tensile strength of it all. It takes that kind of pressure of life to create something that stands the test of time.

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It takes more effort to start in the beginning and more people are right about the fact they’re like, hey, you’re not going to hit it big and guess what a month in you’re not, but they’re only measuring on months and it’s six months. You’re also not going to have hit it big yet. And they’re going to be like, I’m still right. And at a year, you’re still not going to have hit it big and they’ll still be right. And every day that you haven’t hit it, they’re going to feel like they were right, but they’re wrong because they’re measuring in days and you’re measuring in decades.

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Let’s understand who we are as men. And let’s make somebody smile when we walk out of here. Hell yeah, we lost the game, but so what? So what? I kept something inside of me so bad last night, a 17 year old child. You know about the child, coach. He passed 10 AM yesterday morning, a bone cancer. His mama called me bowling. So sometimes you gotta ask yourself, how great is your pain? If he give you enough of an opportunity to come back and do it again. We got an opportunity to keep going, man. Let’s be strong as a team, man. Let’s be who we are.

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Stand up, dig in, line up those problems and confront them, face them, fight them. Do not let them bring you down. In fact, in fact, let those challenges raise you up. Let them elevate you. Let their demands and their trials make you stronger.

Let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow.

So in the future, you look back at these struggles and you say to them, thank you. You made me better.

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You know, I do have fucking like teammates and fucking like, you know family push. My mom was struggling bro She was true. So it was like me, my mom, and so is a lot of this me. so when you’re waking up every morning by yourself and you’re fucking getting after it by yourself and- and It’s the it’s the hidden work People see one minute, you know video of me running and like like these fighters, you know They they seem during the fighter after the fight they don’t see as much man what they deal with every fucking day I’m not good enough.

I’m not gonna push in to be here I shouldn’t be here because every day there even though they’re fucking the best in the world That little motherfucker at seven or eight years old is still in there saying oh, man, you don’t have something. We’re not good enough Enough we shouldn’t be here. So you always fighting that motherfucker, even though you beat it. You never truly beat it. You never truly beat it.

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You are up on the cards, you’re winning this. You are gonna win this. But just keep smart and keep away from this. He’s going to sleep this time. He’s going out this round.

I should have stopped this, don’t we, your father? I’m stopping this one now.

Don’t, okay? Let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what? I’m not a mistake.

Look at me. I never got a chance to thank Apollo for helping me out after Mickey died. But it’s nothing compared to what you’ve done. You taught me how to fight again. And I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna fight this thing. But if I fight, I want you to fight too. I want you to go across this ring and knock that son of a bitch down. Can you do it? Say it.

I’m gonna knock that son of a bitch down.

I know you are. You know why? Because you are Creed and I love you, kid.

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We like a taste of that one kick some more ass So the next step whenever we’re doing because we put value in our day An hour in the gym wasn’t just an hour. We just go in there check the box and get no man We had a plan of action. We went in there and achieved that fucking plan. We spoke the words and we walked the motherfuckers. now here we stand, Energized, spending energy in the gym. but we created more energy, a mind-body connection, a belief, a quantum physics of it all. Energy expelled, value, what we’re doing, the belief in something.

hard work behind the belief Grows into prosperity of something. Yeah, we need to just wake up and grab a fucking shower You know wash our nuts and then grab a coffee for some energy to go to work. No, we’ve earned some fucking energy That kind of energy once lit never goes out Work better get ready for this man. You’re all the employees in the house. You know the people you work with in those cubicles. They better duck and cover because fucking heat’s coming in. and you’ve earned, guys.

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I will be 100% honest and say I’m comfortable with the understanding of hard work brings great rewards. This is a reminder of the hard work and dedication that I’ve put into everything that I’ve done. I’m not content because I know where I came from and I don’t ever want to go back. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to go back to the city. That doesn’t mean I want to go back to the people. That means I don’t want to go back to living like I once was. I want to go back and I want to help. I want to inspire, I want to motivate.

I want to show people that there is a way out, that there is a way to do more, to get more, to obtain more. But I personally don’t want to lose all that I’ve been able to get. So I need to make sure that I do everything to keep it.

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The clock just keeps ticking down and the lower that number gets you realize how fucking amazing now is. The present is a miracle, bruh.

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If you’re in a, if you’re always hanging out with like five dudes and none of them are grinding, none of them are locked in, what are the odds that you suddenly will be? you know, you’re kind of going to match the, uh, you’re kind of going to match the environment, the that you’re around. you know not to just dog and somebody for not, uh, you know for not being jacked, but you know, not everybody is going to be particularly supportive of shit that you want to do and you’ve got to kind of be able to have the balls to do what you want to do regardless of that. Right. Don’t know.

You don’t need everybody’s fucking authorization and you don’t need everybody’s approval to do some.

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I’m over 40. I’m pushing 50, whatever Bring it back off Negative not happening. In fact, I’m stepping it up. I’m training harder, eating cleaner.

I’m training more. I’m learning and reading and studying more now than I ever have in my whole life.

Do I get dinged up? Of course I do. There take some some injuries. Yeah,

You know what? No factor, No factor deal with them. You know what? You know what I hear? I hear the clock ticking. That’s what I hear, and the end is nigh and time waits for no man.

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There’s a moment when every boy realizes no one’s coming to save him. And that’s when he becomes a man. And some boys never get there and stay children forever. That guy was you that said that. And it’s important when we step out of this. Like this stuff matters because no one’s effing coming to save you. No one’s going to make you better at your business. No one is going to get you to be a better persuader of people or framer of people other than you. And I just feel like that’s one of the more profound philosophical comments.

There’s a lot of grown men and women that are still boys and girls because they think someone else is coming to change their life.

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I can never put into words on what I built and the power that is within all of us. But you put it so like in a scientific way. Most people like for me, he’s just crazy. That’s why I don’t like talking about it, man. I know I’m not crazy. I know what I had to do to get where I had to go. People look at it as crazy because there are people that just, if you can’t imagine yourself doing something, if you can’t imagine yourself doing something, the person that’s doing it is crazy. Because in your mind, the logic behind it, it doesn’t compute. Therefore you have to give somebody a title.

And a title for me is usually, he’s crazy, he’s this, he’s that. No, no. For some reason, me wanting to be somebody is so bad in my life. I created that. And I’ve been trying to figure out years of my life.

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your teeth can get sharper and stronger too, so that he’s saving himself to use his teeth, but he could have had all of his teeth at the end if he had been using them the whole time. And so we have this idea, I call it the fallacy of the perfect pick, but thinking that you’re gonna have this one shot, this one pick of this one opportunity, this one podcast, this one whatever, that’s going to take you all the way, but it’s the habit of biting that takes you all the way, not where you choose to bite the first time. And I actually now have a huge history of this, and you do too,

which is we have learned to just bite and know that our teeth will get stronger and we will learn how to chomp down along the way. And that’s the fallacy.

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What would you do if you just learned today that you only had six months to live? What if you only had six months to live? What would you stop doing? What would you do more of? Who would you spend time with? Now the answer to that question is very interesting because what it tells you is what you really value. What is really important to you? And what we have found is that self-esteem, satisfaction, happiness in life comes from getting your goals and your activities congruent with your values, with your priorities, with what you consider to be really important.

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You know, trial and error. You grow up and you make game winning shots and it’s awesome. You come back the next day and miss a game winning shot and it’s misery. And then the next day comes and you’re back playing again. And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it’s, you know, what you do on Monday is fantastic, but then Tuesday is a bad day, but guess what? There’s Wednesday. So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? You know, versus just staying like this and understanding that it’s really just a journey of evolution every day.

It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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You have an apartment you have to pay for, you have a car you leased, you have a wife that you have to feed, you have a child you have to raise, you have your mortgage, you have your this, you have your that, and that’s where it all comes from. Beth Dombkowski Where do you think opportunity plays into that? Jared Buss, Well, the opportunity takes place usually when you’re young and you don’t have any responsibility. That’s when you have your options. Your options are severely limited the more you gather responsibilities. Like if I had to, as a 51-year-old father of three.

married man pays taxes, has a house and a mortgage and a business and all that jazz. if I had to quit everything now and struggle the way I struggled as a stand-up comedian, it would never work.

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your biggest enemy, your biggest, the most important conversation you will ever have in your life is the one you have with yourself. You wake up with it, you walk around with it, you go to bed with it, eventually you’re going to act on it. It is about you. It’s strictly about you finding who you are. So many people die, live a hundred years, never fucking know who they are. Never know who they are. You have to look in that mirror and know this there’s so much more in here man because I can literally right now be a 300 pound guy spraying for cockroaches still to this day.

If I did not look in that mirror and say there has to be more to this, this can’t be it and then willing to go into it, dive deep into it and give all I have to find it. So that’s what all that’s about.

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I believe that what you put out, you get back. And I believe that when you have, you should take care of other people and you should always try to bring people up with you and all that kind of stuff. But the movie that changed the whole trajectory of my life was Vision Quest.

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Waiting to begin never got anyone anywhere. There is this strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that. But there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future, the real thing will come about. It’s also known as Deferred Happiness Syndrome, the common feeling that your life has not yet begun, that your present reality is a mere prelude to some idyllic future. This idyll is a mirage that’ll fade as you approach, revealing that the prelude you rushed through was in fact the one to your death.

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The guy says, well, I’m going to save up my energy. You can’t do that. That’s like trying to save today, put it on the end of the year. See, you can’t do that. They’ll come take you away. If you don’t use today, what? It’s lost. The guy says, well, I’ll work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for it. See, that’s foolish. You could have done that anyway. Today unused is lost. A talent unused is lost. An ability unused is lost. So here’s one of the key expressions of the evening. Take a new inventory of yourself. Starting tomorrow, new project. Take a new inventory.

And make sure that all of your talent and ability and mentality and ingenuity and vitality and strong feelings, faith, courage, make sure that all you’ve got’s being used. Otherwise, you lose.

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But as you well know, sometimes one must break the rules in order to serve the greater good. Mordo won’t see it that way. Mordo’s soul is rigid and unmovable, forged by the fires of his youth. He needs your flexibility, just as you need his strength. Only together do you stand a chance of stopping Dormammu. I’m not ready.

No one ever is. We don’t get to choose our time.

Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered, your time is short.

You’d think after all this time I’d be ready. But look at me, stretching one moment out into a thousand, just so that I can watch the snow.

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What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? If you knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that you could not fail, what one thing would you set as a goal for yourself? Because sometimes answering that question will tell you the one thing that you’ve been put on this earth to accomplish. One final point with regard to goals is that goals must be in writing. You must write them down, you must rewrite them, you must define them, you must redefine them. The top 1% of successful people, in every area, have very clear, specific, written goals.

And most of them carry their goals around with them.

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You need to get up earlier. You need to pick up the pace when you’re going to your car, maybe even jog a little bit.

Rest less between your sets when you’re working out. Focus harder when you’re at work so you can get the job done faster. Put a schedule together and compress your meetings and your calls. See where you can save three minutes, or five minutes, or 10 minutes. How can you move faster with more efficiency and maximum effectiveness? You save those three minutes, you save those five minutes, and those minutes add up, and those minutes become hours, and days, and weeks.

That is how you make time.

So get that sense of urgency and go get after it.

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You know, I have like teammates and like, you know family push. My mom was struggling bro. She was true. So it was like me, my mom, and so it was a lot of this me. so when you’re waking up every morning by yourself and you’re fucking getting after it by yourself and- and It’s the it’s the hidden work People see one minute, you know video of me running and like like these fighters, you know They they seem during the fighter after the fight they don’t see his mouth man what they deal with every fucking day I’m not good enough.

I’m not gonna push in to be here I shouldn’t be here because every day there even though they’re the best in the world That little mouth got seven or eight years old is still in there saying oh, man, you don’t have something. We’re not good enough Enough we shouldn’t be here. So you always fighting that motherfucker, even though you beat it. You never truly beat it. You never truly beat it.

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Most people go inside and light a fire, put a sweater on. We’re gonna be outside lighting a fire in our ass. That internal drive’s gonna warm us up. I’ll get into that more in a second. But if you look at these winter months, guys, and you take the nature of animals, what do they do? Most of them hibernate all winter, right? For far too often, a lot of humans do that too. Meaning they let their diet go because they’re wearing all these baggy and layer clothes. You know, it’s Christmas time or holiday festives and they’re having the f***ing cookie,

it doesn’t matter because the beach season’s never gonna come, right? Like the time stopped. All we have in life, guys, the only resource that’s depreciating every single day is time. And it’s up to us to take advantage of that time or not take advantage of the time. What I mean by that is that most people take holiday and let their diet go and break and it’s cold and stuff and they don’t wanna get outside. Others that wanna achieve things in life, they don’t let this time go by. They make the most of this time. And they get ahead during this time.

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I’m an empathetic person. You’re sad, you’re making bad decisions. You’re saying it’s cuz you lost your friend or you went through this traumatic thing. And I go, okay, how can I help? Instead of saying, hey man, yeah, guess what, it’s time to carry on.

Don’t dwell on it. I’ve told 1,000 veterans this, remember, don’t dwell. Remember, remember your friends, don’t dwell on the past though. Remember, don’t dwell. That’s what we have to do. And the emotions, yes,

embrace those emotions. But don’t let those emotions embrace you. Don’t let those emotions run your life.

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Now, like I’ve seen a lot of players, especially now, you know, in youth basketball, dealing with that, you have players that are like bigger and faster and stronger and, you know, their coaches are just coaching them for results. You know, we’re just gonna use your size that, cause you’re bigger than every other 12 year old out there to dominate today, but they’re not growing, right? So they’re just based on that result, but they’re not focused on growing this young child into becoming a better athlete. And through that, teaching them how to become a more well-rounded person.

And we’re missing that.

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A lot of people can give up. It’s easy to give up. It’s easy. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. I’m done. I ain’t going. I ain’t going to keep going. I don’t feel like going to work. I’m done. It’s easy. It’s very easy. But what’s hard is going, yo, yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could. Nothing happened from that. I’m going to do the same thing again today, but I’m going to try to go harder. That’s the hardest thing in the world, to get up every day and give 100% and be in the same position that you were each day,

but mentally know that you’re trying and trying and trying. That’s a real grind.

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Starting tomorrow, what are you going to do that’ll make a change in your life’s direction? Good question. What are you gonna do starting tomorrow that’ll make a difference?

Now, see, if you don’t do something starting tomorrow that’ll make a difference, guess what?

It’s gonna be the same.

What can you do starting tomorrow that’ll make a difference?

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I don’t care what color you are, what country you come from, or what language you speak. We’re all human beings. Fighting’s in our DNA. We get it and we like it. And it’s true. Fighting is in our DNA. It’s a part of who we are. And you know, no matter where you are, if a fight breaks out, it creates this energy, this buzz, this sense of fear. I mean, a lot of different emotions happen in people when fights break out. But one thing that is always the case, everybody’s watching, man. Everybody’s fucking, all of their eyes are on the fight. I mean, we were just in Mexico.

A fucking fight broke out,

like in the good seats, like right here, with these seats that are super expensive.

And security never fucking came.

They just let these guys fight until they gassed out. And then everybody put their chairs back together and sat back down and fucking, I literally got up from my table, walked over and was watching this fight at the fights.

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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most times we catastrophize any failure to death, right? Which is like, I’m gonna fail, I’m gonna lose all my money, I’m gonna be homeless, no one’s gonna talk to me, and I’m gonna die, right? But like, if you play it out two natural steps, like, okay, I lose everything, what do I do? I would probably have a couch or floor that someone would lend me. Because at least socially, I haven’t been, I haven’t fucked everyone I know. And so I have that. It’s like, okay, so I would have some capacity to do that. Okay, is there anything that I could do in the meantime in order to make money?

Well, sure, I could drive Uber and strip. And I’ve already, you know, I’ve told this story before, but for me, that was genuinely my plan B, because I knew that I could probably make 70, 80 grand a year driving Uber. I probably make 150 stripping, maybe 200, strip at the gay bars, the guys pay better. And then, and you know, boom, I’ve got 280,000 280,000 a year, I could live on the floor, and then I could restart again. And so that’s because I don’t have a lot of shame with that kind of stuff. That’s like, that doesn’t matter to me.

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You know, name one notable person in any field, in any, in anything where they’re literally a top dog name, one person who gets like zero random backlash, especially online, you know? So that’s where you gotta be a little bit more fucking tough. And if you have a clear view- clear if you’ve got a clear view, if you have a clear image of something that you want to achieve and you know that it’s going to be cool in, in what world do you need to listen to anybody else tell you like, nah, I don’t do that. That’s stupid. Why are you doing that, man? Right.

And, uh, this is a little bit, a little bit dicey, a little bit divisive to say, but dude, a classic fucking example.

So I’m drinking dog. If you’ve got a crew of dudes every weekend on the regular Friday, Saturday, Sunday, they’re out, they’re out.

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You die you go to so-called heaven You arrive at heaven. I’m 300 pounds. I retired as an eco lab guy, which is okay. Just a job. Whatever I go up there and god Looks at me and he shows me my chart And my chart on there says you were supposed to be a navy seal You’re supposed to weigh 185 pounds You’re supposed to be one of the smartest people in the planet this this all this you see this And now you’re in heaven you made it to heaven, but you’re like god. I was supposed to live that life.

I was supposed to live that life and then you find out That the reason why- because we all think that if we pray on it, if we do this, if we do that, whatever, If we don’t work, we just whatever it’s gonna magically happen for us. No, I believe that when i’m all said and done with, my whole job is to outwork the chart. Whatever the fucking chart says about me, the all-knowing power up there, I want to get up there and say him: look at me and say I know everything. I didn’t fucking see this.

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They might have been practicing like, ah, now you get it, you running out of time. You never know when your opportunity is that opportunity. It may not be two years from now. It may not be three years from now. It may not be four years from now. Your opportunity might come in the next six weeks. Your opportunity to get your mama out of that neighborhood and get your mama into a new neighborhood, listen to me, that opportunity might come in the next six months. And the question is: listen to me. the question is: will you be ready when that opportunity comes? So you running out of time.

You don’t know how much time you have. You keep telling yourself you got time and watch what happens. Now, you gotta get what I’m telling you. Being average is dangerous. Being average is hazardous.

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The only way I could be this person now is if I took that chance when I was 21, when I was dead broke and Had my cars repossessed and all that stuff. That’s the only way You you ever get where you want to go. You have to. you have to take a path. It’s dangerous And most people want to take the safe path, and the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet desperation Almost every time. it’s hell, It’s hell.

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Life goes by and it goes by quick. Don’t waste those years. Don’t waste them, live them. Now I know, I know that you don’t think you’re gonna live to be 30, much less 40, but you are and you will.

And the earlier you get in the game and get on track, the better life you’re gonna have. Healthier, wealthier, stronger, smarter, better, better. And if you’re an old man like me and you haven’t gotten on track yet, get on track, get on it now.

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So we’re going to take this workout to the outside, the backyard. You can take it anywhere you want to go. It’s a mobile workout that you don’t need a gym membership for. You don’t need any equipment for. Cost effective and frequent. That’s success right there. You add them up, that will deliver what you want. All you need now is a little imagination. And your imagination, guys, whether you want to believe it or not, is a preview of your life’s coming attractions. And if you can’t imagine what it’s going to be, don’t ever expect physically to look in the mirror and see it.

These times right now are these little adversities with the climate and the weather and environment and stuff are blessings in disguise. People are forcing you to step outside the box, shock the system up, learning from and overcoming it, setting manageable, achievable goals that you’re proud of when you achieve it, excited to do it again the next day, giving you the confidence that nothing can stand in your way of your path and where you want to go in your dreams.

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success is the only revenge.

He’s like, it’s not the best revenge. He’s like, it’s the only one.

There’s no other revenge because everything else is petty.

Everything else does show that you were thinking about these people all day long,

which means they win by default.

He’s like, all you can do is think about your goal and winning.

He’s like, and when you win,

that’s when you become so big that they shrink into irrelevance.

You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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You don’t have enough time. And no one does. No one has enough time. It’s a finite commodity. And we’re all running out of time. And that is why we can’t waste any time. Can’t waste time sitting around and doing nothing. Can’t waste time scrolling through social media. You can’t waste time flipping through the various streaming movies that are available to you. Can’t do that. You can’t waste time. Not a second. In fact, what you need to do every chance you get is you need to make time.

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Ran by a graveyard and I looked out there and I have all these epiphanies man I’ve always the moments of like of it’s crazy man of this thought come always by myself I’m always in deep can thought about how to be better. I look out there. I’m like man. I wonder how many you motherfuckers in there Fucking just are so upset with how you lived your life. Mmm, you can just regret how you lived it. and I’m running a 300-pound man thinking man, Don’t can die like this bro. Don’t die like this. so people wonder where this it comes from.

from me, It comes from such deep thought, of trying to see what this is all about. what is this life all about? what am I all about? Why am I here? You know, I had, I had to find purpose, and

My suffering it had a purpose. it had a purpose.

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Well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful, But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable. It’s like the first thing you want to do is dispense with the idea that you get to have any any Permanent security outside of your ability to contend and adapt. It’s the same issue with children It’s like you’re paying a price by sitting there being miserable and you might say well the devil I know is better than the one I don’t it’s like don’t be so sure of that. The clock is ticking, Yeah,

and if you’re miserable in your job now and you change nothing, in five years You’ll be much more miserable and you’ll be a lot older.

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playing out the fear, Layla says this and I love it, but that fear is a mile wide and an inch deep. And so it looks like this ocean that you’re going to step into and drown. But as soon as you step into it, you realize it was not that deep at all and you can keep walking through it. And I just love that visual because a lot of times when it’s like we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to make, if you actually take the step and realize that it’s not death, you’re not going to drown immediately. There’s plenty of other steps you can take from there, even if you get a little wet.

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I want to get to the other end of this fucking world and however I’m being judged Whoever’s judging me to look at me and say I did not Fucking know I had you at 185 has you that this but all this other shit. I was riding as you were living it. I want to. I want to find more, all I can, and In that fucking sack of shit you have to dive in that To find more, because if you’re not willing to go in there and face yourself, I could find anything.

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How, how many times are you going to be able to hear like, dude, why aren’t you drinking, bro? What the fuck? Well, why don’t you drink? How many times do you want to really be around an environment while your body’s telling that to you? Now, I’m not saying everybody’s like that, but for the most part, you know, let’s say you’re a badass lifter or just even just an athlete. You know, if your actual physical performance is something you’re trying to maximize, be it for like, you know, athleticism, lifting, or even just general, you know,

kind of a kind of health in a way, you know, I’m no health nut, but I know that taxing my internal organs with fucking, you know, nights out is not going to be cohesive with any fucking gains whatsoever. Really the actual fucking opposite.

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And it’s interesting to pay attention to because it allows you to take some control over time, right? And knowing that if you can compress time, you can get more done. Do you, like let’s say I have a call with an East Coast client that’s at seven o’clock in the morning. Takes me a half an hour, you know, to get done, get showered. If I have my first call’s at nine, bro, my workout’s gonna take longer and it’s not gonna be necessarily, look, sometimes it’s nice, you go in there, you get a little bit of a better workout because you have more time.

But when you’re on a timeline, you get more efficient. This also applies to if you’re going on a hike or you’re going on a mission and you have whatever size rucksack you have, it’s gonna get filled up. So the bigger rucksack you have, the more crap you’re gonna bring. .

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Now we’re outside right now. Why are we outside? Because we want to f***ing transform man. So why are we gonna do what we’re gonna do? We’re gonna get a little more motivation. I’m gonna tell them motherf***ers out here that we’re here to f***ing win. This is my f***ing time!

Deadline! That’s how you do it guys. You f***ing commit to something. You tell everyone about it. And no matter what they honk and cheer for you, they get behind you. Instead of being one of those subjective nature losers in life. That beats you down because you’re doing better than them. And you’re reminding them of their failures.

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You think when you’re young that you have all this time. You have no time. There’s no time. I mean, one of the quotes on the wall in the gym in there is, there is no tomorrow from Rocky III. There is no tomorrow. Fuck that shit. Let’s get all this shit done today. Do you think about your death? I’m not afraid of death. Not even a little bit. I’m not afraid of it. I don’t know if that’ll be the case when I’m facing it, you know, when I’m looking down the barrel of it, laying in a hospital bed somewhere. I literally, I don’t even like to sleep. My life is so fucking awesome.

I don’t even want to go to bed at night. I don’t even want to go to sleep. I want to stay up. I wish I could fucking do 24 hours and never have to sleep. That’s how much I love my life.

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The part that why there’ll always be the ones of ones is because putting that practice, , putting that into actual work, no, man, no, no. That’s where the demons come in. That’s where you’re like, I don’t wanna be better. I don’t wanna be better. This is what it takes to be better? I don’t wanna be better. So everybody’s, that’s why there’s a lot of average. And it makes me so fucking mad. Every day I walk this earth and I see average all over the fucking place. And they wanna ask me, how did you do it? I can’t tell you how, cause you’re not gonna fucking, you’re not gonna do it.

You’re not gonna do it. You’re gonna continue being, cause every day you wake up, like he says, not like get the coffee, make the pancakes, kiss the girl, kiss the kids. You wake up, right to work.

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Focus on right now because that is all you’ve got. There isn’t any past, there isn’t any future. Now, now, now’s it. That’s it. When the sand’s gone, it’s gone.

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And then you have to have a plan and you have to spend all your waking hours, outside of whatever shit job you do, Planning your escape, and you have to come to the realization, very clearly, that you fucked up and you got yourself stuck. so, whatever you’re doing, you have to Do it like your life depends on it, and whether it is you’re trying to be an author, and you’re gonna, you’re gonna.

if you’re gonna Try to be an author and you’re working eight hours a day plus commuting plus family responsibilities or whatever else you have Whatever time that you have you have to attack like you’re trying to save the world. You’re trying to save your life You don’t want to drown that one and a half hours a day that you have to write God damn, you better be caffeinated and motivated. You got to go, you got to get after it and you got to have discipline. That’s most people don’t have those things.

Most people don’t understand what it’s like to to really go for something And to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific.

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In here we start, get the mind right, the body will follow. Tell the world, get a goal, achievable goal. And then day by day by day, you start to do that goal to make it the reality guys. It’s not guesswork, it’s a science of intensity. If you don’t have the intensity, don’t come in. Everyone knows it.

They know it now, and when we transform, God damn. They’re gonna know it there on a visual sense.

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immediate your mind is in action. No one wants to do that. No one. And I don’t blame them. But don’t be mad. When you’re laying there in your fucking bed and you’re in the fucking hospital and you’re 70, 80, 90 years old and you’re thinking, man, I feel like I didn’t fucking do something. Because you did. You didn’t do it. You didn’t do shit. You may have lived a great life, man, but you’re always gonna feel empty inside. I don’t feel empty. So call me what you want. There’s not one empty bone in my fucking body because I have figured out that really the magic potion,

at least in my life, and it’s very rewarding.

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The less you can do anything that’s going to interfere with your gains, the better. And you got to be able to kind of be a little bit responsible with the people that you’re hanging around, because it’s not a myth. You know, this isn’t just speculation. You’re going to kind of match the environment that you put yourself in. So if you kind of ease up on it, odds are, or if you kind of, you know, shrink it down, make it a little bit tighter. Odds are you’re going to have a better time, man. You know, sure. Right. The circle gets smaller, but the players get better.

As the circle gets smaller, the players get better.

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If anything, it’s going to fire me up more because my competition is sleeping right now or just in bed with a sweater and stuff. No, I’m outside warming up. I’m bringing the summer months here in California in December. I’m going to heat this mother f*** up from within. And once that inside’s warm, it doesn’t matter what the f*** is going on out here. Nothing can break me. This workout here is a muscle building cardio workout. I’ve got 15 exercises for you I’m going to show you. I’m going to show you how to set these workouts up that meets your needs individually. But it’s a sandbag routine.

We’re going to call this a sandbag offensive body shock. The S-O-M-B. Son of a b***. And it is. It’s a son of a b*** workout. It’s going to elevate your heart rate. It’s going to bring your muscles to exhaustion. And you’re going to push through in a limited oxygen state. Nothing but growth’s coming.

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Here’s the deal, no complacency. No complacency, no backing off.

No slack whatsoever.

Fight, fight that ticking clock with everything you got so like the end of a hard day, you can put your head down with ease,

satisfied that you’ve given your best.

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You can live right here on surface man, right here on surface. So if there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go and there’s a judgment. You’re going to get there and you might see a chart and that chart may tell you who the f**k you should have been. And now you get the rest of your life to think about that. Man, I could have lived a much better life if I just would have just suffered a little bit more. If I just would have went in that s**t and realized I had so much more. But fear and the 40% and living here versus living here being afraid. Stop me.

So that’s I’m a big guy in visualizing. I’m a big guy in making a world. It may not exist. To me it does. To me it does. And I’m overpowering myself every day. And you got to find tools to do that. That’s the tool that I use. So that’s what it’s all about.

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Major step to human progress, discipline. If there’s one thing to get excited over, that’s it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things.

What could you make yourself do starting tomorrow that would change it all? No telling.

Now, see, that’s exciting. On any given day, you can massively change the direction of your life.

Murder is a clear example that any one person on any given day can forever alter the course of their life. It just happens to be a negative act.

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Inside baby! Side to side, move your head! Watch him now, watch him. Remember he’s got two hands, right? Hmph! Hmph! Hmph! Hmph! Hmph!

Damn man, what the hell are you doing? This guy will knock you on your ass!

Come on, Rock, it’s not a game. You want to lay up in the hospital for five weeks this time? You thought I was tough? This jump will kill you! Alright. Come on, come on, get your head on your shoulders, man. Think about the fight, think about the fight! What’s the matter with you? Tomorrow. Let’s do it tomorrow. There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!

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Yep. I said it before and I’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.

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That’s how much time you get if you’re lucky. 75 years, 75 winters, 75 springtimes, 75 summers, and 75 autumns. When you look at it like that, there’s not a lot of time, is? Don’t waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that preoccupy your existence and get back to what’s important now. Right now, this very second. And I’m not saying drop everything and let the world come to a grinding halt. I’m saying that you can become a seeker, you can be loving more, you can be taking some chances, you can be living more,

you can be spending more time with your family, you can be getting in touch with the part of you that lives instead of fears, the part of you that loves instead of hates.

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all those mornings that you didn’t wanna get up, and I look at it as like a rock

and you find this fucking rock and that rock is you. And every day you fucking fight not wanting to get up and you do anyway, you chip another piece off that fucking rock. And every day you fucking eat the right foods and every day you go to train, you train harder and harder and harder and harder and you get up earlier. And all these things you do to start forming yourself, you’re chipping another fucking piece of that rock off. Before you know it, you have this beautiful fucking piece of artwork that you built. But people don’t, and then once you get there, you see it.

It becomes real, like, oh my God, I fucking did this shit. And so like the journey becomes so real then. But so many people aren’t willing to fucking chip away at that stone that is them to start chipping off those fucking rough edges. That’s the fear, the fear.

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You have to return to your body now. You don’t have time.

Time is relative. Your body hasn’t even hit the floor yet.

I’ve spent so many years peering through time, looking at this exact moment, but I can’t see past it. I’ve prevented countless terrible futures, and after each one there’s always another. And they all lead here, but never further.

You think this is where you die?

You wonder what I see in your future?

No. Yes.

I never saw your future, only its possibilities. You have such a capacity for goodness. You always excelled, but not because you craved success, but because of your fear of failure.

It’s what made me a great doctor.

It’s precisely what kept you from greatness. Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.

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And some of you have been asking, God,

what am I supposed to do with my career?

Get in 21 days of prayer and fasting and get God’s view on it.

Get up here and let God show you where you’re supposed to be and what city you’re supposed to be in and how you’re supposed to do.

Get God’s view on it and then come down here with diligence.

See right here is where we try to forget what we saw.

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no matter who you are, what walk of life you’re in. Number one, you have to own your own happiness. Take it away from other people demanding that they make you happy. Your kids are not gonna make you happy. Your spouse is not gonna make you happy. A big house is not gonna make you happy. Own your own happiness and be responsible for doing those things that bring joy into your own heart independently of life and people and money and all of that stuff. It doesn’t necessarily give you happiness.

You have to take responsibility of that peace and that joy that lives inside of your heart and not inside of your stuff.

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These times are here to let us know that we need to take a stand for our right to have hope. And we need to take a stand with every ounce of wit and courage we can muster. The question is, what are you willing to stand for?

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You have to take chances in life. If you don’t take chances in life, you’ll never have the life God has for you. When you take a chance on you, I want you to remember something, that all of us were created in God’s image. So when you take a chance on you, you’re taking a chance on God, because God is in all of us. You ever say to yourself, man, there’s gotta be more to my life than this? If you’ve ever said that, that’s cause it is. Life is about risk. If you play it safe in life, you ain’t gonna have much of a life.

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Most important thing number one is you got to get rid of doubts. If you got doubts in what you’re doing, it’s not gonna work. You know what I’m saying? And the way to do that is you have a plan. Because if you got a plan, it’s not like just a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal. If you don’t have that, it’s very hard to really have faith in what you’re doing. Because soon as something pop up, it’s gonna look like the end all. But if you got a game plan of everything you need to do, you know, one thing pop up, well,

I still got to do this, this, this, and that. So this ain’t gonna stop. You know what I’m saying? Another thing pop up. Well, shit, I accomplished these two things. I’ve since done my last obstacle. I only got three more things to do. Let me keep pushing. Pretty soon, you’ve attained your goal, and then you create another one. But without a game plan, without a strong sense of faith in what you’re doing, it’s gonna be real hard to accomplish anything.

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Whatever is in your imagination,

God places the life he has for you in your imagination.

Because your imagination is God showing you a preview of a coming attraction he has for you.

And you got to get after that, man.

You got to go and get at that. If you don’t do it,

life becomes real normal and real mediocre to you.

It takes courage to pursue your dream.

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Put your honor where your mouth is. When you give your word, keep it. Show up, do the work, get your hands dirty. And then you’ll begin to draw strength from the understanding, the true knowing that history is still being written. You’re writing it every day. The wheel’s still in spin. And what you do or what you don’t do will be a part of it.

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challenge their own story, because people torment themselves by how they see their life. They’ve told themselves a story as if it were the truth, when it is really a perspective truth. And sometimes you’ve narrated a story that you beat yourself to death with. Challenge your own story. Change the way you talk to yourself about who you are and what happened to you and what you’re gonna do in your life. You wrote the script, change the story. Change the dialogue. You can, am I right? You know? Yeah. The third thing that I think is very important is to enjoy the journey, not the destination.

A lot of us delay our happiness. When I get to this level, when I get my degree, when I get the kids, when I get married, I’m gonna be happy. Enjoy the journey.

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Anything you want, everything you want, it’s a thing. And if you can’t handle this thing, the consequences attached are severe. Do you know you and are you okay with you? If you are not, it’ll break you.

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going through that pain actually solidifies that lesson way more. It’s like Bruce Lee says, the pain will leave you when it’s done teaching you.

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The clock strikes midnight. Another day ends. Another opportunity slips away. Tomorrow you whisper to yourself, tomorrow I’ll be more prepared. Tomorrow the timing will be better. Tomorrow I’ll feel ready. But tomorrow becomes next week. Next week becomes next month. Next month becomes next year. And suddenly you’re looking back at a collection of tomorrows that never arrived. The greatest tragedy in life isn’t failure. It’s delay. It’s allowing the illusion of someday readiness to rob you of the only time you’re guaranteed. Today.

What if readiness isn’t something that arrives like a package at your doorstep? What if it’s something you build through action, not through waiting? What if the very concept of feeling ready is the most sophisticated form of self-deception we’ve ever created? The question isn’t whether you’re ready. The question is, are you willing? You see, most of us are waiting for permission that will never arrive.

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The pain that’s going to come. it’s going to come in waves.

At first you won’t even notice that they’re waves, because all the waves are gonna be so close together. It’s gonna feel like you are drowning in sorrow,

You’re not gonna get any air and like you’re not gonna be able to escape that sadness. That’s what the waves feel like at first.

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Self-confidence is huge, it’s important, and you gotta forge it every single day. The third one is you gotta live with purpose. If you don’t have purpose in your life, you don’t have momentum. You don’t have anything driving you forward, anything pulling you out of bed every single day.

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This might not even be your last time getting left.

Pull yourself together and quit tripping cause you in the process.

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Now let me tell y’all something about dreams.

Listen up, because this is something I found out a long time ago that goes against everything you see in a movie, on TV,

or what your great-grandma may have told you when you were a kid.

See, dreams don’t happen overnight.

Tell you how it works.

See, they come to you in the daylight.

You gots to be awake.

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And then, at some point, there’s gonna be a little break. just a little break, Just a little bit of light in the darkness. something is gonna make you smile, something is gonna make you laugh, something’s gonna just show you just a little bit of light, and

Then another wave of pain is gonna come back again And it’s gonna be strong and you won’t have any control over it.

all of a sudden, You’re gonna be just crying, uncontrolled. You won’t be able to say no. No, I’m in the light now. I’m smiling right now. I’m not gonna I’m not gonna go back there. No, you’re not gonna be able to control it. That’s scary. You’re at the mercy of this ocean of sorrow,

But don’t let that scare you.

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You got to run dreams down. See that chase, that chase, that chase is what we learn the most about ourselves. To take that extra step, that extra mile, that extra rep. Now look, look here. You don’t never know how long it’s going to take or exactly what it’ll look like when you get there. The only thing you know is you can never stop. So, question time. What’s your dream? What’s your dream? Are you willing to do what it takes to make that dream a reality? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, not while you’re sleeping, but every darn day you wake up. Because if it does, if it does, good morning.

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You don’t just have to do one thing. You can do a lot of different things. But there’s this weird mindset that a lot of people have that you can only do one thing. And when I realized I don’t have to just do one thing, I can do a lot of different things. You can be good at a lot of different things, but you don’t know that you’re good at a lot of different things unless you try a lot of different things. And when I looked around and I kind of just realized how the world goes around, it’s all based off of creativity. It’s all based off of ideas.

It’s all based off of thought-provoking, then groundbreaking opportunities.

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What’s the point? What’s the point? What’s the point? What’s the point? What’s the point of this book? What’s the point of this chapter? What’s the point of the sentence? What am I doing? What what’s the point? What’s the point? What’s the purpose and that that question was always on a loop in my head? and then when I turned the final manuscript in and I was done and I didn’t have that question to think about, I I was a little lost and I found myself like I took a walk in my neighborhood and I was just,

and All of a sudden I found myself Sort of subconsciously Thinking I started to say what’s next? What’s next? What’s next? What’s next?

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Never, ever give up. There’ll be times in your life you’ll want to quit, you’ll want to go home.

So many people that have really hit big have gone against the tide. But you have to have great confidence in yourself. You have to be the right person. There are very few people that can pull it off. But when you pull it off, it’s great.

In order to be successful, and you people are well on the road to success, you have to find out what makes you excited, what makes you want to get up each morning and go to work.

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Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation of everything great. People should learn from my mistakes as well, not only my successes. That’s the beauty of living a life. I’m not a perfect guy. You can take whatever out of it that you choose that applies to you. Some things that I’ve done will not apply to you. And I may, by the grace of God and whatever angels that I had over my shoulders, I made it through. You may not make it through that same hole. But if you could take what I’ve done and then perfect on it, then that’s great.

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Objectives and key results, or OKRs, are a simple goal-setting system. And they work for organizations, they work for teams, they even work for individuals. The objectives are what you want to have accomplished. The key results are how I’m going to get that done. Objectives, key results, what and how. But here’s the truth. Many of us are setting goals wrong, and most of us are not setting goals at all.

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What I try to do is just try to be still and understand that things come and go, emotions come and go. The important thing is to accept them all, to embrace them all, and then you can choose to do with them what you want versus being controlled by emotion. You know, a lot of times I’ve seen players- even myself, you know, when I was younger- being consumed by a particular fear, and to the point where you’re saying, okay, no, it’s not good to feel fear. I shouldn’t be nervous in this situation. Like, nah. And it does nothing but grow versus stepping back and saying, yeah,

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If nothing changes, nothing changes. And yet, somehow we expect things to change. We expect things to change. You think you’re gonna get in better shape. You think you’re gonna get more money. You think your relationship is gonna improve. You think you’re gonna get promoted. You think you’re gonna get a raise. You think the world is going to get better without you doing anything, but it isn’t. Nothing is going to change unless you change what you’re doing. Change the junk food that you’re eating. Change the time that you wake up. Change what you do when you get out of bed.

Change what you do with your time.

That’s what you need to do.

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If you love what you do and dedicate yourself to your work, then you will gain momentum. You will gain that momentum. You have to. And each success will create another success. I always tell this to people. You have to know whether or not you continue to have the momentum. And if you don’t have it, that’s okay. Because you’re gonna go on, and you’re gonna learn, and you’re gonna do things that are great. But you have to know about the word momentum. But the big thing, never quit, never give up. Do something you love. When you do something you love, as a Scout, I see that you love it.

But when you do something that you love, you’ll never fail. What you’re going to do is give it a shot again, and again, and again. You’re ultimately going to be successful.

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You have to change some things or nothing will change.

So make changes and start little. Get up a little bit earlier, get a workout done. It doesn’t have to be epic. It doesn’t have to be epic. You don’t have to do a three-hour leg day. But get up and get something done.

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If you quit whatever you’re trying to accomplish, if you quit whatever you were trying to accomplish, can never happen. There’s not even a remote possibility. If you quit, there is no chance of it popping back up again, coming back later. Quitting is guaranteed failure.

Now, when you’re trying, you’re going to fail. But quitting, just stopping, you have to make sure that your dreams, your aspirations and goals are so big that not accomplishing them is not an option.

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If you say in your mind, I want this. Oh no, it can’t. You’re done. You’re dead. You’re, you’re training yourself to not even be able to imagine what you want. How can you stop it in your mind? In your mind has to be the wildest, freest place where you have everything you’ve ever dreamed.

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Be grateful for who you are. Be grateful that you know something about yourself. I am a spiritual being. I live in a physical body. I correspond with the material universe. I attract to me whatever’s in harmony with me. And you see, if you concentrate on the good, and you concentrate on nothing but good coming to you, that’s what’s going to come. The thing that you attract is what you focus on.

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We all have emotional homes, habits of where we go. Some people will be angry no matter what happens in their life. They’ll be offended. Some people will be worried no matter what they do. Some people will be playful no matter what you do. If you’ve got three beautiful children, a beautiful husband or wife who totally adore you, but you worry all the time, your life doesn’t have love, it’s full of worry. And so most of us have been taught to run our minds, especially in business, but what runs business and what runs your life is your emotions. And those emotions are habitual.

You have habitual emotions you go to more often than any other. And it’d be useful to discover what they are, because when you do, you can change them. Because you can have the pattern of being pissed off, frustrated, overwhelmed, or the pattern of passionate or grateful or excited. Any of those patterns can shift.

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See, the point is, you don’t know how much future you’ve got. What’s gone is gone. There’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. Some of you have had divorces. Some of you have probably had bankruptcies. Some of you have had terrible things happen in the past. But what’s gone is gone. It’s in the past. And to spend your time focusing on the past is to spend the only thing that you’ve got, and that’s what’s right here, right now, because the sand never stops running. This is all we’ve got.

And to spend your time now thinking of what happened there is making absolute certain that the future is going to be the same as the past.

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Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don’t be afraid of being hurt. Don’t be afraid of sacrificing some blood.

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What should this training can consist of what are we training police in?

Well, combatives for one thing: shooting,

breaching first aid, trauma,

De -escalation, And anybody that’s listening that doesn’t know much about the police.

You might think they do all this stuff all the time.

They don’t.

They don’t do this all the time.

They barely get to shoot.

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and nobody can destroy you if you won’t let them.

All right? Don’t let them. You’re a man. You are a man. Stand up and be a man. Make the hard decisions, make the sacrifices, make the unpopular decisions and become comfortable in your own skin. And if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with, that is the one person in this universe that you have full power, full right and full responsibility to change.

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If you had to create a human, what would you put them through to make them tough? It probably wouldn’t be a really chill life. What would you put them through to make them patient? We probably wouldn’t give them things immediately. And so it’s like, we want these traits, but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it. And it’s just like, do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing? And so I think if people reframe the period of life that they’re going through as the price that they’re paying out of their wallet,

but the wallet is their time, it’s the seconds of life that they’re trading for it, then I think more people would be willing to make the trade. Because at least when I look at myself, like when I’m 80 something years old, and I’m looking back on my life, I want to have these traits, but in order to have those traits, I know I have to go through these things. And I think for me, that’s given me a lot of comfort in hard times.

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You will find little joy in your command, but with luck you will find the strength to do what needs to be done.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy, and let the man be born.

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So the goal was to be the first one at breakfast. So I set my alarm. I Make sure I’m up by sunrise. I get out of bed. I put on my gear and I head downstairs. But when I get there, Kobe’s already there with ice packs on his knees, drenched in sweat. Now it took me a minute to figure it out. But this guy wasn’t only awake before me, He had already worked out, He had just played in the finals days earlier. Meanwhile, I Had been off for months and I was still exhausted. What he had done that morning was incomprehensible to me,

That dedication he had only days after falling short of an NBA championship.

That taught me some I’ve never forgotten. Legends aren’t defined by their successes. They’re defined by how they bounce back from their failures. You

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You know basketball for me was the most important thing So everything I saw whether it was TV shows whether it was books. I read, people I talked to, Everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player, everything, everything. And so when you have that point of view, Then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft.

The world becomes your library to help you improve your craft.

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You see, we are created in a magnificent vibration, in an absolutely magnificent vibration. Born risk-takers, free.

That conditioning takes place after birth.

It can change it. Takes guts, takes goals. And you know something? You’re sitting there watching this, and you’re thinking, my God, I’m going to change something. I always say, keep reminding yourself that you have tremendous reservoirs of potential within you. And therefore, you are quite capable of doing anything you set your mind to. You really can. I don’t care what the cynics tell you. Quit listening to some of your peers. Now, all you must do is figure out how you can do it, not whether you can or not.

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What if I told you that the world around you, your job, your bank account, your relationships, your circumstances, isn’t happening to you, but responding to you? That it’s not the result of fate, luck, or hard work alone, but the direct mirror of what you assume to be true about yourself. Stay with me, because once you truly understand this, reality will never look the same again. Tonight, I would have you know a simple truth. You’re not waiting for success. Success is waiting for you. There is no power outside of your consciousness.

All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination, where the seed of every future is planted. Success is not something you chase. It is something you awaken to. Begin now to assume the feeling of being wildly successful. Walk in the consciousness of already having achieved what your heart desires.

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If you can see it, you can do it. But the beautiful truth is you can do anything. We got to know there is a place. There is a specific frequency. And if you get on that frequency, you’re going to attract what you need to you. This is what it’s all about. Why have you been endowed with such awesome powers? If you’ll make a committed decision, Yes, I’m going to do. And you don’t have to know how. You do not have to know how. The second you make the committed decision,

you flip your brain onto the frequency that you have to be on to attract what you have to attract to manifest the thing that you want.

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Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings. Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings. Think about every poor decision you’ve made in your life. Gosh. There was more emotion that was involved in it than there was mind. Every single one of them. Think about it. It really was. Your feelings keep you in bed. Your mind tells you, get up. Mm.

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You were scared you’re gonna fail. you’re scared. if you started, you never finish it. You didn’t want to tell anyone about. you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it. until something hits, You get fired or somebody else gets success, remind you what you could have been. and then the spark is born And, no matter what happens i’m never gonna be in this boat again And you get up and you go even against knockdown. You just keep going, keep going. you’re a wild man And life has never been so sweet.

That can happen in early age it can happen at a later age it’s gonna happen to somebody every you know No matter what’s gonna happen to you. And when it does happen to, you think you’re lucky stars that finally you’re alive. It’s time to unwrap the potential. you can be Superior man.

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Are you so busy managing your feelings and the feeling the people around you and trying to make them feel what you feel and need what you need and want what you want that you’re not making progress in life?

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What you have to learn to do is walk through the crap, come out the other side, and when everybody’s looking at you and laughing at you and thinking that you’re just a piece of crap, you have to be able to look back at those people, right there in the eye, and when they say, you got crap smeared all over you, look down at yourself and you have to say, yeah, I do, but I’m gonna keep going. I’m gonna keep going. And if you do that and you don’t allow the shame and the regret and the, just the heaviness of what you just went through, if you don’t allow that to stop you and you just keep going,

all that crap that you’re covered in, it starts to fall off of you, right? It starts to fall away and eventually you’re good again.

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You know, people get up every day, they do the same thing. They tell themselves they’re going to change their life one day, and they never do. I’m going to change mine.

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It’s time to stay focused. It’s time to decide clubs party and trying to fit in and socialize Rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird. Why are you so antisocial? Because I’m trying to get it. Why are you staying on the basketball court so much? because I’m trying to get it. Why are you out there practicing in the hot Sun when ain’t nobody else out there? because I’m trying to get it. Why are you not clubbing like every time I text you and invite you to go do some fun and cool You always studying because I’m trying to get it Let me tell you something homie.

These women ain’t going nowhere. These clubs, these parties, all this ain’t going nowhere.

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If you want to be successful, if you want to fulfill your potential, study the men and women who are fulfilling their potential, and just do what they do. And finally, with regard to courage, the great expression of courage is to persist in the face of adversity, to persist when things really get rough, to be able to pick yourself up and pick yourself up over and over again. And believe me, if you decide to go for the goal in your life, you’re going to get knocked down over and over and over and over again. Every single week,

you’re going to have heartaches and disappointments and frustrations and setbacks and obstacles. But without those obstacles, no success is possible.

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Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning. but winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they’re being lazy. So if you’re a winner, you ain’t comfortable.

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Everything is possible in your life when you believe. When you believe, everything is possible. You have two hands.

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You never get better if you’re not willing to put in the time. Basketball is very similar to the game of life. There’s going to be ups and downs. Sometimes you may turn the ball over seven times in a row, but if you put in the work and you constantly put in the work, you can’t allow that one mistake to go into the next play. Tom Bilyeu I love that idea. Dr Tim Jackson, If you allow seven turnovers to go into my next possession with the basketball, or that next possession in life,

if you allow that divorce or if you allow that passing away of somebody or that loss of a career to go into the next eight plays, you’ll have another eight turnovers. You have to be willing to say, that was back there, that happened, but it doesn’t mean it needs to happen now.

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If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task, and another, and another. And by the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter. If you can’t do the little things right, you’ll never be able to do the big things right.

And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made. That you made. And a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

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No matter how blessed or successful you or I might be, there are moments in your life that you go through tests and trials just like anybody else. People don’t understand that. With every blessing, there’s always a battle.

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Bet you, 99% of police have very limited training, if any, in breaching, in how to breach a door with a, with a shotgun

combatives- barely any, barely any training. close quarters, combat room clearing,

urban combat clearance, How do you handle an active shooter? How do you handle a barricaded shooter? And then you’ve got to run scenarios. You got to put people into these situations. you got to get Simunition or some kind of Round that can be fired at other people during training you need assets. You need role players

So that people get used to it.

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We’re waiting for that magical moment when fear disappears, when uncertainty transforms into clarity, when we finally feel qualified to pursue what matters most. But that moment? It doesn’t exist. And that’s what we’re going to explore today. The beautiful terrifying truth that the most meaningful accomplishments in life happen not because we were ready, but because we were willing to act before we felt ready. Have you ever wondered why some people accomplish extraordinary things while others with similar or even superior talents remain stuck? What separates them isn’t talent. It isn’t luck.

It isn’t even hard work. The difference lies in their relationship with readiness. Both achievers understand something profound. Growth happens in the gap between where your abilities end and where your challenges begin.

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What is impossible? nothing, Anything is possible. We see people come from nothing every day We see people Start off with nothing in their pockets, but before they die, they had a world It’s because they can see what they wanted a long time ago. If you can think it inside your brain, It can come to life.

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hard way and the easy way. First, if you’re here today and think that you’re too young to do something great, let me tell you that you are wrong. You’re not too young. You can have great success at a very young age. You’re all very young. In America, with drive and ambition, young people can do anything.

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I’m a hard worker.

I was never great at anything, like as a kid. I wasn’t the fastest, I wasn’t the strongest, I wasn’t the smartest.

But I did know that I could work hard, I had to work hard.

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Real power walks in silence. Real empires are built when no one’s watching. You don’t need to broadcast your every plan. And you don’t need approval from people who can’t see your vision. Most people you’re trying to impress right now aren’t even qualified to judge your greatness. Every unseen day, every lonely grind session, every quiet sacrifice is laying the bricks to your legacy. And when you’re done, they won’t wonder how you did it. They’ll wonder how they missed it. Work, build, elevate. Let your success break silence when it’s time.

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I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that. Don’t do that, just get up. Move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is.

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Everything that you get comes at a cost. There’s nothing for free. And the only question is, is the cost worth it? People who’ve done extremely well, the question is, at what cost? What we’re talking about is the desire to have without paying for it, which is, I want this, but I’m not willing to pay the cost. Right? So for example, working really hard to get something, I want to achieve this. The cost is, I’m going to have a couple of sleepless nights. I’m going to work a little harder. I’m going to miss out on some social events. Might be a little bit exhausted now and then, but for me,

that’s worth the cost because of what I’m trying to accomplish. And so I think what we’re seeing is a misunderstanding of the cost equation because ain’t nothing for free.

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Inspiration is perishable. Act on it immediately. So when you’re inspired to do something, do that thing. If I’m inspired to write a blog post, I wanna do it at that moment. If I’m inspired to send a tweet, I wanna do it at that moment. If I’m inspired to solve a problem, I do it at that moment. If I’m inspired to read a book, I wanna read it right then. If I’m inspired to solve a problem, I’ll solve it right there. If I wanna learn something, I do it at the moment of curiosity. The moment the curiosity arrives, I go learn that thing immediately.

I download the book, I get on Google, I get on ChatGPT, whatever. I will figure that thing out on the spot. And that’s when the learning happens. It doesn’t happen because I’ve scheduled time, because I’ve set an hour aside. Because when that time arrives, I might be in a different mood, I might just wanna do something different. So I think that spontaneity is really important. You’re gonna learn best when you’re having fun, when you generally are enjoying the process, not when you’re forced to sit there and do it.

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If you lack the discipline to work hard, save your money, you will end up a slave to finances. If you lack the discipline to manage your time correctly, you will end up with no free time. If you have self-discipline, if you have the discipline to save your money and work hard and invest your money properly, if you have the discipline to manage your time correctly and not waste a bunch of time, if you have the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, you will end up with freedom. And I know it’s counterintuitive, it’s contrarian,

but I’ve seen this over and over and over again. If you want freedom in your life, you have to have discipline.

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Don’t waste your youth. Go out and fight right from the beginning, from the day you leave this incredible university. Go out and fight, fight tough, fight fair. But go out and fight. You’re gonna be very successful because now is the time to work harder than you have ever worked before. Push yourself further than you have ever pushed yourself before. Find your limits and then smash through everything. Go and smash through. You’re at the age when you have the time and vitality to do really incredible things. If you give, just give it your all.

You’ll look back and a decade from now, you’ll be astounded by what you’ve achieved.

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Move towards that challenge and go attack it.

And you may be successful and you may not be successful,

but you will be better.

And the next challenge,

you’re gonna be more prepared for.

And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

And you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail,

and then you’re gonna win.

And that’s life.

Life without those challenges,

it’s just existence.

Don’t just exist, go live.

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Stop waiting on movement. Start growing on movement. Yeah, I’m gonna say it one more time. Stop waiting, . Start growing, right? So, E, what you mean by that? I mean, stop waiting for growth to happen and stuff to happen for you. Like, stop waiting on it and start becoming, start doing. And once you start doing and becoming and acting like that, then everything is gonna change for you. Are you feeling what I’m trying to tell you? And so your problem is you waiting. You waiting on this person to do this for you. You waiting on that person to do this for you.

You waiting on that person to do that for you. And while you’re waiting, you getting pissed. While you waiting, you getting frustrated. While you waiting, you getting impatient. Why are you waiting on them? You should be doing it for yourself.

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I could do it, and guess what I did.

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Every single person is designed from infancy with special talents and abilities that if you develop them to their height can enable you to accomplish anything you want in life. Everyone is genetically structured to be able to do something superbly, to do something they enjoy, to do it well, and to get great satisfaction from it.

What are you good at?

What are you good at today?

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In those moments in life where you feel helpless and you’re afraid, just go through it. Go straight through it. You see worrying isn’t logical, because to worry means that you’re thinking about something that’s out of your control. Whereas if you just focus on what’s in your control, not only will you go through it, but you’ll gain the strength to do it again.

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If there’s an opportunity, if there’s something I know it’s valuable, even though I feel I can do it, wrap it by the hair right now. Do something with it right now to push yourself forward.

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Consistency doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be successful, but not being consistent will guarantee that you won’t reach success. An easy productivity hack, instead of spending time getting in the mood to work, just start working. Confront the work. People think they need perfect conditions to start, when in reality, starting is the perfect condition.

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Everything is hard before it’s easy. Everything at the beginning is difficult, but later it becomes easy and automatic. You have to force yourself to discipline yourself at the beginning, but after that it becomes easier and easier and you actually feel happy. Now here’s the most wonderful thing. When you discipline yourself to start and complete a task or a part of a task, you feel like an athlete. So here’s my question. If an athlete runs in a race and comes in first, what do they call this person? The winner. When you win, your body releases endorphins and dopamine,

which is a form of energy that you get from a positive experience.

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because it’s not gonna come flying and, of course, you cannot expect someone to make a huge leap from one day to another. but this is why there are steps. this is why sometimes time is also on your side. step by step, continuity, trust in the process and trust in the universe, or trust in the words. why I’m telling you this? because sometimes it’s just the action merge with the right intention which is going to bring the difference.

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When people are really stuck, when they’re helpless, they develop three beliefs. They think first, the problem is permanent. If you think a problem is permanent, it’s over. Second, they think the problem is personal, like there’s something wrong with me. That’s why this problem is here. And if there’s something wrong with you, what the hell are you gonna do? You’re you. And thirdly, it’s pervasive, meaning because my financial world is upside down, my whole life is upside down, and that’s not true. You’re allowing yourself to do that in your mind, but it’s not true.

You have a lot of other aspects of life, your body, your emotions, your relationships, your friendships, your family, your spiritual life. So it’s pervasive. When you start thinking the problem is permanent, personal, and pervasive, you will be completely stuck. You will feel helpless.

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Instead of lying in the bed the whole day, stand up. Instead of staying in your room the whole day, go outside in the air. Instead of just walking slowly through the park, start running through the park. Instead of running through the park, put some jumps in. Put some more intensity in. So what it means is step by step do something that you get out of the heaviness.

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Why pay the price?

Why work this hard? Why go this far?

Why try to learn this much?

Why develop yourself to the full?

Why try to become all that you can possibly become?

That’s a good question, why?

And you’re the only one personally that can answer that question for yourself.

You’ve got to have your own list of whys.

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Life is going to play out the way it’s going to play out. There will be some good and some bad. Most of it is actually just up to your interpretation. You’re born, you have a set of sensory experiences, and then you die. How you choose to interpret those experiences is up to you and different people interpret them in different ways.

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No matter what you are going through in life,

how sad you are, how much pain you’re feeling,

the trauma that you’re going through,

you are strong enough to see another day. And it’s not about being 100% every single day,

it’s about just showing up.

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And if I have unbelievable big dreams and big goals, then I have to go through hard times. It’s like hate, the hard times are a requisite for success. And so if you’re going through hard times right now, it means that you’re on the path to success and it’s not that you’re on the wrong path, it’s the feeling of being on the right path.

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One thing straight off the bat that everybody needs to realize is that if you are succeeding in a life that you don’t enjoy, think about how much more successful you would be in a life that you do enjoy. It’s my belief that fear is a much more powerful driver than desire, that most people are running away from things that they don’t want, as opposed to running toward things that they do. The amount of discomfort that you need to go through to become someone of note in any field, whether it be sports or academia or art or creativity or poetry or pickleball, whatever it is, right?

It requires such a massive activation energy that most people have more pain than they do love in life.

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why not you? You’ve got the brains. You can make decisions. You can study the plan. You can change your life. You can grow immensely in the next few years. You can make your dreams come true. You can build a financial wall around your family. Nothing can get through. You can become healthy. You can become powerful. Why not you?

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I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow. I think a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard.

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The problem is you and you don’t want to fix it. You don’t want it And that’s the harsh reality I can’t give you shit. You have no fucking idea how great you really are Because you are using such minimal Minimal of what you have. There’s no hacks, bro. It’s you against you, You against you, And if you misunderstand that, You have a real problem.

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Why not? Why not see how much you can earn? Why not see how much you can learn? Why not see how many skills you can develop? Why not see what kind of person you can become? Why not see what kind of influence you can have? Why not see how many people you can rescue from oblivion?

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But when you’re starting to feel helpless and it looks like there’s no answer,

you got to remember,

I can change my actions or I can change my blueprint.

No problem is permanent.

Only my soul is permanent. And it isn’t personal.

There’s nothing wrong with me.

This is just a situation that my brain has not been prepared for.

Right?

I will figure this out.

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People sit back and they dream about being a sports figure, or dream about being a SEAL, or dream about being an astronaut, and all it is is a motherfucking dream. They don’t put the work behind the dream. That dream has become their fucking master. When you become the master of your fucking dream is when you say, I want to go be a Navy SEAL, and you say, okay, I’m going to lose 106 pounds in less than three fucking months. The dream was the one thing I thought about, and the dream was now gone. Now, what comes in, the dream goes away,

and the fucking laundry list of fucking details and tasks come up. Got to do this, got to do this, got to do this, got to do this. That’s when you become the master of your dream. So, a lot of people out there dreaming.

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I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad To prove to everyone that I was somebody. Prove what?

That I was somebody.

Oh, you are so full of crap.

In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself.

And after what you’ve gone through,

if you haven’t done that by now,

It ain’t gonna never happen.

Still not a week goes by I don’t regret it.

And I guarantee a week won’t go by in your life.

You won’t regret walking out letting them get the best of you.

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Life is not easy. It is not. Don’t try to make it that way. Life’s not fair. It never was. It isn’t now and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap, of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not. Get over it and get on with it.

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The big challenge is when you’re not willing to do something, but you have to do it. This is the main point. This is why I say our mind, it’s a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it’s hard. It’s what many people say. You like to go to the gym every day. Of course not. It’s not true. Nobody likes to go to the gym every day, but you have to do it. Probably yes, because your mental strength is coming from that, from that moment that in a hard moment, you know you should do it.

So, and I do it because after that, maybe in the beginning you feel hard to start, but after when you finish the gym or cold plunge or even the training, you will feel better.

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What would you say to a young person today who felt that they were predetermined to be a certain way?

You’ve already quit.

If you’ve accepted that where you are is where you’re going to be, you’ve already lost. And there’s no power in that. There’s no power in that. That’s like staying right here. You’re not popping the clutch. You’re not going forward. You’ve made a choice to just stay here. And that’s your responsibility. And I’m not saying it’s going to be easy. I’m not saying there are not challenges, problems, obstacles, issues, fears.

But when you quit right here, you’re right. This is where you’re going to be.

You never quit.

Quitting is not an option.

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Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. Not even me.

Alright? Alright. You gotta dream. You gotta protect it.

People can’t do something themselves. They want to tell you you can’t do it.

You want something, go get it. Period.

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Stop scaring yourself. How often do you terrorize yourself with your own thoughts? And it’s only coming from your thoughts. Nobody out there is doing a thing. Sometimes it’s an old family pattern. Sometimes we get new things. You know, we find so many ways to scare ourselves. I would like people, when you have time, to make a list of your fears. Make a list of your fears. And then give yourself the opportunity to turn each fear into a positive affirmation. Turn each one into something positive. And remember, always you are in charge. You are always in charge.

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To be honest, I think both have to work at the same time, because talent without work is nothing, and work without talent is nothing too. So I think they both mix up. And of course, I have two. I’m not saying that I have more one than the other one.

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Don’t complain. Don’t talk negative. That’s average people talk normal. Average people talk problem. The greats talk solutions. Average people use their time to whine and complain. Average people say it’s their boss’ fault. It’s their mother’s fault. I used to be average. I used to say, when is my daddy coming to get me? When is my biological father going to come in my life? And when I would talk like that, I ended up getting kicked out of school. And when I talk like that, I ended up being homeless. And when I talk like that, I was broke.

And then one day I woke up and said, Eric, nobody’s coming to save you. Nobody’s coming to get you. But you can go to the library and get yourself.

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Focus on you until the focus is on you, bro. I know that we want the focus to be on us today, but if we put the focus on ourselves, like me, putting the focus on me, giving myself everything I need to be successful, giving myself everything I need to be competitive, giving myself everything I need to be the catch, to be the prize, that’s what I’m gonna do. When you focus on doing that, fellas, and you don’t pay no mind to nothing else outside of your control, you don’t pay attention to them paying attention to you, when you stop doing that,

I promise you that’s when the focus and the attention is gonna be paid on you, bro. I promise you.

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the difficulty of things that you pass through in your life make you be stronger mentally

to challenge a hard life.

and of course the environment too helps.

Life is a box of surprises and it’s hard,

you know It’s not easy,

you know to be in this level and still push and still motivate you.

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and you gotta be willing to risk everything to become that seed of what you believe is in there. You gotta be fearless, you gotta be relentless. Everybody has dreams. And as much as you wanna be able to listen a little bit, cause somebody’s gonna give you a gem, but nobody knows but you. You can’t get advice on what you should do with your life. Nobody knows what you are. Like even sometimes you don’t really even know what you are, you gotta take your shot.

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Unchosen suffering is going to happen in life. Mm-hmm. Your parents are going to pass away, loved ones are going to die, your relationships are going to break down, your body is going to fail you, you’re going to become ill or sick or destitute. Things are going to happen that you have no control over. And the only way that you can prepare yourself for unchosen suffering is with chosen suffering. Right. You can elect to put yourself into a position to become a stronger alloy of whatever the metal is that you’re made of. And by purposefully choosing difficult things,

you will armor yourself against that situation. Mm-hmm. It’s still going to suck. Mm-hmm. But think about how much more fragile you would be if you hadn’t overcome all of this stuff.

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I’ll tell you what I believe controls our lives more than anything else. Decisions. That’s it. Everyone can have tough conditions, but it’s your decisions about what you’re going to focus on, what things mean, what you’re going to do that shape everything.

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If you’re twenties, do all of that work day and night, really do as many things, learn as much as you can fail as often as possible. What about work life balance and your twenties? Fuck it. Because that’s the time to put in the hard work. Your work life balance actually comes out later. I’m a big believer in yes. If you’re straight out of university, go traveling for a year or two. You know, that a gets rid of the pent up need, but also it gives you a much broader perspective on the world than any other single thing that you can do in your life. After that,

you get your head down and you get your head down probably to the mid thirties.

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Excellence is difficult, but to be mediocre, there’s no pressure. But the less you deal with time, you realize you have the right amount of time to do everything you gotta do every day. 24 hours. And you could make it an adventure every fucking day, like, hey, I could die tomorrow. What would that mean I would need to be doing today? How do I, you see what I’m saying? Not looking at it like, oh, I’m running out of time. No, no, no, no. Dead people ran out of time. Everybody else alive.

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Don’t focus on the things that’s not in your control. Focus on the things you can control. So, focus on you. If you focus on you, the focus will then be turned to you. The second that you start taking your focus off of yourself and putting your focus on them, that’s when their focus on you goes away. When you just be by yourself, grinding, not telling everybody what you’re doing, not checking in with everybody every single day, doing your own thing, not being bothered what she’s doing, not bothered by what they doing, not worried about what they doing this weekend.

But when you truly like Amber, I’m telling you, the focus is gonna be on you, dog.

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What if you could influence someone before you even met them? Is that possible? They’re not even in your presence. Yes, there is one way to do that, by creating a brand. Now, I don’t care whether you own a company or you work for someone else. If you aren’t consciously creating a brand, you are not gonna move up. In a company, in your own company, with your clients, what is a brand? A brand is the power to influence somebody before you open your mouth.

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Be very clear on what it is that you want. Spend five minutes sitting down and visualizing those things being true and then give gratitude for that. Like, see it, feel it in your body, taste it in your mouth, hear it in your ears. Completely immerse yourself in that for five minutes, longer if you can, and then just be so grateful for all of that. Essentially, what you’re doing is moving your brain from a fear state to a trust state, and that is the gateway to making these changes.

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You can change your own brand. If you want to change and get any new result, you want to lose weight, you want to make more money, you want to attract someone, you want to revitalize a relationship with more passion, what doesn’t feel like it? You want to influence your kids. Any new result requires a new action. New actions, though, can feel hard to do sometimes. But they only feel hard to do because you’re not in the right state.

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But the biggest key to success in anything you do is you gotta have an unlimited supply of fucking fuck you. This drive and passion, and it may come from nothing. Like for me, there was no passion, no drive, no nothing. But I had this fire that I’m gonna be somebody. And it has to be there because on all those bad days, on all those days you don’t wanna do shit, you have to be your own motivator, your own coach, your own trainer, your own everything. So to do that, you have to come into work and work as whatever your work may be, ready to go.

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Think what I said, success is 5% strategy, 95% mindset. Most people spend 95% of their time on strategy, 5% if any at all on mindset.

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If your definition of success is win or lose, giving everything you’ve got and growing or learning along the way, then you’re setting yourself up for success. I really think the biggest cheat code in life is just going after it and not being concerned of whether or not you fail at one specific task. Instead, understanding the big picture, what your long-term goal is, and knowing if you keep driving forward and never fucking quit, in the end you will succeed.

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If you want to get a new result, you need new action. Don’t work on the action. That takes willpower. I have a lot of willpower. I bet you do too, or you wouldn’t be in a place like this. However, there’s a limit to willpower for anyone, but there’s no limit when you’re in state, it just flows. It’s how much of you we experience is based on your state. So we want to learn is to put ourselves in those states. Put yourself in the right state, dieting’s easy, put yourself in the wrong state, you’re wasting your time. Nothing’s going to change.

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When you change, everything will change for you. when you get better, everything will get better for you. And that’s where I picked up that phrase. for things to change, you’ve got to change. you don’t have to change the marketplace. You don’t have to change the marketing plan. You don’t have to change the economy. You don’t have to change countries. You don’t have to change Circumstances out there. all you’ve got to do is look within and see if you can change yourself for the better. and as you change, Things will start to change for you.

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When you’re winning you’re not as good as you think you are When you’re losing you’re not as bad as you think you are. What’s that mean to you when you’re winning?

Everybody’s telling you how amazing you are. You’re the best You’re amazing. You’re just better than that guy and you better than this guy. and It always takes me back to that quote of Marcus Aurelius who had a slave That would sit behind him and always whisper to him.

Hey, you’re just a man.

You’re just a man.

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say it’s possible.

So I want you to do when you look at your dream. You say to yourself every day. It’s possible.

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you got to set your next goal, because it’s not about the number, is it? It’s really about your ability to grow and expand and have more impact. And you can work your tail off and get to a million dollars. But if you’re going to get to five or 10 or 20 or 50 or 100 or a billion or more, it’s going to take a different level of thinking. You can’t just do it with hustle. It requires a little more strategy and it requires you maximizing you at a whole different level.

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So the question that we’ve got to ask ourselves is what success is to us, what success is to you? Is it more money? That’s fine. I’ve got nothing against money. Maybe it’s a healthy family. Maybe it’s a happy marriage. Maybe it’s to help others, to be famous, to be spiritually sound, to leave the world a little bit better place than you found it. Continue to ask yourself that question. Now your answer may change over time and that’s fine, but do yourself this favor. Whatever your answer is, don’t choose anything that will jeopardize your soul. Prioritize who you are, who you want to be,

and don’t spend time with anything that antagonizes your character.

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Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn’t know that. Because the 1,001st was the light bulb.

Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You’ve got to take risks. You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. I prayed. I prayed. And I prayed.

But I continued to fail. And fail. And fail. But it didn’t matter because you know what? There’s an old saying, If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.

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Before there were reasons to fight, I could understand, but I don’t understand this. Even if you win, what have you won? Apollo’s still gone. Why can’t you change your thinking? Everybody else does.

Because I’m a fighter. That’s the way I’m made, Adrienne. That’s what you married. We can’t change what we are.

Yes, you can.

We can’t change anything, Adrienne. All we can do is just go with what we are.

You can’t go with what you are. Have you read the papers? Do you know what everybody says? It’s suicide. You’ve seen him. You know how strong he is. You can’t win.

Adrienne always tells the truth. No, maybe I can’t win.

Maybe the only thing I can do is just take everything he’s got. But the baby, he’s going to have to kill me.

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I thought it would be the Royal Rumble. I failed. I didn’t give up. I thought it would be the Elimination Chamber.

I failed.

And for five minutes I thought it was over.

And every single one of you can relate to this because this is what’s difficult about failure. The disappointment is on you. It is your fault and you go through failure alone. But failure has made me who I am today. Failure gives you two choices. You stay down or you get up. Well I’m up and I am fired up because I have figured it out.

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The thing that I remember the most about my father, and I had him for 32 years, and I never look at it from a negative sense. Obviously, he was murdered, and rarely do I get the chance to talk about him. But the thing that I do remember all the time- I think about him practically every day is for a person like myself, who live in this spotlight and is so critical from people all the time, in terms of what I do, what I say, where I go, the thing he’s always said, take a pause before you make a decision and say, what if?

And the purpose for saying what if is that whatever decision you make, always either going to have consequences.

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Because even when you do it good,

they criticize you, and criticize is part of your journey, you understand?

So it’s… I don’t care about that because even if I will win the Euros,

I will continue.

My anger will maintain the same, you understand?

It doesn’t matter for me if you win or if you lost,

I will stand up the next day and I will continue.

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of like what else are you gonna do? I love playing music, I love writing songs, I love performing and I’m like I can’t do anything else. this is all I love to do. and I, early on, when I was like 17,, 18,, I remember I played a wedding and I played covers for two hours and at the end of the wedding I got given 200 pounds, which was like the month’s rent. I was like, oh my god, I can get paid singing songs. and in that realization I was like, whatever happens, I know I’m good somewhere in music I’ll be able to make a living.

This is the thing that I say to kids as well when they want to get into music, I’m like don’t have a plan B, because if you have a plan B when it gets difficult you’ll quit and you’ll do the plan B, if you only have plan A you will succeed, because you’ll just be like I have to do it, so it’s going to happen.

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I miss, but I’m not gonna shy away. I’m gonna be here. Even if I miss, I will shoot. You understand? And I score two goals. A decision. And you know me, since young, I’m not shy away. Some people, they don’t want to shoot penalty because they don’t feel confident. It’s okay. I respect that. But Cristiano never will do that. Never. Even if I miss, one time, I will shoot the second time. If I lose the second time, I will shoot the third time. I’m not afraid. But always the people take the worst part. Not always the good part.

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Like my view is like you can’t control the outcome all the time, right? Like the ball’s going to bounce the other team’s way. Like dude caught the ball on his fucking helmet in 2007. That would have been the greatest team ever. And that’s like one that still gets me. Yeah, because we had a great team that year. And the dude caught the ball in his helmet with one of the greatest player ever played against on his back. Sometimes it should go the other people’s way. It shouldn’t always go your way. So you get motivated by the losses. You stay motivated through the winning.

What you can control is your process. You can control those intangibles. You can control the work ethic, the consistent discipline, your attitude, your culture, how much you care. All those things are in you. They just need to be drawn out of you. And really when you’re in that position that you feel like you’re got those pretty well under control, then you start passing those on to the other people that you’re working with that are parts of your team.

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All of us, nobody’s perfect. We fail too many times. We have so many uncertainty in our life that we have to be capable when we are down to stand up. It’s part of the journey. It’s part of the process. It’s part of our education. In my case, I learn the most when I’m down. And it’s good that certain moments happen because when you are in the top of the wave, you don’t see under what’s going on. I always say to my friends, it’s good to have problems. It’s the only way that you can improve.

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Other than death. all failure is psychological. think about that, Just just just think about that. this failure, this upset, this, this catastrophe. If you aren’t dead, Then it’s just psychological, It’s in your head now. This does not mean that you won’t lose some battles, because you will, we all will,

But it does mean that as Long as you don’t surrender, as long as you don’t give up, as long as you don’t quit, then you haven’t failed.

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I have failed far more times than I’ve succeeded, far more. You will never succeed more than you fail. That’s not how it works. You know why? Because failure is a wonderful teacher. It’s the only way to learn. You have to fail. Failure is a part of the process to becoming successful. I tell people this all the time. Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player in the world, he took 946 game-winning shots, 946 times since he was in high school. The ball has been in his hand to take the game-winning shot with no time on the clock. He has only made 146 of those.

He has missed over 700 times, but he has made 146. You know what they write about when you make it? They write about when you make it. So guess what? When you get through failing, failing, failing, failing, all you got to do is make one.

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It just means you’ve made a. a temporary tactical retreat means you’ve made a brief withdrawal so that you can regroup and re-attack.

so, As far as I’m concerned, if you get beat, unless you’re dead, you are not defeated And you have not failed. what you’ve done is: you’ve learned, You’ve, you’ve gained experience

And you’re still alive and you have memories to make.

So get up And go, get after it.

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The world might say you are not allowed to yet.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail.

Please, don’t even bother asking. Don’t bother telling the world you are ready.

Show it.

Do it.

What did Beckett say? Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. The world is yours.

Treat everyone kindly. And light up the night.

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And not that I live in a box to where I’m afraid to do things. I know that, as my father says, the what if comment is to be able to deal with the consequences of what decisions you make. And you think about that. And if you think about the consequences, pro or con, you make the right decisions that you feel is the right decision. Now, all the decisions I’ve made, other people may view to be not the right decisions from their perspective. But for me to go play baseball, and everybody says, oh, it was a failed opportunity to play baseball. That’s what they think. For me,

it was the best thing that could have happened for me because it allowed me to go back to the game with a stronger passion.

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I just think part of learning is failing. Okay. Right? So, I mean, the main thing, like people who train jujitsu, it’s like you need to not have pride because I mean, all the stuff that you were talking about before about, you know, getting choked or getting, you know, a joint lock, it’s, you only get into a bad situation if you’re not willing to tap once you’ve already lost. Right? And, but obviously, when you’re getting started with something, you’re not gonna be an expert at it immediately. So you just need to be willing to go with that. But I think this is like, I don’t know.

I mean, maybe I’ve just been embarrassed enough times in my life. Yeah. I do think that there’s a thing where like, you know, as people grow up, maybe they don’t want to be embarrassed or anything. They’ve built their adult identity and they kind of have a sense of who they are and what they want to project. And I don’t know, I think maybe to some degree, you know, your ability to keep doing interesting things is your willingness to be embarrassed again and go back to step one and start as a beginner and get your ass kicked.

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One of the things you got to understand, my friend, is that you’re supposed to fail. You’re supposed to fucking fail, because failure is the stepping stone to success. It’s not just cliche. You know, that sounds fucking nice. You put it in a Hallmark card, right? You see a nice little meme on Facebook that says that, right? We picture Veli Health right next to it. Take that meme. Failure is the stepping stone to success. Fuck that poetic shit. You need the logical reason why. Because failure is an experience that lends to wisdom that ultimately makes you a stronger version of yourself. Right?

Right now, you want to play basketball. Well, it’s not in the cards for you. But you know what you discovered? How to be committed. How to be disciplined. How to deny the self so that you can move forward in the direction of your dreams. You’ve won in that regard.

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You can make mistakes that you can’t come back from Especially as a kid you can make mistakes that you can’t come back from they’re pretty rare, right? There’s not too many mistakes that are so grievous that you can’t recover from them, like this guy. Hey, man, he made a mistake failed a drug test given a general discharge that sucks Guess what he can do all kinds of good in the world he can make up for that tenfold He can start a business make money. He can create a family,

He can raise great kids and there’s so many things that he can make sure his kids Understand that and know that and learn from it And he can make sure some other neighborhood kids and high school kids and grade school kids. He can make such an impact on the world by learning from that mistake.

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The rest of the shows I had somebody thought of and asked me to be on the show, and I might have turned it into a hit, but I’ve only been picked, five of my ideas got picked. In 33 years, five ideas got picked. All I need is five hits, that’s all. Y’all don’t even know I was in them other meetings. They don’t write about it, they just write about my hits. You just need a hit, man. So when you fail, it’s a part of the process. Keep going, you’re supposed to fail. Shit, who you know that gets it right all the time? That’s impossible. You have to fail.

Matter of fact, when you fail, be glad about it. Every time you fail, you one step closer. So every time you fail, say, whew, got that out the way. Go to the next one. Fail again, okay, I got two out the way.

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I’m gonna learn from the past, but I’m not gonna dwell on it. There’s no point in dwelling on it. the only point in dwelling on just to learn from it. so that’s what I would do here, and then I would take what I learned from my experiences of where I failed and I would also take the positive things that I learned because you even that even that failure is a positive Even that failure is a positive because you realize you realize the value of the opportunity that you had and you blew it and you’re like Okay, I’m never gonna let that happen again lesson learned. I’m actually stoked.

I get to learn that lesson because there’s gonna be more opportunities that come up in life and you got to make sure that you don’t

Disregard those opportunities when they come up.

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So when we won those championships and we went through those, those things mattered to me far greater than what I did in 91, 92, 93. People don’t see that and people will never understand that to be success. You know, all they think about, well, he bet at 202, you know, and he struck out a certain number of times. Yeah, okay. You know, but the effort was there and the learning curve and the passion was there. that has transcended not just to me, but to other people who are afraid to do things because they’re worried about the perception that may come from other places.

To me, that’s more gratifying than anything, you know? So that’s the things that my father and my mother instilled in me. Take a negative and turn it into a positive. Don’t be afraid to fail.

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The failure is just a signpost that you’re going in the wrong direction. Do you understand? Another one of these cliches, or cliche stories, is about Thomas Edison, right? When a reporter asked him, how do you feel about failing 1,000 times? And he said, no, I didn’t fail 1,000 times. I just found 1,000 different ways that it wasn’t going to work. And that’s what’s happening with you. But every time he found a way that didn’t work, he was adding to his journey. He was growing stronger. He learned something. He discovered something.

You are discovering something about yourself and you’re exercising your character every time you get up and try something, move in the direction of something, even if you don’t get the fucking thing. It’s not about the thing. It’s not about making the basketball team. It’s not about making a million dollars. And it’s not about the light bulb. It’s about what you learn along the way, who you become along the way. It’s that fucking journey. And you’re on the journey. And guess what? The journey’s hard. The journey is riddled with failure. And that’s why most people don’t do it.

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Failure is not an option. When you go into it, I want you to go into everything you do, listen to me, as if failure is not an option. All right? It’s not a button. It’s not a label. It does not exist. All right? So I need you to do me a favor. I just need you to go in with that attitude that failure is not an option. Look, if you’ve been doing 10 things and ain’t working, do 11. But for real, what’s gonna happen if you quit? Like, you’re not 100% sure what could happen if you keep going. You’re not 100% sure if you give it one more crack at it. If you give it one more chance.

Like, you’re not 100% sure what’s gonna happen. It’s like a 50-50 chance. It could be 70-25, 90-10. I’m not sure. But I know 100% of the time, when you quit, when you fail, listen to me, when you quit, when you give up, I already know what that is. I know what that looks like. So whatever you do, man, don’t give up. Don’t quit.

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When you’re 300 pounds and you can’t read and write and you’re fucked up, you know how many times you’re gonna fucking fail on that process? So if you don’t know how to fail, there is no victory. I never talked about winning because I knew the path to winning was gonna be years of failing first. So I taught myself how to fail properly. No one teaches you how to fucking fail. But if you’re going out for insurmountable fucking odds, that make absolutely no fucking sense. A black kid that can’t swim, 300 pounds gonna be a Navy SEAL. Okay.

You better teach yourself how to fail first because if you sit in failure for too long, you will never come out of it. So the first part of my success was learning how to fail properly. And then eventually I started getting a few victories. But that’s what people don’t get. When you have buried yourself in such a deep fucking hole, you better first talk about the failures you’re gonna have first. And that’s when that other voice comes up.

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Because I think the greatest fear that we face is ourselves, actually. I think it’s not anything that’s external or anything that’s superficial. I think the greatest fear you face is yourself, because we all have dreams, and it’s very scary sometimes to accept the dream that you have. And it’s scarier still to say, okay, I want that. It’s scary, because you’re afraid that if you put your heart and soul into it and you fail, then how are you going to feel about yourself? So being fearless means putting yourself out there and going for it, no matter what. Go for it.

Not for anybody else, but for yourself.

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You, my friend, have failed. Congratulations. It’s the greatest thing that ever happened to you because it shows that you’re alive, it shows that you did something, and it shows that you’re growing stronger. Now go and fucking fail again. Boy, I hope you guys that watch these videos, I hope you’re going to fail a thousand fucking times. Keep going out there and failing. You know what that means? Every time you fail, it means to me, it tells me that you’re doing something. Go out there and fucking fail.

It’s the greatest joy in life because it says so much about your character and it adds so much to who you’re becoming. But we live in a culture, in a day and age, where everybody wants something for nothing, right?

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Whether you like it or not, from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, a lot of us are at war with ourselves. And within that war, you have several battles. Those battles are basically choices. No, I’m not talking about a war that you might find in the Coliseum. I’m talking about a war that’s in your brain. That war exists because life has so many choices. Within those choices, you got to make right decisions. But you know what? When the alarm goes off in the morning, you have to wake up. Don’t wake up. Don’t worry about that. When you’re in school, you know what? Fuck that, man.

It’s too hard. Just don’t study. You know what? Don’t eat healthy because you don’t have to. So guess what? When you fail, don’t blame your mom. Don’t blame your dad. Don’t blame teachers. All I’m pushing you to blame is yourself.

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Just because you failed doesn’t make you a failure. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? Just because you fail now this might sound crazy to some of y’all but about two years ago when we went viral We didn’t go viral in January. We didn’t go viral in February. We didn’t go viral in March We did not go viral into the fourth quarter until the year was almost over with are you hearing what I’m trying to tell you? It’s simple your whole year could have been messed up. It only takes November or December To change this whole thing around. Are you hearing what I’m saying?

So people are hitting me up saying ET I’ve been doing what you told me to with November and nothing’s changed then keep going How many licks do it take to get to the center of a sucker? I don’t know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll, But what I know is you got to keep licking and when life hits you you just got to keep licking You got to keep going just don’t quit. All right.

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I have so many failures that it would make you crawl under a table and want to fucking die. I felt as if, dude, I didn’t want to go there. I am a failure in and of itself, just me, who I am, the way I look. How do you fail from fucking birth? Right, I didn’t fit in. I walked into school the first time and it was like, okay, I don’t fit in. I failed at that. I didn’t even have a fucking hand in that. I came out a fucking failure. But I learned something from each one of those fucking failures, dude. That’s why I am who I am today.

Label it as you wish. Call it what you want. You might see it as a success. But me, I’m still failing. I’ve got four children. Every day I fail at being a better dad. There’s always more that I could do.

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And sometimes all the voices are telling you the wrong shit, man. But through years, years, not a podcast or listening to a book or reading a book, years of sacrifice, of suffering, of diligent pinpointing work on what you want to do for yourself. Not like, oh, let me just do a bunch of shit. Let me, I want to be in every task possible. No. Pinpoint what I want to do with my life. What happens is you have all these voices that are telling you you’re fucked up and this is going to be hard,

but for some reason you put so much practice into you that you can ignore every one of them that are telling you you’re not going to fucking make it and still be able to fucking make it because you have put the practice in that you know this is the process. It’s such a daunting task that all the voices are saying no, but you still have the conviction that I know I can do this. And that’s what it took for me to get here.

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The reason I know so much about winning is because I’ve had to deal with so much losing. That’s interesting. What do you mean by that? Everybody wants to win, but in order to know how to win, you gotta know how to lose. Cause you’re gonna lose more than you’re gonna win. But every time you lose, what do you gain from it? So every time I’ve lost, people say you gotta jump right back up. You know, get back right on your feet again. And I disagree with that. After you lose, or when you get knocked down, stay down there for a minute.

Understand why you lost. What were the reasons? Why are you down here? Why did you lose? Why did you get knocked down? Because if you just jump right back up, you’re gonna lose again and again, and you’re gonna continue to lose the same way.

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you not where you want to be because you made a bad investment, alright, where you took the wrong job. Hear what I’m saying, it only took one mistake to screw your whole life up. It only take one good, it only took one mistake to turn your whole life inside out. It’s only going to take one good decision, not 10. It don’t take 20. It only take one good decision. It only takes you getting into one different kind of environment. It only take you meeting one different kind of friend. It only takes you to get in the right relationship with the right person. Are you hear what I’m saying?

You only need one test to see what you need to, it only takes one good test to see what you were doing wrong, to see what you need to do. And once you get that one good test, you got a model for the rest of your life.

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How did I stand up again? I was more confident.

lost again Stood up. I Was more resilient. Now you start putting the pieces that are necessary to win over and over and over again. So if you lose and you jump right back up and you haven’t really changed- I mean really really changed- from that loss, You’re never going to learn from it and you’re never going to really truly know the unforgiving Race to greatness- because that’s the that’s part of the unforgiving part- is the losing part. that part is unforgiving.

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Because it means you have different ways to get better. There are certain things that you can figure out that you can take advantage of. Certain weaknesses that were exposed that you need to shore up. So it was exciting. I mean, it sucks to lose. But at the same time, there are answers there if you just look at them. Because you get the information from losing more than from winning probably. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the answers are there when you win too. You just have to look at them. Yeah. Right? So it’s a constant process. It’s exciting when you win. It’s exciting when you lose.

Because the process should be exactly the same. Whether you win or you lose. Is you go back and you look and you find things that you could have done better. You find things that you’ve done well that worked. And figure out how did they work? Why did they work? How can you make them work again? Yeah. And, but the hardest thing is to face that stuff.

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And it can leave you just sitting there paralyzed into not taking any action at all. And obviously, that’s bad. But I don’t actually want you to overcome the fear of failure. I want you to be afraid of failure. Fear of failure is good. Fear of failure will keep you up at night planning and rehearsing and going over contingencies. Fear of failure will keep you training hard.

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Why didn’t you quit?

You knew I was trying to get rid of you, yet you stayed.

Yeah, I stayed.

I stayed because every time you threw a brick at my head or said I smelled, it hurt,

but it could never hurt more than it did every day of my life just being me.

I stayed because I thought if anyone could change me,

could make me not me, it was you.

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Just because you made one mistake and you got your girl pregnant, you supposed to be like, disministered? Don’t trip. You know how many people out there made the same mistake you made? The worst thing you can do is give up now and quit. What you can do is bounce back. What you can do is be resilient. What you can do is turn that whole thing around, become a great father. You hear what I’m saying? Become great. And then what you’ll be able to do is relate to people unlike nobody else can because people who ain’t never made no mistakes, they can’t relate to nobody.

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Fear of failure will keep you working and thinking and striving and relentlessly trying to be more prepared for battle.

So I want you to be afraid of failing. I fear failure. But more important, I want you to be horrified. I want you to be terrified of sitting on your ass and doing nothing. That is what I want you to be afraid of. Of waking up in 6 days or 6 weeks or 6 years or 60 years and being no closer to your goal. You’ve made no progress.

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A lot of times I’ll be in a 200-mile run or something like that and I’m all jacked up. Body’s broken, mind’s broken, spirit’s broken. I started to say, what if I can pull this off? When I first walked into the Navy SEAL recruiter’s office, he looked at me and said, there’s only been 35 African-Americans in 70 years make it through. You know what I said to myself? What if I can be the 36th? It’s the what if I can pull off a fucking miracle. What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? And just me talking about that, I have hair going up on my arms. Because it makes me just like,

what if I can be that guy that people who call nigger and this and that, and now I’m speaking at Tom Ferry’s fucking event.

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And I embrace that, because every time I feel failure, it means that I’m doing something. And that I’m growing in a particular way. And I look at the failure and I say, how can I improve or am I moving in the wrong direction? Signposts. So that’s it, dude. Get used to it. You’re young. Get used to it. No, don’t just accept it, but embrace it. It is the law of nature. It is the way it is. It’s not harsh, right? Because it could sound like, you know, life is hard. No, life is not fucking hard. There are laws to life, and that’s one of the fucking laws,

that you’re gonna scrape your knees, that you’re gonna fall down, you’re gonna fail, you’re gonna fuck yourself up. It’s just the way it is. Love it for what it is, because if you didn’t fail, you would never be able to appreciate success. Done.

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We’re not gonna do and what I would not do is dwell on the past and dwell on what the big missed opportunity is cuz Guess what that’s an that’s a missed opportunity that there’s all kinds of people in the world would love for that to be their biggest mistake That they’ve made that’s the that’s it. They would love there’s someone sitting in prison right now. That’s like man. I wish all I did was get a fail a drug test and I could have learned my lesson. instead I’m sitting here in prison. or I got injured- Really bad- cuz I did something that I shouldn’t have done, or I made a bad decision,

or I got someone that I’d care about Hurt or injured cuz I took him in a car when I was drunk- Like those are the kind of mistake. this mistake- Sure, it’s a bummer. guess what? there are infinitely, infinitely worse mistakes that he could have made infinitely worse. so You’re alright, man, you’re okay. Learn from it. don’t dwell on it, move on and go. go do something really positive in the world.

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As soon as you look back in your history and you come up with something that you feel like you want to change, something else has to change. So disappointment to me, to win, you got to lose. To be successful, you got to have something that’s not successful. To be happy, you got to have disappointment. So I think all of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the privileges I have for being who I am. And not to wear it on my sleeve, be very humble about it. That’s one thing my parents taught me very well is don’t wear your reputation,

don’t wear your accolades, don’t wear your personality on your sleeve. Let it happen, let it be you. It is who you are. Don’t hide from it, but don’t wear it and rub it in people’s faces.

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a change in the world that seems so clear that you are sure someone else is going to do it. But they’re not. You will. But it’s not enough to have that purpose yourself. You also have to create a sense of purpose for others. Anyone working on a big vision is going to get called crazy, even if you end up right. Anyone taking on a complex problem is going to get blamed for not fully understanding it, even though it’s impossible to know everything up front. Anyone taking initiative will always get criticized for moving too fast because there’s always someone who wants to slow you down.

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last night I failed and in the moment of failure and the atmosphere and the finality of it all in the audience, I was immediately rushed into a room and thrown in front of a microphone and I felt demoralized. trust me, I know where I’m at and I’ve said it before: a person’s character is not judged when they ride the wave of success, when everyone chants their name and you want to be their friend. no, your character is put to the test when your back is up against the wall, and for me, that time is now.

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you learn nothing from success. Nothing. You learn everything from the failures. And this is the thing that annoys me about the state that the world is in at the moment is no one talks about failure anymore. It’s like shame. Like failure is shame and it’s like, oh, let’s just bury that and not talk about it. No one goes, oh, what do we learn from this? Whereas with success, everyone shouts about it, but there’s nothing in success. Success happens from failing hundreds of times.

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And entrepreneurial culture thrives when it is easy to try lots of new ideas. Facebook wasn’t the first thing I built. I also built chat systems and games, study tools and music players, and I’m not alone. J.K. Rowling got rejected 12 times before she finally wrote and published Harry Potter. Even Beyonce had to make hundreds of songs to get Halo.

The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail.

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Not too long ago. I got off a plane and I gotta say it was like I got off on a different planet Everything was sideways upside down. I didn’t know one person, not one, and at my tender young age That’s scary. I admit it. scary, because to me, being alone, living alone And dying alone, He’s like the worst curse God could ever put on anybody. I’ve always thought of life is like this one-way street and you head down and as you do it sort of disappears behind you, So you can only go one direction Forward and looking way down there you see a city, But it’s some fire and it’s red-hot.

Like I said before, You can’t go back once you’ve started this damn journey, you can only go forward.

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Sometimes, when you feel nothing is working, that’s the most active season of your life. Let me say it again. Sometimes, when you feel nothing is working, that’s the most active season of your life. That’s when there is a lot of intense angelic activities. The discouragement, the despotency you feel are demonic clouds. They can see what’s going on and they need you out. If they can take you out, every process is wasted. It will become stronger as you get close to the entrance, to the opening door. The darkest part of the night is just before the dawn. So, keep fit. You have started. Finish!

Finish what you started. I decree strength. I decree help. I decree joy in the spirit. You have joy unspeakable, full of glory. Strength, that your eyes of understanding are enlightened to see what God is doing with your life. Grace upon grace. Strength upon strength.

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And I don’t mean don’t aim up. But you have to accept the fact that you can set yourself a goal that you can attain. And there’s not going to be much glory in it to begin with. Because if you’re not in very good shape, the goal that you could attain tomorrow isn’t very glorious. But it’s a hell of a lot better than nothing. And it beats the hell out of bitterness. And it’s way better than blaming someone else. It’s way less dangerous. And you could do it. And what’s cool about it, there’s a statement in the New Testament. It’s called the Matthew Principle.

And economists use it to describe how the economy and the world works. To those who have everything, more will be given. From those who have nothing, everything will be taken. It’s like what’s very pessimistic in some sense. Because it means that as you start to fail, you fail more and more rapidly. But it also means that as you start to succeed, you succeed more and more rapidly.

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Finish, I’m talking to you, yeah, finish. Look, your life would be so much better if you would just finish, right? You’ll never finish nothing. So do me a favor, I need you to finish. Now listen to me, I’m telling you from my experience today. I ain’t telling you to finish fast, but finish strong. You hear me, I’m talking to you. Your bank account will be different. Your marriage will be different. Your relationship will be different. Your profession will be different if you finish. Finish strong. Okay, now listen to me very closely. Listen to me, I ain’t talking about today.

I ain’t talking about tomorrow. I’m talking about finish the rest of your life strong. Look, make a commitment to you. Finish the rest of your life strong. Stop, start, and stop, and stop. Finish strong. People would treat you differently. You’d have different opportunities if you would just finish strong. So no more distractions. I don’t wanna hear no more about what they ain’t doing, what this person did, that person. I don’t want no more guilt, no more shame. That’s all distractions. I need you to finish, and I need you to finish strong. And when you start finishing strong,

everything else in your life is gonna match the energy you put in, the investments you make. So it’s your boy ET, love you. Do me a favor, no more excuses. Finish, it’s your life. You don’t know if you got a week left, a year left, months left, finish, finish. No more excuses, finish. And finish the rest of your life strong.

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When you’re a kid, you’re all potential. It’s chaotic potential. It can manifest itself in any number of ways. And maybe you don’t want to give that up. So you’re like Peter Pan. You want to be a kid forever because you don’t want to give up the potential. And you look out in the world and all you see are Captain Hooks, you know, who’ve lost a hand, who are chased by death because that’s the clock and the crocodile. It’s already got a taste of him. He’s terrified by death and he’s a tyrant. Well, I don’t want to grow up to be that. So I won’t be disciplined at all. Well,

that’s no good because the way the potential transforms itself into actuality is through discipline. And so then you, as you said, this is the trick though. You have to pick a path of discipline. Whether what path of discipline you have to pick is a different issue. Because there could be a rule. The rule could be, the rule might not be follow this rule. The rule might be you have to follow some rules.

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I don’t know nobody wealthy don’t have a vision board. I don’t know nobody wealthy don’t have their stuff written on a piece of paper. I don’t know nobody. I know a lot of people doing good. We have discussed it at great lengths. They’ve showed me some of their vision boards that why I had to go back and change mine. I went, whoa, whoa, whoa. But you gotta have a vision board that’s gotta be written down. You know why? Because that’s a scripture too. Habakkuk 2 and 2. I know where this one at. Habakkuk 2 and 2. Go home and read that one.

It says, write the vision and make it plain so that he who reads it will run to it. And even though it tarry, that mean take a long time, wait for it for surely it will come at an appointed time.

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that there is a way out, that there is a way to do more,

to get more, to obtain more.

But I personally don’t want to lose all that I’ve been able to get. So I need to make sure that I do everything to keep it.

So I can’t be content. So there is an understanding,

but I refuse to click on the switch of, huh.

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Like E.T. what do you mean? Look, I never finished strong, right? Didn’t finish high school and I’m not proud of that. Didn’t finish high school, I’m not proud of that, but I got my GED. I finished, right? And that gave me the opportunity to go to college. And even though it took me 12 long years, guess what? I finished, right? I got it done and was able to go to the next level. So I need y’all to do me a huge favor. They finished. I need you to finish. If you started, I need you to say, if I’m gonna start it, I’m gonna finish it. I need you to say that. If I’m gonna start, I’m gonna finish.

I don’t care how long it takes. Look, you don’t have to always finish strong, but I need you to finish. So I love it. They qualified, right? I love it. They were all out there by themselves. Everybody was like, look, it’s gonna be whack. You out there by yourself. You’re not gonna be able to run fast. You’re not competing against nobody else. You’re not used to being there alone. And guess what? Not only did they get a second chance, but they finished and they finished strong. And then for the real race, that’s right. For the real, look,

they set a record just in terms of getting that opportunity to do it by themselves. And then once the race happened, boom, they passed everybody.

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And the meta-rule is you have to discipline yourself. And the issue is, well, how? That’s not really the relevant question. You can pick a disciplinary path. That’s why I often tell my clients, especially young people, they say, well, I don’t know what to do. It’s like, that’s okay. Nobody does. Go do something. Do the best thing that you can think of. Put the best plan you have into practice. It’s not going to be perfect and it will change along the way. But it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path. And as you become disciplined, you become wiser.

And as you become wiser, you become able to formulate better and better plans. So you can start vaguely and confused and develop a plan that’s not so great. And you start to implement it. And then you accrue incremental wisdom as you implement your flawed plan. And that enables you to fix the plan. And so that’s part of that process of incremental self-improvement as well.

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Everybody’s asleep man or getting home after a long night. You know, going to their party on Friday night. It’s close to three in the morning right now. The thing is man, it’s always going to be a party. There’s always going to be a time to celebrate, a time to join friends, or a day to… I mean the bars are always open. Always open. No matter how old you are, they’re always open, you know. What’s not always open is the opportunity to… to check the box in life. You know, to achieve your dreams. That’s not always open man. And it’s funny, it’s like… You know,

I’m not saying you do it all the time and everything else, because everyone needs a release in life. But it’s funny when you’re coming here and you’re closing the gym up.

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That was a message to my younger self. So I was with a family member and we’re all around the kitchen table. It’s during the holidays because I don’t go home very much. And they kind of started attacking me. And they were like, I would never live your life. You’re so unbalanced. Like attacking. And I was like, what are you saying?

And she said, I just would never do that. And I was like, alright, well what part of my life is unbalanced? I was like, do you feel like my health is unbalanced? I was like, do you feel like my marriage is unbalanced? I was like, do you feel like my finances are unbalanced? I was like, what part of my life do you feel like is out of whack?

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So if you’re anything like me, right you like track and field right that’s my thing track and field and I know you saw the women’s 4 by 100 right epic. All right. I got one word for you finish. That’s right finish, right? Come on, finish right. and some of you guys, I’m telling you, you like this close from success, You like this close to going to a whole other level, but you got to become a finisher. That’s your problem. You start and you stop. you start and you stop. I’m talking about you real, real close, Come on, come on. Some of y’all have a problem with procrastinating, right?

If you can add this one word finish is gonna take you to a whole other level, right? And I love it Allison Felix. I love it. Right? Look it looked like it was over for them, right? I don’t know what happened homegirl got out of the lane some kind of way right hit her while Allison was in her moves Hit her right her whole form was disrupted. She almost like threw it right? I mean just you could just see the look on their face Like everybody was just like they couldn’t believe in four years You.

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Create a life that you can’t wait to wake up to. I live that life. I literally, I hate to sleep. I hate sleeping. I love every minute of my life. Love every minute of it. I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow. I can’t wait to start tomorrow. And when you really feel that way, I just don’t, I really don’t give a shit about a lot of things.

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Give me 100% all the time and I’m a happy mother. When you half-ass me, I’m on your ass. Mom, I want to do this. I want to play baseball. Well, then you’re going to play. Mom, I don’t like that no more. Then why’d you start the season? Because I thought I wanted to do it. Then you’re going to finish the season. You don’t quit. There’s other people that invest the time and energy into you. You don’t just quit on people. But I don’t want to do it. Finish the season. Mom, I want to swim. Then you’re going to finish swimming. It didn’t matter what I did. I was never allowed to quit.

So now in anything I do, when I pick it up and say, I’m going to start it, I got to finish it. It all don’t work. It all ain’t the best. It all ain’t knocked out the park, but I walk away saying I finished it. I did it. I did it.

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You’re not finished. If you’re alive, you’re not finished. I know you feel good about yourself because you’re doing better than your brother and your sister, but the creator ain’t comparing you to your sister. He’s comparing you to the gift that you have. He’s not comparing you to your brother. Now I’m going to say it one more time. The creator is not comparing you to your sister. Your mama might be thinking, your mama like, she killing the game compared to her brothers and sisters. She’s the best in our family. That doesn’t mean that the creator, that doesn’t mean,

that don’t mean the creator is going well done. You still got more in you. So I want you to say, cause you’re looking at them like, oh yeah, y’all can. We did. You must. No, no, you got another gear in you.

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is very simple. Life is shorter than you think. Okay, you’re 25 and you’re thinking, wow, I’ve got 10 years to figure it all out. I’ve got all these vistas of time. I’m young, I’m healthy, et cetera. You don’t have nearly as much time as you think you do. It goes very fast. So you need a sense of urgency and energy. Like, by the time I’m 30, I’m gonna have to try and start that business. I’m gonna have to do something. I don’t have as much time as I think I have, right? And you have to develop some fire inside of you.

You have to say, you know, a lot of times, people don’t give you deadlines in this world, right? So you could spend your whole 20s and 30s never producing the thing that you dreamed of because no one’s pushed you. No one said, you better do this by the time you’re 35 or we’re throwing you out of the house or whatever. There are no consequences for procrastinating.

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I’m talking about they passed everybody. Why? Because they finished. So some of you are not getting that second opportunity because you are not finishing and I need you to do me a favor. I need you to finish. Look, I’m not saying it’s gonna be easy. If it was easy, everybody would finish, right? If it was easy, everybody would finish, but I need you to do me a favor. I don’t care how difficult it is, I need you to finish. I don’t care how you feel, I need you to finish. I don’t care if you feel defeated, finish it anyway. I don’t care if you think you can’t pass, finish it anyway.

I don’t care if you think you can’t win, finish anyway. Do me a favor, start it, make up in your mind that you’re gonna finish it. And if you could get to a point in your life where you finish everything you start, you are going to be miles ahead of everybody else. So finish, finish, finish, because you are a finisher. You are a winner and you have the ability to get it done. So it’s your boy ET saying, if it was easy, everybody would do it.

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You know, they’re probably going to sleep and they’re probably going to wake up and apologize to somebody for however way they acted because that’s not who they really are. They’re chemically induced to be a certain way and have the social lubricants or be able to talk to be liked and say they take something in order to be that guy. Just like people do steroids, whatever else. I have to take this to be all that, you know, but who I am as an individual isn’t quite good enough. That’s why I need to take something and become somebody else. You know, it’s a sad reality.

Coming here at night and, you know, I don’t know what it is about it, man, but like, man, it’s just the air smells a little bit better right now. You know, when you say you’re going to do something and then you follow through and you do it, not at the end when you cross the marathon, you finish it or your hands raise. I’m talking about right now, the small steps in between the big successes everyone sees. No one sees this right now. I’m saying like there’s a confidence to it, man.

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If your father wasn’t in your life, your mother wasn’t in your life, you were a foster child, something bad happened to you, somebody verbally, sexually abused you, it’s not your fault. But if you’ve been giving power to those people, I want you to stand right now and take your power. Where are you? I want you to stand and say, I’m not doing it no more. I’m not giving nobody else power no more, I’m taking it. Where are you? I need you to stand. I need you to stand. I need you to stand. Listen to me closely. I’m not saying it’s your fault, but it’s your solution.

I’m not saying you didn’t do it, but you owe it to yourself in this country to let that stuff go so you can be what you’re supposed to be. Now I’m gonna count to three, because there’s somebody else, you got a lot of pride.

And that’s why you’re where you are right now. Let your ego go. You’re amongst family, let your ego go. You’re amongst family, let it go. You need to stand because you’re still holding somebody else hostage for what they did to you. And I need you to let it go. Where are you? I want you to stand right now. I want you to stand.

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that’s getting ahead of the competition. There’s an overwhelming sense of fulfillment and pride and satisfaction with that. You know, I didn’t have to shoot up anything. I didn’t have to drink anything. I didn’t have to go party anything. I just, all I had to do was just go work out and now what’s gonna happen is a residual effect of that. Not only did my body grow, but my belief and whatever my current endeavors are, they’re just, they seem closer. They seem like, you know, I can reach out and grab them now. You don’t get that sense of confidence by going through society’s rhyme to reasons.

Now you do your own thing, you know, especially when everyone else isn’t doing it and they call you crazy or whatever else. Oh, you’re in here and people driving by you and like, the fuck’s that guy doing up so late? What’s up so late mean? I don’t know. It’s the moments in life, the decisions you make on a moment to moment basis that add up to be the guy or not the guy. Yeah.

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But one year from today, and take a pen out and go down on your list and check off anything that has happened for you that’s on that list. Listen to me. If you do that in faith, if you read your list with the expectation that God is going to do some great things for you, at the end of one year, you will be stunned, absolutely stunned at how much stuff comes off that list. I promise you, at least 30 things will be off that list. At minimum, 10% of your list will come true. You know how I know? Because I know a lot of people that done done it. But you know how I really know? Because I did it.

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They only still have power because you still hold on to it. Stop being average. Average people can’t forgive. Average people can’t let go. The greats, we do whatever it takes for self-preservation. We do whatever it takes to be happy. You think I wanted to let my biological father off the hook? You think I want to let him off the hook? He left my mom. He left me. You think I want to let my man off the hook? I was with my family my whole life. I thought he was a friend of my family. I didn’t know he was my father. I know my grandma. I know my aunts. I know my cousin.

I just thought he was a friend of the family. And I asked him why. He said, your mother said. I said, my mother said? How dare? No, you’re right. My mother said.

That wasn’t the answer I was looking for. But if that’s the answer you have, I’ll take it and I’ll take the rest of my life and I’ll be happy the rest of my life.

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My mom reinforced, you don’t start things and not finish them. You don’t quit. There’s nothing that comes out of quitting, besides knowing that you didn’t finish. We finish everything. You start it, finish it. If you’re gonna do it, do it to try and be the best. Not be better than other people, be the best for you. If you’re in school and you’re going to class, I’m not asking you to get straight A’s. I’m asking you to get the best grade that you can possibly get.

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All I’m doing is sparking the awareness in others to go. why not? Why can’t I create? Why can’t I start? Why can’t I be a business? Why can’t I be a CEO? Why can’t I be a tech guru? Why can’t I fucking create cooking products? Lotion, scents, there’s so much that some people just don’t understand they can do. Let me be a spark to show how much, how many different, you don’t have to do just one thing. When it’s all said and done, my book is gonna be full of all the shit that Kevin Hart did. Because I never was content with doing just one, two or three. Why not?

Kevin, why are you creating fucking health and wellness products? Why not? I’m big on health and wellness. Why can’t I, why can’t I try to create something that I feel is fucking great and jump into a space that I’m already in? I already give 100% of me in this space. Why not?

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Tonight, I did something, you know, that I feel more of a guy for me, who I am, my guy, you know, repeat that over and over and over again. It’s just one, it’s a better life. You feel like more confident, you have a better sense of reality. You know, the way you go about your day is in a more productive fashion. You’re more goal oriented. They all just synergetically go together into a movement, a force that’s very unstoppable, man. And with that success come a lot of people that are, you know, going to applaud you, but the majority will hate you, man. They really will.

They’re going to hate you because, you know, your success is a spotlight shining down their misfortune. They fucking hate you for what you’re doing is reminding them of their missed opportunities and stuff.

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When I open up my phone, I wish I had it. My phone is my vision board. My phone ain’t got picture no damn dog on it, no sunset, none of that. All of my computers have my vision board on it. Every iPad, tablet I got, laptop. When I pull it, I have my vision board on it. Cause that’s the signal I’m sending to God that I believe this is what you’re gonna do for me. You be saying, I take stuff, I gotta get a new vision board now. Cause there’s a lot of stuff off that vision board that I put on there a year ago or two years ago that then came true. I’m telling you y’all, this how this work.

You have not cause your ass not and write the vision and make it plain. You do them two things starting today. Write your list, read it every morning, every night. One year, check it off, you’ll be stunned. I dare you to try that. Watch and see what God do. God keep all his promises. I’m just telling you, thank y’all.

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There are some things that you’re naturally gifted at. Others you got to will your way through.

I will my way through homelessness.

I will my way through that GED. I will my way through that PhD.

I will myself the 30 years plus of marriage.

I will my way through to be a better father. I will my way through those books.

I will. I will.

Come on, I will. I will. Come on, I will. I will.

I must. I must.

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The total number of people who have ever been born, number’s about 100 billion.

Now ask, how many total possible people can be born? Just look at the genome and rearrange it. You know, it makes tall people, short people, you know, dark skinned people, light skinned people, everybody in between. You can make all kinds of people with the human genome. How many total humans are possible? That number is astronomically large. It is large, 10 to the 30th power, which is a billion trillion trillion. It’s likely even bigger than that. Which means, in practical terms, no one who will ever be born will be identical to you.

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Everybody has a turn back moment. You have a moment where you can go forward or you can give up. But the thing you have to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up, the guarantee is it will never happen. That’s the guarantee of quitting. That it will never happen no way under the sun. The only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you never give up no matter what. Because God is always coming. He’s never too late. At your worst moment, look man, when they told me I had to be in New York, I saw no way I could get there. But that God don’t.

He make the phone ring, I end up in Florida, I make $300. Then I go to New York, I make $750. Almost got $1,000.

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You have to create those consequences. You have to live on what I call death ground. Death ground means your back is up against the wall, the enemy is coming at you, and it’s either defeat them or die, right? And you have to tell yourself, I don’t only have so much time, right? The peak creative years for anybody is in their early 30s. Really? I think so, I believe so. And people have borne that out, various studies. Yeah, there’s a different kind of creativity that one can have when you reach my advanced age. But the really fluid creative times, and I know it personally, are in your 30s.

And they creep up really quickly. And if by the time you’re in your mid 30s and you haven’t started creating something, man, you’re gonna be in your 40s and it’s almost gonna be too late. So you don’t have as much time as you think you have. That should be the number one conversation that you have with yourself.

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It’s not. I’ve never Doubted such a strange thing. I mean it’s. You know there’ll be times where you succeed and there are times that you fail. So waste wasting your time doubting whether you’re gonna be successful or not is pointless It is you just put one foot in front of the other you control what you can’t control And then you see what the outcome is, right? If you win great, you’re gonna have to wake up the next day and do the journey over again If you lose sucks, but you have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again anyway, right?

So it’s really pointless to sit here and debate or have doubt or just any other. you train as hard as you can And you step out there and you let it flow.

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Until you have had the taste of finishing, you will not respect yourself.

Until you follow through until something is done, come hell or high water, tears and struggles and pain. and you go through it anyway and you show up and you continue to fight on, no matter the circumstances.

after a while, something begins to wither inside of you. Love beareth all things. I haven’t been taught to take anything. I have not been nurtured to bear anything, to take anything. And being a man was hard work because I didn’t have anybody to show me,

and it’s hard to be what you cannot see.

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There’s so many times in life. You don’t want to be doing what the fuck you’re doing. You can’t just fucking quit. Remember this this isn’t a hobby. It’s in the fucking joke. It’s a fucking lifestyle So what you say to yourself is important. There’s no fucking coach. There’s no trainer to keep you going It’s only you so think about this You’ve been working your whole life to get a seat at the table To see the table is gonna be the best amongst all the best people in your career field. So you finally get that letter. It’s steak lobster. it’s a big dinner.

Everybody’s showing up dressed to the nines. Make sure you saw soaking wet before getting after it working out hard tower on your neck. you respect the event, So make sure you put that towel or that nice chair. So you don’t fuck it up. The whole thing is this Don’t say a word Stay on counter amongst uncommon people. You’re never done. Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done, stay hard.

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You have not, cause you ask not. You have any idea how major those words are for you? You have not, cause you ask not. It’s such a simple scripture, but it’s in your Bible. It ain’t just in rich people’s Bible. It’s in the same copy you got. You have not, cause you ask not. This is the truest statement you’ll hear me say today. Cause it’s true. Most people don’t have the life of their dreams cause you don’t ask God for the life of your dreams. You’ve been trying to figure it out and handle it yourself. Well, how that’s working out for you? You know how hard that is to do, man?

Because I did it. I did it for 30 some years. I tried to figure it out myself.

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Most people don’t even make a resolution anymore, why? Because they’ve made them for years and years and years and they know they’re not gonna follow through. So after a while, who wants to disappoint yourself? Who wants to be upset with yourself? Why even bother to set a new standard for this year? You know it’s gonna be the same as last year. If you’re the kind of person watching this right now and you’ve actually opened this email and you haven’t shut me off already, then obviously that’s not you. So the question is, what is it that makes us even wanna make a resolution?

I mean, it’s an interesting question. Why is it at the beginning of the year we have this tradition? But it goes beyond tradition, it’s something inside of us that makes us wanna make things better. And I think part of it is the calendar gives us this idea that we can have a fresh start. That we can start from fresh and have this great victory.

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Let’s try our hardest to find The closest thing that we can’t find to Floyd Mayweather Because this is business and I understand business when I was Young only thing I knew I want to fight this guy. I want to fight that guy, I want to fight this guy.

and then when people used to take shots at me on, You know, when the media used to say certain things and people used to search say certain things,

It never bothered me I was just one of those guys that wanted to take shots back you say fuck me I’m gonna say fuck you you respect me. I respect you,

but I’m older and wiser now.

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Your feelings don’t matter. That’s the deal. You may feel like doing something, maybe you don’t feel like doing something. Doesn’t matter. Get out there and do what you’re supposed to do, whether you feel like it or not.

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When did everything start being just about the outcome? When do we start doing stuff just to get stuff in return? And how long are we going to let our expectations govern who we are and how we feel? A lot of times I feel like we have to let go. I feel like the more you let go, the more you have to gain in all of life. And I’m not just saying in a sense like don’t care. I’m saying don’t expect. Stop holding it so fervently in your heart that, you know, what you do has to have an outcome, has to have something that gives back, you know, in the sense that karma exists.

Sometimes it’s not expressed in the same way that you want it or the same way that you may expect it to be.

So the point is to realize that your expectations are what’s holding you back a lot of times in life. you

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Everything you do cost money you can’t take your wife on a date for free. Is that how you measure your success? No Me, I’m loyal and honest And I’m a good person and I call a spade a spade money. Don’t make me. I make money And without money I’d be the same person. I fought so many fights for free. No, I’m thinking, you know, I’m always thinking How can I get better? How can I company grow? How can I continue to teach people around me how to fish- and I don’t want to fish, for We teach how to become entrepreneurs, And if we can’t,

we want you to be the best that you can be if you have under the banner, Because maybe what the promotion we are the past the present in the future of a sports and entertainment. We are.

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You don’t have to work at changing. People say all the time, well, I’m working on changing. Don’t worry about it. You don’t have to work on changing. Change is automatic. Your body’s gonna change whether you want it or not as the years go by. No matter how hard you work, there’s gonna be some changes going on there. The economy’s gonna change no matter what you want it to do. The weather’s gonna change. Relationships are gonna change. Everything in life is always changing. We don’t have to work on change. Change is automatic, but progress is not. So if you wanna make real progress,

then you really gotta look at your life in a different way. . You gotta say, I gotta take control of this process and not just hope it’s gonna work out like people do who make a resolution. Because really, isn’t that what they’re really doing at the beginning of the year? They’re saying, well, here’s my resolutions for the year, and they really basically tell you their wishes. It’s their wish list. It’s what they hope it all comes together. And then they call it a resolution, but they don’t know what a resolution is. When you resolve something, to have a resolution is to resolve it.

When you’ve resolved, this is how it’s gonna be. That’s when you cut off any possibility except the thing you’ve committed to.

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The more we attach ourselves to our desires, the more we’re victim to them, the more we’re victim to the outcome. You know, you want something so bad, so bad, so bad. And you start attributing that desire to who you are. You start allowing that something to become you rather than being an expression of what you want. Then, once you don’t get it, once you don’t get something you want, once you put all your effort in, you’re left in a place where you feel like either one you’re not worth it, you, you weren’t worth it, or you can’t do something.

And I feel like any sort of negativity in the realm of our desires and dreams and aspirations should be kicked to the curb. You can do everything you want to do, but you can’t. I mean, you can, but you shouldn’t hold those expectations as a part of who you are, because who you are isn’t the expression.

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See, some people quit because things are out of control. Nobody quits what you can control. But the moment you get in something where you don’t get your way, or you get reprimanded, or you get corrected, or you go through this, or you go through that, or you go through the other, or it’s bad conditions or bad circumstances, the first thing the immature mind says is, this is ridiculous, I quit.

And it’s a hard thing. See, when you come to church, we’re always talking about sins of the flesh,

not being a whoremonger and coming out of adultery and stop lying. We give those things so much stage that being a weakling in the spirit can go undetected.

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The first step is you’ve got to have a vision. A vision for what it is you really, truly want. Not what you think you want or what you should have. I mean, what are most people’s New Year’s resolutions? I’m going to stop eating sugar. I’m going to stop smoking. I’m going to lose 10 pounds. The problem with that is, it’s not very inspiring for most people. You know, it’s not telling you what you’re going to get. It’s only what you’re not going to do. And it’s kind of hard to have you move forward with that. A vision is about what you’re here to create.

A vision that really works is one that excites you. If you say, well, my resolution, my goal, my outcome for this month, this week, this year is to lose X number of pounds. That’s okay, but it’s not very compelling. It has to be a compelling vision. It’s got to have something that has the power to pull you. Not something you have to push yourself to do. Those are two different kinds of motivation. Push requires willpower and willpower never lasts. What will last is pull. Having something so exciting, so attractive,

something you desire so much that you have a hard time going to sleep at night and you get so up early in the morning to rock it and take it to the next level.

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plane of. that’s not me. I don’t react to it. it’s not necessarily a good. I’m not saying I feel good or bad, I don’t feel anything for it and that’s sort of a blissful thing. all that to say: practice the law. detest me on whatever you’re doing. I’m not saying: don’t do it for anything, but don’t expect anything. you know your time will come when it comes. and I feel like once we put times on stuff- even though time doesn’t it really exist- once we put time on stuff, that’s when it becomes held back. you know you can’t, necessarily shouldn’t, connotate your, your expression, your goals,

your aspirations with a certain, a certain lot to it. you know you should just try to feel it now. try to take that: whatever future mindset, whatever future goal you wish to embody, bring it into the present, because there is no future, there’s no future self to achieve, nor past self to overcome. everything we want, need and are is right now and it will always be right.

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Most people who could ever exist will never even be born.

So, no matter what your lot is in life, if you have a disease or you have cancer, you’re crippled, whatever is the thing, at the end of the day, you’re alive, not dead, nor not having ever been born. So, take every occasion you can to smell the flowers, to drink in the sunsets and the sunrise and the majestic sky above you that they cradle through the nighttime hours, and celebrate life because you won the lottery.

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So, you know, it’s lonely, man. It’s like being this only car out in the parking lot. But if you’re cool with that, man, if you’re cool with walking in the shadows of yourself and, you know, the only person you got is the man right there in the shadow, man, how you doing? Pretty good. How you doing? All right, man. Cool, cool. It’s kind of weird having a conversation with you, but ain’t no one else around because everyone else has faded way back then, way back there. You know, if you’re cool with that kind of walk of life, good luck to you, man.

The world is your playground.

You will rewrite the book on it all. Time to go home and get some sleep. And the sleep I get, by the way, I burned. I’ll be dead asleep in no time. I wake up mentally clear, confident, excited to redo this again tomorrow.

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What would you tell high school kids? Like how do they know when they’re ready to rodeo? I said, that’s between them, their parents, their family, their support system. When you are the ready, you got the financial support ready and your horse is ready or a couple of horses ready. That’s where you need to go. But my biggest piece of advice would be when you go, you’re all in all year. Unless you break a leg or you have something catastrophic happen, you need to be rodeoing from the time it starts to the time it finishes. And I don’t care if you finish 150th or you win the world.

That was the most important thing that happened to me, my rookie year. Was making my dad making me stay out there. I wanted to come home from Colorado Springs. It was down and out. And that’s the best thing that you can learn is staying out there. Don’t quit. Figuring it out. Don’t quit. Go all year. And if you got to take a year off, go take a year off, but don’t be that guy. I’m going to go in the winter, see how it goes. You got to go all year long. You never know when it’s going to turn around.

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I’m fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed. I’m fine with it all. I don’t hide from it. I don’t run from it. I don’t avoid any of it. I’m fine. It’s alright. It’s a bed that I made for myself. I happily lay in it. And I’ll be fine figuring it out moving forward. Sun don’t stop for nobody, man. Sun don’t fucking stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning regardless. That sun is gonna be up in the morning regardless of how I fucking feel. And how depressed I am. The sun is gonna fucking shine in the morning. And at night time the moon gonna be there.

And you gonna look up these days gonna keep going by. So do you let the days go by and look up and you done wasted a year doing what? Or do you just pick it up? Alright. Well, gotta figure it out. Made some mistakes. Life goes on. Let me figure out life from this point.

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every day. I’m done with this shit. And I sit around and I say, okay. And then this is my thought process. So you want to be normal. So you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world, not knowing the power that’s in them. Being fine with being mediocre. Not every day, it’s those bad days. It’s those bad days. I see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. And I’m talking about talent, like some God-given ability. Talent that sometimes you have to hone, you have to work on, and you have to harness yourself.

And they just walk around on their phones, clueless to how powerful they are.

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You got two choices. One, you get scared, you give up, and then you burn up.

And the second one, you just say, fuck it! Fuck it! Fuck fear!

And you barrel through it.

And when you come out on the other side, I guarantee you, you’re going to be stronger than you ever thought possible. But none of this shit is ever going to happen unless we all cover each other’s backs and we all become part of each other’s family. We do that, I swear to you, we’re going to put this fire out once and for all.

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Dottie, get up!

Get up, D!

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You see, if people don’t have a relationship with the Holy Spirit, then the outer voice become louder than the inner voice because when the Holy Spirit speaks, He is so gentle, His voice is so low. It is in a place where your inside is silent, not your outside. You see, people want their outside to be silent. Oh, I have to be hiding in this place so that I can hear the voice of God. No, it is your inside that has to be silent. It is not from the outside you hear the voice of God, but you hear the voice of God on the inside, where you silence yourself and say, Lord, speak.

So when the outer voice comes in and starts bringing doubt and challenges and people are speaking against you and people are doubting you, people are calling you names because of the decisions that you have made following this King, the inner voice says, I am still with you. Keep going.

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This is my life, man. Do you know how hard I worked to get here? You pulled yourself up once. I’m sure you can do it again. But if I were you, I might reconsider my attitude moving forward.

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My philosophy is, why be normal when you can be the best? I don’t want to be normal. I want to make the difference. So everything I do, I want to make the difference. Because when I make the difference, I’m the best. And that is not arrogance, that is confidence.

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There are certain good things about being alone. You have time to do the things you want to do, like study and plan.

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I built this shit. Me. Brick by brick. And I’ll be damned if I let you tear it down just cause you don’t like the way another nigga talk.

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Me alone in the gym, me alone in the mirror, me alone in my head. No one did it for me. I worked for it, and I’m never gonna let someone else take that from me. All I care about is fitness. All I care about is being a better man. And you guys just don’t understand that. You look at the finite details, and you try to compare yourself to me, but you don’t have the same story as I do. So don’t ever do that. I would rather you leave me alone. I came from nothing, so don’t ever disrespect me. You don’t know me.

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The harder it is,

the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story,

and by consequence,

the more epic the hero.

If you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen, and losers define themselves by what happened to them.

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Believe in yourself. Don’t fear failure. Dream big. Work hard. Stay positive. Enjoy the journey.

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If you are someone that deals with a crippling sense of insufficiency, your ability to discount any good thoughts you have in your mind is going to be so strong. If you try and lead with positivity first, I need to think it, wish it, believe it, and I will achieve it, your set point of negativity is going to just crush that into the ground. I’m speaking from personal experience, right, as the guy that was chronically unconfident and still has the imposter syndrome that does creep in. You have to start with action. It needs to be, okay,

what would have had to have happened in a week’s time for me to look back on that week and find pride in myself? Stop breaking promises to yourself. When you say, I’m going to wake up tomorrow at 7am, and when the option comes to hit the snooze button, don’t do it. There’s one win that you’ve got for the day. That’s action, right? You want to leave your job and become a writer. Okay, can you commit to writing one blog post on Substack per week for the next three weeks? That would make you feel like less of a loser if you did that. Action has to come first.

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Oh, you think darkness is your ally. You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man. By then it was nothing to me but blighting. The shadows betray you because they belong to me.

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Success is the only revenge. As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance. As you get louder, no one can hear them. You don’t beat them. You cast a shadow so big no one can see them to begin with.

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it’s getting more hard to breathe, it’s getting more dangerous, whatever. So that means along this way, the higher you want to go, the more likely you’re gonna walk alone. This is the next thing. Along the way to mastery, you walk the way alone.

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Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, do it with everything that you have. Develop the habit of giving more than what you’re paid for. Develop the habit of setting standards that others will be measured by. Someone said, do not go where the path may lead, but go where there’s no path and leave a trail.

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Heroes and villains always have the same backstory, pain. The difference is what they choose to do about it. Villain says, the world hurt me, I’ll hurt it back. The hero says, the world hurt me, I’m not gonna let it hurt anybody else. Heroes use pain, villains are used by it.

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I realized you go higher, you go even more alone. Why? Because nobody is willing anymore to invest their energy in going higher. Because it’s becoming more difficult.

They say, oh, it’s already okay here. Why you still want to move up there? The air is getting thinner over there. It’s getting more hard to breathe. It’s getting more dangerous, whatever. So that means along this way, the higher you want to go, the more likely you’re going to walk alone. This is the next thing. And then I think back also in one sentence I always remember again. Along the way to mastery, you walk the way alone.

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One of the things for people who are not where they want to be is that they have pain, like oodles of pain. And I remember when I was starting out, I was looking for passion. I was looking for purpose. I was like, I just want to find something that I’m motivated by. But it’s the cat and the cheese. It’s like we’re looking for cheese, but we have all these cat behind us and all we have to do is look and remember that they’re behind us and chasing us. And so if you have the cat and you’re staying in your current situation, you’re being used by the cat, right?

You’re being used by the business owner who, you know, it doesn’t treat you well and is, you know, and you’re in this job that you don’t really want to be in, right? Or you’re being used by the situation or the context of the relationship that you’re in with the girl that you’re like, not that into, right? Versus saying like, this is terrible.

And because of this terribleness, I now have something that I can run away from.

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People presume in the beginning that passion and purpose and meaning and joy and Fulfillment are the things that get people going. but, as I’ve said, of all of the high performers that I’ve spoken to, the vast, vast, vast majority of them are driven by insufficiency and resentment and Terrible parents or terrible upbringings or a chip on their shoulder about bullies in school. pick your poison. They have decided to use that to create the activation energy, right? you can lower your action threshold and Increase how many points you have to prove? It’s like oh, I want to live a better life.

Yeah, that sounds good. It’s like I want to prove the bullies that said I was a worthless piece of shit in school, wrong. It’s like that’s some fucking potent fuel.

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You know, I really don’t have regrets. I am a person that says, you know, as soon as you look back in your history and you come up with something that you feel like you want to change, something else has to change. To win, you got to lose. To be successful, you got to have something that’s not successful. To be happy, you got to have disappointment. So I think all of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the privileges I have for being who I am.

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I think being really specific about your pain is helpful. So like, even being specific about the cheese, really specificity in general is helpful, but like even more so, like what is twisting the knife? Like how do you operationalize twisting the knife? Right, instead of being like, I hate my life, right? It’s, I hate the way Andrew makes me feel when he says that I’m a piece of shit and I’m not gonna amount to anything, comma, because he’s right. Like, why does it hurt me?

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I’m gonna stop this thing. No! I’m stopping this one now. Don’t, okay? Let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what? I’m not a mistake.

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To find your way in life, it’s not an external search. It’s an internal search. The scripture says your gift will make room for you and put you in the presence of important men. That’s what your gift will do for you. Everything else you’re doing has nothing to do with what God created you for. And if you’re unhappy with your life, if you haven’t figured your life out, if you’re thinking there’s more to your life than it is, it’s because the only reason you have that question is because you’re not living in your gift. Once you discover your gift, there lies your greatest chance for success.

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There’s a lot of people that change who they are depending upon what people want from them. Most people struggle their whole life to find out who they are. Struggle their whole life to find out what defines them, what they actually enjoy and what they don’t.

You start putting yourself in situations that suck, you’ll find yourself.

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And I promise you, every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you’re going through and it’s the lonely chapter. It’s the chapter where you don’t fit in with your own friends, but you don’t have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends. And you’re doing this thing, you’re consuming content on the internet, you’re doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and where do I host this thing.

And you’re going through this and you’re like, is this even worth it? Because you have no signs of success, right? But if there’s anything that you can take away from what we’re saying right now is that the sign of success is the hate that you get along the way. And what you can’t do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the conformity because it’s comfortable and it’s warm because like in the matrix, we’re all in this together.

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I wanna thank me. I wanna thank me, for believing in me, I wanna thank me for doing all this hard work, I wanna thank me for having no days off. I wanna thank me for never quitting. I wanna thank me for always being a giver, and trying to give more than I receive. I wanna thank me for trying to do more right than wrong. I wanna thank me for just just being me at all times.

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basically two kinds of people in life. They’re winners and they’re losers. And the definition is this, losers take things that happen to them and that they feel inside that suck, and they wallow, and they use it for self or outward destruction. Winners take whatever they feel, they feel it, it sucks, and they transmute it into things that are good for themselves and for the world. Period. End of story.

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You don’t know what you’ve got until all hell breaks loose.

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I found out through this path of life who is David Goggins.

Who am I? To go through all… I did it alone.

There was no f***ing trophy on the f***ing wall,

on the mantel. That trophy’s in my f***ing brain.

No one helped me get there. No one paid my f***ing bills.

No one did s*** for me. No one ran those f***ing miles, lost that f***ing weight,

went through it.

I suffered on my own and developed this man who said,

that’s who I am, man.

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There’s times where you can go without your friends, you can go without going out,

you can go without other people around you.

Going without eating, going without this, going without that.

Spending time alone is very, very important.

Getting on your routine to do things that you enjoy is very, very important.

All these things will put you on track of finding who you are and your purpose.

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But the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn’t happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might happen. And that’s what people don’t know. But to get there, luck ain’t gonna happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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When people copy, they copy the wrong stuff because they don’t know why it worked to begin with. And when it breaks, they don’t know how to fix it because they didn’t build it. So don’t sweat it, copycats will always be behind.

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reinforces the belief that you were on the right track,

which gives you even more faith to continue to execute.

And then you execute some more,

a little bit more, a little bit more,

and then you have another glimmer or sparkle of outcome.

And basically, dude, that’s how the process works.

And once you do enough of the work on the daily basis,

it will become obvious to you that the outcome is likely to happen.

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You got to wake up even though you retired you never retired You’re setting the example every single day of your life And being civilized feeling so good. I’m sorry, man Once you get to the top You may retire, but you ain’t never coming back home man. Now you’re judged. People see you falling off. You want to be that guy who knows I may be retired from the sport or forever. I did, But I’d be damn If you ever see me looking like shit Feeling like not arriving people i’ve arrived I’ve arrived mentality. You’re always setting the example. civilization feels so good.

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Admit it, you aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like have a nice day and weather’s awful today, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like tell me something that makes you cry or what do you think deja vu is for.

Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on a conversation with a stranger. Everybody carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts, do the unexpected, find the others. I love that.

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That’s why the whole thing is, can’t hurt me. That’s what it’s about. It’s about whatever you think you are, you have to make that dream a reality. But that’s where the hard part is, is making that dream a reality. That’s where the hard work comes. That’s where people know, how do you keep grinding every day? We’re all looking for passion. Passion’s all around you. You have a whole stack of it all around you. It’s your insecurities, all that shit. You gotta dive deep in that shit. It’s all in there. All the energy and fuel you need is right in yourself. It’s all there.

You got a lot of stuff to do to overcome.

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You can’t wait for somebody else to cheer you on sometimes. Let me say it on this side. You can’t wait till you fight. You better be your own cheerleader.

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The biggest thing you have to do is shut off technology You have to go dark Remind me about that is you have to be quiet in your mind get away from people We love being around people. We love talking. We love we love parties. We love all that. It’s okay to be alone It’s also okay to be unhappy It’s okay to be unhappy sometimes man. It’s okay to say you know what man i’m i’m fucked up So you gotta go to the truth first. Who are you? Get get really accountable And say okay, who am I? What’s the truth about me? Get to that dark place in your mind, figure out. it may take months, may take years.

figure out your purpose, Figure out what you want to be in life And then from there, Okay, I have my purpose.

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The essence of success in time management is goals. The key to goals is to write them down and to make organized plans for their accomplishment. The key to those organized plans is to set priorities and determine what is more important and what is less important. And always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. The key to concentrating on the most valuable use of your time is to stay at the task until it’s finished. Persevere without distraction or diversion. Keep at it. Hammer, hammer, hammer until your most important tasks are finished.

And finally, finally develop that sense of urgency. Do it fast. Do it now. Fast tempo is essential to success.

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People want to find their passion, but you don’t find it, you create it. And you create it by getting good at something. And to get good at stuff, you start by doing something you suck at. Then you get good, then you like it, then people ask how you found your passion. Answer, by starting when you sucked and not giving up.

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Every morning, when you get up, say over and over to yourself:

do it now, do it now, do it now. I do it now, do it now.

whenever you have this tendency to procrastinate, Program your subconscious mind with this automatic, conditioned command:

do it now, do it now, do it now.

the key to overcoming Procrastination is to develop a sense of urgency. be the kind of person who gets things done quickly. Be the kind of person who launches fast on a task One of the ways to launch fast on a task is to take the task and break it up what is called salami slicing it Slice a piece of salami. Don’t try to eat a whole loaf of salami. You should eat it one slice at a time. Take your task and break it up into small pieces and to do one piece at a time, Say over and over to yourself:

do it now. do it now. do it now.

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Remember this, nobody watches you more than people that don’t like you.

So give them a show that they’ll never forget.

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And that’s why when you think about the mentality of greatness, there are no breaks. I hate to tell people that, because today’s time, everybody wants it fast. You can be popular, but to be great?

Monday on top of Tuesday, Tuesday on top of Wednesday, Wednesday on top of Thursday, Thursday on top of Friday, Friday on top of Saturday, Saturday on top of Sunday.

And start over, and start over, and start over, and start over.

And true greatness is always evolving. True greatness is always evolving. It never stays the same. Your comfort zone will stay the same, unless sometimes you’re forced to come out of it.

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Look around you. There was no team. It was you. There was no weight loss program or mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it. You can be better trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. You did that. So as times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as it’s real. It’s tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I’m reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here.

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People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing, and it’s totally true. and the reason is is Because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s really hard and you have to do it over a sustained period of time. So if you don’t love it, if you’re not having fun doing it, you don’t really love it, You’re gonna give up, and that’s what happens to most people. actually, if you really look at At the ones that Ended up,

you know being successful on quote in the eyes of society- and the ones that didn’t- oftentimes It’s the ones that are successful- loved what they did so they could persevere When you know, when it got really tough. and and the ones that didn’t love it quit because they’re sane Right. who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it? so it’s a lot of hard work and and it’s a lot of worrying constantly and

If you don’t love it, You’re gonna fail.

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You, you only go where they tell you to go. I go so hard, they tell me to stop. That’s passion.

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I know there’s so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch, refuse to study a few more hours, refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that’s where I gained the advantage. It’s so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile. Most people don’t want to find that extra because it sucks. It’s miserable. It’s lonely. You talk about that you were kind of lonely by yourself. I was the same way. And that used to hurt me growing up. Now I f***ing thrive in that sh**. That’s the only place to be.

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Goals must be in writing. You must write them down, you must rewrite them, you must define them, you must redefine them. The top 1% of successful people in every area have very clear, specific, written goals. And most of them carry their goals around with them.

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Every night you walk down this ramp, you walk down the ramp because you have to. I walk down this ramp every night because I want to. That’s passion.

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Never Chase the hot thing, whatever it is. That’s that’s like trying to catch the wave and you’ll never catch it. You need to position yourself and wait for the wave, and the way you do that is: you pick something you’re passionate about.

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There is a period in everybody’s journey where they are so different because they’ve started to do new things that they no longer fit in with their old set of friends, but they’re not sufficiently developed that they’ve gained their new set of friends. And they’re unsure. Should I go back? Should I lean back into getting a bag in with the boys on a weekend? Is that the highest, you know, way that I can live my life passion-forward? Because that’s what everybody else does. And all of my friends are taking the piss. Oh, not drinking again. Too good for us, are we? Not going out again this week.

Oh, okay. Well, like, enjoy staying in home and reading. Fucking nerd. So you’re going to feel the pain of being ostracized from the group of friends that you used to have, but you’re stuck in this messy middle where you haven’t yet worked out who you are on the other side of this. And that lonely chapter that’s in the middle is something that I would say almost nobody that I’ve ever met who has gone from a place where they are to a place where they want to be hasn’t gone through.

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If you really want to avoid all the critics in your life, then do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you’ll never get their attention. But if you are something, and you’re doing something, you become something, guess what? You get their attention, and that pisses them off because they can never be what you are now. So the only thing they can do to make something feel good is try to bring you the fuck down. I say thank you for that. Thank you for acknowledging the fact that I’m doing something. Because I don’t know who the fuck you are, but you seem to know who I am.

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Peak performers are focused on results. Underachievers are focused on activities. Have you ever heard the term, don’t become a busy fool?

Don’t ever, ever mistake movement with progress. Sharks don’t swim around all day looking for something to do. They eat.

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If you could give yourself one piece of advice to your 21 year old self, what would it be?

The only solution to long-term happiness is to get outside yourself. The human mind will always find something to be concerned about, pissed off about, worried about. But when you’re serving, you’re not there. There’s something magical about finding something you care about more than yourself. Then you get that pull motivation we talked about instead of push. You know, push doesn’t last, pull does. And if you’ve got that kind of drive, you’re going to keep growing. And if you keep growing, you’re going to have plenty to give. And if you keep giving, you’re going to have a meaningful life.

In the end, that’s what we all really want, is a life that’s really full of meaning. Find something you care about more than yourself because that’s what’s going to be the secret to your growth and your aliveness. If you can find that and find something that gives you that pull, your life is going to be one hell of an adventure.

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you have to have faith in the actual process. And what I mean by that is this. When you start out at, you know, trying to win in business and you don’t have much experience. When we break down the overall mission into critical tasks, it’s sometimes it’s hard for us to believe that those critical tasks are going to compound and produce the end result that we’re after. And so in the beginning, we have to have a little bit of faith and make sure that we keep executing over and over and over again at a daily level. And as that happens, and as you do that enough,

you will start to see little glimmers and little sparkles of the outcome that you desire.

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They will regret losing you. If they left you, let them. They didn’t see your value when they had you. They thought they could easily replace your energy. But you, you’re not replaceable. You bring peace, loyalty, and power.

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The first million is hard. The second is inevitable. Being labeled a millionaire isn’t about the amount. It’s about the climb. And what’s sad is most people will never reach that level because they’re too afraid to fall.

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I told myself that I want to be a better man because no one gave it to me because It was just me me alone in the gym me alone in the mirror me alone in my head. No one did it for me. I Worked for it and I’m never gonna let someone else take that from me.

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Stop breaking promises to yourself. When you say, I’m going to wake up tomorrow at 7am, and when the option comes to hit the snooze button, don’t do it. There’s one win that you’ve got for the day. That’s action.

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Don’t complain about the pain. Don’t say, why me? Say, try me.

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that fight when I lost and I’m looking at all these people and they’re all celebrating my demise and saying I’m done and this and it certainly lit a fire under my belly every single person dealt with me every single fighter dealt with me. Dealt me now.

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I wasn’t invited to parties or friendly gatherings on the weekend. So on Fridays and Saturdays, I would go in my rec room with my basketball and basically dribble myself to sleep. And I think that that was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Because during those lonely hours in the rec room, I discovered the hunger, the motivation, and the desire to be the best possible basketball player that I could be. And, you know, here I am today. Thank you.

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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.

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What’s the central part of your training? Is it running? Is it sparring?

Central part is dodging the nightclubs and the parties and the girls. You know the truth? And being in the bed by yourself at 9 o’clock at night. Got it. Thanks. If you can get by that, you’ll make it. Hey, Mark. That’s the truth. I’ll tell you the truth. You talk all that running and hitting the bags and jogging and vitamin, you won’t. Mr. Ali. Dodging ladies is the main thing. Especially when you’re pretty like me.

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You have to decide what to focus on. Now again, if you don’t think about it, you’ll be triggered by the environment or you’ll be triggered by your habits. But whatever you focus on, that’s your experience of life. I always tell people, you don’t experience life. You experience the life you focus on. Right now, you could focus on something and get yourself pissed off. If it’s not in your own life, it could be about other people, right? You could find total joy in this moment or gratitude if you focus on something else. So we don’t experience life. It’s what we focus on.

And what we focus on, we feel, even if it’s not true. So if you think somebody is taking the damage of you, you get all angry and later on you find out they didn’t. And you felt like an idiot, right? But when you were focused on it, it was real to you. So focus equals reality to the individual, even though it’s not reality in actuality. Or a simpler way is focus equals feeling.

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You don’t actually need me to stand for anything, you just need me to stand.

To be the strong man,

the man of action.

My God, you’re addicted to action and slogans.

It doesn’t matter what I say, it doesn’t matter what I do,

just as long as I’m doing something,

you’re happy to be along for the ride.

In the end,

I don’t care whether you love me or you hate me, just as long as I win.

The deck is stacked, the rules are rigged.

Welcome to the death of the age of reason.

There is no right or wrong.

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Fear is my friend. I love fear. Fear allows me to reach my highest potential. The fear of failing is an illusion. Fear is an illusion, but we have to have desire. We have to have something that pushes us. Fear pushes us.

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Life is a battle between two forces, concentration and distraction. With concentration, you will grow to power, to money, and to inner peace. Distraction is destruction, Bratan. Distraction is the shiny gate that will bring you into the slaughterhouse among millions of other sheep. The antidote of distraction is not focus, it’s honor. Will you go your own way, Bratan? Upright, strong, concentrated? Or will you be distracted? I have had a few near-death experiences in my life. At the end of your life, you will have to answer to the higher power that gave you this life. Were you distracted?

Or did you go your own way, Grim? Be honorable.

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I know what darkness looks like.

I know what it feels like to be alone with no motivation, no drive, no passion.

But if you are able to get up every morning,

have no passion, no drive, no motivation, no sh**,

and still get up with that kind of fire,

you will be successful in life.

I guarantee you that.

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Our mind is a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it’s hard. It’s what many people say. You like to go to the gym every day? Of course not.

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You are up on the cards, you’re winning this. You are gonna win this.

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I’ve trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on the back. I did all of the work alone. And while I’m still hard on myself, I know what I did. So whenever times get bad for people, all this, who’s gonna carry the boats and all, that’s real. I hate that people know me for that guy because that guy is not every day. Like when they see me, they want that energy. That’s not me every day. I can extract it immediately when I need to because when you train alone, and I lived alone for so many years in this misery, and you’re able to get out by yourself, I can take myself to such a level of real,

real passion and purpose. And like the feeling I get is something I can’t even explain by myself. I don’t need anyone. That’s why people come to me to motivate them. No one can motivate me.

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If you’re 20s, do all of that. Work day and night. Really do as many things, learn as much as you can fail as often as possible.

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Fear is my friend.

I love fear.

Fear allows me to reach my highest potential.

The fear of failing is an illusion.

Fear is an illusion,

but we have to have desire. We have to have something that pushes us.

Fear pushes us.

You don’t understand that living prepares us for death.

Our life, it prepares us for death.

Even if we die young,

it prepares us.

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So you gotta get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever wanna be successful. Start putting some pressure on. Put some pressure on yourself. Get out here and get about it. Look, I’d love to sugarcoat this thing for you. I’d love to tell you, look, you can go out here and get rich, do a couple of things, that ain’t happening. You gotta get real doggish. You gotta get downright funky if you wanna make it. Now like I was telling you before, if you wanna be ordinary, you ain’t even gotta listen to me. Just go on about your business. If you think ordinary’s cool, ain’t no problem.

It’s some really, really wonderful ordinary people. But if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations, then you’re gonna have to do extra.

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So but some people get out of shape and they feel bad and they say man, you know, it’s it works like shame It’s the same thing. So you you you feel like man, I can’t I’m Overweight I feel bad What happens is those cycles just keep going you feel bad. So what happens to? so you feel better, you eat again, And then you feel bad in the gym because people are looking at you and you go: I don’t look good in my pants, I’m just. you look in the mirror and you go: man is bad, is still here and the whole thing and Fitness is way over there.

It’s somewhere I gotta go and this is do it’s a across the country and it’s so long why I give up You know what? I’m gonna just sit down here, eat another donut And let me tell you that’s real. But fitness is in you.

It’s in you the whole time. That fit body is there And you think it’s way over there, And that’s the lie.

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you know, oh you fucking loser, just turn off the video games and go outside and play. It’s easy to say shit like that, it’s easy to give advice and just be like, hey, just man up and go and do it. But I totally get it, dude, I understand. You’re physically, physiologically, emotionally addicted to this shit, and I know why it can be. Because you’re literally living in an abstract world. All of your personal identification with the characters in the game tie you up with it. It’s like you’re living in the video game. I understand, and I see a lot of people that happens to.

That’s why I rant on video games so often. Because I see a lot of my friends, I’m like, dude, your life sucks because you won’t turn that fucking thing off. But anyway, so he wants to know how do I break free of this addiction? It’s just like any other addiction, you know? Addicted to cigarettes, or whatever the case may be.

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Could I just talk about war with the brigade commander? Well, I could but what’s more powerful that I talk about war and I talk about where I’m from or where he’s from or what? You know other things? yes, because I want to build a relationship. Why? because I’m trying to build trust. what? why? because I wanted to allow me to go out there and do things in his battle space. So that’s what they’re asking here. They’re asking you to step out of your comfort zone.

It doesn’t need to become your primary focus no Should you try and step out of the comfort zone if you want to grow if you want to have more opportunity? I would give it a try I Would give it a try if not you know like I said if you hate it and You feel like you’re not being true to your true self. That’s okay Maybe your true self is meant to be the one that’s back not getting promoted Yeah They need somebody to do that. Yeah, it’s not you, it might be somebody else.

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I need to get fired up, so that’s how I bring out sharpness. That’s how I bring out the best out of me when I walk on fire. Because if you make me feel too comfortable,

I’m playing to win, and to win I will destroy you. I will do everything to win, and I need to win. Because when I win is my proof that I am alive. And that’s wherever I came, I was like that. But then I had some situation where I have teammates that would crack, they would not make it. They would cry in front of me, but I don’t care because I’m here to win. Because I played in top five clubs in the world, I played maybe three of them. And if I don’t do my job, they bring in somebody else, and I’m not there anymore. So that’s why I say it’s about survival mode.

I’m not here to be nice or to be bad. I’m here to win. So to win, I needed to find those trigger points to get the best out of me.

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A deer comes to a lake, he feels the intention is a lion in the tree. So normally he’d jump 50 feet, but with that fear he jumped 40 feet. It’s the flight of, it’s survival. Our fear makes us think things that don’t even exist. Our biggest fear never happened.

Whatever we’re afraid of in life, our biggest fear never happens. We go to our grave and think, well this never happened, I’ve been waiting for this, it never came. It’s just, it motivates us. We get hit by cars every f***ing day. We just walk out, we’re oblivious. Fear keeps us conscious of our existence. It keeps us conscious of knowing that we’re mortal.

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You put extra on top of extraordinary and you come up with extraordinary. It’s no other way. I’m, sorry But here’s the fact all of you have extraordinary capabilities all of you You have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category Rich people don’t sleep eight hours a day That’s a third of your life it ain’t been 24 hours in a day You cannot be sleep eight hours a day. You can’t live in la and wake up at eight o’clock in the morning. It’s 11 o’clock on the east coast. the stock market been open two hours.

They already making decisions about your life and your ass will sleep.

The bible says: he who loves to sleep and the folding of hands, poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night. He who loves to sleep and the folding of hands, poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night.

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Not every day, it’s those bad days. It’s those bad days. Got to see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. Now I’m talking about talent, like some God-given ability. Talent that sometimes you have to hone and you have to work on and you have to harness yourself. And they just walk around on their phones, it’s clueless to how powerful they are.

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This comfort zone I’m in is a fucking danger zone. It’s a danger zone because what is it doing? It’s stopping you from your true potential. It’s comfortable. I don’t want to step out here because I don’t know that area. Well, that area is going to give you, you got to risk it, right? And the reward is huge. Yeah, I got a little bit of pain right now. You know, my ankle’s a little sore, but I got all this reward and pride of who I am and everything else. And I’m taking that into my next endeavor, the next job. And you know what? That’s going to be enhanced. You guys got to risk it, man.

Don’t let anyone say you can’t do something. Don’t let your mind say, oh, I can’t do it anymore to your body. You can, you just got to push past it. You guys heard the second wind, you know, I got my second wind, my third wind. That shit’s in us. We stop ourselves before we really need to be stopped. We listen to society and what the normality, the average people are saying, oh, that’s too much. It’s too much, too much for them, man. Not too much for you. So go for it, man. Go enter something that you always, enter something that you’ve been scared to do.

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Let’s get one thing clear before you scroll. You’re not tired You’re just used to quitting. You think that single mother raising kids alone lacks motivation Lacks the drive to wake up every single day You think those kids that don’t know where their next meal is coming from give a fuck if you’re tired or not? Nah, neither do I from this day forward. I don’t want to hear another excuse I don’t want to hear how tired you are how demotivated you are nothing. You’re not tired You’re just used to quitting six months from now.

You’ll either have six months of progress, six months of excuses, You choose. I’ll see you at the top dog.

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Where someone goes hey go and execute this now hey go hit that building hey take guys over there there’s times in combat where you got to make those decisions and you got to make things happen and That’s when you talk. That’s what that’s when the important things that you just talked about having a Just trust right like I I just had trust in my guys. They trusted me that if I was telling them to do something, It was the right thing to do. and, by the way, If I told tony, go take that building over there and he looked at me and said negative, not now,

I knew he was saying that to me for a reason. Yeah, all the shit in front of it Yeah, there was a reason why he was telling me that And we’re not gonna have that discussion. Probably don’t have time to do it right right now I’d say okay, then we got to get out of here and he’d okay. Roger roger, and then we’d go. so, man, having that trust, building up that trust through You know the humility, the relationship all that stuff is is how you end up with a tight unit And that’s how you, that really that’s how you lead.

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I’m not afraid to say what I think. I’m not afraid to do what I believe in. Then afterwards, they give you or nothing. I mean, it’s me. I cannot change me. I’m not here to be beautiful or to be perfect to somebody. I think being yourself is perfect. You will do mistakes. You will learn from your mistakes and you will still do mistakes. So I think it’s important being yourself.

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How is it that some people can move forward and some people just seem stuck? They’re just stuck in their life. They’re stuck in mediocrity. They’re stuck in the comfort zone that they’ve created for themselves. It’s because we as human beings need one of two things. It’s always gonna be one of two things. And the first is the one that I’m gonna tell you you’re gonna need to do. You need either a tragedy or you need a goal so big that it pulls you out of bed. It’s much more difficult to be pulled towards something than to have something chasing your ass. So you need a tragedy.

You need something that’s biting you at your ass.

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So just the fact that we’re losing guys like Kobe lose. We just moving people in our family. If people die, it surrounds us all every day, so we prepare for it. We understand that, but we avoid it. Hey, listen, this is the thing, right? Whatever we do in the sports life, when you don’t have that feeling no more, it’s over.

When you don’t get that feeling no more, it’s over.

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Okay, I have my purpose it may take a long time. No one knows their purpose because it’s too loud Finds your purpose from there. All right, You gotta start planning. People love the planning phase because it’s very comfortable. Mm-hmm. Then from the planning phase you gotta go to execution. So the execution phase will be all hate, because that’s where the real work begins And that’s when the failure happens and the failure and the failure. so, but you know, that’s that, that’s kind of how you have to do it.

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Answer that everyone wants to hear is like: yeah, dude, the most important thing is you got to be loyal to yourself. That’s the most important thing. okay, if that’s what your priority is, then that’s the most important thing. But guess what who does a who can take care of the other kitchen dogs that respect you so much Who can take a better care of them than you can? Because if you get promoted, if you don’t get promoted,

and and Johnny glamour boy Gets promoted because he likes to go out and schmooze the clients and now he gets promoted in years And now who’s gonna take care of the kitchen dogs on his on his time right not him. He doesn’t care He’s got he got promoted not for taking care of his guys. He got promoted because he schmoozed the clients.

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you do 200% in training. Because me bringing you to training, I do it for you, not for me. I could do something else, but you give 200% or else I’m not doing this. But in the end, you’re doing it for yourself. Because every time you step on the field, when players get angry at coaches, teammates, or whoever surrounding, or media, they forget every training they do is not for the surrounding. You do the training for yourself. You do it to become better and make a better version of yourself and test yourself. So I tell them, you give 200%. If it’s a good or bad training, can happen.

But you do it for yourself and you give 200% because I have other things to do. And I push them so hard that they do their best, and more than that, they cannot do.

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It’s much easier to run when a dog is chasing you and nipping at your ass than running towards a prize. You know, you give two people, you give one person two options, and, or you put them in two different circumstances. One, a dog is chasing his ass, he’s gonna run. You’re gonna fucking run because it’s a tragedy, or you’re gonna get your ass bit. And then you put a million dollars at the end of another one, that guy’s gonna run too. But you know, if he knows the million dollars is gonna be there, he’s not gonna run nearly as fast, or with as much, what’s that word? You know, intensity.

There’s a guy that’s getting his ass bit. So you’ve gotta create a situation, and I’m gonna tell you what to do. It’s gonna be the most irresponsible advice that you’ve ever heard me give, but it’s the only one that’s going to make you do what you have to do, because I know that you can’t reach. Otherwise you would have reached, it’s been 10 years. You’re not a goal person.

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The biggest thing you have to do is shut off technology You have to go dark Remind me about that is you have to be quiet in your mind get away from people We love being around people. We love talking. We love We love parties. We love all that shit It’s okay to be alone It’s also okay to be unhappy It’s okay to be unhappy sometimes man. It’s okay to say you know what man i’m i’m fucked up So you gotta go to the truth first. Who are you? Get? get really accountable And say okay, who am I? What’s the truth about me? Get to that dark place in your mind. figure out.

it may take months, may take years. figure out your purpose. Figure out what you want to be in life.

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this world is not just about upwards. So realizing this, really understanding it’s not just about up. it’s not just about taking. it’s about taking and giving. it’s about relaxing and doing. it’s about exchange. it’s about constant exchange with you, your peers, with people around you, with the world. it’s about exchange because exchange means there is a change, there’s constantly happening some transformation, and this is what out there, this is what everything is built upon.

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Let me show you this. We all live inside a bubble, right? This is our world. We go to church here, we work over here, we go get our coffee over here, we go to this park over here, we usually go over here to, you know, hang out with friends. This is our favorite club. This is our world. This is our favorite spot on the beach. We all live in this bubble. What you gotta do to get the life that God wants you to have, you gotta put more air in your bubble. You got to blow your bubble up. Expand yourself. Take yourself out your comfort zone. Do not live in your bubble.

Put some more air in your bubble. If you stay in your comfort zone, that’s where you will fail. You will fail in your comfort zone. Success is not a comfortable procedure. It is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt.

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He says, imagine you’re on your deathbed, and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential, the ghost of the ideas you never acted on, the ghost of the talents you didn’t use. And they’re standing around your bed angry, disappointed, and upset. They say, we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say. And now we have to go to the grave together. So I ask you today, how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes? So you’ve got to get out there.

You’ve got to give it everything you’ve got, whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasures. Because remember this, you will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

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It’s not doesn’t take away the pain then take with the suffering. No, you just studied it. You know it You know how it feels. Yeah, you know when to breathe, when not to breathe. you know All these different things. you’ve been there, you visited you, you you’ve lived there for a long period of time and that’s why I like this book so much is because can’t hurt me was like a bachelor’s degree. It was like the surface level of David Goggins and some things that can help you out. This, to me, is a master’s degree.

This book right here takes you to another level of of the mind and how you think that’s why I say this ain’t no fucking self-help book This is a what the fuck are you doing with your life book? Yeah, and that’s why that’s so important What are you doing with your life man? Why are you sitting around? Why are you waiting for shit to happen? It could happen like that. Why are you feeling sorry for yourself? Why are you waiting for that fucking apology? That’s never gonna fucking come. People sit around waiting and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and blaming, and blaming,

and they wait with a handout. Yeah, Kovat happened. Everybody’s hands out now.

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It’s one thing that you say, you know what? I am fit. Even if you don’t see it, I am fit. And you know what fit people do? Fit people go to the gym. Fit people don’t eat donuts. Fit people eat protein. And let me tell you something. We had free donuts today. No, no. Now, oh, I wanted to bring that up. I wanted to bring that up, too. I wanted to bring that up, which is awesome. I have my cheat days. I love donut. But I’m here to tell you this, that you don’t become what you want. You become where your habits take you. Now, you have a donut. You ain’t going to get fat. But you have 100 donuts.

Over a course of years, you will end up fat.

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People may hear all this and say, God, this guy is such a structured guy, talking about demons, getting over things. That’s not like his whole life. It’s true, but I’m the most peaceful person on the planet Earth, even with the conversation, I got to go to the gym, I have to do this, I have to do that. Every day I’m winning. Every day I’m winning the other voice in my head. So I’m very, I’m at peace with myself. The things I do for fun are like me bettering myself. I love sports, I love watching sports, but I also love accomplishing and overcoming myself every day.

Because every day is a battle. Every day is a battle because your mind wants to choose the path of least resistance, every day. But you don’t become better by ever doing that. You become normal, and I don’t want to be normal. So it may not be a life for everybody, but I find a lot of peace in not being normal in my life.

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At the end of that, we’re talking and shooting this shit. We’re talking about different events. Everyone’s positive. A sense of accomplishment that did something. You know, I made friends. And you’re around positive people that are doing something with their life. Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something, because you can. The only person that you have to try everything. And in trying, you find out if you can do it for one, or hey, I might need to train up some. Or I might get, did I win the race? No. There are pros out there. I did it in like six and a half hours.

We stopped and had a good time. There were pros that did it in like two and a half hours. So I’m not some Lance Armstrong. But you know what? I did an event. I signed up for it. I said I was going to do it. I kept my word. I came out a great workout. Mentally, just fucking invincible, I felt like. And it’s those kind of things. You’ve got to go for it, guys.

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enjoy the journey, not the destination. A lot of us delay our happiness. When I get to this level, when I get my degree, when I get the kids, when I get married, I’m gonna be happy. Enjoy the journey, enjoy the whole step, the whole process. Every day that you get up to strive for whatever it is you’re after, you know I’m a goal-oriented guy. But you don’t celebrate when you get to the finish line. Celebrate all along the way.

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Where I came from was so far down underneath like soil that I had to build belief by truly ingraining it in my brain. So the things I do, I’m always every day building belief. And my belief had to be where it is because I was so far down. So it may take a 200 mile run for me. It may take 100 mile run. It may take late nights in the gym. But without belief, you have nothing. And I realized that when I was a young kid, I have no belief. I have to build it. And a five mile run didn’t do it. I had to push myself to such extremes because I came from,

people judge me by not knowing where I came from. So unless you’re me and you came from where I came from, I guarantee you wouldn’t have made it out. Guarantee it. And I knew that. So my belief comes from going, I had to build it. And that’s how I build it, man. I build it by the things I do.

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People say, I want money, I want money, I’m going to go get my money, and then, but your habits don’t give you any money.

And my habit, my habit was taking me somewhere I didn’t want to go. I’m sitting here, and I’m on this trajectory and the whole thing, but why doesn’t my wife want to be with me? Why do my kids not want to talk to me? What am I, what’s going on here? Why am I aiming here and walking over here?

My steps were going this way. And man, you’ve got to take inventory of what you believe. And let me tell you something else, the comfort zone is dangerous. When you’re comfortable, you are at most danger. The comfort zone is somewhere you need to, you should never feel comfortable. You should be happy and dissatisfied.

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But the intensity of what you have to do to be successful is much lower than most people expect. And so oftentimes they suffer significantly more in a short period of time than is required to be successful over a much longer period of time with a much lower intensity. And so it’s just like if you walk for five minutes a day, you’re going to get, you know, 50% of the health benefits, probably more than that, I’m sure, um, of just even exercising. You add 10 years to your life if you walked five or 10 minutes a day.

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It sucks sometimes, it’s bad, but mission, man, if you keep thinking that, that’s what we’re paid to do. The bottom line is, you follow the orders of the guy above you. And we’re team guys, so that line bleeds a lot. It has a lot of waves in it, you know? Because he’ll be like, hey Tony, what do you think we ought to do? I don’t know, Jocko, let’s do this. All right, sounds good. But at any given time, if he goes, hey Tony, this is what we’re doing, roger that. And that’s it, even if it means dying. Because if you lead by example and you’re humble,

and you’re good to your guys and you know your guys, and you let them know you, but you don’t wipe their ass and you don’t take any shit from them, and they know you, they’ll follow you. If you’re humble and you make mistakes, admit it and move on.

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I’ve never ridden a bike before, you know, I’m not those guys and girls that just kick my ass. But you know, I came away with something that, man, I am so motivated right now for the next endeavor in my life. And I’m going to try something new, and I’m going to push it and push it and push it. At the end of my life, my tombstone, one thing it will have on it, no f***ing regrets. And that’s a good life, man. So I encourage you, man, whatever that fear inside of you is, whatever your, you know, you can make up every excuse, making, you know,

so you can get everybody else convinced that you’re not doing it for that reason. Even though inside you know you’re just being a bullsh**er, you know, just let it out. You know, say, hey, you know what, I’m scared. I’m really f***ing scared. But I’m going to give it a shot, to have some support. They get behind you, you know, and then you go for it, and you, bam, you overcome that step. The next step’s even bigger and bigger, next stop, then you’re on top of the mountain, man. You ain’t got one life, why not go for it, right?

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Well, life took me somewhere unexpected. I’m unprepared. It’s about six degrees out here and I’m underdressed. But guess what? No one gives a fuck. You gotta get the motherfucker in. Sometimes life can really hijack your fucking mind. When that happens to you, you’re all fucked up. Your goals, your ambitions, everything is out the fucking window. In life, we all go through different things. Sometimes your girlfriend or boyfriend breaks up with you. Guess what? Get the fuck over it. They no longer want you. Maybe you failed a test in school. You worked your ass off. Guess what?

You failed the fucking test. Get over it. Move past it. Learn to not let life hijack your brain. At work, you’ve been working your ass off that new promotion. You don’t fucking get it. Someone else does. Maybe they kiss better ass than you do. Guess what? Get over it. Life will hijack your mind if you let it. Don’t allow all these things to make you a lesser person. You must own your mind. Don’t let life own yours. Get after it and stay hard.

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If we stay in the fight, he will deliver something into your life that you can’t even receive. He said, I got so many blessings for you, you can’t even hold them. But we got to put ourselves in position. There’s a shift happening. I’m going to challenge Legacy Church tonight. There’s a shift happening. You got to come out your comfort zone because your comfort zone is the deadliest place you will ever be. You’re talking about physically, spiritually, and mentally? What we’re doing physically? We’ve let him go. I ain’t never let go of that.

I’m never going to let a doctor tell me what medication I need to take. I’m going to tell you what I’m not going to take.

So every athlete, listen to me carefully. You can think your athletic ability is everything, and it may get you in the door, but the only thing to keep the door closed is your relationship with the king.

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You’ll feel a sense of pride. And I guarantee you what that was, you’re so freaked out about, you’re gonna find out it’s not that big of a deal. And then you’re gonna come back and say, you know what, that fear I had for so long that was lurking over me, you know, and making me skeptical and scared and less confident, I just faced it in the eyes. And you know what, I beat it down. So how many other fears do I have right now? What else am I hiding behind? Let me get rid of all these excuses and find out who the fuck I am. That’s what you guys need to do, man.

This weekend, I couldn’t believe it, man. Like.

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Life beat me the f*** up. Bad. I mean, I was knocked out in the 12th round of a 15 round, you know, heavyweight bout. I was knocked out. But what happened was in the 12th round, when the challenger turned his back on me, I was getting the f*** up. And I got up in one of the next three rounds and knocked that motherf*** out in the 15th round. So that’s my mind about Ken Hurt Me. I was hurt, man. Like literally, I had to overcome so much those first 26 years of my life. And I still do every day today. You know, it’s not over. But the mentality of Ken Hurt Me is just that.

No matter what’s in front of you, man, you have to face, you have to confront, you have to overcome and move forward. So my father, you know, some of the kids that bullied me, my learning disabilities, all these things I went through in life, stuttering, you know, has so many different issues, failing and failing and failing. I’d overcome them. Or they would have overcame me.

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You have to make a choice.

Either you’re going to resort back to your old place and remain comfortable and

miss the opportunity,

Or you’re gonna have to want it bad enough to get out of your comfort zone. Every major blessing I have ever gotten in my life always made me Uncomfortable.

It was never in my comfort zone. It was always so far out of my comfort zone That now I’m addicted to being uncomfortable.

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if you had to create a human, what would you put them through to make them tough? It probably wouldn’t be a really chill life. What would you put them through to make them patient? Well, you probably wouldn’t give them things immediately. And so it’s like, we want these traits, but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it. And it’s just like, do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing? And so I think if people reframe the period of life that they’re going through as the price that they’re paying out of their wallet,

but the wallet is their time, it’s the seconds of life that they’re trading for it, then I think more people would be willing to make the trade. Because at least when I look at myself, like when I’m 80 something years old, I’m looking back on my life, I want to have these traits. But in order to have those traits, I know I have to go through these things. And I think for me, that’s given me a lot of comfort in hard times.

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Everybody else’s success represents the possibility of what you could do. But if you don’t believe you can do it, guess what? You’re gonna be some janky ass, lazy, bum ass, depressed, sad, miserable person that wants to invite everybody to your pity party so that they can feel sorry for you because you grew up in a dysfunctional house. You grew up in an abuse, you were molested, you were touched, you were raped, you were, you know, you were, things happen to you that were unfortunate and sad, which is something that can fuck you up psychologically.

And is something that could cause you to sit on the pity party and swim in misery and find yourself not being motivated and inspired to do anything.

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Right now in life, your family’s looking for that one guy right now. They’re looking for that one guy who’s strong, who’s that pillar for the family in hard times. Make sure they look around, they look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard.

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Your companion, which is yourself,

needs to feel free to tell you, it’s okay. That was a bad place to be. That was a bad person to be.

But you’re not that person anymore,

and you’re not in that place anymore.

But if you’re with yourself, and yourself is always beating you up,

you’re not going to want to be with yourself. If I’m sitting out here by myself in the evening by a fire, cup of coffee and a cigar and I’m constantly beating myself up over my failures in the past, I’m not someone that I want to be alone with. The next thing I would want from a companion is I would want someone who is encouraging,

who sees the possibility in the future,

who gently pushes me and encourages me to get out of the rut,

to get out of the hole, to get out of the sheepfold, to get out of the swamp that I’m in,

and to move on and do better.

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because that’s the time to put in the hard work. Your work-life balance actually comes out later. I’m a big believer in, yes, if you’re straight out of university, go traveling for a year or two. You know, that, A, gets rid of the pent-up need, but also gives you a much broader perspective on the world than any other single thing that you can do in your life. After that, you get your head down, and you get your head down probably till your mid-30s.

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temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose,

and all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself.

Although, only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now.

You can’t win. It’s pointless to keep fighting.

Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?

Because I choose to.

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And I think part of that world is because we have been fed this line of horse shit that you’re supposed to seek comfort- And I don’t think you are. I think you’re supposed to seek lessons and you’re supposed to seek difficult tasks and and and and accomplishments. and through those things and through doing Things that are hard to do, even if it’s just a fucking 90-minute hot yoga class- I do a 90-minute yoga class, man. those last 20 minutes I do not want to be there, man, and I definitely don’t want to give a hundred percent. and I can cheat,

I can I could kind of half-ass it I can but I can but if I don’t and I get through it When that time is up and the lady says namaste and everybody gets up and my fuck man. I made it. You know, I lost 15 pounds. my fucking yoga mat is drenched to the point where I could literally wring it out and fill up a Jug up with water. but through that struggle I will now have a better day and I better fucking do it again tomorrow.

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But what makes it so crazy to me is so many people have that ability. They haven’t taken the time to see what they want in life. Therefore. He’s crazy. I’m crazy They put a title on us. You know what a title does to people. a title, It’s the greatest separator of all time It allows you to go away in your comfort zone saying he’s just nuts He’s special special person that gives you get out of jail free card You can go ahead and be normal now because we’re special people. No, we found what we want in life. That’s all it is. It’s all it is and very few people. they’re all confused.

life’s confusing because they make it confusing.

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Get off the pity potty. Get your ass out the house. Stop being anti-social. No one is ever gonna have you in mind for anything if you don’t, you’re not seen and you’re not on people’s radars. If you live in the middle of the jungle and

freaking Shreveport, Louisiana, some damn where in the middle of nowhere. No, no disrespect to Shreveport. I love my fans out there. But if you’re an actress or a model or somebody who’s looking to do something impactful, ain’t nobody gonna find your ass in no Shreveport. Come on, man. Out of sight, out of mind. No one’s ever gonna have you in mind for anything if you’re not on their radar. People give me love and invite me into their homes and they want to socialize and hang out with me. But they wouldn’t want to do it if I didn’t show up.

No one will ever have you in mind for the things that you have in mind for yourself.

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The path of personal development is befriending uncertainty. I obviously sit from the entrepreneurial perspective, but almost all decisions that you make in the beginning, you have incomplete data and you have to make decisions anyways. It’s growing comfortable with taking your best bad guess and being directionally correct rather than searching for a perfect answer because a perfect answer assumes perfect information, which you can only have after you begin.

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With this toy program, what we did in this graduation, we made a step. We took the next step. But what does the next step mean? What does graduation really mean?

Because when you really graduate, the thought I want to leave you with is today, is it’s time now, so we must readjust our comfort zone.

See, now it’s time to go to a different thought process. You see, a goal, many goals that you may have of graduations and making it to this next moment. And I understand how important the goals can be, but the goals remains a goal until you write it on a piece of paper. Then it becomes a vision. It’s what is the vision? What is the vision? Because the only reason I’m here, the only reason we’re here today, is because of our yesterday.

Everything I’ve been through has defined who I am right now.

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Everything’s easy. No one’s ever cold anymore. No one’s ever hot anymore. Everything is exactly the way we want it. Everything is exactly the way we want it, when we want it. And that’s how the world is. Everything is at our fingertips. And that causes you not to use the most powerful weapon in the world, which is your mind. Everything’s easy. So why, so when things get hard, how the hell can you rely on your brain when you don’t know how to because everything’s so easy? So we’re not utilizing it enough because everything exists there.

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It’s difficult for even myself at times. If I don’t have something nipping at my ass, hell, why go after something, right? You’ve got to really brainwash yourself to do that. That’s a different story. But anyway, bro, you need to literally pick up your video game machine, smash it to fucking pieces, walk out your house, get in your car, and go live in your car. Go somewhere. Go check into a homeless shelter. You need to shake up your life like it’s never been shook up before. Go, and you know, I’m being extreme here, but go live with your grandmother.

Just smash your video game machine, go live with your grandmother, and you have nothing now. Now you have no choice, because you have no comfort, and you have no stability, and you have nothing, but I gotta get off my ass. Going to live with your grandmother is gonna be, it’s gonna be too easy. You really need to go where, create a situation where you sink or swim, and you’ll learn how to swim.

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You got to get this, the basis of all of this is on this, is that you don’t have any shame anymore. What happens is people use this to manipulate you. They’re like, yeah, but you know, you ain’t all that good. Anybody that tries to put that on you, tell them to get out your face. I’m serious. Anybody who tries to put you, anything that, yeah, but look at your past. See, remember when you walk away, you leave, or you tell them to go. This is the best news you’ve ever heard in your life because once you understand that you’re good, you act accordingly.

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It is not what you leave to them that makes them great. It’s what you leave in them. If you leave more to them than you leave in them, they will run through everything you left to them. Yeah. But if you leave enough in them, you don’t have to leave so much to them because they can go out there and make their own way in life.

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beautiful thing about working out and fitness and controlling your own world because you own this man. this is all you. you know. when you’re in shape, man, you don’t walk through life, you run through it. and then, while you’re running through it, you’re seeing somebody to your right and left. you’re positive too. you start associating with them as friends. the whole network’s positive together collectively. you got to kick it, so hey, go for it guys. whatever that fear is, write it down to everybody. you’re scared of it and you go get beat the shit out of it.

anyway, I got a lot of blogs come to you this week. happy Valentine’s Day passed and rock and roll, man, a new life today. this is it, man, right now. start point. life is not about where you start or where you end. it’s the distance you travel in your life, and this weekend I traveled a huge mental distance. I want you to do the same.

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And so we remember things as harder than they were, but I also think that there is a thread of reality, which is that the younger generation is softer. And I think we are softer than the generation above us. When I think about the guys who were storming Normandy, and I think about the people who would be attempting to do that now as a class, I think that we are softer. And so the thing is is that if you can barely decide to take any action at all and peel your eyes away from your phone for just a moment, it’s so much easier to beat everyone else because most people are overweight,

they’re distracted, they’re poor, they have so few skills because it has never been easier to start a business, to make money, to get in shape.

It’s just also never been easier to do nothing. And so in a world where it’s never been easier to do nothing, doing something becomes extraordinary.

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The one that comforts us and keeps us nice and warm and cuddly and gives us cookies and milk at nighttime. We like that voice. That voice, the one we want to always hear, which is why people don’t like to listen to me a lot. Some people do, some people don’t. The only thing that changes you is being real. So basically, I had to have the courage to go back in it because nothing was getting done. I kept on going to that nice, cuddly voice in my head saying, you know what? You don’t need to do this. That’s too much work, man. You’ve earned this. You deserve this.

And that mentality got me to 297 pounds, fat, out of shape. To me, a loser. To me, making $1,000 $1,000 a month and making a ton of mistakes because mistakes happen on the easy side of life. You take the easy road, the easy path. There’s a lot of mistakes over there. The hard journey, you don’t make too many mistakes over here because it’s too hard. You don’t wanna repeat it. So it’s challenging.

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You’ve got to place yourself in the midst of a storm and it’s got to be a self-created storm. Otherwise, most people have to wait until the shit comes crumbling down before they take action in life. I’m inviting you to create a shit storm for yourself so that you will be motivated by the wolf crying at the door, by the dog nipping at your ass, by the fire under your ass. All right, dude? So there’s no nice way to do this. Right? Rip the fucking band-aid off. Throw yourself off the cliff and learn how to fly on the way down.

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Where I came from, everybody abused me, beat my ass, kicked my ass, whatever they wanted to me. And now I’m the baddest nigga on the planet. Well, so what they say. How does that happen? I’m a bitch ass nigga and I’m the baddest nigga on the planet, on the stage and telling everybody, come on, I want to fight you bitch. I’m doing every, I brought my fucking pain with me. I kept, that’s what I don’t do no more. I don’t bring my fucking pain with me. I fucked my career because I brought my fucking pain in the past, but it enhanced me to do so much fucking incredible shit. But it fucked me up.

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Just be satisfied with what you got. Don’t believe them. Get them away from you. You should never be satisfied with what you got. Because the attempt to get more makes you into something better all the time. Don’t let anybody tell you, hey, man, you should just be happy with what you got. No. You should double your business. Triple it. Listen to me.

By the way, no, no, no, no, no. Stay right there. Terry inspired me. He didn’t even know this couple of weeks. Was it last Sunday, maybe? Because I was with him. And he was telling me all he was doing. He goes, but I can do twice as much. Ah, that inspired me. I love that. You can do twice as much. I’m born out. You can do twice as much.

Anyway, I’m trying to tell you, when I stopped watching pornography, I got four jobs at the same time. I’m being real with you.

And I was like, man,

I got energy for days.

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To be at the point of your life where you don’t care about being judged. You can be in a room of a million people and they all hate you and you walk in and you go like this Because- not because you’re angry at them- because you know yourself Inside and out and you know that you’ve put yourself to hell to be where you’re at today- you’ve walked a walk, you’ve talked to talk and you’ve walked a walk, and That’s to me what it’s all about. Mm-hmm. It’s all about putting those boots on the ground And getting after it every day and once you do that,

you have a feeling about yourself that no one can ever Take away or even understand. Yeah.

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Imagine us taking the lion approach to life. I ain’t backing up. A lion don’t walk backwards for nothing. And when he roar, he roar for three things. He hungry, he coming to take your territory, and the last one, too many kids in here a couple years.

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People think it’s easy. It’s not easy. Very hard. Because everybody thinks, hey, I train, I go do individual skills, I go do that, I get an agent, I get this coach, and I’ll become a pro. It doesn’t work like that. It has to be about luck, hard work, where you come, it’s meant that you should be where you are. And it’s easy to say, hey, I could have been a pro, I would be the best in the world. No, it’s not like that. It’s all this combined, and then we see what happens. They have to be happy, healthy, but with discipline, they have to do the things.

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It’s more important to own your weaknesses. You have to really triple down on those, man, because why? You want to become a full human being. We like to run away from weaknesses. Like for instance, if you’re good at running, all you want to do is run. If you’re great at reading, you have several books. But we don’t do those things that we’re not good at. So for me, I realized, shit, man, like I keep on running away from these things I’m not good at. I have to dive into these things. I have to become one with these things. And that’s what happened. And so I own them both.

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If if you really don’t want to do it well Then you can keep being the guy that’s in the back and guess what you’re gonna be mad in Six months when some other chef gets hired for a different shift and all of a sudden He’s out making friends with everyone he gets promoted and why does he get promoted well look what the guy’s doing? But he’s not as good as he’s not as good as a cook as I am. Guess what they don’t really care. Being making the food is only part of what they want you to do, Just like being a seal doing doing missions is only part of what they. what you need to do to do the mission.

You can’t just be tactically sound you’ve got to have the relationship built so you can work in the battle space That’s owned by a conventional commander You got to have the relationship that you can get your missions approved up the chain of command on the special operations side How do you do that you build? You go out, you talk to people, you get out of your comfort zone.

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sunrise, sun goes down. so that means there is a up, there is a down. since we are born, we have inhaled 50 percent of our times. we have exhaled 50 percent of our of our times. our heart, the same, sucking the blood, pumping the blood. also the same meaning: always 50, 50, always the exchange between left and right, up and down, bright and dark, in and out, success and failure. it’s just that this world is not propagating failure to you, it is propagating success to you. so our mind is looking for success, starting to believe there’s only one way,

there’s only one direction in this life that we live, which is about moving upwards.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

You saved my life.

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I mean, everything we see is a false reality. It’s like Big Brother, The Matrix, whatever you want to call it. While we’re watching each other, they’re watching us all the time. Obi-Wan Kenobi said, your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them. It seems to be getting harder, distinguishing reality from the illusions people make for us. Or from the ones we make for ourselves, I don’t know. Maybe that’s part of the plan, to make me think I’m crazy.

It’s working.

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person, any human realizes that if you want some kind of a good outcome you’re gonna have to work hard for it. And if you don’t work hard for something you’re not gonna get an outcome that’s really worth much.

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Just gotta stay focused on that. And I tweet that because I know other people are watching and other people are looking at- you know kind of my social platforms- for the same thing that I was looking for when I was a kid. Some type of inspiration, aspirations come from people that do amazing things, but they’re really ordinary people just waking up every day, doing it, doing the little things that other people aren’t doing. So, chop wood, carry water. I gotta stay poised. It’s definitely something that I’m always living by every single day. So not just in the basketball court either.

It’s in my life.

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You’re lazy, you know exactly what to do, exactly what to do. Because even me, in my state of, I can’t read and write, I knew exactly what to do. It just sucks doing it. It sucks to do it. It sucks to wake up every morning of your life and say, God, man, I’m not smart. So guess what I gotta do? I gotta study the same shit that I got one of the highest scores in the nation on. And do it again, do it again, do it again. It’s not just there. It’s not just there permanently for me. So yeah, it’s all stick. It’s all stick. The only care that you have is like, maybe, maybe.

Because whenever I take these tests that are real hard, in the back of my brain, it’s like, the good chance you’re not gonna make it, Goggins. This ain’t you, bro.

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To all you people all over the world, wherever you are, I know it’s a tough one. I’m an old dude, I’ve been around for years, I live with optimism, but to all you guys, all you youngsters who feel thwarted and put down and hopeless, believe me one thing, I’ve read someone, I can’t remember whether it was in the old testament or I think it was a shaman, maybe Carlos Castaneda, but the shaman said there was a drought, cattle were dying, people were dying in a desert and the shaman said build the ditches, dig the ditches for the rain.

They said there is no rain, dig the ditches and the rain will come. Now you non-believers may say oh that’s nonsense, well believe what you want, that’s the rational mind.

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I heard the fuck up man motivated pumped up man early still man early some people just getting up going about the first endeavor of The day we’ve already done a few endeavors man. We already kicked some ass We like a taste of that one kick some more ass So the next ever never we’re doing because we put value in our day an hour in the gym wasn’t just an hour We just go in there check the box and get fuck. No man, We had a plan of action, went in there and achieved that fucking plan. We spoke the words and we walked the motherfuckers. now here we stand, Energized spending energy in the gym,

but we created more energy a mind-body connection a belief a quantum physics of it all Energy expelled value what we’re doing the belief in something hard work behind the belief grows in the prosperity of something Fuck yeah, we need to just wake up and grab a fucking shower You know wash our nuts and then grab a coffee for some energy go to work. No, we’ve earned some fucking energy. That kind of energy, once lit, never goes out.

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I said 80% of the time you feel like you’re failing. 15% of the time you feel like you’re just treading water. 4% of the time you feel like it’s over, this is it, the ship’s going down. And then 1% of the time you feel like winning. That is the winner’s life. Like I constantly feel like I’m failing, I’m not doing things right, I’m not doing enough. And then, you know, that’s 80%. 15% of the time I feel like I’m fucking treading water. 4% of the time I feel like this is it, it’s going down, it’s over. Now 1% of the time I feel like I’m actually winning. And you know what a winner does?

He just takes that 1% and stacks them on top of each other day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. And that is how you build an empire. That is how you build a legacy. That is how you build a brand. That is how you build millions in money or help millions of people through impact or serve your family at the highest level because you have the means to do it.

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Just get up, move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is.

Move towards that challenge and go attack it.

And you may be successful and you may not be successful,

but you will be better.

And the next challenge,

you’re gonna be more prepared for.

And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

And you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail,

and then you’re gonna win.

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Because now I can mold you into exactly who you want to be. When you put these restrictions up, and that’s why my first question is, how bad do you want this? If it’s as bad as you wanna live or breathe or sleep, whatever the hell it may be, I can work with you. But a lot of people, most people don’t want it that badly, which is why they always ask the question, man, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don’t wanna do it. So I can’t make you do it,

nor do I have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it. There’s no luck in this game. It may be a little bit of luck, but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn’t happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might fucking happen. And that’s what people don’t know. But to get there, luck ain’t gonna happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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They don’t care. They don’t care, you know? The effect that I have on the universe is so freaking small. Nobody cares. I’m the only one putting the pressure on me. Nobody gives a damn about it. So that’s why they help me to perform now. That’s how some younger guys, they say, oh, I’m nervous, how do you? I heard you don’t sleep well the night before. I say, yeah, it’s true, I don’t sleep well. They say, what is your trick? How do you find a way to sleep well? I was like, I don’t really sleep well either nowadays. They say, but how do you feel better about it? It’s like,

I just know that I’m not going to sleep well and it’s not going to affect the outcome of the competition. It’s just a normal thing. You learn how to deal with it better. You’re not going to change it. Just accept it. The stress is your friend, man, that’s going to make you react. That’s going to be on the edge.

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I don’t think the rational mind is working too well at the moment. It’s the irrational mind, the subconscious. All my life when I was a little boy I dreamed of where I am now. I may have had a vision I don’t know. Didn’t have much hope but everything happened for me and now I believe that we can condense time we can pull it to ourselves. It’s not about the future. Oh, I’m gonna do something next year. Doesn’t exist. Tomorrow doesn’t exist. Next hour does not exist. It’s all potential. But what we can do is drag the time into the present now into the solar plexus of our soul.

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Every family deserves to have a winner. I think it should be you, but you also have to disconnect, unplug your umbilical cord from the belly button of average and plug yourself into the mindset of a winner, which is a winner does more than expected every single time, no matter how they feel, no matter the circumstances. A winner shows up 10X times more than the average person. A winner has these unreasonable expectations of himself.

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It’s nothing like a big looking at your eyes and you’re coming full speed at them as a guard or you have a change of pace.

As great of a defender Joel is,

when I saw him in pick and roll a few times,

you just gotta make them work and good thing the pull up was working today.

So I was working for the game and last two days to just get to my spot.

So glad it worked out well tonight.

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Work better get ready for this man. You’re all the employees and shit at the house You know the people you work with in those cubicles They’ve heard duck and cover because fucking heats coming in and you’ve earned guys you do that every single day You are you repeatedly do and anything you do if you look in the mirror and you frown upon yourself You created that that’s not an accident. It’s a habit Just look you look in the mirror and you smile because you see excellence. That’s not an accident. It’s a habit.

you start- You guys need to start taking responsibility for your actions When you start taking responsibility for your actions you start to find the belief in what you’re doing The passion behind it you create value in what you’re doing. There’s no longer mundane tasks Everything has a purpose in an end state. There’s a direction to a designation if you don’t like a designation you’re going to Well, you can’t change that overnight. You cannot change it overnight, but you can change the direction overnight.

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you never capped yourself, you might have. And if you did, you took it off. 100%. People cap themselves. They look at somebody and because their mind can’t imagine it, they then start talking shit. This, he has to be doing this, or he has to be doing that. There has to be some trick, there has to be some potion. This is bullshit. No, it’s because you cannot allow your mind to open up for the possibility of it can be done, which is why you, you being people, are where they are today. Because you have not, you’ve shackled your mind to have limits. And everybody has a limit, but find it first.

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You can develop that by setting higher standards for yourself The problem is that your mom and dad and school teachers and everybody around you Has conditioned you and indoctrinated you in becoming average and accepting average and just doing what the joneses do what the neighbors do To keep up with the joneses joneses. So they have two cars. You have two cars They have a little shit box of a house. You have a shit box of a house. They’re always in debt and they’re two paychecks away from going broke. So you’re always in debt, two paychecks away from going broke.

That’s, that’s the extent of it. like that is what you’re encouraged to do by mom and dad and grandparents, aunts, uncles, school teachers. They don’t want you to change, They don’t want you to transcend. They don’t want you to become the best version of yourself because if you do That is threatening to them. That is scary to them.

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And that starts with one of the fundamental laws of combat leadership, prioritize and execute. What’s the biggest problem? What’s causing the most stress? Family? Okay, sit them down. Explain where you are at. Be blunt, be upfront, and then give them the simple plan of how you’re gonna get things back on track. Don’t sugarcoat it. You give it to them straight. Next, you got some late payments. Call those creditors up. Explain to them what’s going on. Set up some kind of a minimum payment plan so you can start making some progress and get them off your back.

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I thought everybody cares about me. Nobody cares about you. Nobody cares. Only a small percentage of population, nobody gives a damn. And even if they do, what? You make a mistake, you zig when you should have zagged, you get clipped, so what? Everybody make mistake. You have to take fight like it is. You know, it’s a sporting event. That’s why I don’t take it personally. Like, when I have the problem with the diaspora, no problem, man. It’s a fight. It’s not personal for me. You’re in my life now. You won’t be there in 10 years, maybe. Maybe you will. Who knows?

It’s only like a chunk of life that we share together. And then after it’s gone, no problem with that.

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is that it takes more effort to start in the beginning and more people are right about the fact, they’re like, hey, you’re not gonna hit it big. And guess what, a month in, you’re not, but they’re only measuring on months. And at six months, you’re also not gonna have hit it big yet and they’re gonna be like, I’m still fucking right. And at a year, you’re still not gonna have hit it big and they’ll still be fucking right. And every day that you haven’t hit it, they’re gonna feel like they were right, but they’re wrong because they’re measuring in days and you’re measuring in decades.

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Normal people with normal minds can’t understand that. So then you become a liar or this and that. But now I got to the point in my life where I’m like, you can go fuck yourself, dude. If you don’t believe it, go ahead. But I don’t talk about a lot because I know what I’ve done and I know what the mind can do and where it can take you. I’ve experienced it over and over. And my mom has seen it over and over and over again to the point where it’s almost like, I can’t even believe sometimes, but I’m willing to go there. I’m willing to push myself to that limit and see what happens.

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BOW THE DITCHES! Whatever you want to do, believe it, believe it, believe it,

even if you don’t believe. Play the game of belief. Act as if you believe.

That is power. That is sheer power.

And it will happen. Believe you me.

From an old fool like me. It’s worked in my life, it will work in yours.

So never give up.

Believe, believe, believe.

I don’t care if you’re an atheist or agnostic or anything.

Believe, believe, believe.

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If you’re the type of person who wants to win in life, odds are you’re not doing enough. Like the best, the winners that I know in the world do more than they ever thought they needed to do. In other words, they bring a nuclear bomb to a gunfight. When in reality, average people, they expect to have a winner’s outcome, but they bring a water pistol to a gunfight. Do you understand the difference? I would rather bring a nuclear bomb to a gunfight than a water pistol to a gunfight. So you’re not doing enough. Like the winners that I know always feel that they’re behind.

The winners that I know always feel like they should have done more at the end of the day, even though they worked harder than everyone else around them. The winners that I know always feel they’re behind, that they should have done more than they did that day, that they could have achieved more, they could have made more, they could have added more value.

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Today is the minimum of effort. Tomorrow we’re going to come back even better. I know we started out slow. I know we got pads on the first day coming back. I know we’re looking at Coach Craze, but we got to believe in him. You know what I mean? He going to put us in the right position. We just got to come out here and be dogs. We got to come out here and know we got to be champions. And today, y’all think this is it? This ain’t it. We got to keep going. Do not give up. Do not feel like you’re tired. Were you tired? Think of last year, and think of that fucking record.

Every time I get tired or I think I can’t go no more, I think of that fucking record. That ain’t us. We can make it. We got to believe. We got to be mentally strong. When we tired, that’s when we got to put our fundamentals together. That’s when we got to be more focused. When we tired, look across the field and see how tired they are. That’s going to give you more effort. Be like, I’m going to beat his ass. I’m going to get fundamentally strong.

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That’s how an athlete, they should think, you know? That knowledge that I have is with years of years of competition, you know, all the problem I have, the colitis and all that, that’s because of that BS that I got it, like putting too much on me. It’s normal, if I fight again, it will go back the same pattern. I will be very stressed and it’s normal to be stressed, but I will accept it. I accept it better now than I used to do when I was younger. I accept it better now than I used to do when I was younger.

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99% right and 100% wrong. So like they’re, they’re right. 99% of the time, but they’re wrong. A hundred percent, because the only thing that matters is the big one at the end. Like your family and friends will say that every girl that you ever date is not good enough, except for the one time you find the girl that you’re actually going to marry. And then it doesn’t matter. Or like this won’t last or like this business idea, it’s not going to work. And you might have nine failures. I felt my first nine businesses didn’t really amount to anything.

Nine, nine, as in the first one spent time, fucking failed. Second one, this one will be different. Fucking failed. Third one, this one, this is the one. And then seven, six more after that. Right. I’m just painting this picture because like it’s painful as it, because the whole time everyone is telling you, I told you so. And they’re right. Today, but not forever.

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To me, the mentality is a really simple one in the sense that the confidence comes from preparation.

When the game’s on the line,

I’m not asking myself to do something that I haven’t done thousands of times before.

When I prepare, I know what I’m capable of doing,

I know what I’m comfortable doing, and I know what I’m not comfortable doing.

In those moments,

if it looks like I’m ice cold or not nervous,

it’s because I’ve done it thousands of times before.

So it’s one more time.

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You weren’t born like this. This ain’t you, the real you, bro. Study all you want to, but the second that fucking computer comes on with 150 questions, this ain’t you, man. And somehow, comes back, I passed. I passed again, passed again. But that real me back here every fucking time is saying, that ain’t you, bro. That ain’t you. And I have to outwork that voice. When I’m taking that test and I get to a question, I don’t fucking know the answer. I’m like, fuck, man. And then, say, I told you, man, that ain’t you. You’re 300 pounds, man. You sit at home, you figure out how to do your hair.

That’s what you do. How to come to school with the reverse baldness when you’re 16. That’s you.

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and then you got your job, right? You’re falling behind at work. Okay, talk to your boss. Face it. Tell him that you’re gonna step up your game. Tell him you’re gonna be at work early, you’re gonna be at work late, you’re gonna be at work during lunch, you’re gonna be wherever you need to be whenever he needs you to be there. Tell him you’re gonna get after it and tell him that you’re 100% committed to supporting him and the company and the mission.

And then you get started.

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So if you are looking at your life right now and what you do, everything every single day, And it’s a one-way street to hell with no return, That’s not so fucking appealing to me man. I don’t want to be part of that So get off that fucking beaten path society says it’s so right Believe in yourself what you’re doing man say fuck that Now that that is going into nowhere. I don’t want to be nowhere I want to ensure that I am some value to somebody Especially myself so i’m going to change the direction of where i’m going That direction Can be changed in an instant.

It’s a mindset, Just like we walked in there that blitzkrieg. What it is is two forces joining One is the belief in what you’re doing like muhammad ali believed so much. He was a champion, He said he was a champion before he wasn’t champion. That’s the belief it has to be that way. That’s the steering wheel of life, the direction.

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People get hurt by these people. I love them. You’re telling me every day because I used to be a weak mother f**ker too. You show me every day who you are. You 23 million people. You’re watching me, but you don’t want to admit you’re watching me. This is great. I know exactly who you are. So while they want to come on, some of them want to come on and offend me. But you got to see what’s up with Goggins. You got to see what’s up with them. So that’s amazing. I know who the f**k you are. Never will. Never will because you haven’t done enough for me to take notice.

But you know who the f**k I am. So this that alone gives me a lot of power every day, but that’s what people gotta understand. These haters, they know who you are, but you don’t know them. There’s a reason behind that. You’ve done something amazing. They’ve done nothing. Correct. Period. Which is probably why they f**king hate your ass. Why they talk s**t. That’s right.

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Have a duty and an obligation. I have a calling. I meant for more. I’m a walking, talking example to my son and daughter, Andrew and Chloe, of Doing the work even when you don’t feel like it, even when circumstances are not in your favor, even when your mom dies, and So you have to be willing to have that mindset that you can compartmentalize What is happening in your life? So that you can do what a winner needs to do to win in life or in your fitness or in your business or in Your sport see this is something that’s not taught. It’s not encouraged. And in fact,

it’s not looked down It’s looked down upon you might even leave a comment if you’re watching this on YouTube and go damn man, that’s cutthroat. That’s ruthless. Is it is it or is life for the living?

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I’ve tried to eliminate as much time between I think I should do this thing and beginning doing it. And I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle that occurs every time you start, I call it pulling the thread. It’s like, I just need to start pulling the thread. And then all of a sudden what feels really unknown becomes very tangible. And you’re like, oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing. But now I know the problems. And then it feels like you can wrap your arms around it and then you can start taking it one bite at a time.

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I would say not just huge value, but the value.

The value. You want to know if you’re talking about young men that might not have any direction right now, go do something that’s hard. Go try and accomplish something that’s hard. You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what, you’ll be better. If you avoid those things that are hard, if you don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water and you sit on your couch and eat Doritos,

I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that.

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I didn’t care about losing weight. I didn’t care about being the fastest person. I wasn’t making the Olympics. I wasn’t going to pros. I could barely read and write when I was a junior in high school. I wasn’t going anywhere. I saw working out as a way for me to build calluses on my mind. I had a callous over the victim’s mentality. So I watched these movies. I talked about Rocky last time I was on here. I always equated training to mental toughening. Like it always looked brutal. People waking up early and doing all these things. It looked horrible. I was like, wow, I got to start doing that.

Not to get better, bigger, and stronger, but that is what’s going to build me. That looks uncomfortable. That looks brutal.

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to heighten your sense of awareness and focus. Like for me, anger was good. Anger was good because it was motivating. The more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go on and kill those guys. Now I knew I wasn’t gonna kill them physically, but man, if I could just, what did they say? What did they look like? Do they disrespect me at all? Did that asshole say something? Like those are little, little, little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran on the field and I said, let’s go, it was really, let’s go kick some ass.

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If you want to be really great at something, you kind of have to be out of your f***ing mind, but you also have to have an iron will.

You don’t want to work out every day.

There’s going to be days you just want to eat cake and sleep. But if you want to get past the guy who eats cake and sleeps,

you don’t eat cake and you don’t sleep.

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If you want to be really great at something, you kind of have to be out of your f***ing mind, but you also have to have an iron will.

You don’t want to work out every day.

There’s going to be days you just want to eat cake and sleep. But if you want to get past the guy who eats cake and sleeps,

you don’t eat cake and you don’t sleep.

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The direction can change overnight. The destination slowly. It’s like a big cruise trip guys. It’s a cruise ship Meaning you’re sitting there. Imagine your life right now Is a big fucking carnival cruise, which you probably don’t want to be on right now Because they fucking sink and the shitters go up and everything else but imagine a carnival cruise, right? That’s society’s life. Big old fucking cruise ship out at sea just chugging away. for that motherfucker to turn left, It is like it is forever

To turn. it takes forever for that big vessel to turn. We aren’t society, man. We aren’t that big ship of life, We’re a fucking speedboat. Don’t look for a free ride on a fucking big boat. Be a speedboat, Because in a speedboat not only can you go faster than a big vessel, but you can turn on a dime, You can run circles around that bitch, You can recreate the route to success. Don’t follow the herds, guys.

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You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life. Okay? Now throw a jab in the jaw. All right, one to the gut. Now, every time he punches this guy, what’s he doing?

Staring him back at me. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it, or get out of the way. So…

I’m gonna leave you two alone for a while. Good luck.

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You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life. Okay? Now throw a jab in the jaw. All right, one to the gut. Now, every time he punches this guy, what’s he doing?

Staring him back at me. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it, or get out of the way. So…

I’m gonna leave you two alone for a while. Good luck.

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Getting up early. I don’t want to do that. So I made this long list of things. I don’t want to do and Through that I found myself. I started like I’m like you guys aren’t doing the shit in high school You guys are getting about five o’clock in the morning running over here in this golf course So I started seeing myself very differently than the average human being. I was like, hey, hold a second I have something they don’t have and that’s not started to develop these things through working out. It was this great, Never ending work ethic, and through work ethic I developed self-esteem.

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You know, the Mamba mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself. That’s what the mentality means. It means every day, you know, you’re trying to become better. And it’s a constant quest. It’s an infinite quest. So starting at the age of two, when I first started playing the game and on and on and on, I always ask questions. I always try to get better every single day.

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You could either do the work today to become your highest version tomorrow, or tomorrow you can feel a lifelong of regret. That’s a given. The people who know that they were meant for more and didn’t go for more end up with a lifelong state of regret. And the reason for that is, is because they didn’t want to hurt the people around them. Didn’t want to hurt family members. Didn’t want to feel like they’re missing out on birthdays and weddings and funerals. But instead, they gave in to the life of average just so they can blend in and not stand out. And years later,

they regret not doing the things that they could have done to become a winner.

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they regret not doing the things that they could have done to become a winner.

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There is no get out of jail free card. This is why I say stay hard. Because when you weren’t given the gifts, the only thing you can do in life is stay hard. And I know people cannot stand me. They can’t stand this talk. This is all you can do. There’s no magic pill or a magic potion. All you can do is outwork the man that God created, or woman, in you. And what that looks like is unfun. That’s why I said do not do a documentary on me. Because people will not see the truth. They will see what they want to see. I don’t want to live like that. Good, good.

And you will live exactly the way you live now.

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And you will live exactly the way you live now.

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I just eliminate all external distractions, you know That’s what’s going on and just focus on the process itself and enjoying it every single day chopping wood carrying water You know greatness is not meant for a few chosen people It’s meant for those who persistently pursue their dreams every day and make that choice when they wake up. So Just a mentality really as much as I would Love to be up here and tell you guys all of what I’m thinking I just know that the process itself is something I need to focus on rather than trying to appease anybody in here You know,

the game itself is the most important thing. It’s the object to win. So

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And I’m going to tell you right now, it won’t be easy. It will be hard because life is hard. That’s what life is.

And these challenges, these challenges that you face, they’re going to do their best to take you down.

Do not let them.

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And I’m going to tell you right now, it won’t be easy. It will be hard because life is hard. That’s what life is.

And these challenges, these challenges that you face, they’re going to do their best to take you down.

Do not let them.

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If you think about somebody who’s omnipotent, so if God or the God figure would be omnipotent as he thinks things are, so there’s zero space between thoughts and reality. And so if we want to be more God-like in our lives, the distance that we can shrink between wanting to do something or thinking something should be done and it being done is a direct indication of our personal power in our lives. And so that has helped me basically think, don’t be a powerless bitch.

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I watched a lot of movies and I was really big into visualization and I always equated working out to struggle and I struggled my whole life but I ran from it. So I started realizing that I gotta start facing the struggle and I gotta be mentally strong for the struggle So that’s why I started coming up with like I’m training for life Mentally, I’m training for life. I’m not training for like To lift 400 pounds. and I found out on my own pretty much is that through this, through through discipline, through self-discipline, through repetition, Through tons of repetition,

the same thing that you don’t want to do, That’s it. That’s the key thing through repetition the things you don’t want to do you develop mental like Like an armor for your mind start to armor your mind. Okay, we suffer we suffer every day It’s what we do. We do stuff that sucks every day. So then when the suck stuff comes, You’re ready for it, and that’s how I started coming up. you know, I just started being very uncomfortable. now It’s like a, just a way of life.

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I’m telling you right now, man, as a winner, 80% of the time, you’re gonna feel like you’re failing. 15% of the time, you’re gonna feel like you just tread in water. You just got your nose above the water line. 4% of the time, you feel like it’s fucking over. This is it, I’m about to tap out, but you don’t because that 1% of the time, my friend, that 1% of the time is when you know you’re winning and you go, I’m gonna take these 1%ers, I’m gonna stack them and stack them and stack them and stack them. And you know what happens when you stack, winning over years and decades?

You become a fucking formidable force to be reckoned with. And that’s what I want for you.

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So the idea that working hard doesn’t make progress is one of the biggest farces that exists in humanity because at the end of the day, whatever you amount to isn’t going to matter anyways, right? And so if there is anything that’s eternal for us, at least as individuals, it’s going to be who we become in the process. And so one of my favorite quotes is, the work works on you more than you work on it. And so if you want to be the best in the world at something, you do the work to become the best in the world and the work works on you.

And so, I mean, there’s a biblical proverb, I think it says, there is profit in all labor. And that means that even if the thing that you’re working on right now doesn’t amount to the outcome that you expected that it would, it doesn’t mean that you don’t become better through doing it.

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I find it at times,

but what happens is I then figure out how to get around it, through it, above it,

climb over it.

So those limits, I’m always,

that’s what I said, I taught myself how to fail.

I’m always skirting on that like limit of like, hey, I’m there, I’m there, I’m there, I’m there, okay, I failed.

But I was right there.

What did I miss? What the fuck did I miss? Oh, that’s what I fucking missed.

And then it happens.

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Keep it up man. I just got to keep it up and stay consistent in terms of just being prepared for when he’s gonna pass and Getting used to his flow in the game and not necessarily just waiting for Luca to give me the ball, but also going to get it myself and initiating our offense and Doing the little things to put my teammates in the best position, just like Luke has been doing. so It has been adjustment and again, it’s one game, but it’s exciting when you come out, come here after a win and Talk about the successful things you did and what we can learn moving forward.

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When you say I’m tired, I’m going to keep going. Remember your why. Remember why you play football. Them kids don’t think they got cancer. Do you think they give up? They over there fighting. They came out here to see us. They fight like every day. Look at everybody else. Look at your perspectives around you. Look at the people around you. They got problems too. Keep going.

Tomorrow, let’s go. Don’t give a f*** we got pads or not. I don’t give a f***. I want y’all to give everything you got. Everything.

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stand up, dig in, line up those problems and confront them, face them, fight them. Do not let them bring you down. In fact, in fact, let those challenges raise you up. Let them elevate you. Let their demands and their trials make you stronger.

Let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow.

So, so in the future, you look back at these struggles and you say to them, thank you. You made me better.

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questioning who you are, wondering what is possible, wondering what you are capable of doing. That’s how that looks. Or you can be me, which, am I happy? I don’t know, never really thought about it. Don’t really care about it. Because all I really cared about was when I looked in that fucking mirror, I saw a piece of shit. Happiness wasn’t on the mirror at 16. Or when I was doing Japan, it wasn’t like, oh my, I’m looking for happiness. No, I’m looking, looking at myself in the mirror, and I said, all right, motherfucker, you did it again today. You’re a bad boy, because that shit just sucks.

I have about a couple minutes of that, when I got the carrot. Second I lay down and go to bed, the carrot’s gone, because I’m waking up all through the night to check the work I did that day. Did I get this drug right? Did I get this right? Did I get that right? What did I do? Oh my God, fuck, I’m already losing it. It’s a stick.

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My first question was, okay, what are you willing to give up? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to forgo? Because a lot of people like this guy can in one time I was a trainer and he goes, man, I can stop doing anything but my Frappuccinos. I go fucking leave because I’m looking for that person like me. People, people, it’s hard for people to understand how I lost her and six pounds in less than three months. I sat down at a table and I said to myself, what are you willing to give up? Everything. And when people come to me with that kind of mindset, I can work with you.

When you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything, that’s who I want to work with.

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I want you to be a formidable force to be reckoned with. But that means going from average to figuring out what you wanna do as a passion and then bypassing your passion and making it your obsession where everybody around you thinks you’re crazy. But then when you meet people like me and all the other people that I hang out with, you’re gonna go, holy fuck, I’m wired just like them. We’re not so crazy after all. They’re the crazy ones. They’re the losers. They’re average. They’re in debt. They’re broke. They have a negative mindset.

They are emotionally irrational, absolutely mentally distressed. One paycheck, two paychecks away from being broke. A horrible example of what a man should be. A horrible example of a husband, of a father, of a leader. That’s what average people are. That’s what the average man is. A walking cautionary tale. But a winner, a winner is obsessed on his goals and he’ll do whatever it takes no matter the circumstances.

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In fact, it means the opposite. It means it’s time for you to fight harder, to dig in. Means it’s time for you to go on the war path.

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Winner knows that he’s destined for greatness and no matter how many people around him tell him to slow down be careful Watch out. That’s too risky. you don’t have the genetics, the DNA, the money, the mind, the brainpower for that. a Winner locks on to their fucking goals and keeps going. That’s what the winner does and throughout that process of going, whether you’re building a business or building a family, You’re building your body, your, whatever it is that you’re doing. You.

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Everybody’s great when they’re not tired.

The champions is when they’re tired,

that’s when the real champions come out. That’s when a real dog come out.

Cause if you go like a puppy,

stay on the porch and let the big dogs eat.

Let them all get filled.

Have some heart.

I get emotional about this. I’m about to cry cause I care about y’all.

Last year wasn’t it.

Last year, you got me angry.

For this year,

I’m trying to be better for y’all.

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I worked myself so hard that I turned a person this f***ed up into this mother f***er right here. Not off of reading a f***ing book off a theorist, off of going to work on myself and saying, I don’t know how to do this, but I know that to get over there to that f***ing side, I gotta grind myself into a f***ing fine powder. And I did it.

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You’ve got one at bat, please do something about it.

We are living through the greatest era to be alive ever.

Yes, there’s stuff.

I got news for you.

There’s always stuff.

But when you take control of your at bat,

when you put it all on yourself,

when it’s your fault and your wins,

when you own it,

that’s when it starts happening.

So please, please squeeze the shit out of your one life.

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You are the general that is in charge of your life. In charge of the war, the war of your life. Some people talk about being the CEO of your life. I’m telling you, you are the general of your life because it’s a war, it’s a war going on.

The battle that’s going on in your life to be stronger and smarter and faster and better. So that means as the general, you’re the one who decides what you do and how you’re gonna do it. You come up with a strategy. It’s on you. You create the tactics. You, as the general in charge, you make the plan and you give the orders to the troops.

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being honest with where you stand and how you feel, it’s really giving another person an option and opportunity to be as honest with you. And whatever your fear of that is, of that outcome, is never really as big as what you make it up to be. You know, it’s really not that small. It’s not promised to anyone. But time will move on. You know, you will move past it. And if it tomorrow never come, at least you can know that you said what you needed to say.

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What if we really realize it’s all a gift? Even the problems, even the pain, even the car accidents, even the hurts, even the relationships that didn’t work out, even the jobs or businesses that had challenges.

What if we’re even grateful for the fear that struck us because we at least felt fully, or the faith that guided us beyond the fear? Keep going. Or the joy that’s available any moment you’re grateful.

What if tears flow, but they’re tears of grace? Just thankful for it all. What if inside your soul, your soul knew the truth from this day forward? If you ever forgot, your soul speaks up and reminds you, life’s not happening to you, baby. It’s always been happening for you.

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with repetition and emotion and consistency, initially it’s hard and you have to use conscious effort to create the new beliefs. He says, but over 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 180 days, that new pattern that you’re focusing on and paying attention to, your brain basically says, well, I guess you really don’t need those old patterns. You keep activating these new ones. Let’s just make these ones work and let’s make these real.

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It’s always the feeling when you’re getting ready to, you know,

people give up right before they get what they’ve always wanted to get.

People quit and they give up.

That’s your moment. That’s your moment when you’re feeling the most trapped and down and nothing can go right.

I feel like those are the moments that define you.

Just hold on.

Just endure.

Endure.

You know, look at things differently.

Challenge yourself to look at things as the glass half full.

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See with your eyes, you’ll see things. See with your mind, you’ll see answers. Put your eyes and your mind to work.

And the best advice on developing sight and insight is pay attention. Don’t miss anything.

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Your life is not your life. The life you experience is the life you focus on. If you’re focused on what’s screwed up in your life, you have a screwed up life. If you focus on stuff that you’re grateful for, you have an extraordinary life. What’s wrong is always available. You can always find what’s wrong. So is what’s right. So it’s a matter of focus. Because whatever you focus on, it’ll be real to you even if it’s not real.

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The latest research in neuroscience says you can change your brain just by thinking. So then as you begin to think about a new possibility and your brain begins to fire in new sequences and new patterns and new combinations and you begin to plan your behaviors and you begin to review in your mind mentally rehearse who you’re going to be in your life, the mere action of mental rehearsal begins to install the neurological circuits in your brain. And now your brain is no longer a record of the past. Now it’s in fact a map to the future.

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There’s so much knowledge out there, so much information, so many ways to get better.

And we make so many mistakes. We’re the product of our mistakes. And oftentimes the lesson is sitting there right in front of our face. It’s there to be learned, but we miss it or we don’t pay attention to it, or we think we know better,

until it punches us in the face. And the most important thing to learn is that we have so much to learn. We all do. And we can learn from school and from people and from experience and we learn from life.

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Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation of everything great.

People should learn from my mistakes as well, not only my successes. That’s the beauty of living a life. I’m not a perfect guy. You can take whatever out of it that you choose that applies to you. Some things that I’ve done will not apply to you. And I may, by the grace of God and whatever angels that I had over my shoulders, I made it through. You may not make it through that same hole.

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And there were times where I sort of looked at my life and thinking, well, I can’t do this and I can’t do that. And you keep on concentrating on the things that you wish you had or the things that you wish you didn’t have. And you sort of forget what you do have.

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it’s okay to fail, because you’re going to be loved no matter what. And that doesn’t just mean basketball, it means anything in life. It means writing, it means being an entrepreneur, it means having the confidence to go for it.

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If you want to take your business to the next level, you have to stop doing what everybody else is doing. You have to stop doing what’s comfortable. You have to stop doing what’s convenient. And you got to find difficult. And you got to wake up every day and do difficult until you master it. And once you master difficult, you separate yourself from everybody else.

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Don’t matter that you’re broke, as long as you hadn’t quit. So like you can’t break me. That means I can take a lot of risks, because I’m not worried about going broke, because I can’t be broken. I have my spirituality, I have my creativity, I have my persistence, I got courage. Like there ain’t no breaking me, man. Shit, I’m a dangerous man. I’m a dangerous beast.

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Are you being busy being busy? Have you lost that connection to the life you wanted to live when you were a little kid? Are you so busy stringing your instrument that the song that your life was meant to sing has died or is dormant within you? My challenge to you is simply this, to do whatever it takes before you sleep tonight to reconnect with the best within you that you may have lost. Because one of the things I’ve noticed is this, there are too many amongst us walking the planet today who are sort of in a waking sleep. They have lost a sense of who they truly are.

And your life will never work if there’s a huge space between who you truly are and the person you know you’re meant to be. Your life will never be flooded with energy, creativity, productivity and happiness if there is a large space between your life right now and your unlived life.

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Ultimately everybody’s purpose is to serve the evolutionary impulse of the universe. But along the way it could be how do you express your unique skills or talents? What would you do if you had all the money and all the time in the world? Would you feel joyful doing it? Would it bring about joy to others? Would it improve the quality of life? Then that would be a purpose.

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Don’t you guys want to be around more people that are spontaneous?

Spontaneity. Have an idea. Do it. Don’t have an idea and think. Have an idea. Move as fast as you can. Or you move and say yes or you move and say no. Don’t be in maybe. Get out of maybe. Maybe is killing you.

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Most of us have never been in the concentration camp experience. We’ve never had to go through that horror and tragedy. And so one would think that today, it would be easier to find meaning in life. And yet, I sense that it’s more difficult in a sense today than it was in years past.

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Why is it that we talk so much about passion and purpose?

It’s because they have such incredible benefits in our life.

Everything from health and wellbeing benefits to making us better partners and communicators to helping us be more successful in the workplace. Passion and purpose are interlinked with how we perform,

how we behave, how we talk, communicate,

and most importantly,

how we feel about ourselves,

how we feel at the end of the day,

and how we feel about what we achieve and create in our lives.

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Failure is a bullshit code for you quit. Don’t be a quitter, bitch.

Don’t be a quitter. Because if you quit, you will fail. When you hear somebody walk up here and talk about their success, you need to unload on the audience. If he can get it and she can get it, I can get it. I’m telling you, you guys got to figure out how to quit worrying about your damn refrigerator. And your kids’ shoes. Money matters. It gives you options. You can move around a little bit and say, shit, I want to put $10,000 every month. I want $10,000 going to a charity. You got to have money. You don’t have to have money to make money. You need courage and commitment to get money.

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It’s good that you have really high standards, but you have to understand it’s called self-discipline for a reason, meaning It’s about you. You don’t get to enforce that on other people. This is why Marcus Aurelius talks about being strict with yourself Tolerant with others. Cato says: I can forgive anyone’s errors, but my own.

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You have to find a dream that’s so big that it overwhelms all of your fears and causes you to never give up.

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Nothing is permanent but change. Write it down. Nothing is permanent but change. So, there’s somebody in this room you failed a test and you’re acting like it’s permanent. You broke right now. I’m talking to somebody today like I’m 25 years old, I don’t have no money, baby. I said, okay, and? Did you just hear what I said? I said, what did you just say? I’m broke, I’m about to get evicted from my house, I don’t have anything. I said, okay, and? Like, talk to me, like, you’re talking like it’s the end of the world. What are you saying? I’m broke. Bro, let’s do this.

Don’t focus on the fact that you broke. Focus on the fact that nothing is permanent.

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We got to change what we focus on from the question of what do I have to do to what’s my outcome? What do I want? What’s most important to me? What’s the result? I’m committed to getting that one change will change completely how you respond in your life, because it’ll change you from focusing where everyone’s demanding your attention or What you’re afraid of or might give you pleasure in the moment, to what’s most important to you.

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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. Because you need to have a hierarchy of improvement. You need to be aiming for something. And that means you’re going to be lesser than people who’ve already attained along that dimension. So the question is, who should you defeat in the final analysis? And the answer is, you should defeat your former self. You should be constantly trying to do that. And you’re the right control for yourself too, because you’re the one who’s had all your advantages and disadvantages.

And so if you want to compete fairly with someone, then you should be competing with you. If you’re improving yourself, then what you are doing is competing with your lesser self.

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Gratitude erases negativity. I’m gonna show you how this works. If you wake up in the morning, you start having negative thoughts. Man, this ain’t my day. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I’m tripping, I just don’t feel myself. Every time you feel, in the middle of the day, if you feel yourself doing that, stop. Just stop for a second. And start going over in your mind everything you have to be grateful for. Not everything you want. Everything you already have. Because what you have is substantial.

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the definition of discipline, at least the one I found, was it’s the suppression of base desires and is usually understood to be synonymous with restraint and self-control. For me, for me, discipline means forcing yourself to do something that you don’t necessarily wanna do.

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Your imagination took you way off into time and space, and you see, that’s where I want to go. You’ve created what you wanted in your mind. Don’t ever let it go. That is a frequency. You got to get there. You got to live there.

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forcing yourself to do the things that you don’t want to do that you know are the right things to do. To me, that’s what discipline really means.

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Negativity you can protect yourself from negativity and that’s what stops most people negative thoughts You can coat your mind from negativity. It’s a real simple exercise to do I do it every morning before I walk out the door. So I walk out as a positive person. You know I get tired sometimes. That’s different from being negative, Because I get mentally drained from my job at time. But to coach your mind from negativity, the way you can put a coating around your mind is with one simple thing: gratitude.

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For me, when I think about discipline, it’s that my mental status when I talk to myself is always apologetic and understanding of things out of my control. My core discipline is, I wanted this to be the case. It snowed. Mother Nature said, go fuck yourself. I said, thank you, Mother Nature. And when we got in at 3 a.m., I’m not gonna wake up at 6 a.m. and work out because I’m tired and it’s okay and I’ll pick it back up tomorrow. And that’s that.

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Focus equals feeling. Focus equals feeling. Whatever you focus on, you’re gonna feel even if it’s not true. So guess what? It doesn’t matter what’s true. The minute you focus on something, that’s what’s true for you. It’s like focus equals reality for the individual, even though it’s not reality in actuality. So learning to control our focus is the second skill that will change your whole life. If you wanna feel the way you wanna feel, you gotta learn what to focus on.

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Run as hard as you can. Same thing with a swim. What do you do? Swim as hard as you can. Same thing with the obstacle course. The motivation won’t be there. Three and a half miles into a four mile time run, you’re dying, you feel like you’re gonna die. What do you gotta do? You gotta have the discipline to keep pushing. Otherwise you’re not gonna make the time.

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If the payoff is big enough, meaningful, significant, game-changing, this is why people give up on their goals. They give up on their goals because they’re not meaningful, they’re not significant, there’s no life-changing result.

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Stop calling yourselves not-for-profit and start calling yourselves for-impact organizations.

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As long as you love it, you have to keep going. You cannot quit. Maybe one day somebody does throw you a bunch of money and you can stop sleeping in your office. Or maybe it’s just a slow grind up and it takes you 10 years to become an overnight success. You’ll never know how long it will take you to be successful, but what you do know is that if you quit on something that you love, you will end up regretting it for the rest of your life.

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You will not respect yourself until you follow through until something is done. Come hell or high water, tears and struggles and pain, and you go through it anyway, and you show up and you continue to fight on no matter the circumstances. After a while, something begins to wither inside of you.

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it doesn’t matter what your social status is, it doesn’t matter how people perceive you, when it comes down to how long can you stay in that pool, when it comes down to how far can you run, when it comes down to how much can you push yourself past the part where you want to quit, how far can you keep going, there’s a purity in that, it dissolves social order, all that bullshit, all the what people think about you goes out the window, it’s what, who are you right now?

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you have to learn how to fail. Because, I’m gonna explain this to you. I had big dreams. A lot of us have big dreams, big goals. And when you have goals that are maybe outside your reach, you have to know that getting to that goal, you’re gonna have a lot of bad days.

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You have the power to do more than you can ever begin to imagine. Don’t underestimate yourself. You don’t know enough about yourself to become a cynic, and so you’ve got to challenge yourself to access that power that you have within you. You’re more than a conqueror.

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Education is inoculation against disruption. The world belongs to learners. As you know more, you can achieve more. As you invest, I’ll put it to you this way, to double your income, triple your rate of learning. So that final 20, read eBooks, listen to audio books, watch TED Talks, watch inspirational videos or training videos, you know, pull out a hard copy of a book and study it and read it because as you know more, you can literally start to see around corners.

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And I had one of the greatest lessons I ever learned and I’m about to share it with you. This will be worth the price of being here today if you can capture what I’m about to share with you. Here’s what Mr. Shove said. Set a goal to become a millionaire. And he said, here’s why. For what it will make of you to achieve it. And I got one of the greatest classes in one sentence I’ve ever received in my life. Set a goal that will make you stretch that far. For what it will make of you to achieve it. What a brand new reason for setting goals. And here’s why.

The greatest value in life is not what you get. The greatest value in life is what you become.

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If you show up for work on time and stay there until the appointed departure time, if you do what they pay you to do and then they pay you, then nobody owes anybody anything. Now, if you want a raise, get there a few minutes early. Ask for extra things to do. Be cheerful and positive and optimistic and helpful. Don’t goof off and try to get out of work. Deliberately. seek the boss to find extra work and then I will absolutely guarantee you a raise in short order.

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But if you ask people, why didn’t you achieve something? Somebody who’s working for you, or a partner, or even yourself, and you fail to achieve a goal, what’s the reason people say they failed to achieve? What do they tell you? Tell me, come on out loud. Don’t have the, didn’t know enough, didn’t have the knowledge, didn’t have the money, didn’t have the time, didn’t have the technology. They are a claim to you missing resources. And they may be accurate. You may not have the money, you may not have the Supreme Court, but that is not the defining factor.

And you correct me if I’m wrong. The defining factor is never resources, it’s resourcefulness. And what I mean specifically, rather than just some phrase, is if you have emotion, human emotion, something that I experienced from you day before yesterday at a level that is as profound as I’ve ever experienced, and if you’d communicated with that emotion, I believe you would have won.

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You made this much money, get back to work. It’s time to get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk, get off the podcast, don’t be on social media too much, cut out all the noise, get back to the mental lab.

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When you get scared and you have fear, everyone say fear. Fear. F-E-A-R, false evidence appearing real. It’s amazing when you actually don’t see the full picture, you come to these fearful conclusions of what you really should then hope for or not hope for. But when you have faith, F-A-I-T-H, full assurance in the heart, no matter what you see, you can still believe in something. And that’s where hope comes in.

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If there’s an opportunity, if there’s something I know is valuable, even though I feel I can do it, grab it by the hair right now. Do something with it right now to push yourself forward.

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The first one is, it’s not about you, it’s not about me, it’s about the big picture. The second one, growth is expected. It’s not an option. You got to keep growing to keep going. Number three, value people. Truly love, value people. In fact, when you stop loving people, valuing people, stop leading them. Number four, be responsible every time. Take ownership of that which you’ve been given. And the fifth one I’m giving to you right now is, I love this because it’s so good to clear the air in the beginning. I look at you and I say, number five, there will be tough conversations.

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There is no one like you. There has never been anyone like you. There shall never be anyone like you. Therefore, know yourself. Be yourself. Authenticity is everything.

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Even the richest, most successful person in the world, they have something that they’re lacking. It may not be money, but they may be lacking in health. They may be lacking in connections. They may be lacking in a specific resource. Your goal is to position yourself in that situation to supply that need and come in as what? The irreplaceable, most experienced, in-demand person. Not just to make money, but to capture the opportunity.

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If you want revenge for the bad things that have happened in your life, start with the version of you that hasn’t lived up to your potential.

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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to school here. And ever since I was a kid, everyone said it couldn’t be done.

My whole life,

people have been telling me what I could do and couldn’t do. I’ve always listened to them, believed in what they said.

I don’t want to do that at all.

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act like the person you want to become. That’s not fake until you make it, by the way. This is intentional. Intentionally act like the person you want to become. Because when you intentionally act like the person you want to become, your brain sees you taking those actions, so your brain starts to change the way it relates to you.

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How many questions? The same thing. Put out content, put out a great product, test things, try it all, use data, use your intuition, test and learn, test and learn, test and learn. And this just insane lack of patience and lack of understanding that takes actual skills to actually win is frustrating at times.

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Take a step back right now and think about who we all admire.

They’re all people that punted the system.

They’re people that practice singing since they were five.

They’re people that shot 10,000

basketballs every morning. It’s always that.

Anything meaningful and good takes real time and effort.

You have to work for it.

Please recognize the world we’re living in.

The world is abundant.

If you’re good enough, you can get yours too.

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curse of competence. If you’re good at things and have high standards, you assume that you should always do well, which means that success isn’t a cause for celebration, but it’s the minimum level of reasonable performance. Anything less than victory would be a failure and victory itself becomes nothing more than acceptable. Congratulations. You might be very successful. You also might be very miserable.

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You have all these voices that are telling you you’re fucked up and this is gonna be hard, but for some reason you put so much practice into you that you can ignore every one of them that are telling you you’re not gonna fucking make it and still be able to fucking make it because you have put the practice in that you know this is the process. It’s such a daunting task that all the voices are saying no, but you still have the conviction that I know I can do this. And that’s what it took for me to get here. When you put that practice in every day you lace them up, and I don’t mean run,

it’s just a metaphor for life. When you lace them motherfuckers up every day pretty soon you win. You have the courage and the heart and the dedication and the mindset about everybody can go fuck themselves. I know what I know. I’ve listened to myself enough to know I know what I know. None of you can hear what I’m hearing and that’s what people don’t do enough of. They don’t listen to their journey. They listen to everybody else’s shit. You’re not looking at the truth in front of you. The truth in front of you is it sucks.

This is what it takes, creating another voice and sometimes going at it alone.

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Your brain knows exactly what a high five is, just like everybody’s brain knows exactly what this is. You don’t even have to say a word because all of the positive programming is already hardwired into your basal ganglia and the physical action alone triggers it. You know, you’ve never high-fived somebody and thought, I hate you, you suck, you’ve blown your life, I hope you lose the game, fuck off. You’ve never ever done it.

It is neurologically impossible to stand in front of the mirror and actually think something negative as your hand is reaching the mirror because your brain’s not programmed to do that. So when you high-five somebody, what does the high five communicate?

Well done, acceptance, congratulations, you did it, you can do it, let’s do it.

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Why do I start with myself? The reason you start with yourself is because you cannot give what you do not have.

So you better start with yourself. Because if you’re leading others and have nothing to give them, nothing to share with them, nothing to teach them, then I can promise you, you’ll never be what you want to be as a leader.

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If you try to remember, you will lose. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water, my friend.

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You don’t get discipline from your parents.

You don’t get discipline from your parents, from your grandparents, from your older brothers and sisters. You don’t get discipline from an external source.

You have to get it from you. That’s what self-discipline is you get it from yourself. You get it from you.

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P-H-C-C, what does it stand for, what does it mean, and how does it affect you? P stands for patience. Way too many people in this space are not patient. Everybody’s like, why isn’t it happening? I’ve been doing this for six months. Are you kidding me? You’re building a business. The next point is H, hustle. You’ve heard me talk about hustle 2.0. It goes back. You’ve got to work your face off. That’s the bottom line, folks. You’ve gotta work really hard, and you’ve gotta continue to commit to your product. Hustle for your monetization. Nothing’s gonna come to you.

Don’t act and let somebody else do it for you. You need to hustle for yourself, especially in the beginning phases. And finally, C and C, and that is content. If there wasn’t substance, nobody would care. You have a little substance, people are gonna respect it. So you’ve gotta make sure you have that content down. You need to know your stuff. Don’t go to a space you don’t understand because the trend is going there. That’s some bull crap. Do what you know.

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The point is, the story continues. The story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it’s a failure on Monday is if you decide to not progress from that. Right? So to me, that’s why failure is not existent. Because if I fail today, okay, I’m gonna learn something from that failure and I’m gonna try again on Tuesday.

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My father just gave me a hug and said, listen, whether you score zero or score 60, I’m going to love you no matter what. That is the most important thing that you can say to a child. Because from there, I was like, OK, that gives me all the confidence in the world to fail. There’s a quote from one of my English teachers at Lower Merion named Mr. Fisk. Rest at the end, not in the middle. And that’s something I always live by. When you’re in this culture in our society, you can do some phenomenal things individually, but they’ll never reach their full potential unless you do them collectively.

The spirit of your team must be good, because at that moment is when teams fracture. If the energy amongst each other isn’t there, that trust isn’t there, you’re done. Nothing in this world moves without story. And if we’re going to try to make the world a better place, story’s the right place to start.

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With every obstacle, I look at it as friction now. Without friction, there is no growth. You have to have friction in your life to grow. So I started looking at all these different things versus the what was me mentality, like oh my God, look at my life, my life’s so fucked up. I come from this fucked up family. I’m being beaten, I’m being abused mentally, physically. I started looking at it as the perfect trial ground. So I had to flip it upside down and say, okay, I’m suffering tremendously, mentally. Use this to your advantage versus your disadvantage.

So that’s what I did versus looking at it as like, oh my God, what was me? I’m never gonna get out of here. I looked at it as, okay, hang on a second. Hang on a second. If I can overcome this, if I can find some power in this, some way to get through this, that right there will be the fuel for the rest of my life.

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Thinking your way, feeling your way, working your way through those things. On the other side, it’s like, you know, I don’t know who said the saying, but like usually, you know, you’re the closest to getting what you want is always the hardest. It’s always the feeling when you’re getting ready to, you know, people give up right before they get what they’ve always wanted to get. People quit and they give up. And I will not be the person who quit before I got what I wanted or what I needed or what I felt I was supposed to have, you know? And if that wasn’t for me, it wasn’t for me.

I’ma keep grinding. I’ma keep knocking on the door until I get what I feel. That’s been something I’ve always felt.

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You don’t have to suffer. Pain is part of life. Suffering is a choice. But we suffer when we make up meanings that make it worse than it is to make ourself feel good. Be the master of meaning, and you’re the master of your life. And to be a master of meaning, you must find the empowering meaning, not the disempowering one.

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you want to create a new life, a new personal reality, you got to change your personality, which means you better start thinking about what you’ve been thinking about and changing it. You begin to become conscious of your unconscious actions or habits or behaviors and modify them. And then we have to begin to look at the emotions that we live by every single day that keep us connected to the past and decide do these emotions belong in our future? So most people are trying to create a new personal reality as the same personality and it doesn’t work.

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Your greatest enemy isn’t the one standing in front of you. It’s the one staring back at you in the mirror. The one who knows every move before you make it. The one who can defeat you with a single thought. You know who I’m talking about, don’t you? That voice in your head right now. The one telling you you’re not good enough.

Not ready enough. Not strong enough.

That’s your opponent.

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I believe and I learned very young that you don’t try to build a wall. You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say, I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built. You don’t start there. You say, I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. And you do that every single day. And soon you have a wall. And soon you have a wall.

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You have to know what matters to you. You have to know what you truly care about. Like what is your true north in life? The question I often ask people is what does your ideal day look like at age 80? Truly visualize and imagine what your ideal day looks like as an 80 year old. Who are you with? What are you doing? What are you thinking about? How do you feel? And then think are you actually taking actions today to create that future? Because what happens is most people will say: my ideal day is sitting with people.

I love feeling healthy of body and mind thinking about things that I care about friends coming over and then you ask them what they’re doing on a daily basis and they’re basically chasing they’re chasing money. They’re drinking their partying things that actually are not leading to that end that they say they want. It’s like the adage of don’t tell me your priorities. Show me your calendar. Like are your actions actually creating the future that you are trying to create? Yes or no and be honest with yourself, but those things that we want are remarkably similar,

but our ability to take actions on them in the present is very different.

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For the first time, I truly saw myself. Behind all that speed, behind all that power, I saw something that stopped me cold. Fear. Fear of not being good enough. Fear of failing those who believed in me. Fear of my own limitations. You feel it too, don’t you? That constant pressure to prove yourself. In your job, in your relationships, in every mirror you pass. Society tells you to be stronger, faster, better. But in chasing what you think you should be, you’ve forgotten who you are. I spent thousands of hours training my body.

But that night in front of the mirror taught me something no amount of physical training could. The deadliest hits don’t come from your opponents. They come from the doubts you carry within.

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how it’s so hard to see the good if you’re only seeing the bad. Like, there’s so many people that struggle with their version of successes because they’re looking at someone else’s. There’s so many people that struggle with their world of relationship because they’re judging theirs based off of someone else’s, right? And when you’re constantly in a space of not realizing or noticing your world, your reality, because you’re living in, what appears to be someone else’s, well, your shit is never gonna be right.

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Whatever the input is, you have to define what the input is that’s going to get you the output you want. Now, once you know what that input output is, the next one is why aren’t you doing it? And so, I think a lot of people are looking for something that is very hard to find. And so, and then they attribute their lack of success or lack of action because they don’t have passion or motivation.

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Create as many opportunities to find a mate. Now, what do I mean by that? Get out as often as possible, accept invitations, force yourself to go out, force yourself to meet strangers, develop the skills. Whenever you’re waiting in line at Starbucks, talk to the person in front of you, talk to the person behind you. Develop the skills to begin opening.

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A lot of us are going through a hard time in life. Some people have been bullied, some people are distressed out, some people are insecure, some people are fat and overweight, and the world puts a lot of this shit in your mind. It’s not just you. Yeah, you help it. And my whole thing is about I had to develop a mindset, a mindset that was indestructible. I had to armor plate my mind. And it’s about what you’re saying to yourself, but it also comes at work. So whenever I was getting beat down, physically, mentally, spiritually,

whatever I was going through, just saying, you know, I would put, you know, you can’t hurt me. Can’t hurt me just became a message I would say to myself.

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Listen closely, because what I’m about to share isn’t just about fighting. It’s about the war that’s been raging inside you every single day of your life. A war most people never even realize they’re losing. But I warn you, this truth is like looking into the sun. Once you see it, you can never unsee it. Are you ready to face your greatest enemy? Thanks for watching. If you like this video, please subscribe.

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If, reframing the way you’re looking at things and seeing opportunities instead of seeing punishments and instead of seeing downturns in your life, seeing opportunities, it’s just gonna have such a much better impact on the way you, where you get to.

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never allowed my fear to limit me.

I’ll figure out how to get past it.

I think the most, the thing that you should be afraid of most would probably be being alone.

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Don’t exist secret here. The secrets don’t exist exist hard work dedication be obsessed to be something something in a life and Follow their dreams. I think if you want to be a football player, or if you want to be engineering or Whatever you want to be, dedicate yourself.

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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can learn to appreciate them when they’re right. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

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I have discovered in my ministry that many times people are actually in mental anguish because they are worried to death about what other people think about them.

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Each person’s income is determined primarily by their philosophy,

not by the economy.

Once I understood that, then I said, well, I don’t have to go to work on the economy.

And the answer was no.

You only have to go to work on yourself to make yourself more valuable.

Because it doesn’t take but a few ideas to make a great difference in your income, personal life, social life,

and all the rest.

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take this to heart, that next time you’re stressed, ask yourself, is it a tragedy or an inconvenience? It’s almost never a tragedy. I failed the test, I got, you know, dented the car, I missed the bus, whatever it is, so what? And so, you know, you take a deep breath and come back to yourself and realize that most of the things that make us crazed are unnecessary. You get a lot of this as you get older, but I teach my students this early on, why wait? Why wait to recognize that you’re the one who’s almost always your worst enemy?

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until you make a decision that you no longer want to feel how you feel, or you no longer want to think the way that you think, or you no longer want to have the kind of results or no results that you have, until you make that decision that, you know what? I know I don’t feel great, I know I doubt myself, I know I’ve had a lot of bad things happen, I know there’s a lot that I regret, but damn it, with the time that I have left in my life, I really want to start to enjoy myself. I want to take better care of myself, I want to feel happy.

You don’t even have to believe you deserve it yet, you can just want it. You’ve got to start there, you’ve got to start with wanting something better for yourself. And then I personally think the most important thing is to start acting like the person who has the things that you want right now, even though you don’t feel like it.

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work hard, you know, and believe in you. I think this is the main words, not just a kid who want to be a Cristiano Ronaldo, but anything it can be, you know, work hard. I think it’s the main work and the dream, to believe in that everything is possible in life. Well, it’s dedication and hard work. This is my words, to dedicate myself 100% every time to be the position that I am today and it’s not one year, it’s 10 years, 12 years, you know, to maintain my level. It’s make me feel proud.

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I don’t end up doing things that are destructive when I’m busy doing things that are constructive. The truth is I was never a drug addict. I just had too much free time and made bad choices. This planet is filled with bad choices. Pornography, strip joints, casinos. If you were filled up all day long with activities, if you were addicted to productivity, if you were junkied out on potential, you wouldn’t have time for all the other garbage. I wouldn’t spend money on stuff I don’t need. When is that money spent? When do we waste most of our money on this planet?

During the holidays when we have free time. When do you spend your money? When do you go in debt? On the holidays, free time. So if I can just stay busy, if I can use time and create time, how do I create time? I have 24 hours and I’m like I’m a jam as much in those 24 hours as I can and then I’ll let you worry about me burning out because that’s what I’ll hear next.

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You can’t wait for nobody else to fix you. You can’t wait for nobody else to mature. You can’t wait for nobody else to get to that part in their life where they come. You can’t wait, I got great things in store for you. All I’m asking you to do is let this go so I can give you everything you’ve ever wanted. So I can put you where you always want to be. So I can put you where I ordain you to be, son. I gave you a gift, but I can’t play like you play. Humans play, I don’t play. You got to fix this. It’s something in your heart. You made up in your mind because of the way things went down.

You made up in your mind to be bitter.

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As great as you are, as skilled as you are, as talented as you are, I just want one thing from you. Never allow life to make you forget why you do what you do. People don’t burn out, people don’t quit, people don’t underachieve, people don’t settle because of what they do. People burn out, people quit, people underachieve, and people settle because life makes them forget why they do it. If we respect it the way we say we respect it, if we love it the way we say we love it, if we cherish it the way we say we cherish it, every single day should be nothing less than excellence.

You might not always be your best, but you can always bring me your best.

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There’s goals, and then there’s working to hit the goals, and then there’s the idea of love the process, But there’s the under the subscript of so that you can hit the goal, but in my opinion, it’s Just work not so that you can’t it’s just work. It’s like what do you mean? It means like working is the goal like working as hard as you can and learning how hard you can work and how well you Can work and how right you can make things and how well you can do them Even if your goal is to be the richest man in the world. Okay, let’s say that’s your goal. for how long?

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You cannot share what you don’t have. Meaning, make the investment in yourself, dedicate the time really into yourself, and make sure that you really possess something that nobody else out there in the world has it in the way how you have it. There must be something where you are confident about yourself, that you say: I have went to this type of training for so many years. I have practiced so hard. there is no second person in the world who can copy this, who can copy me. They maybe explain it in a different way, but not in my way.

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This is the most important and crucial period of your lives, for what you do now and what you decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go. And the question is whether you have a proper, a solid, and a sound blueprint.

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Self-made millionaires look into every failure for something good. They say there’s got to be something good in this that I can benefit from and surprise, surprise, they always find it. Second is self-made millionaires always seek the valuable lesson in every setback or obstacle or temporary failure and they always find the lesson. Now, what do failures do? Failures whine and cry and think about what they’ve lost and blame their problems on someone else. Successful people say, what can I learn from this that will make me smarter next time? And my promise to you, those who seek find,

is if you go looking for a valuable lesson in the biggest problem that you’re facing today, you’ll always find the lesson.

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Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be the sun, be a star. But is it by signs that you win or you fail? Be the best of whatever you are.

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For you to constantly win, win, win, when this voice over here, the real you, is saying, get the fuck out of here. Go, you’re nobody. You’ve always been nobody. And it’s true. People don’t hear that. That’s a true voice. And then you had to create another voice over here that is saying you’re better than that other voice. And you’re in the freezing cold water that both voices don’t want to fucking be in. But you win. It goes from the water, to the studying, to the running, to losing weight, to how you eat, to how you function as a man. Every day of your life, you’re winning these battles.

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Okay, if I say I can’t, it’s too hard, I’m too tired, I don’t feel good, those are the things that stop me. Okay, but what if I just start saying anything is possible, I believe in synchronicities. What if I, with my intention and attention, just really get clear on that, would that be the new voice in my head? So now, the person who’s truly present and not thinking about their shower or the emails they have to do or their cell phone or their texts or when they have to take their kids to ballet or whatever, you’re gonna get to all of that.

The person who’s truly present, if they follow the instructions, we’ve seen them have very significant changes first in their subjective experience of themselves. Like, huh, wow, my back pain isn’t there, that’s kind of weird, or, God, I slept better last night. These small indicators or feedback that tell you that whatever you’re doing inside of you is producing a result outside of you. Keep that up over a period of time and you see instrumental changes taking place in the person.

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Number one in your life’s blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. Always feel that you count, always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance. Secondly, in your life’s blueprint, you must have as a basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You’re going to be deciding as the days and the years unfold what you will do in life, what your life’s work will be.

And once you discover what, it will be set out to do it, and to do it well, you will.

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It’s a big difference between a hard worker and somebody that works hard, right? Most cats are somebody that works hard. If the situation and the circumstances is what they want it to be, they gonna come out and they gonna act accordingly and they gonna give you everything they got. But a hard worker, regardless of situation, regardless of circumstance, regardless of what happened, I’m gonna show up and I’m gonna give everything I got to her because I’m working for something that’s totally different. Right, the question becomes this.

Can you be committed to the process of what you’re doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what you’re doing?

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After you fail the likelihood that you’re successful goes up Not down. This is the part that people miss. they fail and think it somehow decreases the likelihood of success, But it actually increases it, and so it’s like you want to just get the failures out of the way. Why would you not want something that increases the likelihood of your goal? And the reason that it increases that likelihood is that failure is a requisite Probability for taking action, and so anyone who has failed has taken more action than someone who’s done nothing.

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If you are not paying attention, if you are on cruise control, then your mind is not under your own control. We can’t be in cruise control. You can’t let your mind be in cruise control. You have to be cognizant of what you’re thinking. You have to be cognizant, you have to be aware of how you are being influenced.

Because in this day and age, right now, if you aren’t careful, you can slide down the path of least resistance, the path to weakness, the path to fragility, and the path to a lack of control as to what is happening in our lives, in your life.

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We all live inside a bubble, right? This is our world. We work over here, we go get our coffee over here, we go to this park over here, we usually go over here to, you know, hang out with friends. This is our favorite club. This is our world. This is our favorite spot on the beach. We all live in this bubble. What you gotta do to get the life that God wants you to have, you gotta put more air in your bubble. You got to blow your bubble up. Expand yourself. Take yourself out your comfort zone. Do not live in your bubble. Put some more air in your bubble.

If you stay in your comfort zone, that’s where you will fail. You will fail in your comfort zone. Success is not a comfortable procedure. It is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt. So you gotta get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever wanna be successful.

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I want you to fail and I want you to get up and do it again. The same thing in life is the same thing here. If you can do this, you can do anything, anything. Right now you’re 5% away, 5% away from being a champion. Let’s go.

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People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from, there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car. There’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday. Hate it’s a Monday and I’m loving it. I’m loving that where everybody’s getting weaker. I’m getting stronger. It’s not about the running, the swimming, the pushups, the sit-ups. It’s about what those things do for your mentality. You don’t get better on the daggone couch.

You get better by coming out here and getting the fuck after it every daggone day, stay hard.

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Underneath all those outer you’s is an inner you that’s who you really are down deep. The ultimate version of you. The one where you feel the most confident and secure. Where you’re fully present and focused. That version only comes out with people you’re comfortable with and who appreciate the real you and love you for it.

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Here’s the problem with the philosophy of demand. You can’t get rich. If people only understood that you cannot get rich by demand, now someone says, well, in America, how could you become wealthy? And the answer is to develop a new philosophy. It’s called the philosophy of performance. I will perform so well, it would be embarrassing for the company not to pay me $6. Then I would perform so well it would be embarrassing for the company not to pay me $8 an hour, $10 an hour, $20 an hour. So now we’ve got several philosophies going,

and if you want to change your economic future, it starts with your personal philosophy. Okay?

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Life is easier if you don’t need anybody. And it can be a lot easier if you want nothing more than what’s in the back of the car. But that can be a solitary life. And a lot of times, being solitary can be confused with being lonely.

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The most important thing, number one, is you got to get rid of doubt. If you got doubt in what you’re doing, it’s not going to work. And the way to do that is you have a plan. Because if you got a plan, it’s not like just a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal. If you don’t have that, it’s very hard to really have faith in what you’re doing. Because as soon as something pops up, it’s going to look like the end all. But if you got a game plan of everything you need to do, one thing pops up, well I still got to do this, this, this, and that.

So this thing will stop. Another thing pops up, well shit, I accomplished these two things. I sensed my last obstacle. I only got three more things to do. Let me keep pushing. Fuck it. Pretty soon you’ve attained your goal. And then you create another one. But without a game plan, without a strong sense of faith in what you’re doing, it’s going to be real hard to accomplish anything.

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I believe, and I learned very young. From parents? From my parents, absolutely. That you don’t try to build a wall. You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say, I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built. You don’t start there. You say, I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. There will not be one brick on the face of the earth that’s going to be laid better than this brick, than I’m going to lay in this next 10 minutes. And you do that every single day. And soon you have a wall. And soon you have a wall.

And I think psychologically, the advantage that that gives me over a lot of people that I have been in competition with in different situations, is it’s difficult to take the first step when you look how big the task is. The task is never huge to me. It’s always one brick. Me too. Me too.

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So embracing the suck, it really is something that you have to tell yourself because we don’t want to embrace the suck. You know, not even me. I don’t want to embrace the suck, but it comes down to a lot, man. Like, I’m all about trying to be the best leader I can. You know, so through all these things in life, man, to be your best person, you have to find your best self. And to do that, you can’t stay in a comfortable world. You have to be very, not always uncomfortable, but you know, you got to find a spot that’s not so comfortable.

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You must ensure yourself that you’re giving it all you can today because the future we don’t know do we? We’re training for that, and when I hear people say terms like good enough, it bothers me to an nth degree because they are saying something that is justified at the moment but not quantitative until a future endeavor of life. So therefore they are passing judgment on now for a future event that they know nothing about. They’re bullshitters. Good enough if you think about it good is a positive enough is a negative that’s an oxymoron right there it’s hypocritical in its own sense.

There is nothing that’s ever good enough. the only thing that’s enough is at the end of the day the nth hour the final hour whatever you’re fucking going for that your hand is raised victoriously that’s when you know it’s enough.

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If you’re improving yourself, then what you are doing is competing with your lesser self. And then you might also ask, well, what is that lesser self? And that lesser self would be resentful and bitter and aggressive and vengeance-seeking and all of those things that go along with having a negative moral character. And those are things that interfere with your ability to progress as you move forward through life. So, it’s very necessary to understand that this is why, you know, I’ve been stressing this idea of personal responsibility.

It’s like, well, personal responsibility is to compete with yourself, is to be slightly better than yourself the next day. And it’s better in some way that you can actually manage, and that’s humility. It’s right like, well, I’m a flawed person, I’ve got all my problems. Could I be as good as person X? It’s like, not the right question. The right question is, could you be slightly better tomorrow than your currently flawed self? And the answer to that is, if you have enough humility to set the bar properly low, then you could be better tomorrow than you are today.

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I think that mental health is the most important thing in the world because the mind wants to have control over you.

You need to have control over your own mind.

So that’s all about the mental health.

Your mind’s going to always guide you in a spot that wants to make you feel comfortable and nice and secure.

And it’s in those spots that there’s no growth.

Without friction, there’s no growth.

So that’s why I constantly preach about you have to get outside that comfort zone to find that every day of your life.

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But to me, it’s whatever the moment or the situation demands. And it’s I’m a bottom lines oriented kind of person. I have an assistant. I have people who work for me. I have people who work with me. They’ll tell you I’m very bottom line kind of guy. If you tell me that the job is going to get done and the job is going to get done in an excellent fashion and it requires 90% effort, I’ll let you go with that. I’ll let you get away with that. I’m not going to sweat it. But if this requires 100% and you give me 99%, I might want to fire you. Because I’m about getting the job done.

It’s about the results. And I think that unfortunately when we look at our generation today, not enough people preach about that. Why do you think that is? Because I think that we live in a society where people have become masters at pointing the finger at other people about reasons as to reasons why things don’t get done.

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When I retired from the game, I said they’re asking kind of all the wrong questions. What’s the biggest industry I can get into? It’s all the wrong stuff. And you got to sit there and ask yourself, okay, what am I truly passionate about? What do I enjoy doing? And when you feel that way, I’m honest, I mean, you feel like you have never worked a day in your life. It’s the most fun thing in the world. You get up in the morning excited about what you’re doing. And you got to be really honest with yourself about it.

If you wake up in the morning and you’re dreading going to work, dude, do something else. Do something else. And those are hard decisions to make. But when you make those decisions, it’s a very liberating experience. And you’ll find out that the rewards will come.

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And you’re in the gym right now to ensure that that event goes your way And will never go your way. guys, if you’re saying today is good enough, If you never say good enough today, I promise you tomorrow will always be enough. Whenever good enough isn’t enough you can bet tomorrow. You’ll have enough.

I wrote this workout out, guys, last night and I’m telling you. I’m a little fearful of it. I had a little bit of a nightmare about it It’s gonna take it’s gonna take something else. It’s something that X factor added to you to push through this, But you get through this, guys. you won’t ever question the terminology of society’s weakness, of good enough. If you make it through this workout, you will have enough to ensure your endeavors are fulfilled to victorious levels.

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Judge yourself against no one but yourself. There is no there. you’re racing against no one but yourself, And when you continuously think that you, when you compare yourself to other people, You are losing the race and like this race, is you against you, man. So don’t get caught up in all this bullshit out here of the social media. and this is where I’m at. This is what I’m doing. This is how great I am- Fuck him. leave all that shit behind, man. worry about yourself, worry about what you’re doing and worry about where you’re going, and only where you’re going- To be your best self.

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If we wish to be free, we must fight. I repeat it, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that has left us. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope until our enemies shall have us bound hand and foot?

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Confidence and fear both require believing in something that hasn’t happened yet. At a certain point, you have to consider that you’re choosing to be afraid.

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I don’t know, we’ll see what happens. Just keep positive and again, keep believing, keep training. Keep trying to learn every day. Trying to learn new shit every day. That’s it. If the call comes, the call comes. Just believe. Believe in yourself. Believe that you’re better than everyone else. I always looked at… When I was always looking at fights or looking at anything, obviously I can do this. I’m as good as that. Just believe in yourself and be cocky and be confident. Be humble. Train hard. That’s it. Just believe in yourself.

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if I could work that hard every day,

with being blessed with the physical tools that I have, what would my career be? And I made a promise to myself from that day that I was gonna work that hard every single day so that when I do retire, I have no regrets. And that was the most important thing for me, is to leave no stone unturned, get better every single day. And if I lived that way, then over time, I’d have something that was beautiful. But that was my philosophy. It seems like a pretty simple one, but if you live your life to just get better every single day, and do that for 20 years, I mean, what do you have?

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Society is plagued with normality.

Second place for some fucked up reason is the ultimate place. Because it’s not too prideful, it’s yet humble, and it’s bullshit, guys. Second place is the first fucking loser. If you hit second, that’s fine if you gave it your all.

But if you every single day say good enough, good enough, good enough, and you come up second, well, you’re nothing enough.

The margins guys in life that dictates a champion, someone that’s remembered and not forgotten, the legacies of life, the role models, the one that stands, those tests of time I always talk about, , don’t know terms like good enough. It’s too fucking hard. And they failed over and over and over again so many times that they’ve learned what it takes to succeed. With failure comes success,

and with success comes blueprints of fundamental principles that lead to success.

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You know, get in the car, get to the gym, get there, and as I’m walking onto the court, who do I see? I see Kobe Bryant, already working out. I’m like, okay, that’s kind of cool. It’s Kobe. What’s up, Kobe? You know? I put my sneakers on, and do you ever get lost in what you do where you end up like, wait, it’s been an hour and a half? I’m here. I’m in it. Once I set my foot across that line, I started working out. I worked out for a good hour, hour and a half. When I came off, after I was done, I sat down, and of course, I still heard the ball bouncing.

I looked down, I’m like, this guy’s still working out? He was working out for like, it looks like he was in a dead sweat when I got here, and he’s still going. It’s not like his moves are nonchalant or lazy. He’s doing like game moves.

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If you have to ask how to get motivated to go to the gym, you don’t need to be going to the gym. You don’t want it enough. When you’re sick and tired of looking and feeling like shit, you’ll show up, motherfucker. I’ll see you there. Because you’re gonna look in the mirror and you’re gonna be like, fuck that. You’re gonna want to be in the gym. And if you’re gonna make this a lifestyle, you have to lower the barriers, make the gym cheaper, closer, training partners, exercises you like. And you have to raise the impetus, goals, inspiration, and a fucking goddamn real desire to be there.

The people that have no problem showing up to the gym are the people that want to be there. And no amount of Rocky Balboa fucking movies are gonna get you to that place. A lot of that is also built with the experience of having the gym be a place where you get results by pushing yourself, winning little mini challenges, and having fun with it.

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So you think that I’m done, that my career will soon be over.

You don’t know me. All my life I had to fight. No one believed in me, so I had to believe in myself. Some people wanted to break me, but they only made me stronger.

Others wanted to exploit me. They only made me smarter. And now you think I’m done? To all of you, I only have one thing to say.

I’m not like you, because I’m not you. And I am just warming up.

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So one form is minimal and that’s someone that’s like basically walking wounded minor injuries. You’re not gonna worry about them The next category is delayed which means they’re seriously injured But they don’t have any life-threatening injuries. Like maybe their bone is shattered. It’s their femur sticking out of their legs So they’re definitely in rough shape But artery didn’t get hit they’re bleeding but not too bad. They’re gonna be okay. and Then comes immediate, which is someone that needs Urgent treatment right now and if they get that urgent treatment they’re likely to survive. and

Finally, expectant, which

Means they are likely to die, and they are the kind of care that they’re gonna get. an expectant patient is

Basically like comfort. you know, gonna get some morphine and then we’re gonna move on to someone that we think we can save You.

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How would I know? I know that I am driven. There’s a zillion things that have happened to me in my life. I don’t know which one it is, but we create these narratives around it to believe it. And I’m bringing this kind of conceptual idea because right now many of you are creating stories that you tell yourselves to make yourself feel better about why your product isn’t as good as it should be, but you have an excuse that only you need to believe. And you believe that excuse, so it excuses you from working harder on the stuff you know you should be doing but aren’t.

And that work, the work you know you should be doing but aren’t, is the opportunity because that is the work that your competitors also aren’t doing.

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I sit there and I unlace my shoes and I’m like, I want to see how long this goes. I sit out there and watch. Another 25 minutes. He got done. I said, okay. I think I’ve seen enough. Go play. Come back. Get in the sauna. Get ready for the game. That game, he drops 40 on us. After the game is over, I’m like, I have to ask this guy. I have to understand why he works like that. After the game is over, I’m like, hey, Cole, why were you in the gym for so long? He’s like, because I saw you come in. That it doesn’t matter how hard you work, that I’m willing to work harder than you.

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See, in your life, everybody has a turn back moment. You have a moment where you can go forward or you can give up. But the thing you have to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up, the guarantee is it will never happen. That’s the guarantee of quitting. That it will never happen, no way under the sun. The only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you never give up no matter what. Because God is always coming. He’s never too late.

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Exhausted man, but good set. good set meaning, like Once in my current failures my current sick points and then help myself to push past them a little bit That’s the growth man. That’s what puts a smile on your face. where you’ve been, you know where you haven’t been exciting. That’s why the smile comes, man, Every set if you do it that way Like I say, I don’t say goodbye to the pain says hello All that saying that you left it all you had in a moment. All that can grow from that is prosperity.

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The value of values. What are values? All right, values are fundamental principles. They’re emotional and intellectual guidelines, beliefs that we have for ourselves, beliefs that we can rely on in a pinch when we’re lost, frustrated, and confused. Values govern our daily interactions. They define our expectations, not only of ourselves, but usually of what we expect others to do as well. That doesn’t always happen. By coming up on Dad’s Day, I was asking myself, what’s a value that I learned as a child that has really helped me become the man I am today and pursuing to be?

And the one that I remember the most, it was preached to me by my dad, is this, don’t half-ass it.

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I have a resume full of fucking motivation. That whenever I’m down, I’m like, oh, hang on, motherfucker. Oh, you know, you know the truth. You know the truth, you know the darkness of the fucking dungeons and the fucking demons that fly. You know, and then from there, it’s like, okay, you were there, you know this. There was no one there to pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat, to pick up the log, to go in there, it was you. It was you, there was no patting the fucking back at 300, at 275, at 250, at 220, no, that was you.

So those things that come out of me, that extract from me in the darkness, people are looking for that pat on the back, where is it? Oh, I don’t need it because what I’ve done is in the fucking unseen work, I’ve built Frankenstein. So whenever shit gets nasty, David Goggins goes, you had no body anyway, motherfucker.

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weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.

The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty and in such a country as that which we possess are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.

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Regret doesn’t grow from there because you left it all there. You’re the best you could have been in that moment. That’s all you ever can be in every moment of life. But very few, if any, ever do that moment by moment. the carpet demon. live it all. for the most, You guys can control that. those moments, you can take it easy. You can pick and choose what moments you want to do. if you’re watching a movie or sit on the couch, Whatever else, you can chill out that moments. don’t fucking chill on the moments that actually create your legacy.

Give it all there and then the belief in the dreams Just lives forever. And, by the way, the best dreams in the world Aren’t the one seen when sleeping. the best dreams the ones lived.

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And so when you talk about changing the thought process, that’s the real work. Now that takes a real level of strength. They smile every single day, but their actions are the same. Their words are the same. Their thought process is the same. You got people that’s been complaining about the same job for 60, 50, 40, 30 years. Come in every single day and complain. When I play a ball, I had a rule. Like bro, we ain’t complaining about nothing that we’re not willing to change, right? If you complain about it, cool, complain. But we’re not complaining about nothing that we’re not willing to change.

So if you state how you feel about it, you got to be willing to do the work and change your thought process, the words, and the way you speak about it, right? You got to be willing to do the work. You can speak about it all day. The easiest thing in the world to do is to complain, blame, and quit, and settle. That’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But it takes real work to deconstruct and to reconstruct the thought process and the mindset of an individual when they’re trying to change something.

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most skills is that the amount of effort that it takes to maintain a skill versus the amount of effort it takes to grow a skill is like one-tenth the amount of effort. And so if you do a four out of 10 on 10 things, you will make progress on none. You will make the same amount of progress that you could have made if you just did one out of 10, which is none. You just don’t regress. But the extra three points that you save on the nine, you could put on one other item and have a 10 out of 10 or a 13 out of 10 in effort. And then after every periodized chunk of time,

have a big W or win that you can look back on and say, I did that. And therefore I am. And so I think that that’s how you step up the mountain of progress when you’re trying to work on many different skills, quote, at the same time. It’s just that the at the same time is over a year, not over a day.

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No one’s gonna fucking come to help me No one’s gonna fucking come to help me. It’s fucking me against me, period And um. so I had the man up and I said the first thing I started doing is facing every fucking fear I have, No matter what the fuck it is. man and I and these things would keep me up and I no one. People who are hearing this shit. they will never really understand and grasp, when you face these things and so many things, how they keep you up and haunt you at night,

to either Be that 300 pound guy who’s prayed for cockroaches and made a thousand dollars a month And at 24 years old- knowing when i’m 50 fucking years old I can reflect on this and think about what guy I never became- or I can totally just sack it up And fail and fail and fail and try to succeed.

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listen to the normality of life and everyone saying the way it is is the way it’s going to be for you. The way it is for you is blood sweat and tears today to create a foundation of strength for tomorrow. Those days combined into whatever dream you want to be a reality. We are always fighting for that edge, always fighting for that opportunity so it’s not past, it’s not missed, but lived. We’re not going to cry about those opportunities. We’re going to smile, remember them and thank God they came because we were ready when they came.

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Somebody, somewhere, at one time said, you can over train a muscle. And if you over train a muscle, it’s going to shrink. So I guess people are going to believe this for the rest of their fucking lives that you can over train a muscle. Well, do me a favor and just try it. Fucking try it. Give it a try. Train chest for three fucking hours. Do it every week for three hours, for two or three months straight. And I fucking guarantee you, you are not, your chest is not going to diminish and shrink away and turn into nothing. It will only get bigger and stronger.

And instead of arguing the fact, try the shit. Try it. Give it a try. Don’t take everybody’s word for everything. Don’t read something and believe that shit.

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If your life was a movie, what would the key scenes be? I think that’s important when you’re looking backward. But a much better one, if your life was a movie, and people were watching up to this point, what would the audience be screaming at the screen, telling you to do with your life? What would they be just,

it’s fucking obvious, leave the job, leave the, you mean to get like, it’s your brother, it’s the, you know, the fucking killers hiding in the cupboard, whatever it might be.

What would the audience watching the movie of your life be screaming at the screen, telling you to do? And I think it’s a very orthogonal way to look at, ha,

I already know the answer of what I should be doing. I’m just scared of making the commitment and having the conversation.

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deal is:

We’re all expected, right, like we are all expected, we are all going to die and

We Should not simply be looking for comfort Right. We should be looking to treat that.

We should be fighting against that, Because It seems like again switching. if we go into cruise control, if we go into Normal Mode and we’re not thinking about what’s happening, then we, just, we, just We just accept that label.

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You need that X factor. You need that leg up. It’s too f***ing hard. This workout will ensure that you never have to question your intensity. You make it through this guys, you’re going to make it through life. I said leg up because that’s what this is. It’s a leg workout and it will bring you a leg up in life. It’s intense man. I’m not sure I’m ready for it. But the challenge of that inspires me to f***ing reach barriers I haven’t been to. And I’m excited to share them with you. And you guys watching this, share them with yourselves and your friends. And together

we’ll be part of a society that doesn’t take second place as first. There’s first place and then it’s forgotten. Leg up begins now.

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the world belongs to optimists. Because if you’re going to do anything big, you have to believe that it can happen. Otherwise, it never will.

That Sean Poore thing, the cynics get to be right and the optimists get to be rich.

Yeah. If you look at it from a percentage of success rate, I’ve been wrong more times than I’ve been right. I have failed more times than I’ve succeeded. But you always succeed more and are right more in the big ways than the people who’ve been right all along and are wrong. Trevor says this, my editor. He says, 99% right and 100% wrong.

They’re right 99% of the time, but they’re wrong 100% because the only thing that matters is the big one at the end.

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Right approach: everything with a level of gratitude. Secondly look at the things that you do and see what you can extract from it So when you lose it, is it really a loss if I can extract a level of dedication from it? Like when I didn’t make it to the NFL I looked at the process and said, okay I got to hang up the cleats, but let me extract that mindset. Let me extract that work ethic, Let me extract that dedication and commitment. So now that I can extract that, I can apply to anything that I want to do in my life and get a chance at success. But most importantly, man, You got it.

You got it. You got to look at things and say, like, at a certain point, like, eliminate the outcome, Stop being driven by rewards, Stop being driven by outcome, stop being driven by: if I get this, I’m gonna do this just work.

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We shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles with us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone.

It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

There is no retreat but in submission and slavery.

Our chains are forged. The war is inevitable and let it come. I repeat it, sir, let it come.

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You’re questioning what you know, not trusting what I know. And I think that’s really, really key right there. Because we get caught up in our lives so much that we believe everything we’re doing is the right thing. And we never step outside the bounds to really see the neighbor’s grass from the other side to see which is greener. We’re just stuck in our own environment so much that we start to think that this is the universe. The universe is this. It’s not until you lose that biased nature that we all have and open up your opinion to what else could be that you can see what is right,

like I was saying before, and maybe what you’re doing is right. Or maybe it’s almost there and it’s just altered a little bit, right?

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Most people are incapable of picking a direction and going. Just going. They observe the possibilities. They get paralyzed by all the possibilities. They refuse to move forward on all the possibilities, and then time passes them by. So it’s very important that you make a decision and you go down that path. You commit to that path with the mentality of having zero options. I don’t have a choice but to see this through. Okay? If I don’t see this through, I’m going to be digging ditches. That’s what I tell myself when I don’t want to come here and I don’t want to do this,

and I get tired of doing what I do, which happens to everybody. You go through ups and downs. I pretend like I have zero options. I say, well, if I don’t fucking do this, bro, I’m be digging ditches, so I better show the fuck up and get it done.

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But what’s more important what we acquire or who we become? Right. What’s more important what we acquire or who we become? Materialistic, superficial, it’s cool, But the people that we become, the thoughts we think, the words we speak, that’s something that’s going to travel with us forever. Right, you can lose a car, get another one tomorrow. but the people that we become as a result of the processes that we lock into every single day for the things that we Aspire to get or the people that we aspire to become, that takes real work and we got to be willing to do that.

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I grab a barbell and I just cinch in like a deadlift grip. It’s some kind of fucking spirit connection. I belong in the gym because to me, the clanking and the groaning and the smells and the machines, they are experiential symbols of progress. So one thing is get yourself into the gym, however you see fit consistently, have a good fucking time there doing what you love, push yourself, get those little mini victories, RP hypertrophy abs as you’re doing a little better over time and let that fill you up. Let that grow on you.

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Well, sometimes I tell myself daily, so I make sure I do at least one thing every day that sucks. It could be for an hour, it could be for two hours, sometimes it’s for 10 hours. But every day I do something to strengthen the mind. We’re all looking for this great mythical mental toughness. Mental toughness doesn’t come from sitting on a couch. It doesn’t come from wishing it would come true. It comes from putting in the work and you have to start developing your mindset. Mindset is not developed by wishing. Mindset is developed by doing and actually putting in the practice.

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Effort, dedication, work hard.

Because the talent is not enough anymore.

And if you’re not dedicated 100%,

you’re not going to reach the level that you want.

For example, you arrive home, you had a lunch,

you do a quick nap,

and you wake up,

you play with your kids, and I have to go to the gym at least 30, 40 minutes.

But this will make the difference at the end of the day. You understand?

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So don’t wait. Time is short.

Don’t wait until tomorrow.

Don’t sit around and plan anymore.

Go out and do the thing.

Do the thing.

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You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. You did that. So as times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as fuck. It’s real. It’s tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I’m reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. So that is what people don’t get. That is what motivates David Goggins is the unseen work. But everybody needs that pat on the back. They need that training partner. They need that accountability coach. I don’t hear that shit. And neither do they.

But it’s what we’ve trained ourselves to believe that we need.

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And if you don’t get what you thought you were gonna get, show up and still go to work. Because along the process, what’s more important? What you acquire or who you become? Yeah, that’s big. And a lot of people think what they acquire is the thing that makes them who they are. No, it’s who you become in the process of chasing what you wanna acquire, right? Change expectation for appreciation. Extract the lessons and the blessings from the situations that didn’t turn out the way you wanted them to turn out. But most importantly, man, approach it and eliminate the outcome, right?

Just go for it, work.

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And finally the guy’s like, dude, alright, enough. What’s the deal here? What are we doing? The mentor turns to him and grabs him physically and dunks him under the water and holds him there. Won’t let him out. This guy’s like, what the fuck’s going on? This guy went psycho on me. He’s trying to drown me, kill me. He’s fighting for everything he has to get out of there, get some air and everything else. This guy won’t let him up no matter what he tries. He will not let him up. He’s struggling, he’s moving, he’s twisting. He will not let him up.

It’s not until the student fucking punches the mentor. The mentor loses his wind for a second there, loosening his grip up, gives him the wind of opportunity to escape his holdings and fucking get some air. And when he gets the air, his first words once he gets some, what the fuck was that? Yeah, you’re mine, man. I can sue you for this shit and everything else. He goes, yeah, you can.

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It is so easy to beat people today. They are so soft. They have no work ethic. No one can stick with anything. Everyone’s distracted. They’re on social media. They’re counting their f***ing notifications because they can’t stick with s***. They can’t say no. And so sometimes you got to say, hey guys, we’re going to stay at this revenue level until we get referrals over 30%. We’re going to stay at this revenue level. We’re going to stay at this level of advertising because I don’t want anyone else to know how mediocre our sandwiches are. Why would I tell anyone else?

I don’t want anyone to know. If I could test this with no one knowing, I would do it. But we have to advertise a little bit so we can fix our thing. But the point of that first phase of growing the business because you start making sales is to get better, not to get rich. The point in the first phase is to learn, not to earn.

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Try it out for yourself. Find out if it works or it doesn’t work. And people out there, they’re gonna say, oh well, you’re taking steroids. They’re not bullshit. Believe me, the more you put into anything, the more you’re gonna get out. The longer you train, the more you eat, the more you sleep, the better results you’re gonna get. If I’m eating 12 meals a day, I’m training 3 hours a day, and I’m sleeping 10 hours a day, I’m gonna get better fucking results than the guy that’s training an hour a day, eating 6 meals a day, and sleeping 6 hours a day.

It doesn’t take a fucking scientist to fucking logically understand what I’m saying. The more you put in, the more you get out. So stop fucking making excuses, get out there and do whatever the fuck it takes to reach your fucking goals. .

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I mean, think about it. If you’re going to do something, if you’ve chosen to do something, whatever it is, easy, hard, if you give it your all and you don’t half-ass it, win, lose, draw, get what you want, don’t get what you want, whatever the outcome is, if you don’t half-ass it, at least you’re not going to have to wonder, oh,

would the outcome have been different? What if I did give it my all? And boy, wondering that is what keeps us up at night. So that’s a value that stuck with me, don’t half-ass it. I think it’s one we can all take in our hip pocket going forward.

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Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace, but there is no peace.

The war has actually begun.

The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle?

What is it that we gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God.

I know not what course others may take, but ask for me.

Give me liberty or give me death.

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But now you know what giving it your all is. And you will not succeed in business or any endeavor in life until that fight you just went through is applied to the same endeavor. It’s too f***ing hard of a world out there. And Billy, if you’re trying to lose weight for the girls on the beach like you just said, buddy, you don’t have enough fight. You’re gonna drown right there. It’s never gonna be successful. Think of that, guys. When you guys are saying you’re doing everything right and you’re giving it your all,

come on. Come on. Your all’s a lot more than you know. You got more inside of you to give. Stop selling yourself so short.

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But don’t ever sell out for the temporary reward of what the opportunity is today. Believe in the bigger picture. Believe that all these things are just moments building the wave for the big moment to come. Always plant the seeds of hard work and integrity and honor today and then every day you water them and nourish them. Believe in them. And one day that will sprout a flower of which when you’re dead and gone people will still remember.

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compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. Because you need to have a hierarchy of improvement. You need to be aiming for something. And that means you’re going to be lesser than people who’ve already attained along that dimension. And that can give rise to envy. So the question is, who should you defeat in the final analysis? And the answer is, you should defeat your former self. You should be constantly trying to do that. And you’re the right control for yourself too, because you’re the one who’s had all your advantages and disadvantages.

And so if you want to compete fairly with someone, then you should be competing with you.

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We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament.

But our petitions have been slighted, our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult. Our supplications have been disregarded and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne in vain. After these things, may we indulge in fond hope of peace and reconciliation.

There is no longer any room for hope.

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I think the best way to prove your value is to work, is to learn, is to absorb, to be a sponge. But you always wanna outwork your potential. As hard as you believe you can work, you can work harder than that. And that’s what I tried to do when I first came in the league but basketball is such a direct competition sport that me coming in at 17, I hated when my teammates would say I get hit with an elbow, right? Shaq would hit me with an elbow in practice. So I always had that extra chip on my shoulder.

So every day in practice for me was really trying to annihilate everybody that I was playing against. So I wanted to prove you don’t need to babysit me. I’m fine. And so it’s always that competitive nature, the work ethic and curiosity.

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Pressure changes everything. Pressure. Some people you squeeze them, they focus. Others fold.

Can you summon your talent and will?

Can you deliver on a deadline? Can you sleep at night?

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What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

And I just,

I love thinking about that when I’m thinking about big life decisions.

Like what would I do if I weren’t afraid?

And it’s usually like the big one,

the bigger thing that I really want to do, but I’m afraid to do it.

It’s like, that’s what I should do.

And to your point about,

you had the five things that you told your team.

The one that we have is,

originally it was something that we called one of one, which is,

make only things that we can make.

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Some people see the thing that they want and some people see the thing that prevents them from getting the thing that they want. I could only see the bagels. He could only see the line. And so I walked up to the line. I leaned in between two people, put my hand in the box and pulled out two bagels. And no one got mad at me because the rule is you can go after whatever you want. You just cannot deny anyone else to go after whatever they want. Now I had to sacrifice choice. I didn’t get to choose which bagel I got. I got whatever I pulled out, but I didn’t have to wait in line.

So the point is is you don’t have to wait in line. You don’t have to do it the way everybody else has done it. You can do it your way. You can break the rules. You just can’t get in the way of somebody else getting what they want.

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You have to take chances in life. If you don’t take chances in life, you’ll never have the life God has for you. Life is about risk. If you play it safe in life, you ain’t gonna have much of a life. If you play it safe, you won’t have much of a life. Life is risk. It take courage to pursue your dreams. I just did it. It cost me everything, but eventually, God is very good, man, when he sees you take a leap of faith. He supplies you everything you need. Now, it’s gonna cost you something,

but most people are not willing to pay what it costs to go after your dream because you’re gonna have to hurt a little bit.

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because there’s something about your life that’s got to change. Something that’s deficient, that’s no longer suitable for your course of action. You’ve hit the wall someplace, you’ve looked in the mirror too many times and haven’t smiled. You want to change the situation, move from where you are. The journey is not easy. Before you start that journey mentally, you must fuel yourself with the right reasons, the right fuel to sustain the entire journey. Everyone’s hot off the start, but after a month or so into it, or a couple weeks into it, the wear and tear and the grind starts to hit you.

You start losing focus on the horizon, do you not? You get caught away in the daily hiccups, the ups and downs, and the wear and tear. And you focus on the speed bumps of the daily activities, losing sight of the true purpose. When you lose sight of the purpose, you give too much value of what the pain is today. We always invest today, sacrifice today for tomorrow’s betterment.

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So I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I wanna have minimized the number of regrets I have. And you know, I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not gonna regret having wanted, you know, trying to participate in this thing called the internet that I thought was gonna be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. And I knew that that would haunt me every day.

And so when I thought about it that way, it was an incredibly easy decision. And I think that’s a very good, if you can project yourself out to age 80 and sort of think, what will I think at that time? It gets you away from some of the daily pieces of confusion. You know, I left this Wall Street firm in the middle of the year. When you do that, you walk away from your annual bonus. And that’s the kind of thing then the short term can confuse you. But if you think about the long term, then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

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You’ve been a solid performer for some time now.

Plus, you’re my brother-in-law.

You get older,

you think about things.

You’re a young man.

We both are. The world’s still in front of us.

Of course.

My estimate, historically, 80% of the time it ends up in the can like Johnny Sack. Or on the embalming table at Corsarelli’s.

Don’t even say that.

No risk, no reward.

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standing on a cliff with this gift God got for you packed on your back in a parachute pack. Now while you’re standing on this cliff, you see people soaring by, going on vacations, having a summer home, opening a business, climbing the corporate ladder, being what they’ve always wanted to be, getting the job or the career of their dreams. You see people. There’s a neighbor down the street, they get a new car every two years. How the hell are they getting a new car every two years? What are they doing down there? You see all of this people just sailing by because they jumped.

The only way you get to sail by with your parachute is you have to jump. If you don’t jump, if you don’t take that chance, you’re never going to be what you see out there sailing. Now the problem with jumping, there is a problem and there’s nothing I can do to safeguard you from this. When you jump, I guarantee you this, the parachute is not going to open right away.

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that you have a five year window, and it’s three for some, it’s eight for others, but there’s a five year window for you to attack the life that you want to win, not because it’s the secret, or because the world’s so zen, because it’s fucking hard as shit out there. As a matter of fact, I’m probably more scared about your naivete to how hard it, class is easy, right? What you’ve been doing for the last 16 years is easy. It’s a fucking bullshit game. It’s structured, it’s easy. The world, this thing, this thing is hard. However, that contradicts what I’m gonna tell you right now, which is,

this is the best and easiest five years of your life, because this is when you need to attack what you love and what you want to do. Here’s why. You don’t have all the baggage. You may have college loans, respect, it’s hard as shit. You may have the expectations of your parents, mentally hard, fake hard. You may have a lot of other things, but this is exactly when you can live with four roommates in a basement and eat fucking fast food. Do you understand?

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You are wasting my fucking time, you are wasting your time, and you’re pissing me off. And let me tell you why. Because you have a negative mentality, you’re weak-minded, and you’re never gonna accomplish your goals. Because I’m telling you right now what you need to do, and you’re telling me you can’t do it. I can’t. You can’t? Are you fucking kidding me? You just said I can’t? Like, I wanna fucking bitch slap that motherfucker. You know what I’m saying? I can’t? I don’t have time for people that are weak, and they say I can’t. No, you can. You will.

When I say you need to eat more, it’s great when someone says, okay, I eat five meals a day, Rich, what do you suggest? Okay, buddy, I suggest, why don’t you bump it up to six, keep it there for two or three weeks, and then bump it up to seven, keep it there for two or three weeks, and then bump it up to eight.

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And most people don’t like being uncomfortable. If you don’t wanna be uncomfortable, please do not pursue success. Because success is a very uncomfortable feeling. And I just learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable. If you can get that in your head,

this too shall pass. Every moment of everything you’ve ever gone through, God got you through it. You didn’t even realize it, he just got you through it. You can’t name one thing he didn’t pull you through. Well, I lost my mother, I’m still grieving over that. I lost my mama 21 years ago, I still grieve over it, but I’m here. I got through it.

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You have a capable body to do whatever you want. You have a sound mental, nutritional diet. Now what the f** * do you want? Once you find out you want, regardless of what it is, then you combine the mind and the body together. That’s when life gets exciting, guys. Stories of inspiration where the person overcomes the odds. When you see the good, man, pump the brakes. Put your hands together, man. Give credit where it’s due. Remember the name of the person that overcame the odds, because that same person you’re going to use in your own battle one day.

When you hit rock bottom and you feel like the walls and monkeys on your back and Murphy’s hitting you down every single step. you’re going to use that inspiration to take that one more step forward that makes all the f***ing difference.

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Well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful, But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable. It’s like the first thing you want to do is dispense with the idea that you get to have any any Permanent security outside of your ability to contend and adapt. It’s the same issue with children. It’s like you’re paying a price by sitting there being miserable and you might say: well, the devil I know is better than the one I don’t. it’s like, don’t be so sure of that.

the clock is ticking And if you’re miserable in your job now and you change nothing, in five years You’ll be much more miserable and you’ll be a lot older.

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when you’ve been married and you’ve been promised. This is not when the world has sucked out all your dreams and hopes yet. You still got this window. And yet, so many of you are so hungry for short-term gains. Like maximizing the job that paid you $3,000 $3,000 more, but it’s not as fun, but you want that $3,000. $3,000. For what? For what? For a new iPhone? For what? You get to live life one time. And this is the time right now to understand what’s actually happening and actually map your behavior to something that will impact you for the next 80 years.

So promise me that you understand that the land grab of happiness starts right now.

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Your track record for surviving bad, insurmountable, I ain’t gonna make it days, your track record for surviving them so far is 100%.

100%, man. Hey y’all, you done made all of them. So why would you not make the next one? See, you gotta see what God be doing for you, man. Cause a lot of people don’t take an inventory. Y’all don’t know, every funky thing that ever happened to you, God got you by it somehow. And if he ain’t got you through it, he currently pulling you through it right now. That’s why you sitting in here. So now with that piece of information right there, I understand the hesitancy to jump, but knowing that, why would you not jump? Why would you not take a chance? Like be saying, yeah, it’s scary.

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When you guys burn out physically, you push your current limitations to a new barrier, do you not? You hit failure and you go beyond. You force your body to create demand to grow even more. By burning out physically, you ensure that you grow physically. If you don’t burn out physically, then even though you go to the gym, you put your time in there, you check the box, yeah I went to the gym, man, all good. You come back around, you look in the mirror, man, I’m not seeing anything, I’m not seeing anything, I’m not seeing any change in me.

Oh, well, because you haven’t pushed yourself for your body to have a reason to change. If I gave a valid effort to something, day in, day out, I saw no change, I’d probably quit too. But the reason why you’re quitting, man, the reason why mentally you’re burning out, is because you’re not burning out physically. It’s that mind-body connection of invincibility when you sync them up, guys. Every transformation always gets worse before it gets better. It’s supposed to be that way. The journey you’re embarking on here with NFT28 is not an easy path.

It’s not for the ill-hearted or the weak-natured. It’s for the strong people.

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Fear is a mile wide and an inch deep.

And so it looks like this ocean that you’re gonna step into and drown.

But as soon as you step into it,

you realize it was not that deep at all and you can keep walking through it.

And I just love that visual because a lot of times when it’s like,

we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to make,

if you actually take the step and realize that it’s not death,

you’re not gonna drown immediately.

There’s plenty of other steps you can take from there, even if you get a little wet.

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what do you want to do with your life? I guess that’s my question. What do you want to do with your life? Because you got one life, it’s going by quickly. And this is something that years ago, I spent a good chunk of my, I guess it was my 30s, training MMA fighters. And, you know, we had a jiu-jitsu gym, we had an MMA gym. And so, in the beginning, when a potential fighter would come in, and they’d be 22 years old, and I’d say, hey, how old are you? And they’d say, I’m 22. And they’d say, you know, I want to fight. I want to, there’s a fight card coming up, I want to be on it.

And I was like, I’d tell them, listen, you got plenty of time, like, get better, train, up your skills. And I said that for probably three or four years. And then, after three or four years, when guys would come in, I would start telling them the opposite, which is, you need to get on it. You need to be in here every day. You’re almost out of time. You’re 22, you’re late.

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This is why most people never get anywhere. Most people are incapable of picking a direction and going. Just going. They observe the possibilities. They get paralyzed by all the possibilities. They refuse to move forward on all the possibilities and then time passes them by. So it’s very important that you make a decision and you go down that path. You commit to that path with the mentality of having zero options. I don’t have a choice but to see this through. Okay? If I don’t see this through, I’m gonna be digging ditches. That’s what I tell myself.

When I don’t wanna come here and I don’t wanna do this and I get tired of doing what I do, which happens to everybody. You go through ups and downs. I pretend like I have zero options. I say, well, if I don’t fucking do this, bro, I’m gonna be digging ditches. So I better show the fuck up and get it done. And that might sound ridiculous to you because that’s not the truth anymore. But I still tell myself that and that’s how I operate.

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He just gets up and keeps trying, fails, gets up and keeps trying. Until one day he found out what he wanted, what inspired him, and he gave it everything he had. Day in, day out, man. He burned the midnight oil so he didn’t have to stay awake in the midnight hours wondering what if. This guy tried something 1,093 times before it was successful. 1,093 times, man. When the hell have you ever tried something more than 10 times before you throw in the towel, I can’t say I have, this guy did. And why? That was what he wanted. How was it nourished? Failure. Everything failed in his life.

So when it failed 1,000 times, he’s like, well, f*** it, man. It’s an average f***ing day. It always fails. I keep on going. But his invention got smarter and quicker. That failure made it more and more successful. It was getting closer and closer and closer. And finally the light bulb lit. That was Thomas Edison, man. Failure. Dumbass his entire life. He had over another 1,000 patents, man. Remarkable. He was a genius.

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Well, everybody, it’s Groundhog’s Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about three o’clock in the morning and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing. Not a car or a person in sight. People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from, there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car. There’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hate it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it.

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Hey man, I went to work the next day and quit my job. What you talking about? I was finna. get in the car and drive for some dudes, I don’t even really know, . But I was gonna take a jump, dumb jump. But I was gonna take a jump. I got two kids in here that ain’t eating. I was gonna, but it’s the risk, man, that make life so rewarding. You have to take them, partner. Without them, you ain’t gonna do. So.

if something has been in your heart to do and you never do it, you will play it safe and you will stand on that cliff with your gift that God gave you, safely tucked away on your backpack that’s your parachute.

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Every day because I have a vision I have my confidence and I believe in myself people call it arrogant. I call it confidence ignorant people call it arrogant Intelligent people call it confidence. I believe so much in myself And I have a bulletproof mind and when I go out there. I know what I’m able to do and I do it good Please do not offend me. I don’t need to prove nothing, Even if I don’t score the goals today, and I have a lot of respect for Vela. He’s a good player. but You did one mistake you compare him with me. That was your biggest mistake.

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It don’t matter where you started. The start is unimportant. And the middle don’t matter either. See, cause the middle is what’s going on right now. The start is back there. The middle is what’s happening now. This is irrelevant. As long as you keep your eye on the ambition, the goal, and the prize. If you keep your eye on that, all the rest of this stuff, it’s just gonna be part of the story. You know, like we were talking upstairs, man, you got a heck of a story. See, they see you now. They don’t know how you got here. They don’t know the journey. Everybody want credit now.

Everybody want a piece of the pie. Here come the lawsuits. You understand? They eating you alive, man. I know they are, cause they chewing on me. And people just, they see this right now, but they don’t see, they don’t see what we did along the way. So.

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Sacrificing today for tomorrow’s betterment. If you’re a guy that’s just working out for the first time in this program, you hit a couple workouts, you’re gonna feel this soreness you’ve never felt before. That’s the Dom’s effect. Delayed onset muscle soreness. It’s supposed to be that way. It means you’re using muscles you haven’t used before. Your body’s waking up. Sharpening your arsenal for perfection of what you can be. But if you didn’t know that, mentally, you didn’t prepare for that, you think something’s wrong, maybe it’s time to stop. No, it’s time to move even further.

You have to be equipped mentally to endure this process. Knowing what you’re about to go into is step one. Knowing it’s an uphill battle, but a winnable one and one that’s achievable. And at the end of this race, guys, you’re gonna be more capable. The first step, guys, is knowing it’s a tough road. But through that effort, builds the character of the person you want to be at the end. Accept that. How else do we stay on track? We document everything.

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there are no solutions, only trade-offs. What’s that mean to you? That you’re never gonna completely solve anything in your life or in the world, and there’s always gonna be compromises that you have to make. And if you aren’t willing to make those compromises, or you don’t keep your mind open for those compromises, you’re gonna run into some real problems. But if you look at it, and the fact that, you know, you might put a little more effort over here, and it’s gonna take away from some effort over there, you can’t just do everything at once. So, yeah, no solutions, only trade-offs.

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Look at yourself in the mirror, keep track of your progress. How many hours a day do you work out? An hour? Okay, why don’t you try working out two fucking hours a day? So you’re going to eat eight meals, you’re going to work out two hours a day, you’re going to monitor your progress in the mirror, and then you’re going to see what happens. And the guy says, okay Rich, I’m going to do that. That is what I want to fucking hear. I want to hear positive. I want to hear someone that is willing to do whatever it takes.

When I give them advice, they’re going to take that shit and they’re going to run with it. That’s the one that’s going to be a champion. That’s the one that’s going to fulfill their dreams, fulfill their goals, is the person that’s willing to do whatever it takes. And I can sit and talk with someone for 10 seconds and I can determine what kind of person that is just by our discussion. And when I’m at an expo and people come up and talk to me, you know, I get about 50% of this and 50% of that. And what you have to do is you have to change your mentality.

You have to be willing to do whatever it takes.

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I can apply it to anything that I want to do in my life and get a chance at success. But most importantly, man, you got to look at things and say, like at a certain point, like eliminate the outcome. Stop being driven by rewards. Stop being driven by outcomes. Stop being driven by. if I get this, I’m going to do this, . Just work. And if you don’t get what you thought you were going to get, show up and still go to work. Because along the process, what’s more important? What you acquire or who you become? Yeah, that’s big.

And a lot of people think what they acquire is the thing that makes them who they are. No, it’s who you become in the process of chasing what you want to acquire. Right? Change expectation for appreciation. Extract the lessons and the blessings from the situations that didn’t turn out the way you wanted them to turn out. But most importantly, man, approach it and eliminate the outcome. Right? Just go for it. Work. Go to work.

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To know where we are guys, we must first know where we’ve been. And when we hit plateaus in our current day, the key to success, to break that plateau, is in our past. You take a picture of yourself on day one, you put it on the mirror. That’s who I’ll never be again, that’s day one, say goodbye to them. Behind that picture you write down your weight, your height, all your information, your body fat, tape measures around your arms, your waist, your thigh. Record where you’ve been. Because when the struggle gets hard, and you feel like you’re not going anywhere,

you go back to that day one, re-measure and go, my heart’s working, how about them apples man? I’m on set, I’m on path, I’m actually achieving something. It gives you confidence to continue the journey. Record everything, what you eat, your training habits, how you feel. But don’t do it alone, get a partner. That partner, they say champions come in pairs or two, because you battle yourself into perfection. There are going to be days man, where you’re dragging ass. There’s every excuse in the world why not to go to the gym. Having that partner is going to ensure you get there.

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Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships? You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball?

You think Jeff Bezos was just interested in shipping packages?

You think Elon Musk is just interested in whatever the hell he’s interested in today? Those individuals are obsessed. They are obsessed. In order to be the best, in order to reach that next level, you can no longer be interested. Interested is a hobby. You can be interested in many things. Oh, I’m interested in reading. I’m interested in gardening. I’m interested in cars. You can fall in and out of your interest, but your obsession stays with you all the time. You have to become obsessed.

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I’m getting old and weird. It’s crazy. This is my first time in Tampa. I’ve never been here before. Unfortunately, we cannot leave the hotel. I don’t have the chance to experience Tampa.

What else? Yeah, I’m getting old and weird.

I’m alone and look at me. There’s nobody around me. Nobody likes me, man. It is what it is. Sometimes in life, people are not going to be around you to motivate you. They’re not going to be around you to push you, to celebrate you, to applaud you. You got to do it on your own. That’s what I’m doing right now.

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We will fail all the time on ourselves. But it’s a sad mother fucker that fails on someone else’s terms. When someone else is relying on you, that you say, no man, I just can’t make it. You won’t be that guy. You’ll show up just for your buddy’s sake. And your buddy’s energy will push you through a workout even though you’re exhausted. And what’s crazy about it, man, even though your energy levels are so low, by expending more energy, you just gain so much more in the back end. It’s crazy. And all of a sudden you have this natural high.

With the problems you once had going before the gym that seemed overwhelming, you come out of that gym fucking pumped up, man, mind-body connected. Those same problems don’t look so bad. You’re generating solutions to them. You’re seeing ways in and out of them all because you’re thinking positively. Your partner, you owe that to. He got you into the gym. And there are going to be days he’s down and out and you’re going to get him into the gym. Not only is a partner vital to get them into the gym, but make sure the sets go to failure.

When you hit failure on your own, man, you can’t go anymore. That partner gets three or four more sets. That makes all the difference, man, of hitting your failure and going past it. That’s where the growth is.

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Quit my job, left my canister in that restaurant, my spray canister, got back in my eco lab truck And I went home and I started working out like somebody I was. I became the most obsessed person on the planet Earth and I was basically. I had to Invent a guy that didn’t exist. I had to invent a guy that can take any pain, any suffering, any kind of judgment, Be called bigger, be called whatever the fuck in the world and be able to stand a fucking room and say go, fuck yourself. I had to build. I had to build this callous mind and I built it through suffering.

I Built it to downright fucking just crushing myself. if it was raining outside three o’clock in the fucking morning for the snowing, The first thing is think is don’t go out there and do shit. My instinct was we got a fucking go out there. Anything that was fucking horrible in my life, that I would normally say no, That was inhumane to most people, I had to go do it and I started callous in my mind at this point in my life.

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So I’m here to tell you that it will take longer. It will be more difficult. It will require more effort on your part. But you know what I can tell you about that? When you do the hard things, you will have a happy and easy life. But if you constantly choose to take the path of easy and negotiate and compromise, you will have a hard life, a hard life that ends with regret. So I’m here to tell you that if you live a no compromise life, if you become unreasonable in your expectations, find a group of fighter jets to belong to and no more fucking crop dusters,

you will become the 2.0 that you deserve to become and that your family deserves to have as a leader. So gentlemen, thank you so much for watching and listening to this episode of The Bedros Kulian Show. And always remember that average is the enemy, success is your duty, and life can switch to the 2.0 version when you are ready to flip that switch.

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You know, you just keep your elbows up and keep the shoulders loose. Not that.

How did you find peace? I took away your parents. Everything. I scarred you for life.

See that’s the thing, Shen. Scars heal.

No, they don’t. Wounds heal.

Oh yeah, what do scars do? They fade, I guess?

I don’t care what scars do.

You should, Shen. You gotta let go of that stuff from the past, because it just doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now.

You’re right.

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You have to pick something and then you have to commit to it for as long as that’s going to take to make sure that you see it through. and The other thing people do is they pick something and then when it gets hard They decide they want to change to one of the other options And then when that gets hard they change to one of the other options and you can’t get anywhere with that either You’re gonna have to realize that whatever you pick there’s gonna be ups. There’s gonna be downs, There’s gonna be times when you love it,

There’s gonna be times when you hate it, when you’d rather do anything else, But you have to keep going because it takes that long to materialize into success. now, in terms of what you want to pick, You know there’s a lot of different philosophies on this and a lot of different thought processes.

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I’m gonna, starting not tomorrow, not Monday, not next month, starting right this motherfucking minute, I’m gonna start doing what it takes.

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Your partner ensures you get there. You’ve got to have an end goal in sight. What is that all about? Something in the near future, relative future, that gives value to today.

Ninety days out, man, I’m going to run a marathon. Ninety days out, I’m going to enter a bodybuilding contest. Ninety days out, a family reunion, high school reunion. I’m going to look my best. Ninety days to become that person I want to be. To turn that dream into a reality, I’ve got 90 days. Today is one-ninetieth of that opportunity. If I don’t have a 90-day end state, there’s no bookends. I can easily push off my responsibilities of today into tomorrow and not feel bad about it. But when there’s an end, then today has value all of a sudden, doesn’t it? If I blow off today into tomorrow,

I just lost one-ninetieth of the chance to become that mind. You get the mind right. If you believe it, your body physically will find a way to make it happen.

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Because I realized I saw a lot of people that didn’t have any sense of urgency in their life. And when you don’t have a sense of urgency, things aren’t going to happen. You need to make things happen. As we already discussed, they’re not just going to happen for you. You’re not going to become a good fighter. Unless you make it happen and you’re not going to do anything in life unless you make it happen. So if you feel like right now you’re looking around with and you’re lost or directionless,

I would take about 15 minutes and figure out what the hell you want to do with your life and I would start getting after it. So that’s, that’s my advice. Take 15 minutes and figure out something that you’re into and go crush that thing and, and make it happen.

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If you don’t jump, here’s the other guarantee, your parachute will never open.

You get to be safe. You ain’t gonna fall, you ain’t gonna get cut up on the rocks. None of that, you don’t have to worry about none of that no more, you’re playing it safe. Your parachute don’t open, but you ain’t sailing either. And if that’s the life you want, man, that’s a sad life, man. I would rather wake up trying to do what I was born to do than to never take a shot at that. Bishop Jakes, I heard him say something one time, he said, I would hate to die and never do the thing I was born to do. That’s crazy, man. Like if you were born to teach, but you never taught,

how you gonna live with yourself with that? If you were born to be a business owner and you just keep working for somebody, how you gonna live with that? How do you do that, man?

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We all fall down in life, guys. The question is who gets back up? Again, it’s not the potential of the individual. It’s not the genetics. It’s the perseverance, the never say die attitude. If you constantly keep throwing shit against the wall, eventually something will stick, guys. Never give in to what you want. When you find out what you want and you combine that with a sound mental diet, a visual nutrition, a physical diet of good food coming in with good exercise, you build the body, the belief, the confidence, you put that together with a want and a drive, dude, you’re unstoppable.

Your name will forever be in history. If you do it though, because it’s hard, it’s an uphill battle. It’s the path less taken, not the beaten path everyone else takes. It’s a path that leads a character. You gotta earn that.

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Right now what you need to recognize is you can afford to. And not all of you, I’m sure somebody will leave a comment and say, I’ve got a loan. I get it, respect. But that loan is gonna be there whether you go and try to build something for yourself or not, one way or the other. And by the way, you can work at night. This is when you put in the 18 hours a day to make your life thing you want happen. And again, because I’m scared, I can hear myself talking. I’m not saying it’s the secret, it’s practicality. When you are in your early 20s,

this is when you can grind at your highest levels because there isn’t all the fucking baggage that comes across from life. It’s harder for the 42 year olds that are watching right now to listen to this advice. You can’t just wake up tomorrow and be like, let’s go. Because little Sally has soccer fucking practice. And because you’ve got a million other things that are holding you down. But boy, if you’re lucky enough to be graduating today with not a fucking idea of what you’re gonna do with your future, nobody’s ever been luckier than you. Please recognize it.

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The start is one thing. Don’t worry about where you started. You didn’t have the best background. Your mom and them didn’t have money. So what? Everybody, it’s hard to be black. I got all that. Good, good, good. When you get through with that and you get through with what’s wrong with you now, as long as you keep your own ambition, the goal and the prize, you’ll be okay. Cause all this is just going to be part of the story. Now all this is story. You got to have a story, man. You can’t, you know, people in church say you can’t have a testimony without a test. You got to have some tests, man.

And that’s all it is, is process.

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And man, you got to take inventory of what you believe. And let me tell you something else. The comfort zone is dangerous. When you’re comfortable, you are at most danger. The comfort zone is somewhere you need to, you should never feel comfortable. You should be happy and dissatisfied.

Anybody ever tell you, hey, look, you know what? Just be satisfied with what you got. Don’t believe them, get them away from you. You should never be satisfied with what you got. Because the attempt to get more makes you into something better all the time. Don’t let anybody tell you, hey man, you know, you should just be happy way. No, you should double your business, triple it.

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I want to be bulletproof. I want to be bulletproof in these ways. I want to be bulletproof in my marriage. I want to be bulletproof in my business, et cetera. And I think about that man, whoever I want him to be. Like we said, hell is when you look at who you could have been and realize that you’re not that person. And then I think, if I were to make that man, what would I put that man through to make him who he is? It wouldn’t be easy times. It wouldn’t be quick wins. It wouldn’t even be easy wins.

It would be the toil and the struggle of achieving and reaching for things that are right out of grasp, that are right above my threshold and continuing to do that, to like lift the weight, to build the muscle, to break it down and do it over and over again. Because, like, that’s what creates the character traits that are the man that I want to be. And so when I’m going through those like really harder times, I like to think of like looking in my mental mirror of like, I’m making you, I’m not there yet, but I’m making you. And that has helped me get through some of the harder times.

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Remember now, I’m not talking about what makes you happy. It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy. It’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful. and that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It might require sacrifice. if you need to change your job too, Let’s say you have family and and and children and a mortgage. you have responsibilities. You’ve already picked up those responsibilities. You don’t just get to walk away scot-free and say well, I don’t like my job. I quit. That’s no strategy, but what you might have to do is you think well this job is killing my soul All right.

So what do I have to do about that? Well, I have to look for another job. Well, no one wants to hire me It’s like okay, maybe you need to educate yourself more. Maybe you need to update your, your curriculum vitae, your resume. Maybe you need to overcome your fear of being interviewed. Maybe you need to sharpen your social skills. Like you, you have to think about these things strategically. if you’re going to switch careers, You have to do it like an intelligent, responsible person. that might take you a couple of years of effort.

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this thing that we all have. everyone has- not just me mean, everybody that does anything has- and it’s Like this voice in your head that wants you to do nothing. This voice in your head and he calls it resistance. Yeah, and he. he talks about this resistance that is in your head and that you have to decide that you are a professional, This is what a professional does. a professional goes to work And they, they, they give in to the muse. okay, the concept of the muse, whether or not it’s real, but the concept of the muse is, You settle in and receive creativity, Almost like as a divine gift,

from this magical entity, the muse. now, whether or not it’s real is not important. What’s important is it is, if you treat it as if it’s real, it does work.

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But fitness is in you.

It’s in you the whole time. That fit body is there. And you think it’s way over there. And that’s the lie. So the lie is another guy comes in the gym. He walks in like, hey, man, you can’t lift that. And he walks by, and you feel shame again. But you don’t let nobody do that to you. That you say, you know what? I am fit. Even if you don’t see it, I am fit. And you know what fit people do? Fit people go to the gym.

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I stayed alive, I kept breathing, and then one day that logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, gave me a sail, and now here I am.

I’m back, in Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass, and I’ve lost her all over again. I’m so sad that I don’t have Kelly, but I’m so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. Gotta keep breathing, because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring.

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Your failure and then your getting back up. The man who never fail, the man who never fail has no glory. The man who fell and got back up, that’s where his glory is. The man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times, that man has even greater glory. Wow. That man has more courage, way more courage than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never fell. There’s no glory in that. You know, it’s, it’s not, and so I just, you know, I just try to encourage guys just like, Hey, we’re humans and, but we have inside of us,

we have a courage and we have a determination and we can have a strength and a gentleness at the same time. Uh, and that’s our glory.

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To get to the level that you need to get to the pinnacle, it needs to be like that. It needs to be no outsiders. It needs to be you need to have your team and your focus and that’s it. I don’t need friends that aren’t involved in this game or that aren’t on the same path, you know what I mean? Because it’s just it doesn’t make sense. And that that that is a demon that that that that I need to I need to conquer. I mean, because I have friends outside of the sport and, you know, I can get into trouble and go out and you know what I mean? Not not that they’re never not going.

These guys aren’t going to be friendly. These people are my friends for life, of course, you know, but I just need to be able to control that.

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Discipline eats motivation for breakfast. You don’t need motivation. It’s great if it arrives. It’s some extra fuel on the fire, but discipline is the thing that you need. What would you tomorrow want you today to do? You tomorrow would want you to keep that promise to yourself. And it’s why discipline is so much more valuable. I remember this conversation between Jocko Willink and Sam Harris six years ago, and they’re talking about how you can’t fake bravery, because if you do a thing in spite of being scared of doing the thing, that is bravery. There’s no such thing as fake bravery.

If you do the thing and you’re scared, that’s bravery. If you don’t do the thing and you weren’t scared, that’s not bravery. The same thing goes for discipline. Doing the thing in spite of not wanting to do the thing is discipline. You don’t need motivation to get yourself up to go and do a thing.

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So years ago, I was scared to death to f***ing fly. So my mentality is this, if you’re scared of something, learn about it, figure it out, overcome it. So went out and got lessons on how to fly. I’m up in the plane with a pilot. We had some bad turbulence and I freaked out. And the pilot says, one thing you can’t ever do up here and that’s forget to f***ing fly the plane. In life, it’s a true statement. We have hard times, we hit turbulence, we fail, we fall on our ass, we have divorces, we have all kind of bullsh** that happens.

And we sit there and think about that one issue and it’s all we think about and we forget to fly the plane, the plane is us. We forget to focus on everything in life, our habits, our goals, our destination. And we end up failing. So stay hard.

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Don’t have support. That’s a lie. You don’t have the equipment or the gear lies. You don’t. you don’t know the best way, Who cares? that’s a lie. or you’re too old or you’re too young. Of course you’re too old or too young- lie. And there’s: you’re too busy, Sure you are, That’s a lie. And you’re too tired, or you’re too sore, or you’re just plain not feeling. it lies, lies, lies. And the list goes on and on and on

And it doesn’t stop.

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That most men live lives of quiet desperation.

It’s one of my favorite quotes ever because it’s true.

And I’ve been that guy.

You’re just in this world where you just can’t wait to just run away.

You have an apartment you have to pay for, you have a car you leased,

you have a wife that you have to feed,

you have a child you have to raise, you have your mortgage,

you have your this, you have your that,

and that’s where it all comes from.

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I know you’re gonna have to do almost everything alone up here, but you know I’ll be with you. Yeah, I know. Apollo was like my son. I raised him. And when he died, part of me died.

But now, you’re the one. You’re the one that’s gonna keep his spirit alive. You’re the one that’s gonna make sure that he didn’t die for nothing.

Now you’re gonna have to go through hell worse than any nightmare that you ever dreamed. But in the end, I know you’ll be the one standing. You know what you gotta do.

Do it.

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Like one day I woke up and said, I got to face this. This haunting fucking voice in my head kept on saying, man, we got to go back. The only way we can go forward is to go all the way back. And that’s very scary to do for everybody. But the only way you’re going to fix yourself is to go all the way back to the beginning, to your childhood, because that’s where everything starts. And that’s what’s blocking most of us. All of us. Yeah. All of us. Everybody thinks, my God, my marriage is messed up. This is messed up. You have to go back to fix all your problems.

And you cannot fix anything by giving it Moultrin. You have a jacked up knee. The swelling may go down, but it’s still jacked up in there. You got to get it fixed. You got to fix the knee. All those pills do, pretty much, is just let the swelling go down. And you can live a little longer, but you’re not fixing the problem.

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We lie to ourselves. We don’t tell ourselves the way things really are, and when we do that, then we can’t fix our problems. If we can’t fix our problems, we’re not going to improve so we have to be truthful to ourselves. I Have to be truthful to myself. You have to be truthful to yourself. You have to stop Rationalizing, stop making excuses, stop telling yourself little watered-down Assessments of where you’re really at. tell yourself the truth

so that you can Get where you want to go. You can be who you want to be. you could be who you should be. Who you should be? When you do what you know you should do, when you pay attention to the little things, when you implement discipline- true and unflinching and unmitigated discipline- in your life.

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Muhammad the best defense in the heavyweight, the best move in the heavyweight.

But Shorty Man did the boxing. He beat him one time.

Everything is possible in your life when you believe.

When you believe everything is possible. You have a tool.

Everything is possible.

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and I realized man I’m not, I’m fixing stuff on a surface level. I’m all surface man, I’m not going deep into the cellar of my mind and fixing the foundation of my soul. My soul is broken. But you know I knew I could fix it but I was afraid to go back. I was afraid to face the demons of my life you know because you start lying. You want anybody knowing this about you so you start lying about who you’re not and start creating a person about who you want to be but it’s not who you are. So that’s when I started realizing man I’m never going to get over the hurdle.

I’m always going to live on a surface level until I go deep, deep into the sewer of my mind to figure out and face all of these different demons. That’s hard. It’s hard. We all like social media. We all like everybody to see us for who we want to be.

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You have to start with yourself. So what happened in my life was we start to get, I call it like the rucksack. A rucksack is a pack that you carry in the military and you put all your stuff in it. Your radios, your food, your water, all that stuff you have to carry in the military. That’s your rucksack. It’s a backpack pretty much. As you’re growing up, we all have a backpack. Most of ours hopefully is empty, you know, and what we put in it is all the crap we go through in life. That’s what is in the backpack for the civilians and we carry it around with us.

So what you have to start doing is realizing that no matter where you’re at in life, I got called a nigger a lot, my dad abused me, you know, learning disabilities, stutters, immaturity, insecurities, self-doubt, so much crap on top of me. So much stuff. I lied a lot to create friends. So much stuff was in my backpack. No one’s coming back to help me. So it starts with that person in that mirror.

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to always show up, always willing to fail, because in failure, that’s part of success. Success is not a marathon of life of just ups. Success is formulated through failures, through facing your fears, through falling down and getting back up. That’s what creates the champion. Success does not define us. We define the success.

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I felt like I had a glass ceiling of joy that I could feel. I was like, I feel happy, but I’m not overjoyed and excited and ecstatic. And then my therapist put it back on me, and she was like, well, what about the floor? Do you have a floor of negative that you’re willing to feel? I’m like, yeah. I was like, I don’t want to feel the bad. She’s like, well, they expand at the same time. You open up a broad spectrum of emotion, and you build your heart to feel these things. And if you don’t have a high, you don’t have lows, it doesn’t come. If you numb the bad, you numb the good.

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I always equated working out to struggle and I struggled my whole life but I ran from it. So I started realizing that I gotta start facing the struggle and I gotta be mentally strong for the struggle So that’s why I started coming up with like I’m training for life Mentally, I’m training for life. I’m not training for like To lift 400 pounds. and I found out on my own pretty much is that through this, through through discipline, through self-discipline, through repetition, Through tons of repetition, the same thing that you don’t want to do, And that’s it.

That’s the key thing through repetition the things you don’t want to do you develop mental like Like an armor for your mind start to armor your mind. Come on. It’s like, okay, we suffer we suffer every day It’s what we do. We do stuff that sucks every day. So then when the suck stuff comes You’re ready for it. And that’s how I started coming up. You know, I just started being very uncomfortable. now It’s like just a way of life.

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You don’t make it. stop, so recognize.

recognize. The excuses are not valid They aren’t they’re trumped up They’re conjured up. They’re fabricated. They’re lies. And how do you stop the lies you stop the lies with the truth?

The truth, the truth will set you free. The truth will stand and the truth will deliver you from Procrastination and laziness and the downward spiral that comes with a lack of discipline.

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the bad days create the story that I’m one day going to tell myself about what I got through,

you know what I mean?

Without the bad days,

the story would be way more lame.

There would be no glory in overcoming anything, because what did you overcome?

It was all just 40 to 60, you know, vanilla, ice cream, mush, grey, like, existence.

Yeah.

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Well, the opportunity takes place usually when you’re young and you don’t have any responsibility though. That’s when you have your options. Well, your options are severely limited the more you gather Responsibilities, like if I had, as a 51 year old father of three, Married man, pays taxes, has a house and a mortgage and a business and all that jazz. If I had to quit everything now and struggle the way I struggled as a stand-up comedian, it would never work. But the only way I could be this person now is if I took that chance when I was 21,

When I was dead broke and had my cars repossessed and all that stuff. That’s the only way you you ever get where you want to go. You have to. you have to take a path. It’s dangerous and most people want to take the safe path and the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet Desperation almost every time. it’s hell.

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you have to realize you are on your own now. And whatever else you believe in, I don’t care what you believe in, but on earth it’s a very lonely journey. And it starts with the accountability mirror of looking and saying, hey, my daddy beat the hell out of me, he’s not coming back. All these things are coming back, I have to face myself. And you have to own all those things that people may have done to you, now it’s yours. You got to own it. It’s yours now to fix the problems that people did to you. It makes no sense, it’s not fair, I get it.

But if you live in that what was me mentality, of guess what, my dad did this to me, my mom did this to me, people who bullied did this to me. You’re going to always live right there. You have to figure out ways to move forward because you’re not coming back. And it starts with the mirror.

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The funny thing is when you learn to embrace them, they’re way more fleeting than you realize. To sit on something in your mind for a while, to stress about it and not wanna feel it, it lingers for a long period of time. But to just embrace it and to feel it, to cry, to express it to whatever, however it needs to express itself out of you, it happens a lot quicker than you think and you’re able to move through it. And then when you look back at it, you’re like, that was kind of beautiful. You know? Like people love watching sad movies and crying sometimes and you’re sad in the movie,

that was really sad, but you go back and you watch another sad movie. You know, we like feeling things. We enjoy emotion. It’s the human experience is highs and lows. There is no high without lows. And I think just being able to accept that, that there’s inevitably going to be shit times in your life and the more you can lean into them and feel them, the more you can lean into feeling to the high ones as well. And it’s just part of the journey.

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And you have to have a plan and you have to spend all your waking hours outside of whatever shit job you do planning your escape. And you have to come to the realization very clearly that you fucked up and you got yourself stuck. So whatever you’re doing, you have to do it like your life depends on it. And whether it is you’re trying to be an author and you’re gonna, you’re gonna. if you’re gonna try to be an author and you’re working eight hours a day, plus commuting, plus family responsibilities or whatever else you have, whatever time that you have,

you have to attack like you’re trying to save the world. You’re trying to save your life. You don’t want to drown that one and a half hours a day that you have to write, goddamn, you better be caffeinated and motivated. You got to go, you got to get after it. And you got to have discipline. That’s most people don’t have those things. Most people don’t understand what it’s like to really go for something. And to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific.

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In the beginning, when a potential fighter would come in, and they’d be 22 years old, and I’d say, -“Hey, how old are you?” And they’d say, -“I’m 22.” And they’d say, -“I wanna fight. I wanna–” There’s a fight card coming up. I wanna be on it.” And I was like, I’d tell them, -“Listen, you got plenty of time. Like, get better, train, up your skills.” And I said that for probably three or four years. And then, after three or four years, when guys would come in, I would start telling them the opposite. Which is, you need to get on it. You need to be in here every day. You’re almost out of time.

You’re 22, you’re late.

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And glory comes from our faults, accomplishing what we accomplish in spite of our faults. And without the faults, there is no glory because there’s no victory. And so, you know, all the failures in business, all the failures in everything, you know, as a husband, as a father, all that stuff. But, you know, we look where we are today and say we didn’t quit. We kept on. And so it’s like, yeah. And I had someone, um, I did a, I just did a short, um, Instagram reel, you know, just the horses riding out there and some guy comment, and this is not a poke against him.

He was just making an observation. And so I’m just conversing back, you know, he said, some of us don’t have the resources to live that life. None of us have the resources to live that life.

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People only root for people who don’t need it.

Like the amount of times when I was on my lonely path where I was too different from the friends that I had, but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with,

that’s when you want people to root for you. That’s when you want people to support you. Once you’ve already won, people are like, he’s amazing, he’s so good. But like, that’s the time when you need it the least. And so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. And it’s usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap that’s just you, rooting for you.

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You are doing this to yourself. Yes, people may have helped you get there, but it’s now on you. That’s a painful truth, though. It’s a painful truth. Painful truth. Like all those people in high school and everything else, they don’t know how you’re going to end up. So you got to make sure that you constantly are rewriting your book. You have to constantly rewrite your book every day of your life. You know, and these aren’t just words I say, this is how I have to live. Like, these are conversations I have with myself.

And I say it everywhere I go, the most important conversation when you have it yourself. Yes. You live with it every single day. But most of our conversations are not the right ones. They’re not the ones that are going to push us to the place we need to go. They’re the ones that are going to keep us sitting in that toxic environment that you’ve helped create and everybody else helped create. And you just live in it. You live in that muck and that conversation that’s placed in your head. That becomes you.

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If you don’t show up, the outcome’s simple. Never there, like an audition. If you show up to the audition, there’s a chance you might get the part. If you’re too scared to show up and you sit back at home, wondering what if and everything else, no one in hell is gonna call you an opportunity because you weren’t present. The winners always show up. They’re willing to lose in order to gain. Big mental thing there, guys. This body is great as you are, as sharp as you make the arsenal. It can’t do anything if you don’t have confidence in yourself. We all fall down in life.

The question is, who gets back up? You go after it and you give it all you have. If you lose, at least you tried, man. I failed. It’s 10 times more of a man than someone said, what if? Because what if never went to the arena? When you guys find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you. I love fear. And the reason why, behind every fear is a person you wanna be.

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A lot of us are off work today, celebrating a man who fought for equality for all. Well, we have a long, long, long way to go. And this world isn’t fair. It’s fair enough. I see a lot of blacks, whites, women, lesbians out here grinding, getting after it, very f***ing successful. So where’s your excuse? I see a lot of finger pointing, tons of people playing with other people for different s***. One big thing is this. Fear. Fear keeps a lot of motherf***ers from being successful. It keeps you making excuses for yourself. Fear lives one place and one place only, and that’s in your mind.

Martin Luther King had a dream. Don’t let fear f*** yours up. Stay hard.

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Your 1.0 version is gonna try and negotiate with your 2.0 version and say, no, no, no, don’t evolve, don’t grow, don’t change, become, go back to the loser that you were, just have another drink, watch TV for another hour, eat that fucking ding dong, and then chase it down with a Twinkie. So I’m here to tell you that it will take longer. It will be more difficult. It will require more effort on your part. But you know what I can tell you about that? When you do the hard things, you will have a happy and easy life.

But if you constantly choose to take the path of easy and negotiate and compromise, you will have a hard life, a hard life that ends with regret. So I’m here to tell you that if you live a no compromise life, if you become unreasonable in your expectations, find a group of fighter jets to belong to and no more fucking crop dusters, you will become the 2.0 that you deserve to become and that your family deserves to have as a leader.

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A habit missed once is a mistake. A habit missed twice is the start of a new habit. Never miss two days in a row. So ideally, go for a month, build it up. But after that, if you ever miss one day, go, okay, mistakes are gonna happen. Tomorrow I double down. Tomorrow I go on time, absolutely perfect. I’m straight up out of bed. Or I go to the gym or I walk the dog or I do my meditation or whatever. And that’s a good heuristic. Stops errors snowballing into new habits.

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Just staying on the straight and narrow. You know what I mean? Just staying on the straight and narrow. Because I mean, I can be a product of my environment. You know what I mean? If I’m in with the wrong crowd, I just kind of become whatever. You know what I mean? So that’s why I like to be isolated. And that’s why this has helped me coming out here and being locked in an apartment on my own.

Building back up my leg, going from rehab to home to rehab to home. Because there was no outsiders. It was isolation. It was visualisation. It was motivation and it was dedication. There was no nothing else going on in my life.

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When you stop trying to find a sweatless solution.

When you look for weaknesses to work on. When you allow no easy excuses. And all that starts when you stop lying to yourself.

When you stop lying to yourself, that’s when you can become who you know you should be. When you tell yourself the truth about where you are so you can make sure you are in the right place. And if you’re not in the right place, then you can get yourself on the path to get there.

The path of discipline, the path of hard work, and the path of truth.

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The conversation has to become an honest conversation of where you’re at mentally. Where am I at mentally? I look like shit. I feel like shit. I’m falling behind in school. I’m lazy. My house is a mess. You have to look at what it is and call it what it is. Don’t find words to make yourself feel better because that’s what… So we hang around people that make us feel better, that tell us what we want to hear, not what we need to hear. And so we stay away from those people. And we stay away from those people, like our internal dialogue becomes that kind, it’s okay, it’s not okay.

So that’s where it starts. It starts with that accountability of, it’s not okay anymore. This can no longer be okay. And calling yourself out for exactly what you are and exactly how you need to fix it. That’s where it starts.

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The reason that people get confused about your motivation and your workload is that they don’t realize that the thing you do for work is the thing that you do for fun. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding that people have. And because of that, you’re prepared to work hard. And working hard doesn’t feel like wasted time. Lots of people associate working hard with not making progress. Therefore, working feels like wasting.

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You know what I want to think of myself as a human being? Because I don’t want to sound like as Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heaven, man, there is but one family. It just so happened, man, that people are different.

I said, empty your mind.

Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

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Look, I’m recovering from injury, I’m over the worst of it, I’m moving, I’m back sparring, I swear to God I’m so fit, I go all day. So I’m just gonna get back on the horse and get in. You know what you’re doing, you know what you want, you know you can picture it, you feel it. You know what I mean? But I’m done with all the MMA media kind of stuff from now on. The only time I’m gonna do all this MMA media stuff is when the UFC personally asks me to do a certain thing. Other than that, I’m not interested in it, you know what I mean? My fighting will do it.

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Nothing is getting solved. Because we have, there’s so much racism, there’s so many things, and that’s just one of them. We can’t talk about anything. We are skirting all these conversations, because if I say this, I’m going to offend a black person, or a white person, or a Jewish person, or a gay or lesbian person. We skirt around the daggone problem. So we can’t fix shit.

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We have to break the barriers within our minds, within the world, and it starts with yourself. It starts with yourself. You got to break the barriers down within yourself and just go there. You got to go there yourself.

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So don’t believe the lies, believe the truth. and the truth is: you have time, You have the skill, you have the knowledge and the support and the willpower and the discipline To get it done.

so Cast out the lies, burn them down

And listen to the truth. Then live the truth and go out and get it done. You.

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Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. Not even me.

Alright? Alright. You got a dream. You got to protect it.

People can’t do something themselves. They want to tell you you can’t do it.

You want something? Go get it. Period.

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because you might as well be dead.

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else,

it’ll spread over into the rest of your life.

There are no limits, there are only plateaus.

A man must constantly exceed his level.

I love that. Isn’t that badass? That’s sick.

And it’s the truth when you think about it. You wanna get up every day and try to be better than you were yesterday in business, in life, in everything.

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You don’t have to feel good about it, you just have to keep going. The feeling will pass, but you will remain. You are greater than your feelings. Going to bed late and waking up early to work for a few days won’t kill you. You’re not going to burn out, you’re doing what it takes. If you’re one of those people that push work-life balance, just remember the people who like working a lot don’t care. I’ve never regretted trying harder at anything ever. Hard times last long, but an epic story feels like a lifetime.

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And I said it the other day- and you have to realize, you have to know, you have to accept That all your excuses are lies. They are lies, all of them. Think about the things That you tell yourself, the lies you use to rationalize, taking the easy road.

Taking the easy road and leaving discipline behind Think about them.

You don’t have time. That’s a lie.

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So it’s not like I had some mentors coming in to help me. You know, they’re trying to put me in these different group places for like having some shrink talk to me and these eight, nine kids and one kid sitting in his house on fire, another kid’s peeing in the trash can, another kid had a helmet on, banging his head up against the wall. And I’m looking at this at eight years old. You know, and I’m going to get back to your question that you asked me, but these are things I had to go back and relive. You know,

I’m 24 years old now and I have to go back to all these things that no one knew about me in this group place where I’m in this place where these people are crazy and they think I’m crazy. And I’m looking at it and I’m thinking, I’m not crazy. You just don’t know where I come from. I came from a place that truly damaged my mind, damaged my soul and now I have to go back on my own to face this shit.

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Today is the minimum of effort. Tomorrow we gonna come back even better. I know we started out slow. I know we got pads on the first day coming back. I know we looking at Coach Craze, but we gotta believe in him. You know what I mean? He gonna put us in the right position. We just gotta come out here and be dogs. We gotta come out here and know we gotta be champions. If today y’all think this is it, this ain’t it. We gotta keep going. Do not give up. Do not feel like you tired. Were you tired? Think of last year and think of that f***ing record.

Every time I get tired, or I think I can’t go no more, I’m thinking of that f***ing record. That ain’t us. We can make it. We gotta believe. We gotta be mentally strong. When we tired, that’s when we gotta put our fundamentals together. That’s when we gotta be more focused. When we tired, look across the field and see how tired they are. That’s gonna give you more effort. Be like, I’m gonna beat his ass. I’m gonna get fundamentally strong. Everybody’s great when they’re not tired.

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A lot of people don’t have a choice, I do.

And for that, you’re willing to lose everything?

This ain’t everything.

This house and the cars and all the stuff we’ve got, that ain’t everything.

It’s a lot more than this, Adria.

Before, there were reasons to fight, I could understand, but I don’t understand this. Even if you win, what have you won? Apollo’s still gone. Why can’t you change your thinking? Everybody else does.

Because I’m a fighter. That’s the way I’m made, Adria. That’s what you married. We can’t change what we are.

Yes, you can.

We can’t change anything, Adria. All we can do is just go with what we are.

You can’t go with what you are. Have you read the papers? Do you know what everybody says? It’s suicide! You’ve seen him, you know how strong he is. You can’t win!

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How far can I go? I’m 38 this year. How long can I push my own limits? And I don’t feel like I do have limits. And I feel like the limits are normally constructs in our mind. I’ve seen the episode you did with Brian Johnson the other day. And then he talked about, he’s by a lot of people’s opinion, very extreme. But he dedicated his own entire life to getting the data and understanding what are the best conditions for the longest living life that he can have for himself, which I think is something that is admirable. And I give him huge credit for that.

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Start moving. It’s. it’s not gonna be a perfect plan, but take action, action that moves you in a positive direction,

And if it ends up being the wrong direction, that’s fine. At least you’ve learned where not to go.

now Where this gets tough is? if it is something that seems like it’s completely out of your control, and And you know what, some things are completely out of your control, and that’s fine.

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Every day when you get out of bed, life’s standing right there to kick you in the fucking face, man. Could be anything. Could be you get up and you walk downstairs, you got a fucking flat tire and you’re late for work and you got this and that. Life is going to throw all kinds of crazy shit at you, right? And you have to be ready for it and you got to fucking deal with it. You can’t curl up into a ball. You can’t run away from it. You can’t hide. You have to take all this shit head on. You have to get up every day.

When I get up out of bed, I strap up and I’m getting ready for fucking war, man.

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If you’re going to be successful in life, you got to understand that there is a sense of urgency. That there are only 8, listen to me, 86,400 seconds in a day. And you got to not only operate them, you got to do it quick, you got to do it fast, you got to do it in a hurry. Why? Because there’s somebody else who’s on the same track you are. Somebody else who, listen to me, they’re on the same path that you are. Listen to me, it’s somebody else just like you trying to do it and sometimes they’re working just as hard as you’re working.

They’re putting in just as much sweat, just as much tears, just as much blood, but you just got to do it, what? You got to do it faster than they do it. You got to do it quicker than they do it. Are you listening to what I’m saying? That’s why I wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning because if you’re getting up at 6, you might be smarter than me. You hear me? You might. You might have more privilege than me. You might. You might have more resources than me. You might. But I’m going to get up earlier than you and I’m going to do it quicker than you do it. I’m going to do it faster than you do it.

So by the time you get up,

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The cussing and everything comes from a place of real. I can’t explain what I do without it. The passion comes out of me, it’s almost like speaking in tongues. Because when you put that much work, and people go, oh yeah, there’s been this basketball player, this football player, this dude. No, no.

Everything, everything is work. Everything, and people don’t believe it. So when I speak, the motherfucker and the fuck and the shit, that is what it took for me. What it takes for me. The anger, the passion, the jaw dropping, just, it takes that. Because I’m not that. This is how I look at it, man.

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Being a winner is a curse.

It doesn’t matter how much you’ve won before,

you’re not a winner until you win again.

And again. And again.

Nothing is enough. No one understands. And you never want it to stop.

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6 down.

Guys, I know it sucks.

I know you’re like,

what’s the point?

Sometimes in life,

the answer isn’t always revealed in the forefront.

You learn the reason behind it later in life.

And later in life,

you get hit with adversity where so much is riding on you.

Not just you, your family,

everything’s riding on you.

And you overcome it without even losing your wind.

It’s easy for you because you paid the price and hit failure over and over again in here.

That’s when it mattered out there, guys.

Victory, motherfuckers.

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You’re doing it, right? You’re winning a battle and the other person doesn’t even know that there was a battle going on. Right, you won it. and and then you have to. you have to control your ego enough that you don’t say, look, I just want you didn’t even know it, because then you just threw it out the window. Same thing here. if you’re really doing leadership, Well, the team barely even knows that you’re leading them. They can barely even feel it like they. it’s like this unseen forces there. They kind of know,

but they almost feel it’s their own force and they’re making things happen that they think are their own things, and all you’re doing is you’re, you’re, you’re being so subtle that they barely even know that they’re being led, and That is optimal.

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I want to do something great with my life. I don’t know that I can get to the mental level you have, but I think everybody here needs to know something. If you just think you’re going to do something temporarily once, man, you’re going to be unhappy when it’s over.

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Five critical tasks are enough to build a very, very, very successful life. And if you do that consistently, you can avoid the idea that you have to work 24 hours a day and you can have freedom and you can feel good about it without feeling stressed and guilty, because you know that the critical things that need to get done are done. Now, if you want to choose to still continue to, you know, dream and think and work with your people and build something, bro, fucking have at it, dude. I love what I do. I love to work. I’m usually on the phone till 9, 10, 11 o’clock at night,

not because it’s on my list of critical tasks, but because I enjoy it. Right? And so I don’t necessarily, you know, just check out after my five are done, but I do allow myself to do that if I want to do that at those times, which gives me a sense of balance. It gives me a sense of freedom. It gives me a sense that I’m not working as hard as I actually am. And my wife is still moving forward day by day by day.

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You have to have no fear. You have to have no fear. You have to believe in who you are and what you do and just go f**king get it. Yeah. Don’t be afraid to tell somebody no. F**king water guy wants to, you know, wants to do a deal with you and the money looks good but there’s certain things about that you’re not into. F**k them. F**k them. Don’t do it.

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with all your resources, by the time you get up, with all your privilege, by the time you get up, with all your stuff, I’ve already finished the race, are you hearing me? It’s not just about finishing. Sometimes it’s about finishing fast. So I need you to understand, if you’re gonna be successful, there’s a sense of urgency, and you don’t have as much time as you think you have. And if you watch these boys do it, every play, every play is the drill. Every play is a two minute drill, are you hearing what I’m telling you? And so you gotta pick up the pace.

You gotta tell my son, pick up the pace. You walking too slow, pick up the pace. You moving too slow, pick up the pace. If you wanna finish sometime, you can’t just finish, you gotta finish fast. So number one, principle number one, there’s a sense of urgency. You don’t have as much time as you think you do. There’s a sense of urgency, and you gotta operate like there’s a sense of urgency. Number two, I love it. They play hard.

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you know, the care for your body and your mind and the devotion to the daily habits is so tough because when you want to change a certain habit, science says it takes at least 21 days, right? For the brain to start growing, you know, new neurons that are reprogramming. But if you don’t have the right environment, that’s going to be very, very challenging. So that was also one of the things that I wanted to reflect on. And your question is the environment is the one that can be very stimulative to you. It can be really supportive or it can be pulling you down. So it’s super important,

even though we always encourage ourselves to be independent in terms of what we do, what we eat, how we sleep, you know, how we lead our lives and what we do and how we can live the best version of our lives.

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You know, I do have fucking like teammates and fucking like, you know family push. My mom was struggling bro She was true. So it was like me, my mom, and so it was a lot of this me. so when you’re waking up every morning by yourself and you’re fucking getting after it by yourself and- and It’s the it’s the hidden work People see one minute, you know video of me running and like like these fighters, you know They they seem during the fighter after the fight they don’t see as much man what they deal with every fucking day I’m not good enough.

I’m not gonna push in to be here I shouldn’t be here because every day there even though they’re fucking the best in the world That little mouth got seven or eight years old is still in there saying oh, man, you don’t have something. We’re not good enough Enough we shouldn’t be here. So you always fighting that motherfucker, even though you beat it. You never truly beat it. You never truly beat it.

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And when that happens you ask yourself, what can I control? What can I control that will make this situation a little bit better? and

Then you go-

Don’t get crushed by things going wrong.

Ask yourself. What am I going to do? and then go Do it.

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Who’s the victor? You guys are. They’re killing it in here. Again, guys, something in life’s going to be hard. It’s either going to be hard in here that you put yourself through, or someone’s going to put you through something hard out there. I’d rather control what I’m going through than being put to a subjective nature of somebody else. Guys, pay your prices right now. What you pay for right now is an investment. And the growth potential is limitless. Limitless.

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Find what you want to become, what you want to do. And long term, use certain things maybe sometimes you don’t love, but where you want to propel yourself in the future. Not what your parent, your friend wants you to become, what you, you, you want to become. So once you find it, you cannot doing it by yourself. Everything that is big achievement in life, we cannot doing it by ourselves. So what I would say is, second thing is, try to build up your team and try to build up your team to be able to achieve your goal of people that are competent and people that you trust.

You need both competency and trust.

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We’re the sound every moment, guys, the choices we make. our character is defined by the choices we make on a moment-to-moment basis. It all adds up to the win. And don’t give me that shit doesn’t matter if you win or lose, how you play the game, all that bullshit. If that was so true, then why are there scoreboards? Why do people give a shit and keep score of anything? That man, Always you will win, always you’ll win. sometimes you win immediately, But always definitely. you know what means. you might not win it today, But your efforts done today, even the failure felt today,

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if it’s a smallest community, we still want to belong to that community. We still want this community to support us, even if it’s one person or two. But it’s super important in the end of the day because you know making tough choices. these are tough choices because society, when you go out there, you know super majority of the places where you go to eat or people that you see. it’s a kind of a vicious cycle and they lead their life in a certain way that maybe doesn’t coincide or correspond to your choices that you want to make, the new choices or maybe the new changes. So it’s really hard.

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Goggins is who I love. Goggins is who I created. My dad created David Goggins. I created Goggins. So what’s happening with me? and since Can’t Hurt Me came out and since I got on social media, which is why I fucking don’t like social media which is why I’m not on there very much, which is why I give people one time, I have to do me. I have to do me. So people get it fucking twisted, man. I am who I am. What’s in that book is me. So now what they see is this guy who’s trying to get people to get off their fucking ass. That just happened to happen, man.

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If you want to actually win long term,

you have to redefine what that purpose is going to be over and over and over again. And you know, if you want to be a responsible role model and leader, I don’t think you should shit on people’s goals because you never know what that’s going to lead to.

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Success is not for the weak and uncommitted. This is physical. Sometimes it’s gonna hurt. Sometimes it’s gonna be painful Sometimes listen to me. Sometimes you’re not gonna be able to walk. Are you hearing me? Sometimes when I’m running on that treadmill, I don’t feel as good as I normally feel my leg hurts sometimes sometimes I’m sick, but this is this is a physical sport And if you want it, you got to go get it. You got to play hard for it Are you hearing what I’m telling you? It’s not for the weak and the uncommitted.

So you got it my son you say to me all the time dad you being hard on me dad dad I did a thing son. It ain’t about listen to me. It ain’t about doing eight things son It’s about doing ten son. It ain’t about doing seven good son. It’s about doing ten. It’s hard. Yep It’s hard. Yep is difficult. Yep. Why? because the process is weeding out the weak. It’s weeding out the weak.

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So it’s very important to stay away from the negative, build up your team, people you trust and that are competent. And I would say the third one is to work, to work hard, to sacrifice yourself. You have to go through hell sometimes, but you have to see the light at the end of it. You know, to keep your dream in mind is going to give you the motivation to go through the tough times. It’s nothing easy to go work, work, work. It’s nothing you can accomplish without hard work.

The fourth one I would say to invest on yourself constantly. If you do not invest on yourself on whatever you are in which business and sport, the game will catch up to you. For example, if you become champion at something and you stop improving, the other guys that are trying to be champion, they’re going to catch up to you. So you need to invest on yourself constantly.

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all those mornings that you didn’t wanna fuckin’ get up. And I look at it as like a fuckin’, like a rock. And you find this fuckin’ rock and that rock is you. And every day you fuckin’ fight not wantin’ to get up. And you do anyway, you chip another piece off that fuckin’ rock. And every day you fuckin’ eat the right foods. And every day you go to train, you train harder and harder and harder and harder. And you get up earlier. And all these things you do to start forming yourself, you’re chippin’ another fuckin’ piece of that rock off.

Before you know it, you have this beautiful fuckin’ piece of artwork that you built. But people don’t, and then once you get there, you see it and it becomes real. Like, oh my God, I fuckin’ did this shit. And so like the fuckin’ journey becomes so real then. But so many people aren’t willing to fuckin’ chip away at that stone that is them to start chippin’ off those fuckin’ rough edges.

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Until you win, effort always goes unnoticed. Get used to it. No one roots for you until everyone roots for you. That’s just how it works.

Success is very, very, very simple. It’s very simple, okay? It is the matter of winning one day, and then the next day, and then the next day, and then the next day. It is one win at a time, one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time, and you accumulate that over the course of a year, you know, good things start to happen. And so if you win enough days, you win the week. If you win enough weeks, you win the month. If you win enough months, you win the year. If you win enough years, guess what you win? You win your life, all right? And that is a very simple, very honest,

very true fail-safe system to getting where you want to go. It’s the only system that I’ve ever seen that I believe, if you execute, is completely foolproof. I believe that if you execute the power list properly, you cannot fucking not get where you want to go. You can’t miss. I think it’s a systematic way to guarantee success.

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You will beat him because you are the Dragon Warrior.

Ow! You don’t believe that! Oh! You never believed that from the first moment I got here, you’ve been trying to get rid of me.

Yes, I was. But now I ask you to trust in your master as I have come to trust in mine.

Ah, you’re not my master. And I’m not the Dragon Warrior.

Then why didn’t you quit? You knew I was trying to get rid of you, yet you stayed.

Yeah, I stayed. I stayed because every time you threw a brick at my head or said I smelled, it hurt. But it could never hurt more than it did every day of my life just being me. I stayed because I thought if anyone could change me, could make me not me, it was you.

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And most people, most athlete, they make the mistake when they start to have money, they buy luxury stuff. And that’s one thing I didn’t do. When I start making money, I was investing on traveling to New York, train with John Gordon and the guys to learn what is new in the game of Jiu Jitsu. I used to go in Thailand, train Muay Thai,

in Los Angeles to perfect my boxing skill. So instead of taking that money to buy me jewelry, cars and to do what a lot of guys do, because it’s a mistake, I invested on myself because I know there were people coming, they didn’t want my place. So I didn’t want them to catch me. And the last one I would say, it seems weird to give back. And it’s not because I’m a nice guy. And it’s not that, I don’t say that to look good. I say that when you make it,

it creates opportunity where you can help certain group of people.

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Don’t believe the hype, don’t feed into it. if you work hard, you can’t have it. it ain’t none You can’t have. you deserve it. it ain’t none You can’t have. if you willing to work for it ain’t none You can’t have. if you willing to persevere, if you willing to stick in there, if you willing to stay, if you willing to fight, It ain’t nothing you can’t have are you here with your boys telling you so I just want to make sure we get that I Want to make sure we get that in there before before that’s right before we get started that it’s yours.

It’s yours, I’m coming, I’m telling you, it’s yours, kids. I know I got three points, but I’m willing to take 12 minutes to get this in your spirit today. It’s yours. You can’t have it. It’s yours. You can do it. It’s yours. You can be it. It’s yours if ET can do it. listen to me, Anybody can do a high school dropout, homeless, lived in abandoned buildings 12 years to get a four-year degree. If you want it, if you want it as bad as you want to breathe, if you really really want it, like you say you want, You can have it.

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There’s purity in physical pursuits, right? Because it doesn’t matter what your social status is It doesn’t matter how people perceive you when it when it comes down to how long can you stay in that pool when it comes? Down to how far can you run when it comes down to how much can you push yourself past the part where you want to quit? How far can you keep going? There’s a purity in that that it dissolves social order. all that bullshit, all the what people think about you goes out the window. It’s what who are you right now? That’s right. Who are you right now?

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We have to be a little bit careful, but that is so rare that you could actually pull that off. and the reason it’s rare to pull that off is because Teams and organizations and people trying to get things done require leadership. Yeah, They require times when the leaders known, and so those times are enough, few and far between. If it’s seven, like we talked about on the last podcast, if it’s seven times in every three years, Does. is there anyone that’s walking around like? well, you know, I doubt Jocko’s. He doesn’t even seem like he knows what’s going on anymore.

Like there’s no one walking around saying that but the leadership is subtle It’s like we seem to be man. We’re doing good. What’s going on here? This is working out. Nice. Wow. This is cool. No one’s going like hey, well, I’m ready to just I’m doing all this myself. Yeah, and That’s the way you want it to be.

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My mind a lot of times man. I’m like it doesn’t mean I quit. I don’t quit. You know, I may not make it the first time But I’ll come back. I got caught audible. I got a fucking I got it I got a fucking get my head back in the game. I got a I got to figure this shit out It doesn’t mean you leave it means you study it more It means you study it more in and whenever I feel that something people I say man How do you handle failure man? I feel a lot dude. I feel all the fucking time. They go. How do you handle it? What I’m trying to do and this isn’t being arrogant man.

I it’s being real- not many people are trying to do so. there’s not many people that who can even open their fucking mouth and Criticize me when I do fail Because I’m on I’m trying to do shit man that many people aren’t trying to do but I don’t look at failure as failure I look at failure as your first second third fourth fifth attempt. I look at them as attempts. I’m looking at anything as failure. I’m looking at anything as failure.

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You have to build yourself into someone who can continue to execute regardless of what’s happening around you. And if you can do that, it doesn’t matter what’s happening around you. It doesn’t matter if they’re laughing. It doesn’t matter if they’re making fun. It doesn’t matter if the weather’s bad. It doesn’t matter if the economy’s bad. It doesn’t matter if your parents don’t approve or your wife or your girlfriend or your husband. It doesn’t fucking matter if you keep executing because eventually you will find yourself in the place you set out to be.

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For you to constantly win, win, win, when this voice over here, the real you, is saying, get the fuck out of here. Go. You’re nobody. You’ve always been nobody. And it’s true. People don’t hear that. That’s a true voice. That’s a real reality of David Goggins at 24 years old. It’s not a false reality. And then you had to create another voice over here that is saying you’re better than that other voice. And you’re in the freezing cold water that both voices don’t want to fucking be in.

But you win. And it goes from the water, to the studying, to the running, to losing weight, to how you eat, to how you function as a man. Every day of your life, you’re winning these battles.

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When does a new day start?

It starts at midnight. Is it dark outside at midnight? Yes.

So if a new day and a new beginning

starts in the dark every day,

that’s when your new beginnings start. But so many people are afraid to go to that place. And I tell them, you have to visit that place because if that place comes visit you, it will never leave. If you go visit the darkness that you’ve been running from, you’ll have the opportunity to leave a better person. You’ll have a better understanding of yourself. You’ll have a better understanding of your purpose.

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First thing is you gotta be selfish as hell. You gotta be selfish. I don’t give a fuck. It’s the sacrifice, but without great sacrifice and without great risk, there is no such thing as a great reward. Can’t have one.

That math will never math. You know what I’m saying? You have to have, and I don’t like this word, but I’m gonna say it because it’s true. You have to be a little maniacal with this shit. Maniac, right? That word isn’t good in a lot of situations, but when you’re pursuing your destiny, when you identify with your destiny, you have to be selfish. You have to be maniacal. You have to be uncompromising.

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Bad things don’t come in threes. Bad things happen, people don’t know how to cope, and they allow one bad thing to snowball into more. Bad stuff sucks. The only thing worse is letting one bad thing ruin many good things.

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What you can take ownership though is how you respond to that situation. And so that’s what you have to do. There’s things that you can control, there’s things you can’t control. Now I will tell you that human beings can control a lot more than they think they can. And oftentimes it’s pretty easy just to say, oh, that’s not me, that’s not on me. And I think that’s the whole genesis of the idea of extreme ownership is most of the time, or much of the time, people say that’s not my fault, there’s nothing I can do about that.

And more often than people think, there is something you can do about it. And it is your fault. Any person, any human realizes that if you want some kind of a good outcome, you’re gonna have to work hard for it. And if you don’t work hard for something, you’re not gonna get an outcome that’s really worth much.

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There’s a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there’s a choice that you have to make. We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with your friends, being a great friend, right? Being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There’s sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

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And so sometimes you got to play hard. You got to play physical. You got to play tough because the game itself is tough. The game itself is hard. But I know you got what it takes not to quit, not to give up, not to give in. And finally, baby, I love it, I love it, I love it. They say here, finish. Oh, I love it. Quicken Loans taught your boy this. They taught me this. Listen to me real quick. Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped. Are you hearing me? Oh, you better hear what I’m telling you, baby. Listen to me very closely. Innovation is rewarded. That’s where some of y’all at.

You know, just because you do something like my son, you did 7%, you did 80%, you did 16%, you did 30%, you did 90%, and you trying to get something for that. Listen to me very closely. Execution is worshipped. You got to get to a place that when you start it, you get through the middle of it, the doldrum, and you finish it. Are you hearing me? And not just finish, you finish strong.

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Life is one big psychological warfare that you play on yourself. You play on yourself, man. The most important conversation I ever had is with myself. And the shit I was telling myself was so fucked up, it was so wrong, it was so misguided. And other people start to write that dialogue for you also. And it starts to be what you say to yourself every single day. And I started creating a whole nother warfare. A whole nother battle started becoming, I was like, oh, hang on a second, Coggins. You have these tools. You have these tools.

Your life was basically the perfect grounds for training for where you need to go in your life. All the beatings, all the bullying, all the you going through learning disabilities, all the struggles, it was the absolute perfect training ground for you to go to where you need to go.

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I’ll know that there’s a game that somebody else that I don’t like cares about. Yeah. And I’ll imagine myself playing that game to beat them so that I can stick it to them. Right. Purely for the reason of sticking it to them. Let’s say that there’s someone that really cares about being in shape, and I’m not in as good shape as I have been in the past, and I know that with muscle memory, if you give me 18 months and a good amount of testosterone, like the thing that they care about, I would be able to make them feel really bad about. Right. Okay, so I would hijack my own direction. Yeah.

Purely to try and prove somebody else wrong in a desperate… and somehow believe that that’s me taking control of my life? Are you kidding me? I’m allowing them to ventriloquize me. Yeah. Through pain that they didn’t even mean to give me. Yeah.

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You don’t want to have a bunch of losses in your power list because bro that makes you believe that you can’t get it done When you have a bunch of win when you have fucking 400 wins in a row.

Do you really?

How could you not believe that you can get your shit done like you start to believe well?

I can do anything I can make anything work.

I can make this work. Don’t we deal.

look how much, how much I’ve moved forward in the last you know 400 days.

you know what I’m saying.

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Miles, you’re gonna get yourself killed.

But I’m ready. I promise.

Ah!

Then Venom strike me right now.

Or turn invisible on command so you can get past me.

Look, I know how much you want this, kid.

Poor little guy.

But you don’t have it yet.

I’m sorry.

When will I know I’m ready?

You won’t.

It’s a leap of faith.

That’s all it is, Miles.

A leap of faith.

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The differential of somebody winning and losing has nothing to do with their genetics, has nothing to do with their potential. It’s their perseverance, always showing up. A person that’s willing to gamble it. If you show up, then you have a chance. If you don’t show up, the outcome’s simple. Never there, like an audition. If you show up to the audition, there’s a chance you might get the part. If you’re too scared to show up and you sit back at home wondering what if and everything else, no one in hell is going to call you an opportunity because you weren’t present. The winners always show up.

They’re willing to lose in order to gain. Big mental thing there, guys. This body is great as you are, as sharp as you make the arsenal. It can’t do anything if you don’t have confidence in yourself. We all fall down in life. The question is who gets back up? You go after it and you give it all you have. If you lose, at least you tried, man. I failed. It’s ten times more of a man than someone said what if because what if never went to the arena. I failed.

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And then I have normal people who only have one voice. Never created the second voice. The winning voice is the second voice. They have one voice. And that’s just, I’m a piece of shit. And that’s all they hear. And then they judge people like me, who are out here trying to be better.

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You wanna win without them knowing you’re fighting, and you wanna lead without them barely even knowing that you’re leading. And the biggest, hardest part of that to do, in both those cases, is put your ego in check enough that you can win without gloating, and that you can lead without credit. That’s what you want.

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In this Bible verse, I think about sometimes, many times, it goes,

then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,

whom shall I send and who will go for us?

And I said, here am I, send me.

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God just hooked you right the fuck up. He hooked you right up man with the perfect place You were training for the first 18 19 20. You were training for this stuff, man You have the advantage of everybody else versus my god They’re so above me They came from a great family Mom and dad love them. They didn’t have a learned. They didn’t start, they didn’t struggle. No, man, your struggle is what made you who you are now. So I started flipping this into a whole different. I started being a master of What I was scared of I was scared of my mind And I became a literally a master of that mind And

that’s what now from now on it sets me apart from most people. I started diving into that.

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We know that it’s not easy. But no pain, no gain. Not even coming from the Shaolin Temple. Worldwide known, that sentence. But it’s like this.

Everything that you feel is difficult for you, find a way to still do it.

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Like you’re always going after it, always going after it, always going after it. And if there’s a challenge that ensues, oh, good. I want to see how I stack up to that. So you go after it. You go after it. And it’s just fun. It’s like you get a chance to compete against opponents, and you get a chance to see where you stack up against them. It’s like, I want to see. Maybe I’m not good enough today. That’s fine. I’ll be good enough the next time I see you, though. And you get a chance to always measure yourself. And it’s just fun to do that. So I guess that’s where relentlessness comes from.

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Saying good, that should fix your attitude, But that alone That will, that alone will not fix your problems.

If you’re having problems, sure Say good That’s perfect. But then Don’t ask yourself. Why me?

Instead ask yourself now, what am I going to do about it? What are you going to do about? ask yourself that question and then Figure it out Figure out what you’re going to do say to yourself. I am going to detach. I am going to Assess the situation. I am going to come up with a plan and I am going to execute.

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They’re part of a team, but you’re the weakest person in that team. And everybody knows you’re ducking the boat. You don’t want that boat to touch your head. You don’t want it to hurt your neck. But you want to be part of the team, but you don’t want to do any fucking work. In life, it’s important to not always draft. Sometimes you got to lead and block the fucking wind. Stay hard!

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Like if you are going to be a slave to your emotion, you are going to lack control in all areas of your life forever. You cannot be a slave to how you feel. Decisions made about your life have to be made with the outcome in mind and you have to commit to taking those actions with the outcome in mind, understanding that if you don’t take them, your life is going to be shitty and you’re going to be frustrated and you’re going to be be fucking disappointed and unfulfilled. And dude, it’s just the way it is.

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When you guys find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you. I love fear. The reason why? Behind every fear is a person you want to be. Fear is self-imposed, meaning it doesn’t exist. You create it, you can destroy it too. It’s an intangible. If you face your fears, guys, you will realize it’s not that big. And once you face it, you go, oh my God, man, I spent all this time running from it. It was so small. If I just faced it, my God, not only did I face it, I beat it back. Energy’s never lost. Transferred. That negative energy, that fear, is destroyed.

It comes back and it’s confident. You’re like, what else am I capable of? What else am I holding my back from that I’m capable of more? What am I running from when I don’t need to? What else can I overcome? You face your fears, you become the person you want to be. You run from your fears, you’re not living. You’re alive, but you’re not taking the freedom. You’re not running the day. The day’s running you. You always be the f***ing servant, not the master, guys.

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But when you put that practice in, every day you lace them up, and I don’t mean run, it’s just a metaphor for life. When you lace them motherfuckers up every day, pretty soon you win. Pretty soon you’ll fucking win. If you have the courage and the heart and the dedication and the mindset about everybody and go fuck themselves. I know what I know. I’ve listened to myself enough to know I know what I know.

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Most of you. the reason why you’ll never be successful is because you procrastinate, you procrastinate. You never finish stuff. you start and you never finish. in a day, my life changed. Here’s a day. I walked across that stage, not because I got a degree, but I finally finished something. and then I got my master’s degree. And what my goal was in the masses was not to get a degree. I wanted to see if I could start some on time and finish something on time, since the first one took me 12. I wanted to see if I could start some on time and finish on time. and then I finished a book.

It took me three months and we finished the book. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? I finished and once I finished I got that procrastination monkey off my back and I started to see doors opening more doors Open it more doors open. I realize the secret to success is finishing and not just finishing but finishing strong And then the last one that they put up real wide over all of them that cover all of them when the day That’s right when the day too many all the focus. Yep. You got to have a vision. Yep, you got to begin with the end in mind, but you got to come back to the front.

Are you hear me?

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But when I say give back, not give back to anybody, give back only to the cause that you want. I give back, not because I’m a nice guy, I’m kind of, it’s kind of selfish. I only give back to the people that I want to give back because I give back to them. And I know that if I’m more successful, I’m going to be able to give back to people I love, to the cause that count for me. So it brings me more motivation because I don’t compete for myself anymore. I compete to help people I love in a way.

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How big can it get? What can it become? Are you gonna take that butterfly brand and turn it into a high-end apparel like Gucci with little butterfly logo on it? You could do that, right? There’s all kinds of things that you can do to transition into scaling, But you should think about those before you start. I’m gonna go here. I’m gonna make a butterfly bog I’m gonna make a YouTube. I’m gonna make some shirts I’m gonna do this and then eventually I’m gonna transition into a high-value Luxury brand like Louis Vuitton with a little butterfly logo. You see what I’m saying?

Yeah, so you want to think this all the way through and take some time planning it out, so you don’t spend all this time on a, On a mission that there is no winning at the end, or at least enough winning that’s gonna get you where you want to go.

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I’m gonna continue on here. When someone else wouldn’t step up quickly, it was usually because no one else had noticed that there was a leadership vacuum. They wouldn’t notice because they were not detached. Their minds were absorbed in the situation. Since I practiced being detached, I wasn’t lost in the details of what was going on. I was mentally in a different place, looking at the scenario unfold from a virtual distance, which allowed me to see problems more quickly. That still doesn’t mean I would jump right in. By letting a little more time pass,

by letting that leadership void linger just a little bit longer, everyone else would begin to notice it. They would recognize there was a problem. Since that time passed and now everyone else knew there was a problem, when I gave orders on how to solve it, people would listen and they would execute.

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Because I knew the path to winning was going to be years of failing first. So I taught myself how to fail properly. No one teaches you how to fucking fail. But if you’re going out for insurmountable fucking odds, that make absolutely no fucking sense. A black kid that can’t swim, 300 pounds, he’s going to be a Navy SEAL.

You better teach yourself how to fail first. Because if you sit in failure for too long, you will never come out of it. So the first part of my success was learning how to fail properly. And then eventually, I started getting a few victories.

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Why don’t you reframe the decisions that you are making from this is the hardest decision to this is the better decision. This is what’s going to move me forward. This is what’s going to get me what I want. When you think about it like that, it makes it a lot easier to get off your ass and go fucking do it. So yes, it is absolutely normal to not feel like doing it. There is not a single person who has ever achieved anything that you want to achieve that has felt like it every single day. It’s hard. It’s frustrating. There’s things that are going to happen.

You’re going to get punched in the face. You’re going to get sick. You’re going to have breakups. You’re going to have people let you down. You’re going to have people steal from you. You’re going to have friends let you down. You’re going to be embarrassed. You’re going to make mistakes and everybody’s going to see it and laugh at you. All of these things are going to happen.

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Go out there and fail. Go out there and fail miserably, miserably, miserably,

I can’t even say the word, miserably,

drop the weight on the ground, toss the weight,

but achieve failure. Achieve failure. If you can do that,

you can also win.

If you can fail,

you can also win. And all winners have failed.

That’s the goal here today, that last 5%. All right.

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Go to high school, go to college, get the house with the white picket fence, have 2.5 kids, work your next 70 years and then retire when you’re fucking 107, right? Like that’s not how entrepreneurs think. Entrepreneurs don’t think like that. They don’t even buy into the, what I call the list. The list is what you’re supposed to do, what they told you you’re supposed to do. And the more society changes, the less important that list is. We’re to a point now where even mainstream colleges don’t even require, or mainstream jobs don’t even require college degrees anymore. See what I’m saying?

Things are changing, yeah. And so being of sound mind and learning how to critically think and learning how to think outside the box to get to the destination that you want to get to is extremely important. And you should have the foresight to do that before you spend all this time dedicated to that thing and then figuring out that you can’t get where you want to go.

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The only insults that hurt are the ones we believe. Next time someone insults you, remember they’re going to die. Everyone will forget about them, and if no one will remember them, then you might as well forget about them now. They are irrelevant. your dream, your actions, your outcomes.

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Maybe I’m in the wrong line of work. Maybe I should take on something less challenging.

You do what you are, Jessie.

You mean you are what you do.

No, I mean you do what you are. You’re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you’re good at, you don’t take for granted. You don’t betray it.

What if you do betray your gift?

Then you betray yourself. That’s a sad thing.

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Why am I so successful? How did that happen? I’m so misguided and fucked up and don’t listen to him.

Why am I the only one to do a whole bunch of shit? Why am I a trailblazer? Why? How is that possible? How can you be fucked up and also self-made the same fucking… No, no. Obviously, you’re not looking at the truth in front of you. The truth in front of you is it sucks. It’s painful. It’s fucking mind-numbing. And that is the truth. And that’s why a lot of people don’t like listening to me. Because this is what it takes, creating another voice and sometimes going at it alone. All the time going at it alone, because no one’s going to believe in you. And that’s that.

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So when you reach the top in your game, you need to find new motivation. If you’re satisfied, it’s the end of it. Your success will go down. So you need to find new motivation. What can motivate you? You know, what do you want? Oh, I want to help this, or I need to be successful. I want to, you know, you need to find reason, what do you want to do with your success? So when I say give back, it’s not because I’m necessarily, it’s not to look like a nice guy. It’s to keep your motivation, to be able to keep climbing the ladder even more.

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You go in the future and you see your future, baby. You look at it, you see where you want to be in 20 years, in 30 years, in 40 years, and then you come back to the present, to this particular day, to this particular spot. Get in the spot and you master today and you don’t worry about tomorrow and you ain’t tripping on your past. Why? Because your past don’t count no more and your future is so far ahead that you don’t even need to be worried about that. You master the present. You master the present. You master Monday and then you take on Tuesday and once you lick Tuesday,

then you say Wednesday, come on, and then you take Thursday and then you master Friday and then you tell the weekend, bring it on. And when you get to the point where you start winning the day, then you start winning a week and then you start winning a month and then you start winning a year. Are you hearing what I’m saying? It’s your boy ET saying go fast, go hard, finish and win the day.

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Another reason to pause before jumping into a leadership vacuum as soon as you see it is to make sure that no one else is jumping in there. If two people step in to fill a leadership void at the same time, they usually bump into each other when they get there. And then while the problem’s growing, they have to take precious time to sort out which person is actually going to lead and which one is going to stand down. And if egos clash at that moment, we’re going to have an even bigger problem.

I would rather avoid that. If someone else is going to step in with a plan, it’s fine with me. When I see the void, I pause, look around, assess if anyone else is going to step up and lead. While I do this, the problem grows. Pretty much very soon, everyone notices the problem. I see that and then step up and make a call, a call that everyone know needs to be made.

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If you find a fear, the quickest, the easiest way you can beat it is initially, right when it comes in. If you allow it to sit, it will grow roots and start breaking you down, destroying the potential of the person you can be. Again, the champions, guys. It’s not their potential. It’s not their genetics. It’s their perseverance to always show up, always willing to fail, because in failure, that’s part of success. Success is not a marathon of life of just ups. Success is formulated through failures, through facing your fears, through falling down and getting back up.

That’s what creates the champion. Success does not define us. We define the success.

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Don’t feed into it. Don’t believe the hype. Somebody told you that hard work don’t pay off. I’m here to tell you, look around, look around, look around, the law of attraction, baby. Listen to me, if you work for it, if you willing to put in that sweat, that blood, and those tears, baby, I’m telling you, you can have what you want, be what you want, do what you want, are you hearing me? So before I get started, I just want you to look around. I just want you to see it, baby, that it is a myth. Listen to me, because some of you like, ET, I’m putting in work, I don’t see it.

Keep going until you see it. Don’t quit, don’t give up. listen to me, don’t give up, don’t give in. you hang in there. you hang in there because if you quit right now, you ain’t gonna never see it, you ain’t gonna never get it. but if you hold on, baby, but if you hold on, if you hold on everything you dreamed of, everything you envisioned, everything you worked for, , it’s coming, but you can’t quit or give up before you get it.

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Because when you’re going to try to do some, not trying is failure, That’s that’s, and that’s not some after-school special shit. . But when you’re able to go out, there there’s there’s no failure, It’s attempts, because when you’re trying to do something that’s bigger than you, whatever you are, Whoever you are, if, if, if you’re paralyzed, you’re trying to walk one step and you didn’t, you didn’t fail. mother fuck, I was your first attempt. if that’s your biggest thing, That’s how your mindset needs to go into everything.

So I don’t look at it as failure is a big word like that gets people down if we give so much power to words I don’t I take the power right away. I didn’t feel it.

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I know you’re gonna have to do almost everything alone up here, but you know I’ll be with you. Yeah, I know. Apollo was like my son. I raised him. And when he died, part of me died. But now, you’re the one. You’re the one that’s gonna keep his spirit alive. You’re the one that’s gonna make sure that he didn’t die for nothing.

Now you’re gonna have to go through hell. Worse than any nightmare that you ever dreamed. But in the end, I know you’ll be the one standing.

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but you decide exactly what you want. And then you start to think. Now you’re gonna have thoughts come to your mind of why you can’t get it. You have the ability in your conscious mind to reject that idea, kick it out of your mind. Thinking of why you can’t do something is never gonna do you any good. And keep thinking until you start to think of thoughts of how you can do it. And the way we’ll be shown to you it comes in the form of images in our mind. Think of how you can and not why you can’t.

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Like you look in the garage. It’s all fucking a nice organized militant garage. Hey, where are my dumbbells right there? A lot of people whose brain hey, where’s my demos? Let me look they’re fucking throwing shit. They’re looking through totes. You’re all fucked up So where am I gonna put discipline in that mind if I can’t find other shit? You gotta be able to find all these different things in your mind. Oh, I can put discipline right there I could put consistency right there. I can put all these things right there in that spot. So that’s what I’m talking about.

If your life is not organized, and your life being everything around you, Because it takes one little Piece of an outside interference to clutter your whole mind.

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If you’re gonna do it, do it. Say what you can do, do what you say. If you can’t do it, don’t say you can do it. Don’t over-leverage yourself. Don’t over-leverage a decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe. I think I’ll try it out. No, think if you’re gonna try it out beforehand, but when it’s time to go, dive. Finish it, find out. Come out the other side. Don’t leave it and go, if I just thought it, uh-uh. That keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night. When you half-ass something and you just don’t know whether you failed or succeeded,

got what you want or didn’t get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going, I didn’t half-ass it, I went all the way, I found out and that ain’t for me. Or I found out and you damn right that is for me. That’s a great place to get to. But the limbo of not knowing if you half-ass something, the limbo of going, I hedged my bet.

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The matter that you show up and try and act week after week, month after month, year after year, with a little bit of intelligence, you start to get better and better and better. You start to become more articulate. So this thing, even if the action is poor action, you’re gonna learn something from it. And it’s so easy to talk yourself out of action, but it’s so important to remember that life, life rewards action, not intelligence, not smarts in your brain, but action into the world. And discipline is necessary in our life in order to generate consistent, systematic action.

But I think until you measure something that matters, you do not know if you’re disciplined.

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You know we’ll sit around forever wondering, well, what if I? You know what if I was a dog catcher? would I be the best? what if I was a? you know What if I’d worked on that? you know, at a avalanche, you know. search, you know searching for avalanches and predicting them, or what is it called a

Geologist? Who would I you know, would I be able to do it? What I, you don’t know?

Until you say, yeah, I’m gonna, you know what I’m gonna: take: action. nothing changes if nothing changes, man, and I’m not preaching at you, I’m just I Just want to remind you because I, you know, I’ve spent a lot of time in my life sitting around wanting things to change and not being able to make them change, and not Thinking I could, and I wish somebody had told me that earlier sometimes-

That in order for something to change, there needs to be change.

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I’m going to fight. I’m going to work. I’m going to press toward. I’m going to learn, I’m going to do everything in my power, Every single day. I’m going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim. now Let me say this before I move forward, and I can’t explain it, but you better feel me. winners win and losers lose. I can’t explain it any better than that. I don’t know how it happens, But winners win and if you create a culture of losing, if you keep being a victim, if you keep letting Losing happen to you, if you keep letting people do you and treat you any kind of way,

it’s going to become a culture.

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Just think of how you can Now. I’d say, before you get into that, you should get a good book and start to study it. Select a person who is already doing something that you’d like to do. get to know that person. Go to the experts for advice. don’t ask the person next door, your mother, father, brother, the guy that works beside you, Because they don’t necessarily know. there’s no point in asking a person out earn a lot of money if they’re only earning ten thousand a Year. they don’t know, they knew they’d probably be earning a lot.

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But I want you to take it personal. And my personal question to you is why not you? You’ve got the brains, you can make decisions, you can study the plan, you can change your life, you can grow immensely in the next few years, you can make your dreams come true, you can build a financial wall around your family nothing can get through, you can become healthy, you can become powerful, why not you? And I’m here to say that I’m ready to pledge my support to make your personal dreams come true. I asked the question why not you? But I’m not gonna ask it and just walk away.

I’m gonna ask it and walk with you in this journey as we take Herbalife around the world.

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It’s gonna happen to somebody. everything, no, no matter what’s gonna happen to you. And when it does happen to, you think you’re lucky stars that finally you’re alive. It’s time to unwrap the potential. you can be Superior man. it’s within you, It’s within every single one of us, and the people that have that have risen to that level. We’re no different than any one of us. It’s just they believed it and they’re willing to work their keen ass off to get it.

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Why not now? There never was a better time. Mark has brought Herbalife to an incredible mountaintop. He’s brought Herbalife with the help of others who have brought it here. It has been brought to a special moment. Barcelona was special and Orlando was outrageous. But I’m telling you this extravaganza has been the most awesome thing I have ever seen. All of your cooperation, the way you have learned and listened and worked hard to get it all, I congratulate you for that. But Mark brought us here. And what a time now for us to take this dream and not let it die.

Take this dream and give it life. Take this dream and breathe into it your own personal spirit until finally it becomes a flame that burns around the whole world. Let’s go do it now.

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Why’d you let me race with your car? You knew I was gonna wreck it.

Why not?

Cause it’s a lot of money.

I have money. It’s trust and character I need around me.

Who you choose to be around you, lets you know who you are.

One car in exchange for knowing what a man’s made of, that’s a price I can live with. Look at all those people down there. They follow the rules for what?

They’re letting fear lead them.

What happens if they don’t?

Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.

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When I was going through basic SEAL training, we were getting absolutely crushed by our instructors at 2 o’clock in the morning. And I forget what we did wrong, but we messed something up or we failed to do something and we were paying for it. We were doing sprints up and over the sand berm and we were doing buddy carries and we were doing bear crawls and we were wet and sandy and it was a gut check. And this was after a standard day of SEAL training, getting crushed all day anyways. And some of the guys were feeling it.

And the class kind of grew silent as we went from exercise to exercise and punishment to punishment. And then one of the instructors yelled at us and he said, false motivation is better than no motivation.

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You’re going to have to do something. If you want to go from where you are to where you want to be, you’re going to have to do something that makes you more different, more weird, more easy to be mocked. Especially if you come from a country like the UK, where I’m from, being different, not particularly celebrated in that way, it’s the sort of thing that’s quite easily mocked. There’s a big culture of piss taking. And if you start, what are you talking to people on the internet for? It’s f***ing weird. Like that’s, that’s stupid. That’s not going to work. Why are you going to do that?

So if you don’t have that level of enthusiasm, there is no support around you to tell you that the thing that you’re trying to do the the, the taking up the martial art, why are you, why are you training this Taekwondo bulls***t like, you know, f***ing six nights a week, why are you coaching all of these mums and all of these like old guys and how to do Tai Chi or whatever? Why are you doing that? Well, because maybe I’m sort of pulled to it and there is this temptation to go back to your old ways of thinking. Go back to the road that you already know how it’s going to end.

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But maybe you could get what would really be good for you. Well, why don’t you? Well, because you don’t try. You don’t think, okay, here’s what I would like if I could have it. And I don’t mean, I don’t mean in a way that you manipulate the world to force it to deliver you goods for status or something like that. That isn’t what I mean. I mean something like, imagine that you were taking care of yourself like you were someone you actually cared for. And then you thought, okay, I’m caring for this person. I would like things to go as well for them as possible.

What would their life have to be like in order for that to be the case? Well, people don’t do that. They don’t sit down and think, all right, you know, let’s let’s figure it out. You’ve got a life. It’s hard, obviously. It’s like, three years from now, you can have what you need. You’ve got to be careful about it. You can’t have everything. You can have what would be good for you, but you have to figure out what it is. And then you have to aim at it.

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because a lot of people will, and some of these motivational people out here, it’s the funniest thing in the world to me, they’ll go and say, when you wake up in the morning, pound your chest, you know, look at yourself in the mirror and do all this fucking bullshit. I hope it works. What works for me is that everyday resume. The things I know I’ve accomplished, the things I know I’ve done, real hard work. The real calluses on my mind, the real calluses on my hands. That’s it. That you don’t need to pound your chest in the mirror and fuck anymore if you have that.

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And for one year, I had a call every Wednesday with a writing coach. And every call would begin with him asking one question. How many words did you write this week? And he pushed me to measure how many words I wrote each day, how many words I wrote each week. And early on, it was very painful. It felt like I was putting a lot of energy into writing. But the actual number of words being produced day after day, week after week was very low. And it was only when I really got this measure and made sure that I looked at this measure each morning,

each day, each evening, each week, each session with my coach, that I started to realize that so much of the effort was in my head and not turning into words on a page. And it’s only when you measure something that really clarifies whether you’re getting the actions done that you start to realize whether you have discipline or not.

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Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either because they’re too scared, or they don’t recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance, and you shouldn’t let it go by. I mean, you remember when you busted the guts out of the ball the other day? Someone’s telling you something, kid. If I was you, I’d listen.

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That passion is all over there. Why? Because winners win. And I can’t explain it to you, but you better stop making excuses and find a way to win. Because once you start winning, you go from 1,500 to 3,000 to 5,000 to 7,000. You remember, see? From 7 to 10, nothing changed. We’re still in the basement. We don’t have a building. We still use the garage for all of our products. We don’t have business cards. We don’t have a five-year plan. We don’t have a three-year plan. How do you do it then? We wake up and grind. Winners win. I focus more on winning than I focus on structure.

I focus on winning. And when you become a winner, they start seeing you with winners. You get from being a loser, low self-esteem, doubt, and fear. And if you can find your way on this side, guys, it’s sweeter on this side. You know what’s so funny? We want people to make guarantees to us, but we’re not willing to make guarantees to ourselves.

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I know it hurts. I know it hurts. That is the lead indicator, not even the lagging indicator. That is the lead indicator that you are doing the right thing. And lots of people listen to this podcast. I get messages from people like, hey man, I’m a 22 year old rugby player from the Northwest of the UK. I live in Cumbria. None of my friends understand me. I want to do personal growth. I don’t want to live in the UK. And when I listen to Modern Wisdom, I feel less alone. And it makes me tear up because I’m like, I see me in that person. I see me in that.

And it’s so hard to reframe it. The pushback you are getting is the indicator that you are doing the right thing. It is. And if you can reframe the distaste that you get from other people as the same as that.

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embrace the process and don’t look for what you are supposed to be fully completely polished, sharpened, edged, tempered at 26 or 36 at 46. You’ve got a lot more forge time left. You’ve got a lot more hammer blows left, and it takes time. but if you will patiently embrace the process then by the time you get up in years you can be a man that you’re proud of. Okay so this is just an encouragement to just chill out, just chill out, embrace the process. You say Dwayne want process? Life.

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Yeah, it’s crazy to sometimes think like What can happen if we decide like i’m gonna see what happens when I decide that I am qualified.

What happens when I decide for myself?

That i’m gonna do something different and even when I do not feel like doing something to do it,

That my brain doesn’t dictate how My brain does not get to choose it.

My brain can feel a certain way,

But it’s not going to choose how I behave all the time.

I just can’t let it do it anymore.

I’m gonna have setbacks.

I know.

But if i’m feeling bad, that doesn’t mean i’m doing bad.

That doesn’t mean I am bad. That doesn’t mean that I can’t still take some action.

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The next morning, I went to my job and quit my job with $50. $50. I just quit. Ex-wife left me. Mother-in-law, boy, I cost her hell. Made $3,000 first year in business, 5,200 the second year, 7,300 the third year. Became homeless, lost everything I ever owned, lived in a car for three years. I kept telling them jokes. My father was the only one who believed in me. My mother, my brothers, sisters, all my friends, man, get out of that, man. You ain’t making no money. You can’t tell no jokes. I just kept on.

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So, every morning starts with a run. And that’s because that’s the one thing I hate to do more than anything in the world. So, that’s like my cup of coffee. And I’m all about armoring yourself. So, the second you leave your house and the second you open your phone, the second you do any of that shit, you are now letting in poison and cancer. So, I make sure a lot of things you can’t avoid. So, as I get up, I start to armor plate my mind and body. Like a person’s going to war, you put your body armor on. That’s what I’m doing on that run. I’m waking up and I’m giving myself all this armor.

So, when I come out in the world, now look at that phone, I’m ready. I’m not waking up late, I’m not rushing around, I’m not disorganized because I know I’m going to get hit in the fucking mouth. There’s an art to getting hit in the fucking mouth. And that is why these things are important. You have to wake up and you have to give yourself belief.

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It wasn’t about the genetics. It was about the perseverance and it was about being the hardest working worker in the room That’s what got him there and it didn’t happen overnight They got knocked down more than he ever stood up But they kept going and kept going and kept going and kept going because what else is the alternative to be average again? That sucks, man, and it really sucks when you’ve tasted success at one point in your life,

When you when you when you have sex with a woman and it’s the best sex ever you wanted to have some sex with her again When you eat a fucking great juicy steak man, you want to have that again? When you go out and you train hard to play baseball and you connect and you hit the winning home run, you want to feel that way again. When you taste these finer things of life, All the pain, all the work, all the sacrifice to get them is well worth it. If anything, it’s a small down payment for the price and the reward you got.

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As soon as I started the gym, my passion disappeared. It became work. I had a different mentor later in my life who said, never create work around your passion because then it’ll become work. He was a guy who was a very successful business guy. I think about that actually more than I’d share because it’s just complete and utter bullshit because it assumes that what you’re going to be doing every day is the thing that you’re currently really interested, which also doesn’t make you money.

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And I remember thinking to myself momentarily that I didn’t agree with that.

That seemed actually kind of weak.

If you aren’t really truly motivated, it seems weak to fake it.

Because my whole life, I always had an aversion to fake people. Fake people with their fake way of talking and their fake way of acting and their fake voice and their fake attitude. I never liked people like this. And now I had this SEAL instructor telling us that if we weren’t truly motivated, then just to fake it. But you know what? He was right.

He was right. You see, I was already fired up. And some of the other guys were fired up as well, but not everybody was. And that had us as a class dragging.

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Pressure changes everything. Pressure. Some people you squeeze them, they focus. Others fold. Can you summon your talent and will?

Can you deliver on a deadline? Can you sleep at night?

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Well, I believe that you have to build belief. Belief is like, there’s an after school special belief where the mom says, believe in yourself, and that’s all great, but there’s also a built belief. And the built belief is one where you are constantly, like for me, I came from a bad place. How I build belief is through the daunting tasks I put myself through. So that’s proof positive that I can. So it correlates. And that’s how this piece of shit kid that I once thought I was built belief by saying, hmm, I was in three hell weeks. I went to ranger school. I tried out for Delta Selection.

Undeniable stack of proof. That is proof, mother. So whenever you think you can’t, the confidence comes from the thing that you built. You must build belief. You must build confidence.

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And the man that I am today, the father that I would be today, if children were to come along today, that’s not the man I was before. And that’s not the father I could have been before. Okay. A blade, a blade does not become strong. It does not become tempered until it’s been through the fire, until it’s been through the fire several times. And this is just your first or second time through the fire. And there’s a lot of hammer work that has to take place. And then you’re going to have to go back in the forge again. And it’s hot and it melts you down and you’re uncomfortable.

And then life is going to pull you out and it’s going to put you on an anvil and it’s going to hammer on you some more. And you’re going to say, well, am I done yet? Am I a sword for the ages? Uh, no, no, you’re not. Uh, you’re not done yet.

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So be very careful in evaluating your discipline, your capacity to turn ideas into action by some measure of whether you feel like you’re making an effort. Because your mind will cheat you into believing you’re being really busy, you’re being really, putting a lot of effort. For me, it was brutal. The feeling in me was I was putting a lot of time and a lot of effort and a lot of energy into writing. But those early weeks seeing that it was resulting in so few words being written. Videos, make a video. A video is a very clear measure of whether you’ve finished something or not.

So again, reminder this week, life rewards action, not intelligence. Action leads you to grow, leads you to engage with others. Action, everything good in life happens when you’re off the sofa and engaging with the world.

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Somebody gave you a guarantee: $30 30-day guarantee, in 30 days. If you don’t make what they told you is gonna make in 30 days, You got an attitude: you want your money back. but you’ve never demanded your money back from yourself. You’ve never looked at yourself in the mirror and said you let you down until you get to that point you let you down You’ve never you’re not brave enough. You want to put it on somebody else. The reason why I’m not successful is because of my boss Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said I’m not getting up on time I’m not going to work on time.

I’m not putting in a hundred and twenty percent when I’m at work I let me down and when you get to the point where you can say you let you down I don’t can’t listen to me. No disrespect. I don’t care about Glenn. That’s not why I do what I do and I love Glenn I don’t come here and do what I do so Glenn can affirm me so he can give me a pat on my back I care more about me than I care about what Glenn thinks about me. I have standards. I have values.

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we have a circuit breaker, okay? And I’m loading everything up to one f***ing circuit. Just load it up. It’s going to f***ing blow. And once that thing blows, man, the circuit’s all f***ed up. You got to have each thing plugged into the right spot, like a f***ing crowded garage. You can’t put anything in it. Once your brain is crowded, discipline is great, motivation is great, but if you can’t fit s*** in your brain because it’s all f***ing cluttered with s***, there’s no discipline. You may have it sometimes when it fits in that crowded garage of your mind,

but you don’t have the consistency that you need to have with that discipline.

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a relationship between confidence and competence. So what you’re looking to do is try and have what you believe that you can do be ahead of what you can do. Now you’re not looking for it to be delusional. You don’t want it to be able to believe that you can do something like fly, right? But you need to have a relationship between the two. But what people are asking for is for their confidence to be so far ahead of their competence that, without having even been competent at anything in the beginning. And that’s just delusion, that’s fantasy. Right.

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There’s nothing out there for me.

And that’s the problem. You hung up your cape and your cowl, but you didn’t move on. You never went to find a life, to find someone.

Alfred, I did find someone.

I know, and you lost them. But that’s all part of living, sir. But you’re not living. You’re just waiting, hoping for things to go bad again. Remember when you left Gotham? Before all this, before Batman, you were gone seven years. Seven years I waited, hoping that you wouldn’t come back.

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That feeling once felt how do you ever turn your back on it? Stop running from the potential of what you can be guys. It’s inside of you. It’s always been there. Grab a buddy of yours, Say man me and you can do this together and you don’t be on my ass up our start slacking I’m gonna be on your ass. What’s our slacking and I’ll never accept mediocre again I’m always gonna give it my hundred and ten percent. That’s the only thing I can ever say. a Solid day’s work- That fact that you had the ability to do something and you’re too weak to turn the key and start the engine on it-

Is a greater disappointment and a greater burden to carry than any. this physical sweat, equity or pain in the gym or or sacrifice- all that is just Nothing compared to a life That I’ve had to put up with.

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I think it’s just exploring new arenas.

So, you know, you’re doing some stuff and there’s something that looks like it might be interesting to me and I’ll go try that thing out and don’t always win, but I’ll give it a crack and see what happens. And I’m not, you know, I, I very, I’m very much an iterative decision maker, meaning I make very small decisions at a time. I don’t go all in on some chance, you know, I’m a little bit more methodical than that. And so, yeah, I see something that seems like it’s a good opportunity or something that I’m interested in. I’ll go give it a crack and if it works, then cool, I’ll do more of it.

And if it doesn’t work, then well, maybe I’ll back off.

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They’ll be at the line of screamers and they’ll look at the defense the defense is off Defense is shifting. Did he call an audible? In my mind a lot of times man. I’m like it doesn’t mean I quit. Yeah, I don’t quit. You know I may not make it the first time, But i’ll come back. I gotta call an audible. I gotta fucking, I gotta, I gotta fucking get my head back in the game. I gotta, I gotta, figure this shit out. It doesn’t mean you leave. it means you study it more. It means you study it more and and whenever I feel that something people I say man How do you handle failure man?

I feel a lot dude I feel all the fucking time they go. How do you handle it? What i’m trying to do And this isn’t being arrogant man. I, I, it’s being real- Not many people are trying to do.

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But a huge part of the reason that people fail is because they don’t ever set up the criteria for success. And so, since success is a very narrow line and very unlikely, the probability that you’re going to stumble on it randomly is zero. And so there’s a proposition here, and the proposition is, if you actually want something, you can have it. Now the question then would be, well what do you mean by actually want? And the answer is that you reorient your life in every possible way to make the probability that that will occur as certain as possible. And that’s a sacrificial idea, right?

It’s like, you don’t get everything. Obviously. Obviously. But maybe you can have what you need. And maybe all you have to do to get it is ask. But asking isn’t a whim or today’s wish.

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because they’re projecting the things that they know they should be doing that you are doing that they’re not doing and you remind them of that. And so it’s that, so even though the mountain that you’re climbing is actually a smaller one than the one that you ultimately want to climb, you’re actually at the top of their mountain and so they start tearing you down. So like that’s where the underdog story that we said at the very beginning of this with the quote, which is like, on the way up, they root for you and then when you’re at the top,

they try and tear you down because you remind them of the dreams that they couldn’t accomplish, right? And so you quitting drinking or you staying in to work on your side hustle or your project or the business that you want to launch, the podcast, that might be, you might be at the top of their mountain. And so they are tearing you down because now you remind them that they haven’t done it and it’s purely a projection of them onto you and has nothing to do with you.

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You know, all of us have brothers and sisters, little brothers, little sisters who, for whatever reason, always tend to get in your stuff, your closet, your shoes, everything. It was a nuisance, if I can say that word. But that nuisance turned into love over a period of time, just because the admiration that they had for you as big brothers or big sisters. But then it turned into a certain passion.

This kid had passion like you would never know.

And it’s an amazing thing about passion. If you love something, if you have a strong passion for something, you would go to the extreme to try to understand or try to get it.

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There’s not many people that who can even open their fucking mouth And criticize me when I do fail Because i’m on, i’m, i’m trying to do shit, man, that many people aren’t trying to do. but I don’t look at failure as failure. I look at failure as Your first, second, third, fourth, fifth attempt. I look at them as attempts. I don’t look at anything as failure, because when you’re willing to try To do some, not trying is failure, That’s that’s and that’s not some after-school special shit. But when you’re able to go out, there there’s, there is no failure.

It’s attempts, because when you’re trying to do something that’s bigger than you, whatever you are, Whoever you are. if, if, if you’re paralyzed, you’re trying to walk one step and you didn’t, you didn’t fail, motherfucker, That was your first attempt. If that’s your biggest thing, That’s how your mindset needs to go into everything.

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I came from almost nothing. Believing that you can be somebody was something that was taught to me. But once I learned that the difference between him and I was just between the ears, once I was equipped with that, I started to believe that the sky was truly the limit for me. And I’m still that person today. I joined a team not knowing anything about fighting. The first team I was on, everybody had been fighting for many years. And I was a young adult when I started. And then it was to be the best fighter in New York State. And then it was to be the best American fighter.

And then it was to beat Chuck Liddell’s record. And now people consider me one of the greatest fighters who’s ever lived, considering Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. That’s all great company. And people consider me the number one fighter who’s ever lived.

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too meaningless, and not worth it.

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If you practice meditation, for example, you learn to focus on one thing, your mantra, a sound, whatever it is. You learn to, your breath, you learn to, you don’t think of nothing, you think of one thing, focus on one thing, right? And if something interrupts that thing, you have a thought. Did I leave the washing machine on? You know, you label it a thought and you push it out of your head and you say, I’ll deal with it later. And that’s the whole idea is total focus and the ability to put your thoughts out of your head, to stay focused on this one thing. .

The whole meditation practice that you’ve been doing is now valuable in this moment, where you are focused entirely on what they’re saying to you. Every distraction, every screech of a car tire outside, everybody who’s talking around you, you don’t hear any of it. You only hear what they’re saying to you. You’re entirely focused on what they’re saying to you.

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your behavior has to change. And whenever you’re doing these new things, one, there’ll be new, which means you will suck at them, which means you’ll probably not like them, but it’s also part of it. And so like I would prefer to take the extreme opposite position of everything will suck. And eventually you will get good at the things that you suck at. And then you’ll enjoy being competent at that thing, which will then probably give you status. And you’ll enjoy the fruits of status more than the pain of doing the thing.

And in so doing create a positive feedback loop that you’ll actually keep sticking with it. And so I’d rather set the expectation that everything is terrible all the time forever. Now, let’s see if we can make our, now let’s see if we can become the person who can still do it anyways. Um, and start that as the baseline, rather than trying to assume that I need perfect conditions in order to start. Because I mean, starting is the perfect condition, like whatever condition that you’re in, that you start was the perfect condition.

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I came from a small town in Indiana where there was a handful of black families. And a lot of people in that town, when you come from a town of 8,000 8,000 people, it’s like we had a local plant, Great Dane. You’re like, you know what? I wanna work at Great Dane and get a house next to my mom. That’s what you know. Our mind works in such a small compartment. And one thing I was able to do was to dream. Many people, but don’t make dreams your master. But I was able to dream outside those four walls of that small town. And until you’re able to really put yourself into that dream,

but don’t make dreams your master, that’s where you truly become what you’re destined to become.

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The guys that weren’t truly motivated, they started to fake it. They started to yell, hoo-yah, and they started to pretend like they were fired up. And all of a sudden, the mood of the class changed.

It went from dreary and dragging and negative, and people started to get fired up. And they started to yell louder. And the next thing you know, we were having a good time.

And the instructor was right. If you’re not motivated to do something, pretend that you are. Fake it. Because false motivation is better than no motivation.

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I value myself enough to give a hundred and twenty percent or don’t do it That’s the problem with some of you you always want to blame other people you always want to you want to hold other people to The fire, but you’re not holding yourself to the fire. You just say you’re giving 50% You owe you an explanation You owe you an explanation. You need to look at yourself in the mirror and say why are you only giving 50%? What’s wrong with you? You need to put yourself on punishment. You need to tell you no more TV. No more snacks, No more desserts. No more. No, we working out now.

No, no more alcohol. Not right now. Not no I can’t handle it right now. You need to tell you that you owe you something Stop going back to you. You keep going to the mall with the receipt. This is what y’all said It was Glenn you didn’t do what you say He was gonna do what you didn’t do what you were supposed to do So, how am I gonna do what I’m supposed to do for you?

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And what we have to study, I think, is how does this non-physical part of my mind work? What happens when I think? Where do thoughts come from? How was this chair built? Somebody had to think. Thoughts are everywhere. And we pull thoughts into our mind and we build pictures or images in our mind. What we want to understand is that’s a non-physical side of ourself. that’s, If I can build an image of something in my mind, I’m quite capable of building a physical replica of it in my world. So if I build an image of me as a happy, relaxed person, I can live like that.

If I build an image of myself as being prosperous, I can become prosperous.

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I would have never imagined it, but my belief is so high in me now that it’s like, of course, that’s how I feel now. Of course, I’m the best. I feel, of course, I can do more. And I don’t say that in an arrogant way. I just know that I have the wisdom, I have the team, I have the faith in myself, I have the faith in God, and I’ve surrounded myself with a winning formula. So I’m very confident in this formula. I just know that I have the wisdom, I have the faith in myself, I have the faith in God, and I’ve surrounded myself with a winning formula.

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for your burden by regret guys.

I hope you guys get what the f*** I’m saying. I’m telling you what man, once you get it, come on over this side of the fence, you don’t see f***ing problems anymore man. Uh-uh. You see situations. You see possibilities. And you can’t wait to get them started man. You’re like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn’t matter about the past, it’s today. What are we doing today? What are we going to engage now? And once we engage, we commit. There’s no half commitment, there’s no quarter commitment, there’s no three quarter, it’s full commitment.

Once we engage, it’s every f***ing day we engage. Because that’s the better life. And the people you surround yourself are like-minded. And they’re better friends. Friends and family for life man. They have your back. They’re solid individuals doing solid tasks, leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That’s a f***ing solid life man. It’s your option though.

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If you’re going through that right now, and I promise you, every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you’re going through, and it’s the lonely chapter. It’s the chapter where you don’t fit in with your own friends, but you don’t have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends. And you’re doing this thing, you’re consuming content on the internet, you’re doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and where do I host this thing?

And I know that’s not where you want to be.

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A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure, or dream about being a SEAL, or dream about being an astronaut, and all it is is a motherfucking dream. They don’t put the work behind the dream. That dream has become their fucking master. When you become the master of your fucking dream is when you say, I want to go be a Navy SEAL, and you say, okay, I’m going to lose 106 pounds in less than three fucking months. The dream was the one thing I thought about, and the dream was now gone. Now, what comes in, the dream goes away,

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What do you want to drive? How do you want to live? Stop just waking up like an accident. What do you want? And then once you find out what you want, spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it. The reason why I speak with so much passion, E.T., why do you speak with so much authority? Because I’m talking about my life, not something that I read. I ate out of trash cans. I had no business eating out of trash cans. I lived in abandoned buildings. I had no business living in abandoned buildings. But E.T., your daddy wasn’t in your life. Your mom was a teenage mother.

You grew up, come on, look at your search. That’s not an excuse. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential, no excuse. I told you, I didn’t get a new daddy. I didn’t get a new mama. What changed? I changed, and I stopped being a victim. I stopped saying I’ve got to wait for good things to happen to me, and I said, I’m gonna grind.

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You look at the enemy situation and you probe for areas of weakness. And once you find an area of weakness, you put more resources behind that area and assaulting that area. And if you continue to get good results, you put more resources and you continue to do well. And if you hit a wall, it’s interesting that the terms that they use is surfaces and gaps. So like surfaces is I hit, it’s like defenses. So if I hit- No penetration. A surface, no penetration. If I hit a gap, I’m gonna exploit more. And that’s pretty much what I’m doing and what I’ve been doing for a long time.

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But you can’t wait till it line up. You gotta jump. If you ever planning on soaring, you gonna have to jump. Now I don’t suggest you jumping like I did. That ain’t for the faint of heart. But if you don’t do it now, when you gonna do it? So I jumped.

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The only problem is you didn’t build Berkshire Hathaway. And so no one gives a shit. And so the thing is, is that we use someone’s evidence and authority as a filter for how little we need to process the information. Because if you’re listening to a teacher, you have to then think, okay, can I separate the message from the person? Can I independently analyze this and say, is it good, is it bad? If Warren Buffett says, you should buy this, you don’t need to analyze it. You figure he knows more than me, he has more perspective, and I will just take it as fact.

And so it’s actually lazy consumption on behalf of everyone else that gives authority so much resonance and so much shareability because they’re also protected. Because if you share something Elon says, you’re protected by Elon and his brand. And so the hard work is getting to the point where you have the evidence that people are willing to feel safe agreeing with you. And the only way for them to feel safe agreeing with you is for you to disagree with them for a very long period of time until you prove that you’re right.

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You walk out of this room you owe yourself. I didn’t get here making excuses, So what? my father wasn’t in my life. the truth of the matter is he ain’t never coming in my life, So what I’m gonna wait for the rest of my life for my man to come he ain’t coming. I live in America I’m an african-american male. They don’t treat us the same. It’s something called racism. I ain’t gonna cry about it It’s probably gonna be racism to the day I die, but I’m not gonna cry about it. I’m still gonna be a millionaire. I’m still gonna be one of the top motivational speakers in the world.

No, I didn’t grow up on that side of the town. No, my mama don’t have no network No, I don’t know a whole lot of people. No, I’m not at a country club No, I don’t play golf and I don’t plan on playing no time soon, but I’m still gonna be successful I’m still gonna get you where they are. Why cuz I owe it to myself And can’t nobody stop me, but me And you need to get rid of them excuses and you need to stop pointing fingers at people And you start pointing fingers at yourself. What did you not do?

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Find the measure of something that matters. Pay attention to whether you’re making progress on the actions that lead to that measure. And look at what needs to happen in your discipline so that you value action above thinking or intending to take action.

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Nietzsche said, I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn’t be a reason to not pursue it. That’s exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk? The only true failure is shrinking away from life’s challenges. And I do wonder how many people use the look in the mirror, pound the chest, stare into your eyes, say your affirmations, don’t get the results, and then lose confidence.

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What would you call that?

Damn good television.

It’s a miracle no one was killed.

I didn’t have time to observe the rules of the road, Alfred.

You’re getting lost inside this monster of yours.

I’m using this monster to help other people just like my father did.

For Thomas Wayne, helping others wasn’t about proving anything to anyone, including himself.

It’s Rachel, Alfred. She was dying. She’s downstairs sedated and needs you to take her home.

Well, we both care for Rachel, sir. But what you’re doing has to be beyond that. It can’t be personal or you’re just vigilante.

Is Fox still here?

Yes, sir.

We need to send these people away now.

Those are Bruce Wayne’s guests out there, sir. You have a name to maintain.

I don’t care about my name.

It’s not just your name, sir. It’s your father’s name. And it’s all that’s left of him.

Don’t destroy it.

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Never wait on the right time, because the right time ain’t ever coming. All that, I’m gonna get my ducks lined up in a row. No you won’t. No you won’t. Because as you have aspirations, you gotta understand that the devil understands your aspirations too. The devil’s job is to rob you of your destiny. So there will always be an obstacle. So if you’re waiting on the right time, you’ll never make the move. You have to go. See, devil, he only has one job. To rob you of what God intended for you to be. That’s his only job. So he has a lot of people that work for him full time.

They’re called haters. And they at work all the time. And you all experienced with them too. And so what you gotta do is, when you have these ideas of greatness, you gotta go forward. Because it’s not gonna be a right time. Just go. Just go, go jump, take a chance.

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If you think of the outcome as the trump card, then all of the pain and suffering that you lead up to that point, if you’re just, I’m trying to think of an appropriate saying, I was gonna say balls deep certain, that no matter what, you will die or you will get there, then the likelihood that all of the things that you’ve done up to that point will then be justified in retrospect is super high. And I actually see that as super compelling as a thing to latch onto in harder times.

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you know when your wife and kids are on your ass because you don’t know how to support them anymore There comes a keen day where push comes to shove We’re being mediocre being like average and shit just King burns. It sucks so much You can’t deal with it one more day and you get off your ass and you create something. It’s always been there, It’s always been inside of you trying to come out, But you’ve never wanted to unwrap it because there’s too much campaign and commitment.

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Every day, because I have a vision, I have my confidence, and I believe in myself. People call it arrogant, I call it confidence. Ignorant people call it arrogant, intelligent people call it confidence. But have you ever had one where you say something, and then maybe not being quite that confident? Never. Since day one, but not only when I came to MLS, since I started to play football, because I believe so much in myself, and I have a bulletproof mind, and when I go out there, I know what I’m able to do, and I do it good. Last question, orange here. And I do it perfect.

Please, do not offend me. I don’t need to prove nothing, even if I don’t score the goals today. And I have a lot of respect for Vellad. He’s a good player, but you did one mistake, you compare him with me. That was your biggest mistake.

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I’m alone and look at me. There’s nobody around me. Nobody likes me, man. It is what it is. Sometimes in life, people are not going to be around you to motivate you. They’re not going to be around you to push you, to celebrate you, to applause you. You got to do it on your own. That’s what I’m doing right now.

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I can always get the job back. So like this is actually a significantly lower risk move than I’m perceiving it to be. I can just get it, I can get the job back. Or I can get another job that’s comparable. I have the experience and me doing all this stuff only makes me more valuable because I’ll have a cooler story than somebody who just did four years of this job rather than two and then did two years of things on their own. And so that was actually, that was the one argument. The secondary argument was for me, I was young at the time, I was like, this is extremely hard to do.

If you say, because I used to always tell people like, yeah, I’d like to own my own business someday. It’s almost like you tag it on to like, what do you do now? And so I thought to myself, if it’s this hard now when I have no kids, I have no life, I have no stakes, it’s going to be nearly impossible for me to do later. And so I was like, I have to do it now.

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And I seen it myself with my own eyes.

When I seen that Bentley at the boxing gym,

and I seen that diamond Rolex, I said,

I want that.

And I knew what it took.

So I know when my opponent is asleep,

I’m out there at 4 or 5 in the morning, chopping trees, working,

to this day.

Because I can retire today.

I’m well off, very comfortable.

But I got the will to win.

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I pretend like I have zero options. I say, well, if I don’t fucking do this, bro, I’m gonna be digging ditches. So I better show the fuck up and get it done. And that might sound ridiculous to you because that’s not the truth anymore, but I still tell myself that and that’s how I operate. So you have to pick something and then you have to commit to it for as long as that’s going to take to make sure that you see it through. And the other thing people do is they pick something and then when it gets hard, they decide they want to change to one of the other options.

And then when that gets hard, they change to one of the other options. And you can’t get anywhere with that either. You’re gonna have to realize that whatever you pick, there’s gonna be ups, there’s gonna be downs. There’s gonna be times when you love it. There’s gonna be times when you hate it, when you’d rather do anything else but that. But you have to keep going because it takes that long to materialize into success. Now, in terms of what you want to pick, there’s a lot of different philosophies on this and a lot of different thought processes.

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Interested people watch obsessed people change the world. You think about the technology boom, all the things that happened. With everything that’s going on, those individuals were obsessed. They were obsessed.

They weren’t interested.

And you know what obsessed people do? Obsessed people give interested people something to talk about. They give you something to talk about. Everybody that who’s obsessed, everybody who’s obsessed in their business, in their field of action, they are the topic of the conversation of the employees at work. They’re the water cooler conversations. They’re the individuals people are texting about. Because they’re so engrossed in your life, with your obsession, with what you’re doing, they don’t have time for their own. Because they’re interested in what’s going on with them.

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hard times create hard men, hard men create soft times, soft times create soft men, soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times.

We’re in the time of toxic masculinity, right? Where you can be toxically male. And then if you’re suppressing masculinity, you’re going to bring on hard times. It doesn’t mean, masculinity doesn’t mean you’re mean, it doesn’t mean you’re angry, it means strength. It means discipline, it means the ability, like you need a military. And if you don’t think you need a military, you need to go and pay attention to the rest of the world because there’s militaries all over the world that are doing horrific things.

If you don’t have a military in this country that can combat that and at least act as a deterrent to them doing things, you’re going to get taken over. That’s what’s happened.

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Everybody’s full of shit. Nobody knows you or what you’re capable of doing. And here’s the reality. The hardest thing in life is figuring out who you are and what you want to do for the rest of your life. It’s a big decision. I’m very blessed and lucky. I always knew who I was and exactly what I wanted to do. And once you figure that out, you wake up every day and you work toward it. That’s what you do. It’s impossible for you to fail if you know who you are, what you want to do, and you wake up every day and work toward it.

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I’m a man that’s going to honor his contract. When I was with HBO, I honored my contract. When I was with Top Rank, I honored my contract. And these young fighters right here will tell you, I’m a man of my word. If I could tell you, you got to work with me now. Don’t work against me, work with me. If I tell you that I can get you to a certain point, because my thing is this, I teach you how to fish. I don’t fish for you. I tell these guys I can put you in a position to fight for the title, , but you have to win the fights. I can’t fight for you.

I put on my shoes, I put on my clothes, like everyone in here have good days, I have bad days.

I’m only going to have my bad days in a boxing gym.

Cause I’m an under the lights type fighter. Cause when I go under them lights, no matter how I win, I win. I win.

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Winners win in every environment. Like I truly do not, you could put Kamala Harris in there tomorrow, I don’t give a fuck, I’m still gonna get up and go to work, winners win every day. But losers will pay attention to who the president is and complain and self-check themselves out of a game that they could’ve won if they would’ve just got the fuck and work. And that’s a shame. But do I think it’s the people themselves? No, I think that in a macro scenario, these kids were born in the zoo. They don’t know how to hunt, they don’t know what real work looks like.

They’ve been told their whole life they’re enough and that they need to be pampered too. And that’s just not the truth of the world. And as much as I enjoy fulfilling and helping young men, I’m okay with their still being a 1%. Let them be losers, they can work for me and you, bro.

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So if you feel like right now you’re looking around with and you’re lost or directionless, I would take about 15 minutes and figure out what the hell you want to do with your life, and I would start getting after it. So that’s, that’s my advice. Take 15 minutes, figure out something that you’re into and go crush that thing and, and make it happen.

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When you push yourself that hard, you sleep easy at night. And it’s not because you’re physically tired. It’s not because physically you’re worn out that you sleep easy. It’s that by going, the physical exhaustion, your brain can finally rest, knowing you gave it your all. So when you physically push yourself that hard, you sleep easy, because your mind’s at rest. And you did everything you could to be a champion that day.

That’s the difference.

That’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground and do it again.

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We talk about the path And we talk about discipline and we talk about living clean. but it is not an easy path. it is filled with temptations and pitfalls and hazards and traps And it’s hard to stay on the path. And if you fall off it can seem even harder to get back on. But you can do it. you got to be honest with yourself. do not be a slave. Don’t be a slave to drugs or booze or emotion or whatever. Weakness is trying to be your master. Don’t allow it.

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Tell the truth, call out your own weaknesses, then impose discipline, impose your will, and climb back up onto the path and set yourself free.

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Most people, the bottom 80% are lazy. And it’s something that it’s not polite to talk about. But most people are lazy. And they’re looking for an easy way. They’re looking for a shortcut to be successful. And there aren’t any. But if you do something repeatedly, over and over, you develop a habit. So most people are in the habit of looking for easy ways to get the things they want. And they’re surrounded by people who think the same way. You know, as much as 95% of your thinking is determined by the people that you associate with on a regular basis.

If you associate with people who don’t work hard, don’t learn, socialize after work, then you become like them. You think like them. You talk like them. You dress like them. You marry them. And so you’re married to someone who also has no ambition.

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no more gray decisions in your life. It either serves the man or the woman you want to become, the business you want, the father you want to be, the wife you want to be, the mom you want to be, the leader you want to be, the business you want to have. Your actions either serve and take you towards that version of yourself, or those actions take you away from that. If you get rid of, well, maybe kind of, you know, surfing on my phone a little bit, or doing this a little bit, or binging on Netflix a little bit, or hanging out with those negative people a little bit. No, no, no.

You want to go to the next level, you know what it’s like to generate the kind of money, impact, and purpose that you know you can and want to, then there’s no gray anymore. It either takes you towards the person you want to be, or it takes you away. Everything else is a no.

It’s time for you to make a not to-do list. You’ve had a to-do list your whole life.

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God put it in your imagination. He don’t put it in other people’s imagination. Stop telling your visions to other people because they not gonna see it. Why you think you keep imagining opening a business? Why you keep imagining graduating, getting a better job? Why do you keep imagining buying a house? Why do you keep imagining driving a really nice car? Why do you keep imagining getting rich one day? Why do you keep imagining that? Because God is talking to you.

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When I was a kid, I was wondering, kind of, what’s the meaning of life? Like, why are we here? What’s it all about? And I came to the conclusion that what really matters is trying to understand the right questions to ask.

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Yeah, if you grind hard man, I got time to worry about your monkey ass. I ain’t got time We’re about you man, because tomorrow I got to go back to the grind and Tomorrow I go back to the grind again and again and again again. I don’t have time to put you into the hate bank There’s no hate. It’s all filtered out man through the grind. You don’t get it. There’s there’s great joy in the grind Great joy in the suffer. It’s totally cleanses your body out man of any kind of hate, makes you grow up. You know, I’m not gonna lie.

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There really are only two macro level motivators that we have in life, and that’s pleasure and pain. And so what I want people to understand is, okay, so if nature only gave you two things to motivate you, pleasure and pain, why would you eliminate half of them? And so most people think that life is about avoiding the pain. I’m here to tell you right now, in a very controlled fashion, it is about really experiencing the pain, learning from it. So Ray Dalio, the most successful hedge fund manager of all time, has a perfect math equation. Pain plus reflection equals progress.

If you don’t feel the pain, you never reflect on it. So my thing is, I spend 80% of my time focused on the beautiful things in my life, the things I’m grateful for, the beautiful things that I wanna bring into existence, all of it. 20% of the time though, I’m in the darkness, man. I’m in that Tim Grover, relentless, I’m going to make this happen if I have to break myself, and I’m not afraid to lean into that because I know how powerful it is.

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I wanna be an actor man, I wanna be an actor just like you. You know, usually people say stuff to me like that. I’m like, yeah man, you know you do, just give them an encouraging word. But I was just sitting here thinking and it dawned on me, 99% of people that say stuff like that are not willing to do what it takes to make their dreams come true. The Marines have a saying, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. And that’s just real, at the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self-discipline.

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It’s pushing the water and there’s a jogger actually. Look at this. Wow. The Florida man right there for you, Blake, jogging in the hurricane.

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Effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough anymore.

And if you’re not dedicated 100%,

you’re not going to reach the level that you want.

For example, you arrive home, you had a lunch,

you do a quick nap,

and you wake up,

you play with your kids, and I have to go to the gym at least 30, 40 minutes,

but this will make the difference at the end of the day, you understand?

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But in the back of my mind, all I’m thinking about is all the times I could have won those matches that I lost by not bringing my best mindset. You’re haunted by all the opportunities that you missed by not bringing your best at that time. When you’re sitting there getting ready to serve for the match, and your mind is not thinking about where that ball place needs to be, but thinking about your family this, or this at work, or that at work. That’s greatness. Greatness is your recall on every single shot that you missed throughout a 20-some year career. Every shot.

You can go back and say, I was here. This person was in the red shirt there. Greatness is being so aware of the time of life, and the second that went by, and you can recall like it was yesterday. Greatness is being able to go back there, not making that same mistake again, and being haunted by it.

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He created you and then he even showed you what he got for you. You gotta start believing in your imagination. You gotta start talking to him about these stuff you be seeing. But you have not cause you ask not. So if you see the vision, the imagination, but you don’t ask God for it, what you want him to do? He showed it to you. Faith without works is dead. So now you got to put in work. All of y’all sitting in here, you want a better life, correct? Haven’t you imagined a better life? Okay, who you think he showed it to? He showed it to you. Why you think he showed it to you?

Cause he wanna give it to you. But if you don’t work, if you don’t ask him for it, he cannot give it to you because he created us with the power of choice. We make choices every day. If you decide that you will be poor, there’s nothing I can do. You gonna be poor.

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was say no more. Number 10, look for the little things. You know, as I was reflecting on what would be the most important life lessons to share, that term, I think I said it earlier, that comes to mind is small hinges swing big doors. And I don’t know if I would have caught that in my 20s, maybe not even in my 30s, but what I realize now, it is the little things between the big things that actually move the needle the most in your life. It’s the little things that also could stop you in your tracks compared to accelerate you forward. So think about routines.

What routines do you have that maybe slow down your progress and they can be adjusted to routines that speed up your progress?

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if you change the way you think, you start to attract new people into your life. If you become aggressive about personal development and personal growth, you start to meet other people who think the same way. And the old groups of people that you associated with fall away and the new group of people appears. So people say, well, where do I find positive people who are thinking about success all the time? First, you become one, and then you will naturally attract it.

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Champions do daily what everybody do occasionally. Everybody else does. You just do it daily. You’re not- Yeah, we do. You’re not extraordinary. You just do the ordinary extra. That’s it. That’s what makes you, separates you. But it’s not for everybody. Every day you come on, you do the phone tap every day. But you just do it a little extra. Right. That’s it. Like the entire show, yeah. I could do a phone tap. Right. But I’m not gonna do it every day. Yeah. I’m not gonna be extra with it. Right. I’m not gonna dig deeper. Right. Like when that lady’s on the phone and she’s saying this,

you’re gonna take a one more step. Yeah. That’s it.

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It’s not about the vanity, guys. Everyone’s like, how do I get a six pack? How do I get a six pack? Always worried about the vanity and how they look in the mirror. No, it’s not about that. It’s about the functionality. In order to grow a shoulder and a chest and a bicep, in order to grow our legs, if we don’t have a strong enough core, we cannot stabilize ourselves in order to lift that load, to put the stress on the other muscles to grow from. So all that work that we go and we build to grow this body we want can go in vain if we don’t have a strong enough core to support it.

And with a weak core, what happens? You’re not in the gym growing, you’re in that ambulance, going to the hospital in a backwards progression, recovering instead of growing. Today, I’m gonna show you how to build that core the right way. I’m not gonna sell the sexy abs and everything else. I’m gonna sell functionality to you. I’m gonna sell you a theory that will stand the test of time. That if you put your work into the equation, everything else will grow and you can bear the fruits of that labor. .

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Work, work, work, work, work, no results, but I’m a little bit better.

Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, no results, but I’m a little bit better.

Work, work, work, work, work, no results, I’m a little bit better, work. Boom. Just got paid. I just got paid, and it looks like overnight success. It’s like, oh, shit, it happened in a year. No, bro, it doesn’t, because if you do all those things, even if nothing happens, and you know you’re doing the right thing, and you’re on track, overnight success becomes this easy thing, because you were internally growing, and then the bubble popped, and then boom, it looks like you were doing it all along. And I think a lot of people, they can’t push gratitude down the road.

That was something we were taught in the 80s. I feel like 80s, 90s, right? You mean delaying gratification. Yeah, delaying gratification. That’s a muscle I think that a young man right now doesn’t normally have.

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You know, something as simple as food and eating, it’s not about your body as much as it is about your mind. It’s getting command of your mind to be able to choose actions that are in your own best interest. Every day, we are choosing shit that’s not in our own best interest. Right? So if the world is attacking you and the world wants to fight you and the world’s trying to hold you down, so you’re gonna kick yourself in the balls? You’re gonna stop yourself from getting what you dream. Self-discipline is the center of all material success.

You cannot win the war against the world if you can’t win the war against your own mind.

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You can’t be weak. And in this country, being weak is thought of as a virtue. Jordan Peterson has a really interesting way of looking at this. He said it to me once and it made a lot of sense. He said, people think that you should be weak and you should be docile and then you should be a pacifist. He goes, no, you should be a monster. He said you should be a monster, you should be ruthlessly ambitious and then learn how to control it. And it’s that old expression. It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

It’s an old expression but it makes sense. Because it doesn’t mean that you can’t be kind if you’re strong, but it does mean you can’t be strong if you’re weak. If you’re weak, you’re fucked. And there’s a lot of weak people in this country right now that are trying to take control. And they’re gathering up all the other weak people and they say, yeah, let’s all be weak together.

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I would say the first step is change expectation for appreciation, right? Like the expectations that we have to do whatever it is that we want to do, switch it to like it’s almost a mindset of I don’t have to, I get to, right? Approach everything with a level of gratitude. Secondly, look at the things that you do and see what you can extract from it. So when you lose it, is it really a loss if I can extract a level of dedication from it? Like when I didn’t make it to the NFL, I looked at the process and said, okay, I got to hang up the cleats, but let me extract that mindset.

Let me extract that work ethic. Let me extract that dedication and commitment. So now that I can extract that, I can apply it to anything that I want to do in my life and get a chance at success.

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And the more society changes, the less important that list is. We’re to a point now where even mainstream colleges don’t even require, or mainstream jobs don’t even require college degrees anymore. See what I’m saying? Things are changing, yeah. And so being of sound mind and learning how to critically think and learning how to think outside the box to get to the destination that you want to get to is extremely important. And you should have the foresight to do that before you spend all this time dedicated to that thing and then figuring out that you can’t get where you want to go.

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there are no solutions, only trade-offs. What’s that mean to you?

That you’re never gonna completely solve anything in your life or in the world, and there’s always gonna be compromises that you have to make. And if you aren’t willing to make those compromises or you don’t keep your mind open for those compromises, you’re gonna run into some real problems. But if you look at it and the fact that you know you might put a little more effort over here and it’s gonna take away from some effort over there, you can’t just do everything at once. So yeah, no solutions, only trade-offs.

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Well, everybody, it’s Groundhogs Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about three o’clock in the morning and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing, not a car or a person in sight. People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car. There’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hate it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it.

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Today was a different game. Today was about a rival game. Two teams from the same city and obviously we need to get this attitude for every game. The last game before this one was very poor. It was probably the worst game we did and today was probably the best game we did. But that’s what I said in MLS. Every game is like 50-50. You don’t know what the outcome will be. There is no favorites. There is no team that you can predict before the game that they will win. That’s the balance that is in the MLS. But yeah, today we win and we show that when we want it, we can do it.

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It’s like we forgot who we are, Tom.

Explorers, pioneers, not caretakers. We used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars.

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When I don’t wanna come here and I don’t wanna do this and I get tired of doing what I do, which happens to everybody, you go through ups and downs.

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Most of the reason that we’re afraid to fail is because we’re afraid of dying in an abstract reality. We think, oh, we catastrophize. Okay, I’ll lose my job and then no one will like me and then I won’t be able to get a job again and then I’ll be homeless and then I’ll die. That’s how we go. But when I thought through it, I was like, what would actually happen? So if I went there and I failed, what would I do? I was like, well, I’d apply to business school and I’d have this cool story and they like entrepreneurs. They’re people who try to do things. So this would be fine. This would be okay.

And I have plenty of friends who would let me sleep on the couch if I had to. I could go back to mom and dad’s house with my tail between my legs, which I thought that was honestly the most horrifying thing that I could imagine going back home as a failure.

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Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships? You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball? You think Jeff Bezos was just interested in shipping packages?

You think Elon Musk is just interested in whatever the hell he’s interested in today? Those individuals are obsessed. They are obsessed. In order to be the best, in order to reach that next level you can no longer be interested. Interested is a hobby. You can be interested in many things. Oh, I’m interested in reading. I’m interested in gardening. I’m interested in cars. You can fall in and out of your interest. But your obsession stays with you all the time. You have to become obsessed.

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You gotta look at things and say, like at a certain point, eliminate the outcome. Stop being driven by rewards. Stop being driven by outcomes. Stop being driven by: if I get this, I’m gonna do this, . Just work. And if you don’t get what you thought you were gonna get, show up and still go to work. Because along the process, what’s more important? What you acquire or who you become? Yeah, that’s big. And a lot of people think what they acquire is the thing that makes them who they are. No, it’s who you become in the process of chasing what you wanna acquire.

Change expectation for appreciation. Extract the lessons and the blessings from the situations that didn’t turn out the way you wanted them to turn out. But most importantly, man, approach it and eliminate the outcome. Just go for it, work. Go to work.

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Because sometimes you just got to make it happen, dude. You got to figure out how to make it happen. And, you know, within the constraints and the boundaries that they give us in society, you know, thinking like a normal person, right? Go to high school, go to college, get the house with the white picket fence, have 2.5 kids, work, you know, your next 70 years, and then retire when you’re fucking 107, right? Like, that’s not how entrepreneurs think. Entrepreneurs don’t think like that. They don’t even buy into the, what I call the list.

The list is what you’re supposed to do, what they told you you’re supposed to do.

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I see all this potential and I see it squandered.

God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars,

advertising as is chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no great war, no Great Depression.

Our great war is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives.

All been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact and we’re very, very pissed off.

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Side to side, move your head. Watch him now, watch him. Remember he’s got two hands, right? Move, move, move, move, move, move. Damn man, what the hell are you doing? This guy will knock you on your ass.

Come on, Rock, it’s not a game. You want to live in the hospital for five weeks this time? You thought I was tough? This jump will kill you. Alright. Come on, come on, get your head on your shoulders, man. Think about the fight, think about the fight. What’s the matter with you? Tomorrow. Let’s do it tomorrow. There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!

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Tired 14 days, 13 days, whatever the hell it is. Don’t mean nothing.

Tired is only in the mind. You tell yourself you’re tired, you’re going to be tired. I don’t get tired. Lakeshore, we coming home.

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If you feel like you’re performing well, you’re physically healthy, you’re getting all the work done that you need to do. you’re naturally more of a late night, late morning type person, I’d run with it.

If you were telling me, yeah, sometimes I get up, sometimes I don’t, sometimes I work late, sometimes I don’t, I don’t work out every day, sometimes I feel groggy. If you were telling me that kind of thing, I’d say, okay, pick a time and start waking up at that time every day. It doesn’t have to be 4.40, it could be eight o’clock, could be seven o’clock, doesn’t matter, could be 11 o’clock, but try and go to bed around the same time and try and wake up around the same time. And that’s gonna be a great foundation for everything that you’re doing.

And I would say, when you wake up in the morning, do some kind of exercise, because I think that is very helpful in getting your day started correctly.

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The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. Right? I will run. You would not be outworked. I will not be outworked. Right. Period. Yeah. You know, you might have more talent than me. You might be smarter than me. You might be sexier than me. You might be all of those things. You got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, right, there’s two things. You’re getting off first, or I’m going to die.

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and start doing pull-ups. And if you can’t do one pull-up, hang on that bar, and you’re gonna start to get a little bit stronger. You’re gonna start to get a little bit healthier. You’re gonna start to get more focused. You’re gonna start to become more resilient, and you’re gonna start to be able to do a pull-up, and you’re gonna start to eat healthy all the time, and you’re gonna start to understand the world better, and you’re gonna start to progress in every aspect of your life.

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Our generation is going to have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation like self-driving cars and trucks. But we have the potential to do so much more than that. Every generation has its defining works. More than 300,000 people worked to put that man on the moon, including that janitor. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio, and millions of more people built the Hoover Dam and other great projects. And now it’s our generation’s turn to do great things. Now I know, maybe you’re thinking, I don’t know how to build a dam.

I don’t know how to get a million people involved in anything. Well, let me tell you a secret. No one does when they begin. Ideas don’t come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.

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So if you see the vision, the imagination, but you don’t ask God for it, what you want him to do? He showed it to you. Faith without works is dead. So now you got to put in work. All of y’all sitting in here, you want a better life, correct? Haven’t you imagined a better life? Okay, who you think he showed it to? He showed it to you. Why you think he showed it to you? Because he want to give it to you. But if you don’t work, if you don’t ask him for it, he cannot give it to you because he created us with the power of choice. We make choices every day.

If you decide that you will be poor, there’s nothing I can do. You’re gonna be poor. If you decide to be rich today, who gonna stop you? If you decide you want to be rich, all you gotta do is start. Why not? Who gonna stop you?

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Whatever it is that you need to start, just get started. I meant start with whatever God places on the on the inside of you. You may not think it’s big to other people, but it may be big to you. It could be starting a lawn care service or child care service. It could be starting doing somebody’s hair or their nails or their lashes or whatever it is, but just start. Make a business plan. Start. Start on your business plan. Start on your logo. Start on your domain name. Just start. Start working on your book. Start working on your choreography. Start on that book of poems. Start. Just start.

Start doing something. Start that exercise plan. Start that healthy eating plan. I don’t want to call it a diet. It ought to be a lifestyle. Start it. Just start. Just start it.

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Because you can’t finish anything until you start something. But there’s always the fear of expectation when we go to loose anything creative out to a world waiting. It’s the unknown. And so it does, it stays in our head, and it’s safe there, and it’s warm, and we can realize it, but in order for us to loose it and get it out there to finish, we have to start writing it down. And as we write those features, and as it starts to take shape in front of us, the words just keep building and spilling off the page. and then all of a sudden that intimidation comes in,

that expectation rises and we’re like, Oh my God, I can’t meet that. And worse yet, is we look out to that world, and we start to project our expectation on them.

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So people always ask me,

when they saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days, they said,

why is it that you’re working out so hard,

five hours a day, six hours a day,

and you have always a smile on your face?

The others are working out just as hard as you do,

and they look sour in the face.

Why is that?

And I told people all the time, I said, because to me,

I’m shooting for a goal.

In front of me is the Mr. Universe title.

So every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal,

to make this goal, this vision,

turn into reality.

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You don’t know where to go right now. So if you’re in the woods and you don’t know where to go, start walking. You gotta start walking because the perspective is not gonna change. You have to start moving forward. You have to start taking steps in order to improve your vision, improve your perspective, change your perspective, make some kind of progress. And worst case scenario, you figure out that you walked the wrong direction. Okay, now you can go walk in the other direction and that’s gonna be fine. But standing there lost and not doing anything is just waiting to die,

waiting to starve to death. Don’t let that happen.

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What’s the truth, dammit? I’m afraid! Alright? You wanna hear me say it? You wanna break me down? Alright, I’m afraid. For the first time in my life, I’m afraid. I never fought anybody who was all in the prime. I was always some angle to hold on to the title of armor that I should’ve had it. I mean, do you understand what I’m saying here? I understand, but you’ve gotta understand that he loved you and that was his job, protecting you. Look, I protected, don’t help nothing. It only makes things worse. You wake up after a few years thinking you’re a winner, but you’re not. You’re really a loser.

And so he wouldn’t have had the title as long, so what? At least it would’ve been real, Adrienne. It was real! Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are! I don’t believe in myself no more, don’t you understand? Well, if I don’t believe, that’s it! He’s finished, it’s over, that’s it! The truth is, I don’t wanna lose what I got. In the beginning, I didn’t care about what happened to me. I’d go on a ring, I’d get bussed up, I didn’t care! But now there’s you, there’s the kid. I don’t wanna lose what I got! I don’t wanna lose what I got!

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No matter how painful it is, I gotta keep going. And I gotta keep going because what is my passion? What is my focus? Your focus and your passion will numb you to failure and to pain of striving to get to where you’re trying to go.

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Let’s just start slow, you know, and then work over time to improve, you know, this process of my body and what I needed to do in order for it to go out there every day and compete with guys that were half my age. So all those things that you did were just little routines that built up. And like anything, the routine I had in high school, that worked for me. So I wanted to improve it in college. I wasn’t going to go, oh, I made it. Now I’m actually a starter. Let’s go back to sleeping in to nine o’clock, not studying my film, eating like crap, not caring about my teammates.

No, it was like, let’s do more of that. And then I got to the pros and it was like, what should I have done? Oh, let’s compete a little less, care a little less, you know, now that I’m professional. No, it was like, let’s double down on that. So when it came to my health and wellness, it was more of that. Oh, hydrating works. I felt a lot better. I don’t feel like I had any really soft tissue injuries. I could go out there and play a full season. Let’s do more hydration. Oh, my diet’s getting better. I like the way my body’s shaping up. Let’s do more of that.

Oh my God, I’m working out and I’m not as sore. Let’s do more treatments. You know, so a lot of those things were just me trying to be open to the people that came into my life to say, hey man, you know better than me. So let me learn from you.

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What I’m saying is: I’m always- I’m always- waiting for everything to be perfect before I live my life.

I’m always waiting for everything to be perfect Before I live my life.

as soon as these things line up, I’m gonna live my life As soon as it as soon as you know This new medicine I’m using helps me and as soon as this shirt I ordered come in and as soon as I learned Spanish that you’d not shit. I’ll learn as soon as I learn Spanish really well Like I’m a you know a blue belt or whatever in it, but I always want to wait till everything’s perfect You know Dustin Poirier noticed that about me and he said to me point-blank. He said: hey, man, You can’t wait for everything to be perfect to start living your life.

You can’t wait for everything to be perfect You.

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As you start putting one foot in front of the other, as you start, then the next step will avail, it’ll open itself up to you. Remember God said that my word is a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your pathway. He’s saying, I will give you enough light to be able to take the next step. So you can see just the next step. What’s the next step that you ought to do? Give you enough light to see the first thing that you ought to do. It might be getting the name of a business incorporated. It might be setting up your prayer plan, your fasting plan, your Bible reading plan.

Just set, just get started. Start putting something in writing. Just get started. Just get started. Get your health program, get a trainer. Just get started. Just put one foot in front of the other.

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Sometimes it should go the other people’s way. It shouldn’t always go your way. So you get motivated by the losses. You stay motivated through the winning. What you can control is your process. You can control those intangibles. You can control the work ethic, the consistent discipline, your attitude, your culture, how much you care. All those things are in you. They just need to be drawn out of you. And really when you’re in that position that you feel like you’re got to. Got those pretty well under control.

Then you start passing those on to the other people that you’re working with that are parts of your team. Cause I don’t care how good any one of you are sitting out there. It doesn’t matter unless you got a great team around you. You know, you could be great. You probably are great.

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I’m not good enough, smart enough. I’m not talented enough to do that. Some people are. Some people can start at one. Some people don’t have to start at all. If you lack talent, you can’t sit back and say, I’ll start in half an hour. I can’t do that. I gotta start now. And then after I get back from starting, I gotta start again. And then when I get done with that run or that study session, if it wasn’t good enough, I gotta go back again. Because repetition is what taught me everything. So you can honestly outwork anything.

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Can’t wait, man, It’s not all gonna. I’m never gonna get to that where everything’s okay, Where everything looks a certain way, and in the meantime I’m burning the best time I do have available.

I’m burning that candle up,

I’m burning this candle down and I’m saying, as soon as it gets bright enough or Warm enough in here, I’m gonna show up. But the candles getting smaller,

It’s a trap.

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There’s a lag. I need To train I need to do it because I I’m mentally so invested in it now that when I don’t do it I feel like I’ve cheated myself in A in a day or right a week that I’ve taken off. I feel like yo, man. I’m not myself, Because when I am doing it I feel like I’m always. I’m committed- right committed- to constantly Building and reshaping and molding. I’m working on Me so when I’m not working on me, I don’t feel like my day That’s supposed to be about me. It’s starting off with the biggest bang, right?

This is my advantage to starting off like nobody else my day starts off before Fucking worms and birds get up. I’m like

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step The journey of a thousand miles it begins just with one step just start. There are so many people that have intentions But the road to hell is paved with good intentions take the steps Take the steps toward God when you move toward God. He begins to move towards you You need to get closer to God. You got you you you you you bust a move first. It’s like a game of chess, It’s a game of checkers. You’ve got first move and while you’re sitting there praying saying move Jesus move Jesus.

Come on move Jesus He’s sitting there and says you move it’s your turn When you move then I will Move it’s your turn. It’s your turn.

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Don’t do things just because you think you’re gonna get something for it. That’s not why we do things. Do what’s interesting to you. Follow what’s interesting. Don’t worry about the outcome. We don’t know. We can’t predict the outcome. We can never predict the outcome. Follow your own inner guide. It directs us. It might not make sense to us. It might not make sense to anyone else. It certainly won’t make sense to anyone else. But it might not even make sense to us. And that’s okay. It’s fine. Listen to yourself. Why is it telling you this? Why is it telling you this?

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Stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, numbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse shitting, hair splitting, nitpicking, piss trickling, nose sticking, ass gouging, eyeball poking, finger pointing, alleyway sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil eyeing, back scratching, searching, perching,

besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just do!

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You will never do something in life that you can’t define. If you can’t articulate something and what it means to you, you can never put it into practice. If you want to become humble, you have to know what humility truly means. Because guess what? When you don’t define it for yourself, it becomes defined by someone else. That’s why we don’t feel successful. Because we’re basing our definition of success based on what we’ve heard. We never defined what success means to us.

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Mom, I wanna do this, I wanna play baseball. Well, then you gonna play. Mom, I don’t like that no more. Then why’d you start the season? Because I thought I wanted to do it. Then you gonna finish the season. You don’t quit. There’s other people that invest the time and energy into you, you don’t just quit on people. But I don’t wanna do it. Finish the season. Mom, I wanna swim. Then you gonna finish swimming. It didn’t matter what I did. I was never allowed to quit. So now in anything I do, when I pick it up and say, I’m gonna start it, I gotta finish it. It all don’t work.

It all ain’t the best. It all ain’t knocked out the park. But I walk away saying I finished it.

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I remember there’s a part in the dream where this happens. Write the part you remember, and you’ll see through the process of writing, more of the dream will appear. Even when you wake up, you won’t remember as much of it as you know, but once you start writing, you can start tapping into more, oh, and before that, this happened, and then this happened after that, and you’ll start noticing more details. And the more you practice it, the better you get at it.

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Just enough that’s all the light that you need is enough light to see the next step You don’t have to see the whole staircase. You just need enough to be able to take the next step. That’s all that you need. and it is amazing. The Chinese have a proverb that says that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. So just start now, just just. I mean I mean, yeah, if you had started 10 years ago, 20 years ago, That would have been fantastic. But the second best time is right now.

It’s just absolutely right now You don’t have to wait for something to be perfected in in order to start it just get started Why do I say just get started? And not wait for it to be perfect and have all of the kinks worked out and every possibility figured out? It is because you can correct something, but you cannot correct nothing.

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Those years of spending hours and hours and hours with people roughly ten years later when I post my first video and I start to have the Groundswell experience of more people finding out about my work. I live in gratitude every day I post those to show people that no one starts in an arena And the reason why we don’t start is not because we’re scared of starting at zero We’re scared of people watching us start at zero. We’re scared of the opinions of people around us starting at zero. We’re not scared of starting from scratch. We’re scared of our friends seeing us start from scratch.

and I just want to remind people that everyone started zero. you did, you did, you did and everyone on planet Earth did, and That means you can do it as much as I have.

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When I was in the military, we’re going to need to structure lead runs. Most of the time we knew the starting end point. So on the way back, I started seeing people getting happy and shit because the end was near. But there were some asshole instructors that would hear the happiness and go right on past the end point. When that happened, everybody stopped talking. Heads would stop dropping. And I started taking f***ing souls. At that time, I knew what happened in their minds. They were living off the hope factor. They hope the instructors would stop running. They hope the water was never cold.

They hope the weather was f***ing good. I don’t live off that hope shit. I wish the water was cold. I wish them motherf***ing instructors keep on f***ing running. I wish for f***ing rain. When the ending is unknown and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the f*** you are. Stay hard.

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how far you’re down because it’s humiliating. You know, I was ill recently and when I started to recover, I couldn’t really, I couldn’t really button my shirts. I had to learn to do that again. I did, I’d forgotten how to put my hands on keyboard. I didn’t know where to put my hands. I had to learn to type again. Now I hadn’t lost all the knowledge and it came back quite quickly.

But- and the reason I’m saying that is because one of the impediments to people who’ve really taken a blow in their life is that things have fallen apart around them so badly that where they have to start is humiliating even to consider the rule. It’s pretty straightforward rule when you want to get back on your feet. And the rule is you have to make the task small enough so that you’ll do it no matter how small that is. You know,

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When you want to excel at something, what must you have? Did I just hear somebody say passion in the audience? You know what passion is? Passion is an emotion. It’s an emotion without an action. Passion will get you nowhere. Inner drive will get you nowhere unless you act on it. You have to act on your passion. You have to act on your inner drive. Don’t let those feelings stay inside of you. You got to know what to do with them. You got to know how to make them work in order to get what you want.

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They have some idea in their head, you know, some kind of a vision of what they wanna do,

but they don’t know where to start. They don’t know where to start it, you know? They don’t know where to start. And so they say, hey, where do I start? And when’s the best time to start? And I have a very simple answer for that.

Here and now.

That’s it. You wanna improve? You wanna get better? You wanna get on a workout program or a clean diet? You wanna start a business?

You wanna write a book or make a movie or build a house or a computer or put together some mobile application?

Where do you start?

You start right here. And when do you start? You start right now.

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What the hell are we all waiting for to start attacking life? We’re waiting for the f***ing stars to align. Back when I was growing up, the song came out. All I need is a miracle. Well, guess what? That miracle ain’t coming. There is no perfect time to start. You gotta start now with changing your life. We’re all being tested in life. And guess what? This is one test you can’t cheat on. We all have our own test. Some of us are obese. Some of us are depressed. Some of us are insecure. In the military, we had this big old rucksack on our back. Had batteries, water, extra gear.

Your extra gear is the s*** you’re dealing with in life. And the only way to overcome it is for you and you alone to face it. You gotta do your best work when you’re the least motivated. So those days you don’t want to do it, guess what you gotta do? You gotta suck it the f*** up and do it. Stay hard.

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When you beat me, I hurt all over and I didn’t want to know from nothing or nobody, not even my kids. But hell, every fighter knows that hurt, and we get sick inside trying to live with it. So don’t back off now, make it right for yourself, or you’ll be sorry you didn’t. We held the greatest title in the whole world, babe. You lost that fight, Rock, for all the wrong reasons. You lost your edge.

Alright, I know your manager dying had you all messed up inside. But the truth is, you didn’t look hungry. Now when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man, the edge. And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean?

Maybe we could win it back together.

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You initiate the action aggressively, you go

Because the idea isn’t gonna execute itself and and the book isn’t gonna write itself and the weights out in the gym They’re not gonna move themselves. You have to do it, and you have to do it now.

and that means You gotta stop thinking about it and stop dreaming about it and stop researching Every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it. Just start doing it.

Take that first step and make it happen, Get after it. and get after it here and now.

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It’s your life. You got to take it now and do something with it. Yes, you grew up on the wrong side of town Yes, your family was poor. Yes, you didn’t have the things that you needed in life Yes, you didn’t get to go to the right schools to set you up to go to Harvard. Yeah, whatever. Yes, you’re right But how long you gonna hold on to that what you thought was a curse is a curse when you blame But what you thought was a curse when you take ownership you see blessings in it.

I want a ball. I grew up seeing my aunts and uncles and my grandma in the project. I’m ready to ball. I grew up seeing poverty I’m ready to ball. It’s your life. Only one person can stop you from making that become a reality, and that’s you. you can live where you want to live, Have what you want to have have phenomenal relationships be in good health. You can have whatever you want is your choice.

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the awareness in others to go, why not? Why can’t I create? Why can’t I start? Why can’t I be a business? Why can’t I be a CEO? Why can’t I be a tech guru? Why can’t I fucking create cooking products, lotions, scents?

There’s so much that some people just don’t understand they can do.

Let me be a spark to show how much, how many different, you don’t have to do just one thing. When it’s all said and done, my book is gonna be full of all the shit that Kevin Hart did.

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self-worth, a building block, nugget of life That I could stack up to create the character of morality, integrity and dedication To face any adversity that this society throws at me. That will make or break every reality. dream into that, that that forefront. It turns the dreams into a walking inspiration for others, in a reality that you can put it on the mantle one day And remember yourself You.

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You ought to start where you are and not where you should be. Just start where you are. That’s the only place that you can start is right where you are. I don’t know what it is that you might have in your heart to do, things that you have set in your mind, things that you’ve dreamed about doing and you just haven’t taken the time to do it. Or you haven’t gotten rid of all of the fear about what could happen, what could go wrong, what could fail. But just start, just start, just start, just start. Tony Robbins says that the only impossible journey is the one you never began.

It is impossible if you never began so you just have to start, you just have to start somewhere. Because if you don’t get started you cannot get finished.

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Satan got one job to keep you from your destiny The devil don’t ever want you to be what God created you to be. So guess what? When you discover your gift and you think I’m about to make a move and go be what God created me to be Then here go to devil. You got this job over here. You’re gonna lose your 401k. Life is hard see, for every time you have a plan, a dream, an aspiration or a goal, Do you know what happens every time you have one of those this thing comes along called life? It happens to everybody Life has disappointment. It’s got peaks and valleys.

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You can be anything you want to be. Remember, the saddest thing in life is wasted talent. You could have all the talent in the world, but if you don’t do the right thing, then nothing happens. But when you do right, guess what? Good things happen.

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Go try and accomplish something that’s hard. You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what, you’ll be better. If you avoid those things that are hard, if you don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water, and you sit on your couch and eat Doritos, I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Just get up. Move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. Move towards that challenge and go attack it.

And you may be successful and you may not be successful, but you will be better. And the next challenge, you’re gonna be more prepared for. And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for. And you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and then you’re gonna win.

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Everything I ever did, the thing that I heard out of people’s mouth was, that’s impossible, that can’t be done, or no. I remember when I want to be a bodybuilding champion, including my parents and everyone else around me, said this is impossible. Why don’t you become a ski champion? That’s what they do in Austria, or a bicycle champion, or do some track and field. You can’t be a bodybuilding champion.

That is exactly what I heard, and of course I proved to the people that it can’t be done. So whenever someone said to me, it can’t be done, I heard it can be done. Everything is always impossible until someone does it. Well I’m gonna be the one, I said to myself, I’m gonna do it and I’m gonna show it to them. Maybe it has never been done before, that’s perfectly fine with me, but I’m gonna do it.

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Is that what you want to do? You come all this way, have one bad day, and you’re ready to back down? No, my days suck. You love this game. I mean love it with your whole heart. Because if you don’t, let’s not even bother. Let’s not open that door, they’re just gonna slam it right in our face. I love this game. I live this game. And there’s a thousand other guys waiting in the wings who are obsessed with this game.

Obsession’s gonna be talent every time. You got all the talent in the world, but are you obsessed? Is it all you ever think about? Let’s face it, it’s you against you out there.

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You’ve got the brains. You can make decisions. You can study the plan. You can change your life. You can grow immensely in the next few years. You can make your dreams come true. You can build a financial wall around your family. Nothing can get through. You can become healthy. You can become powerful. Why not you? And I’m here to say that I’m ready to pledge my support to make your personal dreams come true. I ask the question, why not you? But I’m not gonna ask it and just walk away. I’m gonna ask it and walk with you in this journey as we take Herbalife around the world.

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I almost feel like when I step into this thing, I’m at war. I’m at war with everybody,

at all weights.

But they were good people. They responded well. When you keep a real with somebody, and you lay it out, I did lay it out. I said, I’m not gonna baby you, I’m not gonna hold your hand.

I’ve been thinking of what way to approach it, so I wrote out some notes of what way I feel is best we’ll do it. And just to let you know where I’m at with the whole situation. Everyone is here for their own benefit. Forget Team Europe, and forget Team USA. There is no friends in this business. You are either here to win, or you are simply a filler. We’re all on our own journey, as am I. So this is it, you come in here and handle your own business. You don’t need nobody to hold your hand.

I told them the truth, and let the chips fall where they may. That’s on them.

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Don’t achieve worthwhile goals quickly or Easily. they take time, They take struggle, they take Relentless pursuit day in and day out. That’s what it takes.

but also, Things don’t usually fall apart quickly either. At least at first it it’s. it’s a slow process, a little slip here, a little setback over there, a little wearing down of discipline and will over time.

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I got big goals this year, but in true guidance fashion, there will always be setbacks. So people think I killed that 300 pound man of mine. Oh no, he lurks. That’s my inner bitch. Whenever I’m in a setback or defeated, he pops up in my mind. Every morning I wake up and get a nice green smoothie, get after it. This morning, I smell in the kitchen, bacon and eggs cooking. That big boy in my mind, he’s always waiting with a knife and fork in one hand. Bib on there so he don’t get all fucked up. Wait and call me back to the dark side. Oh no, not today motherfucker. I know how you look.

I know how you sound. There will always be complications and setbacks before the finish line. We must be ready for him. Ha ha, stay hard.

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And to me, when he says, hold it in the roll, Inc., what he’s telling me is stay focused, keep your eyes on what you’re doing, and do it in a way that only you can do it. You know, my grandmother used to always say, never wish for what somebody else got because you don’t know what they did to get it, and you don’t know what they doing to keep it, right? And so for me, you know, do your little bit of good where you are, is man, do what you do, right? Stop worrying about what everybody else is doing.

Stop looking at what everybody else is doing and stay focused on what it is that you feel God has called you to do, specifically. That’s your greatness. That’s where your power is.

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I call it the rocky cut scene,

and almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year,

but many years of doing work without reward,

where they have to do things that other people find boring and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting,

that most people want to do during that entire season of their life,

and they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most, and

that’s the rocky cut scene.

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When you’re trying to have the best character, you’re trying not to fucking lie. You’re trying not to fucking put people down you’re trying to live You’re trying to set the standard when you’re trying to be the standard And that’s there it is out, you know, there’s so much going wrong and going off in this world that if people can focus on themselves being better versus Throwing hate and fucking all this shit that happens out there and people talking shit. I won’t miss no mother’s names. I’m not trying to hurt you, man,

But i’m trying to be the standard and Sometimes life is just not fun when you’re like Can’t do that. Can’t say that gotta watch out for that. Yeah I gotta wake up today. I gotta I gotta grind because there may be a motherfucker out there that sees me in their fucking car That says All right. I’m gonna go home and be better today. So all these things in my fucking mind Every fucking day, I wake up. every fucking day.

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Yeah, I get up and get out of bed.

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If we’ve got good health for many, why not the rest? If it’s happened for you, why not others? And why not you? I want you to take that personal. Why not? Why not? You’ve got to stay here till you go. I mean, what else are you gonna do? Why not see how much you can do, how far you can go? Now here’s number three. Why not you? I wish I could say that to each of you individually, but it would take a couple of lifetimes to sit down and talk with each of you individually, but I would rather do that.

I’d rather sit down and talk with you and your family with the fire burning in the living room than to be standing on this platform. That’s my true desire. I’d love to talk to you and your children face to face. That’s what I’d really like to do.

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That atmosphere, that speech and that vibe that we created in the gym and that they’re not truly friends here. This is business. Be comfortable in the training environment, help each other out, stay injury free because they’re all already banged up. Every one of them had a banged up elbow, a banged up knee, a busted up foot, a busted up face. They only fought just to get into the house. You can’t take people from that, stick them in a house, bring them to the gym twice a day and let them thump their head off each other. They won’t make it to the fight. You know what I mean?

They’ll be competing with each other in the gym, they’ll be drained. By the time they step foot inside the octagon, they’ll be flat. Their shots won’t pull. They won’t be able to pull the trigger like they usually would. So why pull the reins back off of doing that? Keep watching how they respond when it comes back around and it’s team versus team. They respond like they should, like it’s business.

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I feel to be at the pinnacle of any game, in any, whatever you do, you’ve got to be a little bit gone to it. You’re not all there. You’ve got to be almost insane to your craft. Not a lot of people can understand that. That’s why I don’t know about nothing else. I do not pay attention to nothing else. There was games of football on yesterday, there was rugby, there was this, there was that. And like normal society is like, let’s talk about this and let’s engage in this. And I just don’t, I can’t do it. I just don’t, people are talking to me and in my head I’m counting something.

I’m counting up a number or I’m knee deep in a sequence on the mat or on the feet. That’s my life, sequences and numbers, nothing else. I cannot pay attention to nothing else.

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I’ve been waiting for people to start saying like, you put another picture of the sweat and of a squat rack, really?

But I don’t know if they understand. I’ve been getting on that squat rack and grinding it out for 25 years. And I’m not bored with it yet.

And it might seem like that’s an unwinnable battle.

But really to me, it’s not about winning.

It’s the battle itself. It’s the struggle. It’s the daily test. That’s what life’s about.

Not just physically, but mentally.

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But oftentimes we get up and whether we look on social media and we see people doing things right the highlight reel You see how it looks it’s cute. It’s pretty right- and people start to rush their lives Based upon highlight reels on social media and I told a cat one day I said man stop rushing Based upon social media. I said apart you forget nobody showed you the failures. Yep. Nobody showed you the shortcomings. People very rarely show you the adversity in the opposition and so do what you do right approach it how you approach it That’s what God will bless bless you upon.

It’s not you doing it in a way that somebody else does it? No, he plays greatness in you. do it How you do it, in a way that only you can do it, so God can bless it.

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So I got an email the other day from a hockey player He’s like hey Goggins. I Tore my Achilles He was all upset He said we do for setbacks. I Said I’ll setbacks nothing but character builders He was all upset. That’s don’t be upset about that. It’s done. Your cheese is fucking torn Now you can do about it. But it’s one thing you can do, though It was it goes wrong, Apply pressure to it ask the gods of the world is this all you have Can you give me some more? Put some can hate on that motherfucker. Put some grind on it. Keep on moving, stay hard.

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You can have what you want in five years, but there’s two conditions. You have to know what it is and you have to aim at it. Imagine, pretend like you’re a kid. You get to have an intimate relationship. What does it look like? What does it look like when your wife greets you when you come home from work? What does your sex life look like? Right? What do you do for entertainment? How do you treat each other? You need a fantasy, just like a little kid playing house, right? Figure out what you want. Write it down. Figure out what you could do to start moving towards that.

Okay, do that with your family relationships. Do that with your friendships. Do that with your career. Do that with your education. Think about your misuse of alcohol and drugs and other things that might drag you down. If you want to drink, it’s like you want to be a bumbling Barney Gumbel idiot. Like you want to drink. Okay. What do you mean by that? Exactly? How often? How much is too much? How are you going to constrain that and why? Develop a vision and you have to do that in dialogue with yourself, right? It’s like.

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It all starts with who you are. You know, I always tell our players, who you are is more important than what you do. How high you jump, how fast you run, because who you are is your character. And your character is an accumulation of your thoughts, your habits, and your priorities on a day-to-day basis, because those three things determine the choices you make, and the choices you make make you who you are. Good guy, bad guy, hardworking, lazy, responsible, irresponsible- and it takes a certain amount of discipline to do what you’re supposed to do,

when you’re supposed to do it, the way it’s supposed to get done. If we were talking about business, it would be all about doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time. It’s the same thing for you.

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Now, these could be signals that you need some time off. And those signals might be right.

They could be correct. But don’t take today off. Not today. Wait until tomorrow. Don’t give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear.

Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

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I was always trying to do it because I knew I sucked. and So when you know you’re trying to get somewhere, you know you suck, you know that you, you believe that you’re a born loser. You are taking snapshots man. Like, you know you you see something on your phone like oh, man I’m gonna take a fucking snapshot of that or how we do the little picture shit so you can save it on your phone I do that my mind so I get in these moments. I’m like fucking okay. Wow. That’s some fucking good knowledge right there. man. I snap shot it cuz I know that I can use that later.

I can, I can, I can use this because I’m not out there. Just, I’m not. most people. they go out and they run and they go out and do and they’re like, oh, this is beautiful, Look at the mountains in this it and all this bullshit. No, I Don’t like it. My body hurts. I’m hurting. How do we get through this? And it’s a fucking. it’s a it’s. it’s a lab. It’s my mental lab.

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But oftentimes we get sidetracked, man. It’s like when they show that picture in the swimming pool, and you see that cat that’s in first place, and he doing his thing, my man heading the water, and he getting it. And you see the cats that’s behind him, all of them, when they come up out the water, they looking at my man. My man focused on the target. But y’all looking at him. Some of y’all might be nicer than him, right? But that’s irrelevant. That’s inconsequential. The fact is, he’s focused on his target and where he’s going and what he’s doing.

When you coming up out the water, you looking at my man, right? And so you’re not focused on doing what you do in a way that only you can do it.

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And now here’s my last question. My very last question on the questions to ponder is why not now? There never was a better time. Mark has brought Herbalife to an incredible mountaintop. He’s brought Herbalife with the help of others who have brought it here. It has been brought to a special moment. Barcelona was special and Orlando was outrageous. But I’m telling you this extravaganza has been the most awesome thing I have ever seen. All of your cooperation, the way you have learned and listened and worked hard to get it all. I congratulate you for that. But Mark brought us here.

And what a time now for us to take this dream and not let it die. Take this dream and give it life. Take this dream and breathe into it your own personal spirit until finally it becomes a flame that burns around the whole world. Let’s go do it now.

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What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized when I was really big I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable. So I realized for me to find growth I had to face all of these different things that made me very, very uncomfortable. One thing I faced was running. I absolutely hated running. But I knew for me to grow I had to do this thing every single day. I wanted to start callusing my mind. I wanted to start becoming a better person.

And how you become a better person, how you gain mental toughness, how you become the person you want to be is constantly facing the things that you don’t want to face.

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I’d love to spend a couple of days with each of you personally and pour out my heart, my soul, what’s going on in my head, what’s going on with me, see if we couldn’t connect and find something valuable. But time doesn’t permit for us to have those intimate conversations and get to know each other that well. So I’ve got to do it from up here. But I want you to take it personal. And my personal question to you is why not you?

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If you are going to rest, that is one thing that you should procrastinate on. That’s the one thing I want you to put off until tomorrow. And if when tomorrow comes, you still feel like you need to rest or you need to take a break, then okay, take it. But the chances are you won’t. You won’t need that rest. Chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. It was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path.

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So I come home from from running and I write everything out. I write everything out all those things and as I’m running I’m Talking about it So all these things that pop my head as I continue to run. I’m going through it. I’m starting to layer it down. I’m starting to break it down into: okay, that happened. Okay, now let’s layer this, because that’s just not how it happened. This didn’t happen that way. what led up to this? and so it becomes me by myself in school. I’m literally going to school right now, and I’m learning so when I come home I write it out,

and then I’m able to write out and I’m able to think about it. So okay Oh, this is good shit. This is this will help me later on. and then it becomes what it is now.

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The biggest mistake a person can do right now, no matter in which situation you are, is to give up.

At least prepare yourself

slowly, step by step, to get out of that hole right now.

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You take small bad moments, maybe very impressive bad moments, and then you scale them out. You’re not having a bad year. You’ve had a few bad days that you’re thinking about for the rest of the year. I’ve found it helpful when I’m in a bad season, like I’m in right now, to just focus on having a good day. A good day in a bad season is a bite-sized victory. String a few of those in a row and a bad season feels less hard. I’m pretty sure the difference between a happy life and an unhappy one doesn’t come down to how many good or bad days you have,

but which days you think about over and over again. In some seasons of life, maintaining is winning.

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A lot of us are off work today, celebrating a man who fought for equality for all. Well, we have a long, long, long way to go. And this world isn’t fair. It’s fair enough. I see a lot of blacks, whites, women, lesbians out here grinding, getting after it, very fucking successful. So where’s your excuse? I see a lot of finger pointing, tons of people playing with other people for different shit. One big thing is this fear. Fear keeps a lot of motherfuckers from being successful. It keeps you making excuses for yourself. Fear lives one place in one place only. And that’s in your mind.

Martin Luther King had a dream. Don’t let fear fuck yours up. Stay hard.

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That’s the thing. success and failure are generally slow processes, either slowly building things up or Gradually tearing them down. and that’s why I say you’ve got to pay attention,

You have to watch, you have to watch every single second, because those seconds, They turn into minutes, And minutes turn into hours, and hours turn into days and days turn in two years.

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I was grinding so hard never took time to reflect in my life and this was like Time to reflect and I was all kind of fucked up. I got on stage, man just fucking cried for like 59 seconds and It was such an emotional moment for me that I fucking that I fucking did what I did And I now overcame it was it was alone man You know, I do have fucking like teammates and fucking like, you know family push. My mom was struggling, bro, She was true. so it was like me, my mom, and so it was a lot of this me.

so when you’re waking up every morning by yourself and you’re fucking getting after it by yourself and and It’s the, it’s the hidden work,

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Focus on right now because that is all you’ve got. There isn’t any past, there isn’t any future. Now, now, now’s it. That’s it. When the sand’s gone, it’s gone.

Now you see, there’s more sand in the bottom of the glass than there is in the top. Here, boom, I can turn it over. Now I’ve got more sand in the top than the bottom. You can’t do that with your life. I can do it with a sand timer, but I can’t do it with my life. But I can be more effective now by making up my mind who I’m going to be, . And that’s what I recommend you do. Don’t waste your time. Do you know that everybody alive gets exactly the same amount of time we get all there is? It’s what we do with it that makes a difference. Don’t waste your life. Set your goals high.

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When I was in the military, we’d go on these instructor-led runs. Most of the time, we knew the start and end point. So on the way back, I started seeing people getting happy and shit because the end was near. But there were some asshole instructors that would hear the happiness and go right on past the end point. When that happened, everybody stopped talking. Heads would stop dropping. And I started taking fucking souls. At that time, I knew what happened in their minds. They were living off the hope factor. They hoped the instructors would stop running. They hoped the water was never cold.

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There is no difference in our industry.

The people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers.

A lot of people, of course, it’s very easy to take credit for the thinking.

The doing is more concrete,

but it’s very easy for somebody to say,

I thought of this three years ago.

But usually when you dig a little deeper,

you find that the people that really did it were also the people that really worked through the hard intellectual problems as well.

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And by simply going through the motions, you overcame that path. And you stayed on the righteous path, the disciplined path. You stayed on the war path, which is right where you know that you belong.

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If you constantly run away from things that you don’t want to face, how is there growth? How is there mental toughness? I can give you a class all day long about self-talk, visualization, eat an elephant one bite at a time. But if you’re never putting yourself in a situation to actually practice these things, you’re never going to grow. I can’t put you out there in a… We’re all going through a battle in our mind. A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you’ll ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind.

We’re all going through a war in our mind and we have to callous our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

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And the only way that you’re going to have any kind of success in your life is make good choices and decisions, because all the choices and decisions that you make have consequences and You have to have enough foresight sometime to understand how those consequences can affect your future, Every choice and decision that you make now it helps a lot if you really know what you want to do How many of you really know what you want to do?

Do you have a plan for where I’m going to be 10 years from now five years from now next year next semester? next week and Then how do you assess how you’re making progress toward that?

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If I could have what I wanted, what would satisfy me? And you might think, well, I could never get that. And I could say, well, maybe not, but I’ll tell you one thing, man. You can move towards it. And I know that everyone who knows the underlying neuroscience knows this. Almost all the pleasure is in the moving toward. So even, you know, you don’t want to set up a goal that’s so high that there’s just no possibility that a schlub like you could ever manage it. But God only knows what your upper limit is, you know.

But if you set up a goal that you think is, you know, just on the edge of conceivability, then every time you move even a tiny bit towards that, you’re going to think, good work, man, good work. You get a little kick from that. You get a little stronger from that.

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I don’t want to rest and I don’t want to coast and I don’t want to reach a point in my life where I say

That’s it. I’ve done enough, I’m not gonna give any more. I’m not gonna push anymore. No,

That relentless cycle of day-to-day challenges They aren’t maddening to me. They don’t frustrate me. They inspire me. Inspire me to drive and push more and to push harder.

That’s what that rock does to me.

so I say: Dig in and get to pushing.

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This is funny and people call me crazy a lot man. You’re so fucking crazy, but what you do? now look at him straight in the eye. I said: man, I’m not crazy, I’m just not you. It’s not who you are who you want to be. I have a responsibility man,

and I gotta take that seriously Well people like to look at people that are pushing further than them and harder than them Like there’s something wrong with you. Yep. You must be crazy.

I’d be crazy. Yeah, be crazy.

I love crazy though My favorite people are crazy Yeah, but I don’t look at that as a negative. No, I look at it as a strength it is I see a person who’s willing to go to that dark matter place. I go. Oh, I like that.

Oh, yeah I like well you went there during sober October man. You went there you went there So how’d that feel man when you fucking were going into those journeys into those compartments?

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I think a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard.

Because in the early days, hard was, ooh, stop, this isn’t good. This is a warning sign. This is a red flag. I should slow down or I should pivot. But the more I think about it as a competitive landscape, as I’m clear on what this path is supposed to look like, and these rocks and these dragons are things that I’m going to have to slay along the way to get the princess or get the treasure, I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow. It’s a selection effect. And I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this,

then it flips from being this thing that you’re like, oh, poor me to, oh, poor everyone else who’s going to have to fucking try. And I think that is so much more motivating as a frame for the exact same circumstance.

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I believe that everything happens for a reason.

Mm-hmm. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can learn to appreciate them when they’re right.

And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Yeah.

Everything happens for a reason.

People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can learn to appreciate them when they’re right.

And sometimes good things fall together so better things can come together.

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I mean, is it really important to you to be all you can be, to be the best you can be? You know, we have a pyramid of success over there in the football building, and it starts with be a champion. You know, I always tell the players, you gotta be a champion before you’re ever gonna win a championship. So what does it take to be a champion? Who you are is important. All the things I’m talking about is important. But everybody has gotta be committed to being all they can be, and the things that they choose to do. And it’s really up to you what you choose to do, and what you wanna do,

and what you want to accomplish. But if you don’t aspire to be the best that you can be at whatever it is you choose to do,

you’re never gonna be happy.

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The fear is never reaching your potential. That’s it. That always falling short, always quitting before you’re done, always procrastinating, always not doing the right thing. And then one day you’re an old man. And you look back and go, God, I could have been great. I could have been great.

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Getting that rock to the top of the mountain. That’s not what my goal is. My goal actually is pushing the rock,

because pushing the rock That pushes me, That makes me tougher, that makes me harder mentally and physically. It it gives me Much more than I give it. I want to struggle, I want to grind and claw and scratch and I want to dig in and I want to push And I don’t want it to end.

If I ever got the rock to the top of the mountain and it stayed there, I’d push it back down myself.

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Why not see how much you can earn? Why not see how much you can learn? Why not see how many skills you can develop? Why not see what kind of person you can become? Why not see what kind of influence you can have? Why not see how many people you can rescue from oblivion? Why not see how many people you can reach? I shared one of my goals with a group just last night. Here it is, one of my goals, to reach the peak of my skills by the year 2000. So I’ve got some work to do by the year 2000, turn of the century, turn of the millennium.

I want to reach the peak of my skills by the year 2000, and then come the next century, I want to utilize those skills in touching every human I can possibly touch for the rest of my life. Those are some of my goals. I want you to establish some of your goals. I want you to give thoughtful consideration to your goals.

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somewhere along the line figure out how to just go as hard as you can but also enjoy it try to enjoy it because That changes the whole tone of the experience and I think that makes you more successful I really do because I think you have more energy you have more focus and you collect Better energy around you from other people. They they feel your energy. They’re inspired by the way you live your life and how you treat people and what you do and how you do things, and they Want to do a similar thing.

They want to do something that makes them feel that way and they want other people to feel that way as well. And it’s got the butterfly effect. It just, it just goes through all the people that are around you.

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whatever will be the most epic story is the thing that I will most likely do.

And so oftentimes the most epic story is not the shortest outcome to victory.

It’s the long saga that results in this big thing later eventually.

And I was like, if you ever want to know,

if you’re like, I’m not sure what he’s going to do in this situation,

just wonder what the most epic story to tell would be.

And that’s usually what I will do.

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there’s a reason why you are not in that hole. Because you have figured out another way of how dealing with this world. Your view has become already a little bit more clear about how things are functioning here. And as long as you are blaming others,

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That second, that second that just went by, that counted.

And so did that second. And so did that one. And in those precious seconds, you were either building or you were decaying. You were either gaining ground or you were losing ground in that second.

And in every second, every second counts.

So make every second count.

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My f**kers want to know where Gagas has been. I’ve been in that mental lab. See, there’s all kind of months. Some folks got sober October. They got all kind of s**t for people go through trying to better themselves. I got f**k you every day. Get after it every day mentality. That said, when you push that hard, you go to the well. Well, my well was f**king empty. The cookie jar in there has stale moldy cookies. They won’t work it no more. Try to find something else and get that conquerors mindset back. I just don’t give a s**t about anything. Just f**king grind.

A lot of people out there talk about they’re missing something in their lives and they don’t know what the f**k it is. You don’t know what it is because you live in a soft environment 24-7. Learn to get out of it. Learn to get out of it.

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Make no mistake about it, it’s a beautiful life. I live good now. I live damn, damn good. I live like I should, like I’m supposed to, like a young 27-year-old world champion should live.

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When you walk on that court,

you have to think, I am the best guy out there.

I don’t care if LeBron’s playing.

So let me ask you again.

Do you love this game?

Yes.

Is there a newborn kitten purring in here right now?

I couldn’t hear you.

Do you want to be in the NBA? Yes!

Well, let’s make that happen.

Never back down.

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Rome Wasn’t built in a day. We all know that, Everyone’s hears that. but Rome also Didn’t fall apart overnight either.

it took Hundreds of years for Rome to reach its peak, But it also took time, hundreds of years, for Rome to decay and fall apart, and That is representative of life.

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But when I’m in that cage, bro, don’t fucking touch me. Don’t talk to me.

Leave me alone.

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Imagine that you’re in a movie and imagine the movie begins now and you’re the hero of the movie. Yeah. What would that guy do? Yeah. What would that guy do right now? Yeah. Because you are.

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And sometimes if you concentrate on the North Star too much, you don’t even enjoy it. That’s right. You don’t even enjoy the whole experience. Of being present. Yeah, of enjoying the ride, enjoying the fucking journey. I mean, that’s another thing. You know, it’s about the journey. Ew. People have fucked up that expression, but it’s real. It is really about the journey. It’s just hard when you’re not where you wanna be in life, and if you’re listening to this and you’re just not satisfied with your position in life, it’s hard to think that way. All you want is that thing,

but you gotta somewhere along the line figure out how to enjoy yourself.

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Welcome to the pain zone. It’s where we live.

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You’ve got to create a lot of different emotion to heighten your sense of awareness and focus. Like for me, anger was good. Anger was good because it was motivating. The more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go and kill those guys. Now, I knew I wasn’t going to kill them physically, but man, if I could just… What did they say? You know, and what did they look like? Did they disrespect me at all? You know, and did that asshole say something? Like, those are little, little, little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran on the field and I said,

let’s go. It was really, let’s go kick some ass. That’s what we were doing.

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So, you know, it’s about in bodybuilding, you can’t think about the money, you got to think about the heart, the passion, the love, the commitment and the energy you’re willing to put into it that close to death, even willing to die to get it. When you give it that much, the side effect, the side effect is standing on stage and having the audience, having 5 or 10,000 10,000 people go, yes, I will train 25 more nights, 25 more years for one more night. Forget about the money, okay? But you know something, money is a nice side effect to doing that.

That’s what every great sportman, every great athlete is able to entertain. The money doesn’t come because of they were looking at the money, they come because they’re looking at the goal of achieving something nobody else did, to boldly go where no one else dared to. That is bodybuilding. That’s bodybuilding, that’s where it always will be, that’s what always has been and people forgot.

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There’s a zillion things that have happened to me in my life. I don’t know which one it is, but we create these narratives around it to believe it. And I’m bringing this kind of conceptual idea because right now many of you are creating stories that you tell yourselves to make yourself feel better about why your product isn’t as good as it should be, but you have an excuse that only you need to believe. And you believe that excuse, so it excuses you from working harder on the stuff you know you should be doing but aren’t. And that work, the work you know you should be doing but aren’t,

is the opportunity because that is the work that your competitors also aren’t doing.

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I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend and I dedicated this fight. I wasn’t going to fight. I dedicated this fight to him. I was going to rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there’s ever been. There’s no one can stop me. Links is a conqueror. No, I’m Alexander. He’s no Alexander. I’m the best ever. There’s never been anybody as ruthless. I’m Sonny Linston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s no one like me. I’m from the Airclaw. There’s no one that can match me. My style is impetuous.

My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah.

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So you think that I’m done, that my career will soon be over.

You don’t know me. All my life I had to fight. No one believed in me, so I had to believe in myself.

Some people wanted to break me, but they only made me stronger.

Others wanted to exploit me, they only made me smarter. And now you think I’m done? To all of you, I only have one thing to say.

I’m not like you, because I’m not you.

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And the people that look at those challenges and go, why do I always have these challenges? They’re cancer. Those people are dangerous to be around. They will rob you of your enthusiasm. They don’t give you any fuel. They’re the opposite of fuel. Like the fuel people are the people that are kicking ass. The people that are out there just fucking hustling, always, always getting things done. You got like my friend Jocko, every morning I’ll check his Instagram page, 4.30, shows a picture of his watch, get after it. He’s out there working out 4.30 in the morning. He does it every fucking morning.

Why? Because he doesn’t want to. And that’s how you do it. You go and get after it. You don’t make any excuses. And those kinds of guys are fuel. But those, I can’t catch a break guys, they’re the opposite of fuel. They’re just pissing on your fire. They’re no fun. And then the people that surround them are all idiots. Cause only idiots want to be around, I can’t catch a break guys. Only the dummies stick around. After a while, even if they’re your good friend, you gotta be like, bro, you gotta fucking stop. You gotta stop with all this, I can’t catch a break bullshit.

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There’s a moment when every boy realizes no one’s coming to save him,

and that’s when he becomes a man.

And some boys never get there and stay children forever.

That guy was you that said that. And it’s important when we step out of this,

like this stuff matters because no one’s effing coming to save you.

No one’s going to make you better at your business. No one is going to get you to be a better persuader of people or framer of people other than you.

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You know, when you sit there and you say, well, you know, in 1990 or 2005, they voted me as like the best or the most popular athlete. You know, it’s ironic that I’m the youngest of the three. So in essence, it’s all relevated on who is watching now. If you ask 20 years from now, I’m pretty sure LeBron may beat me, you know, based on who’s going to be making the voting. So I take, I say that to say, to understand that, you know, it is what it is. You know, I don’t wear it. I don’t showcase it. I don’t rub it in other people’s faces, someone else’s opinion. If you ask me,

I can never give you an opinion about things like that because as an athlete, all you want to do is be the best athlete you can be.

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I get asked a lot if my kids play football. My response is that I’ll support them in any of their dreams. Whatever makes them happy makes me happy. I would encourage everyone to play football for the simple reason that it is hard. It’s hard when you’re young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. It’s hard when you’re on your way to practice, way down with all your gear, and it’s 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach,

and your body is already completely exhausted from workouts in two days. It’s hard to throw, catch, block, and tackle and hit kids when they’re way bigger and way more developed than you, only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained, but knowing you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again. But understand this, life is hard.

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ain’t going to do what I’m going to do. So this is how you level up. That’s how you level up. I know there’s a whole bunch of people with that right there. That fires me up. That makes me fucking happy what you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there’s so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours, refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that’s where I gain the advantage. It’s so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile.

Most people don’t want to find that extra because it sucks. It’s miserable. It’s lonely. You talk about that you were kind of, you know, lonely by yourself. I was the same way. And that used to hurt me growing up. Now I can thrive in that shit. That’s the only place to be.

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This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die! And these Shield Boys! HALLELUJAH!

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Sick man, you know it. I Got that thing, that, that, That that drive that I want more always want more goalposts go back up. We’re in the end zone moving back again And we got pretty high. There’s another level. So I just I’m always trying to get better

And I just believe this is what I’m supposed to do I the wise man picks me up in the morning How you doing? I woke up Everybody else’s Because I woke up. That’s how I look at it. You all had a chance until I woke up it’s a day’s mine. That’s just what it is.

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And it is the same one I’d give were we not standing on the brim of a battlefield. It is the same one I’d give were we to meet in the street by chance.

I have only ever hoped for one thing,

to see this kingdom united under this English crown. All men are born to die, we know it. We carry it with us always. If your day be today,

so be it. Mine will be tomorrow.

Or mine today and yours tomorrow, it matters not. What matters is that you know in your hearts that today you are that kingdom united. You are England. Each and every one of you. England is you.

And it is the space between you. Fight not for yourselves, fight for that space. Fill that space. Make it tissue. Make it mass. Make it impenetrable. Make it yours. Make it England. Make it England.

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All the time you’re complaining, you could be instead hustling. You could be instead chasing your dream. You could be instead figuring out what you’re doing wrong, trying to prove certain aspects of your life, getting your shit together, reading a book, meditating, something. Fucking something. But this I can’t catch a break shit is not helping anybody, and it pushes everybody away from you. But some people, they get caught in that pattern. And it might be their parents, it might be how they were raised. Somebody might have told them they were useless real early on, it stuck.

And they just, they always, they never feel like they get enough reassurance. They never feel like they get enough motivation. And they feel like other people get more. And they look at all these other people, how come he gets that? How come she gets this? How come he’s got that going on? And that, all that’s bad for you too. That shit ain’t no good for you.

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you know when your wife and kids are on your ass because you don’t know how to support them anymore There comes a fucking day where push comes to shove We’re being mediocre being like average it just King burns. It sucks so much You can’t deal with it one more day and you get off your ass and you create something. It’s always been there, It’s always been inside of you trying to come out, But you’ve never wanted to unwrap it because too much campaign and commitment. You.

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The thing that I remember the most about my father, and I had him for 32 years, and I never look at it from a negative sense. Obviously, he was murdered, and rarely do I get the chance to talk about him. But the thing that I do remember all the time- I think about him practically every day- is for a person like myself, who live in the spotlight and is so critical from people all the time in terms of what I do, what I say, where I go, the thing he’s always said, take a pause before you make a decision and say, what if?

And the purpose for saying what if is that whatever decision you make, always either going to have consequences, either pros or cons.

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You know, me being the position that I am, I’ve fought for many world titles. And to be in my position, it’s important to always find things to motivate you. To always to have something to light that fire under your butt. Facing a new opponent and Daniel Cormier, it was a great gush of excitement for me and a newfound motivation for me. But this, this gives me a feeling of it being almost like my first title shot again. There’s certain characters that you just cannot afford to lose to. Chell Sonnen, Rashad Evans. You know, my first shot against Marisha Shogun.

Who are these are some of the fights where my motivation was just at an all time high. And after this situation, I couldn’t imagine not coming out with my belt. So this is a must win situation. This is exactly the fire that I needed. And sure enough, people expect some very malicious, violent things to happen the night of September 27th.

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Failure has been achieved, thank God. Now, the only place to go from failure is to win. You have to achieve failure. You have to take it that far. Nobody wants to go that far. It’s too scary. But you know something? I got news for you. That’s where winning is. It always has been. Nothing’s changed since the 70s. Nothing, except people train not as hard.

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But the idea that I could still have it anyways and not disturb it if I only did the things that got it, was like, it was kind of like in the weightlifting world that the iron is the iron. Whether you’re black, you’re white, you’re a woman, 500 pounds is 500 pounds. And so, like the actions that create success are often, are kind of the same way. Which is like, the 100 phone calls or the 100 pounds on the bar, the work just needs doing. And it doesn’t, and I think it’s incredible. For me, it’s really inspiring that anyone can do the thing and get the result,

no matter how they feel about themselves. And I think that’s really freeing. And so, to the person who is still plugged in and waiting for someone to save them, someone will save you, but it’s you. Future you, the better you. The person that you’ve been waiting to become.

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You are up on the cards, you’re winning this. You are gonna win this. But just keep smart and keep away from this. He’s going to sleep this time. He’s going out this round. I should have stopped this, don’t we, your father?

I’m stopping this one now.

Don’t, okay? Let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what? I’m not a mistake.

I’m going to knock that son of a bitch down.

I know you are. You know why? Because you are Creed and I love you, kid.

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My mother calls me practically every day, reiterating, keep your nose clean. She ends the conversation every time I hang up, as opposed to me, hey, obviously we say, I love you, mom. Can’t wait to see you, talk to you soon, blah, blah, blah. Her last words is, keep your nose clean. That’s her constant reminder to say, look, people are watching. People are learning. People are paying attention. And the best news in today that sells is negative news. That’s what other reporters want. I know. And not that I live in a box to where I’m afraid to do things. I know that, as my father says,

the what if comment is to be able to deal with the consequences of what decisions you make. And you think about that, and you think about the consequences, pro or con, you make the right decisions that you feel is the right decision.

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Yeah, there you go. There you go energy let it out seven hey nine Ten a machine here. There you go. Nobody works like David in this house 13. Come on 14 Come on, 15 shut that muscle down 16 come on Get it 17. They don’t know me son. Get it 18. me son get it 19 son. Yeah, 20. you got some more. 21, yeah, get again. Come on we want to see it good 22 who’s gonna carry the boats in the logs That’s you buddy. Come on 23 Come on, 24 one more day man. Who’s one more to carry the boats? You’re gonna do it. You’re gonna do it. You’re gonna do it. You did it. Yeah You.

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I’m here laying on the floor going, I feel like somebody was stabbing knives in my quads. I used to lay there, put the towel over my face. My training partner was saying, people thought I was dying. Well, no, he’s okay. Don’t worry about him. After about 10 minutes, one more set, okay? But you’re doing great. You’re doing great. I’m happy. You can do this. It can happen.

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It’s very easy to consume. It’s mindless and everybody wants cars. Ooh, look at the car. Everybody wants money. Look at his money, you know It’s like you just get sucked up in it and it’s it’s a very low level frequency that everybody sort of has like a little bit of it and you see some dude with his open shirt all these chains and his All these girls behind him in their underwear. Everybody’s dancing. It’s like this guy’s life’s a party. Yeah, my life is a party I can’t catch a fucking break. I’m over here. I can’t catch a break.

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because I have a vision, I have my confidence, and I believe in myself. People call it arrogant, I call it confidence. Ignorant people call it arrogant, intelligent people call it confidence. I believe so much in myself, and I have a bulletproof mind, and when I go out there, I know what I’m able to do, and I do it good.

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The rocky cut scene lasts two minutes in the movie, but it can last five years in real life. And it’s not, and there is no background music. You know what I mean? And there’s no audience waiting to cheer for you, and you don’t know that you’re gonna beat Apollo Creed. So you’re in it for five years, and I think the hard part of entrepreneurship is the uncertainty that you don’t know if it’s gonna work out. But taking to the other natural extreme, if you did know and you were guaranteed that it was going to work, it wouldn’t be worth it.

So we want something from a world, we want a guarantee from a world that doesn’t give any. And the fact that it doesn’t give a guarantee is what makes it worth it.

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You have to want it. You have to want to be better. And it starts off with, you have to have pride in yourself. You have to have pride in yourself. You have to have, there’s something about you, whether it’s your last name, whether it’s just the smallest thing, you have to be proud of yourself. And if you have no pride in yourself, I can’t give it to you. Because you’re always gonna compromise. You’re always gonna fold. Always, I’m very proud of myself. That’s why when people said, you know where you can do better than can’t hurt me. Roger that. We’ll see. It’s that pride that wakes you up.

Now I’m not talking about bad pride.

The attention to detail for the human being I want to do. I call this thing, like, I want to be the standard. I want to be that guy. Every place I went in the military, there was this ethos.

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Nobody can tell me that I move the same as any of these guys because I don’t move the same. I move differently. I move unique and I know I move unique. Not only that, I speak unique, I act unique. I’m just different than these people. You know what I mean? So I have- You dress unique. I dress unique, whatever. I just feel different to these on another level, on another playing field than any of them before me. That’s why I know I have no doubt in my mind that I’m the greatest, that I will be the greatest of all time. In my head already, I am better than everybody.

And I know, you know, there’s a lot of hate come from people, you know, but I know and I will prove, you give me time and I will prove it to everybody. Nobody has my mindset. You know, I’m a specialist in human movement. I recognize movement in live play better than anybody. I recognize somebody’s movement and somebody’s reaction in live play better than anyone.

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All team, they was with me when I was nobody, when I was just start. You know, they was with me and now they still with me. We have, we respect each other. You know, we don’t kill nobody. We don’t push nobody. We don’t make nobody. Like if you don’t want, OK, leave. Like even yesterday I was talking with them. It was it was Saturday and everybody complain about they tired. What you want? All week you was work hard. End of the week, if you don’t tired, this is good question. You have to worry about yourself. But this is Saturday. Your sixth day you work so hard.

Of course, you’re going to tired. Tomorrow rest and Monday we’re going to begin one more training. If you don’t want, go back to Dagestan and stay with your mom. She’s going to give you every day good breakfast. You don’t do nothing. Stay there. But if you come here, don’t complain.

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if I could work that hard every day,

with being blessed with the physical tools that I have, what would my career be? And I made a promise to myself from that day that I was gonna work that hard every single day so that when I do retire, I have no regrets. And that was the most important thing for me, is to leave no stone unturned, get better every single day. And if I live that way, then over time, I’d have something that was beautiful. But that was my philosophy. It seems like a pretty simple one. but if you live your life to just get better every single day, and do that for 20 years, I mean, what do you have?

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Fight every battle, everywhere, always. In your mind, everyone is your enemy, everyone is your friend. Every possible series of events is happening all at once. Live that way, and nothing will surprise you.

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If I were to say, hey, I need you to hold your breath, but I don’t tell you how long, 20 seconds in, you might be thinking, this is stupid. Is he gonna stop? Is he gonna wait for me to pass out? And all these stupid thoughts go into your mind. But if I say, I need you to hold your breath for three minutes, your lungs might burn, but you can see that there’s this end that’s coming. The difficulty with personal development and entrepreneurship is that you don’t know when the end is coming, but you still need to fight like the second mouse who gets out, gets right off and gets put back in.

And the only certainty that I can give you is that it’s the same thing that every other mouse, every other person who got through that period went through. And you won’t die. And if you do die, you won’t care because you’ll be dead.

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You will find little joy in your command. But, with luck, you will find the strength to do what needs to be done.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy, and let the man be born.

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People don’t see that and people will never understand that to be success, you know all they think about well He bet it 202, you know, and he struck out certain number of times. Yeah, okay, You know, but the effort was there and the learning curve and the passion was there That has transcended, not just to me But to other people who are afraid to do things because they’re worried about the perception that may come from other places. To me, that’s more gratifying Than anything you know. So that’s the things that my father and my mother instilled in me:

take a negative and turn it into a positive. Don’t be afraid to fail.

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how this place is, how we’re going to live, how we’re going to represent ourselves. And I walked around and I saw that most people didn’t live up to that ethos. Like if you go to whatever, whatever company, they have this mission statement on how we want to run our company. I made one for myself on how I want to be. And that is why if people can make up a mission statement and ethos in which they want to live by and every morning you wake up, you hold yourself accountable to that mission, not a company, it’s your own. Make up your own mission statement. What do you want to be in life?

And once you do that, now you can work with somebody to get better. You can work with yourself to get better. But until you know what you want to stand for, you will always just be sitting down. You’ll never stand for anything.

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You got to be willing to fail. If you can’t fail, what I learned in the gym is You got to go out there and fail. You got to go out there and fall down. Most people who have won big have failed big. Okay, You know. see, even you know. and what I promised myself as a little boy, I said I can never leave the gym knowing I have 5% left, That 5% is magic. That’s the magic place where very few people go. You can go there. I’m giving you permission to go there We have people behind you if you fall down and drop the weight on the floor who cares who cares?

But if you make it I care I want that I want you to fail and I want you to get up and do it again The same thing in life is the same thing here. You can do this. you can do anything, anything. Right now, you’re 5% away, 5% away- from being a champion.

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You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life. Okay? I’m gonna throw a jab in the jaw. Alright, one to the gut. Now, every time he punches this guy, what’s he doing? Staring one back at me. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it, or get out of the way.

So…

I’m gonna leave you two alone for a while.

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I know because like I said I can read the mind and I just know people, I know every one of them are sweating me and at the same time I know they don’t out sweat me. Nobody out sweats me. I work. I don’t just talk. Don’t confuse the talk. Don’t confuse because my mind is in the correct place. People seem to be confusing that. People seem to be confusing that because I can talk and I believe in myself and I’m confident and I’m outspoken and I say what I think that I’m a personality. I’m a UFC personality similar to Chael Sonnen. I’m not Chael Sonnen. I’m not that guy. I’m speaking it.

I’m not WWF skit or WWE skit. It’s not like that. I’m just speaking. I’m speaking fact. Everything I say is fact. Everything I’ve said about everyone in the division has always been fact.

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Hard times create hard men. Hard men create soft times. Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times.

We’re in the time of toxic masculinity, right? Where you can be toxically male.

And then if you’re suppressing masculinity,

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It’s 1am, I’m going for my third workout.

Do I want to go to the gym?

Absolutely not.

I’d rather, you know, lay in my house and sit in the movie theater and watch movies.

But, you know, to be the best you got to work overtime. To be the best you got to work overtime.

Let’s go in here and get this workout in.

Lights out, party’s over.

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Hello everybody, it’s Groundhog’s Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about three o’clock in the morning and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing. Not a car or a person in sight. People wanna know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from, there’s not a mother that’s up. There’s not a car, there’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hate it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it. I’m loving that.

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that can happen in early age, it can happen at a later age, It’s gonna happen to somebody, every you know. no matter what’s gonna happen to you, And when it does happen to you think you’re lucky stars that finally you’re alive. It’s time to unwrap the potential. you can be Superior man. it’s within you, It’s within every single one of us and the people that have have risen to that level. We’re no different than any one of us. it says they believed it and they’re willing to work their keen ass off to get it.

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Obsession is gonna be talent every time. You got all the talent in the world, but are you obsessed? Is it all you ever think about? Let’s face it, it’s you against you out there. When you walk on that court, you have to think, I am the best guy out there.

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It is so easy to beat people today. They are so soft. They have no work ethic. No one can stick with anything. Everyone’s distracted. They’re on social media. They’re counting their notifications because they can’t stick with shit. They can’t say no. And so sometimes you gotta say, hey guys, we’re gonna stay at this revenue level until we get referrals over 30%. We’re gonna stay at this revenue level. We’re gonna stay at this level of advertising because I don’t want anyone else to know how mediocre our sandwiches are. Why would I tell anyone else? I don’t want anyone to know.

If I could test this with no one knowing, I would do it, but we have to advertise a little bit so we can fix our thing.

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The man to be a fighter has to be hungry and has nothing. He’ll never know what it’s like to be without. He has a different situation. A man who’s not hungry and has plenty will die in there because the people in there have nothing. And their job is to die in there because they have nothing so it doesn’t matter what happens to them. They have nothing to lose. How could a man that has so much to lose win against a man that has nothing to lose? That’s like your guy is going against a free laborer. You can’t be free laborer. But you, are you still hungry? I don’t know.

But I know I’m capable of going inside, France our borders, and tearing the soul apart. There’s no one ever put fear in my heart. No man. I watched him fight the Nazi before. If he fights me like he fights the Nazi, he’s going home in a body bag.

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The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is going to hit as hard as life, but it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, now go out and get what you’re worth,

but you gotta be willing to take the hits and not point and finger saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that, and that ain’t you. You’re better than that.

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Don’t let the fact that I speak correct and I speak right and I speak with conviction, don’t let that confuse the fact that I outwoke everybody. And that when the time comes, when the door shuts, when the bell rings, nobody does it better than me. Nobody is more calm than me. I’m able to calm my mind. I swear to God I can go all day long, yeah? All f***ing day long I’ll go. I won’t get… I never get tired. You’re never gonna get me tired, ever. I’m only 16. I’m 16 weeks over ACL surgery. And I swear to God I’m in better shape than a guy that’s fighting next week.

A guy that’s coming towards the end of his camp. Any of them. I’m in better shape now than they are f***ing right before a fight.

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You can handle a lot more work than I was able to. A guy like yourself on ectomorph, more red fiber can handle more sets, more volume and more frequency. I get it. I have to cater what I’m thinking. I can’t have you train like me, it’s gotta be like you. So everything I would not do, I’m gonna have you do. Everything I would not do, I want you to do. Let’s do one more set. Dave’s last 5% is crucial that he gets there. What I say to people where David is right now is go out there and fail. Go out there and fail miserably, I can’t even say the word, miserably.

Drop the weight on the ground, toss the weight, but achieve failure. Achieve failure. If you can do that, you can also win. If you can fail, you can also win and all winners have failed. That’s the goal here today, that last 5%.

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I’m always gonna give it my hundred ten percent. That’s the only thing I can ever say. a Solid day’s work. That’s all that will ever find peace in. if you guys do not do that, I promise you your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. If there’s potential inside of you which you know it’s there But you’re too scared to tell anyone else about it, and you go on and on, get older and older, and older and older, And the windows are to start to close and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it, I promise you it will haunt you. It’ll be more.

it’s a living nightmare, dude. that fact that you had the ability to do something and you’re too weak to can turn the key and start the engine on it is a greater disappointment and a greater burden to carry than any. this physical sweat, equity or pain in the gym or school or or sacrifice- all that is just Nothing compared to a life You

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amazing that where I came from, that person could have died, that very fat, lazy, unfulfilled person. And what’s inside that person was this person talking to you. It’s very freaky to me. And a lot of us have these two people, that you have greatness way over here, but you decide to live in this space over here. Because between greatness or between this space here and greatness, there’s a lot of work. There’s so much space to fill in with work. And we just say, I’ll just stay over here in this space. So I like to examine all these spaces and there’s still more.

There’s still more, still a lot more.

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When we talk about the proper player, the individual player, obviously we have different lifestyles, we have different profession, we have different mentality. For me, I stopped now three months ago, I came to 41 and I still played on top. I went to visit to America, I came back. Normally you go to America, you don’t come back. But I went there, I came back, and I prove numbers, age is just an age. You can still play depending how you take care of yourself and how you approach things. Obviously you need to be intelligent because the player I was when I was 25, I’m not the same player 35.

So if you’re intelligent and you can manage that situation to change your game, because obviously you have to change the game. I’m not the same type of player when I was 20, 25, 30 and you go up.

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You want to become best, you want to become champion and now you want to say like you’re tired Who cares you’re tired or not? Nobody care about you. Even you. if you’re gonna watch fight, you just watch fight. They walk out inside the cage, they fight and they leave. You don’t know what happened behind the scenes This is not your business. Nobody care about this. Yeah, he was tired. He have personal problem, family. No, nobody cares. You don’t know like. you just see how he fight and he go. Yeah, and for this one you have to train so hard if you don’t want Go back to Dagestan.

Nobody gonna ask about yourself. Without you or with you. There is always gonna be champions With your name. This is your choice. You wanna put your name there? Okay work hard. No Bye-bye. Yeah, it’s like very simple, nothing special.

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You can’t be weak. And in this country, being weak is thought of as a virtue. Jordan Peterson has a really interesting way of looking at this. He said it to me once and it made a lot of sense. He said, people think that you should be weak and you should be docile and then you should be a pacifist. He goes, no, you should be a monster. He said you should be a monster. You should be ruthlessly ambitious and then learn how to control it. And it’s that old expression. It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

It’s an old expression, but it makes sense because it doesn’t mean that you can’t be kind if you’re strong, but it does mean you can’t be strong if you’re weak.

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I could see it now, if I would have allowed him to hit me and not retaliate it. There would have been a lot of people who respected me for walking away, but there would have been a lot of people who would have called me a coward and called me a wuss for allowing that to happen. Outside of what anyone else thinks, I couldn’t allow that to happen. And I told Lorenzo Petita, if anyone ever hits me, then I’m going to do what I have to do to protect myself.

But for the most part, you know, a lot of people are loving this. A lot of people are eating it up. I mean, I’ve had the Indianapolis Colts call me and all these football players call me and just people from all over calling me so excited, so much more anxious to see the fight. So in a way, it was a good thing. In a very opposite way, it was a terrible thing for the UFC.

And that’s why before I said anything today, I just wanted to apologize for the people who didn’t appreciate that type of entertainment. You know that I am going to bring that to you. I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure you never forget the night you stepped in the Idagon with me.

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When I say I am God, you think I’m joking or not? You tell me. I’m not joking. When I come on the field, I feel like that. You feel like God? I feel like God when I’m on the field. An omnipotent power. I feel untouchable and I feel I will smash everyone that comes in my way. That is the mental part. Let’s say boxing, Tyson Fury is the champion. If you ask me if I could smash, I would say yes. I would smash him. You could beat Tyson Fury? In my head, yes. But when I come in the ring, he would knock me out after two seconds. But the mentality is, I can.

But in the ring, he would eat me alive, without doubt. But my mentality is, I can.

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Just staying on the straight and narrow. You know what I mean? Just staying on the straight and narrow. Because I mean, I can be a product of my environment. If I’m in with the wrong crowd, I just kind of become whatever. So that’s why I like to be isolated. And that’s why this has helped me coming out here and being locked in an apartment on my own. Building back up my leg, going from rehab to home, to rehab to home. Because there was no outsiders. It was isolation. It was visualisation. It was motivation and it was dedication. There was no nothing else going on in my life.

You know what I mean? For this, this needs to be, to get to the level, to get to the pinnacle, it needs to be like that. It needs to be no outsiders. You need to have your team and your focus and that’s it. I don’t need friends that aren’t involved in this game. Or that aren’t on the same path.

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No matter who you are, there are bumps and hits and bruises along the way. And my advice is to prepare yourself, because football lessons teach us that success and achievement come from overcoming adversity, and that team accomplishment far exceeds anyone’s individual goals. To be successful at anything, the truth is you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t. Consistent, determined, and willing to work for it. No shortcuts. If you look at all my teammates here tonight, it would be impossible to find better examples of men who embody that work ethic,

integrity, purpose, determination, and discipline that it takes to be a champion in life.

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The game is so much better this year. The storylines that drive the game. I was just watching it earlier, the graphics, the gameplay, it feels and looks smooth. But to be able to have the storyline of the Bloodline, the island of relevancy, and to be able to go into that island mode, it’s unlike anything. So you’re just gonna be able to, once you get it, you’ll just be able to dive into it and just experience more and more and more. And the game is just gonna keep giving. So you know, for us to be able to be immortalized and have our family represented in this way,

to be plugged in the game, is a beautiful day, man.

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Once you get it come on over this side of the fence You don’t see in problems anymore, man. Uh-huh. You see situations You see possibilities and you can’t wait to get them started man. You’re like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn’t matter about the past. It’s today. What we doing today? Are we gonna engage now? and once we engage, we commit. there’s no half commitment. There’s no quarter commitment There’s no three quarter. It’s full commitment. Once we engage, it’s every fucking day we engage,

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I want to be able to go through a day or go through a week not worrying about what I got to do Wednesday, what I got to do Thursday, what I got to do, because I never enjoy Monday. I want to be able to, you know, and sometimes I surprise the shit out of myself saying, look, I got nothing to do today. Oh, I got nothing to do tomorrow. I got nothing to do on Wednesday. That to me is ultimately retirement. You know, that’s where I want to be. And if I choose to get involved in things, then, hey, you know, I want to go to Charlotte and I want to see what’s happening with the team.

Or I want to go to Portland and spend a week out in Portland, blah, blah, blah. But not to where, you know, my moment, the moment that I’m living right now, I’m worried about what I have to do tomorrow. And that’s where my life was getting.

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to the place I am now, it’s not the peace you find, it’s the peace I find. And I find so much peace in looking back at that young David, eight years old, with white splotches on his face and stuttering and hair patches falling out. And I look at him and like, man, there’s so much peace in knowing what I’ve accomplished and what I’ve done. So my peace may be different for others. That’s why I never critique or never judge anyone because I don’t know your story or where you come from. I found peace years ago, years ago, in the battle. In the battle, you find peace.

When you go to war with yourself, you find a lot of peace because you know exactly who you are. And that is where the peace is really found for me.

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Please do not offend me. I don’t need to prove nothing. Even if I don’t score the goals today. I have a lot of respect for Véla. He is a good player but you did one mistake. You compared him with me. That was your biggest mistake.

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If you’re weak, you’re f**ked. And there’s a lot of weak people in this country right now that are trying to take control. And they’re gathering up all the other weak people and they say, yeah, let’s all be weak together. And they’re willing to embrace all sorts of ideas that have been disproven, not just disproven, that have caused the deaths of untold millions of people. And Mao is China and Stalin is Russia and it’s crazy. And they’re short-sighted. And they’re short-sighted because in the short term, they want their tribe to win.

And there’s so many weak people that will join along with them. There’s so many just simple-minded dullards that just want to promote their tribe.

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Did you think I’d forgotten you? Perhaps you hoped I had. Don’t waste a breath mourning Miss Barnes.

Every kitten grows up to be a cat.

They seem so harmless at first.

Small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk.

But once their claws get long enough,

they draw blood.

Sometimes from the hand that feeds them.

For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain,

there can be no mercy.

There is but one rule. Hunt or be hunted.

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I’ve been around you my whole life so I know how bad you want this and I always believe in you. But trust me when I tell you, you don’t want to go to the place you about to go. It’s hell down there and you don’t even know if you’ll be able to pull yourself back up. Okay.

Let me be very clear. I’ll never give up.

Never.

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everybody’s similar but everybody’s different, and Your attitude has a giant effect, not just on your life, but on other people’s lives around you. That’s the other thing about it those. I can’t catch a break guys. Yeah, get them the fuck away from me I can’t I can’t be around those guys. I don’t want to hear that shit. I don’t want to hear that shit I don’t buy it because everybody has bad breaks. Yeah, I’ve had a ton of bad breaks, but you know what I did? I stayed up, yeah, and I thought through it and I and I figured out what the fuck I did wrong. And then I went back.

It’s like I’ve stopped everything I’ve ever done a hundred times. There’s no way, there’s no other way to do it. and I’ve had a bunch of breaks- everybody has. but you got to realize when You have those, he breaks what that is. it’s an opportunity for you to reassess, reboot, get better, figure out another way, Find another way through. it’s just little challenges.

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People look at me differently because I’m not from a social, a highly social background and no social status, you know what I mean? I’m no educated man and I’m just a person that was blessed to have skills and I’m not, but still that I’m that way, I’m a blessed person, I’m still a grassroots person and my grassroots background, we don’t back down from anyone. And that’s what got me in trouble. I don’t play games, I don’t kiss anyone’s ass and I’m a real man. And that’s why, regardless of being a fight or anything, I’m a man and that’s why I want to be a man. And if I die, I want to die a man.

I don’t want to die a bitch, a little f***ing poodle in the street.

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Disappointment to me, to win, you gotta lose. To be successful, you gotta have something that’s not successful. To be happy, you gotta have disappointment. So I think all of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the privileges I have for being who I am, you know, and not to wear it on my sleeve, be very humble about it. That’s one thing my parents taught me very well, is, you know, don’t wear your reputation, don’t wear your accolades, don’t wear your personality on your sleeve. Let it happen, let it be you.

It is who you are, don’t hide from it, but don’t wear it and rub it in people’s faces.

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I need your advice.

There’s something I want to do, something I… Have to do. But it’ll divide the Night’s Watch. Bitterly. Half the men’ll hate me the moment I give the order.

Half the men hate you already, Lord Commander. Do it!

But you don’t know what it is…

That doesn’t matter. You do.

You will find little joy in your command. But, with luck, you will find the strength to do what needs to be done.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy. And let the man be born.

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Welcome to the pain zone. It’s where we live.

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Come here and tell me that I fucked you in your ass, you punk white boy, you faggot. You can’t touch me, you’re not man enough. I’ll eat your asshole alive, you bitch. Fuck you, you hoe. Come and say it in my face, I’ll fuck you in your ass for everybody. You bitch. Come on, you bitch. You scared coward. You’re not man enough to fuck with me. You can’t last two minutes in my world, bitch. Look at you, scared now, you hoe. Scared like a little white pussy. Scared of the real man. I’ll fuck you till you love me, faggot. You bitch.

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let’s go. It was really, let’s go kick some ass. That’s what we were doing.

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If you weren’t born that guy, that mentally strong guy, he can be made, woman, man, whatever the hell you are. It can be made. But in making that person, you have to be able to turn down book deals. You have to be who the fuck you are every day of your life and never care about anybody who gets in your way that said you’re not doing something the proper way. I was always afraid of people not wanting to, like when you get beat as bad as I did, I lied all the time. I wanted to be accepted and loved and all that shit that I created about 50 people. Whatever you like, I like.

Just, if you would be my friend, just be my friend. And that’s where we get lost in life.

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This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die! And these Shield Boys! Ho! Remember this day, Red. For it will be yours for all time.

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is the opportunity because that is the work that your competitors also aren’t doing.

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Well, I mean, like I said, it’s, it’s, it’s, there’s a difference between who you are and what you are. And what I am when I step on that court is, you know, I become that. I am, I am that killer snake. You know, I’m stone cold, man.

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My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah.

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He should have killed me when he had the chance, Cause now I’m back and I’m gonna kill you and your whole f***ing team.

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So you think that I’m done, that my career will soon be over.

You don’t know me. All my life I had to fight. No one believed in me, so I had to believe in myself.

Some people wanted to break me, but they only made me stronger.

Others wanted to exploit me, they only made me smarter. And now you think I’m done? To all of you, I only have one thing to say.

I’m not like you, because I’m not you.

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If you don’t get over that you’re doomed Because what happens is this you start to create a whole bunch of people that aren’t even yourself You you never figure out who you are you you never live up to your dreams your ambition You you live up to what? Whoever is around you that you like so much, that you want to emulate and be like so much. you live their dreams. You, you, so it’s you. you lose your power. You lose your power. the ultimate power is owning yourself.

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I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend And I dedicated this fight. I wasn’t gonna fight. I dedicated this fight to him. I was gonna rip his heart out I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion has ever been there’s no one can stop me Links is a conqueror. No, I’m Alexander. He’s no Alexander. I’m the best ever. There’s never been anybody’s ruthless I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s no one like my from their cloth. There’s no one that can match me. My style is impetuous.

My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. praise be to Allah.

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There’s a moment when every boy realizes no one’s coming to save him,

and that’s when he becomes a man.

And some boys never get there and stay children forever.

That guy was you that said that. And it’s important when we step out of this,

like this stuff matters because no one’s effing coming to save you.

No one’s going to make you better at your business. No one is going to get you to be a better persuader of people or framer of people other than you.

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Do you know the difference between being afraid and being yellow? Or the difference between a hero and a coward? And I tell them there’s no difference between a hero and a coward at all. How they feel, it’s what they do that makes a difference. That’s what makes a difference between a hero and a coward. Now the people who watch you do what you do, judge you on what you do, not how you feel. If you go out there and you do what you do, and you do it in what people call a heroic manner, they think of you as a hero.

Now, if you do things that a person does that’s often referred to as cowardly or whatever, they think of you in that way. But the hero and the coward feels exactly the same. You have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does, or the so-called coward. Everybody’s a coward more or less.

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I can never give you an opinion about things like that because as an athlete, all you want to do is be the best athlete you can be.

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When I say I am God, you think I’m joking or not? You tell me. I’m not joking. When I come on the field, I feel like that. You feel like God? I feel like God when I’m on the field. An omnipotent. I feel untouchable and I feel I will smash everyone that comes in my way. That is the mental part. Let’s say boxing, Tyson Fury is the champion. If you ask me if I could smash, I would say yes. I would smash him. You think you could beat Tyson Fury? In my head, yes. But when I come in the ring, he would knock me out after two seconds. But the mentality is, I can.

But in the ring, he would eat me alive, without doubts. But my mentality is, I can.

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While it helps you, it also hurts you to come from darkness. Because why? It’s easy for me to sit back and say, you know what? Poopy pants mentality. I want to sit back and let the world take care of me now. And that’s what I’m talking about. Don’t play sick too long. While my childhood was so messed up, I played sick way too long, and I almost lost tons of opportunities by playing sick. Because it feels good to play sick. My dad beat the fucking shit out of me, man. I couldn’t read. I can’t read. You know? When I was a junior in high school, I couldn’t read.

If you live that life, it feels good for people to, oh man, that’s just David, man. He’s just not real smart, and he had a bad life. And you get a get out of jail free card. That’s nice. It sucks doing what I had to do to get here today. That was not fucking fun. That darkness is not, there’s nothing that dark to drive me to the place I had to go to become successful.

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When my mother died at the hands of your ambition, you didn’t learn your limitations.

I have no limitations.

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This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die! And these Shield Boys! HALLELUJAH!

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You lose. Every time you bite with that nigga and I’m the one that pays for it. And you gonna get off his corners? You gonna leave his people be? Or you the one that’s gonna find yourself a new plug? I built this shit. Me. Brick by brick. And I’ll be damned if I let you tear it down just cause you don’t like the way another nigga talk.

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Does your life suck? Are you suffering? Are you in pain? Good, you are on a good path. Suffering is the only way to the top. Pain is the only way to change. Obstacles are the only way to success. American TV commercials made us believe that everything in this life should be smooth and easy. Counselors and teachers told us that we should not have aggressions and conflicts in life. You have been lied to. Go your way, brother. And let it be an honorable way. A way that makes your ancestors proud.

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And it is the same one I’d give were we not standing on the brim of a battlefield. It is the same one I’d give were we to meet in the street by chance.

I have only ever hoped for one thing,

to see this kingdom united under this English crown. All men are born to die, we know it. We carry it with us always. If your day be today,

so be it. Mine will be tomorrow.

Or mine today and yours tomorrow, it matters not. What matters is that you know in your hearts that today you are that kingdom united. You are England. Each and every one of you. England is you.

And it is the space between you. Fight not for yourselves, fight for that space. Fill that space. Make it tissue. Make it mass. Make it impenetrable. Make it yours. Make it England. Make it England.

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I think I’m the best, without joking. I’m the most complete player that ever exists.

Skills and all this. If we talk about, I didn’t win the Golden Bowl, no, I didn’t win. I didn’t win the Champions League, no. If those things matters, no, I’m probably not on that list. I had the honor and luck to win 34 trophies, and collective trophies. Some individual, because the collective comes, the individual comes with the collective, so if the collective does good, the individual will do good. But when we talk pure, only the player, the abilities, no, I think 100%, no joking.

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First of all I want to say Alhamdulillah God gave me everything. Alhamdulillah. I know you got this, you don’t like this. Alhamdulillah. Tomorrow night I’m gonna smash your boy guys. I’m gonna smash your boy.

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Listen, you’re in a privileged position to learn a thing or two. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. You say you’re serious about doing some good in the real world, well this is the place to learn. But if this kind of shit shakes you up, maybe you ought to go back to your division, you know, rather than watch commander to give you a nice job lighting flares or measuring car wrecks. You gotta decide whether you’re a wolf or a sheep.

Get your ink. Or, go give him a hand.

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The thing that I remember the most about my father, and I had him for 32 years, and I never look at it from a negative sense. Obviously, he was murdered, and rarely do I get the chance to talk about him. But the thing that I do remember all the time- I think about him practically every day- is for a person like myself, who live in the spotlight and is so critical from people all the time in terms of what I do, what I say, where I go, the thing he’s always said, take a pause before you make a decision and say, what if?

And the purpose for saying what if is that whatever decision you make, always either going to have consequences, either pros or cons.

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a path of war.

Because to me, war path means moving toward a battle, a fight towards war.

And that is what I am doing, and that’s what I’ve always been doing. Whether it was the actual war against our nation’s enemies, or the war against my own weaknesses. That is what I am doing, preparing.

And sharpening my sword and honing my skills and maintaining the unmitigated daily discipline in all things.

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There’s people out there like David Goggins who had nothing, fucking nothing. And I’ve had all this opportunity in front of me and I’m a loser. I’m not shit. So what does that say about me? The conversations are very similar. You have all this opportunity and you’ve gone nowhere with it. I’m at the bottom of the barrel and it could take me a lot longer just to get where you’re at for the starting line to be fair.

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Let’s get this straight now.

I never fucked anybody over in my life. Didn’t have a comment. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word. And I don’t break them for Noah. You understand? That piece of shit up there, I never like him. I never trust him. For all I know, he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed. But that’s history. I ain’t here. He’s not. Do you want to go on with me? Do say it. You don’t? Then you make a move.

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Out of the hundred men that go into war, 10 shouldn’t even fucking be there. 80 of them are just targets. 10 do most, or nine do most of the fighting. One is a warrior. And it’s a true quote to life. I saw it going through training, I saw it everywhere I went. There’s so many people who just show up to life that shouldn’t even fucking be around. And there’s a few people who do all the work. I wanted to be part of that nine, and I’m working towards being that one. And that’s just how I live my life.

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I’m stopping this one now.

Don’t, okay? Let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what? I’m not a mistake.

I’m going to knock that son of a bitch down.

I know you are. You know why? Because you are Creed and I love you, kid.

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Mistakes, Mistakes you don’t constantly make mistakes. No, you make mistakes, but you don’t do them over and over and over and over.

No, so it’s who we could do anything. We can run mountains together. We could swim laps together We could do push-ups. We could do jujitsu. We could I will beat you at anything. I’m younger stronger Okay more athletic And I’ll be here ten times out of ten times.

No, I know you like to sit there on your high horse, But I’m telling you right now: This is my life and I’m willing to die to beat you. You don’t deserve this somebody I will show you that you don’t deserve this. I’m not bitter at all But you don’t deserve this. I will die to beat you.

do the thing.

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I am different in any given time. The world tour was a different time.

This time I am cold.

I am emotionless. I am zen, at peace,

ready for war.

So I pay no attention to how he is feeling or how he is going to feel.

I simply enter the way I enter.

And that is enough. They either overextend or they shrink away.

But either way is not good for them.

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Listen, listen! You’ve got to get f***ing angry now, Lian! You’re too down. Come on, come on, you’re letting him control you too much, son. You’ve got to get your hands going, Lian. You’ve got to get your hands going. Come on, now!

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This man out there, he won’t give it to me. The head of the studio. What’s his name? Waltz. Waltz. He won’t give it to me. And he says there’s no chance. A month ago, he bought the movie rights to this book. The bestseller. And the main character is a guy just like me. I wouldn’t even have to act. Just be myself. Godfather, I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do.

You can act like a man! What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turn down a Hollywood binocular? That cries like a woman? What can I do? What can I do?

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I tried to fix it.

I did everything. I showed them compassion. I showed them mercy. I walked away. I was the bigger man. And look where the f*** it got me.

If you can’t be a part of what comes next, I understand.

I appreciate everything you’ve done for me. I know you did your best.

But what I am now,

it’s not your fault.

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to be able to put myself in a place where at practice or when I’m training or doing games, I switch my mind to something else. I switch my mode into something else, right? For me, it’s the equivalent of Maximus, Desmus, Meridius and Gladiator picking up the dirt, smelling the dirt, it’s go time, right? So that was my mental switch. It was like an actor getting ready for a film. You gotta put yourself in that cage. When you’re in that cage, you are that character. Then when you leave there, it’s something completely different. But when I’m in that cage, bro, don’t fucking touch me.

Don’t talk to me.

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So we want something from a world, we want a guarantee from a world that doesn’t give any. And the fact that it doesn’t give a guarantee is what makes it worth it.

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You’ve got to create a lot of different emotion to, to, to heighten your sense of awareness and focus. Like for me, anger was good. Anger was good because it was motivating. The more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go on, kill those guys. Now I knew I wasn’t going to kill him physically, but man, if I could just, what did they say, you know, and what did they look like? And did they disrespect me at all? You know, and did that. So say something like those are little, little,

little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran on the field and I said, let’s can go, it was really, let’s go kick some ass. That’s what we were doing.

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Now I’m not talking about bad pride.

The attention to detail for the human being I want to do. I call this thing, like, I want to be the standard. I want to be that guy. Every place I went in the military, there was this ethos.

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You know that I am going to bring that to you. I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure you never forget the night you stepped in the attic with me.

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I’m very routine. I get very morning. I run I go to the gym and then at nighttime I stretch out I am Just trying to develop a business costing me a lot of money trying to do that. I’m just getting out I’m a I’m an introvert so I never want to get on social media. I’m not big on that. I’m big on being With yourself. I believe all these Fucking cameras and phones and shit- it takes you away from the most powerful thing in the world, which is your fucking mind. So I try hard to continue to grow that. I’m trying to break a record again.

I’m trying to cross Death Valley as fast as possible top of Mount Whitney and I’m constantly trying to put goals in front of me. but the biggest thing is I’m trying to find more of myself, And all I can find more is to silence the world out as much as I can, because it’s getting busier every day. It’s getting faster, and the faster it gets, the more you are Missing who the fuck you are.

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The life we live, guys, is a differential of margins that’s almost unmeasurable. What is successful and what is failure? The differential are so small. We’re talking about seconds. We’re talking about reps. We’re talking about the finest echelon of measurement that will make or break someone’s life to be successful at that moment. And once at that moment successful, that gives a birth of a lifestyle that’s unbeatable, second to none. But in order to have that first success, you must ensure yourself that you’re giving it all you can today. Because the future, we don’t know, do we?

We’re training for that.

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if I could work that hard every day,

with being blessed with the physical tools that I have, what would my career be? And I made a promise to myself from that day that I was gonna work that hard every single day so that when I do retire, I have no regrets. And that was the most important thing for me, is to leave no stone unturned, get better every single day. And if I live that way, then over time, I’d have something that was beautiful. But that was my philosophy. It seems like a pretty simple one. but if you live your life to just get better every single day, and do that for 20 years, I mean, what do you have?

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Children, gather round.

No retreat, no surrender. That is Spartan law.

And by Spartan law, we will stand and fight.

A new age has begun,

an age of freedom.

And all will know the 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it. Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!

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You will face pain on this way, suffering, frustration, humiliation. Accept the pain. Smile at the pain. Embrace the pain. Sbogom, pain is the gatekeeper of destiny. Pain is there to ask you one simple question. Do you really want to achieve your goals? Or are you just a talker? Tell your pain, whenever you want to go. Pain will build the stairway to the top.

This is Krim Chastme. Be honorable.

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Don’t know who you’re talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks.

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You will find little joy in your command. But, with luck, you will find the strength to do what needs to be done.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy, and let the man be born.

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So I trap my own mind a lot and say look man. I put my phone away. I put it away and I go dark I go dark a lot and it’s because I have to find out i’m on a journey of life And we all have a different journey and I want to be in my fucking pine box And I believe your spirit lives forever has to it’s too fucking powerful. No way in hell. that thing just dies when you die. I want to be able to look back on my life when i’m all dead and be so fucking proud of myself forever. This is all temporary shit to me. I want to be forever proud of who I was as a man And change who I used to be: the liar,

the insecure guy, the guy who can Whatever. I want to be proud when I- if I die now, if I die at 80, if I die at 90, 100, I want to look at myself and say proud of myself.

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take a negative and turn it into a positive. Don’t be afraid to fail.

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And the war path is just that it’s a path It’s a route it leads somewhere and so you ask okay, then where does it lead? And yes, Yes, it can lead to war, And that’s fine. In fact, I Am waiting and I am ready,

because the war path is A war against weakness, and so it leads to strength. It’s a war against ignorance, and so it leads to knowledge. It’s a war against confusion,

And so it delivers Understanding.

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This fight right here, you better be preparing. You better train your butt off as if your life depends on it. Because your life depends on it. Don’t go up missing.

I’m going to smash your f***ing face in, you prick. I brought that for a f***ing message.

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Get it David. Come on. Yeah, there you go. There you go Energy, let it out seven eight nine Ten a machine here. There you go. Nobody works like David in this house 13. Come on, 14. Come on, 15 shut that muscle down 16 come on Get it 17. They don’t know me son. Get it 18. Get it 19 son. Yeah, 20, you got some more. 21, yeah, get again. Come on we want to see it good 22 who’s gonna carry the boats in the logs That’s you buddy. Come on 23 Come on, 24 one more David who’s one more carry the boats You’re gonna do it. You’re gonna do it. You’re gonna do it. You did it. Yeah, Yeah.

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You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life. Okay? I’m gonna throw a jab in the jaw. Alright, one to the gut. Now, every time he punches this guy, what’s he doing? Staring one back at me. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it, or get out of the way.

So…

I’m gonna leave you two alone for a while.

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And when I hear people say terms like good enough

Bothers me to an nth degree Because they are saying something that is justified at the moment, but not quantitative until a future endeavor of life So therefore they are passing judgment or now for a future event that they knew nothing about They’re bullshits Good enough you think about it good as a positive enough negative. That’s an oxymoron right there Hypocritical on its own sense. There is nothing ever good enough. The only thing that’s enough is at the end of the day, the nth hour, final hour, Whatever, you’re fucking going for that, your hand is raised Victoriously.

that’s when you know it’s enough and you’re in the gym right now to ensure that that event goes your way And will never go your way. guys, If you’re saying today is good enough, If you never say good enough today, I promise you tomorrow Will always be enough.

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I’m not WWF skit or WWE skit. It’s not like that. I’m just speaking. I’m speaking fact. Everything I say is fact. Everything I’ve said about everyone in the division has always been fact.

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Can you be strong for 15 minutes? Can you? Listen, your concentration is weaving a little bit. Pick it up.

Pick it up!

Don’t pull it straight out. Bend your knees and be strong on the inside and go around. Let’s control the outside. Look, the fire’s coming. Are you ready for the fire? We’re firemen.

We are firemen! You got it, Coach. The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready. We’re at home. We’re where we’re supposed to be. Flame thrown to intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flames. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

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Hard times create hard men. Hard men create soft times. Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times.

We’re in the time of toxic masculinity, right? Where you can be toxically male.

And then if you’re suppressing masculinity,

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The path, the war path, leads to control and leads to ownership of your life.

And that, to me, is the war path, the path of fire and adversity, the path of blood and of sweat and of suffering.

The war path is the preeminent path of discipline,

which is why it leads to freedom.

And beyond that, in the end, the war path, it leads to peace.

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It’s 1am, I’m going for my third workout.

Do I want to go to the gym?

Absolutely not.

I’d rather, you know, lay in my house and sit in the movie theater and watch movies.

But, you know, to be the best you got to work overtime. To be the best you got to work overtime.

Let’s go in here and get this workout in.

Lights out, party’s over.

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I’d have a mother come wake me up at 3 o’clock in the fucking morning. So, hey, you got shit in. I had no trainer, I have a nutritionist. It was the self-discipline that I had to survive to not survive. I was weak to thrive No one say hey, man, you’re 297 pounds, man I’m gonna help you out. I’ll help. Hey, man, you’re fucking you’re not smart. I’m gonna help you out. I Had to work at all this shit. I had to overcome and and It it self disciplines everything if you don’t have it. I don’t look at you right cuz I know you’re capable of more It’s not discipline so much for me. It’s all on you.

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Whenever good enough isn’t enough you can bet tomorrow. You’ll have enough.

I wrote this workout out, guys, last night and I’m telling you. I’m a little fearful of it. I had a little bit of a nightmare about it It’s gonna take it’s gonna take something else. It’s gonna take that X factor added to you to push through this. But you get through this, guys. You won’t ever question the terminology of society’s weakness, of good enough. If you make it through this workout, you will have enough to ensure your endeavors are filled to victorious levels. Society is is played with normality. Second place, for some reason, is the ultimate place,

because not too prideful as yet humble and it’s bullshit, guys. Second place is the first fucking loser. if you hit second, that’s fine, You gave me your all. but if you every single day say good enough, good enough, good enough, and you come up second, You’re nothing enough.

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I own this town. I own Rio de Janeiro. I’m sitting up here with my feet on the desk. What’s anyone up there gonna do about it? Not one is gonna do anything about it. My name, the McGregor name, my family’s motto is Shereel Moran and that means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for him to say he is the king and I am the joker. if this was a different time I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to walk. But we are in a new time so I’ll whoop his ass in July.

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To me, fear is the greatest obstacle to learn. And unless one understands fear, he can never learn as quickly as he should.

Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you can make it work for you. If you let it get out of control, it can destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill.

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It is so easy to beat people today. They are so soft. They have no work ethic. No one can stick with anything. Everyone’s distracted. They’re on social media. They’re counting their notifications because they can’t stick with shit. They can’t say no. And so sometimes you gotta say, hey guys, we’re gonna stay at this revenue level until we get referrals over 30%. We’re gonna stay at this revenue level. We’re gonna stay at this level of advertising because I don’t want anyone else to know how mediocre our sandwiches are. Why would I tell anyone else? I don’t want anyone to know.

If I could test this with no one knowing, I would do it, but we have to advertise a little bit so we can fix our thing.

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You’ll be less than, you’ll be a f***ing loser if you don’t. I can’t leave the gym. You won, you f***ing won. When you walk out of here today, you know, you’ve won. Imagine walking out the door a loser. I’d rather die. I would rather die than be that loser guy. Think about that. Do you want to walk out that door a damn loser or do you want to walk out the door a winner? Thank you. You know, I’ll fight to the death. And sometimes I actually went close to death. It sounds crazy, but you got to give it that much. If you want results, otherwise you’ll be like everybody else.

The majority of the population, they think they’re training hard. That was hard.

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I don’t know what to say really.

Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today.

We heal as a team or we’re going to crumble. Inch by inch, play by play, until we’re finished. We’re in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell, one inch at a time.

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I’m scared to death. I’m totally afraid. I’m afraid of everything. I’m afraid of losing. I’m afraid of being humiliated. But I’m totally confident. The closer I get to the ring, the more confidence I get. The closer, the more confidence I get. The closer, the more confidence I get. All during my training, I’ve been afraid of this man. I thought this man might be capable of beating me. I’ve dreamed of him beating me. But I always stayed afraid of him. But the closer I get to the ring, I’m more confident. Once I’m in the ring, I’m a god. No one can beat me.

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A guy that’s coming towards the end of his camp. Any of them. I’m in better shape now than they are f***ing right before a fight.

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There’s nothing superior to him about me. He has nothing superior to me. There’s nothing about him. If anything, he’s the homo sapien, I’m the homo superior. There’s no one to come after me. That means nothing. I’ve been champion, had 12 defenses, fought all styles, every style. It’s top men, everybody more experienced than me. This would be new for him to fight somebody more experienced than him that knows how to fight. It’s not afraid of him. This is one time he’s gonna get hit. Rockman, Rockman and those guys, they know their eyes haven’t seen what I’ve seen. I’m mundane for this.

I’ve been to Valhalla. I’ve seen the most vicious and most cruel, the coldest white people in the world. They accept me. He can’t stop me.

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The margins guys in life that dictates a champion, someone that’s remembered and not forgotten, the legacies of life, the role models, the one that stands those tests of time I always talk about, don’t know terms like good enough. And they failed over and over and over again so many times that they’ve learned what it takes to succeed. With failure comes success, and with success comes blueprints of fundamental principles that lead to success.

Stop listening to the normality of life and everyone saying the way it is is the way it’s gonna be for you. The way it is for you is blood, sweat and tears today to create a foundation of strength for tomorrow. Those days combined into whatever dream you want to be a reality. We are always fighting for that edge, always fighting for that opportunity. So it’s not past, it’s not missed, but lived.

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I’m always gonna give it my hundred ten percent. That’s the only thing I can ever say. a Solid day’s work. That’s all that will ever find peace in. if you guys do not do that, I promise you your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. If there’s potential inside of you which you know it’s there But you’re too scared to tell anyone else about it, and you go on and on, get older and older, and older and older, And the windows are to start to close and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it, I promise you it will haunt you. It’ll be more.

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There’s still more, still a lot more.

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My grandfather walked 10 miles to work every day. My father walked five.

I’m driving a Cadillac.

My son is in a Mercedes. Said my grandson will be in a Ferrari.

But he said my great grandson will be walking again. So I asked him, I said, well, why is that? And he said to me, tough times create strong men. Strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men. Weak men create tough times. He said to me, many will not understand, but you have to raise warriors. That’s what coach instilled in me. And so many like me. The strength and courage of a warrior.

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So if you’re intelligent and you can manage that situation to change your game, because obviously you have to change the game. I’m not the same type of player when I was 20, 25, 30 and you go up.

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You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from. I mean, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small, I mean, one half a step too late or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. Hell yeah. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch.

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Son, you know once you start, there’s no going back. I know. This means total commitment. Once you begin the path, there is no leaving the path.

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You can’t be weak. And in this country, being weak is thought of as a virtue. Jordan Peterson has a really interesting way of looking at this. He said it to me once and it made a lot of sense. He said, people think that you should be weak and you should be docile and then you should be a pacifist. He goes, no, you should be a monster. He said you should be a monster. You should be ruthlessly ambitious and then learn how to control it. And it’s that old expression. It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

It’s an old expression, but it makes sense because it doesn’t mean that you can’t be kind if you’re strong, but it does mean you can’t be strong if you’re weak.

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Our military should not be mistaken for a cable news Gab Fest show. We don’t care what you look like. We don’t care who you voted for, who you worship, what you worship, who you love. It doesn’t matter if your dad left you millions when he died, or if he knew who your father was,

we have been honed into a machine of lethal moving parts that you would be wise to avoid if you know what’s good for you. We will not be intimidated. We will not back down. We’ve seen war. We don’t want war, but if you want war with the United States of America, there’s one thing I can promise you. So help me God, someone else will raise your sons and daughters.

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A snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and do whatever you want with it. But let that snowball roll down the hill. It gets so large, if you try to stop it at that point, it’ll crush you. So, fear is like that. We’ve learned to understand fear. Most people think of fear as something to be ashamed of, something to be really embarrassed about. But I teach these boys that fear is a normal, healthy thing. I often ask them, who is your best friend? Well, they try to name individuals. I tell them, no, your best friend is fear.

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But in the ring, he would eat me alive, without doubt. But my mentality is, I can.

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Those who have swords and know how to use them,

but keep them sheathed, will inherit the world.

You should be a monster.

You know, because everyone says, well, you should be harmless, virtuous,

you shouldn’t do anyone any harm, you should sheath your competitive instinct,

you shouldn’t try to win, you know,

you don’t want to be too aggressive, you don’t want to be too assertive,

you want to take a back seat, and all of that. It’s like, no.

Wrong.

You should be a monster.

An absolute monster.

And then you should learn how to control it.

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Well, life took me somewhere unexpected and unprepared. It’s about six degrees out here and I’m underdressed, but guess what? no one gives a fuck. you gotta get the mother fucker in. Sometimes life can really hijack your fucking mind when that happens to you You’re all fucked up your goals your ambitions everything is out the fucking window in life We all go through different things sometimes your girlfriend or boyfriend breaks up with you guess what get the fuck over it They no longer want you. Maybe you fell a test in school. You worked your ass off guess what?

You failed the fucking test get over it move past it learn to not let life hijack your brain at work You’ve been working your ass off that new promotion. You don’t fucking get it. someone else does. maybe they kiss better ass than you do, Guess what. get over it. life will hijack your mind if you let it. Don’t allow all these things to make you a lesser person. you must own your mind. Don’t let life own yours. get after. stay hard.

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integrity, purpose, determination, and discipline that it takes to be a champion in life.

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Look, man, when you beat me I Heard all over and I didn’t want to know from nothing or nobody, not even my kids. Hell, every fighter knows that hurt and we get sick inside trying to live with it. So don’t back off now. make it right for yourself or you’ll be sorry you didn’t. We held the greatest title in the whole world, babe. You lost that fight rock for all the wrong reasons you lost your edge All right. I Know your manager dying had you all messed up inside, but the truth is you didn’t look hungry now when we fought.

You had that eye of the tiger man the edge And now you got to get it back and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning You know what? I mean?

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to be plugged in the game, is a beautiful day, man.

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In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that itch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willing to fight and die for that itch.

Because that’s what living is. The six inches in front of your face. Now I can’t make you do it. You gotta look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes. Now I think you’re gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. You’re gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows when it comes down to it, you’re gonna do the same for him. That’s a team, gentlemen. And either we heal now as a team, or we will die.

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People waking up early and doing all these things. They look it looks horrible I was like wow man I gotta start doing that not to get better bigger and stronger, but that is what’s gonna build me that looks uncomfortable That looks brutal and getting up early. I don’t want to do that somebody’s long list of things that I want to do and Through that I found myself. I started like I’m like you guys aren’t doing this shit in high school. You guys are getting about five o’clock in the morning running over here in this golf course.

So I started seeing myself very differently than the average human being I was like, oh, hang on a second I have something they don’t have and that’s not started to develop these things through working out. It was just great Never ending work ethic and through work ethic. I developed self-esteem.

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We’re not going to cry about those opportunities. We’re going to smile and remember them. And thank God they came because we were ready when they fucking came. You won’t be ready if today isn’t pushed with the strenuous nature and the pressure of the moment in the future that everything rides on. That stress of everybody on you and it’s a make or break moment in your life must exist today with no one watching. If that’s ever going to happen your way, you need that x factor. You need that leg up. It’s too fucking hard. This workout will ensure that you never have to question your intensity.

You make it through this guys, you’re going to make it through life. I said leg up because that’s what this is. It’s a leg workout and it will bring you a leg up in life. It’s intense man. you.

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When you go to war with yourself, you find a lot of peace because you know exactly who you are. And that is where the peace is really found for me.

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I walk around the ring, but I never take my eyes off my opponent. I keep my eyes on him, even if he’s ready and pumping. He can’t wait to get his hands on me as well. I keep my eyes on him, I keep my eyes on him, I keep my eyes on him. Then once I see a chink in his arm, boom! One of his eyes may move, and then I know I have him. Then when he comes to the center of the ring, he still looks at me with his piercing look, and as if he’s not afraid. But he already made that mistake when he looked down for that one-tenth of a second. I know I had him.

He’ll fight hard for the first two or three rounds, but I know I already broke his spirit. During the fight, I’m supremely confident. I’m moving my head, he’s throwing punches. I’m making him miss and I’m countering. I’m hitting him to the body, I’m punching him real hard. And I’m punching him, and I’m punching him, and I know he’s not able to take my punches. One, two, three punches. I’m throwing him punches and punches. He goes down, he’s out. I’m victorious.

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And there’s so many weak people that will join along with them. There’s so many just simple-minded dullards that just want to promote their tribe.

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This was no easy task for myself. You guys have no idea. When you’re hurt, how do you feel? You lay down, right? You take a second. You go, you know, you take your vitamins. You do your thing. When I’m hurt, I love it. I love that feeling because it’s real. That’s the most realest feeling that you could ever have is being in pain because everything else, happiness could be fake. Crying could be fake. But pain, shit. That’s real. I got kicked in the leg. It hurt a little bit, but I walked it off. When I got kicked in the leg and I smiled, that was real. It did not hurt.

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Did you think I’d forgotten you? Perhaps you hoped I had. Don’t waste a breath mourning Miss Barnes.

Every kitten grows up to be a cat.

They seem so harmless at first.

Small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk.

But once their claws get long enough,

they draw blood.

Sometimes from the hand that feeds them.

For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain,

there can be no mercy.

There is but one rule. Hunt or be hunted.

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The self part is what’s big. We need someone to hold people accountable. Fuck that shit, man. Fuck that shit. We count on people too much to get us through shit. And we look to our right, we look to our left, we’re looking for help. And if you can build that self, you can build that total accountability in one’s self, and it’s not about being selfish. I’m trying to create a better me, so hopefully people who are hearing this are taking it the right way, can say, I can run a mile. Ain’t about running 205 fucking miles, doing 40, being a citizen, ain’t about all that shit. It doesn’t matter.

I want you to see how fucking far you can go. And that’s all it’s about, yourself. And that’s where it all comes from.

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Let me be very clear. I’ll never give up.

Never.

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Let’s just get out while we still have something to say.

No, Franklin, let the dream die, baby. Dreams?

Franklin.

What?

She’s right.

I’ve been around you my whole life, so I know how bad you want this,

and I always believed in you.

But trust me when I tell you, you don’t wanna go to the place you about to go.

It’s hell down there, and you don’t even know if you’ll be able to pull yourself back up.

Let me be very clear.

I’ll never give up.

Never.

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Sure, I’m ready for it. But the challenge of that inspires me to fucking reach barriers I haven’t been to. And I’m excited to share them with you.

And you guys watching this, share them with yourselves and your friends. And together, we’ll be part of a society that doesn’t take second place as first. There’s first place and then there’s forgotten.

Leg Up begins now.

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Find the tension point. Find the tension point. Do not go down. Do not go down. Just try to stay there yourself. Stay there yourself. All you got to do is stay up. Stay up. Don’t let it… Do not go down. Do not go down. I’m going to give you a little resistance going down. Nice and easy. Fight me. Do whatever you got to do. Use whatever muscle you got to do to keep that going. That’s it. Push me. Push me. More. More. More. More. More. Come on, more. Damn it, come on. More. More. More. More. More. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. You’re not done. You’re not done. You’re almost last up.

Right there. One, two, three, four, and five. Good, good. That’s one set.

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So you think that I’m done, that my career will soon be over.

You don’t know me. All my life I had to fight. No one believed in me, so I had to believe in myself.

Some people wanted to break me, but they only made me stronger.

Others wanted to exploit me. They only made me smarter. And now you think I’m done? To all of you, I only have one thing to say.

I’m not like you, because I’m not you.

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And I am just warming up.

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100% I will analyze reactions in there. If I feel he, if I faint and he reacts some way, I will faint and give, I will give him that reaction to set him up for something else. I will create traps and dead space inside that octagon all over, all over the place and I will walk him into it like a zombie. That is what I plan to do with Jose. I plan to set him up, trap him, lead him into dead space, lead him where he feels he is safe. but all of a sudden it’s a trap and he is in big danger. So that’s how I feel I will play with the fight.

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People look at me differently because I’m not from a social, a highly social background and no social status, you know what I mean? I’m no educated man and I’m just a person that was blessed to have skills and I’m not, but still that I’m that way, I’m a blessed person, I’m still a grassroots person and my grassroots background, we don’t back down from anyone. And that’s what got me in trouble. I don’t play games, I don’t kiss anyone’s ass and I’m a real man. And that’s why, regardless of being a fight or anything, I’m a man and that’s why I want to be a man. And if I die, I want to die a man.

I don’t want to die a bitch, a little f***ing poodle in the street.

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look what’s next for me Joe I’m gonna get that second belt where the f*** is it? they should have had their two belts ready, spit showing for me. they’re f***ing up both in the octagon. it’s never been done before. I’ve spent a lot of time, Joe, slaying everybody in the company backstage. I’m starting to fight off everybody. I’ve ridiculed everyone on the roster. I just want to say from the bottom of my heart: I’d like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

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It is who you are, don’t hide from it, but don’t wear it and rub it in people’s faces.

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It’s like we forgot who we are, Tom.

Explorers, pioneers, not caretakers.

When I was a kid, it felt like they made something new every day. Some gadget or idea. Like every day was Christmas. But six billion people just try to imagine that. And every last one of them trying to have it all.

This world isn’t so bad.

And Tom will do just fine. You’re the one who doesn’t belong. Born 40 years too late or 40 years too early. My daughter knew it. God bless her. And your kids know it. Especially Murph.

We used to look up in the sky and wonder at our place in the stars.

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It’s about the high you get, the mind-body connection, the belief that you can overcome things. The belief now all of a sudden you’re not walking through life, you’re running through it. You’re in fifth gear now, that you are able to be in a shape that you can go rock climbing, rappelling, skydiving, swimming with the sharks, or do triathlons, or go on bike rides and start enjoying the nature. This is wherever the f*** you want to do. You have the means to do it now. There are no barriers or limitations. There’s no right and left parameter anymore.

As far as your peripheral can go, whatever you want to do, every door is open. That’s life, man. That’s living. You have to have an overwhelming force of a want, a need, a belief inside yourself that you believe in this. And once that happens, combined with the ideology of where you can be, the end state goal, once that is solidified, then you move forward without ever looking back.

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You’re going to get more of the same, you’re going to get laughed at more, you’re going to be ashamed more, you’re going to be frustrated more, and you’re going to really regret at the end of your life that you put off taking responsibility for yourself and building yourself into what could be. And when we look around at the world, and we look at all the problems, and we look at all the chaos, we have to take responsibility for ourselves for creating it. You’re not living the best life that you want to live. You’re not the person you want to be.

You’re not the person the eight-year-old you wanted to be, and I bet you’re not even taking steps to become that person, are you? And that’s what’s wrong with the world. That’s what’s wrong with this country. We have a bunch of people that want to point fingers and defer responsibility off to anything and everything except the one thing that can change their entire lives, and that’s looking in the fucking mirror and saying, fuck you, man. You did this to me. You made me this way, and I’m going to fix it.

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Think about how many years, months, hours, seconds, days, all that shit you have wasted on people who suck the fucking life out of you. Today’s a good day for you to go through. Shit can those motherfuckers. Shit can those motherfuckers who only call you when they fucking need something. Shit can those motherfuckers who can’t get over shit. Who continue to bring up shit from the past. Who can’t move forward. Life is short. Life is precious. Spend that time with the people you love. The people you want to give that time to. Real friends, real family.

Everybody else, they’re just sucking up the air you breathe. You need that motherfucker to be hard. Stay hard.

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The peak creative years for anybody is in their early 30s. I think so. I believe so. And people have borne that out in various studies. Yeah, there’s a different kind of creativity that one can have when you reach my advanced age. Because you’re really fluid, creative times, and I know it personally, are in your 30s. And they creep up really quickly. And if by the time you’re in your mid-30s and you haven’t started creating something, man, you’re going to be in your 40s and it’s almost going to be too late. So you don’t have as much time as you think you have.

That should be the number one conversation that you have with yourself. The worst thing in life is to be 55 or 60 and to go, I had potential. I had dreams. When I was a kid, I was going to think I was going to do this. And you’ve realized none of that, right? So you want to have accomplished something in life, something that you’re proud of. It doesn’t have to be a book or anything. It can be something that lasts, that you’re proud of, that gives you a sense of accomplishment.

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Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy. If I don’t, I won’t. It’s an if-then, cause-and-effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately raise it every time we attain it. You see, happiness demands a certain outcome. It is result-reliant. And I say if happiness is what you’re after, then you’re going to be let down frequently and you’re going to be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though. Joy is a different thing. It’s something else. Joy is not a choice. It’s not a response to some result. It’s a constant.

Joy is the feeling that we have from doing what we are fashioned to do.

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The first 15 are spent in childhood and then 20 years we sleep. And then the last five years, physical limitations are curtailing your activities. They haven’t curtailed mine yet, but my fifth year until 70 starts next year. Only 30 years left and part of that time must be spent in eating meals, working, and figuring out your income tax, things like that. What is your life? It’s even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away. The brevity of time, that brings us to the urgency of time.

The Bible says redeem the time because the days are evil and the days in which we are living are very evil.

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I’m super brave. This is my story. The story is, the book is, here are inspiring people throughout history whose courage is calling to us to be better. And like I actually end the book not with a story of courage but a story of sort of a failure of courage. If you should be afraid of anything, it should be afraid of, like you should be afraid of betraying your principles, of falling short, of not doing what you know is the right but hard thing at the time.

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video games, television, social scrolling, alcohol, weed, all these things that you use as distractions to avoid and escape your realities, your frustration of being a loser, they dig you deeper into that hole of being a loser, right? All of those vices that I just listed, you’ve got to eliminate. I don’t know a lot of people who have dependencies and addictions to vices who are also massively successful. Now I know in the comments, some of you knuckleheads are gonna be like, oh, what about so-and-so and so-and-so? Yeah, you may find the outliers,

but the majority of people who are winning at life and happy, successful, thriving, goal-focused and oriented and are seen as leaders and achievers who do things to inspire and impact others, those people live a vice-free life. You’ve got to do that.

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I wanna talk about our opponent this afternoon. They’re bigger, faster, stronger, more experienced, and on paper, they’re just better. And they know it, too.

But I wanna tell you something that they don’t know. They don’t know your heart.

I do. I’ve seen it. You have shown it to me. You have shown this coaching staff, your teammates, you have shown yourselves just exactly who you are in here.

When you take that field today,

you’ve gotta lay that heart on the line, man. From the soles of your feet, with every ounce of blood you’ve got in your body, lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you do that, if you do that, we cannot lose.

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But if you’re just gonna wing it through life, that’s what losers do. Losers wing it through life. Losers think that they still have more time to get there. Losers measure themselves by the losers that they surround themselves with. And they go, well, I still have time. They’re not doing anything extravagant in life, my friend. So I’m probably on track. No, you’re not. You’re all behind track. That’s the problem. You’re all behind schedule. You’re all late to the party. And before you know it, you become undesirable.

You become somebody that is now operating in the shadows of life because you reach a certain age, into your mid 30s, maybe 40s, and you realize I’ve developed no marketable skills. I have no core structure or values or a predictable schedule that I live by that sets me up to win most of the time. And my entire life, I’ve been living paycheck to paycheck, settling for mediocrity, but scrolling on social media and living through other people’s dreams.

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I want to skip the flattery and the attaboys because I do know this. The sooner that we become less impressed with our life, with our accomplishments, with our career, with whatever that prospect is in front of us, the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with that and these things, the sooner we get a whole lot better at doing them.

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Because that carries off into every aspect of your life. It carries off into your relationships It carries off into into how well you sleep at night, etc So you don’t you want to have that in life you want to accomplish something? What is it? What is it? I want to accomplish what was I meant to accomplish and how can I start on the process tomorrow? Not next week or next year tomorrow, right? Maybe you can’t start because you don’t have the money, but you can start planning. You can start maybe taking classes or learning skills that you you know, you can do that tomorrow, etc. So

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I’d rather you hate me and get better than like me and stay the same. A lot of us are full of shit. I was one of those people back in the day. And sometimes I’m still full of shit. We think that we’re working our ass off, working hard. You know, we’ve been working out hard in the gym for a month, but we haven’t seen any results. So we get all fucking down and poopy pants and shit. You studied for 30 minutes for a fucking test and you didn’t do as well as you thought. What the fuck did you expect? You’re not putting in the work. You have to do more.

You gotta stop telling yourself that you’re doing enough. In life, it’s never enough until you feel this overwhelming feeling of shit, man. I’m out working the crowd. I’m out working everybody. I’m doing more. It’s not until then. Once you get there, that’s when you fucking know you’ve done enough. Stay hard.

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It’s a responsibility there to live life to your fullest because so many, even better than us, have perished well before their times for us to have this beautiful thing called life. We cannot take that in vain. Fallen, never forgotten. We celebrate that through our life, through living life, not being scared to join them next to them in the ground. That day’s coming. There’s a party gonna happen later, a big party where you reconnect with all your loved ones in the afterlife, I feel.

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We have a big problem in society these days and you’re a part of it. Everywhere we look, everywhere we turn on the TV or scroll through the internet, we are inundated by people who refuse to take responsibility for the life that they have created. And I got bad news for you. There’s nobody coming. There’s nobody coming to save you. There’s nobody coming to help you. A knight in shining armor isn’t going to ride in and save you. You are the only one that’s going to be able to save you. And all this time you point your finger and you say,

I can’t do that because I was born here or I can’t do that because I have this issue or I can’t do that because they made fun of me. And you know what’s going to happen? Nothing.

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the best line I’ve ever heard in my life. Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but actually, you’ve been planted.

That’s what Hamudim is doing. We’re not burying children, but we’re planting children to watch their growth. Tzvi, Hamudim, everybody that’s involved, and everyone who came here out tonight because you care,

we should have this chutzpah to watch these beautiful plants grow and flourish and give Paris.

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phase of winning or losing, right? All of life comes to us with phases of winning and losing. It’s, life is seasonal, right? And if right now you’re in a winning phase, well, awesome, man, I’m happy for you. Be prepared, the losing season is coming. And if you’re in a losing season right now, well, hey, guess what? Keep doing the work, keep pushing through, because the winning season is coming, guaranteed, guaranteed. What you can’t determine is the timeline, but I can tell you that if you’re winning, the losing season is coming, and if you’re losing, the winning season is coming,

as long as you’re doing the work. But if you think that having a bad day means you’re having a bad life, and I share this with you because oftentimes, we end up making a permanent decision off temporary feelings. When you think about why someone commits suicide, the reason someone commits suicide is because an absence of hope. When they feel hopeless, when someone feels hopeless, like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, that’s when they begin to whack themselves and think about killing themselves.

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If you’re an agreeable person, and that means you’re fundamentally compassionate and caring, you don’t like conflict, you like to put other people at ease, you’re likely to go along to get along. Now the problem with being a caring person is that, of that sort, an agreeable person is that you don’t like conflict, you’re going to always assume the best of others, and it’s going to be difficult for you to say no when you need to say no. And what no means, by the way, just so that everyone who is listening is clear, no, when you say it to someone means, if you don’t stop doing that,

something you do not like will happen to you with 100% certainty. That’s what no means, if you dare utter it. It’s useful to develop that side of your character too, the part that can bite back when bitten. Not more than necessary, but certainly not less than necessary.

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I’m going to control what I eat. I’m going to control what I drink. I’m going to control how I move. I’m going to control the information I put in my brain. I’m going to control how I treat people and who I surround myself with. And if you control those things, you are now in the driver’s seat to create what it is you’ve always known that you were here to create. Because you always do know what you’re here to create. It’s that little version of yourself that hides deep inside your heart that you are so afraid to even talk about because you’re afraid the people around you are going to laugh.

Well, guess what, mother fucker? They’re going to laugh. And they’re going to laugh more if you don’t do anything. You’re going to get criticized no matter what you do. If you go hard, people are going to criticize you. If you stay a lazy piece of shit, people are going to criticize you.

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You know, for me it’s real easy, because I know that a lot, of, a lot of my friends that are not here,

and that’s all I need to that’s all I need to know and I mean I think about that every day. So there’s no for me personally there’s no there’s no lack of urgency when I wake up in the morning to think oh don’t worry I got all the time in the world because I know I don’t and I’m lucky to be here and I’m going to try and live in a way that will at least do justice for my friends that aren’t here.

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You will have every single regret a human being could ever fucking have in their entire lives. And the flip side is this. You could put in the work, you could put in the time, you could say, I am not going to settle. I am going to become exactly who I’m meant to become because I know that it’s not just going to serve me. It’s going to serve my family. It’s going to serve my community. It’s going to serve my city, my state, and my country. And it’s going to create an immeasurable ripple effect of people who know that they can do it too. And guess what? That’s going to be hard.

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time is short. Time is short. Now the apostle I don’t think was talking about eschatology. I think he was talking about the fact that our lives are brief. Someone asked me a few days, a few weeks ago at the University of North Carolina where I did give a series of lectures, they asked me what the greatest surprise was. I just passed my 64th birthday and that had been in the press that I’d had a birthday. They said, what is your greatest surprise in life? I answered, the brevity of life.

If someone had told me when I was 20 years old that life was very short and would pass just like that, I wouldn’t have believed it. If I tell you that, you don’t believe it either. I cannot get young people to understand how brief life is, how quickly it passes. It seems like yesterday.

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And I don’t want to distract myself with what’s happening with my family. I’m not gonna feel like I’m missing out what’s happening upstairs with the leadership team for Fit Body Bootcamp. I am here and I am fully present. And when I leave here and go home later tonight, then I’m fully present with my family. And I don’t care if the podcast went well. I don’t care if it’s gonna get a lot of ratings or not. What I care about is the time that I’m pouring into my family. And so if you’re looking for balance in life, you’re never gonna find it.

But if you decide to work hard wherever your feet happen to be, then if I’m in the podcast, I’m working hard. If I go upstairs and deal with the leadership team, I’m working hard. When I go home, I’m working hard on that relationship, like hard loving my family. And that’s what you wanna do, man. And if you can teach yourself to not be allergic to hard work, you immediately differentiate yourself and stand out over the crowd.

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Because it cost me something. Because it cost. Comes with a price. It’s a bit of that line, don’t pick a fight, kid. It’s not really a fight unless you can lose it. It’s not really a risk unless you can lose the fight. I feel more alive in them. I have an experience in the making of them. I’m nervous every day I come to work. I feel like when I nail a day, and I knock it, and I know I did, I feel like, yes! I have a measure at the end of the day of like, you set out to do something. You prepared for it. You had intention. And you did it. And maybe even became, found some magic in the day.

That, I sleep good, knowing that I accomplished that day. In building the architecture of a character’s arc through a story. And if I can put the whole thing together, and it comes out, one whole performance turns out to be a beautiful song, an original song of that character, then I’m like, yes! And I know that I was highly responsible for that. I was not solely responsible, but the most responsible for that. And that gives me pleasure.

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Yeah, we all have unique hardships. Yeah, we all have frustrations. Yes, some hard things happen to you that haven’t happened to me, but guess what? There’s some hard things that have happened to me that will never happen to you. And we all have a choice to make. We all get to choose. What hard are we gonna have? Are we gonna have the hard of creating and becoming and being a great example for everybody else, honoring the people who came before us and setting a great example for the people coming after us? Or are we gonna cruise? Or are we gonna coast?

Or are we just gonna be another poor little me, another drag on society, another person that dies with all the hopes and dreams and amazing ideas that could have helped people while you were here?

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And I want to see you develop into the 2.0 version of yourself, and that only happens when you are ready to let go of living like an average human and Start living like a savage who deserves success abundance happiness security prosperity legacy meaning fulfillment significance purpose Doesn’t that sound fucking sexy? Like you’re either gonna play Video games sitting on a couch having fucking cheeto dust in your belly button. That’s gonna be the highlight of your day, Telling your sad victim story to others,

Or you could literally take the pen back and start rewriting the story of how your life goes from this day forward. That takes fucking work, And if you’re willing to do the work, You will achieve the outcome.

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We remember the stuff we are the stuff we experience more than what the teacher tells us or what someone gives us for free. We just do we broke a proverbial sweat on it but there’s mental or physical whatever we built it we understand we felt how we got it how we achieved it. We got what we wanted. Those stick with us but we forget them intellectually they were written in our lineage and they build resilience and they and they build a healthy true optimism going forward to know that oh no I’ve I’ve worked for something for and achieved it delayed gratification.

Oh there choices I can make today for myself that will pay me back later in life mailbox money as we call it entertainment industry. R.O.I. there are specific personal choices we can make and they’re worth considering.

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you know, homosexualizing. I’m talking straight, being straight. Or being gay, but I’m talking about being a friend. I can’t wait, man. It’s not all gonna, I’m never gonna get to that where everything’s okay. Where everything looks a certain way. And in the meantime, I’m burning the best time I do have available.

I’m burning that candle up.

I’m burning this candle down, and I’m saying as soon as it gets bright enough, or warm enough in here, I’m gonna show up. But the candle’s getting smaller.

It’s a trap.

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And so I want you guys to understand something: winning is for the obsessed. You must be obsessed if you want to win. you must be obsessed with the goal, the journey, the outcome, the experience, the rejections, the resilience, the grit, The, the all of it. and throughout that journey, as you hit these micro wins, Fucking, celebrate them and then lock back in. winning is also for the people who are relentless. They’re locked on no matter who says what about you’re not gonna win. That’s too big of a dream You don’t have a degree, you know,

someone once told me you don’t have a degree in software How are you gonna create a software company? Well, I created a pretty big software company and sold it What are the first companies that I sold and then I created gyms and then I sold those right? And now I’ve got my fit body bootcamp franchise. I got truly supplements I’m co-owner of fuel hunt apparel another sub another software company now that I co-own Fit pro tracker and all of these at one point. We’re gonna keep continue to build, scale and sell.

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And a lot of people don’t try because they’re afraid of that very thing of actually failing. They’ll disguise it as, I’m not ready. I didn’t go to the right school. I don’t have funding. My daddy isn’t rich. You know, people aren’t helping me. There’s a pandemic. It’s bad out there, etc. No. So you’re just blaming the fact that you’re afraid of failure, right? You’re finding excuses. Actually, the pandemic is a terrible, terrible thing. Don’t get me wrong. It’s 650,000 people who’ve died. It’s insane. But business-wise, it’s an incredible opportunity for you.

There is so much change going on that if you’re young and you’re smart and you’ve got some skill, you will create something incredibly brilliant and find your own niche.

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It should always be about, you know,

hunting your fears, man.

That’s the path to success.

It doesn’t mean that’s the path you’re gonna go on for success.

By facing those fears,

the transfer of energy comes back into higher levels of confidence of who you are.

Find your fears in your life. Find your fears.

Write them down, identify them.

Because those fears are doorways to your success.

Behind every fear, guys,

is the person you wanna be.

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Hate that line going down the front of my jeans. I hate that line and it was then for the first time That I noticed it I’d never thought about not liking that starched line down the front of my jeans because I’ve never had a made to iron my jeans before and Since she did now for the first time in my life. I just liked it because I could get it. I Never thought about if I really wanted it. Well, I didn’t want it there, that line. and that night I learned something: Just because you can, Nah, come on, It’s not a good enough reason to do something, Even when it means having more Be discerning.

choose it because you want it, do it because you want to.

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And by doing that I’m not really giving,

I’m not really giving the Lord a chance to tickle me. You know I’m not really giving and stay with me. I’m not rip but by by saying okay. I’m not when. as soon as this, then this and then this, You know, as soon as I get my slippers on, My feet will be warm. I’m gonna go to daddy’s. I’m gonna make a pot pie, You know it’s, but only I’m. I ain’t having no pot pie till I do the other thing, till I do my. you know, When I have my own plans, stay with me.

What I’m saying is: I’m always- I’m always- waiting for everything to be perfect before I live my life.

I’m always waiting for everything to be perfect Before I live my life.

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You know you have the desire to achieve more. And so what’s it gonna take for you to start rewriting the story in your life? See, the problem is you have bought into this false narrative that you are destined for failure because you come from a failed family. You come from a divorced family. You come from a family of alcoholics. You come from a family of drug abusers. You come from a family that have mental disorders. You come from a family who are immigrants. Blue collar, blue collar. We’re just supposed to be blue collar. No, you’re not. No, you’re not.

You can make as much money as you want. You can have as much freedom as you want. You can have as much opportunity as you want, but you gotta go out and get it, because I can tell you right now, every single one of you out there have exactly what you deserve. You might think that life is unfair. You might think that life dealt you a bad hand, but I’m here to tell you life will give you exactly what you tolerate. And if you’ve been tolerating mediocrity, you’ve been tolerating average, you’ve been tolerating this victim mentality that you’re carrying, then guess what?

You have exactly what you deserve.

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Now is the accepted time. The things we ought to do, the classes we ought to take, the books we ought to read, do it now. The family that needs you, spend more time now. Write that letter home now that you’ve been meaning to write. Money you ought to give, give now. Time for study, do it now. People you ought to witness to, do it now. Every time the clock ticks, it seems to say now, today, if you will hear his voice.

Yes, there may not be a tomorrow for you and for me, because there’s a warning to time. Time is running out for all of us. Time is too short for indecision and vacillation. Do not halt between two opinions. Fools say that time is long. Every morning, we have 86,400 seconds to spend and to invest. And each day, the bank named time opens a new account for you and for me.

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If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line. Why? Because we aren’t thinking of the finish line. Because we’re not looking at the clock. We’re not watching ourselves on the jumbotron, performing the very act that we’re in the middle of. No, we’re in process. The approach is the destination, and we are never finished. Look, we’re going to make mistakes. You’ve got to own them. Then you’ve got to make amends. And then you’ve got to move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. So turn the page. Get off the ride.

You are the author of the book of your life.

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Yep, I said it before and I’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.

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Everyone have a good evening, whatever you’re doing in your lives. We’re all gonna die one day, so don’t get too caught up in the bullshit and the hype. Live your life while you’re here, because you never know what’s gonna lie around. You’ve got heart attacks, disease, wars, like, life can just hit you like that. So try and enjoy every day. That’s what I’m trying to say. Don’t get too caught up in the bullshit.

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Life is shorter than you think. Okay, you’re you’re you’re 25 and you’re thinking wow, I’ve got 10 years to figure it all out. I’ve got all these vistas of time I’m young I’m healthy, etc You don’t have nearly as much time as you think you do it goes very fast Really? So you need a sense of urgency and energy.

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Life’s not easy. Is it up there? Life is not easy. It is not. Don’t try to make it that way. Life’s not fair. It never was. It isn’t now and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not. Get over it and get on with it. And yes, most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get them. Unbelievable is the stupidest word in the dictionary. It should never come out of our mouths. Think about it. To say, oh wow, what an unbelievable play. It was an unbelievable book, an unbelievable film, an unbelievable act of courage.

Really? It may be spectacular, it may be phenomenal, most excellent or outstanding, but unbelievable? Uh-uh. Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened. You witnessed it. You just did it. Believe it.

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The process is always riddled with uncertainty. No matter how much research you do when you talk to the people who’ve done it before you, you will experience uncertainty because you going through it today is different than that guy who achieved that same result 10 years ago. That’s just the results. So I want you to understand this, my friends, that winners are unreasonable in their expectation. They almost threaten and scare the people around them with your big dreams and visions and goals and ambitions. So it’s okay to be unreasonable. Winners also sacrifice their weekends.

Winners ditch their excuses. Winners show up no matter what, no matter how they feel, if they’re tired, if they’re uncertain, if they had a loss yesterday, they show up today. And winners have this go-to-battle mindset, like the same mindset that I have when I go into the gym every day, planned and structured workout that’s gonna guarantee that I can wring my shirt out at the end of that workout. That is how I enter my work life. That is how I enter my relationships. That is how I enter everything, right?

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By the time I’m 30, I’m gonna have to try and start that business. I’m gonna have to do something. I don’t have as much time as I think I have, right? And you have to develop some fire inside of you. You have to say, you know, a lot of times, people don’t give you deadlines in this world, right? So you could spend your whole 20s and 30s never producing the thing that you dreamed of because no one’s pushed you. No one said you better do this by the time you’re 35, or we’re throwing you out of the house or whatever. There are no consequences for procrastinating.

When you realize like, hey, life is already short and fragile.

If I’m spending my time cowering in fear or worrying, I’m acting as if I have a certain power over things that I don’t. There’s this famous Stoic story where like the emperor sees this Stoic philosopher he hates and he’s like, I’m threatening you to death, or I’m sentencing you to death. And he’s like, I was already sentenced to death. At some point. Yeah, he’s like, you have no more power over me, but if you’re wasting your time being afraid. That’s something I thought a lot about in the pandemic. It’s like, look, I don’t know, especially early on, we don’t know where this is going,

don’t know what it means, don’t know what is ticking clock is in anyone’s body, right? What pre-existing condition you might have or bad piece of luck you got. So you take it seriously, but within that, what are you doing with your time?

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This becomes not just a belief, a challenge, passion, it becomes a mission.

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream.

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They want to be at the top of the game because they are the ones that are there. You know, you cannot rest or sleep because the other one can pass you. Of course we fight with everyone.

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And sometimes not meeting your expectations will cause you to come up with a new way to grow, a new way to do something that’s better than what you did before. What would your life be like if you made this decision today for real? Screw everything else, we’ve got a million other things we’re gonna do to improve your life. What if you really made a real decision and said, I am not suffering anymore, life is too short to suffer, I’m gonna live in a beautiful state, I’m gonna have a good time every day, no matter what. And I’m gonna catch myself, I know I’ll get off target for a minute,

but I’ll catch it and get right back in a beautiful state. The minute you stop complaining about your kids, but you look at the things you love in them, the minute you stop complaining about your partners and you think about what’s a better way to get through them, this is a chance for me to grow and expand. The minute you appreciate anything, your suffering is over.

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The best things in life takes time.

When I was younger I was impatient because I had the naivety of thinking that dreams would come quickly.

But the best things in life take time.

From simple things like food,

preparation to more complicated issues of parenting and marriage,

the best things in life take time.

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Self-made millionaires look into every failure for something good. They say, there’s got to be something good in this that I can benefit from, and surprise, surprise, they always find it. Second is, self-made millionaires always seek the valuable lesson in every setback or obstacle or temporary failure, and they always find the lesson. Now, what do failures do? Failures whine and cry and think about what they’ve lost and blame their problems on someone else. Successful people say, what can I learn from this that will make me smarter next time?

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Program your mind deliberately. The reason that most people don’t achieve their goals is because they are thinking like everybody else. 16 revolutionary words. Be not conformed to this world. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That’s an ongoing process. What are your goals? What are your dreams? Earl Nightingale was right. You don’t get in life what you want. You get in life what you are. And so as you look at your goals and dreams, it’s very important that you are intentional about controlling what goes on in your mind.

Because everything gets in through the eyes and through the ears. So what do you want? What do you want for yourself?

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The solution to your problem is not going to be found in the problem. It’s not going to be found in there. You have to get out of the problem so that you can look at it, make an assessment, and you can assess how to solve the problem or whether you need to solve the problem or not. I mean, there’s a lot of things in my life right now where I shrug my shoulders and go, okay, okay. Oh, someone’s saying this. Okay. Roger that. Like carry on. No factor. Move on. And then occasionally you go, okay, this is something I need to contend with. This is something I need to deal with.

This is something I need to shape or adjust or move or, or solve to use, to use your word. And the reason I laugh when I say that is because problems you have to get in there, but if you take a step back, you can usually say, oh, little adjustment here, a little adjustment there. And that thing’s going to sort itself out. So detachment is a superpower, man. Can I do that?

It certainly is. And it’s certainly one that I need to focus on more. I’m, I’m grateful for you bringing that up is this is the, uh, biologist in me, but you know, what is your process for engaging detachment or for disengaging? Is it an active process where you go, you know, I’m, I’m going to detach from this. I’m going to put myself in a situation that is pulling on me. There’s this gravitational force and I’m going to, I don’t know, create some imagery in my mind of walking away from it. Do I do it? Do I physically walk away from it? Do I outsource it to somebody else?

What are, what are some tools for detachment?

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there need to be things that inspire you. There need to be things that make you glad to wake up in the morning and say, I’m looking forward to the future.

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and I’m standing there looking down the sight of my weapon and I’m waiting for someone to make a call and tell us what to do.

And I wait for five seconds and I wait for 10 seconds and I wait for 20 seconds and no one’s saying anything.

And we’re waiting for a leader in my platoon to make a call to tell us what to do, to tell me what to do.

And finally, after like 30 seconds, which seems like an eternity,

I can’t take it anymore.

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Lord, I believe this is my year to get healthy and whole. This is my year to meet the people of my dreams This is my year to go further in my career to step into a new level of my destiny This is my year to accomplish dreams to break free from this depression This is my year to meet the right people. This is my year to get healthy and whole. This is your year to see double. This is your year for vindication, for restoration, for new beginnings. now get your mind going in the right direction.

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You have to realize, you have to know,

you have to accept That all your excuses are lies.

They are lies, all of them.

Think about the things That you tell yourself,

the lies you use to rationalize taking the easy road.

Taking the easy road and leaving discipline behind.

Think about them.

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The Wayne legacy is more than bricks and mortars. I wanted to save Gotham. I failed.

Why do we fall, sir?

So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.

You still haven’t given up on me?

Never.

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You don’t have time?

That’s a lie.

You don’t have support?

That’s a lie.

You don’t have the equipment or the gear lies.

You don’t. you don’t know the best way,

Who cares? that’s a lie.

or you’re too old, or you’re too young.

of course you’re too old or too young lie.

and And there’s,

you’re too busy.

sure you are.

that’s a lie.

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For my own personal benefit, what are some questions you think I should ask myself?

If money and status were no object, what would I do?

If I was less afraid of other people’s opinions, what would I say?

What actually makes me happy? Does success make me happy? What is my definition of success? What is my definition of success if money was taken out of the equation? What is my definition of success if money and followers were taken out of the equation? Because that’s what you’re optimizing for. What are the things that I’m hiding from myself? What are the emotions that I’m unprepared to feel? What are the things that I feel the most shame and guilt around?

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The currency of life. People think it’s money, and yes, money is important, and it does let you trade certain things for time, but it doesn’t really buy you time. Ask Warren Buffett how much time money can buy you, or Michael Bloomberg. You can’t trade money for time. Money is not the real currency of life. Time itself doesn’t even mean that much, because a lot of time can be wasted, because you’re not really present for it, you’re not paying attention. So the real currency of life is attention. It’s what you choose to pay attention to, and what you do about it.

And so back to the point about the news media, you can put your attention on the news, but that’s how you’re spending the real currency of life. If you want to, that’s fine. There’s no right or wrong here. Like, maybe it is your destiny to pick something in the news, learn about that problem, adopt that problem, and solve it. But just be careful, because your attention is the only thing that you have. And that can also be captured by your own past. Yes, you can fiddle it away on anything you like.

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What I think also FREAK stands for is that a guy from nothing became everything.

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So, cast out the lies, burn them down, and listen to the truth, and live the truth, and go out and get it done.

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Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it’s not who you are underneath. It’s what you do that defines you. It’s not who I am underneath. But what I do that defines me.

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Once you identify your gift, you have got to write this information down. If you do not have a vision board, if you don’t have a dream list, I am telling you, you are complicating your process to getting what you want in life. You’re complicating it because you are missing because maybe nobody ever told you or maybe you don’t think that it applies to you, but a simple principle of success is that it has to be written down somewhere.

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If it’s hard for you, it’s hard for everyone.

And most people avoid hard things,

which is why you can beat most people by just trying.

Nothing is easy, right?

Nothing works the first time.

Everything takes longer than you expect.

Everything is harder than you expect.

And you have to force it into existence.

And you have to fight for every itch.

You just got to want it more than you hate what it takes to get it.

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Well, the truth is, you know, sometimes I do get a little scared, you know. When I’m in that ring and I’m really getting hit on, and my arm is hurting so much I can’t even lift him, and I’m thinking, God, I wish this guy would hit me on the chin so I don’t feel nothing anymore.

Then there’s another side that comes out that isn’t so scared. It’s another side that wants to take more, that wants to go that one more round. Because going that one more round when you don’t think you can, that’s what makes all the difference in your life. You know what I mean?

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really sitting there and asking myself, what is the reason at the moment I don’t enjoy this life?

What is missing?

Yeah. What’s the reason right now for you to be unhappy about this life? Simple question like this. What is missing in my life? Yeah. What do you think you still need? Does it really make sense? Imagining you would have already what you are wishing for? How would it change you right now? Because if you don’t ask this question, the answers most probably cannot come.

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Too many times people have you focusing on your weaknesses. You’re wasting your time. You ain’t got a strength in that.

Work on what you good at. If you focus on what you good at,

you’ll make enough money. You hire somebody to be what you ain’t. I got all kinds of people read numbers and contracts and all that, because I can’t do it. But I hire them.

Listen, man, you’ve got to write this information down.

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All the answers to all the test questions, the test is your life. All the answers are in there. You don’t have to live in suffering and pain and failure all the time. You have to learn, I need to visit it. Like people hate working out. You’re only gonna visit working out maybe an hour a day. 23 other hours of the day, you’re not in it. But how you become in shape is you must visit suffering, visit working out one hour a day. Visit suffering one hour a day. Visit your past failures one hour a day. The relationship with it is the answers are in there. They are in there.

Within the suffering, go in there, and I call it the live autopsy. The live autopsy, how you find out someone died, they crack you open after you’re dead. How you can live is do it while you’re alive.

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And how do you stop the lies you stop the lies with the truth?

The truth. the truth will set you free, the truth will stand and the truth will deliver you from Procrastination and laziness and the downward spiral that comes with a lack of discipline.

So don’t believe the lies, believe the truth. and the truth is: you have time, You have the skill, you have the knowledge and the support and the willpower and the discipline To get it done.

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If you fake bravery when you’re terrified, that is bravery. And I kind of feel like motivation is the same thing. If you do the thing when you’re feeling unmotivated, that is motivation. That’s it.

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Go back in your brain, crack it open while you’re alive. Don’t wait until you’re dead to figure out why you died. Do it while you are living. Go in there, go into the suffering. Go into the pain of your life and say why does this suck for me so bad? Why am I afraid of all this stuff? Why have I shut down the whole world? I guarantee I’ll tell you why you shut down the whole world. It’s in these nooks of the suffering within your brain, in the scarring, are all the answers to why you are on the couch feeling sorry for yourself. They lie within the scars.

Visit them for at least an hour a day, study them, and then you’ll find out more about yourself. You will then grow.

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You don’t gotta be rich to be happy. Maybe your goal is not to make a million dollars. That’s cool. But maybe you just need 150,000. Maybe you just need 200,000.

I’m telling you,

you have to write this information down.

I don’t care what church you go to, synagogue, temple, mosque. If you don’t write it down, chances of it happening is slim.

Could that be the one thing that’s holding you back?

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For new things to come, old things must go. That’s it. There is no magic to that. It’s just that it was part of our daily routine, part of our daily life, belonging to exactly that. The Shaolin way of living.

We’ve always said that the writing down of something for us helps us manifest it even more. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.

What you create in the mind, it’s all about manifesting. Some people write their ideas down because from what is written down something else is going to come out from it. People might think, yeah but that’s, come on, it’s so little. No, it’s the little things. If you can’t handle the little things, you will not be able to handle the big things. There are only two mistakes along this way.

You are not starting this one or you are not bringing this one to the end.

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You can choose your thoughts. You might not be able to choose your mindset at first because winning a battle in the realm of the Spirit must lead to winning the battle in your mind. Whatever you fill your mind with becomes your mindset. If you fill your mind with the truth of God’s Word, you will become washed by that. If you fill your mind with facts and what is true, you can be bound by that. Resist the thoughts of fear. Assist thoughts of faith. Allow your inner self-talk to line up with God’s Word. Sometimes that talk is, I’m going to die. I’m not going to make it.

You take control of that thought, catching that thought, capturing that thought, bringing it to subjection to Jesus, and choosing to have a mind of a conqueror. Your life might not look like a conqueror, but the spiritual realm, already the battle is being won. And now the mentally, mentally you got to adjust.

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The voice inside that’s never satisfied with your achievements isn’t your insecurity. It’s the part of you that knows you can do more. Your biggest threat isn’t your competition. It’s the mediocre version of you that you’ve accepted as good enough. Because the most likely reason you haven’t achieved your goals is because you haven’t really tried.

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So don’t look at it as every day I suffer.

Go into it an hour a day.

Learn from yourself, learn from life, learn from your failures,

learn from your insecurities,

learn from your self-doubt.

Don’t just say I’m afraid to jump off an airplane.

What makes you afraid of it?

Study it.

That’s why I studied my mind,

why I became so powerful in the mind because I realized I was weak.

So instead of running away from the mind, I dove into it and said what is making me weak?

Oh, this makes sense.

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And you’re too tired or you’re too sore or you’re just plain not feeling. it lies, lies, lies, And the list goes on and on and on,

And it doesn’t stop if you don’t make it stop.

so recognize,

Recognize: The excuses are not valid They aren’t they’re trumped up. They’re conjured up. They’re fabricated. They’re lies.

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I’ll tell you the truth, I don’t know if it’s special. Only you’re gonna know that when the time is right. It ain’t gonna come overnight. You’re gonna take a beat, you’re gonna take this, you’re gonna get knocked out, you’re gonna get up, and you’re gonna see if you got the right thing. But, you gotta work hard. I swear to God, if you’re not gonna do it, I’m out. You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life.

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You can have what you want in five years, but there’s two conditions. You have to know what it is, and you have to aim at it. Figure out what you want. Write it down. Figure out what you could do to start moving towards that. Okay? Do that with your family relationships. Do that with your friendships. Do that with your career. Do that with your education. Think about your misuse of alcohol and drugs and other things that might drag you down. Develop a vision. And you have to do that in dialogue with yourself, right? Like, if I could have what I wanted, what would satisfy me?

And you might think, well, I could never get that. And I could say, well, maybe not, but I’ll tell you one thing, and you can move towards it. And I know everyone who knows the underlying neuroscience goes this way. Almost all the pleasure is in the moving towards.

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Be clear in your mind in what you intend to achieve. Know what you are going to do. That doesn’t seem like too much to ask. People go through their lives without knowing what it is they want to do, What they want to accomplish. so Know what your mission is, Know what your intent as the commander of your life. Know what your intent is and then fight with everything You’ve got.

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Part of my motivation when I was growing up was having nothing. I knew that if I ever had an opportunity to make it in life, I wanted to provide the next generation for things that I didn’t have.

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You can’t make me want what I don’t want.

You can’t dangle something in front of my face That’s I don’t want that and many of you are taking anything that you don’t know what you want And so if I can do one thing for you when you leave this room I don’t want nothing from you, but for you to leave this room and know what you want. What do you want in your marriage? What do you want with your son and your daughter? What do you want in your health? What do you want financially like how much money do you want to make a year? What do you want to drive? How do you want to live stop just waking up like an accident? What do you want?

and then, once you find out what you want, spend the rest of your natural life Waking up and going after it.

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So I’m not in a position to be able to give my staff raises this year, and they’ve earned them. But that’s just not where we are. And I’m looking for creative ways that I can express my appreciation, let them know how much I value them, even though I can’t do it with dollars.

The only one I’m concerned about is your one full-timer. And what does the one full-timer make?

She makes about $50 a year.

Okay. What was your profit?

Our profit last year was $42.

After you were paid or before you were paid? Before I was paid. So she made more than you made?

She sure did.

Okay.

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You don’t see things the way they are. You see things the way you are. And what’s really fascinating is, like this is a scientific fact. This is how the algorithm knows what to feed you on social media. They feed you things you already like, already believe, already think.

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I don’t listen to people that I can’t learn from. Unless you’re a scholar or someone with more experience or a higher net worth, I don’t listen. To take advice from someone that’s not done it is the blind leading the blind.

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The reason why I speak with so much passion, E.T., why do you speak with so much authority? Because I’m talking about my life, not something that I read. I ate out of trash cans. I had no business eating out of trash cans. I lived in abandoned buildings. I had no business living in abandoned buildings. But E.T., your daddy wasn’t in your life. Your mom was a teenage mother. You grew up, come on, look at your search. That’s not an excuse. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential, no excuse.

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I came from hell. I came from a place that beat me down to nothing, which is why I’m afraid. All this makes sense. So systematically, one by one, I went back and met every single person in my mind, every situation. I went one-on-one with them again in my mind. I said, okay, let’s now revisit this. And that’s how you do it. That’s how it works.

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So what do you do with the people who just are lazy and they don’t want to help themselves? Yeah, and they’re there.

They are not lazy. They’re lost. Lazy is a symptom. The source of the laziness is they’re lost.

The young man, maybe your husband, ladies, I’ve gotten this call before.

They’re not lazy. They’re lost.

In other words, if you look at the science behind of why we procrastinate, a large portion of procrastination is depression. And I can’t think of a more debilitating emotional state than feeling lost. That’s a very real emotion for, let’s take a young man or a married man. He’s got a family and all of a sudden he realizes, I don’t know where I’m supposed to go. I don’t love my job or I’ve just been laid off.

That person is looking for clear direction in their life.

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I think you got to stop waiting for someone to come along and root for you. You’ve got to do that for yourself. And if you get lucky, you’ll find a few people who really believe in you. But if your plan relies on luck to succeed, it’s not a plan. It’s a bet. And if you’re going to bet, then you might as well bet on you, not them.

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Wow, so your brain doesn’t really know the difference between,

say that again? Between something that happened in real life or something that you strongly visualize.

So you could create enough of a visualization for yourself if you really were to powerfully start to focus on it and do that and build that ability to visualize something that your brain at one point would have to think it’s so true that the world would meet you and put it into your life.

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Why we don’t believe that we can do it better? We have to believe, we have to be positive to try to change things. This is why we have to… we’re not going to give up. You know, the only give up is the guys who is weak mentally.

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But I’m always trying to find a way to continue to empower and infuse life into this community, which built me.

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I went from a very average thinking person, like just an average 19-year-old.

I literally got on all these TED Talks,

videos about self-belief,

what does it mean to be confident, how do you become a winner?

And I would watch hours and hours of Tony Robbins and Les Brown and TED Talks.

And I taught myself how to believe in myself and how to think that I was greater than just this kid,

never really had great grades,

never really was the starter,

never was the captain of a team. I was just always kind of this average person and overnight I taught myself that I could be great.

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Nobody is perfect. We fail too many times. We have so many uncertainty in our life that we have to be capable when we are down to stand up. It’s part of the journey, it’s part of the process. It’s part of our educations. I learn the most when I’m down. And it’s good that certain moments happen because when you are in the top of the wave, you don’t see under what’s going on. It’s good to have problems. It’s the only way that you can improve.

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The loneliest man has the most friends. He makes his own choices, creates his own path, and depends on nobody. But everybody loves him and looks up to him, because he knows how to use absence to create honour and respect.

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You don’t become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are. Outwork your self-doubt.

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You should be proud of yourself and look in the mirror and say, listen, I give everything. And I think all of us, we should do that because new year, we changed the page. We have many things to win. We have to believe on that. If not, it will be, it will be a nightmare.

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no matter how much you improve, no matter how much you change who you are, it’s not permanent. You’ll just wake up and say, oh my God, man, you’re David Goggins. You break records. You do this, you do that. People want to know, how are you able to just be so hard?

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What changed I changed and I stopped being a victim I stopped saying I’ve got to wait for good things to happen to me And I said I’m gonna grind. I’m going to fight. I’m going to work. I’m going to press toward. I’m going to learn, I’m going to do everything in my power, Every single day. I’m going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim. now Let me say this before I move forward, and I can’t explain it, But you better feel me: winners win and losers lose.

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Your life is powered by you. Give your dream a round of applause. It’s going to happen. It’s going to happen. It’s going to happen. I know it works.

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This could be the year, but you got to do something different. I need you to stop following the trends and follow success. You can manifest motivation, master your motivation. You can manipulate your motivation. You better create your own sense of urgency. The reason why some of you ain’t motivated because you ain’t got no deadline. There’s nothing that you’re living for. Do whatever it takes to stay motivated. Do whatever it takes to keep myself at the highest level emotionally. My emotions are telling me to give up.

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Sometimes people have the wrong strategy, but most of the time, the thing that’s stopping them is a story. We keep creating limitations by telling ourself a story over and over and over again. If you and I are gonna make progress, we’ve gotta destroy the old story. We’ve gotta destroy the old limiting belief that’s keeping in our way. Divorce your story of limitation and marry the truth of your unlimited ability.

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Everything in the universe grows or dies. If your relationship’s not growing, it’s dying. If your business is not growing, it’s dying. That is the only universal other than everything grows or dies, and everything in the universe contributes to something else, or it’s eventually eliminated by evolution. Not just on Earth, throughout the cosmos. So we have to grow and we have to give. And when we’re growing, we feel alive, and we have something to give because we’ve grown, we feel even more alive.

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The reason I’m not more successful is I didn’t dream big enough. 100%. My biggest problem in life was I could only achieve the things I felt I could touch. If I couldn’t touch it, I couldn’t imagine it. Right. Today, I believe you can do anything in the world. There’s no… Like, can I build a 20 billion dollar company? Yeah. Could I build a 50 billion dollar company? Absolutely. There is nothing stopping you. It’s the same work personally. The biggest difference is scale and leverage. People that do big things learn how to scale their time, people, and team.

You can’t build a billion dollar company on your own, but you can build a team to help you get there.

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This could be the year, but you got to do something different if you want something different. All right. All right So on today’s episode, let’s do me very closely. Here’s what I need you to do for me I need you to stop following the trends and follow success y’all. Come on. Listen to me Success leaves clues. You got to get off the internet. or, if you’re gonna be on the internet, You got to follow successful people who doing successful stuff on the internet.

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It’s necessary that you be flexible, that you are always thinking of how can I improve this better. This is a customer-driven economy. It’s necessary for you to always explore various ways in which you can improve the quality of service that you’re providing for the people in your organization.

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Listen to me very closely. You grown. You not no child. You not five years old. You not eight years old. Listen to me. Do both, right? It’s not either or. It’s not to be motivated or to be disciplined. It’s not. It’s both. Take both of them.

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If you’re not being defined by a vision of the future, then you are left with the memories of your past and you’ll be predictable in your life. If you’re not creating anything new, that means you’re believing in your past more than you’re believing in your future. So then if the person is living in anger, impatience, resentment, frustration, and they’re holding the intention of their future, there’s no vibrational match between anything and their future because they’re saying, why hasn’t it happened? They’re waiting for their healing to begin so that they feel gratitude.

They’re waiting for their success to feel abundance or empowerment. They’re waiting for their new relationship to feel love. Well, that’s the old model of reality of cause and effect, waiting for something outside to change how we feel inside. And if you’re living in that lack and you know that you’re creating your future, you’re creating more lack. And if you’re reacting to the people and conditions in your life that are all known to you, then your thoughts and feelings are equal to everything that you know. You keep creating the same.

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You can learn all the techniques in the world. If you don’t believe in yourself, it won’t happen for you. I learned all of it. So that’s why I do a training called Focus on the Seller. You’ve got to focus on you. And as you convince you, as you sell yourself, every day, every day, every day, you will begin to see a difference in the things that you’re doing. Selling yourself on your ability to perform a job, to achieve a certain objective, telling yourself every day, here I go again, and I got what it takes. This is my day, and nothing out here is going to stop me.

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If you play it safe all the time,

you’re technically squeezing God out of the formula.

If you only do what you know or you only do the things that you’re certain you’re going to succeed at,

then there is no need for God.

So I always tell people, like,

if you’re going to go after your dreams, it’s going to be scary.

On the other side of your fear is your freedom.

On the other side of your pain is your greatness.

On the other side of your failure is your future.

So the bigger the dream,

the bigger the problem. It’s just the way life is.

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People love to see successful stories, but most of the success stories they succeed because of the mistakes. I Encouraging all the young people entrepreneurs to learn from the mistakes if you learn from the mistakes if you learn Especially the famous cases studies. It’s going to help you. What I want to say it’s not about you. you learn from mistakes does not mean you and avoid mistakes. You will learn the attitude towards these mistakes and never give up fighting again.

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I’m not going to be a volunteer victim. George Bernard Shaw said there are two kinds of people in life. You know, he said those that make things happen, those that watch things happen, and those that don’t know what happened. And he said the people that get along in this life look around for the circumstances that they want and if they can’t find them, they make them. They create them. So part of beginning to get unstuck, you’ve got to decide that the behavior pattern that you have adopted doesn’t work for you. You’ve got to change your strategies,

and changing your strategy means reinventing your life.

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What does it mean to live an infinite life?

Clearly our lives are finite.

We’re born, we die, we come, we go.

But life is infinite.

The game of life will continue with us or without us.

Which means every single one of us has a choice.

We don’t get to choose the nature of the game. Life is infinite. We don’t even get to choose if we want to play in the game or not.

Once you’re born, you’re in it.

We get one choice.

Do you want to play with a finite mindset? Or do you want to play with an infinite mindset?

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How to go from average to fortune? There’s five simple steps. You might like to make a note of them. Here’s the first one. Get serious. You don’t have to be grim, but you must be serious. I know a guy that’s got a half a dozen jokes keeping him from becoming wealthy. He’s not known as rich. He’s known as a joker, which I guess is okay if that’s the kind of life you want to live. But it really isn’t the best way to live. To go from average to fortune, you must get serious. And you must get serious about two very important things. Number one is setting your goals and where you want to go.

Designing the next five, the next 10 years is so vitally important. Then you have to get serious about another important subject. And that important subject is called personal development. Personal development is striving hard to become the kind of person that you want to be. 10 years from now, you will surely become someone. The big question is who?

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My favorite thing about starting at zero is you have no choice. Like, what are you gonna cry on the couch? What’s great about zero and the dirt and the start is you have no choice but to be patient, meaning you can go the get rich quick scheme route. And a lot of people do, D-Rock. They’re always chasing the next trend and this and that. I feel like I’m a big fan of, you know, people understanding that to build something meaningful, it takes real work. It takes real time.

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Whose favorite I need you to make up in your mind. Which one do you want? Do you want attention? How do you want to win and I need you to wake up tomorrow ready to put work in here? I need you to wake up tomorrow and I need you to be determined that no matter what this is my North Star This is what I want to do. This is what I want to come and I need you to go get it It’s your boy ET no more wine. No more losing,

No more whining no more losing we bought the win so we’re no longer doing what losers do We got to start doing what winners do and we bought the start with you ready to win I’m talking to you. Are you ready to win?

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I can’t get apart. I can’t get apart. I can’t get apart. Right? Or, I can’t do this. Versus, I’m going to keep doing this. I’m going to keep doing this. I’m going to keep doing this.

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You worked hard and you- Have fun. Have fun. Have you ever thought about what else you could be? You could be a brain surgeon. Your hands could operate as skillfully as Dr. Myron Rowe. Or a sports agent, handling big contracts like Rich Paul. What about an artist? You can be as creative as Brian Blue, the great. The art you make could inspire the world. Son, you can even be an astronaut. I can do all that, dad? You can be anything you want with these hands.

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Staying calm is your secret weapon.

The first one to lose their cool is the first one to lose the game.

Arrogant people are just looking for attention.

Block them and they’ll choke on their own ego.

People that provoke you are just looking for a reaction.

Don’t give them the satisfaction and they will be left empty-handed.

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is take full responsibility for your life. Accept where you are and the responsibility that you’re going to take yourself where you want to go. Someone said we have two primary choices in life. We can either accept conditions as they exist or we can take the responsibility to change them. See, a lot of people want to exempt themselves from taking responsibility. All they want to do is talk about the problem. Every time you see them, they’ll tell you their story over and over and over and over again. No, no. You want to take responsibility for your life. I got me here, I can get me out of this.

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Purpose is that feeling that you are a part of something bigger than yourself, that you are needed, and that you have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness.

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What if your focus on growth is the only thing limiting your growth? That’s the purpose of growth. You have to grow to experience and see all of life.

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Find something, find a thing that you genuinely enjoy, because getting good at things you genuinely enjoy is extremely beneficial for young people because it lets you know that, Like everybody thinks they’re a loser, every young person thinks they’re a loser- at least a young person in the situation I was at, like I didn’t know I wasn’t a loser until I started winning, till I started doing martial arts. Martial arts taught me that like I could get better at stuff, that it wasn’t. I wasn’t really a loser, I just was someone who was like in a fucked-up situation.

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The less you want something, the less you’re thinking about it, the less you’re obsessing over it, the more you’re going to do it in a natural way. The more you’re going to do it for yourself, you’re going to do it in a way that you’re good at, and you’re going to stick with it. The people around you will see the quality of your work is higher. This seems like a difficult tension to navigate, because an obsessive attention to detail is a competitive advantage of your work as well. So you have these two things sort of conflicting with each other.

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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

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You have to understand who you are, and then in the face of other people’s either criticism or lack of faith in your ability to succeed, you push through and there’s great benefit in that.

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No one is going to beat you at being you. If it’s so, one of the things I like to say is like, find what feels like play to you, but looks like work to others. So it looks like work to them, but to you it feels like play. It’s not work. So you’re going to outcompete them because you’re doing it effortlessly. You’re doing it for fun. They’re doing it for work. They’re doing it for some byproduct. To you, it’s art, it’s beauty, it’s joy, it’s flow, it’s fulfilling.

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Number one, do what you can. You just gotta go home and make a list after today. And here’s the question to ask as you make this personal list. What am I not doing that would be easy to do? That could greatly change my health, my wealth? What am I not doing I’m neglecting that would be easy to do? And if you’ll pick up the activity part, the miracle working part, plant the seed part, take care of your part, the soil will take care of its part, and the seed will take care of its part. The seasons will take care of their part. The miracle will take care of its part.

If you’ll take care of your part called putting it into activity, action.

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You’re in the habit of noticing what you’re not getting, and you will not succeed in business with that as your philosophy. That’s the cool thing about business. It has instant feedback. If you continue to serve others better than anybody else, you have to think about what they need, what they want, not you, and keep finding a way. And because you’re called to something higher, you’ll be rewarded disproportionately, not only with money, with meaning, with impact, with a success that no one can take from you.

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The more you do things that are natural to you,

the less competition you have.

You escape competition through authenticity,

by being your own self.

If I had to summarize how to be successful in life in two words,

I would just say productize yourself.

That’s it.

Just figure out what it is that you naturally do,

that the world might want,

that you can scale up and turn into a product.

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But you could channel all that energy that you have as a young person into something and get better at it And then all sudden people admired me. I was like, this is crazy. So I went from being someone who was incredibly insecure and basically a failure to someone who was really successful at this one thing that was very dangerous, that other people were scared of, and that gave me immense confidence and also a real understanding of The direct correlation between hard work and success.

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Recreating you and you have the power to do that. You can decide that you’re going to change, that you’re not going to be a wimp.

You can decide that you’re going to stand up to life. You can decide that I’m going to live each day as if it were my last. You have the power to make that decision. You can decide I’m going to work on myself and develop myself. I’m going to empower me, and all of these things that are happening to me right now, they’re just temporary inconveniences. They’re not stronger than I am. I’m in charge here.

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A man is as he thinketh. So if you think positive, positive things will happen to you. The reason we have to have a vision board is because of a scripture, Hebeka 2 and 2. It says, write the vision and make it plain so that he who reads it will run to it. And even though it tarry, wait for it, for surely it will come at an appointed time. That’s a scripture. It’s not a theory that I came up with. So if God is telling you the way to become successful is to have a vision board, you can do it without a vision board, but it will explain why you don’t have everything you want.

It’s just real simple. It’s real simple. Write the vision and make it plain.

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You don’t wake up and you just grow. You gotta be intentional about that. You don’t wake up and you just become great. You don’t wake up and you just start doing things. You gotta be intentional about it, right? Like I tell cats every single day, like when I wake up and I read these quote cards, like for me, yeah, it’s cool. I enjoy it, right? I read it, gets my mind going. It creates dialogue between me and my wife, my children, with my partners. But I do that every single day. For me, that’s putting on my armor.

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So I get up every morning at 2.30, 3 o’clock, why? Because greatness is upon me. Dr. King is there. Malcolm X is there. I’m that new guy. I’m that new inspiration. I’m the guy you look at when your daddy ain’t in your life, when your daddy in prison. I’m that guy that comes to your high school and tell you, you can make it happen. Greatness is upon you, you better act like it.

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for the future. It’s going to be very exciting.

As the president said,

we’re going to have a golden age.

It’s going to be fantastic.

And one of the fundamental things,

one of the most American values that I love is optimism.

And this feeling like we’re going to make the future good.

We’re going to make it good.

So, man, I can’t wait.

This is going to be fantastic.

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Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they produce your future.

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Maybe it’s my fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn’t. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line and not in the gym.

Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner. That my game was built on flash and not fire. Maybe it’s my fault that you didn’t see that failure gave me strength. That my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God-given gift and not something I worked for. Every single day of my life. Maybe I destroyed the game. Or maybe… You’re just making excuses.

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The most important skill to create a great quality of life is the skill of leadership. Leadership doesn’t mean you tell people what to do when they do it or that people follow you. Leadership means you live life by your standards, that you won’t settle unless you can do, be, share, create, or give. And what makes you a leader is one skill above any other skill. The minute you decide to serve other people, you become a leader. Because it isn’t about you anymore. It doesn’t matter what your position is in a company or in your family.

The decision to truly serve where it’s not about you gives you an energy and a power that most people don’t have. But then the second thing is there’s a skill to leadership. And the most important skill of leadership is influence.

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Yeah, right before I walk out the door. I’m being intentional I don’t get up and just let life hit me and I walk out of the door and then now I’m on the emotional roller Coaster I’m all over the place and now I can’t I can’t catch grips on my dreams my goals my aspirations now I’m mad at people I shouldn’t be mad at because something work out now, but I’m gonna wake up. I’m gonna put on my armor I’m gonna be intentional about what I want to accomplish direction I want to go and a person I’m trying to become to the best of my ability now does that mean success every single day? Absolutely, not.

I’m a fail, probably more than I have success, but I know that already.

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I don’t listen to what nobody tell me. Once I write it down, I write the vision and make it plain, it will come. Surely it will come at an appointed time. It doesn’t matter that nobody sees it. It doesn’t matter that it’s visible to other people. All you got to do is write it down and believe it.

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if we are very cognizant of the habits that we create. Mm-hmm. Because understanding that whatever you do is creating a habit, but you’re cognizant of the habit you create, then you’re only giving yourself an opportunity to manifest the very best of your future. You’re giving yourself the opportunity for success. You’re giving yourself the opportunity to pick up what the universe is putting down. Yes, sir. Being cognizant of the habits that you’re creating. Put your feet on the floor. Make sure the sun don’t beat you up.

Those simple things right there give you the opportunity to see the fullness and the greatness of yourself. Yes, sir.

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In my mind, I’m always the best. I don’t care what the people are thinking, what they say. In my mind, not just this year, but always, I’m always the best. The reason is I’m unbelievable inside the pitch. This is why the people are so much interested in me.

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Use what you have. And a lot more people have pain. A lot more people have anger. A lot more people have shame. And if you can use that as your gas in the beginning, you’ll eventually get to a point where you can get out of that loop and then find something that you are really passionate about. But if you can’t tie your shoes, you can’t lift the weight, you can’t send the DM, then you have to start with whatever you have.

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Learn the work ethic and the skills that match your ambition. You get to live life one time, and this is the time right now to understand what’s actually happening and actually map your behavior to something that will impact you for the next 80 years. Pay the fuck attention to who’s giving you the advice. Who’s giving the advice? And more importantly, if you live your life where you’re comfortable taking somebody else’s point of view on how you should fucking live your life, you deserve to live.

Figure out what you fucking puts you on fire and you’re halfway decent at and become tunnel fucking vision.

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Trade your expectations for appreciation and your whole life will change in that moment. The minute you appreciate something, your suffering is gone. It’s just your expectations that are stressing you out.

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There’s nothing out there for me and that’s the problem You hung up your cape and your cow, but you didn’t move on you never went to find a life to find some offering. I Did find someone I know and you lost them, but that’s all part of living, sir. But you’re not living. you’re just waiting, hoping that things to go bad again. Remember when you left Gotham before all this, before Batman, You were gone seven years seven years. I waited hoping that you wouldn’t come back. I never wanted you to come back to Gotham. I Always knew there was nothing here for you except pain and tragedy,

and I wanted something more for you than that. I still do.

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when you have emotional maturity, you realize that some days you’re not going to sleep well, some days you’re going to wake up and you’ve got your schedule and everything’s planned out and the poop hits the fan, you got to eat those shit sandwiches, right? And whether things go well or not that day, the emotionally mature man will still do what he has to do to stack his wins, to focus on his purpose. Whereas the emotionally immature man will say, well, I didn’t sleep well. I had nightmares, so I’ll stay in bed. I didn’t sleep well, or it’s raining outside. It’s cold outside. I don’t feel good.

The, I just woke up and the airplanes hit the world trade center. So I guess I have to change my pattern of life. You have to stay the course no matter what. And it takes a high level of emotional maturity because your emotions dictate your motion. Like what you’re going to do. And so if you have emotional maturity, you’re more likely to lean into discipline when things are sub optimal. If you lack emotional maturity, then how you feel determines what you do next, which is very damaging to outcome driven humans.

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and think about how many people are going to be selected out. It’s like the Hunger Games, you know? Think about how many other people are going to fall at that wall.

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The boundary or line revolves around physical and mental well-being. So I would be very careful not to take somebody to the state where they were injuring themselves mentally or physically, where obsession with a goal overcame common sense, understanding. There are points where I’m also part of my job is to be a truth teller. Many athletes are surrounded by people who don’t tell them the truth, as indeed many people are. A good friend is somebody who tells you the truth. That helps you more. Part of my role is to tell athletes the truth and one of those truths may be,

I think you’ve got to face up to the fact you’ve not got the ability to go any further. You’ve run your race. Now relax, enjoy it. You did really well. You maxed out on what you were capable of doing.

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Whenever you try to do something out of the ordinary,

people will line up to tell you that you can’t do it,

why you can’t do it,

that you’ll lose your time, you’ll lose your money, that you will in effect die in the desert.

Even people who should know better will try to discourage you.

To achieve anything great or worthwhile,

you must train yourself to rise above these people ignoring them and pressing on towards your goal regardless.

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Like, one of the biggest reason why I become champion, I think this is about my mental part. How I can control my emotional, you know. I think I can control anything. Anything happen with me in the world, I can control this. I can handle this, you know. And I know it’s like a lot of people, like I remember when I was supposed to fight with him, like, like coach tell me, hey, you have to focus, you know, it’s like, and I was like, coach, hey, I’m focused. You say, oh, you call home, you call friends. I said, no, I’m good. This is normal for me.

You suppose after like 30 minutes, your biggest fight in your life, biggest fight in UFC history become. You call your friends on phone, like I said, coach, please don’t worry. Everything is good. I am good. I am relaxed. And when time come, I’m going to show you.

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You can live right here on surface, man, right here on surface. So, if there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go and there’s a judgment, you’re going to get there and you might see a chart and that chart may tell you who the f**k you should have been. And now you get the rest of your life to think about that. Man, I could have lived a much better life if I just would have just suffered a little bit more. If I just would have went in that s**t and realized I had so much more. But fear and the 40% and living here versus living here being afraid. Stop me.

So that’s I’m a big guy in visualizing. I’m a big guy in making a world. It may not exist. To me it does. To me it does. And I’m overpowering myself every day and you got to find tools to do that. That’s the tool that I use. So that’s what it’s all about.

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Every day when you get out of bed, life’s standing right there to kick you in the fucking face, man. Could be anything could be you get up and you walk downstairs, you got a fucking flat tire and you’re late for work and you got this and that life is going to throw all kinds of crazy shit at you. Right. And you have to be ready for it and you got to fucking deal with it. Can’t curl up into a ball. You can’t run away from it. You can’t hide. You have to take all this head on. You have to get up every day. When I get up out of bed, I strap up and I’m getting ready for fucking war.

Cause I know I’m coming in here. I know a bunch of bad shit’s going to happen that I’m going to fucking deal with. And if that’s not bad enough, when I finally get out of here, I’m probably going to go to the casino and I’m going to get into another fucking war. You know what I mean? I thrive in chaos. I actually love chaos. I, everybody talks about retiring. Fuck that shit. What am I going to do when I retire? What would I do? What would I, I liked, I liked to go to war. I liked the battle. I like to win.

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See, that’s the thing, man. Everyone’s waiting for permission. Everyone’s waiting for permission from some higher power to tell them that it’s okay to break through the seal, that it’s okay to achieve more, want more, get after more. It is very okay, fellas, to go out and make money. It is very okay to go and get jacked. It is very okay to find a beautiful wife. It is very okay to buy cars and buy homes and support your friends who support you to be generous with your money. It is very okay to be abundant-minded. It is.

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where you wake up every day and say, just like Clint Eastwood, you say, today I’m going to be a champion. I work with Adam Peter, the gold medal swimmer, and he arrives at the swimming pool at six o’clock in the morning, and before he goes in, he stops and says, today I will train like a champion. And he trains for two hours like a champion. Nobody in the pool can get near him. He works so hard. And he comes back again at six o’clock in the evening, and he stops outside the arena and says, tonight I’m going to train like a champion. And he trains like a champion.

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I call it the rocky cut scene, and almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year, but many years of doing work without reward, where they have to do things that other people find boring and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting, that most people want to do during that entire season of their life, and they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most.

And that’s the rocky cut scene and instead of lasting five minutes it just usually lasts five or ten years.

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People only root for people who don’t need it.

The amount of times when I was on my lonely path, where I was too different from the friends that I had, but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with,

that’s when you want people to root for you. That’s when you want people to support you. Once you’ve already won, people are like, he’s amazing. He’s so good. But that’s the time when you need it the least. And so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. It’s usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap that’s just you rooting for you.

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You failed the fucking test. Get over it. Move past it. Learn to not let life hijack your brain. At work, you’ve been working your ass off for that new promotion. You don’t fucking get it. Someone else does. Maybe they kiss better ass than you do. Guess what? Get over it. Life will hijack your mind if you let it. Don’t allow all these things to make you a lesser person. You must own your mind. Don’t let life own yours. Get out there and stay hard.

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I feel like this next generation is coming up and I don’t mean to smash all of them, but they seem like a bunch of pussies to me, you know? So because of that, there’s never been more opportunity than there is right now. If you’re a fucking savage and you get out there and you grind hard and you want it bad enough, you can run all these guys over, man. And this whole COVID thing, people don’t want to go back to work and, you know, they want to stay home and all this bullshit, man. And you can’t build a real business with people staying at home. You need that connection.

You need to be in the office with your like-minded group of people and you need to be brainstorming and working and coming up with ideas to take the company further. And, you know, this next generation is just such a fucking group of pussies, man. I just, for the small group of savages out there, run these fucking kids right over, man. Run them all over. You can’t beat hard work.

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You have more resiliency. You are more resourceful than people that have not gone and Suffered through adversity and abuse. That’s the reality. We are more resilient, We are more emotionally strong, mentally tough and we can deal with so much shit, but we have to first let go of the mental Crippling crutch that we carry which is this victim mind hood, right? When I let go of that ten years ago that I was a victim of sexual abuse that I was a victim of physical abuse I was a victim of being bullied.

That was a victim in every category But I realized you know what all those things I went through and I’m still standing. I’m still going strong. Dude, I must be one resilient, one resourceful, one relentless motherfucker if I’m still going strong.

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thinking and thinking and thinking, they’re frozen from their own thoughts, too many thoughts. And so I thought these were good little factors here. And it basically, to me, it all boils down to actually fear. Because if you’re thinking, then you’re not taking action. And if you’re not taking action, then there’s no consequence. And if there’s no consequence, then there’s nothing to be afraid of. So I think that the overthinking can be an excuse for actual fear. And same thing with like, oh, I’m a perfectionist. That’s also fear. It’s fear of not being perfect.

And then on top of that, low confidence. Well, if you have low confidence, guess what? You’re afraid. Your confidence is low. You’re not sure of yourself. So you sit around and think about doing it instead of actually doing it.

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So the first part of the game is income. Without income, you don’t have the cash to do the other things, to invest or to look for opportunities. So first thing is income. But even that’s changing in how we earn incomes these days. It used to be you go and work for a big firm, you get paid, you get the benefit. That’s all going, and nobody wants to do it. So you kind of end up having to be an entrepreneur, work two or three different things. The point being, if you’re in your 20s, do all of that. Work day and night. Really? Do as many things, learn as much as you can, fail as often as possible.

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Triple down on your fucking weaknesses. Yeah, find out something about yourself. You already know that the good shit You know the happy shit, right? That’s why I’m I on my face because well, don’t you talk about good times? You know how to get through that. motherfucker. You don’t need a fucking you you don’t need no one tell you how to get to it’s happy right that’s easy shit, right? I’m gonna tell you how you can help yourself get through the times that suck. real life, This is real life. 90% of your life will suck. 10% will be fucking happy.

You may be lucky guy and have a lot of fucking money, have a great-ass woman, all it. Trust me, one on one with that fucking guy. He’s missing something. his life still sucks because he hasn’t faced something that bothered him his whole fucking life. Something is still eating that motherfucker up- almost everybody, everybody eating you the fuck up. But maybe you found a good way- how I did growing up- on how to ignore that voice as saying You ain’t facing some shit.

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I don’t just get a job. I don’t just squat for reps and, oh, I can do 10. If I have 50 in me, right guy, I’m gonna do 50, okay? You know what I’m talking about? I’m not talented. It was life and death. Either you live or you die. Which one do you want, Tom? That was the decision, in the corporate life and in the gym. But if you want something bad enough, if you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something. I’ll repeat that. If you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something, not even yourself.

A lot of days I’m like, oh, you can’t do this, Tom. You can’t be as quick as a 30-year-old on the computer. Bullshit, let me show you. I would have arguments with myself. I could do it. People doubted me. I doubted myself sometimes too.

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You don’t start things and not finish them. You don’t quit. There’s nothing that comes out of quitting besides knowing that you didn’t finish. We finish everything. You start it, finish it. If you’re going to do it, do it to try and be the best. Not be better than other people, be the best for you. If you’re in school and you’re going to class, I’m not asking you to get straight A’s. I’m asking you to get the best grade that you can possibly get. Give me 100% all the time and I’m a happy mother. When you half-ass me, I’m on your ass.

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So, as God just passed me, he said: Goggins, just be average today. Some of you just don’t understand. Some of you’ve been average for so damn long You don’t know what it is to do hard work. But there’s a lot of you out there Who want to be much more than average? But just don’t know how to do it. every single day, the grind He defines. they want to oil those fucking gears up. So check it out. This is a mindset maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not But there’s a motherfucker out there Who wants what you have who wants the position you are?

Who wants the job you have who wants the wife that you have or the husband? There’s someone out there hungry and wants everything you can have Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s not, but if it is, It’s gonna be your ass. So make that a motivation for you. stay hard.

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Everything revolves around the first question, what do you want? Because a lot of people are unclear what they want from life. They don’t sit down and think through. We are writing our own life story every day, and yet we don’t think about it. Who do we want to be? Where do we want to live? What life do we want to lead? When we’ve finished our life, come to the end of our life and look back, what do we want to say that we’ve done? So, what do you want is a very powerful question. And then if an athlete says, I want to be the best Bill, fine. How badly do you want it?

Because it’s going to, you’ve got to pay a price to be the best. The best pay a big price. You’ve got to work harder, you’ve got to commit more, you’ve got to take more responsibility, you’ve got to deal with more ups and downs.

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I remember they showed me an exercise and I said, I can’t do that. And they say, no,

never say you can’t do it.

Say, I haven’t done it yet. I haven’t done it yet.

And that’s true with everything.

It’s like, there’s nothing that you can’t do.

You may not have done it yet.

We don’t know if you can do it or not until you really practice.

And then you find out if you can do it or not, or how well you can do it.

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Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.

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People say, man, do you believe in God? You cuss so much. When I say f**k, it’s letting you know what I’m thinking. If I try to make it all pretty and s**t, that’s not what my life was. It was a violent, violent struggle daily to get where I’m at today. I’m not gonna water it down. I’m not gonna water it down. S**t wasn’t fun. It ain’t fun today. But I’m happy.

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So as you grow up, they tell you that, you know, you were a chunky kid, you were a big kid when you were born, you were clumsy and you start believing the fact you’re supposed to be fat your whole life, you’re supposed to be clumsy your whole life. And then you start believing the fact that, you know, hey, because dad works three jobs and dad’s always broke, that you’re supposed to be broke, that that’s just how it is in our family. That is not, you could be the one in your family to change the trajectory of your bloodline. I’m the one in my family, I’m the one.

And it is important for you to take that pen back that people have written in your book of life and realize there’s many other pages that are blank that you could start rewriting how the story goes. But you have to give yourself permission first, permission to heal, permission to realize that you’re not broken, that you are lovable, you are worthy, that you are capable, you have everything you need. There’s not a goddamn thing that someone else has that you don’t have.

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I’m not like you. I’m nothing. Just let me be nothing.

What are you talking about?

I can’t make a track team. I don’t even know why you want me to- Yes you can.

If you can take it, you can make it. What? If you can take it, you can make it. Alright? You train. You fight. Way harder than those other guys. And you win. You get out from under them. Or, you keep going the way you’re going and you end up as a bum in the streets.

You can do this, Lou. Just gotta believe you can.

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because that’s the time to put in the hard work your work life balance actually comes out later.

I’m a big believer in yes if you strive university go traveling for a year or two.

You know that.

I get rid of the pent up need also gives you a much broader perspective on the world than any other single thing that you can do in your life after that you get your head down and you get your head down probably mid thirties.

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if you begin to hate the thing that you do, you negatively change your trajectory. And that means that at the time when you can benefit the most by every single unit of work, which is the later that you go, presuming that you continue to hit that upward trajectory, if you’ve completely killed any passion or desire to do the work in the early stages, because you’ve not protected it appropriately, that can be by focusing on the wrong things, by not rewarding yourself, by not building it with people that care about you, by just not celebrating when you hit milestones,

all of the things that actually help to keep you going. Being a character. By the time you get to the stage where each unit of effort allows you to gain a thousand or a million of each of the things that it would have done at the very beginning, you’ve inverted the passion equation. Takes way more energy to start a thing than to continue doing a thing. And yet in the beginning, the rewards are way lower than they are at the end. But if you don’t protect your passion, your motivation is at its lowest when you are at your highest amount of efficiency in terms of returning your time put in.

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The impact I want to have in the world is for everybody to be able to face who they are. I want to have that kind of impact where you can go on TV, you can put your life on a billboard, you’re not ashamed of who the f*** you are, you’re not ashamed of what life made you, what you helped life make you, all that s***, all that bad s*** that’s now in this big pot that’s stirring, you’re no longer ashamed of it. You realize we’re all f***ed up. Stop judging yourself against other f***ed up people who have hidden it better than you. That’s all they’ve done.

They’ve masked their s*** better than you have and now they’re flipping it back on you and saying you’re f***ed up. I want you to realize that this world, life, is one big head game. And once you learn to play the motherf***ing head game, it’s no longer a game anymore at all. You can start living your life.

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That’s what it takes to do anything successfully in life.

You’ve got to want it as bad as you want to breathe.

And if you want it that bad,

if you’re willing to give it that much, you get a big piece of what you want.

And life and dreams do come true.

Anything you want can happen and become a reality.

I believe that sincerely and I’ll die on that thought, okay?

And I say that not from something I read, that’s from something I lived.

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What you want all week you was work hard End of the week if you don’t tire it. This is good question. You have to worry about yourself But this is Saturday your sixth day you work so hard. Of course you’re gonna tire it. Tomorrow rest and Monday. We’re gonna begin one more training If you don’t want go back to Dagestan and stay with your mom. She’s gonna give you every day good breakfast. You don’t do nothing, stay there. But if you come here don’t complain you want to become best you want to become champion and now you want to say like you tired Who cares you tired or not?

Nobody care about you. Even you. if you’re gonna watch fight, you just watch fight. They walk out inside the cage they fight and they leave you don’t know what happened behind the scenes This is not your business. Nobody care about this.

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Obsession is a difficult word for me because I think focus, a focus on a goal is a better word. It’s more controlled, more legitimate. So I think obsession means you lose control of the process. Focus is more, you’re more in control of the process. As long as I feel the athlete is in control of what they’re trying to achieve, I’m fairly happy with that. It’s when they start to lose control and they lose their reason why. Because very often an athlete continues into the pain barrier because of the people around them. They don’t want to let people down.

They themselves would be comfortable stepping out and saying, that’s it, I’ve done enough. But they persist because of the pressure of their support group.

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The moment God is done, when you served your purpose here, you won’t wake up. But if you keep waking up, don’t you understand that there’s a higher purpose? Your goal in life is just to get into a relationship with God where you can understand the purpose. And it ain’t gotta match nobody else’s. You know, quit trying to be saved like everybody else. You gotta get saved for yourself. And then I was thinking one day, if the scripture is true, that there’s none perfect, no, not one, there are no perfect people. But there is a heaven.

If it ain’t no perfect people, who going to heaven? Because ain’t nobody perfect. So who’s going? So I think y’all ought to just get to hoping just like I’m hoping. That when we get up to the gate, God is grading on the curve.

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Going into combat, going into war. out of the hundred men that go into war, tensioning, fucking be there. 80 of them are just targets, 10 do most or 9 do most of fighting. one is a warrior, and It’s a true quote to life. I saw it going through training. I saw it everywhere I went. there’s so many people who just show up to life that shouldn’t even fucking be around, and And there’s few people who do all the work. I wanted to be part of that. nine- Yeah, I’m working towards being that one, and that’s just how I live my life.

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For me, it is firstly being an expert on something, and then a generalist on as much as possible. Be that expert because somebody will pay you for that, at least for the time being. And we’ll talk about how the world may change in the future. But for the time being, if you’re an expert in whatever it may be, whether it’s driving a taxi or whether it’s a computer scientist, it doesn’t matter. Be an expert. Compete with yourself day and night to be the best that you can.

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You know, when I was younger and I was doing home invasion robberies and carjackings, and then I would listen to talk radio after that. For some reason, I would listen to talk radio and there was this Dr Laura Schlesinger. I might have talked to you guys before on the podcast about this, but Dr Laura would talk about you’ve got two chances at a parent child relationship: once when you’re the child and once again when you’re the parent. like you know, you can parent yourself, you can parent yourself. And so if you’re like, man, my dad was absent.

If I had a good dad, he would have taken me to the gym. He would have taught me how to drive a manual transmission car. My dad would have taught me how to fight. My dad would have taught me how to lift. My dad would have taught me how to speak to women. Well, guess what? Teach yourself that. Be the man that was missing in your life. And you do that by putting yourself around other men who already carry those traits.

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Mom, I wanna do this, I wanna play baseball. Well, then you gonna play. Mom, I don’t like that no more. Then why’d you start the season? Because I thought I wanted to do it. Then you gonna finish the season. You don’t quit. There’s other people that invest the time and energy into you you don’t just quit on people. But I don’t wanna do it. Finish the season. Mom, I wanna swim. Then you gonna finish swimming. It didn’t matter what I did. I was never allowed to quit. So now in anything I do, when I pick it up and say I’m gonna start it, I gotta finish it. It all don’t work.

It all ain’t the best. It all ain’t knocked out the park. But I walk away saying I finished it. I did it. I did it.

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What they don’t see, the people in the arena don’t see is you on your own at six o’clock in the morning, working out, sweating, struggling. And that’s what makes champions, the ability to motivate themselves to do the work on their own that leads to success in the arena.

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it won’t get harder. Like this is the hardest part. And so if you can just make it through this, everything else is downhill. It’s not that the things that the dragons are going to slay aren’t going to get bigger, they are. But you become so much more equipped to slay them back. And you have so many more allies. You have people in the stands cheering for you. You have the audience. You have all of these other things that are behind you. But at the beginning, it’s just you with a stick against a bear.

And arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon when you have a nuclear bomb and six nations behind you. And so it’s not even like the, the size of the hardship. It’s just also the resources and how few of them you have and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you have, which is time. Because you have no leverage. You don’t have the money to pay other people to help you. You don’t have the resources to go like get someone to, to, no one can learn it for you.

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One more thing about your mental toughness. Because when you go to the cage, you have so many emotional come at the same time on your head. And you have to live this. Every emotional has separate places. But if everything comes on your mind and this can make you weak, this can make you break, or this can make you strong. You know?

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the feeling I was looking for in my life. I found it, it wasn’t money, it wasn’t fame, it wasn’t awards, it was that feeling I have right now. The feeling of I’m about to break down, but it’s not of like, oh my God, I’m upset. It’s like I worked myself so hard that I turned a person this fucked up into this motherfucker right here. Not off of reading a fucking book off a theorist, off of going to work on myself and saying, I don’t know how to do this, but I know that to get over there to that fucking side, I gotta grind myself into a fucking fine powder. And I did it, I did it off a sure will.

And very few people will know how that feels.

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From that standpoint, and we know what we have to do, we know that this was a time of year where we hit a lull a couple times, and we can’t let that happen, no matter what’s going on. Me and 9-1, me and Jan say it to each other every day, nobody cares. At the end of the day, nobody cares. What we’re going through, how your body feels, nobody cares. We gotta do our job. And we emphasize that to each other again today. Hey, I got your back, you got mine, nobody cares, man, we gotta go. And before practice, during practice, after practice, we’re always just trying to push whoever’s listening.

Is it fair? No, because I wanna have emotions about things, I wanna think about things as a human being.

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There’s people out there that are just working harder than everybody else and they’ll they’re gonna keep doing it Yeah, and that’s their grind. Mm-hmm, you know, and those people are super valuable. Those people are so valuable. the Marvin Hagler’s of the world, the Rocky Mars Marciano’s of the world, like those, are very, very valuable people. Yeah, because they change everybody’s perspective of like, what, what’s possible, what to strive for and what it takes Like do you really want to be a champion why because you just want to be cool You want to be the coolest guy on the block like that?

You’re not gonna win you’re gonna find some fucking psychopath who just lives it It’s it’s their whole life. And if it’s not your whole life, get out.

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There’s the physical element. You’ve got to take care of your strength, speed, stamina, nutrition, sleep, health. There’s the technical element. Each activity has a skill base. So you’ve got to develop the skills. So for Adam and Petey, it would be skills, swimming stroke, turning, diving in, turning. And then you’ve got to develop the tactical intelligence to compete, follow a plan. Know your position on the field. Know how you relate to the members of the team. Know how to deal with certain situations in the game, one nil up or one nil down. And then there’s the mental element.

That’s building the confidence and belief that you are a champion, that you can do this.

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Every time you tell your sad, pathetic story, all you do is you reinforce the fact that you’re sad, you’re pathetic, you’re undeserving.

Effectively, you reinforce the fact that you’re okay with being a loser. I don’t want you to be a fucking loser. What if you told people the story of, hey, I had a fucked up life, but I don’t wanna tell you that. I’m gonna tell you what I’m gonna do next, and I’m gonna go out and do it, right? That is what self-development is about. That is what peak performance is about. That is what breaking through self-limiting beliefs is about, is rewriting the story, because as long as you have breath in your lungs, as long as your heart is beating, as long as you have consciousness in your mind,

you can go and rewrite the story of how your life ends and how your life continues from this day forward. The legacy that you live.

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Maybe someone has a high IQ and therefore they’re thinking a lot,

and maybe that’s not fear.

But let me ask you a question if you’re so smart then why aren’t you taking action and making something happen?

So you’ve got a big IQ that’s no excuse to sit around and overthink things especially because If you’re so smart,

why can’t you come up with a quick solution? Why can’t you realize that overthinking is actually causing the problem harm?

It’s not moving the problem forward. Mm-hmm.

so Quit thinking so much and take action.

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A lot of the things that we care about a lot, no one can work out for you. It doesn’t matter how much money you have. No one can learn skills for you. In the early days, it feels so painful because you look around to see who can help you and then you’re like, fuck, it’s me again. I think getting comfortable with the idea that each of these things, kind of like Slumdog Millionaire if you’ve seen that movie where he, I’ll give you the TLDR,

he goes through his entire life of randomness and he gets on the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire version in India and it has 12 questions to make a million dollars. And from only 12 random experiences in his life that seemed meaningless at the time, was he able to answer all of the questions and then ultimately win?

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The most important conversation you will ever have in your fucking life is the one you have with yourself. You wake up with it You walk around with it. You go to bed with it. Eventually, you’re going to act on it, whether you’re good or bad. You have to. that’s why the whole thing about this book I have it’s about you. It is about you. It’s strictly about you finding who you are. so many people die, Live 100 years, never fucking know who they are, Never know who they are. You have to look in that mirror and know this. There’s so much more in here, man,

Because I can literally right now be a 300 pound guy Spraying for cockroaches still to this day if I did not look in that mirror and say there has to be more to this, This can’t be it. And then willing to go into it, dive deep into it and give all I have to find it. So that’s what is. that’s what all that’s about.

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You know, football is secondary when something like this happens. You know, this is, we’re talking about lives and a lot of different lives and a lot of different situations. But for us, from a football aspect, our mindset is we are, we’re gonna be ready to play, that’s for sure. You know, because they work so hard. You know, I think a common theme of when I’ve talked about Zay is how hard he works. And I think we’ve seen, you guys have seen it in training camp and how just the relentlessness he practices with. And it’s literally every day.

He’s the hardest practicing person I’ve ever seen in my life.

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because I’m tired again, again, again, surgery, surgery, you know. And he said, like, if you want to give up, you can give up. This is your choice. You can do whatever you want. But how are you going to give up? Like so many years we were working together, like, and you like only 26 years old. I remember myself when I was 26 and 33. This is too different. You know, like my prime time, it was 32, 33. Your time is going to come, but you cannot give up, you know. And this gives me like crazy motivation. I never give up. I never even remember I give up on training, or like an amateur career,

professional career in the gym. Never in my life. A lot of people ask me, you proud of something? I’m very proud of I never give up.

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And I want to see you develop into the 2.0 version of yourself. And that only happens when you are ready to let go of living like an average human and start living like a savage who deserves success, abundance, happiness, security, prosperity, legacy, meaning, fulfillment, significance, purpose. Doesn’t that sound fucking sexy? Like you’re either going to play video games sitting on a couch having fucking Cheeto dust in your belly button. That’s going to be the highlight of your day, telling your sad victim story to others.

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I’m on a journey of life and we all have a different journey, And I want to be in my fucking pine box and I believe your spirit lives forever has to it’s too fucking powerful No way in hell that thing just dies when you die I want to be able to look back on my life when i’m all dead and be so fucking proud of myself forever This is all temporary shit to me. I want to be forever proud of who I was as a man and change who I used to be: The liar, the insecure guy, the guy who can whatever. I want to be proud when I- if I die now, If I die at 80, if I die at 90, 100,

I want to look at myself and say:

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See, the problem is you have bought into this false narrative that you are destined for failure because you come from a failed family. You come from a divorced family. You come from a family of alcoholics. You come from a family of drug abusers. You come from a family of that have mental disorders. You come from a family who are immigrants. Blue collar, blue collar. We’re just supposed to be blue collar. No, you’re not. No, you’re not. You can make as much money as you want. You can have as much freedom as you want. You can have as much opportunity as you want.

but you got to go out and get it, because I can tell you right now, every single one of you out there have exactly what you deserve. You might think that life is unfair. You might think is that life dealt you a bad hand. But I’m here to tell you, life will give you exactly what you tolerate. And if you’ve been tolerating mediocrity, you’ve been tolerating average, you’ve been tolerating this victim mentality that you’re carrying. Then guess what? You have exactly what you deserve.

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just turn up so that you get athletes who just turn up. It’s training tonight, I’ll just turn up. You get athletes who turn up to compete, or turn up to train, sorry, turn up to train. They’ll turn up, they’ll do the requisite amount of work, but that’s it. Athletes who turn up to compete, they put a bit more effort in, they try, they try to be the best amongst their group. Then there’s the athletes who train to win. They train every day, every session, so they win on match night. And then I remember saying to Adam’s group, there are just those very few players who train to dominate.

They train so hard that winning is inevitable on race night. And Adam said, that clicked with me, I decided I was going to train to dominate. So he said, when I go into the Olympic final, I know, I know I’m going to win. I know I’ve done more than anybody else.

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This is a mental game. This is not only about your skills. You have to be 100% with your mental and skills. When everything comes together and you’re not old, when you’re 32 years old, your skills are good, your mental is good, everything comes together, then you can shine.

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The skills that you develop along the way, like Steve Jobs learning calligraphy that then became Apple fonts that transformed how we type, those early days, that little trench winning in the weeds oftentimes gives you these huge advantages later on because you have more context than anyone else. And so, rather than lament them and hate the fact that you’re going through it, remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver that you’re going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons. And so expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is.

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Tragedy, what else can I call it? What more need be said? The damage, the destruction, you saw it with your own eyes. When will people wake up and realize that everywhere Spider-Man goes, chaos and calamity ensue. Everything Spider-Man touches comes to ruin, and we, the innocents, are left to pick up the pieces.

And God help us all.

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I think a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard. Because in the early days, hard was, ooh, stop. This isn’t good. This is a warning sign. This is a red flag. I should slow down or I should pivot. But the more I think about it as a competitive landscape, as I’m clear on what this path is supposed to look like, and these rocks and these dragons are things that I’m going to have to slay along the way to get the princess or get the treasure, I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow.

It’s a selection effect.

I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this, then it flips from being this thing that you’re like, oh, poor me, to oh, poor everyone else who’s going to have to fucking try. I think that is so much more motivating as a frame for the exact same circumstance.

You’re going to lose sleep. You’ll doubt whether it’ll work. You’ll stress to make ends meet. You won’t finish your to do list. You’ll wonder whether you made the right call and have no way to know for years. This is what hard feels like. And that’s OK. Everything worth doing is hard. And the more worth doing it is, the harder it is, the greater the payoff, the greater the hardship. If it’s hard, good. It means no one else will do it. More for you.

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He was tired, he have personal problem, family… Nobody cares. You don’t know, like, you just see how he fight and he go. And for this one you have to train so hard. If you don’t want, khalas, go back to Dagestan. Nobody gonna ask about yourself. Without you or with you, there is always gonna be champions. With your name, this is your choice. You wanna put your name there? Ok, work hard. Bye-bye. It’s like very simple, nothing special.

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Losing is never fun, but it’s part of the game. You know what I mean? If you want to be in the game, and it’s sports, it’s business or whatever, there’s going to be wins and there’s going to be losses. And you have to take them both in stride and you have to be able to, you know, there’s a lot of people, when you gamble, right? And you lose and you go into a deep, dark depression. I’ve seen this with guys that do it, get depressed, gambling isn’t for you. If you are the type of person that’s on social media and people say horrible things to you and you get depressed and dada,

you shouldn’t be on social media. You know what I mean? These are all part of being in the game. When you’re in the fucking game, great things happen and really bad things happen. And you got to take it all in stride and you got to pick yourself up the next day, strap your fucking shoes back on and get out there and go to fucking war again.

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There’s no losing, only learning. There’s no failure, only opportunities. And there’s no problems, only solutions. So to me what failure is, failure is the mother of all success. If it wasn’t for Michael Jordan getting cut from his ninth grade basketball team, he wouldn’t have became Michael Jordan. You know, if it wasn’t for, I seen an article the other day where they were talking about Oprah Winfrey and how she got fired because she wasn’t good for television. You know, you got people like Walt Disney who got fired, if I’m not mistaken, from a newspaper saying he had no imagination.

You know that all they can do is learn and come back bigger, better, stronger. Because all it’s going to do is lead you in the right direction. See, if you’re always winning, then you don’t really understand what it is to win. You’ve got to take those losses. You’ve got to take those hits. There’s got to be the valleys, the peaks, the ups, the downs. In order for you to, when it does happen, you go, wow, que rico. You know, this is what it’s all about. And not only that, it’s never about making it, guys. It’s always about maintaining it.

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And what do you have to lose? You know the outcome if you continue the same shit. Why not just commit one time in your life to something? See what happens. There are no losers. In the world of passion and commitment to something. No one loses there. The losers are the people that sit the starting line and never initiate. It’s the belief that supremacy exists. There’s so many examples in the Olympics and every day we see the common man with the odds against him overcoming what people thought could never happen. And probably he didn’t even think it.

But there he stands victorious and a role model to all of us. We’re like oh my god we want to be him. But before he was him, he was us. What got him there was an undying belief. And every drop of sweat that came out and every pain and ache and everything else was just a telltale sign that he’s getting closer and closer to that dream that we were when we were kids of being a reality.

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You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief.

Free your mind.

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Saying good, that should fix your attitude, But that alone That will, that alone will not fix your problems.

If you’re having problems, sure Say good That’s perfect. But then Don’t ask yourself. Why me?

Instead ask yourself now, what am I going to do about it? What are you going to do about? ask yourself that question and then Figure it out Figure out what you’re going to do say to yourself. I am going to detach. I am going to assess the situation, I am going to come up with a plan and I am going to execute and

then start moving.

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She said, if you dare to do something that you’ve never done before, if you dare to go to limits that you’ve never went to before, she said, they will remember your legacy forever. He said, I got it. I’m going to go conquer. And he showed up to the battle. They’re getting ready. And so right before they were about to go out and go get the taz, cats came to him once again. And one guy said, why haven’t anybody beat you yet? You’re not the biggest. You’re not the fastest. You’re not the strongest. When people look at you, you’re just not this imposing dude.

Why haven’t anybody knocked you off yet? Why haven’t anybody been able to just put you in the ground yet? Why can’t anybody beat you, man? And he looked at him. Catch it. He said, I want what all other men want. He said, I guarantee you, when I line up and they line up, I want what all other men want. I guarantee you, when you line up in your one-on-one battles, you want what all other men want. The same way you want the victory, they want the victory. I want what all other men want.

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In this world, man, image is everything. If you got abs, it means you’re in shape. But, you know, you gotta go after it and make that happen. That opportunity doesn’t just present itself. Opportunities don’t come knocking on the door. They present themselves when you knock the f***ing door down. So today, we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna start planting the seeds of the harvest that we’re gonna bear fruits of later. It doesn’t just happen one day. You don’t just wake up with abs every day. But it comes every single day, man. It’s called perseverance.

Every day, showing up, hitting your f***ing dues. It’s not gonna happen one day. We just wake up and have them, man. You gotta earn that s***. You gotta take what’s yours. You can’t expect someone to give it to you. Progression, man, is the key to happiness. Always in a progressive state of progress. You stop progressing and start moving towards progress, then all of a sudden, you lose purpose in life. When you’re always moving forward and having a belief in something, then all of a sudden, what you’re doing actually has purpose. And that makes it very valuable.

Perseverance will always override potential. Always override genetics. And perseverance isn’t this marathon of life. It’s not this long race that we have to pursue. It’s a lot of short races, back to back to back.

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Always be real with yourself and the world, because the world don’t need no more copies. It need originals, and trust me, ain’t nobody else that can do what you do like you do.

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Start fucking documenting yourself yourself in this process, because if you do that, you’ll be able to literally have Documented proof of you changing your life, Which later down the line will fucking help you tremendously, and you will be able to do the exact same as what I’m doing right Now and help somebody else tremendously. It literally just comes down to why are you doing this? How bad do you want it? What factors are driving you into making this change as cringy as it sounds bro. How bad do you want it?

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It’s. it’s not gonna be a perfect plan, but take action, action that moves you in a positive direction,

And if it ends up being the wrong direction, that’s fine. At least you’ve learned where not to go.

now Where this gets tough is? if it is something that seems like it’s completely out of your control, and And you know what. some things are completely out of your control, and that’s fine.

And when that happens you ask yourself, what can I control?

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You have to let it all go, Neer.

Fear, doubt, and disbelief.

Free your mind.

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You can be upset in the moments after the game. If we win, it’s always better. But if you win, if I score, I will be a little bit more happy. I have to be honest. I’m not going to be like that. It’s not true. No. Or if you lost in the game, you have to show during this period or during that you are pissed. It’s part of… But next day, I’m very capable and I learn that, listen, Cristiano, let’s go. Life continue. Past is past. It never come again. The present, it’s the best gift that we have in our life. The present. Because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. You don’t know.

I don’t know. He don’t know. So live the present.

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So many people think all day long on what they’re scared of. You know, before a wrestling match, you know, back in the day, I remember a lot of my opponents be like, oh man, what happens if I lose? What happens if I get caught? What happens if they take me down? What the f*** we talking about? All that attention, all that energy going into the possibility of failure. Why can’t the individual, the human, erase that mentality? And put all that attention is? you know how great’s gonna feel when I pin that motherf***er, When I take him down, When I beat him down and form his own crowd?

When I win something, when I go after something, when I put the work in and achieve it, why don’t we think that way? We’re always thinking about losing something, something being taken from us, trying to maintain what we have. Like, like, you know, we can’t lose this s***. It’s so valuable.

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the sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whisper when nobody was watching. It’s all about those moments when you could have folded but you didn’t. You see, the underdog story is the realest story there is because when you come from nothing, you appreciate everything. You hustle different, you love different, and you lead different. So today, I want you to do three things. Stay humble, never forget where you came from. Stay hungry, keep that fire in your soul. And stay true, always be real with yourself and the world because the world don’t need no more copies.

It need originals, and trust me, ain’t nobody else that can do what you do like you do.

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The winners that I know always feel like they should have done more at the end of the day, even though they worked harder than everyone else around them.

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Don’t believe the hype. Don’t feed into it. If you work hard, you can have it. It ain’t nothing you can’t have. You deserve it. It ain’t nothing you can’t have if you’re willing to work for it. It ain’t nothing you can’t have if you’re willing to persevere. If you’re willing to stick in there, if you’re willing to stay, if you’re willing to fight, it ain’t nothing you can’t have. Are you hearing what your boy is telling you? So, that’s why I make sure we get that. I want to make sure we get that in there before, before, that’s right, before we get started. That it’s yours. It’s yours.

I’m coming. I’m telling you, it’s yours. You can have it. It’s yours. You can do it. It’s yours. You can be it. It’s yours. If ET can do it, listen to me. Anybody can do it. High school dropout, homeless, lived in abandoned buildings, 12 years to get a four-year degree. If you want it, if you want it as bad as you want to breathe, if you really, really want it like you say you want it, you can have it.

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And when he said that, when he actually played out what my like revenge fantasy was in real life, I realized it looked stupid. Patsy. Yeah. I looked like the beta in the situation, right? And so he was like, the only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you and then you’ll forget they exist. And that’s when he said, he said, success is the only revenge. He’s like, it’s not the best revenge. He’s like, it’s the only one. There’s no other revenge because everything else is petty.

Everything else does show that you were thinking about these people all day long, which means they win by default. He’s like, all you can do is think about your goal and winning. He’s like, and when you win, that’s when you become so big that they shrink into a relevance. You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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Now am I gonna say you’re gonna become a millionaire in the next three months, bro. Probably not you’ll probably even lose money You’ll probably fail more in these three months than you have in your entire life because now you’re actually going and trying these things And in you doing that you’re gonna fucking fail You’re gonna fall and in that process of you falling and getting back up. That’s where you’re gonna learn, That’s where you’re gonna build the character and that’s what will eventually lead to you becoming the type of person in order to make everything succeed Okay,

I’m not here to sell you a fucking dream I’m here to tell you if you just fucking locked in For the next three months, bro. You could change your life, and I know it because it changed my life. I know it because I’ve been through it.

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There’s no failure in sports. You know, there’s good days, bad days. Some days, some days you are able to be successful. Some days you’re not. Some days it’s your turn. Some days it’s not your turn. And that’s what sport is about. You don’t always win. Some other people are going to win. And this year, somebody else is going to win. Simple as that. We’re going to come back next year, try to be better, try to build good habits, try to play better, not have a 10-day stretch with playing bad basketball. You know, and hopefully we can win a championship.

So 50 years from 1971 to 2021 that we didn’t win a championship, it was 50 years of failures? No, it was not. It was steps to it, you know, and we were able to win one. Hopefully we can win another one.

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And if you look it up and you really think and you’re honest to yourself, progress is the key to happiness. It really is. It’s that, I’m not saying that you achieve the goal, you know, I’m not saying you put that much weight in actually becoming that title, that person or else, but the progress, always being in a situation of moving forward into some endeavor or some goal, you know, and then when you achieve it, going to the next one, stay in motion. That leads to happiness. It gives purpose to life. And there in the gym, when we’re working out, yeah, it’s getting harder and harder and harder.

Maybe we can’t go as frequently, you know, with our speed and stuff, we slow it down, we slow it down, but we never stop. We stay in motion. We keep that progress going in the gym for the entire duration. We can rest later, but we came there for a mission. We achieved that mission, guys. Don’t get so overloaded with the temporary pain of the situation. Think past the pain to the pride that that pain creates.

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The winners that I know always feel they’re behind that they should have done more than then. they did that day That they could have achieved more, they could have made more, they could have added more value. right, and and that’s. That is a mindset that you can develop. that is not some kind of innate trait that I have or other people have that you Don’t have. you can develop that by setting higher standards for yourself.

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No matter how big your dreams, you’re gonna die. Everyone will move on. Do what you want. It sucks to not be liked, but it sucks more to not be yourself.

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If you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen, and losers define themselves by what happened to them. And the difficult part of the lonely chapter is that the rocky cutscene lasts 90 seconds in the movie and lasts five years in reality. With no promise of it ever ending. No guarantee of glory. What’s interesting about, and again I don’t like using the word psychology, but I’ll say what’s interesting about humans is that our ability to endure is very robust if we know that we’ll make it out.

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I say chase your dreams, man. Do that thing, man, that keeps you up at night. That thing that bothers you, man, that makes you trip. You can’t quit thinking about it. You always, that thing, man, that you wake up in the middle of the night, you got a new idea. That’s what you got to chase. Because anything else, it’s gonna disappoint you. You’re gonna forever be sad, man. If you don’t chase that dream, you’re gonna forever be miserable, man. Bishop Jakes was talking one day on a podcast. I heard him talking. He said, I would hate to die, never do the thing I was born to do.

That’s a sad thing, man. That people like, they never chase, because you got jobs and stuff, and you listening to other people. I would, man, if I hadn’t chased my dream, I wouldn’t be here.

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When I was going through training, we had to carry these heavy-ass boats on our heads. We had six people carrying these boats. The heaviest part of the boat was in the front, so those weaker people would always look for the very back of the boat. The back of the boat is where the boat would barely be touching your head. We had a name for it. We called it ducking boat. A lot of people put their head down, crouch under it, so that boat wouldn’t be breaking your f***ing neck. A lot of people in life out here are riding the back of the boat. They’re ducking that f***ing weight.

They’re part of a team, but you’re the weakest person in that team, and everybody knows you’re ducking the boat. You don’t want that boat to touch your head. You don’t want it to hurt your neck, but you will be part of the team, but you don’t do any f***ing work. In life, it’s important to not always draft. Sometimes you got to lead and block the f***ing wind. Stay hard.

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Four and a half years ago. I literally started a 90-day blitz. I Stuck to five rules every single day for 90 days. I literally did do nothing else except for work, Study and fucking go to the gym, eat clean like all- like the whole fucking nine yards bro. And it changed my life in those 90 days. did I become rich? no, but I changed everything in here, Literally everything from a to fucking Z, and that’s what led to me changing my life. Now I can give you recommendations on things to start: Start fucking documenting yourself yourself in this process, because if you do that,

you’ll be able to literally have documented proof of you changing your life, Which later down the line will fucking help you tremendously and you will be able to do the exact same as what I’m doing right now And help somebody else tremendously. You.

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So never give up. Without commitment, you’ll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish. Keep working, keep striving, never give up, fall down seven times, get up eight.

Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.

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It’s somebody else just like you trying to do it and sometimes they’re working just as hard as you’re working They’re putting in just as much sweat just as much tears just as much blood But you just got to do it what you got to do it faster than they do it You got to do it quicker than they do are you listen what I’m saying?

That’s why I wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning because if you’re getting up at 6 you might be smarter than me you Hear me you might you might have more privilege than me You might you might have more resources than me you might but I’m gonna get up earlier than you and I’m gonna do it quicker Than you do it. I’m gonna do it faster than you do it. So by the time you get up with all your resources by the time you get up with all your privilege by the time you get Up with all your stuff. I’ve already finished the race. Are you hearing me? It’s not just about finishing.

Sometimes, it’s about finishing fast. So I need you to understand if you’re gonna be successful. There’s a sense of urgency and you don’t have as much time as you think you have. and if you watch these boys do it, every play, Every play is the drill every play is the two-minute drill. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? This is the drill.

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John Leslie said, no, you can’t go now, dad. I said, why? He said, it’s not over until I win. That was his attitude. We sat down and we played several other games. And finally, after the 11th game, John Leslie won and he got up and he yawned and he said, I’m ready to go to sleep now. And I’m saying to you, what if all of us took that attitude after we face a rejection and a no, or we have a meeting and no one shows up or somebody say you can count on me and they don’t come through? What if we have that kind of attitude, the cards repossessed? Nobody believes in you.

You’ve lost again and again and again. The lights are cut off, but you’re still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and say to yourself, it’s not over until I win.

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So if I were to say, hey, I need you to hold your breath, but I don’t tell you how long, 20 seconds in, you might be thinking, this is stupid. Is he going to stop? Is he going to wait for me to pass out? And all these stupid thoughts go into your mind. But if I say, I need you to hold your breath for three minutes, your lungs might burn, but you can see that there’s this end that’s coming. The difficulty with personal development and entrepreneurship is that you don’t know when the end is coming, but you still need to fight like the second mouse who gets out,

gets right off and gets put back in. And the only certainty that I can give you is that it’s the same thing that every other mouse, every other person who got through that period went through and you won’t die. And if you do die, you won’t care. Because you’ll be dead.

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I looked in this one guy’s eyes, who was ringing the bell to quit, to put his helmet down out of Navy SEAL training, and I saw myself. And I saw what everybody said I was gonna be, which was nothing. What I said I was gonna be, that conversation you have, that’s who I was. So that’s why I lied to people to tell them a different version of the truth. Sure. I had to make all those lies reality. I had to make them real. I had to become a real person. So that’s when I put in my mind that I’m gonna go to the toughest military training on the planet.

And where it has the most water, the thing I was scared of the most, I had to go back. So a lot of us run away from our fears. Sure. And we box ourself in to a lifestyle of this is all we can do. Cause I’m afraid of everything outside this box. So I’m comfortable inside this box. I jumped the box. Oh you did, yeah. For the first time in my life. Mentally I jumped the box and said, hey, I gotta come out here and play.

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If you just sacrificed this summer, these next three months of your life, bro, you could change the entire trajectory of your entire life. If you literally just took your fucking attention, that’s here, here, here, here, here, have fun, this and that, this entire summer, and focused it into one thing for the next 12 weeks, three months, bro, while everybody else is fucking around and having fun and fucking the bitches and drinking and going to the parties, enjoying life, but they’re still broke. If you just locked in and fucking worked on yourself, worked on your business,

worked on getting in the gym, improving, your whole life could change.

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We’re the sound every moment, guys, the choices we make. our character is defined by the choices we make on a moment-to-moment basis. It all adds up to the win. And don’t give me that shit doesn’t matter if you win or lose, how you play the game, all that bullshit. If that was so true, then why are there scoreboards? Why do people give us and keep score of anything? That man, Always you will win, always you’ll win. sometimes you win immediately, But always definitely. you know what means. you might not win it today, But your efforts done today, even the failure felt today,

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You got the diploma, it signifies that you have the ability to complete a task very well. And if you want to be a doctor or lawyer, you got to get a degree. Come on now. But what if you made that decision when you was 18, you want to be something else? You want to go be a writer, go be a writer. I mean, I could tell you. It’s a sad way to make a living, that’s something you don’t enjoy doing. You’re going to do that until you’re 65, then you’re going to retire. Then they’re going to give you a third of what you can’t live on anyway. That’s the plan. And give you a gold watch, a turkey,

and one third of what you’re having a hard time living on now. Nah, I would go chase that dream, see what God got for me.

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If you win enough days, you win the week. If you win enough weeks, you win the month. If you win enough months, you win the year. If you win enough years, guess what you win? You win your life, all right? And that is a very simple, very honest, very true fail-safe system to getting where you wanna go. It’s the only system that I’ve ever seen that I believe if you execute, is completely foolproof. I believe that if you execute the powerless properly, you cannot fucking not get where you wanna go. You can’t miss. I think it’s a systematic way to guarantee success.

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Yes, it’s possible that you can choose your future and direct the course of your life as you run toward your dream. It’s necessary that you have goals, that you write those goals down, that you plan, that you think constantly of how you can begin to improve what it is that you’re doing. If it’s your presentations, if it’s your recruiting skills, whatever that is, it’s also necessary that you look for ways to always find a way to pull it out when everybody else thinks that you are defeated. That you’ve got to take personal responsibility to know that in order to become successful,

you’ve got to make it your personal business to do it.

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Exhausted man, but good set. good set meaning, like Once in my current failures my current sick points and then help myself to push past them a little bit That’s the growth man. That’s what puts a smile on your face. where you’ve been, you know where you haven’t been exciting. That’s why the smile comes, man, Every set if you do it that way Like I say I don’t say goodbye to a pain says hello All that saying that you left it all you had in a moment. All that can grow from that is prosperity Regret doesn’t grow from there because you left it all there.

You’re the best you could have been in that moment. That’s all you ever can be in every moment of life. But very few, if any, ever do that moment by moment. the carpet demon live it all. for the most, You guys can control that. those moments you can take it easy. You can pick and choose what moments you want to do if you’re watching the movie or sit on the couch Whatever else you can chill that moments don’t can chill on the moments that actually create your legacy. Give it all there.

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Bro, how bad do you want it? Like all of this yes motivational bullsh**, this video in itself, it always comes back to what’s driving you. How much pain can you take anymore, bro? Like I couldn’t take anymore of the f**king pain. It literally, it f**king ached so bad. Going to this bullsh** job everyday, seeing my parents work their ass off, cleaning after people. Like there’s so much more to why people end up as successful as they do than you currently understand. But I promise you, bro, you have so much f**king potential. If you literally just took it and put it in one place,

you could literally change your life. In that process, you’ll figure out where you want to go, what you want to do, because you probably have no idea what you want to do right now. If you do, f**king great.

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We’re not on this stage just because of talent or ability. We’re up here because of 4 a.m. We’re up here because of two a days or five a days. We’re up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way. If anything tried to bring us down, we used it to make us stronger. We were never satisfied, never finished, we’ll never be retired. Rest at the end, not in the middle. And I took that to heart. I believe there’s time for resting at the end, but for me, that time is not now. Thank you for this tremendous honor and acknowledging my basketball career, but I’m far from done.

My next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never, ever rest in the middle.

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And so you got to pick up the pace. You got to tell my son, pick up the pace. You walking too slow, pick up the pace. You moving too slow, pick up the pace. If you want to finish, sometimes you can’t just finish. You got to finish fast. So number one, principle number one, there’s a sense of urgency. You don’t have as much time as you think you do. There’s a sense of urgency and you got to operate like there’s a sense of urgency. Number two, I love it. They play hard, physical. Listen to me very closely. This ain’t for the weak and the uncommitted. Are you hearing me?

Success is not for the weak and the uncommitted. This is physical. Sometimes it’s going to hurt. Sometimes it’s going to be painful. Sometimes, listen to me, sometimes you’re not going to be able to walk. Are you hearing me? Sometimes when I’m running on that treadmill, I don’t feel as good as I normally feel. My leg hurts. Sometimes, sometimes I’m sick, but this is a physical sport. And if you want it, you got to go get it. You got to play hard for it. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? It’s not for the weak and the uncommitted. It’s for the weak and the uncommitted.

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The handle being the long part is what it takes and how much work you have to do. And that is very long. And once you get to where you start to see results, the results go up very, very quick. And that is the same way that your success is going to work. It’s the same way your life is going to work. And you just have to understand, this is the way it is. And you’re going to have to bear through it and eventually you’ll acclimate to it. And all these things to feel like you’re not in balance or you’re not doing it right. We’ll go away and it’ll just feel normal.

And you’ll actually discover that you’re really not even pushing that hard. And then if you’re ambitious enough, you’ll even push harder than that. So that’s what you’re dealing with, dude. I don’t think it’s abnormal at all. I think it’s totally normal. And you guys just have to keep in mind when you’re pushing to be better, when you’re progressing to be better, it is always going to feel like a struggle. It’s always going to feel like you are not winning when in fact you actually are.

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Nothing’s perishable. It’s all legacy being built. The question for you guys is, you know, it’s so easy for me when I cut my hand in the very beginning of this. I said, dude, it hurts, man. I can’t go on. So easy to make the excuse, and you know what? I can live with that. That’s a viable excuse, right? But is it the truth? Can you go on? What else do you want? Is this stronger than your dreams? And do you put as much time and attention into your dreams as you do your fears? That make sense to you guys?

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When you look in the mirror, every morning we all look in the mirror to get ready to go to work, to go anywhere. The first thing you see is your reflection. If you don’t like what you see in the morning, you lost the war already. It’s not about even liking what you see, it’s about looking in the mirror and you may start, man, I feel different. That reflection may be not, that reflection is not everything, it’s a feeling you’re supposed to get. So you have to, in life, once you leave your house, the war begins. In your house, you have some control.

And that reflection in the mirror, you have to control that reflection in the mirror. That’s how you start your day. Leave your house feeling like, okay, I can fight. I’ve established the mentality to fight. And all that comes from working out. It’s not just from, you know, you can’t find that in the office.

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It’s how you handle your sufferings. You know, when you’re going through something really challenging, how do you show up within it? Do you choose to become a victim of complaining and misery and sh**ty, or do you find meaning in how you show up in the suffering, you know?

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That passion is all over there. Why? Because winners win. And I can’t explain it to you, but you better stop making excuses and find a way to win. Because once you start winning, you go from 1,500 to 3,000 to 5,000 to 7,000. You remember, see? From seven to 10. Nothing changed. We still in the basement. We don’t have a building. We still use the garage for all of our products. We don’t have business cards. We don’t have a five-year plan. We don’t have a three-year plan. How do you do it then? Even we wake up and grind. Winners win. I focus more on winning than I focus on structure.

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There are two type of champions for me.

Like there are champions who prepare themselves to win and there are the other ones who prepare themselves to dominate.

I prepare myself not to win because I know that I’m gonna win.

I wanna win in fashion. I wanna dominate,

I wanna maul people.

I want people to be entertained. I want people to be like,

well I’m happy that I spend the money this Saturday night going watch this guy.

This is what I want.

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the people who are obsessed with the ones who changed the world, at least change their world. And I think that, so a very close friend of mine did all the Olympic teams, nutrition and supplementation stuff for a country overseas. And he said, you know the difference between champions and everyone else? And I was like, what? And he said, everyone always looks at them and says, what do champions have that I don’t have? And he said, they have it backwards. He said, it’s what do champions not have that I have? It’s what do they lack? And it’s an off button. They just don’t stop.

And so in dealing with the gold medalist, he’s like, they just never stop. They just can’t stop. Everything in their life is geared towards one goal. And so finding that thing, and they approach everything in their life that way. And I think that that level of obsession around like everything that you touch on a daily basis is required for really getting to where you want to go.

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Why are we always thinking about the fears, the worst case scenario? All we do is put all that energy in there. Why don’t we put the energy into the dreams that can be? The reason why you’re doing that, if you are, put all that time and effort into fears instead of your dreams, it’s because you’re not doing this enough. You’re not in here killing yourself enough. You’re not working hard enough. You’re not studying hard enough. You’re not burning the midnight oil every night, which prevents you from staying awake in the midnight hours later in life, wondering what it could have been.

You erase that shit through all this fucking payment, guys. It’s free. You don’t need to shoot up for it. You don’t need to snort. You need to sweat for it. And then when you leave here, it’s an abdominal will that’s just been nurtured. You don’t think about second place. You think about first, and then the legacy, and building the gap between you and every other fucking person.

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So as long as you can change your fucking mentality, bro, you can achieve anything It’s more than obvious that we live now in the digital realm You’re scrolling. You’ve been scrolling. You’re literally watching videos right now That’s how you clicked on this one. If there’s anything I can recommend for you to do in the next three months is Start to document, as I said earlier, start posting, bro. Some of you got it’s crazy because some of you already have the social proof as far as like you’re already jacked or you’re already An expert in a certain field.

It’s just you’ve been so busy- and all of this fucking bullshit instead of locking in That you haven’t even explored the possibilities. like it’s more than possible. Some of you have done the work required in the last couple of years. it’s just you haven’t been able to literally convert that into something like: Take all of that energy, all of that potential and put it into something.

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Defense is shifting. Did he call an audible? In my mind a lot of times man. I’m like it doesn’t mean I quit Yeah, I don’t quit. You know, I may not make it the first time But I’ll come back. I got calling audible. I got a fucking I got it I got a fucking get my head back in the game. I got a, I got figure this shit out. It doesn’t mean you leave. it means you study it more. It means you study it more in. and whenever I feel that something people, I say: man, How do you handle failure man? I feel a lot dude. I feel all the fucking time. They go. How do you handle it?

What I’m trying to do and this isn’t being arrogant man. I it’s being real- not many people are trying to do so. there’s not many people that who can even open their fucking mouth and Criticize me when I do fail.

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He said, I want what all other men want.

He said, I guarantee you when I line up and they line up,

I want what all other men want.

I guarantee you when you line up in your one-on-one battles,

you want what all other men want.

The same way you want the victory,

they want the victory.

I want what all other men want.

He said, but when the pressure hits, when the opposition hits,

when the challenge hits, when the pain creeps in,

when the uncertainty creeps in, When the cuts,

when the scars, when the bruises come,

I want what all other men want.

He said, but when the opposition and adversity shows up,

I just want it a little bit more than they want it.

And so that’s how I conquer and that’s how nobody has ever beaten me yet.

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You walk out of this room, you owe yourself. I didn’t get here making excuses. So what my father wasn’t in my life. The truth of the matter is, he ain’t never coming in my life. So what, I’m going to wait for the rest of my life for my man to come? He ain’t coming. I live in America. I’m an African-American male. They don’t treat us the same. It’s something called racism. I ain’t going to cry about it. It’s probably going to be racism to the day I die. But I’m not going to cry about it. I’m still going to be a millionaire.

I’m still going to be one of the top motivational speakers in the world. No, I didn’t grow up on that side of the town. No, my mama don’t have no network. No, I don’t know a whole lot of people. No, I’m not at a country club. No, I don’t play golf. And I don’t plan on playing no time soon. But I’m still going to be successful. I’m still going to get you where they are. Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can’t nobody stop me but me. And you need to get rid of them excuses. And you need to stop pointing fingers at people. And you need to start pointing fingers at yourself. What did you not do?

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If you work for it, if you’re willing to put in that sweat, that blood, and those tears, baby, I’m telling you, you can have what you want, be what you want, do what you want, are you hearing me? So before I get started, I just want you to look around, I just want you to see it, baby, that it is a myth. Listen to me, because some of you like, E.T., I’m putting in work, I don’t see it. Keep going till you see it. Don’t quit, don’t give up, listen to me, don’t give up, don’t give in, you hang in there, you hang in there, because if you quit right now, you ain’t gonna never see it,

you ain’t gonna never get it, but if you hold on, baby, but if you hold on, if you hold on, everything you dreamed of, everything you envisioned, everything you worked for, it’s coming, but you can’t quit or give up before you get it.

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You know, the pain in their felt equates literally to the peace and joy tomorrow. I know that sounds like, oh, you know, bro science and everything else, man. I don’t even know what that f***ing word means, bro science. I just hear it on these f***ing, you know, you know, blogs and stuff or these forums and people write with these f***ing keyboard rangers that have no other lights so they sit there and f***ing type away because they feel like they got some f***ing sitting nuts behind a keyboard.

But in person or in life they f***ing these little hermit crabs going around and just hiding out and everything else because they don’t have the intestinal force to do anything but talk the talk behind a f***ing computer. They can’t walk s***, man. That’s why they, that’s why they had the f***ing time to even comment on someone else’s achievements out there. F * * * those motherf***ers, man. Don’t be those guys. Come in here, man. You go in there and you f***ing kill it. And when you kill it in there, man, you come out here, you, I don’t give a s*** what goes down.

Part of your day is f***ing a check, man. You did it right. F***.

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You could either do the work today to become your highest version tomorrow, or Tomorrow you can feel a lifelong of regret. That’s a given. the people who know that they were meant for more and didn’t go for more end up with a lifelong State of regret. and the reason for that is is because They didn’t want to hurt the people around them didn’t want to hurt family members They didn’t want to feel like they’re missing out on birthdays and weddings and funerals but instead they gave in to the life of average just so they can blend in and not stand out and Years later.

They regret not doing the things that they could have done to become a winner.

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I’m trying to do shit man that many people aren’t trying to do but I don’t look at failures failure I look at failure as your first second third fourth fifth attempt. I look at them as attempts I’m looking anything as failure because when you’re willing to try to do some not trying is failure That’s that’s and that’s not some after-school special shit. But when you’re able to go out there, there’s no failure, It’s attempts. because when you’re trying to do something that’s bigger than you,

Whatever you are whoever you are if if if you’re paralyzed you try to walk one step and you didn’t you didn’t fail mother Fuck. How’s your first attempt if that’s your biggest thing? That’s how your mindset needs to go into everything. So I don’t look at it as failure is a big word like that gets people down and we give so much power to words.

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So therefore all you do is think about well I hope I don’t lose this third place trophy I have. You understand I’m saying guys? The more and more you do this shit, the more and more it becomes almost impossible to accept second place outside of here.

Impossible again, guys. I said earlier, it’s spelled impossible. perception on how we see things guys. We create it or we destroy it right here. We either give birth to our fear or blaze the path of our dreams. You’re either living your dreams or living your fears one or the other and which one are you giving the most time to? This workout travels with you to ensure your dreams never spoil always stay true. You come back from the gym after doing a bodyweight beatdown you won’t lose an inch. You lost a step, you gained an inch. In life it’s a game of inches.

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You are going to pick the wrong ones sometimes and sometimes you’re going to pick the wrong ones You’re going to work on something you’re going to work on something you’re work on something and then you’re going to figure out. Oh, This isn’t going to work this way. and then you got to change and pivot. But since you know you’ve been moving fault, moving the needle forward in multiple directions, That one setback isn’t going to bury you. you see what i’m saying. So a lot of this is learning through experience too, Which the the power list allows you to do,

because that’s just making a pivot along the way.

Well the discipline part of that too because you still did what you told yourself you were going to do And it’s going to build confidence.

Yeah, that’s the thing You don’t want to have a bunch of losses in your power list because bro that makes you believe that you can’t get it done Right when you have a bunch of win when you have fucking 400 wins in a row. Do you really? How could you not believe that you can get your shit done? Like you start to believe well, I can do anything I can make anything work. I can make this work Don’t make deal look how much how much i’ve moved forward in the last, you know 400 days, you know what i’m saying?

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A buddy of mine calls me the other day and says, he’s having trouble running past eight miles. This is a guy who can run 30 miles any time of the day. So I tell him to come out to my house and we’ll get some runs in. So he comes out, he goes, Matt, I’m telling you, I can’t run past eight miles. But I realized in his life, he’s had a new kid, more responsibilities at work, all this stuff. He’s not thinking about this, I am. So I take him out for a run. We get 30 minutes into it. How far are we going, Goggins? I ain’t tell him. Get an hour into it, I ain’t tell him.

Hour and a half into it, didn’t tell him. So as soon as he shuts up, we run three hours. The guy does fine. Next day we go out there, he’s able to run 20 miles again. So this is what happened to him. His circuit breaker blew. Our minds are very similar to circuit breakers. When they blow, you gotta figure out what it is. Sometimes you just add it too much to your fucking plate. Go back in your mind and figure it out. Stay hard.

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It’s possible for you to live your dream. It’s necessary that you associate with winners, that you work your system, that you are relentless, that you never give up. It’s you, you’ve got to take personal responsibility. You’ve got to make it your personal business to make it happen. And you’ve got to resolve within yourself that I can do this, that it’s hard. But you’ve got to say, I’m the one. I’m the one to make this happen. I’m the one to become successful in this business. As you work to help other people to become successful, that feeds your success.

But you know it’s going to be hard, but find out what will make it worth it for you.

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people get into a cycle where they can’t get out of that. You know, they end up neglecting themselves and neglecting their career or their fitness or their health or their mind. Or their sanity or their own dreams. Because they are worried about like, maintaining the balance. Bro, balance is a fake thing, it’s not real. And by the way, the last time I checked, there’s no fucking award for balance. No one comes and writes you a check for how balanced you are. No one comes and builds you a house for how balanced you are. No one comes and gives you a nice life for how balanced you are.

That’s not what the fucking game is. The game is, are you effective? Are you skilled? Do you produce results? That’s the game. So we could talk about balance and it sounds nice, but the reality is to actually win in real life, balance has to be a second or third thought on the plate behind being effective and producing results and building ourselves into the best possible us.

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Meaning you could go your whole life Thinking something, but because you never actually knew about this, You could be doing something wrong your whole life and you just don’t know what you don’t know. You could have been dabbling into these businesses and these businesses because all your favorite influencers are telling you to do so. But let me tell you something that everybody has in common: that you’re taking advice and you’re seeing online is They’re building personal brands.

The only way you’re seeing them and they’re popping up and they have all these Fucking followers in this huge audience in this huge community is because they’ve documented on social media literally what I’m telling you to do and It’s for a reason. Do you think all of these people would be doing it for fun for charity work? No, it’s because it makes them so much money. So you have to start doing the same thing and literally just start giving people your point of view, your perspective, your beliefs. That’s how you’re gonna build a personal brand.

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Maybe I’m in the wrong line of work.

Maybe I should take on something less challenging.

You do what you are, Jessie.

You mean you are what you do.

No, I mean you do what you are.

You’re born with a gift.

If not that, then you get good at something along the way.

And what you’re good at, you don’t take for granted.

You don’t betray it.

What if you do betray your gift?

Then you betray yourself.

It’s a sad thing.

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We did not come this far to just break down and lose now.

Everything’s not always about winning and losing.

I’m a winner.

I’m going to win.

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Guys, I know it sucks. I know you’re like, what’s the point?

Sometimes in life, the answer isn’t always revealed. Forefront. You learn the reason behind it later in life. And later in life, you get hit with adversity where so much is riding on you. Not just you, your family, everything’s riding on us. And you overcome it without even losing your wind. It’s easy for you because you paid the price and hit failure over and over again in here. So when it mattered out there, guys, victory.

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here he comes, he catches back up. Me and my brother were up there and he went from 22, he got in this different groove. And then I actually, my calf on this race kind of locked up and it’s like going up this last grade where you do one more summit and I couldn’t run it. And I’m like he took off. I was just kind of power hiking it and I get up there and had a cameraman up there and David was like, he was in his Goggins mode by that time. This was towards the end of the race, we had like two miles left, it’s like 33 miles in.

And he, I asked the cameraman up there, I’m like, hey, I said, how did Goggins look? And he’s like, well, he had his shirt off and it was cold rain, he’s had his shirt off and he was saying, they don’t know me. I’m like, who is he? He’s like, they don’t know me son and doing, saying all this stuff. I said, who is he saying that to? And he’s like, there’s nobody up here.

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I just want one thing from you. As great as you are, as skilled as you are, as talented as you are, I just want one thing from you. Never allow life to make you forget why you do what you do. People don’t burn out, people don’t quit, people don’t underachieve, people don’t settle because of what they do. People burn out, people quit, people underachieve, and people settle because life makes them forget why they do it. If we respect it the way we say we respect it, if we love it the way we say we love it, if we cherish it the way we say we cherish it,

every single day should be nothing less than excellence. You might not always be your best, but you can always bring me your best.

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When you lace them motherfuckers up every day, pretty soon you’ll win. Pretty soon you’ll fucking win. If you have the courage and the heart and the dedication and the mindset, but everybody can go fuck themselves. I know what I know. I’ve listened to myself enough to know I know what I know. None of you can hear what I’m hearing. And that’s what people don’t do enough of. They don’t listen to their journey. But how can you be fucked up and also self-made the same fucking… No, no. Obviously, you’re not looking at the truth in front of you. The truth in front of you is it sucks. It’s painful.

It’s fucking mind-numbing. And that is the truth. And that’s why a lot of people don’t like listening to me. Because this is what it takes, creating another voice and sometimes going at it alone. All the time going at it alone, because no one’s going to believe in you. And that’s that.

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You got to have a vision. Yup, you got to begin with the end in mind. But you got to come back to the front. Are you hearing me? You got to come back. Listen to me, I told you before, you go in the future and you see your future, baby. You look at it, you see where you want to be in 20 years, in 30 years, in 40 years, and then you come back to the present, to this particular day, to this particular spot. Get in the spot and you master today and you don’t worry about tomorrow and you ain’t tripping on your past. Why?

Because your past don’t count no more and your future is so far ahead that you don’t even need to be worried about that. You master the present. You master the present. You master Monday and then you take on Tuesday. And once you lick Tuesday, then you say Wednesday, come on. And then you take Thursday and then you master Friday. And then you tell the weekend, bring it on. And when you get to the point where you start winning the day, then you start winning a week. And then you start winning a month. And then you start winning a year. Are you hearing what I’m saying? Thanks.

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Who’s the victor? You guys are. We’re killing it in here. Again, guys, something in life’s going to be hard. It’s either going to be hard in here that you put yourself through, or someone’s going to put you through something hard out there. I’d rather control what I’m going through than be put to the subjective nature of somebody else. Guys, pay your prices right now. When you pay for it right now, it’s an investment. It’s a risk. And the growth potential is limitless. Limitless.

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What do you need to do? Most of the answers to your life are internal. You just haven’t fucking looked there because your attention has been everywhere else. So start to look inside. Take these next three months, improve upon your life. And I promise you, you can change the entire trajectory of your whole fucking family. And you’re probably saying, family? Bro, if you change your life and it gets to the point where, like the extreme point, where you make so much money, whatever it is, you’ve changed your family’s entire life. So take with that what you will, boys, and get to fucking work.

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What will you do?

Rebuild it. Just the way it was, brick for brick.

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All my life, I was the underdog. They told me I wasn’t good enough. They told me I was dreaming too big. They said the kid from the LBC couldn’t make it. But guess what? I didn’t let none of that stop me. I stayed true to myself. I stayed focused on the vision, and I turned them no’s into yes’s. See, adversity is like the gym for your soul. It hurts, it’s heavy, but it builds you up. Every time you wanted to quit, every time life tried to break you, you chose to stand tall. That’s what makes you great.

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Success is the only revenge. As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance. As you get louder, no one can hear them. You don’t beat them, you cast a shadow so big no one can see them to begin with. When people copy, they copy the wrong stuff because they don’t know why it worked to begin with. And when it breaks, they don’t know how to fix it because they didn’t build it. So don’t sweat it, copycats will always be behind.

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Do you get a promotion every year on your job? No, right? So every year you work is a failure. Yes or no? No. Every year you work, you work towards something, towards a goal, right? Which is to get a promotion, to be able to take care of your family, to be able, I don’t know, provide the house for them or take care of your parents. You work towards a goal. It’s not a failure, it’s steps to success. You know, and if you’ve never, I don’t know, I don’t want to make it personal. So there’s always steps to it. You know, Michael Jordan played 15 years, won six championships.

The other nine years was a failure? That’s what you’re telling me?

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don’t aim for mediocre. 99% of people in the world are convinced that they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for realistic goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy consuming. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” I love that, do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. Think of a. if you’re the sort of person who is regularly surprised by how well things go,

that’s maybe a good indication that that could be about you. And basically, I think I’m certain that most capable people don’t believe in themselves enough, and a lack of confidence killed more dreams than a lack of competence ever did.

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And I want to see you develop into the 2.0 version of yourself. And that only happens when you are ready to let go of living like an average human and start living like a savage who deserves success, abundance, happiness, security, prosperity, legacy, meaning, fulfillment, significance, purpose. Doesn’t that sound fucking sexy? Like you’re either going to play video games sitting on a couch having fucking Cheeto dust in your belly button. That’s going to be the highlight of your day telling your sad victim story to others.

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You accept outcomes and you accept circumstances. You accept the fact that you were dealt whatever hand you were dealt. You accept that you’re 5’8″, you accept that you’re black, you accept that you’re a woman. That’s accepting. You trying to rebel against that is you trying to fight the universe and the universe is going to win every time. But in terms of you framing acceptance as saying that, I am comfortable with who I am and I cannot be better and I must be satisfied with that, is the biggest embodiment of failure that I can imagine.

Is that it’s almost egotistical to say that there’s a difference between saying, I am good enough and I am good. So you could say, I am good enough for my current state based on the work that I’ve put into it, but I could be better.

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To know where we are, guys, we must first know where we’ve been. And when we hit plateaus in our current day, the key to success, to break that plateau, is in our past. You take a picture of yourself on day one, you put it on the mirror. That’s who I’ll never be again. That’s day one. Say goodbye to them. Behind that picture you write down your weight, your height, all your information, your body fat, tape measures around your arms, your waist, your thigh. Record where you’ve been. Because when the struggle gets hard and you feel like you’re not going anywhere,

you go back to that day one, re-measure, go, my card’s working. How about them apples, man? I’m on set, on my own path, I’m actually achieving something. It gives you confidence to continue the journey. Record everything, what you eat, your training habits, how you feel. But don’t do it alone. Get a partner. That partner, they say champions come in pairs or two, because you battle yourself into perfection. There are going to be days, man, where you’re dragging ass. There’s every excuse in the world why not to go to the gym. Having that partner is going to ensure you get there.

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Athletes will turn up to compete. They put a bit more effort in. They try. They try to be the best amongst their group. Then there’s the athletes who train to win. They train every day, every session, so they win on match night. And then I remember saying to Adam’s group: There are just those very few players who train to dominate They train so hard that winning is inevitable on race night And Adam said that clicked with me. I decided I was going to train to dominate So he said when I go into the Olympic final, I know I know I’m gonna win I know I’ve done more than anybody else.

I feel so good.

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Nothing is, I got it. Every single thing, so I can’t wait to get in this conversation because everything I do in life, it sucks. Everything I do in life, it sucks. That’s why when I was 300 pounds and 24 years old, it wasn’t like I had some big epiphany of let’s just go be a Navy SEAL and let’s lose some weight. No, I knew my entire life was gonna be a struggle, which is why I just ignored it. And I said, I’m not even trying to jump off into this shit and learn how to read, how to write, how to memorize, how to become something I am not.

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Every time you tell your sad pathetic story. All you do is you reinforce the fact That you’re sad. You’re pathetic. You’re undeserving.

You can go and rewrite the story of how your life ends and how your life Continues from this day forward, the legacy that you live. You.

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Every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you’re going through. And it’s the lonely chapter. It’s the chapter where you don’t fit in with your own friends, but you don’t have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends. And you’re doing this thing, you’re consuming content on the internet, you’re doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and where do I host this thing. And you’re going through this and you’re like, is this even worth it?

And then he closes the door.

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Listen, every day when you get out of bed, life’s standing right there to kick you in the fucking face, man. Could be anything could be. You get up and you walk downstairs, you got a fucking flat tire and you’re late for work and you got this and that life is going to throw all kinds of crazy shit at you, right? And you have to be ready for it and you got to fucking deal with it. Can’t curl up into a ball. You can’t run away from it. You can’t hide. You have to take all this shit head on. You have to get up every, every day when I get up out of bed,

I strap up and I’m getting ready for fucking war.

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I just hear on these fucking you know, you know blogs and stuff for these forums and people are right with these Keyboard rangers that have no other lights So they sit there and fucking type away because they feel like they got some fucking sitting nuts behind a keyboard. But in person or in life They fucking these little hermit crabs going around and just hiding out and everything else because they don’t have the intestinal forage to do Anything but talk to talk behind a fucking computer. They can’t walk, shit, man. That’s why they,

that’s why they had the fucking time to even comment on someone else’s achievements out there. Fuck those motherfuckers, man. Don’t be those guys.

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And I started working out like somebody I was I became the most obsessed person on the planet Earth. It was basically I had to Invent a guy that didn’t exist. I had to invent a guy that can take any pain any suffering any kind of judgment Be called near because whatever the fuck in the world and be able to stand a fucking room and say go fuck yourself How they built I had to build this callous mind and I built it through suffering. I Was raining outside three o’clock in the fucking morning for snowing. The first thing is think is don’t go out there and do shit.

My instinct was we got a fucking go out there Anything that was fucking horrible in my life that I would normally say no That was inhumane to most people. I had to go do it and I started callous in my mind at this point in my life.

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If you keep going to the next level, you suck at the next level. You’re not doing anything at the next level.

So here’s what that example is. Here’s a human being. They’ve reached here.

They’re beating most people. They think they’ve reached it.

They have no idea that there’s that level there. Because there’s fear.

And every time you and I, believe me, I know this from experience.

Every time, people that tell you, oh my gosh, you’re so amazing.

You’re so this. You’re so great.

Wow, Patrick. Wow, Johnny. Wow, Steve. Wow, Bobby.

Boom. You believe it. But you’re not there yet.

Because you haven’t reached your capacity yet.

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You can’t smile laughing here and laughing is really good for the abs. And maybe you’re missing the real message in here guys. That message is one that,

yeah you’re transforming your life and you’re going through hell to do it, but because you’re doing it, it’s a guaranteed success is going to come. You should be happy about that. You should be excited. You have the abs guys. We all have them. Underneath here, everyone’s got the abs. Got a little bit of fat on top of them. Guys, don’t give in yet. Keep doing your diet. Keep doing your cardio. While you’re doing these abs, you’re dropping the fat and building the muscle. So the part when that body fat hits single digits guys, it’s going to give birth to like a new you.

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this moment that you’re going through is Trinity opening the door and being like, you could go back,

but then you’d have to remember exactly what the reason was that you decided not to go out to begin with,

just because you listen to this podcast and you consume this constantly, you’re like,

I can do more than this.

Like, because you are starting to live in some of that hell where you look in the mirror and you’re like, I can do more. And you start to see the person that you could be. And you’re like,

this does start to feel like hell.

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One mile. one mile is a great accomplishment. two miles and then from two to three was a big one. Then I went from three to six And then, like they have a warning order that they give people to get ready for buds, And the whole thing was running six miles five days a week and that was my goal And so I just kept I failed I go back to scratch. I use some positive motivation I have like one day where I’m like fucking defeated, but I started realizing this is part of the process This is part of the journey.

I had to realize this is part of my process Versus just saying like I used to I’m it’s not good enough if I’m not good enough We always say that shit. I’m it’s not good enough, and then we try something else I’m gonna fucking make myself good enough and that became my mentality. I’m gonna make myself good enough, And so I’m misunderstood a lot, but that’s that’s all it came down to I made myself good enough And the days I couldn’t run that far the next week. I would do two days.

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Everything else comes with it, and I hope you’re ready for it. All the girls, all the fame, everyone’s gonna be asking how you do it and everything else, and I hope you’re ready for that, guys. So, hopefully it doesn’t come overnight. There might be too much for you, but when it does come, and you do it the right way, you’ll be ready, and you’ll be damn proud of it. And once you have them, you will never, ever let them go. You have them for life.

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The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life. And there are two parts to that. One is getting what you want. So you know how to get it. And the second is wanting the right things, knowing what to want in the first place. I could want to be a, you know, six foot eight basketball player, and I’m not going to get that. So it’s wanting the wrong thing.

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I’m not a real smart guy. And what I mean by that is I was born with ADD, ADHD. My brain cannot retain information. I’m not some genetic freak when it comes to running, when it comes to lifting weights. I am absolutely the bottom of the barrel. And people will never believe me. And they can just, you know, whatever, believe what you want to believe. So when you ask me this question about what does studying look like for me, I have to go over the same page over and over and over and over again. While Jennifer can look at that page, while she’s, you know, quizzing me,

she’ll learn it right then as she’s, she don’t know anything about it. She will quiz herself or quiz me and learn it as she’s quizzing me. It’s the most frustrating thing in the world, how my brain works.

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Who do we want to be? Where do we want to live? What life do we want to lead? When we’ve finished our life, come to the end of our life and look back, what do we want to say that we’ve done? So what do you want is a very powerful question.

And then if an athlete says, I want to be the best Bill, fine. How badly do you want it? Because it’s going to, you’ve got to pay a price to be the best. The best pay a big price. You’ve got to work harder. You’ve got to commit more. You’ve got to take more responsibility. You’ve got to deal with more ups and downs. And if we can deal with that question, how much are you willing to suffer? Because I work with gold medal champions and they suffer every day. They work enormously hard. They sacrifice enormous things in order to get that success.

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Because what happens now guys is that your success is like a spotlight shining down on their missed opportunities. Success, many will love you for it. The majority will hate you because your success makes them feel insufficient in their current endeavor. Reminds them of where they could have done it but they came up short and how they didn’t revisit it. Where they went at it and failed and failure is what stood. They never revisited it again. The difference between a winner and a loser, the failure is there every single time.

It’s just the winner gets back up and does it again and does it again until it goes his way. So now you’re down that path and you’re all alone. How do you know you’re on the right path? How do you know what you’re doing is in the right direction? If you’re wondering if you’re on the right path, look at the small things in life. How do you do them?

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Right? How dare anybody talk shit on someone who is trying to level up in their life, in their marriage, as a father, in their personal income, in their health, in their mindset. How dare they? That society has gotten to a place that when you try and better yourself, that they will fucking throw shade on you. I believe that you have the right to throw shade right back. And you just slap their fucking gelatinous little titties and go, look at this. I could fucking milk you, bro. I could milk your little titties.

So I’m going to go to the gym and build some fucking pecs while you go and drink booze and pump out estrogen. Now, listen, man, I’m not trying to say you ought to be that level of an asshole. I can be that level of an asshole because I am, and I’m passionate and I give a shit. And if you want to, you should, but I am saying be unreasonable in your expectations. I don’t take shit from anyone. I don’t want you to take shit from anyone like that because you only live one life, right?

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You will never succeed more than you fail. That’s not how it works. You know why? Because failure is a wonderful teacher. It’s the only way to learn. You have to fail. Failure is a part of the process to becoming successful. I tell people this all the time. Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player in the world, he took 946 game-winning shots. 946 times since he was in high school, the ball has been in his hand to take the game-winning shot with no time on the clock. He has only made 146 of those.

He has missed over 700 times, but he has made 146. You know what they write about? When you make it. They write about when you make it. So guess what? When you get through failing, failing, failing, failing, all you gotta do is make one.

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Trial and error, you grow up and you make game winning shots and it’s awesome. And you come back the next day and miss a game winning shot and it’s misery. And then the next day comes and you’re back playing again. And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it’s, what you do on Monday is fantastic, but then Tuesday is a bad day, but guess what? There’s Wednesday. So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? Versus just staying like this and understanding that it’s really just a journey of evolution every day.

It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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when someone else is relying on you, that you say, no, man, I just can’t make it. You won’t be that guy. You’ll show up just for your buddy’s sake. And your buddy’s energy will push you through a workout, even though you’re exhausted. And what’s crazy about it, man, even though your energy levels are so low, by expending more energy, you just gain so much more in the back end. It’s crazy. And all of a sudden, you have this natural high. With the problems you once had going before the gym that seemed overwhelming, you come out of that gym pumped up, man, mind, body connected.

Those same problems don’t look so bad. You’re generating solutions to them. You’re seeing ways in and out of them all because you’re thinking positively. Your partner, you owe that to. He got you into the gym. And there are going to be days he’s down and out, and you’re going to get him into the gym. Not only is a partner vital to get into the gym, but make sure the sets go to failure. When you hit failure on your own, man, you can’t go anymore, that partner gets three or four more sets. That makes all the difference, man, of hitting your failure and going past it. That’s where the growth is.

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Instead of just walking slowly through the park, start running through the park. Instead of running through the park, put some jumps in. Put some more intensity in. So what it means is, step by step, do something that you get out of the heaviness. Because it’s not gonna come flying. And of course you cannot expect someone to make a huge leap from one day to another. But this is why there are steps. This is why sometimes time is also on your side. Step by step.

Continuity. Trust in the process. And trust in the universe. Or trust in the words.

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There’s 10,000 times more going on inside the head of a man than you have any idea.

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All I need is five hits, that’s all. Y’all don’t even know I was in them other meetings. They don’t write about it, they just write about my hits. You just need a hit, man. So when you fail, it’s a part of the process. Keep going, you’re supposed to fail. Shit, who you know that gets it right all the time? That’s impossible. You have to fail. Matter of fact, when you fail, be glad about it. Every time you fail, you one step closer. So every time you fail, say, whew, got that out the way. Go to the next one. Fail again, okay, I got two out the way.

What’s gonna happen is if you just keep swinging, you’re gonna get a hit.

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Something in the near future, relative future, that gives value to today. 90 days out man. I’m gonna run a marathon 90 days out. I’m gonna air bodybuilding contest 90 days out the family reunion high school reunion I’m gonna look my best 90 days to become that person I want to be to turn that dream into a reality. I got 90 days. today is 190th that opportunity. If I don’t have a 90-day end state there’s no bookends. I can easily push off my responsibilities of today into tomorrow and not feel bad about it. But when there’s an end,

Then today has value all of a sudden doesn’t it if I blow off today into tomorrow? I just lost 190th the chance to become that you get the mind, right? If you believe it. your body, physically, will find a way to make it happen.

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you will become the 2.0 that you deserve to become and that your family deserves to have as a leader.

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You can make as much money as you want. You can have as much freedom as you want. You can have as much opportunity as you want, but you gotta go out and get it. Because I can tell you right now, every single one of you out there have exactly what you deserve. You might think that life is unfair. You might think that life dealt you a bad hand, but I’m here to tell you life will give you exactly what you tolerate. And if you’ve been tolerating mediocrity, you’ve been tolerating average, you’ve been tolerating this victim mentality that you’re carrying, then guess what?

You have exactly what you deserve.

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to grow that thing. How do you grow it? Do it and do it and do it and do it. That’s the hack. The hack is going to suck. And that’s what I realized. That’s what I realized. Life. That’s why I want to come on here today. I didn’t want to come on here and talk about no passion and purpose and how to get the fuck out of bed and how to hit a fucking alarm clock and all this catchphrase bullshit. Because that wasn’t how I lived. That wasn’t how I lived. I lived, I woke up like every human being does and goes, fuck man, I’m a fucking piece of shit today.

How the hell is this going to work out for me? And you fight that. And you fight that. You don’t override it. There’s no override button. It’s the conversation in your fucking, in your head. So how do you do that? We don’t have enough of these conversations about the real conversation that every human being is having. And they have no idea how to get out of it, but they do.

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Part of your day is fucking a check man. You did it right. When you do it right once, it makes it easier a second time to do it right later than day. It’s, it’s a wave of positive energy. man, abdominal salt now. who called assault? because you’re assaulting an objective. that objective is the high ground of life that you want to get to. It’s within your grasp. if you’re willing to fucking give up that sweat equity man, come in there and sacrifice a little bit of pain For pride man.

If you’re able to do that man on a daily basis and you check the box and you pay your dues every single day man Then that and anything else out here is within your grasp. That’s when life becomes exciting. That’s when you’re fucking driving it man You’re the master of your life. You’re not the servant anymore. You are running the fucking day. the day is not running you. That’s, that’s. that is. that is freedom, guys. Freedom, you gotta go in there first. man, the devil’s den you know. pay your dues, Gotta, you know. face your fears to find that freedom though.

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the reason to win the game is to be free of it. So you play the games, you win the games, and then you get, hopefully you get bored of the games. You don’t want to just keep looping on the same game over and over. Although a lot of these games are very enticing and have many levels that are relatively open-ended. And then you become free of the game in a sense that you’re no longer trying to win it. You know you can win it. And either you move to a different game or you play the game for the sheer joy of it.

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You know, a lot of people may think I’m an overachiever. In my eyes, I’m an achiever still. I am still an achiever. But Pat, you run a business. You didn’t have a degree. You come from a divorced family. You lived in Iran with a war. You lived in a refugee camp. You went to high school, 1.8 GPA. You know, what do you mean? You run a YouTube channel with a million subs. Insurance company’s growing. Nobody expected you to do any of this stuff. Yes, but in my mind, I don’t care what the world is saying. In my mind, I don’t want to believe I’m an overachiever.

Because if I’m an overachiever, I’ve reached it. I don’t want to think that I’ve reached it. I want to know there’s 10 more levels to the game. Why am I going to play a game that I’m almost finished the game? I want a new level. I want two more levels. I want to know there’s 20 more levels above me. You want to know there’s 20 more levels above you. What if you meet the best version of you? Remember how earlier I told you this is an emotional video because you go back and look at that six-year-old picture. And you remember that kid had dreams? Remember that kid had dreams?

Remember what that kid thought he could do, she could do? Do you remember that day? You remember that day. I remember that day. I remember that day.

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Because the thing about good enough is we don’t know if it’s enough. Until the nth hour, the final hour, and everything’s on the line. That’s when we find out if it is enough. And if we come up short, man, doesn’t that suck? I promise you guys, if today you never say good enough, tomorrow you’ll always have enough. What I’m saying is a character of who you are. It’s not the title that makes you. It’s not the success that makes you. The character defines the success, defines the fame, and it starts right there. Championships aren’t won in the theater of the arena.

They’re won in the thousands of hours in the training room, in the labs, in the 5 AM runs, when it’s raining, whenever I was sleeping. That’s when it’s won.

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You can accept that the work that you have done has created the outcome that you’ve created, but you do not need to accept that the outcome that you’ve created is the end-all be-all and the last outcome that you need to have. The only version of acceptance that I have is that I accept that the version of myself that I want to be is so far from who I am, that I have this massive discrepancy that I have to overcome. And then just breaking that down one step at a time and thinking, I don’t deserve to be that man, but I can still do the things that can create it.

And it also means that I have to go through the circumstances that would create that man, which means that if I have unbelievable big dreams and big goals, then I have to go through hard times.

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We are more resilient. We are more emotionally strong, mentally tough, and we can deal with so much shit. but we have to first let go of the mental

but I realized, you know what? All those things I went through and I’m still standing. I’m still going strong. Dude, I must be one resilient, one resourceful, one relentless motherfucker if I’m still going strong.

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You can do more than this. If I had to walk, I had to walk. It just became just a process of grinding and grinding, and grinding’s not even a good word for it. It’s not even a good word for it. And just going further and further, and then when I got through running, I’d go to the bike, I’d go to the pool. If I got tired somewhere, my legs were tired, I’d go to the gym, and I developed this crazy workout where I was doing volume, like two, 300 reps of very lightweight. People always say, how come you don’t have any loose skin? My workout routine in the gym became sick. It became sick.

I was just doing two, 300 reps, 400 reps on my chest, just for one simple exercise, the bench press. And I’d rack it, get back on it, just rep it out, trying to burn as many calories as I can, build that muscle mass. And I just became obsessed with it.

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The Harvard Champion is a light switch that’s always on. It doesn’t go on and off when someone’s watching. It’s constant. It’s how you look at something. If your name’s attached to it, that you do it right, the best of your ability every single time. If you’re dusting your countertops, do you dust around the picture frame? Or do you pick the f*** up and dust the entire thing? Do the job right or don’t do it at all? That’s the same person who has his hand raised on the podium one day. Same motherf***ers. How you hold yourself from the small things of life.

Build the character winning blocks of the things that we’re remembered for. I see them as one and one the same, guys. It begins right now with no one looking, man. And how you hold yourself, how you see yourself. What do you do when no one’s watching? If you do it then, I guarantee you, you’ll be doing it when everyone’s watching.

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You can believe you’re not worthy of a thing and still attain it. You can be adamant that your efforts are going to go badly and still succeed. You can grip and grasp and fear and ruin the enjoyment and be totally unwarranted and things still go well. You can have no self-belief and show up anyway. You can want more for yourself without knowing exactly what that looks like. You can doubt the process, question your talent, be uncertain that you’re making progress, disparage your accomplishments, permanently feel like you’re not working hard enough no matter how hard you work,

never give yourself a break, fail to fully feel gratitude, be terrified of never reaching your goals, and still end up in a place that your 20-year-old self could not imagine you’d ever get to. Self-belief is overrated. Generate evidence, says Ryan Holiday.

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If you are the type of person that’s on social media and people say horrible things to you and you get depressed and you shouldn’t be on social media.

You know what I mean?

These are all part of being in the game.

When you’re in the fucking game,

great things happen and really bad things happen and you got to take it all in stride and you got to pick yourself up the next day,

strap your fucking shoes back on and get out there and go to fucking war again.

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Because if I kept believing this false narrative that I’m an immigrant, I’m always gonna be blue collar, that I don’t belong here, that I’m unlovable because I was molested, because I was beaten, because I was bullied, because I was told I’ll go back to my own country because I’ve got learning disabilities, that I’m supposed to be broke, that I’m supposed to be desperate, that I’m supposed to be approval seeking, validation seeking, putting other people on pedestals because of that shit, fuck you. Don’t ever for a moment undersell yourself. See, that’s the thing, man,

everyone’s waiting for permission everyone’s waiting for permission from some higher power to tell them that it’s okay to break through the seal.

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Sacrificing today for tomorrow’s betterment. If you’re a guy that’s just working out for the first time in this program, you hit a couple workouts, you’re going to feel this soreness you’ve never felt before. That’s a Dom’s effect. Delayed onset muscle soreness. It’s supposed to be that way. It means you’re using muscles you haven’t used before. Your body’s waking up. Sharpening your arsenal for perfection of what you can be. But if you didn’t know that mentally, you didn’t prepare for that, you think something’s wrong, maybe it’s time to stop. No, it’s time to move even further.

You have to be equipped mentally to endure this process. Knowing what you’re about to go into is step one. Knowing it’s an uphill battle, but a winnable one and one that’s achievable. At the end of this race, guys, you’re going to be more capable. The first step, guys, is knowing it’s a tough road. But through that effort, builds the character of the person you want to be at the end. Accept that. How else do we stay on track? We document everything.

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training yourself on how you respond to hard. Because in the early days, hard was, ooh, stop, this isn’t good. I should, I should, this is a warning sign. This is a red flag. I should slow down or I should stop, you know, I should pivot. But the more I think about it as a competitive landscape, as I’m clear on what this path is supposed to look like, and these rocks and these dragons are things that I’m going to have to slay along the way to get the princess or get the treasure, I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow. It’s a selection effect.

And I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this, then it flips from being this thing that you’re like, oh, poor me, to oh, poor everyone else who’s going to have to fucking try. And I think that is so much more motivating as a frame for the exact same circumstance.

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What have I done, Alfred? Everything my family… My father built…

The Wayne legacy… Is more than bricks and mortar, sir.

I wanted to save Gotham. I failed.

Why do we fall, sir?

So that we can learn… To pick ourselves up.

You still haven’t given up on me.

Never.

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If you get to that point, if you get to that point where you do exactly what you said you were going to do, you’re going to get to the next level. Alright, so let’s get started. Let’s get started. Let’s get started. What is that one thing that you’re saying that I am going to get this thing done and I’m going to make my dreams become a reality? Now, if ET can do it, anybody can do it.

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I have a saying that I tell myself a lot when I’m doing something that I don’t want to do, and it’s, I will do what is required. It’s not about doing your best. It’s about doing what’s required because what’s required might be better than your best is right now. The good news is that your best can get better.

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You you want to improve You want to get better? You want to get on a workout program or a clean diet you want to start a business?

You want to write a book or make a movie or build a house or a computer or put together some? mobile application.

Where do you start you start right here, and when do you start you start right now? You initiate the action Aggressively, you go Because the idea isn’t going to execute itself and the book isn’t gonna write itself. and the weights out in the gym, They’re not gonna move themselves. You have to do it and you have to do it now.

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If you know why you’re doing something, when the hard times come and they’re going to come, when the disappointments and the rejections come and they’re going to come by the truckloads, your reasons will be your rod and staff to comfort you, to pick you up. Once again, I got a saying on one of my tapes, if life knocks you down, try and land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reasons get you back up.

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Like, listen to me, like you got to stop playing. So most of you what happens is when everything is favorable, you a beast. Make sure you understand what I’m saying. Well, everything is favorable meaning like whatever conditions you like, when those conditions are right, you a beast. But when the conditions ain’t right you get smacked in the face. You got to grow up, You got to make. you got to make ever you got to make. you got to be a morning person, afternoon person, night person, You got to be a home person, on the road person.

You got to be when you, when you, when you feel, good person, when you sick person, when you tired person.

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Life isn’t fair at all at all So we gonna do about it. I knew that no one was coming back to help me No one’s gonna miracle me to be somebody special Everybody that called me nigger my dad my mom all my situations were on me now It’s only on me. It was on me and that’s what didn’t get to realize. Everything you do, you may have some support, you may not, but it’s on you. You have to make the decision whether you want to be a badass Or whether you want just want to be mediocre and everything’s okay, but being a badass hurts Real bad. I had to stop thinking normal. I had to stop thinking normal.

I can no longer be a common man walking around doing common things.

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keep your dreams phenomenal. Keep your vision phenomenal.

Keep it phenomenal.

And now I need you to get your weight up.

As an individual,

I need you to get your schedule up. I need you to get your life up.

I need you to get your words up. I need you to get your heart up. I need you to get your action up.

I need you to get to a place that every single thing that you do is phenomenal so that the life you want to live,

you can actually live that life. All right.

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If you lack confidence, build evidence.

The fewer people you try to impress, the more impressive you become.

And you can learn anything you want as long as you’re willing to look dumb in front of other people for an extended period of time.

Find people who are more ambitious than you and then stop letting them be more ambitious than you.

And then no matter how behind you start,

it’s hard to beat a man who never stops learning.

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Everyone wants to be a beast, Until it’s time to do a real beast. Do write it down. write it down.

Everybody wants to be a beast Everybody wants to make their dreams become a reality.

There’s no one sitting in this room who said et I want to procrastinate et. I don’t want to get it done et. I don’t want to get to the next level et No every person in this room.

Not only do you want your dreams to become a reality? You deserve for your dreams to become a reality.

as long as you’re average, you’re gonna get what average people get.

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Well, you don’t know how you’re going to make this happen, but you just feel within yourself some way, somehow, with the help of God, I’m going to make it happen. Repeat after me, please. No matter how bad it is or how bad it gets,

I’m going to make it. I’m going to make it. You got the right stuff.

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Your dreams are phenomenal. The life that you have for yourself is phenomenal. In your dreams, your bank account is phenomenal. The things that you do, the way that you live, what you have is phenomenal. But you as an individual, you’re average. You as an individual, you’re good. You as an individual, you’re great. And what I’m challenging you to do is to go from average to good, from good to great, and from great to phenomenal. Most of us, when it’s time to do what beasts do, we don’t do it.

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When you had that third failure in a row, did you think, I need to pack this in? Never. Why not?

I don’t ever give up.

There are people who’ve been in the rocketry business for decades who say about you that you don’t know what you don’t know.

Well, I suppose that’s true of anyone. How can anyone know what they don’t know?

When critics say you can’t do this, your answer to them is? We’ve done it.

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Where I come from a lot of you guys come from dark places. This is dark as my, maybe even darker. There’s gonna be times in your life and you don’t want to wake up, You don’t want to go to work, Does he becomes your life but you don’t think you’re good enough With your family, your wife, your girlfriend, your husband, your significant other is gonna doubt you a lot of times. you doubt yourself in life. Nothing is promised to us and so we take that mentality and we use it as what was me I’m not good enough. I’m not smart enough. I’m not good-looking enough. I didn’t get that lucky break.

That’s the one thing I hate about people in life man. They’re looking for this great lucky break. The lucky break that you have right now is that you woke the fuck up. Here’s your lucky break.

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Yes discipline it it does start with Waking up early. It really does. But that is just the beginning, and I always say that Discipline is the root of all good qualities.

But you have to absolutely apply it To things outside of just waking up early. It’s, it’s everything, It’s working out every day, making yourself stronger and faster and more flexible and healthier.

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When you come out of this storm, you won’t be the same person that walked in. That’s what the storm is all about, right? Now, in the midst of the storm, a lot of people feel like, man, I lost this. I lost that, right? But when you come out of the storm, the perspective that you gain, the person that you have become, the happiness that you’ve gained, the joy, the peace that you’ve gained, you always gain something in spite of what you consider to be a loss.

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Hope I do not believe in you more than you believe in yourself. Now listen to me, guys. the transition is going to be hard. I’m not gonna lie to you. go from being on the block, Going to be a high school dropout to getting a GED is not. the transition is not easy. So what happens in order for you to go from one level to the next level in order for any man to? transit- listen to me- in order for any woman to transition, for any man to Transition, the thing that they want must be greater than the thing they currently have. Listen to me very closely.

I didn’t come in here to tell you you’re gonna finish school. I came to ask you. What’s next I?

Came to ask you what’s next for me. It’s the Nobel Prize.

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It’s about disciplining your emotions so you can make good decisions. It’s about having the discipline to control your ego so your ego doesn’t get out of hand and control you. It’s about treating people the way you would want to be treated and doing the tasks that you don’t necessarily want to do but that you know will help you or help your team.

It’s about facing your fears. It takes discipline to face your fears so you can conquer them.

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There’s something I came up with a long time ago, because I would always get tired. I’d always be down, but I always had to keep on going. When times get hard, and you’re looking around, and no one’s there to pat you on your back, it ain’t no more motherfuckers to carry them damn boats. It’s just you dragging it, just dragging the boat by yourself. And all you want to do is stop, but you can’t. So all you out here, just know one thing. Don’t stop when you’re fucking tired. Stop when you’re done.

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It’s possible for you to live your dream. It’s necessary that you associate with winners, that you work your system, that you are relentless, that you never give up. It’s you. You’ve got to take personal responsibility. You’ve got to make it your personal business to make it happen. And you’ve got to resolve within yourself that I can do this, that it’s hard, but you’ve got to say, I’m the one. I’m the one to make this happen. I’m the one to become successful in this business. As you work to help other people to become successful, that feeds your success.

But you know it’s going to be hard, but find out what will make it worth it for you.

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The easy path. it calls to us to be weak for that moment, to break down for that moment, To give in to the desire and the short-term gratification.

But the discipline will not allow that. the discipline calls for strength and fortitude and will.

It won’t accept weakness. It won’t tolerate another breakdown.

The discipline can seem like it’s your worst enemy,

But the reality is,

Discipline is your best friend. It will take care of you like nothing else can.

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The work that you put in every single day, the mindset that you cultivate every single day, the spirit that you cultivate every single day, the work ethic, the dedication, the commitment, that’s you. Right? That’s your essence. That’s your ethos. That’s who you are. Right? Like I’m ink. Like I believe it with every ounce of the word when I tell a cat, my arm and my hand paralyzed, my heart isn’t. It isn’t. Right. Like my arm and my hand is paralyzed. My mentality, it isn’t. My dedication, my commitment level isn’t.

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If I had to pick one trait for a young man to have, it would be resilience. I know for me, because I’ve been asked before, like, did you always know you’re going to be successful? I knew I would never stop for whatever reason. That was the only thing I could commit to. I just knew I would never stop. If someone can not give up and learn, then on a long enough time horizon, you guarantee victory.

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That if you’re willing to go beast mode, you could have whatever you want. I’m a living example You can start from nothing start from nothing. You know the story. mine was a teenage mom. start with nothing. grandma, I had 14 kids. start with nothing to bedroom, house, one bathroom, mom got kicked out because she had me start with nothing. Start with nothing. high school dropout. start with nothing, homeless, 12 years to get a four-year degree from the University. Start with nothing if you are willing to grind.

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You want to be more disciplined?

Get after it.

That’s it, man. Get up early,

do some kind of workout,

eat good foods, clean your room,

make a list of things that you’re supposed to do in your life, and then wake up in the morning and do those things that you put on the list.

That’s what discipline is.

And no, it is not easy.

But you’re not going to get it from anyone else but you.

And it’s worth it,

and it is the thing that is going to bring you freedom.

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So if you’re struggling right now and you’re having a hard time and you’re pissed off and you’re frustrated,

know two things.

One, you’re not alone.

Two, this is necessary for you to get where you want to go. And if you quit,

if you falter, if you stop,

all the pain will be for nothing.

And you need to remember that.

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if you want to do anything worthwhile in life, you’ve got to be hungry.

And so I started working to develop myself. He said, I want you to practice every day being a disc jockey. I said, but I don’t have any job now. He said, it doesn’t matter. He said that it’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

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Bro, this is not that fucking hard. It’s just hard to do. There is no secret. There is no quick fix. There is no hack. There is no path of least resistance. The quickest way for you to go from where the fuck you are to where you want to be is that shit you’re trying to avoid doing. And not only is it the fastest way, it’s the only way in most cases to get where you’re trying to go. I must work hard. I must have failures. So I develop skills and I must not quit so I can continue to push forward as other people fall off the game.

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Discipline means taking the hard road, the uphill road, to do what’s right.

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You want to be as hard as you can be. You don’t want to be as hard as me, man. Sometimes being as hard as me is not a great thing. You want to make sure you can be as hard as you can be. So, you know, that’s all like a relative scale. So, but I will tell you this. If you think you can and you’re not, you are failing yourself.

So, that’s kind of like the scale. The scale is a moving target for everybody. But people go, man, why are you going so hard every day, David? Because I know I can’t. So, if you know you can do more and you’re not, that’s the scale.

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It’s gonna be hard. Either way. Being broke is hard as fuck. Being successful is hard as fuck. All you get to do is choose which hard you’re gonna fucking be, and you don’t get to opt out of it being hard. That’s the fucking thing where people fuck up. They think they can opt out of life being hard. No. Life is going to be hard. But you get to choose the result that it’s going to produce because of it.

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What makes people go back is you dream too small. See, your problem in life ain’t if you aim too high and you miss it. Your problem in life is if you aim too low and you hit it. That’s, you messed up now. So when you aim to the moon and you miss, you still amongst the stars. So it kind of keeps you motivated a lot longer, man, to help you push through because everybody’s going to have to have a push through moment. Because everybody has a turn back moment. The key to making it is you can never turn back.

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If you will change, everything will change for you. You don’t have to change what’s outside. All you’ve got to change is what’s inside.

To have more, you simply have to become more.

And then he said, don’t wish it was easier. Wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems. Wish for more skills. Start working on yourself, making these personal changes. And he said, it’ll all change for you. Where the problem is, if you go to work on it.

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inch by inch, play by play, till we’re finished. We’re in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell.

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Just keep moving, don’t start feeling sorry for yourself, don’t spend time blaming and talking about what happened to you. See, whatever you talk about, that’s what you multiply and expand in your life experience. So don’t talk about stuff unless you want it to keep on happening to you, all right?

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I didn’t want to just be a bodybuilding champion, I wanted to be the best bodybuilder of all times.

Dig deep down and ask yourselves, who do you want to be?

Not what, but who.

I’m talking about figuring out for yourselves what makes you happy. You have to think outside the box, that’s what I believe after all. What is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

We have so many rules in life about everything. I say break the rules, not the law, but break the rules.

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Because if anybody ever did it, then you can too. Stop making excuses. Stop complaining. Nobody’s listening. They may pretend they’re listening. The market doesn’t care.

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Every business, I have five companies now, we’ll do a hundred million this year, I started every one of those companies with no money. Zero money, man. Just hustle and grit and courage.

I’ve called on people I didn’t want to be with, I’ve done things I didn’t want to do, okay? It is not about doing what you love, it’s about doing whatever it takes to make your dreams a reality, to be closed and stay closed. If you’re not closed on your product, if you’re not buying your own product, why would you expect anybody else to? Man, 400 bucks is a lot of money, your prospect says to you, 400 dollars, do it!

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If you got a good self-image, if you have your goals set in life, if you’ve got the right mental attitude, nobody has to tell you, go to work. That just follows naturally.

So this is what we’re going to work on. And you gotta have a desire to succeed. You can’t just casually want the good things in life. It’s gotta become a passion for you. Your dream has gotta be more than just an idle thought. You gotta be willing to build a foundation under it, and that’s for sure.

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Don’t be afraid to fail.

Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. Don’t be afraid of making decisions. You can’t be paralyzed by fear of failure, or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it’s the right thing to do, and success will come, so don’t be afraid to fail. I mean, how many times have you heard that you can’t do this, and you can’t do that, and it has never been done before? So pay no attention to the people who say it can’t be done.

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I command you to throw. You must throw. Now I’m giving you a fuck. I don’t hurt you.

I command you to throw, god damn it. Oh, that was hard, David Lynn, baby. Oh, but I can’t stop, because it was hard. There is no doubt. They don’t come no doubt.

You are the measuring stick. You are the measuring stick.

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There are things that you learn from struggling. There are things that you learn from tests and trials and trial and error.

Some of my best teachers were failure. It takes time to do well. It takes even longer to be well. Let’s listen at the words of Solomon when he talks out of Ecclesiastes chapter three verse one through two. And listen at Solomon, the wise man, the wise man. He says, to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. He says, to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. You got purpose, but do you understand season and time?

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Rewire yourself. Rewire the pattern and give yourself freedom. That’s the game that we’re gonna play here. This is not a game of just sitting around and going, oh, but this was done to me. Doesn’t matter what was done. What matters is what are you gonna do with it, right? And then the third skill is you become a creator of patterns. And then you’re masterful. Then you’re the best in your business. Then you can do things no one else does, because you’re not limited to what everybody else does. You create a new way. That’s what the greatest business people do.

That’s what the greatest musicians do. The dancer, the Michael Jackson of the world, he knew every movement. He knew exactly what it would do to you. A great musician knows which upbeats, downbeats are gonna produce what emotions. Great director knows if I come in close or far away, fast or slow, how to change your emotions. They know exactly the patterns, and that’s why they’re the best on earth.

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Will my environment get me or will I make it? I know I’m driven. I know I’m ambitious. I know I’m passionate. I know I want to make it happen. I know I’m respectful. I know I never touch drugs and I never will because I see the collateral damage. But will my environment, the thing that I’m coming in contact with every single day, will that snipe me and not my ambition and not my commitment and not my dedication? Or will you let me make it past this so I can show others that it can be done?

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I don’t think I knew it then, but I know it now. The best things in life takes time.

When I was younger, I was impatient because I had the naivety of thinking that dreams would come quickly. But the best things in life take time.

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how can I work hard for something and my performance is not based upon the outcome? How can I work and my effort and my motivation and my drive is not based upon what the product will be, but more so based upon me taking pride in what I do? And so I came up with this thing called process over product and I firmly believe the process saved my life. And what I mean by the process, I’m talking about the way I handle my business on a daily basis and the way I go about every single aspect of my life. I live by this thing called empty the bucket.

And when people hear it they think it’s a cute slogan, empty the bucket. but what they don’t understand, it’s an unspoken law, empty the bucket. It’s an unspoken law of accountability and responsibility to me on this earth and my existence and everybody that is connected to me. I may be crazy, but I don’t know. I just believe that I supposed to give everybody that is connected to me the best version of me.

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You got to have hardships, setbacks, missteps. See, the only way to learn how to get up, you gotta fall. Learn, only way to learn how to get over, you gotta be under. Only way to learn how to win, you gotta lose. Only way to appreciate the laughter, you gotta be crying. You would not appreciate the sunshine if it didn’t rain.

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What I want you to do in 2025 is I want you to find difficulty and I want you to go after it.

Everybody say that with me, find difficult.

Come on, come on, come on.

Mike told me this was a crowd.

Find difficult.

Listen to me, the way you’re going to separate yourself from everybody else is not to do what everybody else is doing.

You have to find difficult and you have to master difficult because when you master difficult, you separate yourself from everybody else.

All right.

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The only thing keeping you from getting what you really want in this world is the story you keep telling yourself about why you don’t have it or why you can’t have it or why it’s not here yet. The story has got to change. And by the way, most people’s stories create suffering. What is suffering? It’s pain that just seems to always be there. Like anxiety or fear, I’m not enough, all that comes about. But jot this down if you would. Suffering never comes from the facts of your life. We don’t suffer because of what’s actually happened, the facts in our life.

Suffering is in the perception of those facts. Jot it down if you would. All suffering is not in the facts of my life. The facts aren’t what’s making me suffer. It’s my perception of the facts that are making me suffer.

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And some of you have been asking, God, what am I supposed to do with my career? Get in 21 days of prayer and fasting and get God’s view on it. Get up here and let God show you where you’re supposed to be and what city you’re supposed to be in and how you’re supposed to do. Get God’s view on it and then come down here with diligence. See, right here is where we try to forget what we saw.

God gives vision in the valley.

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You know, as we come to the end of this phase of our life, we find ourselves trying to remember the good times and trying to forget the bad times. And we find ourselves thinking about the future. We start to worry, thinking, what am I going to do? Where am I going to be in ten years?

But I say to you, hey, look at me. Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this earth.

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Stop making excuses. Stop complaining. Nobody’s listening. They may make pretend they’re listening. The market doesn’t care. What you need to do is make one person happy, you. Then you can make everybody else happy. You know why I like making people happy? Because I’m already happy.

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Embed that long-term goal in your mind, burn it into your soul, Think about it and write about it and talk about it and hang it up on your wall. But, most important, do something about it. Do something about it every day, every day. Do something that moves you toward that goal, that keeps the goal alive and in sight and in focus.

however, However small or insignificant that step might seem, take it, do it, do that little piece, Make it happen.

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The question is, when those difficulties come, what will you do? Will you quit and shrink back? Or will you persevere and push forward? Your answer to that question will determine your legacy on this earth.

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There’s actually no reason to be scared. And then in that moment, all of a sudden, where you should be terrified is the most blissful experience of your life. And God placed the best things in life on the other side of fear.

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Because at a certain point, life is going to place everybody in a position to where you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

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I want you to be able to say something to yourself that will enable you to maintain a level of integrity with yourself. That when you say this, even when you face tremendous setbacks, it will be a benchmark to keep you in the game, to keep you moving forward and experimenting and readjusting your strategy and your plan of action, continuously looking for ways to win. So what is that something? When you got an idea, you want to move on. You might not have the money, you might not have the education. You might not have the support or the resources you need.

What is that something that can keep us going, that will enable us to act on our dream? What’s one of those keys that will begin to help us to discover the secrets to our dream?

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The next thing that’s important to know, yes, it’s possible that you can choose your future and direct the course of your life as you run toward your dream. It’s necessary that you have goals, that you write those goals down, that you plan, that you think constantly of how you can begin to improve what it is that you’re doing. If it’s your presentations, if it’s your recruiting skills, whatever that is. it’s also necessary that you look for ways to always find a way to pull it out when everybody else thinks that you have defeated.

That you’ve got to take personal responsibility to know that in order to become successful, you’ve got to make it your personal business to do it.

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There’s nothing wrong with goals as long as we understand the context and the purpose of that goal, right? I like to think of money, like fuel Right and a car is the company and the purpose is the destination Right, and if money is fuel, it makes the car go. you absolutely have to have money to make the company go. You have to have, you have to. there is no dreaming big if you have no fuel. You can have the most beautiful car in the world and yet if you got no fuel it’s pointless. But we don’t own a car to buy fuel Right. we don’t own, we don’t have companies simply for the money. Right.

It’s the destination you want to be able to go somewhere and the and the passengers are the employees and they’re excited not about The fuel in the car. How much fuel do we have? No one gets excited by that. We get excited where we’re going.

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just dig into that difference between focusing on what’s right versus focusing on what’s wrong when it comes to your trajectory in life.

I think it’s important to realize wherever focus goes, energy flows. It’s corny, but it’s true, right? In fact, maybe an easier way of saying it is we don’t experience life. None of us do. We experience the life we focus on. So in any moment, what’s wrong is always available. So is what’s right. So it’s not about being positive. It’s about being intelligent, right? When you’re in a totally negative state and the world’s going to end and there are people believing that in the next 12 years, the entire environment’s going to collapse and they won’t have a child,

you got to look at the impact of what you’re believing. And you got to look at and say, where’s my focus going? I can always be upset about something. I can always find something to be joyous or at least grateful for, which leads to joy.

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Now, fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here and the decisions we make in this moment which are based in either love or fear.

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And in most cases, when people are really successful, at least in some area of their life, they’re not just lucky, but they’re consistent. They’re consistent over time. And I tell our team all the time that successful people do consistently what other people do occasionally. Let me say that again. In some area of life, there’s consistency, there’s persistence, there’s patience, because successful people tend to do consistently what other people do occasionally.

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So, I want you to make up in your mind right now whatever it is, whether you’re playing a sport, whether you have a business, whether it’s a relationship that you know is meant for your life, I want you to make up in your mind right now that quitting is not an option. It can’t be an option. Because if you want to create something great, if you want to meet your potential, if you want to make your relationship the best it’s ever been that it’s supposed to be, if you want to reach that dream and live the lifestyle of whatever, or reach whatever it may be, right, then don’t quit.

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But you have to fight that urge to quit, because I always say you’ll win if you don’t quit.

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What he did was 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration. 99% perspiration is not just hard work, it’s perseverance, it’s never giving up.

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I’m going to keep showing up. I’m not going to quit. I don’t care what happens. If I don’t quit, I can’t fail. Okay? If I don’t quit, I can’t fail. If I don’t quit, I can’t fail. Okay, repeat after me. If I don’t quit, I can’t fail. So you got to drop this failure thing out of your language. Failure, it’s a bull code for you quit. Don’t be a quitter. Because if you quit, you will fail. And the reality is you didn’t fail, you quit. So quit talking about the failure thing. You got to quit quitting. You need to quit the stuff that’s no good for you.

And you need to start the stuff that is good for you.

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Don’t give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear.

Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights, sprint the hill, work on the project, get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

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And I need you to understand that the bigger your dream is, the earlier you’re going to have to get up. The longer you’re going to have to stay up. The bigger your dream is, the more effort you’re going to have to put in. And for those of you who raise your hand and put up 70%, you’ll never see it.

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If you can stay here, you can probably have a family, you can probably have a great life. You can stay here and you can settle and things will probably go great for you. In other words, you can pipe down at this point, things will probably be cool.

But if you dare to be great, if you dare to do something that you’ve never done before, if you dare to go to limits that you’ve never went to before, they will remember your legacy forever.

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All of the things that happened to you as an opportunity,

now you become an active force in your life.

Now you are the one,

rather than running from things as they begin to change,

you become a change driver because you know that you’ve got the power within you to make the difference.

This force, this power, this energy that you have,

that’s more powerful than anything that can ever happen to you.

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How many questions, the same thing. Put out content, put out a great product, test things, try it all, use data, use your intuition, test and learn, test and learn, test and learn. And this just insane lack of patience and lack of understanding that takes actual skills to actually win is frustrating at times. What does a local business need to do to get customers? You need to have a great product, you need to make people that could potentially buy your product know about it. You can do that through content, you can do that through advertising,

you can do that by going to the Chamber of Commerce, you can do that by fucking cold calling every single business in town. Like fuck man, there’s just so many ways to do it.

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and when you have goals and dreams you want to achieve, he said, ask yourself the question, who should I count on and who should I count out? And so many people never achieve their goals because they have too many toxic, negative, energy-draining people in their lives. And you have to have goals outside of your comfort zone that will challenge you, because in order to do something you’ve never done, you’ve got to become someone you’ve never been.

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Don’t give up though the pace seems slow. You may succeed with another blow. Success is failure turned inside out. It’s the silver tint of the clouds of doubt and you never can tell how close you are. It may be near when it seems so far. So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit. It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit. You see the way that you become unstoppable is by refusing to stop.

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If you just don’t quit, if you don’t quit, if you refuse to quit, you will not fail. Like I just held onto that the whole time. And if I just don’t quit, and then keep learning.

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If you think or are tempted to say that you did not have the opportunity, then you are making up excuses, not providing a legitimate reason for your failure to create a successful and fulfilling life.

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take care of my children and my mother. I’m not trying to steal or rob from anybody. How did this have to happen to me? It was very hard. And here’s what I want to say to you. For those of you that have experienced some hardships, don’t give up on your dream. No one could have convinced me by holding on, by continuing to push forward, by continuing to run toward my dream, that one day I would have my own talk show. It’s a long shot, ladies and gentlemen, from Liberty City, an abandoned building on a floor, never knowing my mother or father.

It’s a long shot being here with you today in this dome. In Atlanta, it’s a long shot. No college training, labeled, educable, mentally retarded. But I kept running toward my dream.

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got to stop playing the blame game. At some point, you have to take personal responsibility. And it clicked. Like, yo, you got yourself here. Regardless of everything else, you played a role in getting yourself here. Now, you got to get yourself out. And I just remember saying, like, yo, E, you homeless now, but this ain’t the rest of your life, man. This might be the story today, but this ain’t how my life is going to end. I remember thinking that to myself. Like, we going to get out of here. We going to make it. I’m sleeping in between buildings because Detroit is cold in the winter.

I’m in restaurants only because, not to eat, but I’m trying to get out of the cold. And I’m like, this is not going to be like this forever. And I remember not growing up in a church or anything like that, not being religious, but I was like, man, I don’t have nothing else. I remember saying a soft prayer, like, man, God, I need help. I need you to help me to get out of this predicament.

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Please prepare for this process to continue the rest of your life. There are nothing but difficulties in achieving your goal listen folks success is hard It’s it’s really hard.

We just need to get that part straight. Success is hard, but I got news for you, Having lived in a car for three years. Being not successful is hard too.

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Everybody wants to prize, but nobody loves the process. Everybody wants to be a champion, but nobody’s willing to put in the work that it takes to be a champion. Everybody wants to hold up the trophy and say, man, I did it, but nobody’s willing to put in the work that it takes to do it. I love the process. I love the thought of working for what I want. And I firmly believe you never supposed to wish for it more than you’re willing to work for it. Your expectations never supposed to exceed your effort. But a lot of people, they wish, and they’re not willing to work.

And the great thing about life, life has a funny way of testing all of us and seeing how bad we really want what it is that we say we want.

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If you find yourself saying,

I can’t do something,

I can’t do it because I don’t have the time, I can’t do it, I don’t have the money,

I can’t do it because I don’t have the resources, I can’t do it because I don’t know the right people.

Anytime you start finding yourself, you say,

I can’t do something.

And especially if it’s really hard,

then you must do it and you must take action immediately.

Even if you don’t know how,

even if you don’t think it’s possible,

you’ve got to develop a habit that says, if I can’t,

then I must.

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It’s about what you’re saying to yourself, but it also comes at work. So whenever I was getting beat down, physically, mentally, spiritually, whatever I was going through, just saying, you know, I would put, you know, you can’t hurt me. Can’t hurt me just became a message, you know, I would say to myself. And that’s just kind of where it comes from.

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Every single day, you don’t have to always be your best, but just bring me your best. People don’t burn out and quit because of what they do. People burn out and quit because life makes them forget why they do it. The greatest trick that life plays on us all is when we aspire to do something, when we say we’re going to do something, goals, dreams, aspirations, when we attack things, when we want to do things for our family. The greatest trick that life plays on us, once we put it out in the atmosphere, life hits us with a level of adversity, uncertainty, COVID, pandemic,

and step back and say, let me see if you remember your mother now. Only thing I’m asking you to do is, if you got to step back, regroup, wipe your eyes, wipe your face, shake it off, say a prayer, step back, then step back up and say, I’ll never forget why I do what I do.

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Give yourself a chance, a chance to find out all the wonderful things you really can be.

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Now here’s the difference between the two hards. Being not successful and hard and trying to become successful and hard. When you are not successful and hard, there are no options. You can’t decide where you’re going to dinner. You can’t decide if you’re gonna buy a pair of shoes. You can’t decide if you’re going on vacation. You can’t decide what you’re gonna eat. You don’t have options. On the road to success, it’s hard, but it creates options for you.

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I can because I’m capable. . I can because I’m capable, . I can do it. I want you to think about that for real, you can do it. Like literally you have the skill set to do it. I can because I can.

I will because I’m strong. I can get through any obstacle on my way to my journey. And I say journey because it’s not a destination. This is a journey. I must because they count on me.

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You’ll never feel ready. You’ll never feel ready to do the things that scare you. You’ll never feel ready to start your business. You’ll never feel ready because it is all outside of your comfort zone. So naturally, you should feel discomfort because change requires lots of risk. But if you want a different life, at some point, you’re gonna have to change. At some point, you’re gonna have to jump off of the cliff of the unknown and there’s no way around it. But I don’t know about you,

I would much rather jump into the unknown to hopefully create the life of my dreams rather than just sit around and deal with a life that’s mediocre.

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Which means a lot of you have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club.

Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who have ever lived. I see all this potential. And I see it squandered.

God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, the slaves with white collars.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no great war. No Great Depression.

Our great war is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives.

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So that’s the end of the shoulder shred super set, SQ, shoulder shredded super set workout. Coming to you at greggcrick.com where we help you stay fit and eliminate competition, external competition as well as interior competition. That’s the biggest block for most people is that they get in the wrong way. You come here and hit the gym, hit hard like we just did, don’t tell me you don’t leave with a little bit higher stock than you want yourself. Take that into your next day, it grows and grows. Start achieving things you didn’t think were possible, small things,

small things add to big things, add to a good life. Start giving back, start being a role model to other people, see them progress and transform themselves, you know the obstacles. Yeah man, that’s what it’s all about man. Anyway, greggcrick helps you stay fit, have fun with that workout. I’m out.

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Remember that man, God has never made a mistake. But we done came too far to drop our head. Joe, you played your ass off. You hear me, man? I’m telling you, man, don’t ever, don’t ever drop your head when it comes to a loss, dawg. Cause there’s too much pain outside of this that people really going through. This right here makes us strong. Let’s understand who we are as a team. Let’s understand who we are as men. And let’s make somebody smile when we walk out of here. Hell yeah, we lost the game, but so what? So what? I kept something inside of me so bad last night. A 17 year old child.

You know about the child, coach. He passed 10 a.m. yesterday morning. A bone cancer. His mama called me bowling. So sometimes you gotta ask yourself, how great is your pain? If he give you enough of an opportunity to come back and do it again. We got an opportunity to keep going, man. Let’s be strong as a team, man. Let’s be who we are. Ravens on three. One, two, three. Ravens.

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Every day, no? Every day, because I have a vision, I have my confidence, and I believe in myself. People call it arrogant, I call it confidence. Ignorant people call it arrogant, intelligent people call it confidence. Have you ever had one where you said something and then not being quite that confident? Never. Since day one, but not only when I came to MLS. Since I started to play football, because I believe so much in myself and I have a bulletproof mind and when I go out there, I know what I’m able to do. And I do it good.

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Alright, so you got to do me a huge favor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, bring it in I’m about to summarize this thing right listen to me. You got to understand something She wasn’t great just because she said she was great. She wasn’t great because they said she was great She was great because she didn’t take any plays off. Listen to me: He wasn’t one of the greatest that ever played the game. He’s not considered the great because he said he was great or because they said he was great. He was considered great because he did not take plays off.

You can’t make your milestones become a reality if you taking days off if you taking timeouts You got to go all in you got to dominate the day. You got to destroy Distractions you got to go all in are you hearing me? I know you’re tired. You’re not the only one that gets tired, But if you’re going to be able to make your dreams become a reality, You

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How do you deal with the tension of feeling that other thing pull away from you? You know that you need to focus, and you know that by focusing on one thing, another thing is going to start to drop away. But the classic overachiever mindset is, well, everything needs to be growing at all times. So there’s an emotional pain of watching something stagnate or watching something fall behind. How do you try and navigate that?

You just have to figure out what the priority is. And at certain times, you know, certain things might be a higher priority right now than it is at some other point, and something else picks up, and sometimes the family needs to be the priority, sometimes the business, sometimes the other business, sometimes the health. Like, you’re just going to have to weigh those things out and recognize that you can’t do them all simultaneously at the same time all the time. It’s just, it’s not going to work. So you got to figure out where you make some compromises, where you make some trade-offs.

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A lot of people say do what you’re passionate about Okay. Yeah, that’s true. But why is it true? Well, here I’ll explain it: because the first three or four years You’re not gonna fucking make any money. You think you are, but I promise you you won’t. and what’s gonna happen is You’re going to have to believe in this thing or enjoy doing this thing For long enough that it bridges the gap between when you start and when you actually start making a lot of money. And I’m not talking about Coaching on the internet.

I’m talking about building a real company with equitable back-end that you can sell later on. that actually makes you wealthy. I’m not talking about some internet bullshit, I’m talking about real fucking business. and So you need to pick something that you care about, that you’re passionate about, because you need to understand that From when you start to when it starts to produce fruit is going to be time, and that love and that passion, that drive Is going to have to carry you through that process. So I’m not talking about

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This morning I woke up with a slack jaw, poopy pants mentality. I’ve been traveling an awful lot and kind of wore down a little bit. I believe in taking days off. I think days off are real important for recovery and all that stuff. But I don’t believe in taking days off because your mentality is just feeling sorry for yourself. I deserve this or I’ve earned that mentality. And that’s what I was saying to myself. Today’s self-talk was horrible. So we all have one voice and that one voice is very powerful that says, hey, you’ve earned this, you deserve this, take time off, all that stuff.

Start developing the other voice, the other voice that fights that voice. When it’s not a designated day off, I don’t care if it’s running, swimming, biking, studying. If it’s not a day off, don’t take a day off and start developing that voice that fights the weaker voice. So remember that we all have one voice, work on the other voice also.

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First day when they left like a 80% didn’t show up the next day. I was like I kill most Australians and Bill they don’t even show up. 60% they don’t open the 9. I can go in there and make it happen. Are you hearing what I’m saying? There are people who say 60% it seems like here that a 70 is an A.

Just in this room alone. If you were at a 80 you’d be killing everybody because the average person’s at a 60. All right. All right. So listen to me. You can go from a 60. You don’t even have to do 70. You can go 60 120 and I will never forget my wife went home back to her mom.

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Just you, mano to mano, who’s talking inside? Is there anything left? Be at the bottom of the barrel, no place to go but up. That’s the voice that carries your weak ass, pathetic ass that everyone said goodbye to and left, to get the fuck up, find the intestinal fortitude, stand back up in a cloudy day until the sun comes out. That is your finest hour. That’s the positive confidence of pride, not the negative confidence of ego, we worry about other people. What we do every day, every single day, what we do becomes habitual and routine. Through practice, every single day, we do the same thing,

regardless of egocentrical ideas and ideologies, of weather, surroundings, elements, people, regardless. We’re on our mission because this universe, we are the center of our own universe.

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Most of the reason that we’re afraid to fail is because we’re afraid of dying in an abstract reality. We think, oh, we catastrophize. Okay, I’ll lose my job, and then no one will like me, and then I won’t be able to get a job again, and then I’ll be homeless, and then I’ll die. Like, it’s just, right? That’s how we go, right? But when I thought through it, I was like, what would actually happen? So if I went there and I failed, what’d I do? I was like, well, I’d apply to business school, and I’d have this cool story, and they like entrepreneurs, they’re people who try to do things.

So this would be fine, this would be okay. And I have plenty of friends who would let me sleep on the couch if I had to. I could go back to mom and dad’s house with my tail between my legs, which I thought, that was honestly the most horrifying thing that I could imagine going back home as a failure. If you say, because I used to always tell people, like, yeah, and I’d like to own my own business someday. It’s almost like you tag it on to, what do you do now? And I’d like to, and so I thought to myself, if it’s this hard now, when I have no kids, I have no wife, I have no stakes.

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One day I made a decision that enough is enough.

I’m tired of being average.

I’m tired. I’m tired of being good.

I’m tired.

I want to go to the dealership and buy the best car.

I want to move to the nicest neighborhood. I want to fly first-class. I want to go to Hawaii.

I want to go to Australia.

I want I made a decision enough is enough.

It’s showtime. Will the real Aaron Thomas,

please stand up.

Some of you in the room right now you are where you are.

You’re giving 60% when you have a 120 in you.

Why? Because you’ve never made a decision.

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Everything comes from the imagination. Everything comes from, like, before this microphone was a microphone, someone somehow thought about it. And how can I speak into something that would amplify my voice and blah, blah, blah, blah. And then this came out of it. And it’s evolved over the years. But everything comes from the imagination. So the power of the mind, people don’t understand. We still don’t understand. I still don’t understand how powerful it is. I’m still learning. But I know one thing is I can make things happen.

I can go into levels, I just can’t tell the world, but like these levels that like, I’ve manifested things that I’m just like, I still shock myself. Like, how the fuck did I make that happen? And this is not even to do with fighting. This is to do with my personal life. And I’m like, I made that happen. And this is through this like manifesting subconsciously as well, just years of something just manifesting, manifesting and boom, it’s right there. I’m just like, shit, I really made that happen. It’s scary, man. It’s scary for me to even think about.

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I had to stop giving a fuck about people. That was the biggest thing. I had to stop caring what people thought about me. I realized that everybody’s fucked up. That’s the one thing I realized. I walked around and I put these people on a fucking pedestal. Everybody was better than me. So I can’t tell you anything about me because you’re gonna judge me and I’m gonna feel even worse than what I am. What I realized once I calmed my mind down and sat back and looked at how jacked up this world is. Once you realize that you are not alone. Everybody that’s talking to you about how jacked up you are.

Only thing they’ve done better than you is they’ve hidden their fucked up world better than you have. That’s all they’ve done. So once I realized that if you want to sit back at like for instance there’s all these things that are on TV and we have all these news people judging people who fuck up in life.

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your ability to discount any good thoughts you have in your mind is going to be so strong. If you try and lead with positivity first, I need to think it, wish it, believe it, and I will achieve it. Your set point of negativity is going to just crush that into the ground. I’m speaking from personal experience, right? As the guy that was chronically unconfident and still has the imposter syndrome that does creep in. You have to start with action. It needs to be, okay, what would have had to have happened in a week’s time for me to look back on that week and find pride in myself?

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You got to go past fatigue. You got to go past tired. You’re not the only one with a setback. You’re not the only one with a deficiency. Others have had them, but they didn’t make excuses. They made adjustments. Others were tired. Others felt like giving up. Others felt like giving in, but they kept their milestone in front of them. They kept their eyes on the pod. Look, you got to dominate, dominate, dominate, and destroy. No excuses, no distractions, just adjustments. It’s your boy ET saying, if it was easy, ah, if it was easy, everybody would have done it.

It’s not easy, but I know something about you. You can get it done.

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We continue to do the path that we believe it. It doesn’t change in a biased nature of someone else’s opinion, or the fucking son or the no head strong, Confident, pushing through it And in the end state: you’re sitting in the Sun After good fucking workouts, you’ve paid your fucking dues today. Maybe pay him again later. I felt so good That’s when you go that far in the gym And you leave it all there in despair and you’re so weak and on your ass At your greatest hour. growth comes right now. the rest of nutrition, The demand has been created. Let’s go get supply now.

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Those days when I’m tired or worn out or Just Basically sick of the grind. What do I do on those days?

I go anyways, I Get it done. Even if I’m just going through the motions. I Go through the motions. I Don’t really want to work out. I work out I Really don’t want to hammer on a project. I hammer on the project. Don’t really want to get up and get out of bed. Yeah, I get up and get out of bed.

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There may be some days I get up with poopy pants and I’m like, you know what man, fuck this man. What am I training for? I have no race in the docket. Why am I having such a structured life, why? And I’m like, you know what, I’m good, I’m done. I retire every day, I’m done with this shit. And I sit around and I say, okay. And then this is my thought process. So you want to be normal. So you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world, not knowing the power that’s in them. Being fine with being mediocre. You want to go back to who you were, huh David? I’m like, fuck that man.

I have- And you have that conversation with yourself every day. Not every day, it’s those bad days. It’s those bad days. Got to see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. Now I’m talking about talent, like some God given ability. Talent that sometimes you have to hone and you have to work on and you have to harness yourself. And they just walk around on their phones, just clueless to how powerful they are.

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but you need to do something that is worthy of being prideful about, right? What would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week with pride? Okay, maybe stop breaking promises to yourself. When you say, I’m going to wake up tomorrow at 7am, and when the option comes to hit the snooze button, don’t do it. There’s one win that you’ve got for the day. That’s action, right? And it is just, you know, it’s tried to say the Peterson clean your room thing. But the reason that that works is that you start with the smallest ever step, and you expand out from that.

You want to become a writer. You want to leave your job and become a writer. Okay, can you commit to writing one blog post on Substack per week for the next three weeks? That would make you feel like less of a loser if you did that. Action has to come first if you’re the sort of person who is chronically unconfident, because you will drag your sense of identity behind you.

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plenty of time, like get better, train up your skills. And I said that for probably three or four years. And then after three or four years, when guys would come in, I would start telling them the opposite, which is you need to get on it. You need to be in here every day. The you’re, you’re almost out of time. You’re 22. You’re late because I realized I saw a lot of people that didn’t have any sense of urgency in their life. And when you don’t have a sense of urgency, things aren’t going to happen. You need to make things happen.

As we already discussed, they’re not just going to happen for you. You’re not going to become a good fighter. Unless you make it happen. And you’re not going to do anything in life unless you make it happen.

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you don’t know where you’re going, you’re lost. You know what I mean? You have no direction. So for me, I felt like both of them together, when you really, when you have the vision and you’re able to manifest, but then you also put the work in, magic happens, man. Magic, that’s where the magic is. But a lot of people never get there, unfortunately. A lot of people, we’re blessed that we can dream. And we’re blessed that we can dream. That’s one thing I’ve realized. Cause a lot of people, even from the impoverished parts of London will be lucky to have my old job,

from where I’m from, from Nigeria, a lot of people will be blessed to have my old job and they’ll be like, yo, this is, I have a great job. I can send money back home, this and that. But yeah, I just had bigger dreams. I just knew what I wanted. So I feel like I’m spoilt that I can dream the way I do and I can manifest the way I do. So I never take it for granted. And I realized the position that I’m in, I’m privileged. I’m very privileged.

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But Nietzsche said, I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn’t be a reason to not pursue it. That’s exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain, and there was no risk? The only true failure is shrinking away from life’s challenges.

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Come at a gym. Someone’s walking in as you’re coming out. They’re walking in a little tire that I see you like like having a fucking nightmare, a walking nightmare, Was it like I don’t want to be here and they see you already been here Done the work to do diligence sweat equity at all now leaving to start your day Scaring the shit out of them. You just paralyze them for their work out with that. They’re not winners anyway. Should be exhausted right now,

no days just beginning guys and you’re swear I cannot say it’s enough when you give me your all in there even though you exhausted you come out of here Everything else from this point forward in your day is easy and you had new found energy for it Everyone else is getting up going about their day in first gear. Boom You’re a fifth gear Mach speed. There’s like what the fuck is going on here? You’re gonna make them question themselves But it’s too late for them. This is your day.

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Early still man early some people just getting up going about the first endeavor of the day We’ve already done a few endeavors man. We already kicked some ass We like a taste of that one kick some more ass So the next ever never we’re doing because we put value in our day an hour in the gym wasn’t just an hour We just go in there check the box and get fuck. No, man. We had a plan of action We went in there and achieved that fucking plan. We spoke the words and we walked the motherfuckers. now here We stand, energized, spending energy in the gym,

But we create more energy and my body connection. I believe a quantum physics of it all Energy expelled value what we’re doing the belief in something hard work behind the belief grows into prosperity of something Fuck. Yeah, we need to just wake up and grab a fucking shower You know wash our nuts and then grab a coffee for some energy go to work. No, we’ve earned some fucking energy. That kind of energy, once lit, never goes out. Work better get ready for this man. You’re other employees and shit the house. You know the people you work with in those cubicles.

They’ve heard duck and cover cuz fucking heats coming in and you’ve earned guys. you do that every single day.

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you’re going to have some trades. Now, I take things to the logical extreme and say, okay, well, basis has kids, Bill Gates has kids, Warren Buffett has kids, this is just if you wanted to be, you know, business successful, it’s like, okay, well, then that can’t be a reason that I can’t be successful. And so, whatever reasons that we usually give ourselves in the beginning for why we can’t achieve something, you can almost always find not only just someone, but someone who’s achieved world class levels of success with worse conditions than you currently have,

which then means it’s absolutely possible. And then the only thing that it takes to get there is work. And so I just wanted to be very clear that if you are, you know, if you’re 22 years old, like the world does not hate you, you’re just not good at anything yet.

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But all the way home I kept saying I want her more than I want my boys.

I Want her more than I. there those of you in this room, you already there. your problem is there’s some stuff You don’t want to give up to go.

You’re talented. You just don’t want to give up sleep.

It’s not that you listen to me pound for pound any agent in the room pound for pound motivational speaker power for power Entrepreneur power for power at least power for power weightlifter power for power,

whatever you do I guarantee you when you do it. Nobody can do it like you do it. The problem is you don’t hardly do it. You love sleep too much. You love that alcohol too much. You love that substance too much. You love that vice too much. There’s something that you love more than yourself.

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Are you truly doing whatever it takes? Now, whatever it takes, obviously everyone has a different version of what that entails. Now, as far as bodybuilding goes, whatever it takes, I would say, are you eating 8 to 10 meals a day? Are you? The answer probably to 90% of the people out there is no, I’m not eating that much. Okay? Are you training twice a day? Are you working out 3 to 4 hours a day? 90% of the people out there are going to say no, I’m not working out that much. Are you doing cardio? No, I don’t have time to do cardio, 90% of the people will say.

Now, whatever it takes, when you look and you see the guys on the Olympia stage, it’s very easy to say, oh, they’re taking steroids, they’re taking more drugs than me, that’s why they’re up on the Olympia. No, mother fucker. They’re working harder. Give people credit where credit is due.

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Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships? You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball?

You think Jeff Bezos was just interested in shipping packages?

You think Elon Musk is just interested in whatever the hell he’s interested in today?

Those individuals are obsessed. They are obsessed. In order to be the best, in order to reach that next level, you can no longer be interested. Interested is a hobby. You can be interested in many things. Oh, I’m interested in reading. I’m interested in gardening. I’m interested in cars. You can fall in and out of your interest.

But your obsession stays with you all the time. You have to become obsessed. You have to become obsessed.

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The only way you can be open big is you have to be a champion. And not plug in a book on this, but really champions think, champions do daily what everybody do occasionally. Everybody else does. You just do it daily. You’re not, Yeah we do. You’re not, you’re not extraordinary. You just do the ordinary extra. That’s it. That’s what makes you, separates you. But it’s not for everybody. Every day you come on, you do the phone tap every day. But you just do it a little extra.

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You want to know if you’re talking about young men that might not have any direction right now, go do something that’s hard. Go try and accomplish something that’s hard. You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what, you’ll be better. If you avoid those things that are hard, if you don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water, and you sit on your couch and eat Doritos,

I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Just get up, move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. Move towards that challenge and go attack it. And you may be successful and you may not be successful, but you will be better.

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But I mean, it’s not every single week we play against LAFC. Today was a different game. Today was about a rival game, two teams from the same city. And obviously we need to get this attitude for every game. And the last game before this one was very poor, was poor, was probably the worst game we did. And today was probably the best game we did. So, but that’s what I said in MLS. Every game is like 50-50. You don’t know what the outcome will be. There is no favorites. There is no team that you can predict before the game that they will win. And that’s the balance that is in the MLS.

But yeah, today we win and we show that when we want it, we can do it.

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I just got off a 17-hour flight. And I’m sitting there thinking, take a day off. No more no. But I keep on thinking too, there’s always someone out there who’s working harder than you. I’m haunted by that mother******. Knowing that that someone out there is willing to forgo personal desires and comforts. Forgo sleep. Forgo whatever it takes to be better. To be the best. In life a lot of times, a lot of us have that person out there. There may not be a name or a face to him, but he exists. You make sure in life when you think about that person, you make sure they put a name and a face to it.

You make sure the name and face is yours. You do the haunting. Get in somebody’s head. Own space. In those times when you want to quit, because we’re all human, you make sure you remember one thing. All those times and hours and days you sacrificed to be the best. You’re the best.

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it’s really the person who can do that for the longest period of time. And that’s usually because they’re still getting leading indicators. It’s just that it’s a mounting to a much bigger mountain. And so like, if you want to do big shit, it takes a way longer period of time, because the easy bit, the little hills, everyone conquers really quickly. I’m on time. I say please and thank you. It’s like so fucking what and so like if you want to do something that most people can’t do literally just extend the time horizon on the things that most people can’t weather. Like,

there’s so much opportunity on the other side of being willing to persist for an extended period of time on the correct path without getting positive reinforcement from your environment. And the longer you can stick with something without that positive feedback loop in terms of the big external thing, the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them.

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Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

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And the fucking sun’s out, how about that? What once was dreary and gloomy and despair and cold is now a day to go to the beach. How funny is that? How fast can you turn your day around basically? That’s unbelievable. Some people gonna sit around and wait for the opportunity to change, like this, and then they get the fuck up. Some people strike when that iron’s hot. All the people just keep on striking until the fucking blade so hot it slices through anything. Some people get up in the middle of a snowstorm or a rainstorm.

Pushes through listen to their pride not their ego and what happens the Sun comes out birth of a new day new opportunities. We’re living. We’re not waiting for it to pass by.

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light day is at least a seven mile run. I will, every other day, so about four days a week, calisthenics plus gym workout. So I don’t do any gym workout without hitting pull-ups, push-ups, I call it nickels and dimes. So like five pull-ups, 10 push-ups, or I’ll go quarters and whatever, like 25 pull-ups or in like 50 push-ups. So I have all these different things I mess up. So I will do weights with calisthenics and every single night I stretch. For at least every night, I stretch for at least two hours. Two hours? Every night, every night.

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If you work out too much you’re over training. Oh, if you did not bullshit That’s for lazy fucking people to say that shit. Oh it’s. I’ve been training an hour. I better not training you longer because I’m gonna be over training and I’m gonna fucking tear my muscles down. So you leave the gym? Oh you fucking work out for three or four hours The more you put into anything the more you get out and this is supposed to be motivational I’m not talking shit to people out there.

I’m motivating and I’m waking people up To understand that you need to do whatever it takes if you’re working on opening a business You need to be working on that shit 16 hours a day. You want to make that it’s successful. They need to be busting your ass, Doing whatever it takes, putting everything into it.

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and they say, oh, it’s okay, brother. We’ll take a day off, maybe get a pizza and watch the game. We like that. We love that feeling. Why? Because you understand, man, we’re good, bro. We don’t want that motherfuckers like this. Hey, man, no, bro. Get your fucking shit on, man. Stop being a punk. We don’t want that in our lives. We don’t want that person who’s constantly challenging our weaknesses. We want that person who’s constantly making us feel nice and good and secure in our, that’s the mediocrity of life. We want to be the best amongst the average people.

People wonder, how do you stay hungry all the time? Because after I accomplish something, I don’t sit back like a lot of guys who graduate buzz, graduate this, graduate that. They get comfortable. They wonder why I’m getting weak, man. I don’t know, I lost my edge. What’s going on? Because once you hit the top of the fucking mountain, guess what happened? I’m good. I’m good. So you wonder why you’re falling down now. You wonder why you’re falling down now.

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You guys need to start taking responsibility for your actions. When you start taking responsibility for your actions, you start to find the belief in what you’re doing, the passion behind it. You create value in what you’re doing. There’s no longer mundane tasks. Everything has a purpose and an instinct. There’s a direction to a designation. If you don’t like a designation, you’re going to. Well, you can’t change that overnight. You cannot change it overnight. But you can change the direction overnight.

So if you are looking at your life right now and what you do every single day and it’s a one-way street to hell with no return, that’s not so appealing to me, man. I don’t want to be part of that. So get off that beaten path society says is so right. Believe in yourself and what you’re doing, man. Say, fuck that. Now that that is going into nowhere. I don’t want to be nowhere. I want to ensure that I am some value to somebody. I want to ensure that I am some value to somebody.

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It was life and death. Either you live or you die. Which one do you want, Tom? That was the decision. In the corporate life and in the gym. But if you want something bad enough, if you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something. I’ll repeat that. If you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something, not even yourself. A lot of days I’m like, oh, you can’t do this, Tom. You can’t be as quick as a 30-year-old on the computer. Bullshit! Let me show you, man. I would have arguments with myself. I could do it.

People doubted me. I doubted myself sometimes, too. But you know what? I watched Arnold fall down. Nobody remembers when he fell down.

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Every day I feel like eating Every day, I feel like giving my wife the best life every day I feel like driving in a nice car every day. I feel like flying first-class every every single day of my life I feel like giving a hundred every single day somebody said yesterday E.t. You gave 120 what you’re gonna do tomorrow. I said, I don’t know, get 140, I don’t know. but I don’t have days where I don’t feel like it, Because I’m counting on me, my wife’s counting on me. I don’t have days to waste.

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Every fucking day I wake up, I don’t want to do some fucking shit. I’m like, okay man, do you want to be a bitch today? Do you want to feel like a little bitch? Do you want to walk around all day knowing that you could but you didn’t? So it’s performed without purpose. You have to learn how to get up and do shit when you ain’t got no fucking 5K, no 10K, nothing. Nothing exists, your life fucking sucks. You’re in the fucking dungeon. But guess what, motherfucker, I’m still going to get it. Because when that time comes,

because the time is going to come when that purpose is there, you’ll be ready. But most of us fucking aren’t ready because we don’t know how to do without having the golden carrot in front of us.

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You feel okay about yourself now because you’re saying to yourself that you work just as hard as them. They’re only better because they’re taking drugs or they’re taking more drugs. Guess what? Wrong! Wrong! They’re working harder. Admit that shit. Admit that you’re not willing to do whatever it takes. You’re not willing to do that. You’re not going to work out for three or four hours. You’re not going to eat eight to ten meals a day. You’re not going to get on the step mill, even in the off-season, and fucking get on there and fucking go to work for an hour.

Now, oh yeah, but the step mill, you know, when you do cardio in the off-season, it burns. No, it doesn’t burn muscle. That’s an excuse so your lazy ass doesn’t have to fucking do the step mill. You know what I’m saying? Man up! If you’re not willing to do what it takes, at least be willing to fucking admit it. Drives me fucking crazy when people take credit away from people that are truly working their asses off. So, do whatever it takes. Reach your goals. Make your dreams come true in whatever it is in life. And you can always do more.

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And by simply going through the motions,

you overcame that path. And you stayed on the righteous path, the discipline path, you stayed on the war path.

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So I’m out here in Eugene, Oregon. Just got through training with Cameron Haynes. If you don’t know him, make sure you look him up. We did a 50K yesterday. A lot of people ask me about, you know, how do you train for ultra marathons? The big thing is you gotta put some big runs in followed by some medium runs. Yesterday I did a 50K. My legs were all beat down. What was me tired for like shit? But guess what? I know, how about days off? One day, but not today. If you’re training for a nice big race, get your legs all tired, mucked up, jacked up,

where your mind and body say, I don’t wanna fucking do shit anymore. And guess what you do? You go out and get some more miles in. So yesterday I did a 50K. Today I’m gonna do a nice 15 miler. Nice and easy. Legs feel like shit, but that’s how they’re gonna feel at mile 60 and 70 of a hundred mile race. Get after it. Like I said, not today. Get after it.

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We’re all wrapped up here. Remember I said the sun was going down? Well, it’s down. It’s the bed. The sun is gone until tomorrow morning. So what are we going to do? We’re going to go home and slam our protein with that 45-minute window, man. We’re going to feed our muscles and put our muscles to bed too so they wake up in the morning even stronger ready for the next day. Ready to come and kill it again. Improve every single day, guys. This is a little saying I live on. And I think you guys should try to incorporate this too. My question to you is, what makes for a good day?

Think about that for a second. I’ll tell you what my thing is. What makes for a good day for me is that I go to bed that day a little bit sharper mentally and physically than when I woke up that morning. If I can go to bed stronger mentally and physically than when I woke up that morning, then I can combine that day with another day and another day to make a good week to a good month to a good year. There’s nothing out there I can’t control. Nothing out there I can’t overcome. Nothing out there I cannot become.

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in experience and repetitions that people who are ahead of you or have achieved what you want to achieve have over you. And so the only thing you have now, you do have an advantage, you have a couple. Number one is that you will have more energy than they do, period. And so your ability to work long hours, sleep less, and maintain high levels of focus while maintaining peak fluid intelligence is at its peak. Use it. The second thing is that you have nothing to lose. And so the thing is, is people always fear being the new the new entrant.

But when you have nothing to lose or you have nothing going for you, it also means you have nothing to lose. And that means that every position on the board always has an advantage because anybody who has achieved this big thing that you have was also once a 22 year old who had nothing going for them. And you’re at zero. Right. You can’t get worse than this. You have unlimited shots on goal. And so not taking the shot is like saying, life, I don’t want to scratch off this lottery ticket, but the lottery ticket’s free. Why would you not scratch it off and try it?

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If you are going to rest, that is one thing that you should procrastinate on. That’s the one thing I want you to put off until tomorrow. And if, when tomorrow comes, you still feel like you need to rest or you need to take a break, then okay. But the chances are you won’t. You won’t need that rest. Chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness.

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That direction can be changed in an instant. It’s a mindset Just like we walked in there that blitzkrieg. What it is is two forces joining. One is the belief in what you’re doing like Muhammad Ali believe so much. He was a champion He says a champion before he wasn’t champion. That’s the belief. It has to be that way. That’s the steering wheel of life, the direction. Then what’s gonna fire that through is the engine?

You’re undying will, the conviction to see it through. that was Michael Jordan’s quotes. I Failed and failed and failed and failed, and because of that I succeeded, Learned and learning got stronger and stronger. It’s like that steel going into the lava: get hotter and hotter and hotter and You know this hammered into the strength, the tensile strength of it all. It takes that kind of pressure of life to create something that’s in the test time.

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I don’t need to prove nothing, even if I don’t score the goals today. I have a lot of respect for Vela. He’s a good player, but you did one mistake. You compared him with me. That was your biggest mistake.

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I told you, this is the year I’m pushing you. This is the year to get it done. This is the year to rid all excuses. Listen to me, I don’t care none about your good intentions. Good intentions have never helped somebody lose weight. Good intentions have never helped somebody finish school. Good intentions ain’t never paid nobody bills. We not on intentions, we on execution. So, you say, ET, this is my year. I’m going to make that milestone happen. This is the year. Listen to me very closely in order to make that a reality. No plays off, no days off. That’s right. Say it with me.

No plays off, no days off. There is a reward on the other side, but there has to be no plays off, no days off. Look, when you’re trying to accomplish some little short-term goal, when you’re trying to get something real insignificant done, you can take some days off. But when you’re trying to get that milestone done, when you’re trying to get to the other side of that milestone, when you’re trying to change your life, no plays off. Listen to me, no days off.

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So ain’t about one play, ain’t about nothing. This year, we did what we were supposed to do. We fought as a team. We fought as a team. There will be one Super Bowl champ crowned at the end of this year. That’s it. So the way we feel, somebody gonna feel like that tomorrow, and somebody gonna feel like that in a week. That’s a fact. And the fact is, we gotta come back and go to work to make sure we finish it next time. That’s all we gotta do.

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If you feel like right now you’re looking around with, and you’re lost or directionless, I would take about 15 minutes and figure out what the hell you want to do with your life. And I would start getting after it. So that’s, that’s my advice. Take 15 minutes and figure out something that you’re into and go crush that thing and, and make it happen.

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Well, everybody, it’s Groundhogs Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about three o’clock in the morning and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing, not a car or a person in sight. People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car, there’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hate it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it.

I’m loving that. While everybody’s getting weaker, I’m getting stronger. It’s not about the running, the swimming, the pushups, the sit-ups. It’s about what those things do for your mentality. You don’t get better on the daggone couch. You get better by coming out here and getting the fuck after it every daggone day. Stay hard.

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So you think that I’m done, that my career will soon be over.

You don’t know me. All my life I had to fight. No one believed in me. So I had to believe in myself. Some people wanted to break me, but they only made me stronger.

Others wanted to exploit me. They only made me smarter. And now you think I’m done? To all of you, I only have one thing to say.

I’m not like you, because I’m not you.

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you’re going to work out two hours a day, you’re going to monitor your progress in the mirror, and then you’re going to see what happens. And the guy says, okay Rich, I’m going to do that. That is what I want to fucking hear. I want to hear positive. I want to hear someone that is willing to do whatever it takes. When I give them advice, they’re going to take that shit and they’re going to run with it. That’s the one that’s going to be a champion. That’s the one that’s going to fulfill their dreams, fulfill their goals, is the person that’s willing to do whatever it takes.

And I can sit and talk with someone for 10 seconds and I can determine what kind of person that is just by our discussion. And when I’m at an expo and people come up and talk to me, you know, I get about 50% of this and 50% of that. And what you have to do is you have to change your mentality. You have to be willing to do whatever it takes. So if I tell you you need to do six to 10 meals a day, your answer is, okay, that’s what the fuck I’m going to do.

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Fired up man, fired the f**k up man, motivated, pumped up man. Early still man, early. Some people just getting up, going about their first endeavor of the day. We’ve already done a few endeavors man. We already kicked some ass. We like a taste of that. We want to kick some more ass. So in the next ever endeavor we’re doing, because we’re putting value in our day. An hour in the gym wasn’t just an hour where you go in there, check the box and you get, f**k no man. We had a plan of action. We went in there and achieved that f**king plan. We spoke the words and we walked the.

Now here we stand, energized, spending energy in the gym, but we created more energy, a mind-body connection, a belief, a quantum physics of it all. Energy expelled, value in what we’re doing, and the belief in something hard work behind the belief grows into prosperity of something. F**k yeah. We didn’t just wake up and grab a f**king shower, you know, wash our nuts and then grab a coffee for some energy to go to work. No, we earned some f**king energy. That kind of energy once lit never goes out.

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No plays off, no days off. There is a reward on the other side, but there has to be no plays off, no days off.

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You’ve never researched something. I want you to do everybody do one thing. I want you to research the story of David and Goliath. I want you to understand what the king told David when he put on the armor on David and he said I want you to fight Goliath with this armor because he’s huge, he’s nine foot tall. And David said something that was very key to the king.

He said, King, I can’t fight your fight.

I got to fight my fight.

It’s about fighting our fight. 2005, I had one of the most tragic injuries ever and I couldn’t help my team. So the leader was took away. So that could be doubt. But if you still have a leader and Joe Flacco, you got to rally around. You got to get behind him. And it ain’t about wins or losses. It’s about loyalty. It’s about understanding. I’m going to make the play or I’m going to watch the play be made. It’s simple. It’s if I could tell my safety, you cover this because I’m going this time.

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Well, everybody, it’s Groundhog’s Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here, you see it’s about three o’clock in the morning and there’s not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here, it’s the same thing, not a car or a person in sight. People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places, but right now this morning, I’m getting it from there’s not a motherfucker that’s up. There’s not a car, there’s not a person. Everybody’s in their bed, sleep, dreading that it’s a Monday, hate it’s a Monday. And I’m loving it.

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Those of you in this room you already there your problem is this and stuff.

You don’t want to give up to go.

You’re talented. You just don’t want to give up sleep.

It’s not that you listen to me pound for pound any agent in the room pound for pound motivational speaker power for power Entrepreneur power for power at least powerful fire weightlifter powerful power, whatever you do I guarantee you when you do it. Nobody can do it like you do it. The problem is you don’t hardly do it.

You love sleep too much. You love that alcohol too much. You love that substance too much. You love that vice too much. There’s something that you love more than yourself.

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starting not tomorrow, not Monday, not next month, starting right this motherfucking minute, I’m gonna start doing what it takes. For the rest of the day, I’m gonna eat every two and a half to three hours solid food, because I’m willing to do whatever it takes. Now, you can drink three shakes, and you can eat three meals, but that’s the half-ass way to do it. That is not the 100% way, the 5% way to do whatever it takes to reach your goals. That way is the easy way out, drinking shakes instead of meals. That is the easy way out.

Cooking food and bringing food and eating food that you know and everybody knows is the way to get there quickest.

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If I get in that mode of where I feel tired, like, oh, I just, I think I’m overworked, I think I’m over-training, I think maybe I should just take today off. I won’t take that day off. I won’t take that day off. I’ll say, okay, if I’m still tired tomorrow, okay, I get it. But if I wake up 4.30 in the morning, I go, man, I really don’t feel like working out today, I think I might be over-training. Cool, I’m gonna go work out right now. If I feel the same way tomorrow, then I get the day off. You don’t wanna make, you don’t wanna rationalize the situation, right?

You don’t wanna give yourself an opportunity to say, well, you know, I’m, cause there’s a million excuses you can come up with at 4.30 in the morning. I’m over-trained, I need more sleep, I need more rest, I think I’ve, my circadian cycle is off. Whatever excuse you wanna come up with at 4.30 in the morning, , you can do it. You’re smart. You can win that debate all day long. That’s why I don’t negotiate. I don’t negotiate those things. I say, oh, if I’m still feeling tired tomorrow, I’ll take a day off. Cool, got it. But don’t take today off, save it for tomorrow.

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Today was a different game. Today was about a rival game. Two teams from the same city and obviously we need to get this attitude for every game. And the last game before this one was very poor. Was poor. Was probably the worst game we did and today was probably the best game we did. So, but that’s what I said in MLS. Every game is like 50-50. You don’t know what the outcome will be. There is no favorites. There is no team that you can predict before the game that they will win. And that’s the balance that is in the MLS. But yeah, today we win and we showed that when we want it, we can do it.

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Work better get ready for this man. Your other employees in the house, you know the people you work with in those cubicles, they better duck and cover because fucking heat’s coming in. You’ve earned guys. You do that every single day. You are, you repeatedly do. In anything you do. If you look in the mirror and you frown upon yourself, you created that. That’s not an accident, it’s a habit. It’s like you look in the mirror and you smile because you see excellence. That’s not an accident, it’s a habit. You start, you guys need to start taking responsibility for your actions.

When you start taking responsibility for your actions, you start to find the belief in what you’re doing. The passion behind it. You create value in what you’re doing. There’s no longer mundane tasks. Everything has a purpose and an instinct. There’s a direction to a designation. If you don’t like a designation, you’re going to. Well, you can’t change that overnight. You cannot change it overnight. But you can change the direction overnight.

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I can’t. You can’t? Are you fucking kidding me? You just said I can’t? Like, I wanna fucking bitch slap that motherfucker. You know what I’m saying? I can’t? I don’t have time for people that are weak and they say I can’t. No, you can. You will. When I say you need to eat more, it’s great when someone says, okay, I eat five meals a day, Rich, what do you suggest? Okay, buddy, I suggest, why don’t you bump it up to six? Keep it there for two or three weeks and then bump it up to seven. Keep it there for two or three, so then bump it up to eight. Keep eating eight meals a day.

Look at yourself in the mirror, keep track of your progress. How many hours a day do you work out? An hour? Okay, why don’t you try working out two fucking hours a day?

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What do you do on the days that you don’t feel like? So I’m gonna be honest with you. I’m way past that every day. I feel like every day. I feel like eating every day. I feel like giving my wife the best life every day. I feel like driving in a nice car every day. I feel like flying first class every every single day of my life. I feel like giving a hundred and twenty every single day. Somebody said yesterday ET you gave 120 what you’re going to do tomorrow. I said, I don’t know get 140. I don’t know but I don’t have days where I don’t feel like it. Why because I’m counting on me.

My wife’s counting on me. I don’t have days to waste.

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You’re grinding and it’s not doing something you want to do. if it’s a grind that you can’t embrace, then You got to find a way out of that, right, you got to find you can’t trade, You don’t want to trade days for dollars, because dollars don’t mean anything. days all you got, so You got to find a way out now. This does not mean you need to be rash about it. This doesn’t mean tomorrow you walk in, I’m not doing this job anymore, I’m out, and now you’re broke. no, Don’t be rash and don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater,

But do come up with a long-term plan about what you want to do, how you want to do it, where you want to do it, and this might take One year or two years or five years. it might take five years to get to where you want to be. That’s okay. That’s fine. It’s. it’s actually kind of cool When you’re grinding right now because you know there’s something that you’re working towards in the long run. That’s actually awesome.

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So I’m out here in Eugene, Oregon. Just got through training with Cameron Haynes. If you don’t know him, make sure you look him up. We did a 50K yesterday. A lot of people ask me about, you know, how do you train for ultra marathons? The big thing is you got to put some big runs in followed by some medium runs. Yesterday I did a 50K. My legs were all beat down. What was me? Tired, feel like shit. But guess what? I know. How about days off? One day but not today. If you’re training for a nice big race, get your legs all tired, mucked up, jacked up,

where your mind and body say, I don’t want to fucking do shit anymore. And guess what you do? You go out and get some more miles in. So yesterday I did a 50K. Today I’m going to do a nice 15-miler. Nice and easy. Legs feel like shit. But that’s how they’re going to feel at mile 60 and 70 of a 100-mile race. Get after it. Like I said, not today. Get after it.

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There comes a day where being average, being mediocre is just sickening to you. It’s just sickening. It makes you want to throw up because you’ve seen people with far less talent than you as you’re growing up with them. They’re childhood buddies or whatever else. They didn’t have what you had yet now they’re f***ing to become something that you haven’t. There comes that day. It’s either when you’re young, you know, and it strikes you on the baseball field because you’re sick of striking out or it’s when you get fired from your fifth job, you know,

when your wife and kids are on your ass because you don’t know how to support them anymore. There comes a f***ing day where push comes to shove, where being mediocre, being like average and s*** just f***ing burns and sucks so much. You can’t deal with it one more day and you get off your f***ing ass and you create something that’s always been there. It’s always been inside of you trying to come out, but you’ve never wanted to unwrap it because it’s too much f***ing pain and commitment.

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If you have to ask how to get motivated to go to the gym, you don’t need to be going to the gym. You don’t want it enough. When you’re sick and tired of looking and feeling like it, you’ll show up, I’ll see you there. Cause you’re going to look in the mirror and you’re gonna be like, fuck that. You’re gonna want to be in the gym. And if you’re going to make this a lifestyle, you have to lower the barriers, make the gym cheaper, closer training partners, exercises you like. And you have to raise the impetus, goals, inspiration, and a fucking goddamn real desire to be there.

The people that have no problem showing up to the gym are the people that want to be there. And no amount of Rocky Balboa fucking movies are going to get you to that place. A lot of that is also built with the experience of having the gym be a place where you get results by pushing yourself, winning little mini challenges, and having fun with it.

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it won’t get harder. This is the hardest part. And so if you can just make it through this, everything else is downhill. It’s not that the things that the dragons are going to slay aren’t going to get bigger, they are, but you become so much more equipped to slay them back. And you have so many more allies. You have people in the stands cheering for you. You have the audience. You have all of these other things that are behind you. But at the beginning it’s just you with a stick against a bear.

And arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon when you have a nuclear bomb and six nations behind you. And so it’s not even like the size of the hardship. It’s just also the resources and how few of them you have and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you have, which is time. Because you have no leverage. You don’t have the money to pay other people to help you. You don’t have the resources to go get someone to… No one can learn it for you.

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When you trying to accomplish some little short-term goal, when you trying to get something real insignificant done, you can take some days off. But when you trying to get that milestone done, when you trying to get to the other side of that milestone, when you trying to change your life, no plays off. Listen to me, no days off. All right, so you got to do me a huge favor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, bring it in. I’m about to summarize this thing, right? Listen to me, you got to understand something. She wasn’t great just because she said she was great. She wasn’t great because they said she was great.

She was great because she didn’t take any plays off. Listen to me, he wasn’t one of the greatest that ever played the game. He’s not considered the great because he said he was great or because they said he was great. He was considered great because he did not take plays off. You can’t make your milestones become a reality if you taking days off. If you taking timeouts, you got to go all in. You got to dominate the day. You got to destroy distractions. You got to go all in. Are you hearing me?

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Rome Wasn’t built in a day. We all know that, Everyone’s hears that. but Rome also Didn’t fall apart overnight either. it took Hundreds of years for Rome to reach its peak, But it also took time, hundreds of years, for Rome to decay and fall apart. and That is representative of life, Because you don’t achieve worthwhile goals quickly or Easily. they take time, they take struggle, they take Relentless pursuit day in and day out. That’s what it takes.

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shoulder shredded super set workout Come to you great click calm Will help you stay fit and eliminate competition External competition as well as interior competition. That’s the biggest block for most people is that they get in their own way. You come here and hit the gym, hit a whore that we just did. don’t tell me you don’t leave with a little bit Higher stock down on yourself, you know take that into your next day grows and grows so cheap And it’s gonna think we’re possible small things small things that the big things that’s it took good life Start giving back

so being a little more other people see them try aggressive Transforming themselves you have a cost of course. Yeah, that’s what it’s all about, man. Anyway, great put. help you stay fit. have fun with that workout now.

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Like right now, it becomes harder every day. The more you get paid nicely, the more you buy nicer things, the more you go from sleeping on fucked up cots to sleeping on fucking mattresses that are formed to your shape of your body and heat temperature and silk sheets and all this shit, man. Man, it’s hard to get out of bed with some silk sheets, brother. And that fucks people up. That’s why I ain’t got silk sheets. And this is the thing about it. I started going through a time in my life where I started becoming more successful. With more success, it became harder for me to be Goggins.

So what I started doing was I went back to the old school. Like I said, nothing is learned at the top of a mountain.

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Someone’s walking in as you’re coming out. They’re walking in a little tired, and they see you and they’re like, like having a fucking nightmare, a walking nightmare. Cause they’re like, I don’t want to be here. And they see you already been here, done the work, the due diligence, the sweat equity and all. Now leaving to start your day, scaring the shit out of them. You just paralyzed them for their work, yeah, well fuck that. They’re not winners anyway. Should be exhausted right now, no. Day’s just beginning guys. And I swear, I cannot say this enough.

When you give it your all in there, even though you’re exhausted, you come out of here, everything else from this point forward in your day is easy. And you have new found energy for it. Everyone else is getting up, going about their day in first gear. Boom, you’re already fifth gear, Mach speed. They’re just like, what the fuck is going on here? You’re gonna make them question themselves. But it’s too late for them. This is your day.

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You know, whatever you want to do in life is possible. And that’s been something that I’ve been able to realize firsthand. You know, as a 10-year-old kid, would I ever think I’d be sitting here? Been like, you know, I’ve been able to do everything I’ve ever wanted in sport. Would I say I’d be able to do it 10 years ago? Probably not. But I didn’t give up. I think that’s the biggest thing. And, you know, if it was easy, everybody would be doing it. There are always going to be ups and downs, but I think it’s really how you get back on your horse and keep going forward.

And I think the biggest thing that I’ve always said is never give up. And I never have. And nobody ever should. If they want something bad enough, they’ll get it. They have to work for it. Yeah, it’s not going to be easy. But if you want it bad enough, they’ll do whatever it takes to get there. I think that’s probably the easiest way to put it and the best way to put it.

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The very foundation of leadership is the ability to make freaking decisions. All right. You have got to be able to make decisions before you can ever build anything else. You have to build a lot on top of that to become a good leader. But you have got to make a decision in your life. You have got to make a decision about your fitness. You have got to make decisions about your business. You have got to make decisions about your faith. You have got to make decisions about your marriage. You have got to make decisions about your kids. Because you know what your only other option is?

To crouch in stagnant fear like a coward and potentially die and potentially put the lives of everyone who depends on you in jeopardy.

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But it’s like, do you wanna do this or not? Which is what I think a lot of it boils down to. Do you actually wanna do this or not? Do you actually wanna do this or not? Cuz if you actually wanna do it, what’s gonna stop you? Nothing. And if you don’t really wanna do it, what’s gonna stop you? Just about anything that comes up. Just about any obstacle that gets in your way becomes an excuse. It becomes a reason. It comes a rationale for not proceeding down that path. And this is interesting too. When you talk to people that went to SEAL training that didn’t make it, most of the time,

it’s some reason. There’s a medical reason. There’s a family problem. There’s very few people that look at you and say, I quit cuz it sucked. Which is what, by the way, which is what happens to the vast majority of people. The vast majority of people that don’t make it through SEAL training, and by this I mean 80, 90% of the people that don’t make it through SEAL training, they didn’t make it through because they quit.

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I had to go back to where David Goggins was fat in his mind. I said, how did you get to where you are? I became feelingless. And what that means is I’m not saying turn off your feelings towards your family, your wife, your husband. I’m not saying that. Turn your feelings off when it comes down to you wanting to be better. What that means is when that alarm clock goes off,

your feelings got to go away. It’s raining outside. It’s cold outside. When you don’t want to put those long hours in that work, that’s what I’m talking about. Your feelings must go away.

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It’s a man on a man every time you play the game. It’ll never change. It’s about winning one-on-one battles. Fight your fight. It’s our fight to fight. One in six doesn’t define who you are. What defines who you are is what you do when you’re one in six. What the man you will fight for. Just everything you got today, not because of the scoreboard. But because when this game ends, you have a brother to call for life. Knowing you gave everything you had. That’s why you play as a Raven. That’s why you fight as a Raven. That’s why no matter what nobody on the outside says, fight your fight.

David found a way to fight his fight. Ravens.

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Sun has gone to tomorrow morning. So what are we gonna do? We’re gonna go home and slam our protein, that 45-minute window, man. We’re gonna feed our muscles and put our muscles in bed too, So they wake up in the morning even stronger, right for the next day, ready to come, and you kill it again. Improve every single day guys. This is a little Saying I live on and I think you guys try to incorporate this to my question to you is what makes for a good day Huh? Think about that for a second. I’ll tell you what my thing is. What makes it a good day for me? Is that I?

Go to bed that day a little bit Sharper mentally and physically. then I woke up that morning. If I can go to bed stronger mentally physically then when I woke up that morning And I can find that day with another day and another day to make a good week to a good month to a good year There’s nothing out there. I can’t control nothing out there. I can’t overcome nothing out there. I cannot become.

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That’s the thing. success and failure are generally slow processes, either slowly building things up or gradually tearing them down.

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I’m not going back through that shit, man. I’m not going back through the suffering and shit that it took to become who I am today. So I’m slowly trying to build this brand to the point where I can slowly, hopefully, make people from motivated to driven, because motivation is crap. It’s shit. People right now, maybe listening to this shit, they’d be motivated to go run. If it’s cold somewhere where they’re at, a lot of my friends will shut that door, go back inside. That’s motivation. It comes and go as how you feel.

If you and your wife are good, if you and your kids are good, if you’re good at work, you’re motivated. I like a motherfucker whose life is imploded, ain’t got shit in life, and says, still got to get after today, man. That’s what it’s about. So that’s when you move from motivation to driven, to obsessed. And I want people to realize, once you get to this portion over here, the driven, obsessed part, you’re unstoppable.

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I will never quit. Because if you quit, you’re done.

You may still be alive, walking around on this earth. You’re done. I will never quit. I will persevere and I will thrive on adversity. My team expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than our opponents. I hold myself to that standard. I will be physically harder and mentally stronger than anything that comes against me, my family, my business, my brothers, my sisters, my team. I will be the one that is physically harder and mentally stronger. And I will work to maintain that position.

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You were scared you’re gonna fail. you’re scared. if you started, you never finish it. You didn’t want to tell anyone about. you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it. until something fucking hits, You get fired or somebody else gets success, remind you what you could have been, and then the fucking spark is born And, no matter what happens, I’m never gonna be in this boat again. And you get up and you go, even against knock down. you keep going, keep going. you a wild man, and life has never been So sweet that can happen early age it can happen at a later age

It’s gonna happen to somebody every you know no matter what’s gonna happen to you And when it does happen to you think you’re lucky stars that finally you’re alive It’s time to unwrap the potential you can be superior man. It’s within you, It’s within every single one of us, and the people that have that have risen to that level. We’re no different than any one of us. It’s just they believed it and they’re willing to work their fucking ass off to get it.

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Get better train up your skills. And I said that for probably three or four years. And then after three or four years, when guys would come in, I would start telling them the opposite, which is you need to get on it. You need to be in here every day. The you’re, you’re almost out of time. You’re 22. You’re late because I realized I saw a lot of people that didn’t have any sense of urgency in their life. And when you don’t have a sense of urgency, things aren’t going to happen. You need to make things happen. As we already discussed, they’re not just going to happen for you.

You are not going to become a good fighter unless you make it happen.

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everything comes from the imagination. So the power of the mind, people don’t understand. We still don’t understand. I still don’t understand how powerful it is. I’m still learning, but I know one thing is I can make things happen. I can go into levels, I just can’t tell the world, but like these levels that like, I’ve manifested things that I’m just like, I still shock myself, like how the fuck did I make that happen? And this is not even to do with fighting, this is to do with my personal life. And I’m like, I made that happen.

And this is through this like manifesting subconsciously as well. Just years of something just manifesting, manifesting and boom, it’s right there. I’m just like, shit, I really made that happen. It’s scary, man. It’s scary for me to even think about.

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Are you interested or are you obsessed?

All right?

Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships?

You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball?

You think Jeff Bezos was just interested in shipping packages?

You think Elon Musk is just interested in whatever the hell he’s interested in today?

Those individuals are obsessed.

They are obsessed.

In order to be the best, in order to reach that next level,

you can no longer be interested.

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Like the expectations that we have to do whatever it is that we want to do. Switch it to like it’s almost a mindset of I don’t have to, I get to. Right. Approach everything with a level of gratitude. Secondly, look at the things that you do and see what you can extract from it. So when you lose it, is it really a loss if I can extract a level of dedication from it? Like when I didn’t make it to the NFL, I looked at the process and said, OK, I got to hang up the cleats, but let me extract that mindset. Let me extract that work ethic. Let me extract that dedication and commitment.

So now that I can extract that, I can apply it to anything that I want to do in my life and get a chance at success. But most importantly, man, you got it. You got it. You got to look at things and say, like at a certain point, like eliminate the outcome. Stop being driven by rewards. Stop being driven by outcome. Stop being driven by if I get this, I’m going to do this. Just work.

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I don’t need the outcome, but are there leading indicators that are telling me that this I’m on the right path? And so identifying ahead of time, just like we have a problems that we identify, like, okay, if we succeed, like people recognize you in the street, you’re not gonna be able to go out as much, like all these are problems that I’m gonna have to deal with. Cool, I’m willing to pay for those. But what are the things along the way that will tell me that even though I haven’t achieved Mr. Beastdom, that I’m on the right path?

And so I think having those little indicators allow you to keep taking steps towards the ultimate thing and continue to push. I mean, I have a different tweet, which is that the world belongs to those who can continue to work without seeing the result of their work, continue to do without seeing the result of their doing. And it’s really the person who can do that for the longest period of time. And that’s usually because they’re still getting leading indicators. It’s just that it’s a mounting to a much bigger mountain.

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People cannot relate to you, man. You are un-fucking-relatable. When you come out here and say, hey man, I’m the baddest motherfucker to ever live. Okay, great. Well, I… What am I going to learn from you? You learn from people who are willing to tell you this is where I started from. This is how much I fell on my fucking ass. This is how bad I used to really be. I still have those moments because why? You’re human. We’re all jacked up, man. We’re all jacked up. And that’s what makes my story relatable. I’m willing to let you in to see I’m decently successful now.

But I didn’t come out like this, man. I didn’t come out… That’s the story. Is you have to give people just a little bit of hope. There’s no hope when they didn’t see greatness in you everywhere. You have to be able to get yourself down to a level of, check it out, man. There’s hope for you. That’s all I’m trying to give you. Just a little bit.

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Interested is a hobby.

You can be interested in many things.

Oh, I’m interested in reading, I’m interested in gardening, I’m interested in cars.

You can fall in and out of your interest,

but your obsession stays with you all the time.

You have to become obsessed.

Interested people watch obsessed people change the world.

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It’s in anything you do. It applies to doing a job, making more money, playing golf, cooking, raising children, teaching, anything at all. Now, while this has long been known by the most successful people in the world, it seems to have escaped the great majority. Whatever it is that you would like to do better, act as though you’re a top-flight expert at it. And if you continue to play this part long enough, you will become an expert. Before you can do something, you must first be something. Before you can do what you would most like to do, you must first become the person who can do it.

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But if you want to fucking go to that edge where people do not like you don’t understand you question everything you fucking do You you’ve arrived When you are misunderstood to the point where fucking people think you’re psycho and you’re nuts and you’re this and that why are you in? The fucking gym at one o’clock in the fucking morning. You just got through doing an op where people like what the fuck is wrong with this guy? I don’t want to talk to you, man, because you’re not gonna get it. You’re not gonna get it boom. Don’t want you to get it. Yeah, don’t want you to get it, You.

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When you go out and you train hard to play baseball and you connect and you hit the winning home run, you wanna feel that way again. When you taste these finer things of life,

all the pain, all the work, all the sacrifice to get them is well worth it. If anything, it’s a small down payment for the price and the reward you got. And that feeling once felt, how do you ever turn your back on it? Stop running from the potential of what you can be guys. It’s inside of you, it’s always been there. Grab a buddy of yours, say, man, me and you are gonna do this together.

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And so like if you want to do big shit, it takes a way longer period of time because the easy shit, the little hills, everyone conquers really quickly. I’m on time. I say please and thank you. It’s like so fucking what? And so like if you want to do something that most people can’t do, literally just extend the time horizon on the things that most people can’t weather. Like there’s so much opportunity on the other side of being willing to persist for an extended period of time on the correct path without getting positive reinforcement from your environment.

And the longer you can stick with something without that positive feedback loop in terms of the big external thing, the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them.

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Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it’s squandered.

God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables. Slaves with white collars.

Advertising as is chasing cars and clothes. Working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no great war, no Great Depression.

Our great war is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.

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And you know what obsessed people do? Obsessed people give interested people something to talk about. They give you something to talk about. Everybody that who’s obsessed, everybody who’s obsessed in their business, in their field of action, what are, they are the topic of the conversation of the employees at work. They’re the water cooler conversations. They’re the individuals people are texting about. Because they’re so engrossed in your life with your obsession with what you’re doing, they don’t have time for their own. Because they’re interested in what’s going on with them.

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Just go for it, work, go to work.

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I’m always going to give it my 110%. that’s the only thing I can ever say. Solid days work. That’s all that will ever find peace in. if you guys do not do that, I promise you your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. If there’s potential inside of you which you know It’s there But you’re too scared to tell anyone else about it, and you go on and on, get older and older, and older and older, and The windows are between start to close and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it. I promise you it will haunt you. It’ll be more. it’s a living nightmare, dude,

That fact that you had the ability to do something and you’re too weak to fucking turn the key and start the engine on it. It’s a greater disappointment and a greater burden to carry than any. this physical sweat equity or pain in the gym or or sacrifice- all that is just Nothing compared to a life Where you’re burdened by regret, guys.

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I don’t take any days off.

No days? No days. Seven days a week?

Seven days a week. Normal day, so let’s say a light day.

Light day.

Light day is at least a seven mile run. I will, every other day, so about four days a week, calisthenics plus gym workout. So I don’t do any gym workout without hitting pull-ups, push-ups, I call it nickels and dimes. So like five pull-ups, ten push-ups, or I’ll go quarters and whatever, like 25 pull-ups or 50 push-ups, so I have all these different things I mess up. So I will do weights with calisthenics and every single night I stretch. For at least every night I stretch for at least two hours.

Two hours?

Every night. Every night.

So you stretch after you’re done working out?

Yeah, so at night time usually I’ll be either in a quiet room or I’ll be watching TV, I love sports, be watching the game and I’m on the floor, man, and that’s what I do.

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Because those seconds, they turn into minutes. And minutes turn into hours. And hours turn into days. And days turn into years.

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Eagles fly alone. I have no friends. Friends are problems. Friends are challenges.

If you can’t, if you aren’t into yourself, and that means something else now than what I mean, if you’re not into yourself enough that you can’t spend the weekend by yourself, then you’re, something’s fucking wrong with you. Vis-a-vis self-esteem, being a high-performance person, and accomplishing high-performance acts, something’s wrong with you.

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You have to watch. You have to watch every single second.

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So if you are looking at your life right now And what you do, everything every single day, and it’s a one-way street to hell with no return, That’s not so fucking appealing to me, man. I don’t want to be part of that So get off that fucking beaten path society says it’s so right Believing yourself of what you’re doing man say fuck that Now that that is going into nowhere. I don’t want to be nowhere I want to ensure that I am some value to somebody Especially myself so i’m going to change the direction of where i’m going That direction Can be changing an instant.

It’s a mindset, Just like we walked in there that blitzkrieg what it is. It’s two forces joining One is the belief in what you’re doing like muhammad ali believed so much. He was a champion. He said he was a champion before he wasn’t champion. That’s the belief. It has to be that way. That’s the steering wheel of life, the direction. Okay, what’s gonna fire that through is the engine?

Your undying will.

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When you know everybody’s gone home to their families, but you want to be the top salesperson in the world? Or you want to be the best lawyer in the world, who the fuck it is? When everybody leaves to go home, and there’s only one light on, in a building, a 15-story building, and only one office, every office is fucking dark. There’s one office with one light on, and as those motherfuckers go from the club, they look up every day, two o’clock in the morning, and that fucking light’s always on. That’s the motherfucker right there you gotta be.

You can’t have feelings about when everybody leaves, oh man, I wish I was going home to my fucking beautiful family. That is true. But you gotta learn to shut your feelings off, if you want to achieve greatness.

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Most people are incapable of picking a direction and going. Just going. They observe the possibilities. They get paralyzed by all the possibilities. They refuse to move forward on all the possibilities and then time passes them by. So it’s very important that you make a decision and you go down that path. You commit to that path with the mentality of having zero options. I don’t have a choice but to see this through, okay? If I don’t see this through, I’m going to be digging ditches. That’s what I tell myself.

When I don’t want to come here and I don’t want to do this and I get tired of, you know, doing what I do, which happens to everybody. You go through ups and downs. I pretend like I have zero options. I say, well, if I don’t fucking do this, bro, I’m gonna be digging ditches. So I better show the fuck up and get it done.

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Lion is the king of the jungle. How can he be the king of the jungle? If he’s not the biggest, the elephant is probably one of the biggest. He can’t be the fastest because that’s a cheetah. He can’t be the smartest. So he’s not the biggest, the fastest, or the smartest. So how does the lion become the king of the jungle? His mentality. That’s the only difference of a lion and an elephant.

When a lion walks up and sees an elephant, he thinks lunch. An elephant thinks run.

And it’s all mentality. Because when a male lion walks up, he may be outnumbered by a pack of hyenas, but I’m king of my jungle because of my mentality.

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It’s cool to grind man. That’s what we’re here to do you’re here doing stuff right if you’re not doing anything Well, then what are you doing? so? the other thing that’s cool, though, about grinding and working is is That when you get that freedom right that you work hard for it’s gonna be so much more worth it The discipline that you put into place to get to that freedom that you want it makes that freedom so much more worth it I’m glad you’re grinding. I’m glad you’re grinding hard, but don’t just make that trade. It’s not a square trade. days for dollars, It’s not a square trade.

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I know you’re tired. You’re not the only one that gets tired. But if you’re going to be able to make your dreams become a reality, you got to go past fatigue. You got to go past tired. You’re not the only one with a setback. You’re not the only one with a deficiency. Others have had them, but they didn’t make excuses. They made adjustments. Others were tired. Others felt like giving up. Others felt like giving in. But they kept their milestone in front of them. They kept their eyes on the prize. Look, you got to dominate, dominate, dominate, and destroy.

No excuses, no distraction, just adjustments. It’s your boy ET saying, if it was easy, ah. If it was easy, everybody would have done it. It’s not easy, but I know something about you. You can get it done.

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The list is what you’re supposed to do, what they told you you’re supposed to do. And the more society changes, the less important that list is. We’re to a point now where even mainstream colleges don’t even require, or mainstream jobs don’t even require college degrees anymore. You see what I’m saying? A lot of them. Things are changing. Yeah. And so being of sound mind and learning how to critically think and learning how to think outside the box to get to the destination that you want to get to is extremely important.

And you should have the foresight to do that before you spend all this time dedicated to that thing and then figuring out that you can’t get where you want to go.

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Every day, because I have a vision, I have my confidence, and I believe in myself. People call it arrogant, I call it confidence. Ignorant people call it arrogant, intelligent people call it confidence. But have you ever had one where you say something? Since day one, since day one, but not only when I came to MLS, since I started to play football, because I believe so much in myself and I have a bulletproof mind, and when I go out there, I know what I’m able to do, and I do it good. Please, do not offend me. I don’t need to prove nothing, even if I don’t score the goals today.

And I have a lot of respect for Vela. He’s a good player, but you did one mistake, you compare him with me. That was your biggest mistake.

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the conviction to see it through.

That was Michael Jordan’s quote.

I failed and failed and failed and failed and because of that I succeeded.

You learned and learning got stronger and stronger.

It’s like that steel going into the lava get hotter and hotter and hotter and you know just hammered into the strength,

the tensile strength of it all.

It takes that kind of pressure of life to create something that stands the test of time.

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And so that second, that second that just went by, that counted, and so did that second, and so did that one. And in those precious seconds, you were either building or you were decaying. You were either gaining ground or you were losing ground. in that second, and in every second.

Every second counts.

So make every second count.

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Didn’t go to the doctor and get surgery and get a new brain and get a new heart I didn’t pay any money to get it like an upgrade. I didn’t get Eric Thomas 5.0 I was the same guy then what happened II how do you have almost a PhD? How do you have a million multi-million dollar company? How are you traveling across the world? How are you competing with a Tony Robbins when you come from nothing one day? I made a decision that enough is enough. I’m tired of being average. I’m tired. I’m tired of being good. I’m tired.

I want to go to the dealership and buy the best car I want to move to the nicest neighborhood. I want to fly first-class. I want to go to Hawaii I want to go to Australia. I want. I made a decision. enough is enough. It’s showtime.

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So another year is coming gone and a lot of us are in the same place we were last year. What the f**k are you waiting on? We sleep one third of our f**king lives and we think we can take f**king days off. We think we have the right to sit back and give ourselves f**king options on which way we’re going to go in life. Am I going to run today? Am I going to work out today? Well it’s Christmas. It’s New Year’s. It’s my birthday. Do you think time gives a f**k that it’s Christmas, that it’s New Year’s, that it’s your birthday? You’re giving yourself too many f**king options.

Let me tell you one thing, time is running out. You keep on sitting around wondering what the f**k you want to do. You’re just going to run out of time. So make sure you do one thing, stop following the f**king crowd. They may take time off but you can’t afford to. Stay hard.

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And you’re not going to do anything in life unless you make it happen. So if you feel like right now you’re looking around with, and you’re lost or directionless, I would take about 15 minutes and figure out what the hell you want to do with your life and I would start getting after it. So that’s, that’s my advice. Take 15 minutes and figure out something that you’re into and go crush that thing and, and make it happen.

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As our feet become heavy, our lungs start to bleed, and our hearts race in. It’s in this state that we get to find out the true value of our dreams. For we all know what’s right and wrong in a sedentary state. We all know when we’re relaxed exactly the person we want to become. The question is, do we believe we can become it?

Without that belief, every journey will run into a debate. That debate is when pain starts to fill the body. You wait a temporary pain for a set lifetime of pride.

What are you gonna do? How bad do you want it? There’s two options, to continue forward, pushing upward. And if you do, that dream is given birth, and forever you will live in the reality of it. If you stop, quit, throw in the towel, I promise you there’s no distance you can travel far enough to ever find that dream again. For it is dead, and in its death, it’s replaced by regret. But right now, it’s your choice.

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She ran and I just couldn’t move. What are you doing? That’s when I knew I couldn’t handle pain anymore. Because this is why it is. People forget about anything that you can think of. You need to love pain to be an athlete. And I know, no pain, no this, whatever, all the, you know, the… The cry of sin. Oh my… No, this is real. You need to love pain. However, mentally, physically, love it. You need to love it. If not, stay where you are.

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Even when I’m scared or I have fear, I’ll go to the point where my kids, I’ll go there. My kids depend on you. I was actually running today by running a can. I was like, if I quit on here, I’m quitting on my kids. It’s just things like that keep me pushing. As a sports player, I think it comes from that background.

Tom Bilyeu: Yeah. Leverage questions. I like that.

Jason Williams. Yeah, leverage questions. Tom Bilyeu.

Why do you think it’s important to move towards things that scare you? Jason Williams?

Because on the other side of that is your growth. On the other side of that is strength. Even in going through pain, I look at pain as a positive thing. I’m not talking about putting yourself through pain on purpose, but it’s just like working out.

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Your mama gonna be pissed when you write the book about your family. Do you really want this? Do you really want this? Cousins gonna abandon you. people that you used to be like this with gonna think you, bougie, don’t want to deal with you. That’s, it’s a part of it, but I paid too much. If I was gonna quit, I would have quit in the abandoned building when I wanted to commit suicide and take my life, and I Don’t talk about that because I don’t want to get nobody ideas. I should have quit when, when I heard my voice say your mama don’t want you, your own daddy Don’t want you take your life.

I Got through that. So why I’m gonna quit over grade of a app, on a grade? Why would I quit? because I didn’t do well on the master’s degree? come on. And so I’m telling y’all: you have come too far to quit now. You have invested too much to quit now. you have lost too much to quit. now Get it get a reward for your pain. Don’t cry about it. Don’t whine about it. get a reward for it.

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If you get finished, you need to move the fuck on. I’m here. I just finished Anthony Pettis via verbal tap, right? Verbal tap. Anthony Pettis, and we have to give him credit because that dude’s a champ. He was a champ from WC. He’s Mr. Kickoff the Cage. You guys gotta realize when you’re up and coming, you see these guys doing these types of things, it’s crazy. You have to up your level. You have to up your game, not only mentally, but physically and emotionally. You gotta be testing yourself inside and outside of that octagon. I’m doing these sprints. I’m doing these hill climbs.

I’m doing this crazy stuff, right? And I’m putting it out there. Just wait until next week. I’m gonna throw out my real videos of my training. You guys will really see what I went through. This was no easy task for myself.

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What God was telling me is, you stuck on good son. You got the best two jobs in your life. You got your dream job son. But this is only the beginning. This is not the end. This is not where I want you to be for the rest of your life. And so I was blessed because I went through so much pain that that pain actually pushed me. You better hear what I’m telling you today. I’m telling you that that pain pushed me to prosperity. That pain pushed me to greatness.

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You know, the only way you’re going to get strength in your life is if you go through that hard moment, that tough moment. I wouldn’t have a story if it wasn’t for the sucky times in my life. I wouldn’t have a story if it wasn’t for me going through my depressed moments. So realize this, just because it’s a chapter, it doesn’t mean it’s your whole story. So for me, I just understand that it’s very important to embrace pain, to go through it because I believe the foundation of all strength is pain.

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If you don’t feel frustrated when you’re learning something, you’re not learning. And you’re deluding yourself, and you’re probably going, so they call that practice that I mentioned before, where you practice what you’re weak at, deliberative practice in the business, when people talk about skills. You’re deliberately working on what you’re not good at. Your tendency is to try and make things easy for you because you don’t like pain, we humans don’t like pain. So if you’re going through your practice and things, wow, things are really easy,

I’m enjoying it, it’s fun, you’re probably not learning, you’re probably doing this lopsided practice that we’re talking about, and you’re avoiding your weaknesses, and things are going too smoothly. The frustration isn’t just the fact also that you’re not mastering it, it’s also that it’s kind of, it seems like a mystery, you don’t quite know what you need to do, something is eluding you.

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A lot of us out here are pushing real hard, but we’re afraid to go to that dark side in your mind. When you push real hard, you have this door in your mind and A lot of us don’t want to open that door. Once you open that door, You’re in a tunnel. It’s a dark ass tunnel and you can’t see shit. But there’s one thing about being in dark places: If you have the courage to stay in there long enough, Your eyes will start to adjust to the darkness. Your body and mind will always adjust to more suffering, to more pain. if you want to push harder, know this: Your mind quits way before your body does,

so you have to be willing to go away into that darkness and find more yourself. Stay hard.

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I had two gigs, are you hearing me? The first one I got fired from, man, you better hear what I’m telling you. The second one, it was so toxic, I had to walk away. Listen to me closely. Listen to me. There was a time in my life, right, I went to work and I stayed in my room. I cut the lights off. Unless a student came to see me, I was listening to my music. I prayed like I never prayed before. I spent more time with God, more time in the world. Listen to me. I had pain going through me. I felt sabotaged. There were some people who I felt they were out to get me.

Are you hearing what I’m saying? They wanted me gone. You’re talking about haters. And I went through this for a whole year. Are you hearing what I’m saying? I’m talking about sabotage. I’m talking about pain. I’m talking about, there was days I didn’t want to get up. There was days I didn’t want to put my clothes on. There was days I didn’t want to face the world. Are you hearing what I’m saying? But I realized when I look back at it all,

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I was in a way happy. I’ll tell you why. Because I stopped.

Some people stopped because of injuries. Some people stopped because of different stuff. I stopped.

It wasn’t my terms. I stopped. You know, it’s better than… people were like, Thierry, you still can play. Oh, I knew I could still play. But I stopped. So I didn’t have a problem with stopping.

Like, you know, you know, the fear that day. I didn’t have a problem with that. But I didn’t know what’s going to come after. You prepare yourself, you pass your badges, you prepare yourself mentally and whatnot. But then, how do you feed the competitor?

How do you feed the guy that loves to play when he can do it or not every three days?

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Embrace the pain, is what I say. Pain is good for you. It’s great for you. When you work out, we all like to work out. I’m a fanatic of working out, and particularly swimming is my thing. It’s painful. You know, I swim long distances. I used to swim several miles. Now I can only do like a mile and a half at the most. But you reach the half a mile or three quarters of a mile, man, it’s like, this is no fun. But when you finish, and you’ve gone through weeks and months, you feel, the value that you get is much greater than the pain. That pain, that resistance is good for you.

And the idea that you wanna sweeten the pot, or shortcut, or get something, you know, like a sugar high, you’re already on dangerous ground. Yeah.

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This is a term that we hear for someone that’s addicted, someone that’s an alcoholic, someone that’s physically let themselves go, someone that’s put themselves into a situation with their finances or their work or whatever, where they reach rock bottom. But when the excuses all go away, and people can actually confront the fact that this is all because of me, and this is, it hurts, but is also unbelievably empowering. Because if these problems are because of me, then I’m capable of fixing these problems. So even though extreme ownership hurts and is painful,

it’s also liberating because now you have control over your fate and over your destiny, and that is a glorious thing.

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People rock with me because I know what you’ve been through and I didn’t quit. I know what you’ve been through and I didn’t stop. I know what you’ve been through and I didn’t whine. You know what I did?

I got my reward for it. And not only did I get a reward for it, my wife got a reward for it.

My kids got a reward for it. They’re going to live a different life because of what I went through. And had I quit,

I would have been just like my father who left me with nothing. I would have been just like my grandfather who quit.

So I’ve been in circles and in families and environments where people take L’s.

I don’t take L’s no more.

No more L’s in my life.

All we do is win, win, win.

No matter… Come on,

say it with me. All we do is win.

Come on. All we do is… Come on. All we do is… No matter… Come on. All we do is… Come on.

All we do is… All we do is… No matter… So take quitting out your vocabulary. Take it out.

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Yeah, absolutely. I’ve had messages like on Instagram or LinkedIn where people have gone through our training. It’s like, hey, I had this situation at work and I thought about that time where you took the gun away from me and told me to lead, you know, cause when they’re not detached and they’re just getting after it with their gun, but they’re actually in charge, like every now and then I’ll take their gun away. I’m like, Hey, lead now you can lead cause you don’t have the gun. And, and so, you know, they’ll, they’ll write back like,

I remember the time you did this to me, or you said this to me. And, and I say that at the FTX is I’m like, Hey, you know, going through that pain actually solidifies that lesson way more. And it’s like, Bruce Lee says, the pain will leave you when it’s done teaching you. It’s one of my favorite quotes. And I tell people that too, like in my brief in the morning, I’m like, Hey, we’re not here to teach you leadership. I mean, we’re not here to teach you tactics. We’re here to teach you leadership.

And in the absence of knowledge- because you don’t have any knowledge doing this- what do you have? to lean back on your leadership, which is simply you trying to influence another 25 people towards a common goal.

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I don’t know if you saw the commercial, he was lifting and he said, he said, Emmitt said, you know what, I want a soup bowl so I can rest now. He was doing his bench press. So he said, I want a soup bowl so I can rest now. So he throws up about 325, boom, and he rests for about two seconds. Then he’s boom, boom, boom. Did you see that? He’d already won a soup bowl. He said, I think I’m gonna take a rest. And he rests for how long? One second. Most of you won’t be successful because when you’re studying and you get tired, you quit.

And I’m here to tell you today, if you got it, somebody came to my office the other day crying. I said, look, don’t cry to give up. Cry to keep going. Don’t cry to quit. You already in pain. You already hurt. Get a reward from it. Don’t go to sleep until you succeed. Listen to me. I’m here to tell you today that you can come here. You can jump up. You can do flips. You can be excited when we give away money. But listen to me, you will never be successful until I don’t have to give you a dime to do what you do.

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where failure is what stood, instead of improving failure for success. Failure is part of the recipe for success. You fail a thousand times before you succeed. Every single person has. It’s the losers that fail once and quit. Every winner has done failed. The loser and the winner both have failed. It’s just that the winner gets back up and does it again. Very lonely road successes. Know that going into it, but it’s the only road that will lead to a life of remembrance.

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2008 was brutal.

In 2008, we had the third consecutive failure of the Falcon 1 rocket for SpaceX.

Tesla almost went bankrupt. We closed our financing round. 6pm, Christmas Eve 2008. It was the last hour of the last day that it was possible. We would have gone bankrupt two days after Christmas otherwise. And I got divorced. That was rough. Man, I’m in a squat tissue now.

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There’s some responsibilities, there’s some milestones, there’s some goals. They’re going to be tough. It’s going to be hard to do. It’s going to be obstacles, right? There’s going to be tests, right? You’re going to get tired, right? You’re going to want to give up. You’re going to want to give in. But listen to me very closely. You got to man up. Get your weight up. Get your weight up. You got to man up. No more, I couldn’t give my wife no excuses. Listen to me. I can’t pay for my kids to go to school. I can’t pay for my kids to eat. I can’t put a roof over my kids head with excuses.

So I just had to man up. So I’m telling you, get your weight up. No more excuses, just adjustments. And remember, execution is worship. So from this day forward, we will execute. Say it with me. I will execute. Say it with me. I will execute. Say it with me. I will execute.

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Cry if you must. Rest if you must. Rest. And it’s a lie, you’re not alone. It’s a whole bunch of us here. It’s a whole bunch of entrepreneurs here. Don’t you ever lie and say you’re alone. You choose to go in the corner and cry. You choose to go in the corner and close the door. You choose to be alone. We are here and we’re here for you. So one more time, all we do is? Win. All we do is? Win. Come on, New York, all we do is? Win. No matter? What? No matter? What? No matter? What? All we do is? Win. All we do is? Win. All we do is? Win. No matter? What? Take losing out to vocabulary, guys.

Get to the end and get your prize.

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Who knows the right amount of surgeries I’ve had? None of y’all. I’ve had five to six surgeries. I can’t even remember how many surgeries I’ve had. But that’s plenty of time to learn a thing or two about a thing or two, don’t you think? And take an opportunity to say, you know what, I’m not gonna take your condescending handshake, therapist guy. I’m gonna do this shit on my own. You’re telling me six months to a year? I’m gonna do it in three months. I did it in less than five months, ladies and gentlemen. Why? Because I was good health, good rest. I took the Kobe Bryant approach.

The more I got towards this fight, sleep less, run more, workout more, feel better, eat good, rest more. Repeat the process over and over and it showed inside that octagon tonight. Anthony Pettis, very game opponent. We did our homework and we saw him quit. We made him quit.

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Hey you I want you to know that without forgiveness. There’s no freedom. You’ll always be a slave to the pain, to the brokenness, and you’ll always be a slave to your past. without forgiveness, Your life would just become a reflection of the person who’s hurt you. You’ll have no trust to give because that situation is stricted from your life. You’ll never see the good in anybody because you’ve been hurt by who you love most. without forgiveness, You’re just allowing that person to cheat your life,

Cheat you out of the love that your heart deserves to get and cheat you out of love that your heart deserves to give, Cheat you out of your future relationships because they’re now suffering from your past. Now their pure intentions of loving you gets mislabeled by hurt that they didn’t give you. Don’t allow your heart to stay hardened with hurt, because it’s impossible to get to a new destination of love By carrying a baggage full of pain. It’s time for you to give back the love that Situation stole from you, and that love that you lost can only be recovered through forgiveness.

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I was in pain every morning, really. Pain. Pain was never going away. All day, both sides, both of my Achilles. Just sometimes I felt a bit better, sometimes not. But every morning I was in pain, afternoon, night, for 10 years. So I’m at home with my daughter and she comes close to me and she touches me and she goes, you it! And she ran. I wanted to run, I couldn’t.

I wanted to run, I couldn’t. I looked at her, I said, hey, you won. I couldn’t chase her. And I stopped, I went, what are you doing? Like, I couldn’t, I just couldn’t.

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As long as you stay within that frame, you can feed whatever you need to feed to satisfy that little thing that you have your ego, you’re avoiding your problems because you prefer to be the athlete than the human being. Because then the athlete, it’s easier. You know what to do. Well, I knew what to do. Even if it was painful, whatever, I knew what to do. This is why when you go there, so it’s easy for a little while when you have your career. But I think you remember that as an athlete, and I say it and I will maintain it, you die when you stop. The athlete, a competitor, dies.

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It’s the few that do, the few that do in life, that creates the envy for the many that just watch. You might be watching this video, or maybe you watched some great sporting event over the weekend or whatever, a great TV show, something that moved you to another level emotionally. You get excitement out of that, maybe a little envy, you want to do that too. And be part of the few that do, really do. Be part of the few that do, instead of the many that are envious and watching, you know? Get out of the grandstands of life. Stop being spectators. Stop becoming subject matter expert.

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And that pain pushed me to write a bestseller. Are you hearing what I’m saying? I did my homework, y’all. I found out Adele, Adele, the album 21. It was the best album. It was the best single. It was the best song. Are you hearing what I’m saying? It was the best record. She won six Grammys. Y’all not hearing what I’m telling y’all. But have you done your homework? Have you done your research? You’ll discover in 21, there was a point that she stopped. She lost her creativity. She couldn’t come up with songs. She couldn’t come up with thoughts. She couldn’t find anything original.

But then she, ah, then her man had dumped her for somebody else. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? And that pain, she went through pain. And that pain pushed her back in the studio. And that pain produced six Grammys. That pain produced top album, top single, top song. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? I’m telling you, you going through pain. I know what you feeling. I know exactly, cause I’ve been there. I’ve done that, but you gotta work through it.

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I can never play again in the Prem. I can never play for France anymore. I don’t care what people say, You can play football, not at that level, not competing the way I used to compete, and that part of me died. So people don’t teach you to die.

So now you are going to face all your problems Because you could put them on the side, because you’re playing games, Because you have other things that will cover that, but once, once, everything stops. we’re not used to be at home.

When I used to deal with a normal life since I’m 13,, I never had a normal life. Understand me. Well, I’m not complaining. I’m just saying to go back, like to the, to the real world. It’s a, it’s a shock to the system, Because you’d actually technically not equipped to live in that world.

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How about pain? Why is it the most real? Try arguing it away. Good luck. So pain is the fundamental reality. All right. Well, that’s rough. Doesn’t that lead to nihilism and hopelessness? Yeah, doesn’t it lead to a philosophy that’s antithetical towards being? The most fundamental reality is pain. Pain? Yes. Is there anything more fundamental than pain? Love. Really? If you’re in pain, love and truth, that’s what you got. And you know, if they’re more powerful than pain, maybe they’re the most real things.

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So today, although we’re slaves, we’re going to act like we’re free, and one day our children will be free. If the slaves would have just said, we quit, we give up, we would have died in the middle passage. But some slaves said, I don’t care what we go through, we’re going to survive this. 400 years of slavery, we’re going to get through this. And you can’t get through an 1825.

You can’t get through a writing class and you got tutor after tutor, resource after resource. The problem is, you ain’t never felt no pain before. You’re soft. It’s a soft generation. You quit on everything. Our people did not quit. Harriet Tubman not only made it, she went back and got some more.

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I’m not saying it’s easy man. The results you get you’re gonna love them man. It’s gonna make all the sweat equity all this pain right now all worthwhile. The thing about pain is like you feel it right now it’s temporary man but later in life you don’t remember the pain you just remember like the glory and the good times. I also went through West Point you know or Ranger School. Man. there was some really dark hours, dark days and dark years in my life, man. but looking back on it I mean I just remember the good people and the good times.

I don’t remember all those fucking you know times where I was just so fucking done and worn out. I don’t remember that. I just remember that I made it through it. You know and that exhilaration of pride and achievement man that outweighs all the pain and struggle you know and that sweat equity to get there. It really does as long as you get there. That’s why,

when they say pain is temporary pride is forever that’s what they’re talking about because if you push through the pain to achieve the pride you forget about the pain was ever even there but if you can’t push through the pain and the pain stops you and breaks you down then that pain is forever because you never got pride to outbalance it. Go through this man you start feeling the pain it’s all good man welcome it. Welcome it man. If right past pain it’s forever pride man. We all love that don’t we?

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behind that pain is a understanding that I don’t have this skill. Or is an understanding of I didn’t try hard enough. Or is an understanding of, oh maybe there’s just another option. Because guess what, sometimes you may have done the best pitch in the world, and you just had an executive that didn’t like your vibe. Keep going, keep asking different people. Yeah, keep going. You’ve just got to realize that there’s one, there’s a, you have to engage that pain in discovery.

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And if you work through your pain, on the other side is a reward. Listen to me, pain ain’t permanent. Ah, you better hear what I’m telling you. Your pain ain’t permanent. Your pain ain’t permanent. You can get through this. You’re bigger than your pain. You’re better than that. And let me tell you something, when I left both of those jobs, I made up in my mind, E.T., you’re gonna work through this. You’re gonna get up. You’re gonna get dressed. You’re gonna get out. And you’re gonna do what you’ve been called to do. You’re gonna be what you’ve called to be.

You’re gonna have and you’re gonna prove to everybody that tried to break you. You’re gonna prove them wrong. Everybody that tried to stop you. Everybody that tried to kill your dream. You’re gonna prove all of them wrong. Are you hearing what I’m saying? I didn’t get here today. Hey, man, I didn’t get here today because of the reason you thought I got here. I got here. I got here with pain.

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Understand this, forgiveness is for you, not them. Forgiveness won’t change the past, but it will sure bring peace to your future. Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you’re weak. It means that you’re strong. It doesn’t right the wrong for that situation. What it does is take the power out of that situation so it can no longer paralyze your heart. It doesn’t excuse their behavior. It prevents their behavior from destroying your heart. Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you have to go back to that situation. What it means is that you truly set yourself free from that situation.

And I’ll leave you with this. You can always move on from the person, but without forgiveness, you’ll never move on from the pain. Don’t allow your heart to stay in a place where your presence is no longer at because you failed to forgive. But like I tell you in every single video, it all starts with you. Keep moving forward and let nothing hold you back.

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When you’re hurt, how do you feel? You lay down, right? You take a second, you go, you know, you take your vitamins, you do your thing. When I’m hurt, I love it. I love that feeling because it’s real. That’s the most realest feeling that you could ever have, is being in pain because everything else, happiness could be fake, crying could be fake, but pain, shit, that’s real. I got kicked in the leg. It hurt a little bit, but I walked it off. When I got kicked in the leg and I smiled, that was real. It did not hurt.

It took me four months because I’ve had great trainers, trainers meaning doctors, okay? Doctors, therapists that have helped me battle back from my arm.

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Everything worthwhile is uphill. And today’s word is uphill. You see, every dream that you’ve ever had, it’s all uphill. If you have a great relationship with somebody, you had to work on it. It’s uphill. If you’ve built a wonderful business, guess what? It was uphill. If you’ve made the right decisions, they’re not easy, are they? It’s uphill. And the only way that you can go uphill is to be intentional. Nobody ever accidentally went uphill. You’ve never talked to a successful person and said, how did you get to the top of the mountain? And then look at you and say, I have no idea.

If they’re at the top of the mountain, they know how they got there because they had to have effort. It took energy. It took time. Everything worthwhile, everything worthwhile is uphill.

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Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year, but eventually it will subside. And something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.

Listen to me, I’m telling you all as I leave, telling you as I leave, I was homeless for two and a half years. And the problem with most of you, you never felt no pain before, y’all spoiled. Y’all spoiled, some of y’all spoiled, just bottom line. Your parents have done everything for you. You never had to do nothing for yourself, you’re spoiled. We’re gonna keep it real tonight. Some of you are spoiled brats.

Every time you ever got in trouble, somebody in your house got you out of it. Every time you’ve done something you’re not supposed to do, people say, Eric, your mother’s a tyrant. You’re right, she kicked me out. You’re right, she’s mean, but she developed a man, because she put me out there and said, you’re gonna have to grow up. And some of you have never learned to grow up. And so every time something get hard, you quit, you call mama. I dare you to take a little pain.

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It’s like a knife driving through it. And it’s painful as shit, guys. But you know, in a weird way, maybe I’m sick in the head. But when I know that knife’s coming in there, then I know my muscles are going to a point down a path that’s not beaten. They’re creating their blaze trail, making a new path. They’re going down a path that no one’s been on, especially them, pushing their means of what they’re used to. That knife represents growth. Every success in life, guys, is masked by temporary pain.

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I was getting ready to go for a run with a few guys, so I was taking my shirt off and they saw my stress marks. And one guy asked me, where the fuck did you get all those stress marks from? So I had to share with this guy what all this scarring was. That was 297 pounds, insecure, had doubts, had a fucked up, just a fucked up mind. So there’s a lot of scars we have on our bodies that people can see and they tell a story. But a lot of us have scars in our brains about fucked up lives, bad childhoods, bad adulthood.

Whatever the fuck you’re going through, those scars in your brain, we don’t talk about. We hide. Scarring is proof that our past is real. But the one thing we do is we allow it to control our lives. And we get off the log. Well it’s time to get back on the log and not have those scars define the rest of your fucking life. Sometimes you gotta fight pain with pain. Stay hard.

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So today on Minute with Maxwell, I want you just to think of the things that you cherish, the things that you value, the things that you want to possess. They’re all uphill. It’s OK. Once I know that’s where they are, I’ll begin to put forth the effort, the energy, the time to get there. And I’m just going to sign off today by, one more time, letting you look at my arm.

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You’re not living a life right now that was meant for you to live. You’re living a life right now that you’re choosing to live. That pain has forced you to live. That somebody’s opinions on how somebody treats you has convinced you to live. The life that is meant for you to live, it’s not a life of sadness. It’s not a life of tears. It’s not a life of misery. Of course life is going to be hard. I’m not saying life is always sunshine and rainbows. But life is not the current state that you’re living in.

You’re not meant to live to just accept things you shouldn’t accept. Acceptance is power. And you need to accept right now that you deserve more. You need to accept right now that you deserve more than this. You need to accept right now that your life is more than the pain you’re currently experiencing. More than the struggle that you keep on experiencing. More than the storms that you’re creating.

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Let me say it again. Every present that you’ve ever received in life, to unwrap that present, to peel the paper off that present, to get inside, to get to the reward, you must peel away pain. Any present that’s wrapped with pleasure

is ridden of pain on the inside that you will pay year after year through the rest of your life. Welcome the pain. Unwrap the pain. Find life.

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I don’t enjoy it. It’s necessary. It’s necessary. So every morning I wake up, it’s not just about working out, but for me, working out has been a very big part of my mental growth. So for me, if I am not challenging myself every day, and I swear to God, people will not believe it. I was over almost 300 pounds twice in my life. A person that does that twice in his life does not enjoy cardiovascular activity. So people can put anything they want to in their head. I did realize one thing. The things I don’t enjoy that I still do, that’s where growth is at.

And that’s, for me, the only place growth is at is in that very uncomfortable, you know, in that uncomfortable zone.

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I think pain moves people far, far more effectively than pleasure does. Like, the easy thing to, way to prove it is like point a gun at someone’s head and you have absolute compliance and they will do what they need to do, right? Automatically, just like that. Like death is the great motivator and the gun just reminds you. And so I think that if you can create the figurative gun to your head of the pain that you’re experiencing and then I’m a big fan of future casting out negative scenarios. So people talk about like positive visualization. I prefer negative visualization,

which is what if I keep doing what I’m currently doing for the next 10 years? What my life looked like then that usually takes my current pain and then just magnifies it. And then that allows me to get my action threshold high enough that it goes over the edge so that I can take that first move. And so if you know what the inputs outputs are of what you need to do, the guy who has the little quote on his wall and you figure out whatever fuel you’ve got, not the one you wish you had, but the one you’ve got and you use that to do the first input, you’ve crossed the line. You’re in the game.

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Somebody said, I don’t go home, I feel bad. Go through it. You ain’t gonna die at the end of pain and success. You’re not gonna die because you feeling a little pain.

I’m not eating like I eat at home. That’s why you’re about to go to the next level because if you keep eating like you ate at home, you’ll keep being a boy or a girl. It’s time to become man, woman.

So don’t worry about a little pain. My greatest asset is I was homeless, so I can’t feel a whole lot of pain. I’ve already been alone. There’s not a whole lot of hurt I can feel on a little paper, on a little test. So I leave you, I leave you, listen to me. We have gotten to a point where it’s midterms and we moving forward. The days of you getting money, I’m not saying we quitting, but I’m saying a day has gotta go from external to internal. You have to give it everything you got. No more TV, no more parties, no more playing. If you don’t have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying.

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It is literally at the darkest moment right when it dawns It is literally at the darkest moment So you don’t really even get to the next level to your darkest moments So that’s why I’m saying stop tripping when it get dark and you run it you run it from your success Like that’s what you run it from so it took me 12 years to get a four-year degree I never quit because I realized like why would you do something for 10 years then quit? Why would you do something for 11 years then quit?

So for a lot of you you if you was gonna quit you should have quit when you put your first brand in it You you like you like 20,000 20,000 deep now you like 9,800 9,800 hours deep into it only take 10,000 10,000 hours It is not the darkest moment. That’s the problem. you the problem, and your perspective is the problem. You thought you was just gonna have a dream and a goal and you were just gonna wake up and just walk into the sunset. You’re like dream boom it don’t work like that You have a dream and then life punks you life punks you and say do you really want this?

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Remember, Per told me in the middle of the shoot, he goes, Hey man, you must love pain. You should put yourself through a ringer. I mean, I don’t, you know, it’s not that I love pain. I just, I just don’t have a problem enduring the pain because I do love what the pain produces. Which starts with a P as well, called pride, prosperity.

And so today we did that and we continue to do that. You know, all the opportunities that come, I’m not saying every single day, but every time you have an opportunity to go an extra distance, I encourage you to do so because as much as that hurt, I don’t remember that. I just, I get a ride home right now in traffic. Maybe not because it’s so late. Just sitting there very relaxed, man. Just there chill. Why am I chill? I left it all here. So I’m excited for what’s going to come. Not worried about what’s coming, but excited about what’s going to come.

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but when you are starting out, I think you gotta find the thing that’s the pain. And like pain motivates significantly faster and stronger than pleasure does. Like people are like, no, passion is the right way. It’s like point a gun at a family member, all of a sudden 10 out of 10 motivation, pain. And so like, I think people should use their pain more. And if they don’t have enough pain, then one, maybe that’s fine and you’re a dreamer and that’s okay. But I will tell you that a word that I read in my like six month journey between when I wanted to quit and when I actually quit,

there was this word that just like pissed me off. And it was this in the self-help or entrepreneur book. And it said, there are entrepreneurs and there are watcher printers.

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Wonder why you’re not happy, wonder why you’re not fulfilled, wonder why you’re not experiencing the life that you deserve to experience.

When you gonna free yourself from the pain? When you gonna free yourself from selling for less? Because I want to tell you right now, you don’t have to accept it. I know you know that, but I need you to feel that, understand that. You don’t got to accept it. You don’t have to stay where you’re just tolerated and not celebrated. You don’t have to stay where you’re not happy. You don’t have to stay where you’re not being bettered. You don’t have to stay where you’re suffering. You can free yourself from it. But when are you gonna do it?

When are you gonna realize that if you don’t do it, you’re gonna be staying with this pain forever? You’re gonna stay in this place of misery for the rest of your life? And I’m not trying to put fear in your heart, but I am putting reality on your mind.

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I want to say this to anyone who’s listening. If there’s anything you listen to, all the stuff that I described that was really tough that I went through was not as hard as me quitting my job. By far the hardest decision of my entire life, bar none.

Because the things that I was actually caught up with were the opinions of other people, opinions of my father and the opinions of the people that I went to school with who I thought would judge me for leaving this good job to probably become a failed gym owner and how lame that would sound compared to consultant, going to Harvard and blah, blah. I was going to go from peak white collar to a very blue collar profession making significantly less because I quote, loved it.

And I’ll say this again, but sometimes you have to let other people’s dreams for your life die for yours to live.

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Staying in chaos for the rest of your life. You know it’s a lot harder staying in misery for the rest of your life. I’ve been there. But I got to a point in my life. I asked myself this simple question: Do I want to stay in this for the rest of my life? And my answer was no. so I knew I had to make decisions to free myself from it. where those decisions easy? Absolutely not. But it became easier to make once I realized what I needed in my life And once I realized what I was gonna get in my life. if I keep accepting these same things in my life, You can keep complaining about you,

keep telling your friends about you, keep writing on social media about it, But at some point you have to wake up and you have to do something about it At some point. if you want to experience peace in your life, you got to disconnect from the pain. At some point, if you want to experience happiness in your soul, You got to disconnect from the things that are keeping you in a state of sadness, in a state of questioning your worth.

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Does your life suck? Are you suffering? Are you in pain? Good, you are on a good path. Suffering is the only way to the top. Pain is the only way to change. Obstacles are the only way to success. American TV commercials made us believe that everything in this life should be smooth and easy. Counselors and teachers told us that we should not have aggressions and conflicts in life. You have been lied to. Go your way, brother, and let it be an honorable way, a way that makes your ancestors proud. You will face pain on this way, suffering, frustration, humiliation.

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I had the title. I had the record that still hasn’t been broken yet at that base that forever lives on Even though I puked it all everything I recovered from that No one can touch this That’s what i’m talking about guys if I were to shut down You know and give in I wouldn’t remember that pain anymore. It’s a funny story gonna have a picture of me puking but I don’t really physically remember the pain of it I remember the accomplishment of it. So at those times where you’re questioning if you have anything left- No, a day from then, a week from them, a month from them,

a year from them- You will never remember the discomfort of the pain. You will always remember the pride of the accomplishment that lives on. That’s why pain is temporary pride is forever guys You give it your all you get it all tenfold Greg plit help you stay fit man. That’s the uh Head strong workout man. You strong enough.

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Alright, you go through it to grow from it. You go through it to learn from it. You don’t go through it just to go back to it. That’s like putting your hand on a hot stove that you know is hot and expecting it not to burn. Wake up! Stop teaching yourself the same lessons that you should have learned from. You will never move forward with your life, living your life through the rearview mirror. You know, it might hurt to leave that situation. Whatever that situation is, it don’t have to be relationships. It might hurt to leave it, but that’s a lot less painful than staying in it.

Your heart isn’t a punching bag. So stop letting people treat it like one. Stop rehearsing that same pain and release it for good. But like always, it all starts with you. Protect your heart.

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because you pushed me out of good and you forced me into greatness. I was going to stay at those jobs. I would still be there today. I wouldn’t be in Egypt. I’ve been to Egypt. I got an invite to Australia. I’m coming to the UK. I got a bestseller. I’m coming up with a clothing line. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? Your boy ET, I used the pain to push me to greatness. And I’m telling you right now, don’t give up. I’m telling you right now, don’t give in. Get through it. And if you can get through it, if you can work through your pain,

if you can work through your pain, I’m guaranteeing you on the other side is a reward. Pain is not permanent. Pain is temporary.

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Accept the pain. Smile at the pain. Embrace the pain. Sbogan, pain is the gatekeeper of destiny. Pain is there to ask you one simple question. Do you really want to achieve your goals? Or are you just a talker? Tell your pain, wherever you want to go. Pain will build the stairway to the top. wwwsbogancom.

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If you’re frustrated, it shows your body is telling your body and your mind is telling you that you can actually overcome something. And the moment you’re feeling frustration is it actually a turning point, a good moment.

Relate that to yourself, don’t still read about Cesar Rodriguez and think of the relate that to your own experience when you felt frustration and you either gave up or you pushed through it. That’s active reading. That’s making something come to life.

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You know you have these big goals and the race is coming up and everything else and then you’re had you’re going to win and everything else but as soon as you start to run and you start to hit that wall all of a sudden you lose the will because the pain is so much you know it’s a pride versus pain threshold. Pride’s forever, pain’s temporary. Only if you push past the pain to get to the pride. We start to find out how bad you want it. That’s again the pre-study to understand why you’re doing it not because of sex appeal or this guy did that. Understand why you’re doing it.

Therefore you know what to do. Therefore you know when it starts to hurt it’s not it’s not like you didn’t know it was coming. You welcome that because this this hurt is letting you know you’re fixing something that’s insufficient in your life making it stronger giving value to the end goal result that you want so when you feel the pain you’re willing to keep going because you’ve done the research on why that pain should be and when you feel it you’re like now I’m in it man now I’m actually getting better than I was earlier today.

So it excites you, instead of most people saying hey throw a talent. It’s got to be that way guys the pre-study understanding that kind of stuff.

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I’ve been trying to tell y’all, it’s not your circumstances or your situation that determines if you’re going to be successful or not. I’ve been telling you it’s your mindset. It’s the way you see it. It’s the way you think it, right? And I’m hurt, man. I’m hurt. I’m hurt. People are hitting me up. ET, man, I’ve been working for a year. I’ve been working for two years. I got injured. Is it over with? ET, I’m going through pain. Listen to me very closely. You got to hear what I’m saying. I’ve been trying to tell you for the last two years that pain is temporary.

I’ve been trying to get that into your spirit. I’ve been trying to get you to celebrate pain. Are you hearing me? I’m trying to get you to have an understanding that pain is your friend. That pain is going to take you to the next level.

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the amount of pleasure that you will eventually experience is directly related to how much pain you experience. And even better, a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and includes pleasure through motivation and hard work and understanding this pain-pleasure balance whereby if you experience pain and you can continue to be in that friction and exert effort, the rewards are that much greater when they arrive.

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Mr. Shelby, you’re meant to be resting.

I’ve learned something, Frances.

There’s no rest for me in this world.

Perhaps in the next.

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I think the definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you. I think that’s what greatness is or should be. It’s not something that lives and dies with one person. It’s how can you inspire a person to then in turn inspire another person that then inspires another person. That’s how you create something that I think lasts forever. I think that’s our challenge as people- is to figure out how our story can impact others and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness.

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You have a secret that you’re not willing to share. It gives you a lot of power when you’re able to go on a podcast this big and say, hey, tell me, I’ll tell you anything you want to know. I no longer care. And that is a lot of power in that, to be able to put your life on a billboard for the whole world to see and say, judge it, man. Judge it. Like just me talking about it makes me feel good. And that’s another thing about it. When you are willing to talk about how jacked up you are, the strength, that big rock that you carry, it just starts to come off you. It just starts to come off.

That’s why I do it so often. I’m like, hey man, I’ll tell you anything you want to know. I’m tired of being afraid. I’m tired of not telling you. I’m tired of lying about how good I’m not.

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Money should be a side effect to what you love to do. And that’s what I bring to the gym every single day. And that’s what I work when I work with Sergio Oliva Jr. and other body top guys and guys you don’t even know. And David Hoffman. That’s what I try to bring to the table. That energy and that thirst of where it’s not just about, oh, I hope I do well. It’s like you have to want the success in the gym as much as you want to breathe.

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People only root for people who don’t need it. Like the amount of times when I was on my lonely path where I Was too different from the friends that I had but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends With that’s when that’s when you want people to root for you. That’s when you want people to support you.

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The second you leave your house, the second you open your phone, the second you do any of that shit, you are now letting in poison and cancer. So, I make sure a lot of things you can’t avoid. So, as I get up, I start to armor plate my mind and body. Like a person’s going to war, you put your body armor on. That’s what I’m doing on that run. I’m waking up and I’m giving myself all this armor, so when I come out in the world, look at that phone, I’m ready. I’m not waking up late, I’m not rushing around, I’m not disorganized, because I know I’m going to get hit in the fucking mouth.

There’s an art to getting hit in the fucking mouth. And that is why these things are important. You have to wake up and you have to give yourself belief. You have to give yourself confidence. So, it starts with that run.

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If you treat your body well, you can maintain it for many years. This is the big challenge for me. And it’s great. I feel proud for that. To have this age and still compete at the highest level for me, it’s great and gives me motivation to carry on.

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If you even have this much savage in you, everything out there right now is for the taking. There was a point in time in the United States where you would look at different businesses and say, God, it’s almost impossible to break into this business because it’s been so established. And even the companies, all these companies that are so soft right now, everything out there is for the taking. If you have even this much savage in you, if you are willing to go out there and grind and work hard, you got these people that don’t wanna go to work, they wanna stay home and work from home and all that.

And believe me, I’ve seen this when I’ve spoke before, I see it pop up in the comments, all these people saying, you’re wrong. No, things can be done from home. No, it can’t. You have to be in the building with like-minded people.

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Right now it’s easy to be happy It’s easy to smile. Those are the good times. the good times, Those times don’t need to be trained. you know, I had to train myself for good times. Those times, for most people, don’t need to be trained. what i’m trying to give you all Is the misery of sometimes we go through in life. Those are the times we don’t want to talk about. we want to skip forward to peace. Let’s just fucking fuck all this let’s skip all this pain and suffering and misery of real life. Let’s, Let’s cover it over nice big blanket and let’s find peace. No, Sorry, It’s not possible.

Yeah, go into that fucking hellhole of life that you have That fucked you up and fix it, and that’s what i’m here to do.

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your own insecurities and your own misunderstanding of the process that’s making you feel that way coupled with the comments and the outside pressure that you might feel from your friends and your family for changing up the way that you operate. And it’s usually a combination of both of those. But what you have to realize is that there’s a reason why when you’re on an airplane they say, hey, put your mask on first and then help people next to you. All right? Because if you’re not the best version of yourself, if you don’t have your mind right,

if you don’t have your body right, if you don’t have your money right, if you don’t have your spirituality right, if you don’t have your character right and you’re trying to help other people, , you’re going to be ineffective. All right? So we have to take care of ourselves. We have to build ourselves up into the best possible us and we have to have our sh** together in the best possible way in order to actually benefit other people.

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Whenever you think you can’t,

the confidence comes from the thing that you built.

You must build belief, you must build confidence.

It can’t be like, hey,

I’m going to knock that shit out.

You got to look over here and say,

I can knock that shit out.

It’s belief and it’s built on what you put in to yourself.

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Yeah, I get up and get out of bed.

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And arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon when you have a nuclear bomb and six nations behind you.

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In the beginning, when you start, you always have that passion to enjoy yourself, to spend time with friends and to have fun. But in the beginning, not even with 14, 15, 16 years old, I didn’t feel that. Maybe after that, with 18, 19, 20, yes, I started to feel everything was different.

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If your life is not organized and your life being everything around you, because it takes one little fucked up piece of an outside interference to clutter your whole mind. Because it’s on such a knife edge. That’s right. And people don’t get that. Your mind has to always be clear. That’s why I meditate two hours every single night because I refresh, I reorganize the garage, which is my mind every night. So then discipline’s in there, organization, everything is in this right spot. So when I wake up, I’m ready to go.

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other things that pop up in the office and you get a bunch of smart, hard-working people in a room together and you go on a completely different, you have to have people in the office working every day. And these people that don’t want to, stay home, man. Stay home and do your thing. Good luck to you. I wish you all the luck in the world. There’s going to be a small group of hungry savages out there that are going to run every one of you over. And you can sit home and you can cry and complain about how you didn’t get yours and it’s because this person had this opportunity that you didn’t have.

It’s all bull-shit, crybaby stuff that’s going on. And the whole world, like you said, but more so in the United States like I’ve never seen before.

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And so it’s not even like the size of the hardship, it’s just also the resources and how few of them you have and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you have, which is time, because you have no leverage. You don’t have the money to pay other people to help you. You don’t have the resources to go get someone to… No one can learn it for you. It’s like there’s a lot of the things that we care about a lot. Like no one can work out for you. It doesn’t matter how much money you have. No one can learn skills for you.

And so in the early days, it feels so painful because you’re like, you look around to see who can help you and then you’re like, fuck, it’s me again. And I think getting comfortable with the idea that each of these things, kind of like Slumdog Millionaire, if you’ve seen that movie where he, I’ll give you the TLDR. He goes through his entire life of randomness and he gets on the who wants to be a millionaire version in India. And it has 12 questions to make a million dollars. And from only 12 random experiences in his life that seemed meaningless at the time,

was he able to answer all of the questions and then ultimately win?

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People think anger was my fucking fuel. Just so, yeah, anger can be a fuel. Anger got me to look into things to become better. I wanna show him. But I’ll tell you one thing, when you’re suffering and you’re fucking at the wit’s end and you wanna fucking quit, that anger is gone, brother. Is you have to give people just a little bit of hope. There’s no hope when they just see greatness in you everywhere. You have to be able to get yourself down to a level of check it out, man. There’s hope for you. That’s all I’m trying to give you. Just a little bit.

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when you’re not willing to do something, but you have to do it. This is the main point. This is why I say our mind is a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it’s hard. It’s what many people say. You like to go to the gym every day. Of course not. It’s not true. Nobody likes to go to the gym every day. But you have to do it. Probably yes. Because your mental strength is coming from that. From that moment, that in a hard moment, you know you should do it. And I do it because after that, maybe in the beginning you feel hard to start,

but after when you finish the gym or cold planche or even the training, you will feel better. I think it’s the big key there.

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No one comes and gives you a nice life for how balanced you are. That’s not what the fucking game is. The game is, are you effective? Are you skilled? Do you produce results? That’s the game. So we could talk about balance and it sounds nice, but the reality is to actually win in real life, balance has to be a second or third thought on the plate behind being effective and producing results and building ourselves into the best possible us. So yeah, your friends who don’t do shit, they’ll talk about balance all day, but what do they have? You see what I’m saying? Balance doesn’t equal success.

It just doesn’t. Imbalance equals success. And your ability to feel peace is going to come down to your ability to be comfortable in chaos. All right, if you’re not comfortable in chaos, you’re never gonna be peaceful if you’re an ambitious human. That’s just reality.

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Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

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You know, everywhere I look around the game, I see lesser versions of myself. People trying to implement our way of thinking, which is the correct way of thinking. So I respect that. But at the end of the day, it is just a watered down version of myself. So I respect it, but I cannot fear it. But I’m happy to be leading the way.

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I don’t get into it much because it would be here all day. But basically, it’s you’re organizing your mind so you can put that discipline. So a lot of people talk about discipline. Okay, great. Why do you fall off the fucking wagon? Why can’t I continue with this routine? Going to the gym, being better, waking up early, eating the right foods. It’s because maybe it’s your kids, maybe it’s your wife, maybe it’s your job. And it’s all just stuffed in your fucking brain. You don’t have it compartmentalized and organized in these nice shelves.

Like you look in a garage, it’s all fucking a nice organized militant garage. Hey, where are my dumbbells? Right there. A lot of people whose brain, hey, where’s my dumbbells? Let me look. They’re fucking throwing shit, they’re looking through totes, they’re all fucked up. So where am I going to put discipline in that mind if I can’t find other shit?

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Success is the only revenge. As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance. As you get louder, no one can hear them. You don’t beat them. You cast a shadow so big, no one can see them to begin with. When people copy, they copy the wrong stuff because they don’t know why it worked to begin with. And when it breaks, they don’t know how to fix it because they didn’t build it. So don’t sweat it. Copycats will always be behind.

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My biggest struggle is sleep. Yeah. Right? Because literally the moment I open my eyes, the thoughts are racing, right? Because- Well, you start working. I really believe that God gave us free will and that the scripture that speaks to prayer without works is dead. And imagine, right? Being clear that God is about to take me and move me into some new territories. So preparation meets opportunity. Yes, sir. Right? So he may not have a hot single, and maybe you do. He may not have sold or streamed 10 million streams on whatever song you release.

But to understand that I’m clear that I’m about to move into some new rooms and situations. So let me prepare myself for it now. You don’t have to become reactive. You become proactive.

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It is hard to look at that situation and really understand it. And it’s horrible to look back at it now and know that we didn’t do anything about it.

But what can we do with it? How can we apply this to everyday life? Because I agree with you. You gotta go down swinging.

And I’ll tell you this, if you fight with all you’ve got, more often than not, you won’t go down at all.

You’ll win. But you gotta make that attitude part of your everyday life, the extra rep, the extra mile, the extra round, the right choices

to make yourself stronger mentally and physically.

Stand and fight.

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For the last 20 years, my level was high. And this is, as you can know, it’s really tough. Not only in football, but in any area. If you are top for 20 years, it’s unbelievable. And I do that, and I continue to do that. For me, it’s a big achievement. And my biggest motivation is to carry on, to still enjoy, to make people happy, to make my family happy. So for me, I have both talent and work ethic.

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Don’t want to have to blame you for not exposing yourself to what you can be when you grow up If you’re sitting home watching football and say I don’t know what I want to do with my life Once you do what my parents did. Visit a new thing every weekend, go on a trip, Talk to experts in all manner of tasks, and you know. visit a chef school, visit a geology Expedition. do just do things and if you like it, You’ll probably be better at that than anything else you choose to do.

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Belief is like, there’s an after school special belief where the mom says, believe in yourself and that’s all great, but there’s also a built belief. And the built belief is one where you are constantly, like for me, I came from a bad place. How I build belief is through the daunting tasks I put myself through. So that’s proof positive that I can.

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I just eliminate all external distractions, you know That’s what’s going on and just focus on the process itself and enjoying it every single day chopping wood carrying water You know greatness is not meant for a few chosen people It’s meant for those who persistently pursue their dreams every day and make that choice when they wake up. So Just a mentality really as much as I would Love to be up here and tell you guys all of what I’m thinking I just know that the process itself is something I need to focus on rather than trying to appease anybody in here You know,

the game itself is the most important thing. It’s the object to win. So

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Just because something is hard to obtain does not mean that it is valuable. Just because something is hard to obtain doesn’t mean it’s valuable. Correct. Yeah. Just because it’s difficult to get doesn’t mean that it’s valuable. Look at the car he’s driving, look at the watch he’s wearing, look at the girl he’s with. These things were hard to obtain, so you presumed that they were valuable,

but you didn’t realize that what’s genuinely valuable are friendships and relationships and a comfort and a confidence in yourself and peace of mind and sanity and being able to positively impact the people around you.

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Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

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I give you the map, you are willing to do that? Yeah. It’s the main point, because everyone wants to be Cristiano, but… I give you the map, you think you will do it? It’s difficult. The discipline. The discipline is the most difficult thing, not only in the sport, but in life.

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One, try to be better than me. Use me as much as you want. Use what I do. You can use my platform. You can use my words. You can use the inspiration that I try to give. But anyway, you can be great at doing what you love to do. You’ve got to commit to it. You can’t, hold on, you can’t want something but not put it into work. And it doesn’t matter what you’re doing in life. No matter what it is, it could be a professional athlete or it could be an artist. It could be a doctor. It could be anything in the world, President of the United States. But you’ve got to put the work in.

And I think if you put the work in, the results will happen organically. And most important, you’ve got to find happiness too. If you’re having fun, enjoying what you’re doing, then it just makes it so much easier. It makes it so much easier to just like, you want to do it every day because it’s something that you really enjoy doing. And you don’t look at it as work.

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your mind is thinking about, let’s get the f*** out of here.

So I realized this anger ain’t s***.

I didn’t think about my dad beating me up.

I didn’t think about kids coming. I didn’t think about any of that s***.

I thought about, man,

this f***ing water is cold as balls.

Man, I need to get the f*** out of here.

So I realized anger was no fuel for me.

It may have got me to say, I’m going to be somebody.

Anger got me caught up in some serious ego trips, man.

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you will invest even your downtime doing it. And as the saying goes, pick something you would do for free and make that your career and you’ll never live a sad day in your life. So that’s one variant on a pick something that you love. And all the time when other people say, you know I need a vacation from this job, you’re gonna say vacation, what’s that? People say that to me. Do you want a vacation from what? From the astrophysics you’re doing, but I like what I’m doing.

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For the same thing that I was looking for when I was a kid, some type of inspiration.

Aspirations come from people that do amazing things,

but they’re really ordinary people just waking up every day doing it,

doing the little things that other people aren’t doing.

So chop wood, carry water,

I gotta stay poised is definitely something that I’m always living by every single day.

So not just in the basketball court either. It’s my life.

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So the pressure that I put myself under every day after being on and not knowing that I would be on after a 30 second Coca-Cola commercial when I was 16, I’m 44 now. I got on since I was 16. So the fact that I’m still here, the pressure that I put myself under to know specifically that what I’m here to do, nobody could do it but me. There’s nobody has these visions and ideas and thoughts. There’s nobody’s taking this journey and walking this walk but me. So imagine me letting anything or anybody get in the way of this overwhelming sense of purpose that’s over my life.

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Fight against weakness and against fear. And fight against time and decay. Fight back.

Go down swinging.

Give every day everything you’ve got.

And when you face a challenge, even something where you don’t believe you can win, maybe it’s a situation where you cannot win.

But if you can’t win, remember this. You have nothing to lose.

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You want to be independent-minded. Listen to people’s comments. People have life experience. Don’t ignore it. But what you want to do is fold it in to your own sensibilities, provided you have sensibilities to begin with. Otherwise, you become this ping pong ball batted back and forth between one person’s suggestion and another.

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Motivation, just a spark, but those little sparks. if somebody comes by real quick with some water, that fires. doubt is out. but if you come by and That little fire, no one touches it, and that little fire, Which is motivation, which is kindling, and that kindling grows off to like they call it, one hour fuels, two hour fuels, Ten hour fuels, ten thousand hour fuels. you want that thing to boil over and catch a nice big log. It’s gonna burn a long time and that big long starts catching everything on fire. This is your soul. So motivation a lot of times can be fucking.

just put some water on it puts it out. That motivation needs to turn into drive, passion, obsession to what you want to become. and once they come, obsession or driven, It’s a fucking inferno. So now you got calling tons of firefighters and calling for help for here calling for help from there And they’re not putting it out. I don’t think I can take that thing out. It’s gonna burn itself out.

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I’ve manifested things that I’m just like,

I still shock myself like,

how the f**k did I make that happen?

And this is not even to do with fighting, this is to do with my personal life.

And I’m like,

I made that happen. And this is through this like manifesting subconsciously as well.

Just years of something just manifesting,

manifesting and boom, it’s right there. I’m just like,

I really made that happen.

It’s scary, man.

It’s scary for me to even think about.

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Life doesn’t happen to you. We all think that life happens to me, right? Life happens for you. It happens for you. I mean, opportunities will come to you every day. It’s either for you, you can remain scared of the opportunities, or you can embrace them and take them. When I finally realized that, and I want to share this with you, if you give up on your dreams, if you give up on your dreams, what do you have left?

Nothing. I can’t live that way. I can’t live that way. I have to live on the edge. You know, if it wasn’t bodybuilding, I’d probably be a motorcycle, or cross-country jumping cars, or something. I don’t know, something crazy. But that’s why I’m in this business. It’s never been about the money. It’s always been about the love of the game and the energy I gain from it.

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You know, there’s this cartoon trope that there’s an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. Well, you come to a crossroad, that’s also where you meet the devil. Go this way or that way. If you go the wrong direction, your life will be then the consequences of that bad choice, and then that will tangle you up and then you’ll suffer for it. Then you have to figure out, okay, what’s the suffering? What’s the problem? When did I make the bad choice? Which road should have I taken? That’s how you fix a trauma. You replace the road you did take with the road you should have taken.

And now you have a road forward. And once you have a road forward, the trauma is no longer traumatic because you have a road, your brain brings up the past.

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I don’t respect a whole bunch of people, but the few that I did respect are the people who were uncommon amongst uncommon people. And what that means is those people who weren’t afraid to stand alone, those people who have morals, values, who did not go with… If all you guys are going left, it’s that one person who say, you know what, left’s not the right way. I’m going to go right. Who didn’t follow the crowd. That person who’s not afraid of doing what they believe is right in their heart and not following someone else because someone else said,

let’s go this way and they agree with everybody. I don’t like yes men or yes women. If you’re right, you’re right. We’re going to follow you. But I like people who stand for something, they believe in something, and this is the way I’m going to go whether you like me or not.

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Pride is something that everybody misses. That having pride in your name, your performance, the way that you show up for other people is something that you can do. But you need to do something that is worthy of being prideful about, right? What would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week with pride? Okay, maybe stop breaking promises to yourself. When you say, I’m going to wake up tomorrow at 7 a.m. And when the option comes to hit the snooze button, don’t do it. There’s one win that you’ve got for the day. That’s action, right?

And it is just, you know, it’s tried to say the Peterson clean your room thing. But the reason that that works is that you start with the smallest ever step and you expand out from that. You want to become a writer. You want to leave your job and become a writer. Okay, can you commit to writing one blog post on Substack per week for the next three weeks? That would make you feel like less of a loser if you did that.

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Your life experience with your parents and everything that you experienced in your early years going on up is unique. It’s yours. You’re one of a kind, right? So that is your source of power. To waste that is just the worst thing you can do in your life. And what the power is, is finding that uniqueness. What makes you you, and how you can mine that and how you can go deep into it and use that to create a career path , right? And so I tell people when you’re a child, when you’re four or five or even younger, you have what the great psychologist Maslow called impulse voices.

They’re little voices in your head that say, I love this. I hate that. I like this food. I don’t like when mommy moves this way. I like when daddy comes from here. You’re very cued into who you are and what you like and what you don’t like. And these voices kind of direct you in certain ways, right?

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We’re built to walk uphill. And when you reach the pinnacle of the hill, you want to stop and appreciate the vision, but the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance, because it’s the uphill climb that… It’s from the uphill climb that we derive our value, and I mean this technically. So almost all the positive emotion we feel, especially the emotion that fills us with enthusiasm, and that’s to be filled with the Spirit of God, by the way, because that’s what enthusiasm means.

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When you come from a town of 8,000 people, it’s like we had a local plant, Great Dane. You’re like, you know what, I want to work at Great Dane and get a house next to my mom. That’s what you know. So many of us come from these small places in our mind that we’re not willing to think outside of only what we’ve seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment. And one thing I was able to do was to dream. Many people, but don’t make dreams your master. But I was able to dream outside those four walls of that small town. And until you’re able to really put yourself into that dream,

but don’t make dreams your master, that’s where you truly become what you’re destined to become.

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you don’t know where you’re going, you’re lost. You know what I mean? You have no direction. So for me, I felt like both of them together, when you really, when you had the vision and you were able to manifest, but then you also put the work in, magic happens, man. Magic, that’s where the magic is. But a lot of people never get there, unfortunately. A lot of people, we’re blessed that we can dream. And we’re blessed that we can dream. That’s one thing I’ve realized. Cause a lot of people, even from the impoverished parts of London will be lucky to have my old job, you know,

from where I’m from, from Nigeria, a lot of people will be blessed to have my old job and they’ll be like, yo, this is, I have a great job. I can send money back home, this and that. But yeah, I just had bigger dreams. I just knew what I wanted. So I feel like I’m spoiled that I can dream the way I do and I can manifest the way I do. So I never take it for granted. And I realized the position that I’m in, I’m privileged. I’m very privileged.

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to lose that weight, I’m here to confirm with you. You understand something that nobody in your life is gonna understand. And if they keep laughing and cracking jokes and making comments about like, yo, why, he wildin’, man. We just, he talking about he about to. Yeah, that was me. About to. Yeah. Getting laughed at. I’ve heard people try to make fun of Letcher for running. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, everything. But see, here’s the thing. Let the laughs, the mockery, the comments, the jokes that they cracking on the text chain,

whatever it is they doing, let that be the fuel to remind you that what God is doing, people are laughing, and they’re laughing because they’re noticing.

If they not laughing, then you should be a little concerned about what you’re doing. Yeah.

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I am different in any given time. The world tour was a different time.

This time I am cold,

I am emotionless, I am zen, at peace,

ready for war.

So I pay no attention to how he is feeling or how he is going to feel.

I simply enter the way I enter.

And that is enough.

They either overextend or they shrink away,

but either way is not good for them.

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It’s more important to own your weaknesses. You got to really triple down on those, man, because why? You want to become a full human being. We like to run away from weaknesses. Like for instance, if you’re good at running, all you want to do is run. If you’re great at reading, you have several books. But we don’t do those things that we’re not good at. So for me, I realized, shit, man, like I keep on running away from these things I’m not good at. I have to dive into these things. I have to become one with these things. And that’s what happened. And so I own them both.

And I talk very openly about them both.

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And we all have our privileges and our and our curses. you know, all of us have that. That’s why it’s not useful to be envious of people. You know, you see some. you’re a young man. You see someone drive by in a Ferrari with blonde and you think, my god, He’s got everything. and you know, the woman in the car is a prostitute who’s got a cocaine addiction And her life is just one catastrophe after another and he’s had to lie and cheat his way into this position. He’s afraid that everything’s going to come crashing down on him.

and that’s what you’re jealous of, man: Your fates enough and your adventures enough. It’s plenty. It’s more than you can ever fully realize, And so that’s also part of the reason that we all believe that the individual has some intrinsic dignity. It’s don’t be so sure that your position and your room is so damn trivial. might be your attitude towards it. That’s trivial, and if you’re in dire straits and dire circumstances, Just look at how much opportunity you have to make things better.

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First of all, I say that you should pursue your passion. If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you’ll be successful. If you start a business because you think you’re gonna make a lot of money at it, then you probably won’t be successful because that’s the wrong reason to start a business. You have to really believe in what you’re doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and the hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you’ll be successful.

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You give me your best. You keep going. That’s it. No, don’t stop Brock. You got more in you than that. How you doing? Just restin’ a second. You gotta keep moving. Let’s keep moving. Let’s go. Don’t quit till you got nothing left. There you go. Keep moving. Keep moving. Keep moving Brock. That’s it. You keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground. Keep driving it. You’re very best. You’re very best. You’re very best. Keep moving Brock. That’s it. That’s it. That’s it. Keep going. Don’t quit on me. Keep going. Keep driving it. Keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground. That’s it.

You’re very best. Don’t quit on me. You’re very best. Keep driving. Keep driving.

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When people don’t understand you anymore, you’re in that spot of obsession and drive where people are like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy? I don’t wanna talk to you, man, because you’re not gonna get it. You’re not gonna get it. Boom. Don’t want you to get it. Yeah. Don’t want you to get it.

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Everything I ever did, the thing that I heard out of people’s mouth was, that’s impossible, that can’t be done, or no. I remember when I wanna be a bodybuilding champion, including my parents and everyone else around me, said this is impossible. Why don’t you become a ski champion? That’s what they do in Austria, or a bicycle champion, or do some track and field. You can’t be a bodybuilding champion.

That is exactly what I heard, and of course, I proved to the people that it can’t be done. So whenever someone said to me, it can’t be done, I heard it can be done. When they said no, I heard yes. And when they said it’s impossible, I heard it is possible. Because I am a strong believer.

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I think I’m good, but I think my main strength is my mind.

I think it’s my strongest point, it’s my mind.

Piers, the numbers, they don’t lie.

If you see during the last 15 years,

my level is always kind of the same.

So, effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough anymore.

And if you’re not dedicated 100%,

you’re not going to reach the level that you want.

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Fucking bet against me. Bet against me. Tell me it’s not gonna happen. Tell me it’s gonna fail. I love it. I love every minute of it.

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If you want to be great, you want to be the best motherfucker ever at what you do, you’re going to be misunderstood by everybody because you’re going to be so fucking obsessed and so driven to get there. That’s what it takes. That’s a true. It takes every second of your fucking life. Anybody says balance? Yeah, balance is important for a lot of fucking people. It is. But if you want to fucking go to that edge where people do not like you, don’t understand you, question everything you fucking do, you’ve arrived. When you are misunderstood,

to the point where people think you’re a psycho and you’re nuts and you’re this and that. Why are you in the fucking gym at one o’clock in the fucking morning? You just got through doing an op for fucking 13, 14 hours at the ranger school, man, at the gym. What’s wrong? You will never understand what is wrong with me. And that’s why I’m so fucking glad you don’t.

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Now you think you’re doing these boys a favor, taking them aside every time I come down on them, protecting them from big bad boom. You’re cutting my legs from under me.

Some of the boys just don’t respond well to public criticism. I tell them what they need to know, but I don’t humiliate them in front of the team.

Which boys you talking about?

Which ones you talking about?

I come down on Burt here, I don’t see you coddle him. Come down on Sunshine, don’t see you grab his hand, take him off to the side. Which boys you talking about?

Now I may be a mean cuss, but I’m the same mean cuss with everybody out there on that football field. The world don’t give a damn about how sensitive these kids are, especially the young black kids. You ain’t doing these kids a favor by patronizing them.

You crippling them.

You crippling them for life.

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I’m a strong believer of what Nelson Mandela said, that everything is always impossible until someone does it. Well, I’m going to be the one that says to myself, I’m going to do it and I’m going to show it to them. Maybe it has never been done before. That’s perfectly fine with me, but I’m going to do it.

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The handle being the long part is what it takes and how much work you have to do, And that is very long. And once you get to where you start to see results the results Go up very very quick. And that is the same way that your success is going to work It’s the same way your life is going to work And you just have to understand this is the way it is and you’re going to have to bear through it and eventually you’ll acclimate to it and all these things that feel like you’re Uh, not in balance or you’re not doing it, right?

We’ll go away and it’ll just feel normal and you’ll actually discover that you’re really not even pushing that hard and then If you’re ambitious enough, you’ll even push harder than that. So that’s what you’re dealing with, dude I don’t think it’s abnormal at all I think it’s totally normal and you guys just have to keep in mind When you’re pushing to be better when you’re progressing to be better. It is always going to feel like a struggle. It’s always going to feel like you are not winning, when in fact you actually are.

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I believe that we are our own hero. And if you have a culture, let’s say right now you guys idolize me and then tomorrow I go outside and I have some kind of issue. I can let you down. I’m human. All your mentors, everybody you like, we’re human. You gotta put yourself on that pedestal, hold yourself to a higher standard, hold yourself accountable, and then look up to yourself. I’m not saying kiss your own ass. But I’m saying hold yourself to a standard and look inside yourself and try to be the best you can be. We start trying to mimic somebody else. Don’t be them, be you.

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You know, when you look at something that looks hard, that was probably easy. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you’re never going to know which is which until you actually go and do it. So just go and do it, try, learn from it. You know, you’ll fail at some things, but that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. And don’t let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they’re talking about, don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.

Because often they will tell you it can’t be done, and it’s just because they don’t have the courage to try it.

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For example, you arrive home, you had a lunch, you do a quick nap, and you wake up. You play with your kids, and I have to go to the gym at least 30, 40 minutes. But this will make the difference in the end of the day. You understand? If you do not do that work, you miss one. The next day, it’s two sessions that you lost. And I know in the end of the day, in the end, you’re going to make a huge difference.

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start with action and make small promises to yourself that you don’t break. If you had a friend and every single time that you and your friend decided that you’re going to go out for dinner, that friend either showed up two hours late or didn’t show up at all, you would stop trusting that person. That is the relationship that you have with yourself. You need to be able to trust your own word. And a lot of us don’t,

because life is very convenient and it is easy for people to not stick to the promises that they set themselves because our ability to be idealistic is always going to outstrip reality’s ability to deliver that to us. Soon as you posit an ideal, you then begin to compare yourself to that ideal. And true hell is when the person that you are meets the person that you could have been.

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Not every day, it’s those bad days. It’s those bad days. Got to see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. And I’m talking about talent, like some God-given ability. Talent that sometimes you have to hone, you have to work on, and you have to harness yourself. And they just walk around on their phones, it’s clueless to how powerful they are.

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And so in some sense, and this is part of the religious enterprise, you want a goal that you can never attain. Right? So you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards it. You think, well that’s frustrating, it’s like Sisyphus pushing the rock uphill. But it’s not, because as you pursue that goal, you put yourself together and your life does get better and richer and more abundant. And that’s why the highest levels of virtue and goal are in some sense transcendent.

You want them to be above everything you’re doing so you can continually move towards something that’s more sublime and better. That’s what you are. You’re here to live, not to sleep.

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They laughed at the dude who was always the center of attention everywhere I went without knowing why. Why is God getting me used to cracking jokes? Like, bro, in my mind, I was Kevin Hart. I was Richard Pryor. Everything that I’m doing in The Fast and the Furious as being the funny guy, nobody who I grew up with is shocked or surprised. They all knew, like, yo, there is nobody funnier than this guy. Before I knew I could sing, I was always the funniest in every room I went into. And so what God was doing for me, He was preparing me to be able to not only be funny,

but crack these jokes and be comfortable with cracking these jokes while a whole lot of people is watching. He knew that I was going to be on stage singing before I knew I could ever hold a note. So He’s getting me used to being in front of people because being in front of people was what I was going to do my whole life.

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So stand up and go forward and go out in a blaze of glory, fighting with everything you’ve got, every ounce of energy, every bead of sweat, and every drop of blood till your last breath. And then, and only then, you can stand down. You can put down your sword, and you can put down your shield, and rest.

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A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure, or dream about being a SEAL, or dream about being an astronaut, and all it is is a motherfucking dream. They don’t put the work behind the dream. That dream has become their fucking master. When you become the master of your fucking dream, is when you say, I want to go be a Navy SEAL, and you say, okay, I’m going to lose 106 pounds in less than three fucking months. The dream was the one thing I thought about, and the dream was now gone. Now what comes in,

the dream goes away and the fucking laundry list of fucking details and tasks come up. Got to do this, got to do this, got to do this, got to do this. That’s when you become the master of your dream. So a lot of people out there dreaming.

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because a lot of people will, and some of these motivational people out here, it’s the funniest thing in the world to me, they’ll go and say, when you wake up in the morning, pound your chest. You know, fucking look at yourself in the mirror and do all this fucking bullshit. I hope it works. What works for me is that everyday resume. The things I know I’ve accomplished, the things I know I’ve done, real hard work. The real calluses on my mind, the real calluses on my hands. That’s it. That you don’t need to pound your chest in the mirror and fuck anymore if you have that.

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those early days,

that little trench winning in the weeds,

oftentimes gives you these huge advantages later on because you have more context than anyone else.

And so rather than lament them and hate the fact that you’re going through it,

remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver that you’re going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons.

And so expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is.

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You won’t need that rest. Chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. It was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path.

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you overcame that path. And you stayed on the righteous path, the disciplined path. You stayed on the war path, which is right. Where you know that you belong.

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Life is a box of surprises and it’s hard, you know. It’s not easy to be in this level and still push and still motivate to carry on, to score goals, to be in good shape, to compete with the young lions. They’re coming and when they play against me, they want to show me that they are stronger than me and faster than me. You have to prepare very well, not in terms of physically, but mentally too. I think it’s very hard, but in the same way, it’s a challenge.

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what’s your definition of greatness? I think the definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you. I think that’s what greatness is or should be. It’s not something that lives and dies with one person. It’s how can you inspire a person to then in turn inspire another person that then inspires another person. And that’s how you create something that I think lasts forever. I think that’s our challenge as people: is to figure out how our story can impact others and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness.

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from where I’m from, from Nigeria, a lot of people will be blessed to have my old job and they’ll be like, yo, this is, I have a great job. I can send money back home, this and that. But yeah, I just had bigger dreams. I just knew what I wanted. So I feel like I’m spoiled that I can dream the way I do and I can manifest the way I do. So I never take it for granted. And I realized the position that I’m in, I’m privileged. I’m very privileged.

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I realized that everybody’s fucked up. That’s the one thing I realized. I walked around and I put these people on a fucking pedestal. Everybody was better than me. So I can’t tell you anything about me because you’re gonna judge me and I’m gonna feel even worse than what I am. What I realized once I calmed my mind down and sat back and looked at how jacked up this world is. once you realize that you are not alone. everybody that’s talking to you about how jacked up you are. only thing they’ve done better than you is they’ve hidden their fucked up world better than you have.

That’s all they’ve done. So once I realized that, if you wanna sit back, like for instance, there’s all these things that are on TV and we have all these news people judging people who fuck up in life. Yeah, they made big mistakes. But that person who is judging you on TV, I guarantee you that news person is saying, I’m glad that my shit didn’t come out but I’m gonna judge the hell out of you. I know that about people.

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What’s the one thing that you couldn’t stop thinking about? If there’s one thing that you can’t stop thinking about, that story about the kid from Cumbria, that time when Alex had to drive across the country, that’s the thing. That is the thing. And allowing yourself to naturally select whatever the most important learning is from the content that you consume is the best way to work out what is going to resonate, and it’s the best way to act on it as well. If you can’t stop thinking about it when you go to bed tonight, and you can’t stop telling your friends about it in the morning,

and you’ve clipped it from this podcast or any other podcast, any other book or whatever, whatever the thing is that you keep sending photos of and you keep on reciting to people and you try and tell your mom about it and she doesn’t care, that is the thing that you need to work on. And you don’t need to do… If you take half a thing from this podcast or any other podcast and you work on it for a month, you have made so much progress. And do you understand how blessed you are to have this opportunity?

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The path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. Rather than fighting that or bemoaning it, see it as an indicator that you’re on the right path because if everyone else were cheering you on, then it means you’re not in the right place because it means you’re just like everyone else and that’s not where you want to be.

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When you were born, you are a phenomenon. You are unique. Your DNA has never occurred in the history of the universe. Going back billions of years, it will never occur in the future. Your life experience with your parents and everything that you experienced in your early years going on up is unique. It’s yours. You are one of a kind, right? So that is your source of power. To waste that is just the worst thing you can do in your life. And what the power is is finding that uniqueness.

What makes you you and how you can mine that and how you can go deep into it and use that to create a career path.

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So if you want to sit back and judge how jacked up I was and how messed up my life was, Merry Christmas, go for it. Have a good time. But I’m smiling at you right now knowing you have a secret that you’re not willing to share. It gives you a lot of power when you’re able to go on a podcast this big and say, hey, tell me, I’ll tell you anything you want to know because I no longer care. And that is a lot of power in that to be able to put your life on a billboard for the whole world to see and say, judge it, man, judge it. Like just me talking about it makes me feel good.

And that’s another thing about it. When you are willing to talk about how jacked up you are, the strength, that big rock that you carry, it just starts to come off you. It just starts to come off. That’s why I do it so often. I’m like, hey, man, I’ll tell you anything you want to know. I’m tired of being afraid. I’m tired of not telling you. I’m tired of lying about how good I’m not.

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And that’s the Rocky cut scene. And instead of lasting five minutes, it just usually lasts five or 10 years.

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When you are misunderstood to the point where fucking people think you’re a psycho and you’re nuts and you’re this and that, why are you in the fucking gym at one o’clock in the fucking morning? You just got through doing an op for fucking 13, 14 hours at the ranger school, man, at the gym. What is wrong? You will never understand what is wrong with me. And that’s why I’m so fucking glad you don’t because I’m in the right fucking spot. When people don’t understand you anymore. you’re in that spot of obsession and drive where people are like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?

I don’t want to talk to you, man, because you’re not going to get it.

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And the built belief is one where you are constantly, like for me, I came from a bad place. How I build belief is through the daunting tasks I put myself through. So that’s proof positive that I can. So it correlates. And that’s how this piece of shit kid I once thought I was built belief by saying, hmm, I was in three hell weeks. I went to ranger school. Whenever you think you can’t, confidence comes from the thing that you built. You must build belief. You must build confidence. It can’t be like, hey, I’m gonna go knock that shit out.

You gotta look over here and say, I can knock that shit out. It’s belief and it’s built on what you put in to yourself.

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Everyone standing before you today on this stage has had self-doubt. It is very human to doubt yourself. The greatest self-doubt I had was when I showed up to SEAL training, and I didn’t know if I had what it took to become a Navy SEAL. But because of my teammates, we made it through. And that opened up my eyes that you, Julian, everyone in this auditorium, everyone watching, is capable of so much more than they think they are.

So when we showed up here, we all had our doubts. But we knew we had each other, the support of our friends, our families, our teachers. And that’s why we’re standing before you today.

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So you want to be normal. So you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world, not knowing the power that’s in them. Being fine with being mediocre. You want to go back to who you were, huh David? I’m like, fuck that man. Not every day is those bad days. It’s those bad days. Got to see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. Now I’m talking about talent, like some God-given ability. Talent that sometimes you have to hone and you have to work on and you have to harness yourself.

And they just walk around on their phones, just clueless to how powerful they are.

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Pride is something that everybody misses, that having pride in your name, your performance, the way that you show up for other people is something that you can do, but you need to do something that is worthy of being prideful about, right? What would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week with pride? Okay, maybe stop breaking promises to yourself. When you say, I’m going to wake up tomorrow at 7 a.m. and when the option comes to hit the snooze button, don’t do it. There’s one win that you’ve got for the day. That’s action, right?

And it is just, you know, it’s tried to say the Peterson clean your room thing, but the reason that that works is that you start with the smallest ever step and you expand out from that. You want to become a writer. You want to leave your job and become a writer. Okay, can you commit to writing one blog post on Substack per week for the next three weeks? That would make you feel like less of a loser if you did that. Action has to come first if you’re the sort of person who is chronically unconfident because you will drag your sense of identity behind you.

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The motivation when people are losing all these people who come out here and talk about how great they are and I see it all Time makes me sick man. Get real with yourself People cannot relate to you man. You are Unfucking relatable when you come out here and say hey man. I’m the baddest motherfucker to ever live, Okay, great. Well, I What am I gonna learn from you? You learn from people who are willing to tell you this is where I started from This is how much I fell on my fucking ass this is how bad I used to really be I still have those moments cuz Why you’re human? We’re all jacked up man.

We’re all jacked up, and that’s what makes my story relatable. I’m willing to let you in to see I’m decently successful now, but I didn’t come out like this man. I didn’t come out. That’s the story is you have to give people just a little bit of hope There’s no hope When they see greatness in you everywhere, you have to be able to get yourself down to a level of check it out, man There’s hope for you. That’s all I’m trying to give you just a little bit.

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There’s an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. Well, you come to a crossroad, that’s also where you meet the devil. Go this way or that way. If you go the wrong direction, your life will be then the consequences of that bad choice, and then that will tangle you up and then you’ll suffer for it. Then you have to figure out, okay, what’s the suffering? What’s the problem? When did I make the bad choice? Which road should have I taken? That’s how you fix a trauma. You replace the road you did take with the road you should have taken. And now you have a road forward.

And once you have a road forward, the trauma is no longer traumatic because you have a road. Your brain brings up the past because you have not specified the proper road forward.

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My biggest advice to give everybody in the world is like I say, we live in an external world. Everything is, you gotta see it, touch it, it’s external. If you can for the rest of your life live inside of yourself, stop listening to people who are calling you fat, gay, transsexual, nigger, everything that is makes no sense. All these insecure people putting their insecurities on you, you gotta flush it out. You gotta just be whoever the hell God or whoever the hell you believe in. If you believe in nothing but yourself, I don’t care what it is. You gotta take everything and throw it away.

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If we wouldn’t have had his body, we would have had to build one. So all of a sudden, my body became an asset, not a liability. And the same thing was with Terminator. After we were finished filming Terminator, Jim Cameron said to the press, if Arnold wouldn’t have had that accent and talked like a machine,

I think the movie wouldn’t have worked. So think about that. The body and the accent that they attacked was an asset. But I didn’t listen to those losers. I didn’t listen to them at all. Because that’s exactly the way it was in politics again, when everyone said no, no, no, and it can’t be done. And then became governor of California. And this is with everything like that. This is just the reality of it, is that you cannot listen to the naysayers. So this is a very important lesson for all of you. So when someone says no, this is a stupid idea, you in your mind,

you don’t have to say it, but in your mind just say to yourself, fuck you. You’re now. Tom.

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When I got through with that first 100 mile race that I did around that one mile track that I didn’t prepare for and I was considerably, it was horrible. And I’ll never forget, I found such peace and beauty. And I got there, I was in the worst pain in my fucking life. And I got done and my wife pulled the car up on the, my ex-wife, pulled the car up on this little lawn and I got in the back of it. And I got up the stairs, I’m not gonna go through the whole story, but I remember laying in the tub.

And she put the shower on me and I ran 101 miles in like 19 hours and I was like peeing dirt out of me. And I’m sitting there and I’m jackhammering and my body is just the most broken it’s ever been, even to this day. And this feeling came over me.

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I mean my mind is a storm and I don’t think most people would want to be me. They may think they’d want to be me but they don’t. They don’t know. They don’t understand.

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I give you the map, you are willing to do that? Yeah. It’s the main point, because everyone wants to be Christian. but I give you the map, you think you will do it? It’s difficult. The discipline. The discipline is the most difficult thing, not only in sports, but in life.

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So the level of fear that he inspired in others was insane. And I would tell him, I said, when I face him, we’re gonna go at it. He says, oh, you don’t wanna do that. I’m like, what? Man, you don’t know me, man. So when we matched up, I think he understood that. And when I was 18, my first year, he got the best of me a bunch of times. I was right there the next play. You’re not intimidating me, I’m not going anywhere. And I think he saw that level of respect because I think he was the same way at 18 years old. And that common bond is what I think, where our connection was built.

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So whatever it is that we have that we’re focusing on, if we take our energy off of that for the next thing, or the next thing, or the next thing, we’re gonna be still competing with people who are focusing all of their energy on that thing. And if we take our energy off of that thing and they keep theirs on that thing, it would be an arrogant assumption to assume that we can beat them with less than all of our energy. You understand? So you cannot make the mistake of assuming that you are better than the other guy. Because if the other guy,

even if he’s less skilled than you and he puts all his energy in and you’re only putting 80% in, that guy can beat you. That’s the reality of competition. All right? So it’s not about what’s the distraction or what’s the opportunity. It’s that you haven’t exercised or fulfilled your original opportunity to begin with, which is why you’re struggling and looking for other opportunities.

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it comes down to this for me, how do I want to be remembered? And that’s the problem, man. Like nowadays, people don’t give a fuck how they’re remembered. They don’t give a fuck about their family. Everybody’s equal. Their mom is equal to them. Their dad’s equal to them. They’re growing. Everybody’s fucking equal. So it’s a tough question to ask because when I grew up, my mom worked three fucking jobs. And all I wanted to do, and she got her fucking ass damn near murdered. And it took her down a dark hole. And I saw this.

That helped me grow up to say, all I want to do is retire my mother when I get older. That’s all I wanted to fucking do. And thank God I did that.

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I think it’s all package helps you to maintain a good nutrition in my opinion. It’s all component, not only these components, but you have a few more that helps you to be good in my opinion. So, small details in the end of the day will make the big difference in my opinion. So, as you say, and I will keep repeating, the consistency is the most difficult thing. Just doing it every day. Yes, every day.

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put your head down is work harder. That’s the answer to all the problems. Work harder. If you feel like things ain’t going your way, if you feel like, you know, you’re not executing to the best of your ability, work harder and be smarter about it. You know what I’m saying? Not everyone gets a trophy in here, bro. You know what I’m saying? The world doesn’t doesn’t owe you nothing and people shouldn’t feel sorry for you. You got to, you know, as a as an individual, I want that wants to be successful. You got to be the person I take matters into your own hands and go get it, period.

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I am no longer going to be watching any football and I’m no longer going to have Netflix at all. And that is what I’m giving up for seven, eight, nine, 10.

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You have to believe in one thing, and that is yourself. and- And I’m not saying don’t believe in God or what you believe in but right now for you to find Greatness in yourself. You’re not gonna find it by looking in a book or by even hearing me. I may give you the spark, but you’ve got to go inside yourself to find it, and that means you gotta be quiet. Shut the fuck up, go in a room, Stop talking, search your soul, search your mind, search your abilities and you’ll find it. But if you’re not looking for it, you won’t find it.

So you got to go start your journey and the journey starts with you finding why the hell am I here on this planet Earth? Why am I here? If you don’t know that you will live the rest of your life searching always asking the question why?

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I fight against my mind. Yes, sometimes it happens. We are all human beings. We are not happy every day. We are not in a good mood every day. It’s normal. It’s part of us.

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I got, I’m unbeatable. I’m totally and completely unequivocally unbeatable. But you didn’t know that before, right? No, I didn’t know how unbeatable because I’d never been beaten that badly. It’s like a fighter. Just look at it as a fight. There’s plenty of times you go in the ring, you fancy the job, you’re unbeatable. It’s all in the head. Other times you go in the ring, think, this is too good for me. You’ve lost before you start. It’s in the head. But over a period of time, you learn a little bit more about yourself because you have more experience in different circumstances.

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I tell kids all the time, if you even have this much savage in you, everything out there right now is for the taking. There was a point in time in the United States where you would look at different businesses and say, God, it’s almost impossible to break into this business. Everything out there is for the taking. If you have even this much savage in you, if you are willing to go out there and grind and work hard, you know you got these people that don’t want to go to work, they want to stay home and work from home and all that.

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What I realized on my journey was a lot of us don’t believe that we can achieve the impossible. And along my journey, I started realizing, man, I gotta fucking tell some people about this shit, man. Like, I discovered something that some people have, but they don’t even fucking know all of us have it. But along this way, I wasn’t like I said, I wasn’t a theorist, I became a practitioner. And I was like, my God, I’m busting down so many barriers of, like, I have a learning disability. Okay. But I’m catching up with everybody. I figured that out.

I figured out all these negative things in my life that were keeping me in this hole.

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I fight against that. You know, it’s the big challenge. It’s when you’re not willing to do something, but you have to do it. This is the main point. This is why I say our mind is a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it’s hard. It’s what many people say. You like to go to the gym every day. Of course not. It’s not true. Nobody likes to go to the gym every day. But you have to do it. Probably, yes. Because your mental strength is coming from that. From that moment, in a hard moment, you know you should do it. And I do it.

Because after that, maybe in the beginning you feel hard to start, but after when you finish the gym or cold planche or even the training, you will feel better. I think it’s the big key there.

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They get into something, they pour three years into it, after the end of three years, they’re like, this is so hard, I want to do something else. So they say, I’m going to start something else completely different. They go over here, they put three years in and after three years, they’re like, this is hard, I don’t want to do this, I want to start something else. And then they do that again for three more years. Now that’s nine years of your life. Okay, we don’t have unlimited opportunity here. And by the way, the person who started the same day you did, they have nine years of experience now.

That same thing. Exactly. So like, dude, this is how competition actually works and people don’t understand it because they bought into this idealistic bullshit on the internet that, oh, there is no competition, I’m just competing with myself. I’m just, bro, that’s bullshit. You’re competing in a real game and there’s other players playing it. And if those other players put more energy into their craft and you put into your craft, they’re going to beat you.

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You have to go dark. Remember about that is you have to be quiet in your mind get away from people We love being around people. We love talking. We love we love parties. We love all that shit It’s okay to be alone. It’s Also, okay to be unhappy It’s okay to be unhappy sometimes man. It’s okay to see no man. I’m fucked up. So you go to the truth first. Who are you? Get get really accountable. It’s okay. Who am I? What’s the truth about me? Get to that dark place in your mind. figure out. it may take months, may take years. figure out your purpose.

figure out what you want to be in life and then from there, Okay, I have my purpose. It may take a long time. No one knows their purpose because it’s too loud Finds your purpose from there. All right, Yeah, start planning. People love the planning phase because it’s very comfortable. Mm-hmm. Then from the planning phase you gotta go to execution. So the execution phase will be all hate, Because that’s where the real work begins and that’s when the failure happens and the failure and the failure. But you know that’s that. that’s kind of how you have to do it.

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Every time I sit in an interview, it’s, oh, why are you here? You’ve too much money, you’re too successful, you’re doing it all, blah, blah, blah. You know, in the last fight, I kind of bought into that. You know, I was in the press conference and a guy was reading out a quote of mine from many years ago where I was like, you know, talking about, I can’t wait, I’m gonna put my mother in a mansion, I’m gonna, you know, my girlfriend’s gonna have a car for every day of the week. And, you know, I was feeding into that, wow, I did all this, you know. I’m not even, I’m where I am.

I’m grateful, I’m proud of where I am and what I’ve achieved, but there’s a lot more left in me. I’m still very young, I’m very fresh in the game, and I’m a dangerous man, Steve, and I’m the most dangerous of them all. You know what I mean? I’ve 19 knockouts in my mixed martial arts career. Saturday night, I will get my 20th. It’ll be my 12th UFC main event. Only 32 years of age, fresh as anything, I’m ready to go. So I’m gonna prove how dangerous I am because trust me, in the mindset I’m in, I’m really, really dangerous.

This man is not, it’s not gonna be pretty what’s gonna happen to this man in here.

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The handle being. the long part is what it takes and how much work you have to do, and That is very long. And once you get to where you start to see results, the results Go up very, very quick and that is the same way that your success is gonna work. It’s the same way your life is gonna work and you just have to understand this is the way it is and you’re gonna have to bear through it and eventually you’ll acclimate to it,

and all these things to feel like you’re Not in balance or you’re not doing it right will go away and it’ll just feel normal and you’ll actually discover that You’re really not even pushing that hard. And then if you’re ambitious enough, you’ll even push harder than that So that’s what you’re dealing with dude. I don’t think it’s abnormal at all I think it’s totally normal and you guys just have to keep in mind When you’re pushing to be better when you’re progressing to be better. It is always going to feel like a struggle.

It’s always going to feel like you are not winning, when in fact you actually are.

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I don’t respect a whole bunch of people, but the few that I did respect are the people who were uncommon amongst uncommon people. And what that means is those people who weren’t afraid to stand alone. Those people who have morals, values, who did not go with, if all you guys are going left, it’s that one person who say, you know what, left’s not the right way. I’m gonna go right. Who didn’t follow the crowd. That person who’s not afraid of doing what they believe is right in their heart and not following someone else because someone else said, let’s go this way. And they agree with everybody.

I don’t like yes men or yes women. If you’re right, you’re right. We’re gonna follow you. But I like people who stand for something, they believe in something, and this is the way I’m gonna go whether you like me or not.

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fortune in life and bodybuilding has been great to me, but what I’m here to tell you is that life doesn’t happen to you. We all think that life happens to me, right? Life happens for you. It happens for you. I mean, opportunities will come to you every day. It’s either for you, you can remain scared of the opportunities, or you can embrace them and take them. When I finally realized that, and I want to share this with you, if you give up on your dreams, if you give up on your dreams, what do you have left? Nothing. I can’t live that way. I can’t live that way. I have to live on the edge.

When it’s about the money, you get in trouble.

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about how you can get somewhere and how it looks. It looks very ugly. There’s no fucking passion, there’s no fucking motivation, there’s no, oh my God, man, I fucking, this is, no. It’s every day of your life just doing.

No passion, no discipline, no motivation. All these words, I hate people, I hate that so many people fucking use these words now because it’s watered. It’s someone sitting in a room by themselves and they figure themselves out and say, God, this is gonna fucking suck. Where’s passion when you’re 300 pounds? Where’s the motivation when you can’t read and write? Where is it? So how did this happen? I just fucking did. I just did.

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Just do things, and if you like it, you’ll probably be better at that than anything else you choose to do. Because you will invest even your downtime doing it. And as the saying goes, pick something you would do for free and make that your career, and you’ll never live a sad day in your life. So that’s one variant on pick something that you love.

And all the time when other people say, you know I need a vacation from this job, you’re gonna say vacation, what’s that? People say that to me. Do you want a vacation from what? From the astrophysics you’re doing, but I like what I’m doing.

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So, I happen to be someone who has a fair amount of aggression, I have to admit. I’m extremely competitive, right? Even in card games, I don’t like losing. So I’ve channeled it into my books, I take all of that energy and I put it into making the best books that I can, into ambition. So if you’re ambitious, channeling that energy into becoming the best and beating the competition is a productive way of using that dark energy. If you feel angry about a cause or something that pisses you off about the world, some injustices, instead of whining about it, etc., you go out and you do something,

you do something, you get involved in a movement or whatever, you channel that energy into something productive. That’s the way to deal with the dark side and that’s, you can’t go throughout life imagining that you’re the saint because you’re not, you have these qualities.

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You can achieve the absolute impossible. You don’t need great parents. You don’t need like a private school. You don’t need to have this humongous GPA and all this other shit. What you need is the one thing I talk about in my book, which is straight up brutal work ethic. You have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world. And that’s the hard part. That’s the hard part. This isn’t like some five-step process where you can do these five fucking steps. You’re going to end up with this magical world. No, I’m basically teaching you how to callous over your victim’s mentality.

I’m teaching you how to, like I did 67,000 pull-ups in training for the pull-up record. I was seriously callous in my hands to protect them. What I’m trying to do with people is teach them how to find more themselves to where they empower themselves. I’m all about the underdog. So that’s what the book’s all about, man. It’s all about having that step process and I had to share this with people.

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All right, the Chinese bamboo tree has to be planted in the ground and after it’s planted in the ground, it has to get water, the soil has to be taken care of and it can’t be disturbed. And for five years, for five years, it sits in the ground with no sign of growth, no sign of sprout. And then once it starts to sprout, it grows 60 to 80 feet in eight weeks. All right, so this is the same thing that happens with your life. When you start to work to improve it, when you start to try and improve your career,

your mental toughness, your skillset, everything that you’re about, your life in general, it feels very discouraging because you’re pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing and nothing is happening. But that’s because you don’t have the right perspective about how things happen.

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It’s funny, human beings want to show you the best side, and they want to hide the worst side. For me, I’m going to teach you how to be vulnerable, because that’s the only way you fix yourself. You don’t fix yourself by coming out here and me selling you some fucking books. That’s why I don’t have them. I forgot them. I’m glad people got something from the book. I want you to learn that the only way you grow is how to look at yourself and say, OK, like I did. Table longer than this. What the fuck I have to do to get somewhere? There was nothing good on there. Nothing.

Yeah, I love playing basketball. I left that out. That’s something I love to do. I don’t care about that. That didn’t make the fucking list, because the list that I had to live by was the very list that was to get me at this table with you, to talk to you, to the normal human beings which I once was.

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And so in some sense, and this is part of the religious enterprise, you want a goal that you can never attain, right? So you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards it. You think, well, that’s frustrating. It’s like Sisyphus pushing the rock uphill. But it’s not, because as you pursue that goal, you put yourself together and your life does get better and richer and more abundant. .

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People only root for people who don’t need it.

Like the amount of times when I was on my lonely path where I was too different from the friends that I had, but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with, that’s when you want people to root for you. That’s when you want people to support you. Once you’ve already won, people are like, he’s amazing, he’s so good. But like, that’s the time when you need it the least. And so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. And it’s usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time.

It is a slow clap that’s just you, rooting for you. And that visual, I think, is one that you can kind of take because it is a slow clap.

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It was confirmation that I had gone through a crucible and I had figured out another level of David Goggins, a level that I thought was humanly impossible for anybody to do. When I was at mile 70 and shit and pissed all over myself and had 30 more miles to go and I was damn near dead and I was able to go 31 more miles. In that process of that next 31 more miles, I found out more about myself in that 31 miles than I ever have in my entire life. The conversations, the mental blocks, the roadblocks, everything horrible, it was just feeding at me like light speed. Get the fuck out of here, man.

But I was able to figure out different tactics. And when I finally got done with that and I laid in that tub and it was over, the feeling of, my God, man, you just really discovered a whole new world, a whole new part of the brain that guaranteed very few people have.

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I think I’m good, but I think my main strength is my mind. I think it’s my strongest point, it’s my mind. Piers, the numbers, they don’t lie. If you see during the last 15 years, my level is always kind of the same. So, effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough anymore. And if you’re not dedicated 100%, you’re not going to reach the level that you want. For example, you arrive home, you had lunch, you do a quick nap, and you wake up. You play with your kids, and I have to go to the gym at least 30-40 minutes,

but this will make the difference at the end of the day, you understand? If you don’t do that work, you miss one. The next day, it’s two sessions that you lost. And I know at the end of the day, in the end, they’re going to make a huge difference.

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I said, maybe at the end of this journey, there’ll be something there for me. If not, I can read. If not, I’m 185 fucking pounds. There’s no magic potion. There’s no, oh, let me wake up and look at some, no. All those words are overused. They’re bullshit. It’s all bullshit. Just do your living. How do you wanna live? How do you wanna die? How do you wanna fucking be remembered? That’s it. That’s it. Period.

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When you’re on your way up, everyone roots for you because you remind them of their dreams. When you’re at the top, everyone tears you down because you remind them that they gave up on them. And you have one, which is, for anyone who needs a reminder, no one is going to hate on you for doing worse than them. And this is interesting because, kind of like, the challenges you face in the beginning, you don’t have anything to say no to, therefore the woman in the red dress is easy to say no to, there are fewer women. This is a challenge that nobody is going to give you any sympathy for.

It’s a very unique category of challenge because the total addressable market for sympathy is basically zero. Because almost everybody is on their way up, and very few people are at the top, and the people that are at the top are seen as having a degree of privilege that almost legitimates you twisting the knife, or you poking the finger.

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Anyway, you can Be great at doing what you love to do. You got to commit to it. You can’t hold on. You can’t Want something but not put in the work, you know, and it doesn’t matter what you’re doing in life No matter what it is. It could be a professional athlete or it could be an artist. It could be a doctor, It could be anything in the world- a president, United States- But you got to put the work in and I think if you put the work in, the results will happen organically. And, most important, you got to find happiness too. You know, if you’re having fun, enjoying what you’re doing,

then it just makes it makes it so much easier. it makes it so much easier to just like You want to do it every day because it’s something that you really enjoy doing it. You don’t look at it as work, You know so.

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Just because something is hard to obtain does not mean that it is valuable.

Just because something is hard to obtain doesn’t mean it’s valuable.

Correct. Yeah. Just because it’s difficult to get doesn’t mean that it’s valuable.

Look at the car he’s driving, look at the watch he’s wearing, look at the girl he’s with.

These things were hard to obtain,

so you presumed that they were valuable,

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You know how much stuff that I have on my agenda every day that needs to be done. but other things that pop up in the office and you get a bunch of Smart, hard-working people in a room together and you go on a completely different. you know You have to have people in the office working every day and these people that don’t want to Stay home man. Stay home and do your thing. Good luck to you. I wish you all the luck in the world.

There’s going to be a small group of hungry savages out there that are going to run Every one of you over and you can sit home and you can cry and complain about how you didn’t get yours and it’s because This person had this opportunity that you didn’t have. it’s all bullshit, crybaby, stuff That’s going on, and the whole world, like you said, but more so in the United States, like I’ve never seen before.

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What will you do?

Rebuild it. Just the way it was, brick for brick.

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If you don’t jump, if you don’t take that chance, you’re never gonna be what you see out there sailing. Now, the problem with jumping, there is a problem. And there’s nothing I can do to safeguard you from this. When you jump, I guarantee you this, parachute is not going to open right away. You don’t just jump and just start sailing.

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Nobody knows but you. You can’t get advice on what you should do with your life. Right? Nobody knows what you are. Like even sometimes you don’t really even know what you are. You gotta take your shot. And it’s like, as much as you want people to agree and you want the people around you to be supporting your dreams and all, it’s not gonna be like that all the time. You gotta do it alone. And people will help you. And when you get the ball rolling, people will jump on. But if you don’t believe, nobody else is gonna believe. People come along because your belief is so insane.

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What is it about this property that makes you feel it’s so integral that you can’t put it off until after all these legal matters are settled?

That’s a very good question. This property gives us many things. First, access to the river, so I can bring in my fuel directly from any provider in the world straight to my tanks. Second, it has over 10 million gallons of storage capacity, so I can buy in the summers when the price is low and sell to my customers and more importantly my competitors when the price is high. I will no longer just drive trucks. I will control my fate.

But the real answer to your question is that when it feels scary to jump, Ian, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise, you end up staying in the same place your whole life, and that I can’t do. Thanks.

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It’s mind numbing, man. And that’s why most people won’t jump. Because it’s the fear of falling. But let me say this to you though. And I want everybody to ask yourself this question. Name me one thing, one thing that you have not overcome. Name me, OK, watch. Let me put you this way. Retract that. Watch this right here. How many of you out there have ever had a bad day? How many of you have had days where you didn’t know the answer? You didn’t know what to do next? How many of you had days where you felt like you just wasn’t going to make it? Can I tell you something about you?

Your track record for surviving bad, insurmountable, I ain’t going to make it days, your track record for surviving them so far is 100%.

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I used to say, what if this happens? It’s called the language of the poor. What if this happens? And on top of that, if this was to happen, look at the fix I’d be in, I better not try.

I could always ace myself out. Then I’ll tell you what changed my whole life when I finally discovered it’s all risky.

The minute you were born, it got risky. If you think trying is risky, wait till they hand you the bill for not trying.

I’ll tell you how risky life is. You’re not gonna get out alive.

That’s risky.

The Englishman says, well, if that’s the way it’s gonna work out, let’s give it a go. Right, that’s what it’s for. Give it a go.

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There have been so many times in my life where I Knew I needed to do something and then I filled all this extra time Not doing that thing. and then, the moment I did it, I was like, wow, that took way less time than I thought it was going to take. and not only that, it took way less Time than it took me to delay to actually get to this point. And if I had only started with just doing what I was supposed to do, I could have done four or five other things that I was also supposed to do by this exact same point. And so, thinking about it from that perspective,

I’ve tried to eliminate as much time between I think I should do this thing and beginning doing it, and I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle that occurs every time you start. I call it pulling the thread. It’s like I just need to start pulling the thread and then, all of a sudden, what feels really unknown Becomes very tangible and you’re like: oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing, But now I know the problems and then it feels like you can. you can wrap your arms around it and then you can start Taking it one bite at a time.

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Hey y’all, you done made all of them. So why would you not make the next one? See you gotta see what God be doing for you man. Cause a lot of people don’t take an inventory. Y’all don’t know, every funky thing that ever happened to you, God got you by it somehow. And if he ain’t got you through it, he currently pulling you through it right now. That’s why you sitting in here. So now with that piece of information right there, I understand the hesitancy to jump. But knowing that, why would you not jump? Why would you not take a chance? Like be safe. Yeah it’s scary.

I was, hey man I went to work the next day and quit my job. What you talking about? I was finna. get in the car and drive for some dudes, I don’t even really know, . But I was gonna take a jump, dumb jump. But I was gonna take a jump, I got two kids in here that ain’t eating. I was gonna, but it’s the risk man that make life so rewarding. You have to take them partner. Without them, you ain’t gonna do.

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This medical student approached me the other day, told me how hard he was studying, talking about these different tests he had to pass. He said, I studied my ass off for the step one test and I failed it. There was an awkward silence between his question. I was waiting for more. There’s a saying out there in the military. They say first time, every time. Well, I wasn’t that guy. I felt everything I did the first time. I was known for coming back even harder after I failed. Success isn’t a straight line. It’s a maze. And when you think you figured that maze out,

you hit a wall and you got to turn the fuck around and start again. Stay hard.

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And my biggest fear honestly was Let’s say this. Let’s say I don’t care if you believe in God or not. I don’t care So this this is play a game with me. Let’s say let’s say you’re God And we have a big fucking long line of people and I made to heaven 75 years old. I’m 300 pounds I made heaven I worked for equal lab my entire life spraying for cockroaches. That’s what I did But I’m dead. I’m in heaven now and you are at your you’re judging us all now So we’re in line. We’re all sitting there in line.

you have Adam Brown He has a big board up and you’re talking to Adam Brown about his life and you rip it down and I’m next in line David Goggins, I see my name and I see all this shit and God goes. Hey, you say, read this man. Now I’m reading this list and I’m seeing 182 pounds, Navy SEAL,

Ranger school Motivational speaker changing lives. Okay, man, pull up record all this shit.

and I’m like that’s not me, man. and God looks at me and says That’s who you were supposed to be.

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If you don’t, you’re setting yourself up for a miserable life.

Life is, look man, if you play it safe, you’re going to exist.

You only get to live when you take risks. Ain’t no living in safety. You can’t beat a man if you don’t jump. You can’t beat Top Dog unless you fight the other dog. Ain’t nobody going to give you the championship. You don’t win the title without coming to the fight. You don’t win the fight without training. The jump is necessary. It’s like I said in the video. Every successful person I ever know has jumped. Why would you not? See you have this opportunity. All of us have opportunities in life.

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Make your move before you’re ready. We’re instructed in life to walk by faith and not by sight. See, you want to really begin to stretch yourself. You want to become a risk taker. You want to raise the bar on yourself. Most people won’t do that. See, most people engage in low-life living, low-risk living. This God said, if you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. And if you cannot grow, you cannot become your best. And if you cannot become your best, you can’t be happy. And if you can’t be happy, then what else is there? I like what Helen Keller said, life is short and unpredictable.

Eat the dessert first.

And so you want to begin to take some chances. You want to begin to challenge yourself and make it okay to fail and learn from your failures. Don’t allow fear of failure and the allure, the attractiveness and playing it safe in life to draw you in. You can’t get out of life alive. You’ve got to die to leave here.

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You gotta find a way to get better. You can’t, this morning it was really funny on my radio show, my closing remarks this morning where it was saying it don’t matter where you started. The start is unimportant. And the middle don’t matter either. See, cause the middle is what’s going on right now. The start is back there. The middle is what’s happening now. This is irrelevant. As long as you keep your eye on the ambition, the goal, and the prize. If you keep your eye on that, all the rest of this stuff, it’s just gonna be part of the story.

You know, like we were talking upstairs, man, you got a heck of a story. See, they see you now. They don’t know how you got here. They don’t know the journey. Everybody want credit now.

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Somebody says, yeah, but I’m looking for safety and security.

Fine, then huddle in a corner. We’ll cover you with a sheet, bring you three meals a day. And we’ll protect you, feed you, look after you, care for you, we won’t let anything happen to you. And you’ll probably live to be 100.

The guy said, well, yeah, I’d live to be 100. But what a way to live. Right, what a way to live safe and secure. Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure.

Better to live 30 years full of adventure than 100 years safe in the corner.

And see, it’s not important how long you live,

what’s important is how you live.

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Because taking risk is not just about going for a job. It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and to ideas. In the course of the film, the character I play begins to take small steps, small risks. He very, very, very slowly begins to overcome his fears. And I feel ultimately his heart becomes flooded with love. And I can’t think of a better message as we send you off today to not only take risks, but to be open to life, to accept new views, and to be open to new opinions.

To be willing to speak at a commencement at one of the best universities in the country, even though you’re scared stiff. While it may be frightening, it will also be rewarding. Because the chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have, that’s what’s going to define you.

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drove 40 minutes home,

cried all the way home.

This girl I rode with, she said, why you crying, it ain’t but $50. She said, you don’t even understand, I’m born. She said, what you mean you born? I said, I know what I’m gonna do the rest of my life. She said, you ain’t winning but $50. I said, no, I’ve been praying my whole life, God, what is it? My life gotta be more than this. I won that comedy competition. I went to work October 9th, the next morning, and quit my job. Woo!

I’m gonna tell you something. That decision cost me everything I had.

I lost everything. I lost my family,

I lost friends, I lost everything. I became homeless,

I lived in a car for three years. But I just saw this, I saw this, I saw this vision. I just pursued it, I said, wow, that’s it.

You have to take chances in life. If you don’t take chances in life,

you’ll never have the life God has for you.

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And my biggest fear I? I visualize some crazy shit. My biggest fear is that one day I’m gonna reach a judgment of my life. someone, something’s gonna judge me what the fuck I was supposed to be in life and What I want now is that whoever’s judging whatever judge me up there I want them to have a board and them up there right now getting their pin out Because you know this person who judges supposed to know everything Supposed to know from the time you’re dead the time you’re you know,

you know Tommy boring time to dead I want this person up there to be like this up there writing more about me saying fuck I know I know you could do that. I I know you can do that. So I want to impress Whatever the fuck is up there, whatever’s going on in life. I want to go up there and not have anything left on the table. I want to. I want to drain my soul of every fucking bit of person I am.

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All we have to do is change what’s going on in here. And now there’s several ways to do that on personal development. And let me give you those ways. Here’s the first one. We must learn from personal experience.

Pretty simple, learn from what happens to you. Take a look back over the last few months. Did you make some mistakes? How could you correct those for the future? Take a look back over the last year. Have you done it right or done it wrong? Let’s correct it for the next year. Learn from your personal experience. Mr. Shope asked me when I first met him, he said, Mr. Ong, how are you doing? You’ve been out there now six years. And I said, I’m not doing very well. He said, I suggest you not do that anymore. What a simple swift analysis to my situation.

He said, if you keep doing it, the next six years will be like the last six. You don’t want that to happen. Let’s make the changes.

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And whenever you have a temptation to do something that is small and irrelevant, that command will go, Blam! What is the most valuable use of your time right now? And you go, Ooh! And it’ll push you into doing what is the most valuable use of your time. And whenever you’re working on the most valuable use of your time, you feel great. You get concentrated effort is a source of energy and enthusiasm. It makes you feel wonderful when you’re working on something important, and it makes you feel nothing when you’re working on something irrelevant. Develop a sense of urgency.

A sense of urgency is a quality that is possessed by only 2% of the population. 2% of the population do things fast. 2% of the population have a bias for action. In Tom Peter’s wonderful book, In Search of Excellence, he says all the excellent companies have a bias for action. And all of the companies that do not classify or do not come into the excellence category do things when they get around to it.

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So many of us come from these small places in our mind that we’re not willing to think outside of only what we’ve seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment. And one thing I was able to do was to dream. Many people, but don’t make dreams your master. But I was able to dream outside those four walls of that small town. And until you’re able to really put yourself into that dream, but don’t make dreams your master, that’s where you truly become what you’re destined to become.

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And when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful, as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. And I’m here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad. You just kind of want it. You don’t want it badder than you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep. Some of you love sleep more than you love success. And I’m here to tell you today, if you’re going to be successful, you’ve got to be willing to give up sleep.

You’ve got to be willing to work off of three hours of sleep, two hours. If you really want to be successful, some days you’re going to have to stay up three days in a row. Because if you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful. That’s how bad you’ve got to want it. You’ve got to go days without, listen to me, you’ve got to want to be successful so bad that you forget to eat. Beyonce said once she was on the set doing her thing, three days had gone by, she forgot she didn’t eat.

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People either survive in the jungle or exist in the zoo. Few recognize the significance of the paradoxical reconciliation of the two. It takes a rare individual who understands how cunning and aggressive one has to be to acquire an estate such as yours. Your house is a testament to the synthesis of this culture. Refinement with aggression. The first duke understood this principle, as do I, which is why I intend to offer you an obscene amount of money for your country estate.

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Life is about risk. If you play it safe in life, you ain’t gonna have much of a life. If you play it safe, you won’t have much of a life. Life is risk. It take courage to pursue your dreams. I just did it. It cost me everything, but eventually, God is very good, man, when he sees you take a leap of faith. He supplies you everything you need. Now, it’s gonna cost you something, but most people are not willing to pay what it costs to go after your dream, because you’re gonna have to hurt a little bit, and most people don’t like being uncomfortable.

If you don’t wanna be uncomfortable, , please do not pursue success, because success is a very uncomfortable feeling, and I just learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable. If you can get that in your head,

this too shall pass. Every moment of everything you’ve ever gone through, God got you through it. You didn’t even realize it. He just got you through it.

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I always ask myself, even I would always ask myself is, your purpose, what’s your purpose for living? Do you know your purpose? What you’re created to do? Do you know what that is?

A lot of people live their entire lives not knowing.

Entire lifetime not being happy because they feel as though they’re not fulfilling their purpose.

One time in my life I felt that. What was my purpose? And sometimes you graduate out of high school, you look for that job, you look for that career, college, the degree, you still question, is this my purpose?

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And that’s what’s painful, is that it takes more effort to start in the beginning, and more people are right about the fact, they’re like, hey, you’re not going to hit it big. And guess what? A month in, you’re not. But they’re only measuring on months. And at six months, you’re also not going to have hit it big yet. And they’re going to be like, I’m still fucking right. And at a year, you’re still not going to have hit it big. And they’ll still be fucking right. And every day that you haven’t hit it, they’re going to feel like they were right.

But they’re wrong, because they’re measuring in days and you’re measuring in decades.

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You got to start believing in your imagination. You got to start talking to him about these stuff you be seeing. But you have not because you ask not. So if you see the vision, the imagination, but you don’t ask God for it, what you want him to do? He showed it to you. Faith without works is dead. So now you got to put in work. All of y’all sitting in here, you want a better life, correct? Yes. Haven’t you imagined a better life? Yes. Okay, who you think he showed it to? He showed it to you. Why you think he showed it to you? Because he want to give it to you.

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A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure, or dream about being a SEAL, or dream about being an astronaut, and all it is is a motherfucking dream. They don’t put the work behind the dream. That dream has become their fucking master. When you become the master of your fucking dream is when you say, I want to go be a Navy SEAL and you say, okay, I’m going to lose 106 pounds in less than three months. The dream was the one thing I thought about, and the dream was now gone. Now, what comes in, the dream goes away,

and the fucking laundry list of fucking details and tasks come up. Got to do this, got to do this, got to do this, got to do this. That’s when you become the master of your dream.

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Until you find the center of your being, you will continue to walk and live going through the motions. And how many people out there right now go through the motions? You may be making $50,000 a year, $100,000 a year, $200,000, $1 million a year. You may be making $10,000 a year and not happy going through the motions. Meaning you go to job, you go to your work, you’re not happy.

Come home, you’re angry with your parents, angry with your wife, angry with your kids, angry with yourself, not happy.

Can’t have a good time around your friends because your mind is wondering, you know, what is my purpose? What is my purpose?

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If you can view yourself acting in a courageous and forthright manner and encountering the world and trying to improve your lot and taking risks, you know, in a non-naive way, well then you have something that you can comfort yourself with at night when you’re wondering what the whole damn point of your futile and miserable life. And so- and that’s necessary, because it’s often the case that you wake up at four in the morning,

or at least sometimes the case that you wake up at four in the morning when things haven’t been going that well and wonder just what the hell the point is of your futile and miserable life. You have to have something real to set against that. It can’t be just rationalizations about how, you know, you’re a valuable person among others even though that’s true. That’s not good enough. You need something that’s more realistic to set against that.

And observing courage in yourself is definitely one of the things that can help you sleep soundly at night when things are destabilized a little bit around you.

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But I started realizing this is part of the process. This is part of the journey I had to realize this is part of my process versus just saying like I used to I’m it’s not good enough If I’m not good enough, we always say that shit. I’m it’s not good enough and then we try something else I’m gonna fucking make myself good enough and that became my mentality I’m gonna make myself good enough. And so I’m misunderstood a lot, But that’s. that’s all it came down to. I made myself good enough, and the days I couldn’t run that far, the next week I would do two days.

So on the running if I ran a quarter of a mile, I wait a fucking couple hours. It haunt me, bother me. I try to run a half mile next time, same day. You can do more than this. if I had to walk, had to walk, it just became just a process of Grinding and grinding- and grinding is not even a good word for it, It’s not even a good word for it- and just just going further and further. And then, when I got through running, I go to the bike, I go to the pool. if I got tired somewhere, my legs are tired. I go to the gym and I developed this crazy workout where I was doing volume.

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I think that the final thing I would encourage you to do is now is the time to take risk. You don’t have kids. Your obligation to… Well, I’ll stop. I mean, don’t worry.

You probably don’t have kids.

But as you get older, your obligations increase. So once you have a family, you start taking risks not just for yourself but for your family as well. It gets much harder to do things that might not work out. So now is the time to do that before you have those obligations. So I would encourage you to take risks now. Do something bold.

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I love to tell you, look, you can go out here and get rich, do a couple of things, that ain’t happening. You gotta get real doggish. You gotta get downright funky if you wanna make it. Now like I was telling you before, if you wanna be ordinary, you ain’t even gotta listen to me. Just go on about your business. If you think ordinary’s cool, ain’t no problem. It’s some really, really wonderful ordinary people. But if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations, then you’re gonna have to do extra.

You put extra on top of ordinary, and you come up with extraordinary. It’s no other way. I’m sorry, but here’s the fact. All of you have extraordinary capabilities, all of you. You have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category.

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There’s two things you need to do right now

to go from crop duster to full-time fighter jet. And those two things are take more risks, make more effort. Don’t think that someone’s gonna feed you the right answers all the time. Sometimes you have to make the wrong decisions. Sometimes you have to lose the money. Sometimes you have to lose sleep. Sometimes you have to bleed. I’ve literally bled. I’ve gotten off the toilet, looked inside and there was fucking blood. Those were the best lessons. The heaviest lessons to build your entrepreneurial muscles are mistakes.

And so you have to, you have a fiduciary fucking duty to yourself to take more risks. And sometimes those risks will work against you. But you’ll see ultimately, there were the best lessons of building your entrepreneurial muscles.

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You need to do the unexpected, which is, oh, we’re caught in an L-shaped ambush, we are going to assault the enemy right now. That’s what we’re gonna do. It’s unexpected, it’s highly aggressive, and you can get the upper hand quickly. I mean, look, you’re caught in an L-shaped ambush, you’re in a bad freaking spot. You don’t have too many options. But doing something bold and unexpected is a good mindset to have when you have two bad choices. Think, okay, what else could I do? What freaking crazy move could I make? By the way, how much risk is there? I have a lose-lose situation.

Can I take a high risk? What do I stand to lose anyways? I’m gonna lose? It’s like if you’re in a jujitsu match and you’re getting just smashed and you try and toss some footlock at the end of the match. You’re already on the bottom. It’s a no-risk move. You’re already down nine points to zero. You’re going to lose. Might as well try it. Do something, but don’t try and pass anymore. You haven’t been able to pass the guard for seven minutes. Heel hook. That’s the type of attitude.

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The start is one thing.

Don’t worry about where you started. You didn’t have the best background.

Your mom and them didn’t have money. So what? Everybody, it’s hard to be black.

I got all that.

Good, good, good.

When you get through with that and you get through with what’s wrong with you now,

as long as you keep your own ambition, the goal and the prize, you’ll be okay. Cause all this is just going to be part of the story.

Now all this is story. You got to have a story, man.

You can’t, you know, people in church say you can’t have a testimony without a test.

You got to have some tests, man.

And that’s all it is, is process.

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You’re going to be just like you are now, except a lot more of what’s good about you is going to be gone. And a lot more of what’s terrible is going to be amplified. And you’re going to be like, in five years, you’re going to be ten years older instead of three years older. You think, oh my god, there’s a terrible risk in pursuing this new job. It’s like, yeah, there is a terrible risk. There’s a terrible risk in you staying with your job right now. And so, one of the things that’s really freeing to understand is that you’re screwed no matter what you do. There’s no secure path forward.

Give it up. It’s risk everywhere. You think, oh my god, that’s terrible. It’s like, yes, except for two things. You can pick your risk. That’s the first thing. So you get to pick your poison. That’s something. And second, you’re a lot tougher than you think. So even though there’s risk everywhere, if you confront it forthrightly, what you’ll find is that you can actually handle the risk. And that’s the security.

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There has to be that degree of risk to even have a story, because when you have a story, then you can communicate the story. You can’t be an empty vessel either. So when you’re telling me how I build this 20-year-old into a super soldier, yeah, he has to be a master communicator, but he also has to do things which are risky. Risk has value intrinsically linked to it, intrinsically. This is why people, when you do risky things, people want to hear the story. Your coolest stories involve risk. Something went wrong. This could have happened. I almost this. I made it out.

Without these risks, you haven’t got it. So I would say, if you want 20-year-old, do what I did. Get in the cage. Get in the ring. Knock someone out. Get knocked out. Train hard. Fighting will teach you everything you need to know about life. You’ll learn everything about who you truly are. You’ll learn if you’re a coward or not. You’ll learn everything about perseverance, and hard work, and dedication. Everything about being underappreciated. You’ll learn everything about fear. You’ll learn all of it. You’ll learn everything about people. You win a fight, check your phone.

Lose a fight, check your phone. You’ll learn all about people. You’ll learn all about them. Learn all about women. I learned so much about women through fighting.

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I’m not sure anybody is taking enough risk from 20 to 30. It is the most interesting thing that I’ve been thinking about, which is it is never more practical to be disproportionately risky than from 22 to 30, yet everybody goes the other way because now they’re the real world and it’s time to prove something to their parents, to themselves, to everybody else, and everybody goes conservative. It is a huge mistake. We need to flip it upside down. Everybody should go ham from 22 to 30 and do a ton of ridiculous shit and figure themselves out.

But, but on your own dime, not your parents. There’s the parents flapping. So how I think about it is you should go and be rogue and get to know yourself and take shit from 22 to 30, but you have to live by the ramifications of doing that. And the cost of entry of that is living with four people in a studio apartment eating dog shit food and not having fancy shit.

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The first thing I would say is well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable It’s like the first thing you want to do is dispense with the idea that you get to have any any Permanent security outside of your ability to contend and adapt. It’s the same issue with children. It’s like you’re paying a price by sitting there being miserable and you might say: well, the devil I know is better than the one I don’t. it’s like, don’t be so sure of that. The clock is ticking.

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whereby limited the amount of risk or the amount of opportunity that I would pursue. I was only paying 200 bucks to sleep on my brother Nate’s couch, right? Like that’s what I was paying. I had nothing to lose. I wasn’t married. I didn’t have kids. I don’t have any of these things. So anything that I do is full on business, full on risk, everything all in.

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If you decide you want to be rich, all you gotta do is start. Why not? Who gonna stop you? Unless you tell it to the wrong person. Mama, mama, listen to me. I’m going to be rich. Ain’t nobody rich in this family. Go in there and sit down somewhere. Get yourself a good job. Oh, mama, you must be right. No, mama could be wrong. Because what you have in your imagination, God didn’t show it to your mama. I’m sorry. He showed it to you. Listen to me. If y’all don’t do nothing else, write everything you imagine down. Write it all down. Pray about it and watch what happens.

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I have money. It’s trust and character I need around me.

Who you choose to be around you lets you know who you are.

One car in exchange for knowing what a man’s made of, that’s a price I can live with.

Look at all those people down there.

They follow the rules for what?

They’re letting fear lead them.

What happens if I don’t? Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.

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where failure is what stood instead of improving failure for success. Failure is part of the recipe for success. You fail a thousand times before you succeed. Every single person has. It’s the losers that fail once and quit. Every winner has done failed. The loser and the winner both have failed. It’s just that the winner gets back up and does it again. Very lonely road successes. Know that going into it, but it’s the only road that will lead to a life of remembrance.

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I believe that risk is a very interesting thing and I’ve got a pretty good career with it and I would tell you here’s what mine looks like. I risk as much as I’m willing to completely lose and I push it as far as possible and that’s always my model. That if all goes to zero on this move, can I still be breathing and stay alive? Anything that would put me out of business, put me out of business and people do that. They borrow too much money. they dilute themselves in the company. that could make them lose control from the board. anything that would put me at risk, I stay away from.

So the punchline is very simply, I’m willing to lose every penny other than the first penny that I need to breathe. All of it. I’m willing to lose, we do things here all the time Vayner, where I invest and buy things, buy companies, buy acu-hire people and the numbers always gotta be, if it goes to dead zero, will I still be alive to fight another day? But I take it right to that edge.

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Rich people don’t sleep eight hours a day. That’s a third of your life. It ain’t been 24 hours in a day. You cannot be asleep eight hours a day. You can’t live in LA and wake up at eight o’clock in the morning. It’s 11 o’clock on the East Coast. The stock market been open two hours. They already making decisions about your life and your ass was asleep.

The Bible says, he who loves to sleep and the folding of hands, poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night. He who loves to sleep and the folding of hands, poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night. I’m gonna ask you one question, I’m gonna go. How many of you in here know somebody who loves to sleep? Who knows somebody that loves to sleep? Let me ask you something. Ain’t they poor?

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Yeah, and the important thing to realize as well is the next year is going to go by whether you’re doing something about your life or not. I mean, we’re sitting here right now at the end of February, and the next 10 months are going to go by whether somebody is working to make change or whether they’re not. And they may think, you know, oh my God, I’m so far away, I’ll never get it under control, or I’m so behind in my bills, or I’m so, you know, just depressed, or everything is so out of control. Well, you know what?

You make those incremental changes, and then, you know, pretty soon in December you go, hey, I’m way better off than I was at the end of February. So you made little changes, and they all added up. And if you don’t, by the end of the year, you’re just in deeper. So every little bit matters.

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or like this business idea, it’s not going to work. And you might have nine failures. I felt my first nine businesses didn’t really amount to anything. Nine, nine, as in the first one spent time fucking failed. Second one, this one will be different. Fucking failed. Third one, this one, this is the one. And then seven, six more after that. Right. I’m just painting this picture because like it’s painful as shit, because the whole time everyone is telling you, I told you so, and they’re right. Today, but not forever.

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If you don’t jump, here’s the other guarantee, your parachute will never open.

You get to be safe. You ain’t going to fall, you ain’t going to get cut up on the rocks. You don’t have to worry about none of that no more. You’re playing it safe. Your parachute don’t open, but you ain’t sailing either though. And if that’s the life you want, man, that’s a sad life, man. I would rather wake up trying to do what I was born to do than to never take a shot at that. Bishop Jakes, I heard him say something one time, he said, I would hate to die and never do the thing I was born to do. That’s crazy, man. Like if you were born to teach, but you never taught,

how you going to live with yourself with that? If you were born to be a business owner and you just keep working for somebody, how you going to live with that? How do you do that, man?

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Go for it guys. You gotta say, you know what? This comfort zone I’m in is a f***ing danger zone. It’s a danger zone because what is it doing? It’s stopping you from your true potential. It’s comfortable. I don’t want to sit down here because I don’t know that area. Don’t let anyone say you can’t do something. Don’t let your mind say, I can’t do it anymore. Your body. You can. You just gotta push past it. At the end of my life, my tombstone, one thing it’ll have on it, no f***ing regrets. And that’s a good life, man.

So I encourage you, man, whatever that fear inside of you is, whatever your, you know, you can make up every excuse, making, you know, so you can get everybody else convinced that you’re not doing it for that reason, even though inside you know you’re just being a bullsh**. You know, just let it out. You know, say, hey, you know what? I’m scared. I’m really f***ing scared. I’m gonna give it a shot. How about some support? They get behind you, you know, and you go for it. And you, bam, you overcome that step. The next step’s even bigger and bigger.

Next stop, then you’re on top of a mountain, man. You only got one life. Why not go for it, right?

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It’s going to require a decision that we have to make to go for it or stay still. So having this opportunity is like standing on a cliff with this gift God got for you packed on your back in a parachute pack. Now while you’re standing on this cliff you see people soaring by, going on vacations, having a summer home, opening a business, climbing the corporate ladder, being what they’ve always wanted to be, getting a job or the career of their dreams. You see people, there’s a neighbor down the street, they get a new car every two years. How the hell are they getting a new car every two years?

What are they doing down there? You know, and you see all of this people just sailing by because they jumped. The only way you get to sail by with your parachute is you have to jump.

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I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing. Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that’s less than the one you’re capable of living. Now. I’m sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life, I’m sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on, make sure you got something to fall back on, honey. But I never understood that concept, having something to fall back on.

If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything except my faith. I want to fall forward. I figure at least this way I’ll see what I’m going to hit.

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If you want to be great, you want to be the best motherfucker ever at what you do, you’re going to be misunderstood by everybody because you’re going to be so fucking obsessed and so driven to get there. That’s what it takes. That’s the truth. Takes every second of your fucking life. Anybody says balance? Yeah, balance is important for a lot of fucking people. It is. But if you want to fucking go to that edge where people do not like you, don’t understand you, question everything you fucking do, you’ve arrived.

When you are misunderstood to the point where people think you’re a psycho and you’re nuts and you’re this and that, why are you in the fucking gym at one o’clock in the fucking morning? You just got through doing an op for fucking 13, 14 hours at the ranger school, man, at the gym. What’s wrong? You will never understand what is wrong with me. And that’s why I’m so fucking glad you don’t because I’m in the right fucking spot. When people don’t understand you anymore. you’re in that spot of obsession and drive where people are like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?

I don’t want to talk to you, man, because you’re not going to get it.

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I failed.

Why do we fall sir?

So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.

You still haven’t given up on me.

Never.

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There was an awkward silence between his questions. I was waiting for more. There’s a saying out there in the military, they say first time, every time. Well, I wasn’t that guy. I felt everything I did the first time. I was known for coming back even harder after I failed. Success isn’t a straight line. It’s a maze. And when you think you figured that maze out, you hit a wall and you got to turn the f*** around and start again. Stay hard.

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Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year, but eventually it will subside. And something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever. Listen to me, I’m telling you as I leave, telling you as I leave, I was homeless for two and a half years. And the problem with most of you, you never felt no pain before, y’all spoiled. Y’all spoiled, some of y’all spoiled, just bottom line. Your parents have done everything for you. You never had to do nothing for yourself, you’re spoiled. We’re gonna keep it real tonight.

Some of you are spoiled brats. Every time you ever got in trouble, somebody in your house got you out of it. Every time you’ve done something you’re not supposed to do, people say, Eric, your mother’s a tyrant. You’re right, she kicked me out. You’re right, she’s mean, but she developed a man, because she put me out there and said, you’re gonna have to grow up. And some of you have never learned to grow up.

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A lot of people live their entire lives not knowing,

entire lifetime not being happy because they feel as though they’re not fulfilling their purpose.

Well, I wanna tell you, until you find the center of your being, you will continue to walk and live.

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the person that I want to become as the destination and thinking like: I want to be bulletproof, . I want to be bulletproof in these ways. I want to be bulletproof in my marriage. I want to be bulletproof in my business, et cetera. And I think about that man, whoever I want him to be. Like we said, hell is when you look at who you could have been and realize that you’re not that person. And then I think, if I were to make that man, what would I put that man through to make him who he is? Like, it wouldn’t be easy times. It wouldn’t be quick wins. It wouldn’t even be easy wins.

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One of the things that’s very important to note about stress is that stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. So if I find that some particular thing is causing me to have stress, that’s a warning flag for me. What it means is there’s something that I haven’t completely identified, perhaps in my conscious mind, that is bothering me and I haven’t yet taken any action on it.

I find as soon as I identify it and make the first phone call or send off the first email message or whatever it is that we’re going to do to start to address that situation, even if it’s not solved, the mere fact that we’re addressing it dramatically reduces any stress that might come from it. So stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn’t be ignoring.

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the sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whispered when nobody was watching. It’s all about those moments when you could have folded but you didn’t. You see, the underdog story is the realest story there is because when you come from nothing, you appreciate everything. You hustle different, you love different, and you lead different. So today, I want you to do three things. Stay humble. Never forget where you came from. Stay hungry. Keep that fire in your soul. And stay true. Always be real with yourself and the world because the world don’t need no more copies. It need originals.

And trust me, ain’t nobody else that can do what you do like you do.

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standing on a cliff with this gift God got for you packed on your back in a parachute pack. Now, while you’re standing on this cliff, you see people soaring by, going on vacations, having a summer home, opening a business, climbing the corporate ladder, being what they’ve always wanted to be, getting the job or the career of their dreams. You see people. There’s a neighbor down the street, they get a new car every two years. How the hell are they getting a new car every two years? What are they doing down there? You see all of this people just sailing by because they jumped.

The only way you get to sail by with your parachute is you have to jump. If you don’t jump, if you don’t take that chance, you’re never going to be what you see out there sailing.

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You got beat honestly, and that’s fine. But you’ll never look back on that event and say, fuck, if only, if only I did that. What if I did this? Too fucking late for that.

Build a legacy, guys. Don’t go after the title. Every single day, the small things in life hold value too. It’s you doing them. And you should have value in yourself. When you value your name, your life will be remembered. How do you know you’re on the right path? When the small things mean as much as the big things. And lifting those last couple reps mean as much to you as looking in the mirror and flexing or winning the competition. Because you know those small things add up to that. And if you half-ass it here, you can’t expect anything but the half-ass and accomplishment later.

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But here’s the thing, I didn’t quit. I didn’t fall back. I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition. I prayed.

I prayed and I prayed.

But I continued to fail and fail and fail. But it didn’t matter because you know what? There’s an old saying, you hang around the barbershop long enough, sooner or later you’re going to get a haircut.

So you will catch a break and I did catch a break.

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The fact that it is painful is the reason that it’s working. But if it wasn’t you stepping out, everybody else that has to try and step out into this new life faces this same thing too. Every single person does. That’s why most people don’t do it. Like this is what hard feels like. And this is why most people don’t win. So continuing to push through and almost seeing that level of discomfort as a signal, it’s like a way marker that’s been planted in the ground. Yes, more this way. Because if it was all just super easy, well,

how are you going to get anything different to what everybody else has got if you do the same thing that everybody else does? And one of the best selectors for people not doing a thing is discomfort. So the route that has a lot of discomfort down it, usually on the other side of that ends up with something which is valuable.

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If you play it safe, you’re going to exist.

You only get to live when you take risks. Ain’t no living in safety. You can’t beat a man if you don’t jump. You can’t beat Top Dog unless you fight the other dog. Ain’t nobody going to give you the championship. You don’t win the title without coming to the fight. You don’t win the fight without training. The jump is necessary. It’s like I said in the video, every successful person I ever know has jumped. Why would you not? See you have this opportunity. All of us have opportunities in life.

And it’s going to require a decision that we have to make to go for it or stay still.

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What I’m trying to give you all is the misery of sometimes we go through in life. Those are the times we don’t want to talk about. We want to skip forward to peace. Let’s just skip all this pain and suffering and misery of real life. Let’s cover it over, nice big blanket, and let’s find peace. No. Sorry. It’s not possible. Go into that fucking hellhole of life that you have that fucked you up and fix it. That’s what I’m here to do. You’ve got to go to war with yourself before there’s peace. That’s what I say in the book. That’s what you say in the book.

You must go to war with yourself before you find peace. I’m trying to give you tools on how to do that. I’m not going to sit here and smile and be happy about it. It’s a hard journey. It’s a real journey. It’s a journey that’s going to take you way outside of being comfortable.

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Following your dreams is a lonely, solitary, scary, dangerous pursuit. You can’t wait for somebody to think you can do it. And it’s like, they, cause they don’t think you can do nothing they can’t do. Exactly, big dog. You know what I mean? It’s like, it’s a lonely, scary, dangerous pursuit. And you gotta be willing to risk everything to become that seed of what you believe is in there. You gotta be fearless. You gotta be relentless.

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There’ve been so many times in my life where I knew I needed to do something, and then I filled all this extra time not doing that thing. And then the moment I did it, I was like, wow, that took way less time than I thought it was going to take. And not only that, it took way less time than it took me to delay, to actually get to this point. And if I had only started with just doing what I was supposed to do, I could have done four or five other things that I was also supposed to do by this exact same point. And so thinking about it from that perspective,

I’ve tried to eliminate as much time between, I think I should do this thing and beginning doing it. And I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle that occurs every time you start, I call it pulling the thread. It’s like, I just need to start pulling the thread. And then all of a sudden, what feels really unknown becomes very tangible. And you’re like, Oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing, but now I know the problems. And then it feels like you can, you can wrap your arms around it and then you can start taking it one bite at a time.

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The problem with jumping, there is a problem. And there’s nothing I can do to safeguard you from this. When you jump, I guarantee you this, parachute is not going to open right away. You don’t just jump and just start sailing. And that’s scary. And it’s scary, you gotta be willing to face it. It’s mind numbing, man. And that’s why most people won’t jump. Because it’s the fear of falling. But let me say this to you though. And I want everybody to ask yourself this question. Name me one thing, one thing that you have not overcome.

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Somebody said, I don’t go home, I feel bad. Go through it. You ain’t gonna die at the end of pain and success. You’re not gonna die because you feeling a little pain.

I’m not eating like I eat at home. That’s why you’re about to go to the next level because if you keep eating like you ate at home, you will keep being a boy or a girl. It’s time to become man, woman.

So don’t worry about a little pain. My greatest asset is I was homeless. So I can’t feel a whole lot of pain. I’ve already been alone. There’s not a whole lot of hurt I can feel on a little paper, on a little test. So I leave you, I leave you, listen to me. We have gotten to a point where it’s midterms and we moving forward. The days of you getting money, I’m not saying we quitting, but I’m saying a day has gotta go from external to internal. You have to give it everything you got. No more TV, no more parties, no more playing. If you don’t have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying.

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it’s always easy to find a reason not to do an investment. We have a no bias. You should overall have a no bias. You should say, okay, here’s all the things that could go wrong. You have to think that way because you have to manage risk. If you say no to everything, you’re always right in the short term, but if you never make an investment, you’re wrong in the one way that matters, which is you get no return. You always miss the short term losses, but you lose the big long-term gain.

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As you walk this journey, you’re going to see carcasses all over the place of people that didn’t quite have it. That should inspire you because you’ve gotten further than that person and that person. But you’re not looking to get further than them, you’re looking to finish. How do you know you’re on the right path? Where do you go to ensure that? Do you talk to your neighbor? No, you don’t talk to him. I’ll tell you about the neighbor, guys. That neighbor’s going to come in, man, and if you’re a little chubby, a little overweight,

you’d be like, hey man, I’m thinking about doing a routine, man, and getting in a training program where I lose some weight. He’s going to encourage you at first. He’s like, yeah, you should, you should. Basically insulting your ass and you’re fat and you need to lose some weight. It’s never support, it’s negative shit. Oh, you should lose some weight. So then you take his advice and you start training, you start doing something. You start to get in shape a little bit, maybe at his level. Then all of a sudden he’s going to start asking questions, his tone’s going to shift,

especially as you get in better shape than him.

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whatever you do, you’re gonna get backlash. So it’s like, you can’t do nothing if you ain’t gonna get no backlash. It’s like, you know, the core of how things are created in the universe is through collision. You know, so you gotta be prepared to collide if you wanna create something, you know? So for me, it’s like, that was just the collision I was prepared to have. It’s like, I grew up in a family business. So for me, my father and my mother taught me on the family business, we were working together was how we were raised. So for me, that’s how I wanted to raise my kids.

That’s how I wanted to teach my kids in seeing me in my best light and doing my art, the thing I do best, and they’re right there, and I get to teach them in the actual moments of creation. So I was willing to have that backlash.

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going through the motions. And how many people out there right now go through the motions? You may be making $50,000 a year, $100,000 a year, $200,000, million dollars a year. You may be making $10,000 a year and not happy going through the motions. Meaning you go to job, you go to work, you’re not happy.

Come home, you’re angry with your parents, angry with your wife, angry with your kids, angry with yourself, not happy. Can’t have a good time around your friends because your mind is wondering, what is my purpose? What is my purpose? Especially for men, because life is very, very challenging for a man.

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Why did you let me race with your car? You knew I was gonna wreck it. Why not? Cause it’s a lot of money. I have money. It’s trust and character I need around me.

You know, who you choose to be around you lets you know who you are.

One car in exchange for knowing what a man’s made of, that’s a price I can live with.

Look at all those people down there.

They follow the rules for what?

They’re letting fear lead them.

What happens if I don’t? Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.

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The bike got easier. I was able to run more. I went from like one mile, one mile was a great accomplishment, two miles, and then from two to three was a big one. Then I went from three to six. And then, like they have a warning order that they give people to get ready for Buds. And the whole thing was running six miles five days a week. And that was my goal. And so I just kept, I failed, I go back to scratch. I used some positive motivation. I had like one day where I was like fucking defeated. But I started realizing this is part of the process. This is part of the journey.

I had to realize this is part of my process. Versus just saying, like I used to, I’m just not good enough. If I’m not good enough, we always say that shit. I’m just not good enough. And then we try something else. I’m gonna fucking make myself good enough. And that became my mentality. I’m gonna make myself good enough. And so I misunderstood a lot, but that’s all it came down to. I made myself good enough. And the days I couldn’t run that far, the next week, I would do two a days.

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People get stress wrong all the time, in my opinion. Stress doesn’t come from hard work, for example. You can be working incredibly hard and loving it. And likewise, you can be out of work and incredibly stressed over that. And likewise, if you use that as an analogy for what I was just talking about, if you’re out of work, but you’re going through a disciplined approach of a series of job interviews and so on and working to remedy that situation, you’re going to be a lot less stressed than if you’re just worrying about it and doing nothing.

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Let me track that, watch this right here. How many of you out there have ever had a bad day? How many of you have had days where you didn’t know the answer, you didn’t know what to do next? How many of you had days where you felt like you just wasn’t gonna make it? Can I tell you something about you? Your track record for surviving bad, insurmountable, I ain’t gonna make it days, your track record for surviving them so far is 100%.

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Being the color I am not real dark and being light complected. I didn’t fit in anywhere. I Got caught around whites. I got caught half-breed and sold out around some blacks My mind was in the valley. I was stuck in there It’s I was willing to climb the mountain look down on the reality of my life The reality of my life was I had a lot of friends. I didn’t see that. I saw this. a Lot of us were predisposed. So our mindset does one thing You hear one thing and you’re ready to jump the gun go off.

I Was defensive growing up Ready to hear something negative Right now we got a lot of bash going on the world We got stop being defensive. We got to hear everybody, Whether be bad or good, be ready to listen, stay hard.

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The guy said, well, yeah, I’d live to be 100. But what a way to live. Right, what a way to live safe and secure. Don’t ask for security,

ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than 100 years safe in the corner.

And see, it’s not important how long you live,

what’s important is how you live.

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The progress part, a lot of, so it kills a lot of people, it’s like, what are you progressing towards? People who sit in their jobs and they feel like there’s no value, it’s not contributing to themselves or the world, or really it’s just there for a paycheck, that, and it feels like tough, like uncomfortable, though there’s just, you know, you’re just miserable with it. But at least your friend, if he’s chasing after something that’s like a dream of his or a passion that he’s chasing towards and his progress and it’s uncomfortable, at least at the end of that line, it’s what he wants. Yep.

You know, and that leads to obvious, like a lot of people ask me, how do you stay so, like you mentioned, disciplined, when you’re at the point you wanna eat and you wanna diet? I’m like, well, I love what I do. At the baseline, I’m passionate about what I’m doing and I love what the goal will be. I love the part of it, I love the impact it has on others, that help people in my life and myself. So at the end, that’s just, there’s a reason, there’s a purpose behind it, rather than just mindlessly circling the hamster wheel.

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But do you have the guts to fail? Here’s my second point about failure. If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.

I’ll say it again. If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying. My wife told me this great expression. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. Les Brown’s a motivational speaker. He made an analogy about this. He says, imagine you’re on your deathbed, and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential. The ghost of the ideas you never acted on. The ghost of the talents you didn’t use. And they’re standing around your bed angry, disappointed, and upset.

They say, we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say. And now we have to go to the grave together. So I ask you today, how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

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And a lot of people in that town, when you come from a town of 8,000 8,000 people, it’s like we had a local plant, Great Dane. You’re like, you know what, I want to work at Great Dane and get a house next to my mom. That’s what you know. So many of us come from these small places in our mind that we’re not willing to think outside of only what we’ve seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment. And one thing I was able to do was to dream. Many people, but don’t make dreams your master. But I was able to dream outside those four walls of that small town.

And until you’re able to really put yourself into that dream, but don’t make dreams your master, that’s where you truly become what you’re destined to become.

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your success is like a spotlight shining down on their missed opportunities. Success, many will love you for it. The majority will hate you because your success makes them feel insufficient in their current endeavor, reminds them of where they could have done it but they came up short and how they didn’t revisit it. Where they went at it and failed and failure is what stood. They never revisited it again. The difference between a winner and a loser: the failure is there every single time. It’s just the winner gets back up and does it again and does it again until it goes his way.

So now you’re down that path and you’re all alone. How do you know you’re on the right path? How do you know what you’re doing is in the right direction? If you’re wondering if you’re on the right path, look at the small things of life. How do you do them?

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Smile wide, hold your head high, and when they ask you how you made it, you tell them, I believed in myself when nobody else did. Keep pushing, keep winning, and remember, it’s always the underdogs who end up running the game. Trust me, that’s why I’m running the game.

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If everything you do you put your name to, to the best of who you are, you’re not trying to win the title. You’re trying to win the legacy. There’s a big difference there. The title is just getting a long cut for the f***ing paycheck. Probably the last time you cut that long. Just winning the title in a bodybuilding competition, you know, you’re beg, steal, f***ing murder for it. Do drugs for it. You get the title. Yeah, cool. Not good enough. Because that title won’t get you another title. Because the way you went about it was shortcutted. There’s no future in that.

When you do it for a legacy, everything you do holds value. There are no shortcuts. You went to every f***ing corner and made a left turn or a right turn and then you went down the next path. Ensured everything and the opportunity was presented. You got the most out of each situation you could.

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Why would you not take a chance? Like be safe. Yeah, it’s scary. It’s, I was, hey man, I went to work the next day and quit my job. What you talking about? I was finna. get in the car and drive for some dudes. I don’t even really know, . But I was, I was, I was gonna take a jump, dumb jump. But I was gonna take a jump. I was got two kids in here that ain’t eating. I was gonna, but it’s the risk, man, that make life so rewarding. You have to take them, partner. Without them, you ain’t gonna do. So.

if something has been in your heart to do and you never do it, you will play it safe and you will stand on that cliff with your gift that God gave you safely tucked away on your backpack that’s your parachute.

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So when you go home, right, and you want to start a new business or you have a girl that you’re bringing back and your friends and your family are like, she’s not going to last or like, this isn’t going to, this isn’t going to be forever. They are right. Literally every single time, except for the one time you bring your wife home. And in that time, they’re all wrong. And it’s the one time that matters. And so the idea, like, but the thing is, is because of the false positives or the true positives, but you only need one yes or one positive to change your entire life.

And so there’s this habit and that’s where cynicism comes from, where we get so many positive reinforcers for saying no and being right. But it’s only short term being right because you have to make big bets to win big. And that also means that you’re wrong plenty of times and people aren’t willing to look stupid for being wrong. This school bet could go wrong. I’m betting it’s not, but everything has risk.

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You want to be the baddest motherfucker ever at what you do? You’re going to be misunderstood by everybody because you’re going to be so fucking obsessed and so driven to get there. That’s what it takes. That’s the truth. It takes every second of your fucking life. Anybody says balance? Yeah. Balance is important for a lot of fucking people. It is. But if you want to go to that edge where people do not like you, don’t understand you question everything you fucking do, you, you’ve arrived. When you are misunderstood,

to the point where people think you’re psycho and you’re nuts and you’re this and that. Why are you in the fucking gym at one o’clock in the morning? You just got to doing an op for 13, 14 hours at the Ranger school, man at the gym. What’s wrong? You will never understand what is wrong with me. And that’s why I’m so glad you don’t. Cause I’m in the right spot. When people don’t understand you anymore, you’re in that spot of obsession and drive where people like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy? I don’t want to talk to you, man. Cause you’re not going to get it.

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If you think trying is risky, wait till they hand you the bill for not trying.

I’ll tell you how risky life is. You’re not going to get out alive.

That’s risky.

The Englishman says, well, if that’s the way it’s going to work out, let’s give it a go. Right. That’s what it’s for. Give it a go.

Somebody says, yeah, but I’m looking for safety and security.

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What I like about it is I’m doing something I don’t want to do every time I start doing things I don’t want to do I grow yes That is a that’s a lesson that people need to hear and learn It’s so important because everybody just wants to be comfortable everybody wants to sit in the car.

I don’t want to go outside It’s cold. I don’t want to do this. It’s hot.

like you’ve got to do things that you don’t want to do because you show your body that your mind is the boss.

Yeah, mind is telling your body what to do,

and then you have control.

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If you don’t jump, here’s the other guarantee, your parachute will never open.

You get to be safe. You ain’t gonna fall, you ain’t gonna get cut up on the rocks. None of that, you don’t have to worry about none of that no more. You’re playing it safe. Your parachute don’t open, but you ain’t sailing either though. And if that’s the life you want, man, that’s a sad life, man. I would rather wake up trying to do what I was born to do than to never take a shot at that. Bishop Jakes, I heard him say something one time, he said, I would hate to die and never do the thing I was born to do. That’s crazy, man. Like if you were born to teach, but you never taught,

how you gonna live with yourself with that? If you were born to be a business owner and you just keep working for somebody, how you gonna live with that? How do you do that, man?

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And so if you choose to believe that your energy and efforts will result in more skill set, then you will actually put energy and effort into getting that, which means you actually will get the skill set. But if you think, well, my talent and intelligence are fixed, so no matter how much I work, I’m never going to get better, right? I can’t be a fast pig. If you don’t think that putting time and energy into it will yield anything, then you won’t put time and energy into it and you thusly won’t get the skills. So, and if you don’t have the skills and you can’t do the things other people can do,

and so people just get stuck because they don’t have the only belief that matters. And so that’s like where everything starts is are you putting the time and energy into getting better? Yes or no? Yeah.

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When you wash your car, you spend an hour washing your car, you finish washing, you put the hoses and everything away and the brushes, you come outside to look at the job you did but you notice a spot’s missing, what do you do? Do you re-grab re-grab the hose and pull it all out and finish the job right or do you say, no, that’s good enough? And it’s good enough. So the thing about good enough is we don’t know if it’s enough. Until the nth hour, the final hour, and everything’s on the line, that’s when we find out if it is enough. And if we come up short, man, doesn’t that suck?

I promise you guys, if today you never say good enough, tomorrow you’ll always have enough. What I’m saying is the character of who you are. It’s not the title that makes you, it’s not the success that makes you, the character defines the success, defines the fame and it starts right there. Championships aren’t won in the theater of the arena. They’re won in the thousands of hours in the training room, in the labs, in the 5 a.m. runs, and then it’s rainy, whenever else you’re sleeping, that’s when it’s won.

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to find your purpose is to spend time with yourself. Spend time away from distractions, away from people who distract you, who take your time away from you. Now when you talk about taking time away from you, I’m talking about taking time away from the things that you may enjoy. You may be used to writing, you don’t do it anymore. You may be used to singing, you don’t do it anymore. You may be used to reading books, you don’t do it anymore. Whatever your hobby is, try to get that back into your life.

That’s one part of your purpose because you have this gift that you’re not exercising that you used to exercise and you decided not to do that.

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It takes more effort to start in the beginning and more people are right about the fact they’re like, hey, you’re not going to hit it big and guess what a month in you’re not, but they’re only measuring on months and it’s six months. You’re also not going to have hit it big yet. And they’re going to be like, I’m still right. And at a year, you’re still not going to have hit it big and they’ll still be right. And every day that you haven’t hit it, they’re going to feel like they were right, but they’re wrong because they’re measuring in days and you’re measuring in decades.

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You stayed strong even when the odds were stacked against you. Now let me tell you something, all my life I was the underdog. They told me I wasn’t good enough. They told me I was dreaming too big. They said the kid from the LBC couldn’t make it. But guess what? I didn’t let none of that stop me. I stayed true to myself. I stayed focused on the vision and I turned them no’s into yes’s. See adversity is like the gym for your soul. It hurts, it’s heavy, but it builds you up. Every time you wanted to quit, every time life tried to break you, you chose to stand tall. That’s what makes you great.

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You know, like we were talking upstairs, man, you got a heck of a story. See, they see you now. They don’t know how you got here. They don’t know the journey. Everybody want credit now. Everybody want a piece of the pie, here come the lawsuits. You understand? They eating you alive, man. I know they are, cause they chewing on me. And people just, they see this right now, but they don’t see, they don’t see what we did along the way.

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Stop being this high school dropout. Stop giving up, stop sleeping on the streets, stop walking up and down Finko Avenue like you ain’t got nothing and get your GED. Stop being afraid to take a test. Stop being afraid to go to college because your daddy didn’t go and your mama didn’t go. Stop being afraid and be the best Eric Thomas you can be. But listen to me, it’s gonna be hard. It took me 12 years to get a four year degree, but I got it. And guess what, on a degree, it don’t have dates. So if it took you four and it took me 12, it don’t show up nowhere.

But I’m exactly where I wanted to be because I realized I gotta commit my very being to this thing. I gotta breathe it, I gotta eat it, I gotta sleep it. And until you get there, you’ll never be successful in life. But once you get there, I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard and you can have whatever it is you want.

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And we kind of have a younger generation now that doesn’t always get told no. They don’t always get told this is exactly how you need to do it. So they have this illusion that they have all these choices. But the fact of the matter is, is if you want to be good, you really don’t have a lot of choices. Because it takes what it takes. You have to do what you have to do to be successful. So you have to make the choices and decisions to have the discipline and the focus to the process of what you need to do to accomplish your goals.

And all these guys that think they have a lot of choices are really sort of sadly mistaken. And I think as we all have done with our own children, they learn these lessons of life as they get older. And sometimes the best way to learn is from the mistakes that you make, even though we all hate to see them have to make them. And we don’t really condone it when they do.

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If I ran a quarter of a mile, I’d wait a couple hours. It’d haunt me, bother me. I’d try to run a half a mile next time. Same day. You can do more than this. If I had to walk, I had to walk. It just became just a process of grinding and grinding and grinding’s not even a good word for it. It’s not even a good word for it. And just going further and further and then when I got through running, I’d go to the bike. I’d go to the pool. If I got tired somewhere- my legs were tired- I’d go to the gym and I’d develop this crazy workout where I was doing volume, like two, 300 reps of very lightweight.

People always say, how come you don’t have any loose skin? My workout routine in the gym became sick. It became sick. I was just doing two, 300 reps, 400 reps on chest, just for one simple exercise, the bench press. And I’d rack it, get back on it, just rep it out, trying to burn as many calories as I can, build that muscle mass. And I just became obsessed with it.

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The Harvard Champion is a light switch that’s always on. It doesn’t go on and off when someone’s watching. It’s constant. It’s how you look at something, if your name’s attached to it, that you do it right, the best of your ability, every single time. If you’re dusting your countertops, do you dust around the picture frame? Or do you pick the f***er up and dust the entire thing? Do the job right or don’t do it at all? That’s the same person who has his hand raised on the podium one day. Same motherf***ers. How you hold yourself from the small things of life,

build the character-winning blocks of the things that we’re remembered for. I see them as one and one, the same, guys. It begins right now with no one looking, man. And how you hold yourself, how you see yourself. What do you do when no one’s watching? If you do it then, I guarantee you, you’ll be doing it when everyone’s watching.

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The start is one thing. Don’t worry about where you started.

You didn’t have the best background.

Your mom and them didn’t have money. So what?

It’s hard to be black. I got all that.

Good, good, good. When you get through with that,

and you get through with what’s wrong with you now,

as long as you keep your own ambition, the goal and the prize, you’ll be okay. Because all this is just gonna be part of the story.

Now all this is story. You gotta have a story, man.

You can’t, you know, people in church say you can’t have a testimony without a test.

You gotta have some tests, man.

And that’s all it is, is process.

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is that when it feels scary to jump, Ian, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise, you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

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I don’t think enough about people that have that have wronged me or situations that have wronged me because once you’ve uh, once you’ve uh, Come to a place where you are really happy with who you are in life No one fucks with you anymore, even though they’re fucking with you. It doesn’t. it doesn’t fuck with you. You know, like all these, I used to be so hurt by everything in the military and if someone did something or says something, like man, I have overcome so much shit. There’s not like I. i’m just in a really good headspace right now- my headspace, I own it.

A lot of people own other people’s headspace. I own my own shit now.

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Everybody has dreams. And as much as you wanna be able to listen a little bit, cause somebody’s gonna give you a gem, but nobody knows but you. You can’t get advice on what you should do with your life. Nobody knows what you are. Even sometimes you don’t really even know what you are. You gotta take your shot. And it’s like, as much as you want people to agree and you want the people around you to be supporting your dreams and all, it’s not gonna be like that all the time. You gotta do it alone. And people will help you. And when you get the ball rolling, people will jump on.

But if you don’t believe, nobody else is gonna believe. People come along because your belief is so insane.

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Whatever it takes to get you to try harder, read more, set your goals and go for it. Here’s the next attitude disease. Over-caution.

Some people never will have much. They’re too cautious.

Now, you can also be too reckless, but you can also be too cautious. This is called the timid approach to life.

And my caution was always the risk. Risk used to drive me right up the wall. I used to say, what if this happens? It’s called the language of the poor. What if this happens? And on top of that, if this was to happen, look at the fix I’d be in. I better not try.

I could always ace myself out. Then I’ll tell you what changed my whole life when I finally discovered it’s all risky.

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What you doing here? Don’t you have practice?

Not anymore. I quit.

Oh. Well, since when are you the quitting kind?

I don’t know. I just don’t see the point anymore.

So you didn’t make the dress list. There are greater tragedies in the world.

I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad. To prove to everyone that I was… Prove what?

That I was somebody.

Oh, you are so full of crap.

You’re five feet nothing. A hundred and nothing. And you got hardly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you’re also going to walk out of here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen. Never.

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You played me!

It was a test, your test!

And Colin, knowing he was guilty,

seeing those pictures,

what did you do? You put that lying bitch on the stand.

You brought me in, you put me there,

you made her lie!

I don’t do that, Kevin! That day on the subway,

what did I say to you?

What were my words to you?

Maybe it was your time to lose.

You didn’t think so. Lose?

I don’t lose! I win! I win! I’m a lawyer! That’s my

job! That’s what I do!

This is my life, man.

Do you know how hard I worked to get here?

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So I learned more in these mats than I have in all my years. I’m a nerd, I got a PhD. I learned more about life about the mind in these mats than I have in all the years of school. I think two things, two of the biggest things I took away is the humbling reality that I’m not special. And if you wanna be good at anything, you have to work really hard. And if you wanna be the best in the world at something, like I do, I wanna build robots better than anybody else in the world. Or whether that’s knitting or yodeling, anything.

You have to work, but you have to work harder than anyone else in the world. And the second lesson I learned, I used to compete a lot, I used to lose a lot, and I used to hurt to lose. And I remember, I don’t know if Phil remembers this conversation, but I think at late Blue Belt, I was going to a big competition and I said, I don’t know how I’m gonna win, it’s like 50 people division. And he said, well, give everything you can to win, but whether you win or lose, you’re still gonna have a home here, still gonna love you.

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Now each one of you has the capacity to be a rogue elephant, because you know something? There’s nothing holding us back except the limitations we have in our own mind. That elephant is in reality unstoppable. And the most important goal that you can develop, the most important quality or characteristic that you can develop for happiness and success is to be unstoppable yourself. Is to think of yourself as unstoppable. And you know how you become unstoppable? It’s by the basic psychological behavioral development principle of simply saying it to yourself.

Because whatever you say to yourself and believe over and over again, you start to believe as a reality. You start to walk it and talk it and act it. So what you say is, I am unstoppable. I’m unstoppable. I’m unstoppable. I don’t care what it is. I’m unstoppable. Nothing will stop me. The greatest of all qualities to guarantee success is the absolute willingness to go at anything and refuse to stop until you achieve it. And you know something? The statistics show that 95% of the goals that you set for yourself, you will achieve if you refuse to quit. Learn more. Visit wwwcdcgovau.

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differences between losing weight and then meeting Laird and starting to train and get into my body because I was sedentary my whole life and- Just sitting all day. Sitting all day or laying down all day. I liked laying down more than sitting. This is the longest I’ve been in a chair that I, since I’ve been on an airplane. With Laird, when I showed up to Laird’s the first time, I couldn’t do one pushup. Come on. Swear to you, could not do one pushup. And with his support, I worked up to being able to do a hundred consecutive pushups.

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Sun don’t stop for nobody man. Sun don’t fucking stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning regardless. That sun is gonna be up in the morning regardless. Regardless of how I fucking feel and how depressed I am, the sun is gonna fucking shine in the morning and at nighttime the moon gonna be there and you gonna look up, these days gonna keep going by. So do you let the days go by and look up and you done wasted a year doing what? Or do you just pick it up? All right, well, gotta figure it out, made some mistakes, life goes on. Let me figure out life from this point. I’m a life goes on type of guy.

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Then there’s a small percentage that had a medical problem, and then there’s a small percentage that got performance dropped. Meaning they couldn’t perform the runs, the swims, the technical aspects of the job, and they failed, and they get dropped. But the vast majority of people, they quit, but they don’t usually say that. And even in their mind, they probably don’t believe it. They probably believe, well, it was my leg, and once my leg was hurting, I knew I was going to have a hard time on the runs, because I wasn’t going to be able to make the runs. That’s why I quit.

But it wasn’t really quitting, it was because of my leg. So like I said, it’s a very strange and really kind of a mystical thing.

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Mental attitudes and personality are determined by things that we do. And there are certain things that you can do consistently every single day, and in so doing them, you’ll build your self-confidence up and up and up to the point where you become unstoppable. And these are very simple things, and they’re practiced by the most successful men and women. Men and women who were so terrified they could not lead silent prayer in a telephone booth at one time. And they built themselves up to the point where they’re not afraid of anything by working on themselves.

Just like a weightlifter builds up muscles, you can build up character, personality, and strength and tenacity and desire and knowledge and courage and confidence by working on yourself.

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I now see anything is possible and that you could train for anything. There’s nothing you can’t do. You can’t be the best in the world at something, but you can be a lot better than you are at anything. You want to put the time into learning whatever it is you could do anything. And that’s a great, inspiring feeling. And I feel like I bring that into the art where I already had great confidence. But even more so, I now know anything is possible at any time. Wow. Just if you have to do the work.

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So one big thing is a lot of people, it’s hard to imagine, but you have to learn how to fail. Because I’m gonna explain this to you. I had big dreams. A lot of us have big dreams, big goals. And when you have goals that are maybe outside your reach, you have to know that getting to that goal, you’re gonna have a lot of bad days, a lot of setbacks. So like when I was losing 106 pounds in three months, the first two months or first two weeks, it’s like I was gaining weight. You know, I would lose a pound, gain two. So I was just failing. I kept failing and kept failing and kept failing.

So I had to teach myself how to fail right. And what that means is when I fail, I can’t spend much time in that fail zone. I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast. Because my goals were to be a Navy SEAL. I don’t have time to stay here and feel bad for myself for weeks and months and years, because I’ll lose that time.

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So when you’re obsessed with something, it doesn’t require discipline because you can’t wait to do it again. Mike Tyson said best. He said discipline is doing something you hate, but doing it like you love it. Mm-hmm, you know, like when you’re in training camp- like Mike Tyson was for a big heavyweight fight- You’re pushing the limits of your physical endurance and recovery because you’re trying to achieve an adaptation. You can’t maintain fight ready fitness all year round. You

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Most people’s number one fear is public humiliation. Okay? I don’t give a fuck anymore. I’m not afraid of it. Because I’ve had plenty. And now, it’s just time for me to say, I’m tough. Because what does not kill you, makes you stronger.

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I think a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard.

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He asked me a question about, he wants to be really good at tennis. But what happens is after I play tennis for a while, I wanna go play video games. You obviously don’t fucking want it bad enough. Because a person that, you wanna, I became obsessed. I became obsessed with being the baddest motherfucker that God ever created. Am I that? I don’t care, I believe it. And I was trying to tell him, once you become obsessed with something, obsessed, it’s okay to be unbalanced for a while. It’s okay, don’t be all this stuff people say, you gotta be balanced.

To be the best in the world at what you do, it’s not about being a Navy SEAL people. The best at what you do. you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of fucking energy and strength that you have to pull it off. Then you get balanced once you become great. And then you help other people become better from you being the best in the world.

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And then my competitiveness inside was like, no, I’m going to do something in the next 20 years that is better than these last 20. You might not understand that. I’m doing that.

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I lived in abandoned buildings. I had no business living in abandoned buildings. But E.T., your daddy wasn’t in your life. Your mom was a teenage mother. You grew up, come on, look at your search. That’s not an excuse. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse. I told you, I didn’t get a new daddy. I didn’t get a new mama. What changed? I changed. And I stopped being a victim. I stopped saying, I’ve got to wait for good things to happen to me. And I said, I’m gonna grind. I’m going to fight. I’m going to work. I’m going to press toward. I’m going to learn.

I’m going to do everything in my power, every single day. I’m going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim. Now let me say this before I move forward. And I can’t explain it, but you better feel me. Winners win and losers lose.

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if you have big goals and big dreams, along the way failure is gonna happen. So how fast do you get up from that? You gotta teach yourself that. But the biggest key to success in anything you do is you gotta have an unlimited supply of fucking fuck you. This drive and passion, and it may come from nothing. Like for me, there was no passion, no drive, no nothing. But I had this fire that I’m gonna be somebody. And it has to be there because on all those bad days, on all those days you don’t wanna do shit, you have to be your own motivator, your own coach, your own trainer, your own everything.

So to do that, you have to come into work and work as whatever your work may be, ready to go.

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The odds were stacked against me. I won anyway. Because I win.

You won because Edward Darby came forward. You got lucky.

Guys like you always think other people get lucky. I don’t get lucky. I make my own luck.

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The amount of times when I was on my lonely path, where I was too different from the friends that I had, but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with.

That’s when you want people to root for you. That’s when you want people to support you. Once you’ve already won, people are like, he’s amazing. He’s so good. But like, that’s the time when you need it the least. And so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. And it’s usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap. That’s just you rooting for you. And that visual, I think is one that you can kind of take because it is,

people struggle to do things alone. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people.

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So if your family doesn’t understand, why are you so daggone crazy? Because I’m trying to be the best I can to give you the best that I am. And it takes being fucking obsessed to where people think you’re crazy. People look at me and say, oh my God, you’re a masochist, you’re this and that. I’m not gonna get into how bad I was and all these races and still training. I had 21 stress fractures going through Hell Week.

21 stress fractures. You know what I did? I taped my ankles up. Roger that. I wanna be a SEAL. So I did it. Become obsessed with being great. It changes everything.

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No one can explain why you are alive. No one can save you But you. you have to put the mind into what you want to put the mind Into. if you believe in something, you can achieve it now. that doesn’t mean everybody needs to be a rapper. that does not mean Everybody needs to be a fucking painter or an artist. that doesn’t mean. that way your art can be in your emotion, Your art can be in your mind. now You can be a doctor and that can be a form of art. You can be a Therapist and that can be a form of art. It’s how you articulate you get it articulate.

It’s how you treat these things It’s the manner that you treat. You know, I’m saying even, even relationships and friendships can be a matter of art. It’s a matter of mind.

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And if you create a culture of losing if you keep being a victim if you keep letting losing happen to you if you keep letting People do you and treat you any kind of way? It’s gonna become a culture. Let me tell y’all. I’m I’m not I’m not from New Zealand guys. Come on. Listen to me very closely. I’m not from New Zealand, but I know about what. let me say it this way so I can help you. I know about what team I’m not. I’ve never seen- I’ve never seen- all blacks, a player, day in my life. I’ve never been to the stadium. Where’s the stadium? Help me out. Where’s the stadium?

Okay, I’m going see what you did. I’ve never been to the stadium You like Eric the stadium that’s Hobbit that way Eric. That’s not the stadium. The stadium is this way I’ve never been there a day in my life And if you watch some of my videos I have all blacks in my videos why cuz they’re what? They’re winners, and when you’re a winner, you don’t even stay in your own little town. when you’re a winner, winning spreads, I’m not.

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You don’t actually need me to stand for anything. You just need me to stand. To be the strong man. The man of action. My God, you’re addicted to action. And slogans. It doesn’t matter what I say. It doesn’t matter what I do. Just as long as I’m doing something, you’re happy to be along for the ride. And frankly, I don’t blame you. With all the foolishness and indecision in your lives, why not a man like me? I don’t apologize. In the end, I don’t care whether you love me or you hate me. Just as long as I win. The deck is stacked. The rules are rigged.

Welcome to the death of the age of reason. There is no right or wrong. Not anymore. There’s only being in, and then being out.

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if no one responds, then I would say I have zero leading indicators. But if you have enough response rates, then it’s worth the toil. Michael Phelps talks about this too with swimming, like just laps after laps after – he doesn’t even have the variety of different moves or different – it’s just laps, just sheer volume of work.

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And what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday, but you come to work like people like, man, you just lost everything. How the hell are you this fucking damn motivated? Because this is what it takes. This is what the fuck it takes. And you got to get it from wherever you can, whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated. whatever gets you motivated, it’s got to be here, at the tip of your brain at all times. Because in those dark moments, you got to pull it out. So that’s the big thing for me, man.

I was always fired up at all times.

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Play to win, don’t play to avoid loss because the things you fear, the things that’s gonna happen to you. Set that target on something positive, work for it, expect it. Bobby Knight at Indiana University says, the will to win is nothing without the will to prepare to win. See, everybody wants to win, but are you willing to prepare to win? One of the major points I often make is: what you do off the job determines how far you go on the job. Every athlete, every actor, every singer, every entertainer knows that. Most doctors and attorneys and professionals know that.

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I trained hard because it’s what I do, it’s what I enjoy, I love it. If you take that away from me, you may as well just handicap me completely. Do you have to do it as well? No, I don’t have to, but I love it. I don’t understand why any man would not want to go to the gym and train. I don’t get that. To feel better? You feel good. Yeah, you feel fantastic. Best feeling in the world is when you’ve done a good training session and you’ve finished and you’re going for a shower and a breakfast. Best. Best time of the day as well, early in the morning for me. Good.

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So this guy just passed me. He said, Goggins, just be average today. Some of you just don’t understand. Some of you have been average for so damn long, you don’t know what it is to do hard work. But there’s a lot of you out there who want to be much more than average, but just don’t know how to do it every single day, the grind. You need to find someone to oil those fucking gears up. So check it out. This is a mindset. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But there’s a motherfucker out there who wants what you have, who wants the position you are, who wants the job you have,

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And that’s the rocky cut scene and instead of lasting five minutes it just usually lasts five or ten years.

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And Muhammad Ali worked his butt off. And I saw it firsthand. And I remember that there was a sports writer that was there in the gym when he was working out and he was doing sit-ups. And they asked him, how many sit-ups do you do? And he said, I don’t start counting until it hurts. Now think about that. He doesn’t start counting his sit-ups until he feels pain. That’s when he starts counting. That is working hard. And so you can’t get around the hard work. It doesn’t matter who it is. As a matter of fact, I believe what Ted Turner said, work like hell and advertise. You get it?

Work like hell, go to bed, and early, early to rise. Work like hell and advertise. So you work your ass off, and then you let the world know about your work. That’s what it is all about.

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Developing your mental fortitude and your mental discipline is a big part of being able to handle stress. Okay, it doesn’t matter if you’re stressed It doesn’t matter if you’re hurt. It doesn’t matter if you’re upset, It doesn’t matter if you’re frustrated. if your discipline is on point, your mental toughness on point, You’re gonna be able to execute in spite of the situation being that way and you’re gonna move forward, whether you feel good or not. And once you can move forward, whether you feel good or not, nobody can fuck with you. okay, because Everybody else quits when things get hard.

Everybody else quits when they get sick or they have an excuse, or they get in a funk or they get you know Whatever. if you’re able to operate, even when things are hard, you can’t be fucked with.

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I would have to work over and over and over until I get it. And the same was in politics and everything like that. So to me, it is very dangerous to have a plan B because you’re cutting yourself off from the chance of really succeeding. And the reason, one of the main reasons why people want to have a plan B is because they are worried about failing. What is if I fail, then I don’t have anything else? Well, let me tell you something. Don’t be afraid of failing because there’s nothing wrong with failing. You have to fail in order to climb that ladder. There’s no one that doesn’t fail.

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I’m going to tell you right now, 30 days ain’t going to do shit for you. The permanent, you want to make it permanent, permanent. You start talking about a year, 18 months, two years. That’s a sacrifice. And when you commit yourself to something for a year, you’re not going to say, oh, I’m going to let that go. Because in your mind, you like, I mean, you you have it clear as day. That year took a lot out of me. That year built me. That year started to scrape away all that scar tissue, started to clean me up. 30 days didn’t clean shit up. 30 days just kind of covers up, put a blanket over it.

It’s like it’s like putting a rug over it. A year, it cleans you up nicely, man. Whatever your problem is, if you can dedicate yourself for a year to something, you can be a changed person.

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The best way to fight the demons that chase you in the night is to stop and turn around.

Turn around, face them, man up. There’s a thing about manning up. Don’t you feel better when you accomplish something and you work through something and you man up? You know what? Your parents don’t want to go for a test, you make that appointment for them, you take them there. You take them there. Or yourself, if you have to go, go. Simple thing, go to the dentist. Do you know your mouth health tells you about your body? Your mouth health goes right to your cardiovascular system? Brush your teeth, take care of yourself. You got one body, folks. This is it.

They can’t change it for another one.

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I would commit long-term, long-term to the development of your own mental toughness, your grit, your fortitude, your discipline, your self-belief, your confidence. All of these things, intentionally develop them. They’re not traits. They are skills and they are perishable skills. And if you don’t intentionally develop them, you will not have them when you need them. So go listen to the Live Hard program. That’s exactly what it does. It develops all these skills and it sharpens them over and over and over. And some people are like, well, if it works,

why do you got to keep doing it? Why do you practice the piano? Like why do we do anything more than once? Because we have to sharpen our skill set with perishable skills. And you don’t understand that. discipline, grit, fortitude, self-belief, all of these things that encompass mental toughness, self-esteem, confidence, these are fucking skills that we have to develop and then maintain.

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The rule number one is to get vitamin N. Vitamin N? Yes. That’s the rule number one. You need to inject yourself with vitamin N. N is for? N is to learn to say no.

That’s a vitamin. Yeah. That’s how to get self-discipline. Secondly, setting your priorities right.

Thirdly, is avoid complaining.

Those are the three factors which can lead you to self-discipline. I want to tell you that doing all these things is not a one-night event. It’s a process. It’s like going to a gymnasium. If you go to a gymnasium for nine hours, I go for three months. Who is going to get the muscles, good muscles? It’s me, because I’m going for three months. If you go for nine hours, it’s just nothing. You destroy your body.

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What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to forgo? Because a lot of people, like this guy came to me one time, I was a trainer, and he goes, man, I can stop doing anything but my Frappuccinos. I go, fucking leave. Because I’m looking for that person like me. People, people, it’s hard for people to understand how I lost 106 pounds in less than three months. I sat down at a table and I said to myself, what are you willing to give up? Everything. And when people come to me with that kind of mindset, I can work with you.

When you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything, that’s who I want to work with. Because now I can mold you into exactly who you want to be.

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It’s a wonderful thing. No matter how filthy something gets, you can always clean it right up. There were so many. I just gave them all what they wanted. Yeah.

But since when does anyone have a clue about what they want?

So do I do.

Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce. It’s a magic trick.

A single mom who’s working two jobs and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that’s a miracle. A teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education, that’s a miracle.

People want me to do everything for them when what they don’t realize is they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.

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So it’s a process, it’s a process, it’s a real process that you can actually in the three month time you have absorbed the self-discipline. That’s why I always tell people it’s not a one night event. To get vitamin and learning to say no in everything is not easy. Setting your priorities right is not easy. Avoid complaining in anything is not easy. But if you combine the three things you can have self-discipline. And without those three then there is no self-discipline.

That’s what I mean by actually trying to tell people self-discipline is the key to any professional sports person or sportswoman.

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whether you like it or not. From the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, a lot of us are at war with ourselves. And within that war, you have several battles. Those battles are basically choices. No, I’m not talking about a war that you might find in the Coliseum. I’m talking about a war that’s in your brain. That war exists because life has so many choices. Within those choices, you gotta make right decisions. But you know what? Fuck that. When the alarm goes off in the morning, you have to wake up. Don’t wake up. Don’t worry about that. When you’re in school, you know what?

Fuck that, man. It’s too hard to study. You know what? Don’t eat healthy because you don’t have to. So guess what? When you fail, don’t blame your mom. Don’t blame your dad. Don’t blame teachers. All I’m pushing you to blame is yourself.

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If you love something, if you have a strong passion for something, you would go to the extreme to try to understand or try to get it. Either ice cream, Cokes, hamburgers, whatever you have a love for. If you have to walk, you would go get it. If you have to beg someone, you would go get it. What Kobe Bryant was to me, was the inspiration that someone truly cared about the way I either play the game or the way that he wanted to play the game. He wanted to be the best basketball player that he could be.

And as I got to know him, I wanted to be the best big brother that I could be.

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You’ve all got to start to understand or you’re not going to be as great as you could be you’re not going to be the Goat at what you do. I Want to go to. I want to go to some of the things you’ve. yeah, here’s something a guy said recently. This dude said there’s a moment when every boy realizes no one’s coming to save him and That’s when he becomes a man and some boys never get there and stay children forever That guy was you that said that and it’s important when we step out of this like this stuff matters because no one’s ever Coming to save you.

No one’s going to make you better at your business, No one is going to get you to be a better persuader of people or framer of people other than you,

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Tired 14 days, 13 days, whatever the hell it is. Don’t mean nothing.

Tired is only in the mind. You tell yourself you’re tired, you’re gonna be tired. I don’t get tired. Lake Shore, we coming home.

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Only you create your purpose. Now, trying to always impress others does not work. Now with millions and millions of supporters and family and fans and… Trust me, some motherfuckers will hit me up and be mad disappointed with some decisions I’ve made, be mad disappointed with some music, and I’ve tried my best to impress or meet this standard, you know? Always. Fuck that. Make yourself happy. If something makes you happy, follow it. Now, do not be toxic in that. Do not take my words and twist them and turn them negative. Do not be toxic.

I want for everybody that follows me and supports me to make sure you are being healthy in mind, being caring, compromising for the ones you love, and that’s what I want.

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When you put these restrictions up, and that’s why my first question is, how bad do you want this? If it’s as bad as you wanna live or breathe or sleep, whatever the hell it may be, I can work with you. But a lot of people, most people don’t want it that badly, which is why they always ask the question, man, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don’t wanna do it. So I can’t make you do it, nor do I have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it. There’s no luck in this game.

It may be a little bit of luck, but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn’t happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might fucking happen. And that’s what people don’t know. But to get there, luck ain’t gonna happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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Yeah, we all are great. We all should think that we’re great. There’s no reason for you to not think that you’re great. If you don’t think you’re great, ask yourself why. Why don’t you think the highest of yourself? When you do,

people have no choice but to follow suit. Hmm. You got no choice but to follow suit.

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Stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, numbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse shitting, hair splitting, nitpicking, piss trickling, nose sticking, ass gouging, eyeball poking, finger pointing, alleyway sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil eyeing, back scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding,

grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just do.

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And for you to go from where you are at 20 years old to where you want to be at 40 years old, you’re going to have to have those sharpened over and over and over and again. So live that lifestyle, it’s going to make things exponentially easier for you to get where you’re going. We can either be hard on ourselves, we can either train ourselves, we can either put ourselves through hell or we can let the world do it. It’s your choice. But I am telling you right now that if you make the commitment to becoming the absolute best version of yourself mentally and physically,

your ability to handle stress will go through the fucking roof, which will allow you to be effective because you will be able to execute at a high level when everybody else freaks the fuck out.

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A lot of people can give up. It’s easy to give up. Hell yeah. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. I’m done. I ain’t going. I ain’t going to keep going. I don’t feel like going to work. I’m done. It’s easy. It’s very easy. But what’s hard is going, yo, yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could. Nothing happened from that. I’m going to do the same thing again today, but I’m going to try to go harder. That’s the hardest thing in the world. To get up every day and give 100% and be in the same position that you were each day,

but mentally know that you’re trying and trying and trying. That’s a real grind.

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Get it, David. Come on. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Energy. Let it out. 7, 8, 9, 10. A machine here. There you go. Nobody works like David in this house. 13, come on. 14, come on. 15, shut that muscle down. 16, come on. Get it. 17. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 18. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 19. They don’t know me, son. Yeah. 20. You got some more in you. They don’t know me, son. 21. Yeah, get it again. Come on, we want to see it. Good. 22. Who’s going to carry the boats and the logs? That’s you, buddy. Come on, 23. Come on, 24. One more, David. Who’s going to carry the boats?

You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You did it. Yeah.

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Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don’t be afraid of being hurt. Don’t be afraid of sacrificing some blood.

And the whole week I was thinking, I wanna finish this fight. I’m gonna finish this fight before the championship rounds. This is, I should be able to smash this guy. You know, Goggins’ message, it was for a reason, you know. His reason, and Greg Jackson’s been saying it for years, be comfortable being uncomfortable. But Goggins gave me a really good reminder. It’s just, John, you should want this fight to be miserable. You should want this to hurt. Be the guy who thrives in that. And I felt like I was that guy tonight.

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that no one understands what the fuck I’m going through. And if you keep that mentality, you’re going to stay in the same exact spot that you’re in, that no one understands me. There’s a whole, there’s millions of people. Why do you think a book that I self-published, you know, is doing so well, with a story that’s so fucked up? People are like, I’ll never forget, I went to a publishing house, like, who’s going to resonate with this story? No one’s going to buy this book. I’m like, are you not in the world? Are you not in society? You’re never alone. Everybody’s going through shit.

So when people get this mentality of like, you don’t understand me, you can throw a fucking rock to someone that can understand you, if they’re willing to break themselves down and stop hiding. A lot of people understand you, but you got to stop hiding. And that’s why I tell people, a lot of people are going through shit, they just hide better than you did. That’s all they did.

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One day you might look up and see me playing a game at 50. Never say never, because limits like fears are often just an illusion.

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You know, there comes a day man, everyone’s gonna have this day. There comes a day where being average, being mediocre is just sickening to you. It’s just sickening, it makes you want to throw up because you’ve seen people with far less talent than you as you’re growing up with them. They’re childhood buddies or whatever else. They didn’t have what you had, yet now they’re fucking to become something that you haven’t. There comes that day. it’s either when you’re young, you know, and it strikes you on the baseball field because you’re sick of striking out,

or it’s when you get fired from your fifth job, you know, when your wife and kids are on your ass because you don’t have support anymore. There comes a fucking day where push comes to shove, where being mediocre, being like average and shit just fucking burns and sucks so much. You can’t deal with it one more day and you get off your fucking ass and you create something that’s always been there. It’s always been inside of you trying to come out, but you’ve never wanted to unwrap it because it’s too much fucking pain and commitment.

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Yeah. Beautiful feeling. Feel like somebody’s stabbing knives in you. I’m here laying on the floor going, feel like somebody was stabbing knives in my quads. I used to lay there, put the towel over my face. My training partner was saying, people were thinking, people thought I was dying. Well, no, he’s okay. Don’t worry about him. After about 10 minutes, one more set. Okay, but you’re doing great. You’re doing great.

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Manny Pacquiao, you not on my level. Manny Pacquiao, you will never be on my level. Period. Simple and plain. Accept the loss and say, you know what, man, you know what, you was the better fighter. It’s okay to be number two. It’s okay to be right behind me. It’s okay.

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I think that this is so deeply ingrained in you that it would be better for you to DO.

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I’d rather you hate me and get better than like me and stay the same. A lot of us are full of shit. I was one of those people back in the fucking day. And sometimes I’m still full of shit. We think that we’re working our ass off, working hard. You know, we’ve been working out hard in the gym for a month, but we haven’t seen any results. So we get all fucking down and poopy pants shit. You study for 30 minutes for a fucking test, and you didn’t do as well as you thought. What the fuck did you expect? You’re not putting in the work. You have to do more.

You got to stop telling yourself that you’re doing enough. In life, it’s never enough until you feel this overwhelming feeling of shit, man. I’m out working the crowd. I’m out working everybody. I’m doing more. It’s not until then. Once you get there, that’s when you fucking know you’ve done enough.

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I mean, tell me about that. And he says, well, you just mentioned the successes. But he says: for me to become the greatest basketball player, I missed 9000 shots when I was playing basketball at the NBA games. So during these games that he was so successful, he missed 9000 shots. Does it make him a failure? No. He’s one of the greatest basketball players of all times, but he failed 9000 times. Do you get it? We all fail. You always get up. That is a winner.

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everything that you’re worried about is going to be gone like that. The people that are criticizing you, they’re going to be gone, you’re going to be gone. All this hand-wringing worry and concern over how are people viewing me, and someone said something bad about me, and you get so upset about it, is wasted time and energy. Marcus Aurelius says your only focus should be on getting better at what you’re doing. Focus on what you’re doing, get better at what you’re doing, everything else is a complete waste of time.

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Do you actually want to do this or not? Because if you actually want to do it, what’s going to stop you? Nothing. And if you don’t really want to do it, what’s going to stop you? Just about anything that comes up. Just about any obstacle that gets in your way becomes an excuse. It becomes a reason. It becomes a rationale for not proceeding down that path. And this is interesting too. When you talk to people that went to SEAL training that didn’t make it. most of the time it’s some reason. There’s a medical reason. There’s a family problem.

There’s very few people that look at you and say, oh, I quit because it sucked. Which is what, by the way, which is what happens to the vast majority of people. The vast majority of people that don’t make it through SEAL training, and by this I mean 80, 90% of the people that don’t make it through SEAL training, they didn’t make it through because they quit.

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How anybody smokes today is beyond my comprehension.

And again, I never smoked,

I don’t know.

But it must be a hell of a damn drug.

A hell of,

my brother-in-law who had throat cancer, esophageal cancer,

lung cancer too,

and they took out his lung,

he still smoked after that.

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Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, and maybe not the next month. Pero, only one thing is true. I will be champion one day, I promise.

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Believe this, I’ve never been the biggest, the fastest, the strongest I’ve never needed to be, right? Because I believe at the core of what it is, is it’s my will versus your will. It’s my bloodline versus your bloodline. It’s what I represent versus what you represent. It’s what I believe versus what you believe, right? And so when I see this game and I look at it from the perspective that I view it through, right? The thing that hurt me the most when I got injured, it wasn’t that my career ended. It wasn’t that, right?

It’s when I went to watch a game or watch a practice and you would see a cat that took it for granted and didn’t appreciate it, right? Like I’m from the school of thought. I can’t understand how a cat can say they want something and not give everything they got to it.

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Hard work brings great rewards. This is a reminder of the hard work and dedication that I put into everything that I’ve done. I’m not content because I know where I came from and I don’t ever want to go back. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to go back to the city. That doesn’t mean I want to go back to the people. That means I don’t want to go back to living like I once was. I want to go back and I want to help. I want to inspire, I want to motivate. I want to show people that there is a way out, that there is a way to do more, to get more, to obtain more.

But I personally don’t want to lose all that I’ve been able to get. So I need to make sure that I do everything to keep it. so I can’t be content. So there is an understanding, but I refuse to click on the switch of, huh.

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Right now, a lot of you right now could be motivated as hell, go out of here and be like, yeah, I’m motivated. But you said you’re right. Without being driven or obsessed, this motivation fades. And motivation is at the all-time high when your bills are paid, when your wife or husband is good, when everything is good, you’re motivated. It’s that person when all hell breaks loose and everything falls apart that says, I still got to get it in. And how you get to that point in life, what I figured out, it’s so noisy right now. This world is so noisy.

We all walk around with these phones, computers. The world is so fast. We’re not able to think. The most powerful weapon in the world, we walk around with it. It’s our mind. It’s our brain.

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They’re dealing with it from a preconceived notion of what you told them. So they’ll never understand how much compromise your partner has given for you and how much of a situation, how much care has been put in the situation, you know? Because no one can ever really care about the person that you care about. Now, to jump away from love, to jump to purpose, no one can explain why you are alive. No one can save you but you. You have to put the mind into what you want to put the mind into. If you believe in something, you can achieve it. Now, that doesn’t mean everybody needs to be a rapper.

That does not mean everybody needs to be a fucking painter or an artist. That doesn’t mean that way. Your art can be in your emotion. Your art can be in your mind.

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Fear is never reaching your potential. That’s it. That always falling short, always quitting before you’re done, always procrastinating, always not doing the right thing. And then one day you’re an old man and you look back and go, God, I could have been great.

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You know, it’s kind of Saturday afternoon. Too many people there, man, I’ll tell you that much. Aren’t too many winners out here in the world. That workout in there, no weights involved. Just our body weight and our ego. How bad do we want it? We made something happen right there that’s going to transform the rest of our work in the gym. I mean, we broke the monotony up, made our body guess, and shocked the new situations. Take that kind of rubble back into our normal workouts. Exponential growth comes. We do the same thing over and over again, you get the same results.

We shock it up like we just did. Get ready for a little bit of a tsunami coming in of success.

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The more you go through, the more difficult is. the more challenging it is, listen to me, the harder it is- Are you hearing me? the more challenging it is. all you’re doing, baby, is building muscle. You’re building muscle. so don’t quit, don’t give up, don’t stare at them. Listen to me, you don’t get both by staring at weights. You don’t get buffed by. but look, you don’t get healthier by staring at it. You get healthier by running up to it and grabbing it and pushing it look push through that stuff push through it You can get through it. He said he won’t put on you more than you can bear.

you can’t get through it. So I need you to work while you wait. I need you to work with work on your focus perspective. I need you to see difficult differently.

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There are no failures. There’s only quitting. Every single failure, every single hardship, every single obstacle is going to serve you if you allow yourself to let it serve you. Okay. So what these people think, what they say, their doubts and their criticism, their bullshit and their loser mentality. Put it all up here on your shoulder. And when you don’t feel like it and when you’re frustrated and when you want to Take the proper amount out and the proper amount is the amount that gets you off your ass and gets you executing.

Because if you’re executing day in and day out, day in and day out, day in and day out, over the course of time, regardless of what anybody says, regardless of what your mom says, regardless of what your dad says, regardless of what your cousins say, regardless of what the internet says, . If you are executing day in and day out, no matter what, there is not a single fucking thing that can stop you.

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I was fucking just trying to become. I was fat and I ran by a graveyard and I looked out there and I have all these epiphanies, man, I’ve always the moments of like, of it’s crazy man, of this thought come always by myself. I’m always in deep, can thought about how to be better. and look out there, my man, wonder how many you motherfuckers in there And just are so upset with how you lived your life. Mmm, you can just regret how you lived it. and I’m running at 300 pound man, thinking man Don’t can die like this bro. Don’t die like this. So people wonder where this it comes from from me.

It comes from such deep thought, of trying to see what this is all about. what is this life all about? what am I all about? Why am I here? you know, I had, I had to find purpose and, And My suffering it had a purpose, it had a purpose.

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What’s causing the most stress family? Okay, sit them down, Explain where you are at, be blunt, Be upfront and then give them the simple plan of how you’re gonna get things back on track. Don’t sugarcoat it. You give it to him straight. Next, you got some, some late payments. Call those creditors up, Explain to them what’s going on, set up some kind of a of a minimum payment plan So you can start making some progress and get them off your back. and then you got your job Right. you’re falling behind at work. Okay, talk to your boss, Face it Tell him that you’re gonna step up your game.

Tell him you’re gonna be at work early. You’re gonna be at work late You’re gonna be at work during lunch. You’re gonna be wherever you need to be, whenever he needs you to be there.

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We live in a world where mediocrity is often rewarded. These men detest mediocrity. And I sat there and I had time to reflect back on my life. Being bullied, coming from nothing, learning disability, messed up foundation. Life isn’t fair at all, at all. So what are you gonna do about it? I knew that no one was coming back to help me. No one was gonna miracle me to be somebody special. Everybody that called me nigger, my dad, my mom, all my situations were on me now. It’s totally on me.

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One of the things that people don’t take too much attention is your mental cognition. It’s very important in my opinion. And if you do your job and at the same time you enjoy doing other sports with your friends, socializing is a good part to make your balance right. So I try to find with my experience to not push too much my body when they need to recover, but to find the balance, which sometimes is difficult. I take care of my body since I started to play football. Now you can tell me, but you treat the same way that you treated 20 years ago. No, but I was there.

Like, I take care a little bit of my body, but by the time, by the age, I increase a little bit more because we all get old. But I start every year doing something more, something more, something more.

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But then you begin to compromise the things that you need to do to get there and you negotiate them away because well, i’m tired Uh because I don’t feel like it. Uh, it’s not realistic to be a millionaire or to be a to to, to be that lean At this age, it’s not realistic who the fuck says you have to be realistic like everybody else Mediocre people. No, don’t, don’t want anything Other than realistic I am unrealistic in my expectations. I am relentless in the pursuit of my life’s goals. I am rigid and I never compromise. and i’m asking you to do the same,

because the the the worst thing you could have on your deathbed Is regret for all the things that you compromised against in life in exchange for a mediocre, average, pathetic, boring life.

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You have to be able to go into a very dark place in your mind and figure who you are. Go back to what you want to do. What’s your purpose? We can’t figure our purpose out or why we’re here or why we were born or whatever because it’s so loud in our mind. We don’t have any quiet time with ourselves to sit back and say, what do I really want? There’s so many different dialogues in our head that we can’t think. So my biggest thing is you have to be alone in a very dark place in your mind to think about what is important to you.

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I mean, it’s three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 years, and then you can get to where you wanna go.

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If you want anything, there is no fundamental secret here. It’s called hard work and sweat.

If you have that and you’re willing to provide that in exchange for a better life, well,

everyone will make that deal with you.

If you’re willing to give up that for pride, accomplishment,

feeling of self-worth,

if you’re willing to make that transaction,

Miami Fitness is your bank.

And it’s open every single day for your transactions.

Make your deposits every fucking day. Do your dues.

Become the person you want to be. It’s the easiest fucking equation in the world.

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Many people work hard on their job, but they don’t work hard on their future. They just let that slide. And the work involved is making plans.

I know most people don’t. I understand that, but don’t let that be you.

Guy says, well, yeah, you work where I work, but the time you struggle home, it’s late. You’ve got to eat a bite of supper, watch a little TV, get to bed. You can’t sit up half the night, plan, plan, plan. And the guy’s behind.

Good worker, hard worker, sincere. But you’ve got to be better than sincere, working hard. You’ve got to be better than a good worker. You’ve got to be a good planner.

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So I was thinking legacy the whole time. And I’ll never forget the first summer I got here, I was in my locker and I saw one of my teammates come into the locker room and he was saying that he was putting stuff in his locker, I quit. Right, and he was throwing stuff in his locker. And I’ll never forget, I stood up and I said to him,

as a man, right, as a man,

look me in my eyes and tell me you’re not about to quit.

Like as a man,

tell me you’re not about to quit. Like you’re not about to wave the white flag and say I yield. Like tell me you’re not about to fold. Tell me you’re not about to go in a fetal position because the situation and circumstance has gotten hard. Tell me you’re not about to get to a campus and because you’re not getting what you thought you was gonna get, you wanna go back home and you wanna call your mother. Tell me you’re not getting on campus and because they switch your position, you wanna call your father and tell him to talk to a co. Tell me you’re not about to quit.

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Even if you can’t see if it’s 60 days, even if you can’t see is 90 day Even if it seems like you’re gonna go through this for the rest of your life. I need you to have faith. faith, I told you, is believing in the dark what you were told in the light. And if you were told you was gonna get that degree, just keep working. if you were told you were gonna get that promotion, Just keep working if you were told you was gonna win that championship. Just keep working. Nobody said it would be easy again if it was easy everybody would do it. So I need you to work on your faith.

I need you to work on your faith. I need you to wake up every day and say today ain’t today But my day coming and I will not give up and I will not give in and try to get you that day I will not stop. I will not give up. I will not give in until my day comes.

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He was tired. He have personal problem family. No, but because You don’t know like you just see how he fight and he go. Yeah, and for this one you have to train so hard. If you don’t want Palace somebody go back go back to Dagestan. Nobody gonna ask about yourself without you or with you. Yeah There is always gonna be champions. Hmm with your name. This is your choice. You wanna put your name there? Okay work hard. No Bye. Bye. Yeah, it’s like very simple, nothing special.

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You are the actor in your own movie. You get what I’m saying? And you are the person that you desire to be. If you want to be, pretend to be a princess, carry yourself with the mannerisms of a princess. If you want to be a prince, carry yourself with the mannerisms of a prince. If you want to be, like, it’s better not to be a crazy motherfucker. It’s better not, because I’ve, I’ve, I’ve been, I’ve went through that. I’ve decided, I want, there was a point where I wanted to be the villain and it’s not fun, bro. It’s not fun. People like, it’s, it doesn’t attract anything that you truly want.

It’s better to be respected through love rather than fear. It’s better to be respected through, yeah. I mean, not to repeat myself, it’s better to be respected through love rather than fear, simply because like, all right, I was respected through fear and it’s not real love. It’s not real love and it drives people away. It makes people treat you differently. It makes people really like, it’s just not genuine. It’s not what you really would want.

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When I was up there, stranded by myself, did I think I was gonna die? Yes, absolutely. And that’s when you need to know going in because it’s gonna happen to you. This is space. It does not cooperate. At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you. Everything’s gonna go south and you’re gonna say, this is it. This is how I end.

Now you can either accept that or you can get to work.

That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math, you solve one problem and you solve the next one and then the next. And if you solve enough problems, you get to come home.

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He wants to be really good at tennis. But what happens is after I play tennis for a while, I want to go play video games. You obviously don’t want to f***ing want it bad enough. Because a person that, you want to, I became obsessed. I became obsessed with being the baddest mother f***er that God ever created. Am I that? I don’t care. I believe it. And I was trying to tell him, once you become obsessed with something, obsessed, it’s okay to be unbalanced for a while. It’s okay. Don’t be all this stuff people say, you got to be balanced.

To be the best in the world at what you do, it’s not about being a Navy SEAL, people. The best at what you do. you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of f***ing energy and strength that you have to pull it off. Then you get balanced once you become great.

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Regret is a byproduct of compromising your goals and dreams in exchange for a boring, pathetic, mediocre, average life. Who the fuck wants that? I don’t want that for you, fellas, right? So what do you do then? What do you do to begin to live a no compromise life? And that’s what I want for you. Like I live a no compromise life. The people I surround myself with live a no compromise life. I will fly in to town. Hugo will pick me up from the airport, from LAX. I’ll say, Hugo, drop me off at BK Strength and I will work out there before I go home and see my family and say hello to them.

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Everybody’s story does either harm or good to them. You have to go back in there in that muck, face that muck, fix that. Because what happens is when I was in Navy SEAL training, my job, one of my jobs was to train guys to get through Navy SEAL training. And I started realizing that I was training these guys, they were, you know, they were getting bigger, stronger, faster, all this other stuff, but they would still quit. All I was doing was building bigger, stronger, faster quitters. And I started to doubt, I was like, what the hell am I doing wrong, man? I was changing all the external crap.

I wasn’t going into the internal and changing what really matters. So that’s what the first step is. And I talk about it a lot in my book about how, like the steps about doing that, man. But the first step you have to do is face yourself and be accountable for what you’re not. So then you can be what you want to be.

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Tell him you’re going to get after it and tell him that you’re 100% committed to supporting him and the company and the mission and then you get started. And I’m going to tell you right now, it won’t be easy. It will be hard because life is hard. That’s what life is.

And these challenges, these challenges that you face, they’re going to do their best to take you down.

Do not let them stand up, dig in, line up those problems and confront them, face them, fight them.

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I said, you’re not eight, right? You’re not seven, right? You’re not a baby, right? He’s like, no, but I can’t take away they talking to me. I said, oh, you want them to treat you like the double treat. You want to check in, they give you two warm cookies, they pat you on your butt, they tell you good job for doing what you said you was going to do. Like you want validation. And I asked him the question, I said, this isn’t about your legacy? Like you’re not working every single day feeling as if when you do something, if you’re blessed to reproduce,

one day when somebody go up to your seeds or your children, because of how you did it, they’re like, man, that’s your father, you good. Right, you don’t want to do it in such a way that when somebody see you, they’re like, man, if it has to be done, that is the way you do it. You’re not doing it in such a way to when you do it, they’re like, hey, you want to see how it’s done? Let me turn on the tape so you can see this cat and see how he coming every single day, not inconsistency.

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Champions of life are headstrong. You come in here headstrong for this workout. It’s going to take everything. This is madness. This is a super f****** psycho workout.

But if you have it up here and you go through it out there, guys,

you will leave here not only physically dominating, but mentally unstoppable. It all starts today if you’re ready to transform.

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For me, it’s not sacrifice. You say, yeah, sometimes you don’t want to go to the gym. Of course, no. Sometimes I don’t go to the like, but I go because I have a compromise with myself, but I’m not that happy every day. You think I’m wake up off the bed every day, happy or with my wife or with my kids. Sometimes I’m not, but it’s part of the overtime. We are both the same. We feel this every time. To mention again, the most important thing is to have a routine, consistency, not obsession. Good, don’t be like Cristiano, because Cristiano is crazy, okay. But 20%, 25%, it’s too much?

Yeah, be more consistent. Yeah, it’s a little bit. Come on, make effort in your health. It makes sense.

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I think a lot of the discontent comes from the judgment people have about what they should or should not do along the way. And so they take my description as prescription for what they should do. So I described my life and then people think I’m prescribing what they should do and it couldn’t be further from the truth. If you want to take a break at every two steps and take in the view, do it. I mean, in four generations, no one will remember your name. And so enjoy the view if you feel like it. I just happen to enjoy how much I can see that I can do. That’s what I enjoy.

And I feel like I am most present when I work.

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That’s your goals to be stronger, more decisive, be a speaker, be a leader, learn a language, all kinds of skills. Okay. The whole weekend seminar was designed to improve all your skills so that you walk away more skillful. And that’s what you want, the personal development skills. That’s what attracts, that’s what brings good things to your life, the person you become more skillful. Now, this is quite a package to work on. Economics, things, personal development. For tomorrow, this week, this month, this year, long range. Okay. That’ll get you started.

Now here’s the simple formula for setting goals. It goes like this. A, work on your goals. That’s step one, work on them. And I put the word work there deliberately. Setting goals is plain hard work.

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If you quit and you do retire back into the framework of normalcy, you know what they’re going to say 10 years from now about you? They’re going to say, yeah, he tried, but he f***ing failed just like I knew he would. So you can decide: do you want to go down the path and face the criticism and face the hate, and face the frustration and face the pain and use it as fuel and then go on to f***ing win and inspire and teach and lift people up? Or do you want to retire into the framework of normalcy? Do you want to become like the people who are criticizing you?

And then do you want to listen to them 10 years from now talk about how you almost made it?

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Now you can be a doctor and that can be a form of art. You can be a therapist and that can be a form of art. It’s how you articulate. You get it? Articulate. It’s how you treat these things. It’s the manner that you treat. You know what I’m saying? Even relationships and friendships can be a matter of art. It’s a matter of mind. Now, purpose. Only you create your purpose. Now, trying to always impress others does not work. Now, with millions and millions of supporters and family and fans and it, trust me, some motherfuckers will hit me up and be mad disappointed with some decisions I’ve made,

be mad disappointed with some music, and I’ve tried my best to impress or meet this standard, you know, always.

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So I hated the water, hated the water. And that was about being in that box. If I didn’t get over my fear of being, you know, of being in the water, I’d never be a SEAL. I wouldn’t be up here right now. I have no story to share. By me saying, okay, man, I’m afraid of the water. And that’s kind of shackling my mind. It’s by facing those things. That’s how you open up different doors of your life. Because all these things that, that we’re afraid of, they’re doors that can possibly lead you to a whole other world. But we keep them shut for fear, for insecurities.

And that’s the thing about tripling down on your weaknesses. So then those weaknesses end up becoming your strengths.

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So I’m going to go to the gym and build some fucking pecs while you go and drink booze and pump out estrogen. Now listen, man, I’m not trying to say you ought to be that level of an asshole. I can be that level of an asshole because I am, and I’m passionate, and I give a shit. And if you want to, you should, but I am saying be unreasonable in your expectations. I don’t take shit from anyone. I don’t want you to take shit from anyone like that because you only live one life, right? But I’m telling you right now, guys,

it is going to be more difficult than you think because people are going to throw shade, people are going to talk shit. You, your limiting beliefs are going to try and talk shit on you. Like your version 1.0 of yourself, your inner critic, your inner bitch, that bitch voice that we all have at the project, we call it the inner bitch and the inner beast, which is the critic and the advocate, right? Your beast is your advocate, and your inner bitch is your critic.

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What makes you uniquely you? You can’t be comfortable with yourself if you don’t know who yourself is. And you can’t know who yourself is if you don’t stop looking at how everybody around you is and start looking at what makes you comfortable and what makes you uniquely you. There’s roughly close to, I guess, about eight billion people on this planet, but there’s only one you.

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All values must be defended.

Political values, social values, community values, family values, marriage values, friendship values, business values. Every garden must be tended all summer. Third major lesson.

Now here’s number four. Fourth major lesson in life to learn.

Learn how to reap in the fall without complaint.

Learn to reap come harvest time. Without complaint.

Take full responsibility for what happens to you. It’s one of the highest forms of human maturity. Accepting full responsibility.

It’s the day you know you’ve passed from childhood to adulthood. The day you accept full responsibility.

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The world might say you are not allowed to yet.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail.

Please, don’t even bother asking. Don’t bother telling the world you are ready.

Show it.

Do it. What did Beckett say?

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Bennington Class of 2012, the world is yours.

Treat everyone kindly and light up the night.

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Everyone is jealous of what you’ve got. No one is jealous of how you got it.

I love that quote.

My god. People see the trophies, but not the training ground.

Everybody wants the view, but no one wants to climb.

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That’s the difference.

That’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground and do it again.

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It’s Murphy’s Law. When things go wrong, they always seem to happen at once and they just compound on top of each other. And it’s pretty easy sometimes to feel beaten when you’re faced with all those issues and all those problems and they all hit you at the same time. But let me tell you, that doesn’t mean give up. In fact, it means the opposite. It means it’s time for you to fight harder, to dig in. It means it’s time for you to go on the war path.

And that starts with one of the fundamental laws of combat leadership, prioritize and execute. What’s the biggest problem?

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And they asked him, how many sit-ups do you do?

And he said,

I don’t start counting until it hurts.

Now think about that.

He doesn’t start counting his sit-ups until he feels pain.

That’s when he starts counting.

That is working hard.

And so you can’t get around the hard work.

It doesn’t matter who it is.

As a matter of fact, I believe what Ted Turner said,

work like hell and advertise.

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Do you get it? Work like hell, go to bed, and early, early to rise, work like hell and advertise. So you work your ass off and then you let the world know about your work. That’s what it is all about.

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Fuck that. Make yourself happy. If something makes you happy, follow it. Now, do not be toxic in that. Do not take my words and twist them and turn them negative. Do not be toxic. I want for everybody that follows me and supports me to make sure you are being healthy in mind, being caring, compromising for the ones you love, being loyal to the ones you love. Do not say you love me and be some motherfucker out here cheating on your people. Look, if you love someone, you’re supposed to be dedicated to them, right? Now,

I don’t follow relationships simply because I don’t want to promise someone something and then not keep my word because of how much I’ve been hurt. So I’ve been in a situation where I’ll talk to people and I’ll tell them, yo, I don’t want to be involved with one woman because when I give my all to someone and they disappoint me, it makes me feel horrible and it takes my very soul out of me. It breaks my fucking heart.

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Stop trying to change your wife. stop trying to change your husband. stop trying to change your kids. stop trying to change your boss. Stop trying to change the program. if you could change it, it would be changed. There’s only one person you can change baby,

and that person’s hard and that person is you work on yourself Cuz watch what’s gonna happen one day et gonna wake up. Yep. He ain’t gonna be homeless- no more. Yep, one day et gonna wake up and he ain’t gonna be no high school dropout- no more. Yep, one day.

I’m gonna wake up and be exactly where I want to be but the question is when you are you so focused on You so focused on change You so focused on change that what you don’t get is that once things change for you if you don’t change you gonna take it Back to what it was anyway, are you hearing me? So you, you better, what you can work on is you, and so you better get you together. You better work on you and get you right now.

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So if your family doesn’t understand, why are you so daggone crazy? Because I’m trying to be the best I can to give you the best that I am. And it takes being f***ing obsessed to where people think you’re crazy. People look at me and say, oh my God, you’re a masochist, you’re this and that. I’m not going to get into how bad I was and all these races and SEAL training. I had 21 stress fractures going through Hell Week. 21 stress fractures. You know what I did? I taped my ankles up. Roger that. I want to be a SEAL. So I did it. Become obsessed with being great. It changes everything.

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Do not let them bring you down. In fact, in fact, let those challenges raise you up. Let them elevate you. Let their demands and their trials make you stronger.

Let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow.

So in the future, you look back at these struggles and you say to them, thank you. You made me better.

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There’s people that are willing to go very far, and then there’s people that are willing to go far further than that. That’s it and when of your person who prides yourself on your ability to go very far and Then someone is willing to go far farther than you you have to decide Do I want to look at that as the new standard? You want to judge myself? Do I want to admire him or do I want to try to take him down because I feel bad? Yeah, I can’t do what he does or haven’t done what he does, or what he does Makes me look bad because I like to think I’m a hard worker, right?

I could think I’m disciplined and hard and then I see this fucking dude out there They’re just making me look soft, right? And so instead of just going look at a man. Yeah, right, It’s that, as a smart person, will look at that person as fuel. But you have to make your own decisions too, because, right, you do requires a Dedication that will eliminate a lot of things from your life that some people enjoy and think are important.

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John Leslie said, no, you can’t go now, dad. I said, why? He said, it’s not over until I win.

That was his attitude. We sat down and we played several other games. And finally, after the 11th game, John Leslie won and he got up and he yawned and he said, I’m ready to go to sleep now. And I’m saying to you, what if all of us took that attitude after we face a rejection and a no, or we have a meeting and no one shows up, or somebody say, you can count on me and they don’t come through. What if we have that kind of attitude, the cards repossessed, nobody believes in you, you’ve lost again and again and again, the lights are cut off,

but you’re still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and say to yourself, it’s not over until I win.

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I think I’m good, but I think my main strength is my mind. I think it’s my strongest point, it’s my mind. The numbers, they don’t lie. If you see during the last 15 years, my level is always kind of the same. So, effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough anymore. And if you’re not dedicated 100%, you’re not going to reach the level that you want.

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The idea that working hard doesn’t make progress is one of the biggest farces that exists in humanity because at the end of the day, whatever you amount to isn’t going to matter anyways, right? And so if there is anything that’s eternal for us, at least as individuals, it’s going to be who we become in the process. And so one of my favorite quotes is, the work works on you more than you work on it. And so if you want to be the best in the world at something, you do the work to become the best in the world and the work works on you.

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No one can create your purpose for you. No one can tell you who to be. There is no such thing. Well, sorry. There is no such thing. No one can tell you who to be. So in purpose, you have to create your own purpose. And in evolution, you have to evolute towards that purpose. It’s easier to live when you have goals to meet. You understand? If you have goals to meet, then you don’t feel so voided and you understand why you’re why every day you’re looking at this person in the mirror because that is the cool part about the game. You get to be anybody you want to be.

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For example, you arrive home, you had a lunch, you do a quick nap, and you wake up. You play with your kids, and I have to go to the gym at least 30, 40 minutes, but this will make the difference in the end of the day. You understand? If you not do that work, you miss one. The next day, it’s two sessions that you lost. And I know in the end of the day, in the end, they’re gonna make a huge difference. This is why I’m 34 and I look 28.

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Most cats are somebody that works hard. If the situation and the circumstances is what they want it to be, they gonna come out and they gonna act accordingly and they gonna give you everything they got. But a hard worker, regardless of situation, regardless of circumstance, regardless of what happened, I’m gonna show up and I’m gonna give everything I got to her because I’m working for something that’s totally different. Right, the question becomes this. Can you be committed to the process of what you’re doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what you’re doing?

Can you be committed to the process of what you’re doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what you’re doing? In other words, if you don’t get what you thought you was gonna get, will you still be the same individual? If the situation don’t turn out the way you thought it would turn out, will you still be the same individual? The quote says it. You judge the character of a man not by where he stand in times of comfort and convenience. You judge the character of a man by where he stand in times of challenge and controversy. You judge the character of a man.

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I believe that we are our own hero. And if you have a culture, let’s say right now you guys idolize me and then tomorrow I go outside and I have some kind of issue. I can let you down. I’m human. All your mentors, everybody you like, we’re human. You got to put yourself on that pedestal, hold yourself to a higher standard, hold yourself accountable and then look up to yourself. I’m not saying kiss your own ass. But I’m saying hold yourself to a standard and look inside yourself and try to be the best you can be. We start trying to mimic somebody else. Don’t be them, be you.

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I believe that we are our own hero. And if you have a culture, let’s say right now you guys idolize me and then tomorrow I go outside and I have some kind of issue. I can let you down. I’m human. All your mentors, everybody you like, we’re human. You got to put yourself on that pedestal, hold yourself to a higher standard, hold yourself accountable and then look up to yourself. I’m not saying kiss your own ass. But I’m saying hold yourself to a standard and look inside yourself and try to be the best you can be. We start trying to mimic somebody else. Don’t be them, be you.

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I gotta do something, right? Try and save my fucking life.

So that’s what I’m doing. OK, no one else is going to save my life, right?

If I just sit here and diddle around, what am I going to have? Nothing, OK? And all this shit, like, what does it matter? What does it matter? It just passes. Yo, if I disappear, like, who cares? Nobody cares, man. Seriously, yo, that’s OK. That’s life. That’s life. No, for real, OK? It just passes. It just fucking, fucking passes.

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I gotta do something, right? Try and save my fucking life.

So that’s what I’m doing. OK, no one else is going to save my life, right?

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Ow! Crap! I hate this! Running is terrible. Everything is the worst.

Heee! Heee! Heee! Heee! Heee! Oh my god.

Oh my god. Heee! Heee! Heee!

It gets easier. Huh? Every day it gets a little easier. Yeah? But you gotta do it every day. That’s the hard part. But it does get easier.

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I got the shoes, I got the chalk, I got the harnesses. I’m good, I’m not scared to climb anymore. I go to the rock, hammer it in, I got my belay and I’m good to go. So you got to figure out how to climb first, and we all have a different way of climbing. That’s why there’s a lot of books out there on mental toughness. It’s all crap. Why? Because it’s a cookie-cutter way. Life isn’t cookie-cutter. Like 3.14 is pi. It’s how you figure out equations. We’re all different equations. We all have a story. We all have to strengthen our mind to figure out our own equation.

Once you figure out your own equation in life, you can then start picking away at how to be better. But you first have to figure out your equation in life. Once you figure that out, you can do anything.

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Even you, if you gonna watch fight, you just watch fight. They walk out inside the cage. They fight and they leave. You don’t know what happen behind the scenes. This is not your business. Nobody care about this.

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And it drives me crazy when people say they don’t have enough time to go to the gym for 45 minutes a day and work out. Or to do something for 45 minutes to an hour a day to improve. If it is physically improve or if it is mentally to improve. Imagine you read one hour a day about history. How much you will learn after 365 hours in one year. Think about if you study about the history of musicians, of composers. How much you would know. Imagine if you would work on a business, on some business that you want to develop every day for an hour. Imagine how further along you will go and get.

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Or at least big picture, we don’t get to know what it is. Why we live, why Megan lost the baby, why that girl killed herself. You’re not reassuring me, Doctor. I can’t reassure you. This idea you have, that there’s a way to be safe, it’s childish and cowardly. It stops you from experiencing anything, including anything good. You don’t think I feel bad enough already? I know I’m messed up. But you’re supposed to teach me how not to be. You know how. Stop waiting for life to be easy. Stop hoping for somebody to save you. You don’t need another person lying to you. Things don’t all add up.

But you are resilient. Face some hard facts and you could have an incredible life.

That’s your pearl of wisdom?

Grow a beard? That’s a more concise way of putting it. Yeah.

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Nothing gets solved by that man, nothing. And if you look at America right now and I won’t get off on this, nothing is getting solved because we have, there’s so much racism, there’s so many things and that’s just one of them. We can’t talk about anything. We are skirting all these conversations because if I say this I’m going to offend a black person or a white person or a Jewish person or a gay or a lesbian person. We skirt around the daggone problem. So we can’t fix it. Everything is like, well, if I say this on TV, I’m going to lose my damn job. We have to say it.

We have to break the barriers within our minds, within the world. And it starts with yourself. It starts with yourself. You got to break the barriers down within yourself and just go there. You got to go to yourself.

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Learning comes from the edges. Change is uncomfortable, and it rarely happens without a lot of stress, and many of the periods of radical and important change in your life happened because of the severe challenges that you faced. Would you pay the price back then for the insights and developments that you have now? If so, have faith that whatever stresses that you’re facing right now will lead to a greater version of you in the future. The challenge that you’re facing is a gift, and leaning into the discomfort as if you invited it through the door,

saying thank you for the opportunity to learn and reflect because it’s making you better. Anti-fragility is alive and well every single time that we overcome these obstacles.

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We have a big problem in society these days, and you’re a part of it. Everywhere we look, everywhere we turn on the TV or scroll through the internet, we are inundated by people who refuse to take responsibility for the life that they have created. And I got bad news for you. There’s nobody coming. There’s nobody coming to save you. There’s nobody coming to help you. A knight in shining armor isn’t gonna ride in and save you. You are the only one that’s going to be able to save you. And all this time, you point your finger and you say,

I can’t do that because I was born here, or I can’t do that because I have this issue, or I can’t do that because they made fun of me. And you know what’s gonna happen? Nothing.

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What is life? What the fuck is your life? Are you happy with it? And if so, is just the intake and outtake of breath makes you put a smile on your face? That’s something your fucking mother gave you You even earned that what have you done with your life to make it something else besides the normality of everybody else? The intake and the outtake of what you call life is nothing more than time, and unless done something, wit is forgotten about. There’s no footprint of your existence left for anyone else to follow. Life is time And a life that’s remembered,

where footprint is followed behind and footsteps of inspiration and motivation, Is when time is met with opportunity and action. they collide to be a life of remembrance. the problem is, Most people don’t have a plan, And without a plan of your own life, You become the plan of someone else’s life.

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I realized, man, that’s okay, man. It’s not my fault. Now I gotta go back and fix this shit, though. So a lot of this isn’t your fault, why you do some things you do, why you feel the way you feel. But no one’s coming back to save your ass. You have to go back to where the shit started, wherever that place is for everybody, and have the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you. And that’s why I was like, hey, I’m fucked up. I’m gonna go back and fix this, though.

You gotta be honest with yourself. 100%. About where you’re at. 100%. People don’t like that.

Oh, it’s ugly. And what’s funny about it is that as you’re trying to fix yourself and dig yourself out of this deep hole that life, society, and you helped, you helped also, those people who you saw down there in that hole who were there with you, who were your friends and people who you counted on, because you meet the people in the same situation that you’re in in life. Those people become your friends. And the second you try to get out of that situation and become better,

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You’re not the person the eight-year-old you wanted to be, and I bet you’re not even taking steps to become that person, are you? And that’s what’s wrong with the world. That’s what’s wrong with this country. We have a bunch of people that want to point fingers and defer responsibility off to anything and everything except the one thing that can change their entire lives, and that’s looking in the f***ing mirror and saying, f*** you man. You did this to me. You made me this way, and I’m gonna fix it.

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And when I confronted the devil, so what I thought was the devil, I realized that I was the true devil. I was the one holding me back. I was the one looking for the scapegoat. And you know, I was the one looking for all these ways to say, it’s okay, David. You’re a loser. You’re a born loser, so it’s okay. And I was hoping my dad was going to give me that confirmation. And he was a loser himself, but at the end of the day, when I left there, I realized, well, shit, man. It’s all me. My dad’s fucked up. My mom’s fucked up. The people around me are fucked up. They’re not going to save you.

You gotta fucking save yourself, my friend. So that’s when all that reality hit me when I went to Buffalo to see my dad on that drive home. I was like, man, this rest of your life is going to suck. It is going to suck. Not because you’re going to be a loser, but because you’re going to fucking finally start to win. And winning is not easy, my friend. Yeah.

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I would say not just huge value, but the value.

Don’t do that, just get up, move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. Move towards that challenge and go attack it. And you may be successful and you may not be successful, but you will be better. And the next challenge, you’re gonna be more prepared for. And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

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I’m gonna control what I eat. I’m gonna control what I drink. I’m gonna control how I move, I’m gonna control the information I put in my brain, I’m gonna control how I treat people and who I surround myself with. and if you control those things, You are now in the driver’s seat to create what it is. You’ve always known that you were here to create, because you always do know what you’re here to create. It’s that little version of yourself that hides deep inside your heart that you are so afraid to even talk About because you’re afraid the people around you are gonna laugh.

Well, guess what motherfucker? They’re gonna laugh, and they’re gonna laugh more. if you don’t do anything, You’re gonna get criticized, no matter what you do. If you go hard, people are going to criticize you. if you stay lazy, piece of shit, People are gonna criticize you.

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Nobody cares about you is something that was never made clear to me. And I mean that in the most positive, optimistic, inspiring, motivating way. Like, I think that, especially if you see yourself as a creative, or you want to exist on YouTube as a filmmaker, a musician, or as an artist, or a painter, any of those things, you think that everybody’s paying attention. And because of that, it kind of controls how you think. And even when I was young and fearless and nothing to lose, I was still so cognizant of, like, how are people going to react to this and what’s the best way to do…

I was so aware. And the reality is, nobody gives a shit. Everybody is so focused on themselves in this world. Nobody has time for you. And the sooner you accept that as a creative person, the sooner you’re free. Like, you’re totally free. Like, do exactly what feels right to you. And if you can get yourself on that trajectory, then it goes back to what we were talking about before, about being novel, about being an original, about not being a photocopy of somebody who did something. If you’re that photocopy, you will never be the original.

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Myron and Walt, look what they’ve done in their lives. I’ve got teammates from college that have done amazing things. They’re black guys. There’s no fucking way I’m going to let some 15 year old kid believe he can’t succeed in life because he’s black. I grew up in his neighborhood, too, for a little while. And I grew up in trouble. So fucking what? You know, it really goes back to like, what are you? Are you going to take control of your life? I always say the best day of a man’s life is the day he realizes that nobody’s come to save him. If he can know that.

And feel peace about it and almost be excited about it because he gets to go fight his own hero’s journey, he’ll win. If you can accept it. you’ll win because you take entire responsibility for your life. Too many people give up responsibility in their life so they point the finger at somebody else. If you take all of it, even when it’s not your fault, I’ve had to do this so many times, particularly around hiring.

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You ain’t gonna find it through fucking yoga and all this other bullshit. I stretch out a lot and I believe in yoga and all this shit’s great, but you ain’t gonna find it in some fucking room. You’re gonna find peace from going to war with yourself, because we all got shit. We all got shit. People look at me… The reason why my story resonates with people, because I don’t hide. I’ll tell you exactly who the fuck I am. I will admit to it. People are great at hiding. So they want to just find peace. No, you gotta take your shit, fix whatever’s fucked up in you.

Don’t just shove it under the rug. Fix it. And then you’ll find some peace later, after you fix some shit. So now, I’m realizing this. I go home, several months go by, and now I’m like, okay, here we are. It’s time to be a Navy SEAL.

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Now it’s harder for some people and I understand personalities. I understand there’s difficulty in this. Like for me, I’m very comfortable in my own head. I’m very comfortable alone for hours at a time for days at a time. Um, I, uh, it doesn’t mean I haven’t felt loneliness. It doesn’t mean that I don’t feel lonely at times, but it’s not acute. It’s not something I can’t. Uh, I can’t deal with the first thing we have to do is we have to get ourselves to the point where we don’t necessarily need a companion.

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And it’s up to you to accept what pain you are willing to accept. Because if you struggle and you flounder and you refuse to take responsibility for yourself and become that version that you know you’re supposed to become, you will be miserable. 100%. You will have every single regret a human being could ever fucking have in their entire lives. And the flip side is this. You could put in the work. You could put in the time. You could say, I am not going to settle. I am going to become exactly who I’m meant to become because I know that it’s not just going to serve me.

It’s going to serve my family. It’s going to serve my community. It’s going to serve my city, my state, and my country. And it’s going to create an immeasurable ripple effect of people who know that they can do it too. And guess what? That’s going to be hard.

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But the moment you accept the fact that nobody cares, do your thing, nobody cares. And then you start to go down that path, you will just get better and better and better. Then you sprinkle on that patience I was talking about, you just keep going. You keep going. And eventually, like that persistence will just smash into like opportunity, was it preparation will smash into opportunity, persistence will smash into opportunity. And like your moment of explosion, your detonation will happen. That was verbose, but you asked a big question.

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I think people struggle a lot with the concept that something can be both painful and empowering. It’s this hurts, therefore it’s bad. When taking full accountability of your life with all of the deficiencies that you have may be the most painful thing that you do when you look at yourself in the mirror and say, this is my fault. But in saying, this is my fault, those are also the first two steps of progress because it’s my fault, not anyone else’s, which means it’s my responsibility and my action that can change that.

And I think that marrying short-term pain with long-term progress is one of the first connections that most people who are on that path have to make.

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If I could just do one piece of advice into all human beings, it would simply be to believe in yourself without a doubt. Believe in yourself and don’t rely on anybody to believe in you. Don’t rely on anybody to push you or make you better. Believe in yourself and only yourself and allow that human being to make you a better person. So, I truly wish I had the ability to go back to that training with the mind I have now, but we never had that ability to go back in time.

We learn so much as we get older, which is a sad thing. I wish I had that knowledge when I was younger.

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There was something inside me that made me the person who I am today. Yeah. Since the first day. So my mindset always was the same, exactly the same as I have right now. I’m like, if someone did it, I also can do it. And if no one did it, I can be the first one to do it. This is the mindset I always had. And it’s like, yeah, that I think that the champion are. they are not born, they are made. also because you can burn in a

extraordinary situation, but you can end up so bad, you know, and the opposite also, you can burn in a, I don’t know, crazy situation and end up in a paradise.

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Today is the day that I will look back 10 years from now and say that was the day that everything changed.

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Stop taking things so seriously. No one is getting out of this game alive, literally. In three generations, no one will even remember your name. And if that doesn’t give you liberation to just drop your fucking problems and find some joy, I don’t know what will. Life is inherently ridiculous and guaranteed to end sooner or later, so you might as well enjoy the ride. And I think that that series of insights, problems are a feature of life, not a bug. Whatever negativity is consuming your thoughts probably won’t matter in three months’ time. Learning comes from the edges.

And stop taking things so seriously.

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I had to stop thinking normal. I had to stop thinking normal. I can no longer be a common man walking around doing common things. But no one taught me this stuff. It wasn’t like I had, you know, I paid a trainer to come train me. Jenny Craig didn’t come down and miracle my ass. None of this happened. It was on me. And that’s what you have to realize. Everything you do, you may have some support, you may not, but it’s on you. You have to make the decision whether you want to be a badass or whether you just want to be mediocre and everything’s okay. But being a badass hurts real bad.

And that’s why I didn’t want to do it.

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And the commanding officer says, we live in a world where mediocrity is often rewarded. These men detest mediocrity. And I sat there and I had time to reflect back on my life. Being bullied, coming from nothing, learning disability, messed up foundation. Life isn’t fair at all. At all. So what are you going to do about it? I knew that no one was coming back to help me. No one’s going to miracle me to be somebody special. Everybody that called me nigger, my dad, my mom, all my situations were on me now. And solely on me. So I had to start developing an indestructible mental toolbox.

So I sat there on that couch and I realized, man, I am a piece of shit. And even though the world helped me get here, my false reality helped me even more. And listening to somebody else’s dialogue further helped me get here.

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You’re not running the day, the day’s running you. the differential between those people is belief. one person with belief overrides a hundred people with just intent. Intent is thought process, thinking we’re gaming it, never putting a foot forward, never putting their, their face or their name to the fire. Belief is going after and figure it out along the way. This workout it’s gonna bring that belief back in your life It’s a back workout and at this workout. Not only we have a stronger back, you have belief and confidence put into action. life No longer is your life filled with stop signs,

yield signs and halts in this kid and and fucking unauthorized mother fines. Life begins now. if it doesn’t begin now, your life is fucking over.

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that we are society and we must change. Until that happens to you, to me, to your neighbors, to your brothers, to your sisters, to your parents, nothing will change. It is on us. Our society, our culture, our country is a reflection of us as individuals. And if we want to see how we’re living, then we need to go look in the fucking mirror. How are you living? Are you the best physical shape that you can be? Are you the best mental shape that you can be? How’s your finances? What’d you do today?

Did you do what you’re supposed to do or did you fuck off another day and put your dreams off until tomorrow? And then tomorrow you’re going to do the same thing. And then the next day you’re going to do the same thing. And eventually you’re going to run out of time and you’re going to say, oh, shit. That was my life. And when that happens, guys, you’re going to wish you had the time back.

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Nobody’s come to save you. That’s also the best one. The best day of your life is when you realize nobody’s come to save you. And when you can realize that, and you can kind of cynically smile because you know you want the ball in your court, then you’re well on your way to being successful. When you take full responsibility of everything, good or bad, even if you don’t do the actual task, if you take responsibility fully, you’re free. You must have, ego drives the world. Ego drives every man in this world. You must have it.

You can keep it healthy and still have it and never apologize for having it. I think that’s a big mistake. It is imperative that you have an ego. It’s just how you use it. Are you gonna use it for good? Are you gonna use it for bad? Ego’s important.

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learning comes from the edges is so great because you think well, I want things to be smooth, I don’t want to face these challenges, I don’t want to be in this difficulty, I wish that I didn’t have this problem, I wish that this stress wasn’t here. You go okay, looking back, did any of the development that you care about come from a period where you didn’t have problems exactly the same as this, completely akin to whatever it is that you’re going through? You go well, you know, it was the most rapid change I actually had in my life and in retrospect I’m really,

really glad for the way that I alchemized this problem into something that was beautiful. You go okay, so is there any of that energy that you can take from the past and bring to the present and say I know that I’m going through it, I know that it sucks and I know that trying to be pithy and reframing the present moment that is total ass into oh well, you know, in the future I’ll be great, like yes that sucked. But just that tiny little bit of insight that this challenge that you’re going through is a gift to your future self.

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When you come from a small, small town and you come from a place that a lot of people don’t want to come out of it and get out of it and all you want to do is become somebody, when you have… Small town mentality is a real mentality. You’ve got to be able to get out and let your mind see open-mindedness. Because a small town, what it does to you is it closes your mind. Completely closes your mind. Not everybody. This isn’t everybody. A lot of people. You have to be able to go out there and create open-mindedness. You need space. You need space to see the world.

Like a lot of racism, a lot of ignorance in the world, it comes from people not being out and seeing other things, seeing other people, seeing all kind of sh**. That’s why we judge so harshly. Because our minds are so closed to the reality of life. Period.

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Nobody’s coming. Nobody’s coming to push you. Nobody’s coming to tell you to stop scrolling. Nobody’s coming to build you that business. Nobody’s coming to tell you to get to the fucking gym. Nobody’s coming to save you. It’s up to you.

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And if your negativity that you’re thinking about now doesn’t matter in three months’ time, you can’t recall it, why waste the moments that you’ve got, this sort of precious life, this brief sliver of existence in between two eternities of nothing? And problems are a feature of life, not a bug. They are just going to continue coming. You’re not going to have a purpose, perfectly smooth ocean where nothing gets in your way. And it would be boring if you did. And despite the fact that you have these things in front of you, and that the challenges may even increase in size,

your capacity to deal with them is going to increase in kind. And anti-fragility is alive and well.

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And we all have a choice to make. We all get to choose what heart are we going to have? Are we going to have the heart of creating and becoming and being a great example for everybody else, honoring the people who came before us and setting a great example for the people coming after us? Or are we going to cruise? Or are we going to coast? Or are we just going to be another poor little me, another drag on society, another person that dies with all the hopes and dreams and amazing ideas that could have helped people while you were here,

who says at the end of their life, I coulda, I should’ve, I wish I had. Are you going to be the person that says at the end of their life, I fucking didn’t?

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I’m really excited about what we’re doing for young men as a whole I think it’s one of the most impactful things that I can do with my life at this time and I think God gave me the tools to do it. And so I’m really excited about that What am I scared about? I think I’m just always gonna be scared of not reaching whatever full potential I might have And as long as I have that haunting voice in me, I think I’m good to go It’s probably my biggest fear is losing that voice. Hmm. Yeah,

so and I think that keeping that voice kindled the more successful you get is is A is a skill set that I’m navigating through all the time. So it’s a thing.

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Problems are a feature of life, not a bug. There will never come a time when you have no problems. What? Did you think that you would just wake up one day and you’re going to cease having problems? Like completing a video game and leveling up to a map where there’s nothing there? That is never going to happen. Your problems will change, sure, but having problems is going nowhere. Dealing with problems is the cost of doing business as a human. It’s not a personal curse on you.

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Nobody is going to save you. Nobody is going to make it easy for you. Nobody can live your life for you, endure your pain for you, choose your struggles for you. Nobody can experience the growth that comes from loss for you. Nobody can build your confidence through a thousand tiny failures for you. Nobody can lie awake crying about some inconsolable loss that hurts so much, it creates a bottomless pit of emptiness for you. Nobody can learn the lessons for you, rebuild the pieces for you, gain the strength for you, find the confidence for you, earn the rewards for you.

Nobody can write your story for you. Nobody can tell you what it all meant. Nobody can make the impossible choices and live with the eternal consequences and suffer through indecision, doubt and regret for you. You get to do that. You have the honor and privilege to suffer and overcome that suffering, only to suffer and overcome again and again and again. This is called being alive. It’s called being human. And no, nobody else can do that for you either.

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Once you’ve already won, people are like, he’s amazing, he’s so good. But like, that’s the time when you need it the least. And so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. And it’s usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap that’s just you, rooting for you. And that visual, I think, is one that you can kind of take because it is,

people struggle to do things alone. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. And rather than fighting that or bemoaning it, see it as an indicator that you’re on the right path. Because if everyone else were cheering you on, then it means you’re not in the right place because it means you’re just like everyone else and that’s not where you wanna be.

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The one thing that made me who I am today is being vulnerable. It’s breaking myself down to the absolute rock bottom and being able to tell people who I am. And that’s how I fixed it. Literally, you know, look somebody in the eye and say, you know what, man, I have a whole bunch of character problems, character flaws. I’ve lied about this. I’ve cheated here. I’m insecure here. This isn’t the real me. I lied to you about that. I wanted your acceptance in life. All those things happen, but the thing about it is that we get judged so quickly by who we are. We don’t know.

We don’t go to where it happened. You know, life created this person, me. Life created me to be this fucked up person I was back in the day.

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Starts on Sunday, ends on Friday. You might get two hours of sleep. And I did all that in one year. Why did I do that in one year? Cut to the chase again. There was an old, crusty commanding officer named Captain Bowen. Captain Bowen was an old Vietnam vet. This was his last tour of duty. And he believed, so over 70 years this training’s been going on, and he believed no matter where you were at, you will start from day one if you don’t make it through. So I get to Wednesday, ruptured hernia. Back to day one, week one. Get to my second health week. I get through that health week.

Get ready to start second phase. Break my kneecap. Roll back day one, week one. In my third health week, I’m standing there. I have 16 stress fractures. So I have 16 stress fractures. This is me in my first health week, I believe. So I have 16 stress fractures. I’m on my crutches. I’m looking at him. And he says, Goggins, this is your last time you’re going through training. Boom.

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Whatever negativity is consuming your thoughts probably won’t matter in three months time. In three months time, you won’t remember the corrosive texture of your mind, or the boring, repetitive things that you thought, or maybe even what you were worried about. But all of that time that you spent worrying will have still passed. So, you are sacrificing your joy and presence in the moment for a problem which you won’t even be able to recall in the future. So, immortality is literally the only life where such flippancy with the days that you’re alive for is acceptable.

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You take responsibility for everything regardless of whose fault it is or the market or race or religion or who’s present I’m gonna go fuck who’s president. I’m gonna win no matter what your blind grandmother could be president. I’m gonna win I’m gonna get up. I’m gonna go to work. I’m gonna do the same thing I did yesterday, Because I know what i’m gonna do. I agree with that and I would just. I just refuse to let a young man believe that based off his skin color is bullshit, And if I really love him, I could say the politically correct thing Like: yeah, I know,

You know you’re so suppressed, it’s so sad bullshit. bro, You can win and i’m not gonna sit here. you can get mad at me if you want, But I love you enough to tell you the truth, because that is the truth, and I know too many winners Of all ethnicities, all races, religions for me to say anything else. and it goes right back to that thing about being true to yourself.

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Did you think I’d forgotten you? Perhaps you hoped I had. Don’t waste a breath mourning Miss Barnes. Every kitten grows up to be a cat. They seem so harmless at first. Small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk. But once their claws get long enough, they draw blood. Sometimes from the hand that feeds them. For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule. Hunt or be hunted.

Welcome back.

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Winners have a special DNA. And that DNA is we just feel like we’re always behind. We’re always behind. We’re always behind. And I put up a post on social media about that today. I said 80% of the time, you feel like you’re failing. 15% of the time, you feel like you’re just treading water. 4% of the time, you feel like it’s over. This is it. The ship’s going down. And then 1% of the time, you feel like winning. That is the winner’s life. Like I constantly feel like I’m failing. I’m not doing things right. I’m not doing enough. And then that’s 80%.

15% of the time, I feel like I’m fucking treading water. 4% of the time, I feel like this is it. It’s going down. It’s over. Then 1% of the time, I feel like I’m actually winning. And you know what a winner does? He just takes that 1% and stacks them on top of each other day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. And that is how you build an empire. That is how you build a legacy. That is how you build a brand.

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the skills that you develop along the way, like Steve Jobs learning calligraphy that then became Apple fonts that transformed how we type, those early days, that little trench winning in the weeds oftentimes gives you these huge advantages later on because you have more context than anyone else. And so, rather than lament them and hate the fact that you’re going through it, remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver that you’re going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons. And so expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is.

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About in life, you have to have no fear. You have to have no fear. You have to believe in who you are and what you do and just go fucking get it. Don’t be afraid to tell somebody no.

Fucking water guy wants to, you know, wants to do a deal with you and the money looks good but there’s certain things about that you’re not into.

Fuck him, don’t do it.

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Some people are like, well, if it works, why do you gotta keep doing it? Well, why do you take a shower every day? You’re right. Okay, because you fucking stink. All right, why do you fucking, why do you practice guitar every single day? Because it’s a perishable skill. Why do you practice the piano? Like, why do we do anything more than once? Because we have to sharpen our skillset with perishable skills. And you don’t understand that discipline, grit, fortitude, self-belief, all of these things that encompass mental toughness, self-esteem, confidence,

these are fucking skills that we have to develop and then maintain. And for you to go from where you are at 20 years old to where you wanna be at 40 years old, you’re gonna have to have those sharpened over and over and over and again. So live that lifestyle. It’s gonna make things exponentially easier for you to get where you’re going.

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When you change yourself,

you will change the world because you’ll change how you see it.

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You’re not in here to get an achievement. You’re in here to pay your fucking dues so later in life you never wonder what if. You don’t need to say, I got to burn the minute so I don’t stay awake in the minute hours wondering what if. We just erase that out of the equation. We’re putting the work in now so we never wonder what if. Not run by the clock. Run by our desire where we want to go tomorrow. Our competition is fucking asleep right now. We’re getting ahead of that competition.

The margins between first and loser, the second place finisher. Growing and growing and growing. They’re all gonna fight for second place. They won’t be able to keep up with you. That’s being on the right path, man. Never looking back to our past. The past is great. We’re proud of it. But it’s not the current day. All that shit is creating who we are right now, where life begins. And how we feel, where we want to go. Using that information to excel ourselves to the future of where we want to be tomorrow, which is right fucking now, last I looked.

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do you want to accept a version of you that you shouldn’t accept? One that you ‘re not proud of, , one that doesn’t live up to their word, one whose thoughts, actions and intentions aren’t aligned fully. You go, well, I mean, I can, but I don’t particularly feel good about that. That feels like the higher version of me, the potential version of me that I want to live up to, I’m sort of derogating them, that this isn’t really the tribute to them that it should be. And yeah, that’s why the self-acceptance movement, that’s why people feel icky about it.

People feel icky about the self-acceptance movement because they know that people are accepting a version of themselves which is falling short from what it could be.

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We can either be hard on ourselves, we can either train ourselves, we can either put ourselves through hell, or we can let the world do it. It’s your choice. But I am telling you right now that if you make the commitment to becoming the absolute best version of yourself, mentally and physically, your ability to handle stress will go through the fucking roof, which will allow you to be effective because you will be able to execute at a high level when everybody else freaks the fuck out.

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What are you doing with your life, man? Why are you sitting around? Why are you waiting for shit to happen? It ain’t gonna happen like that. Why are you feeling sorry for yourself? Why are you waiting for that fucking apology that’s never gonna fucking come? People sit around waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and blaming and blaming and they’re waiting with their hand out. COVID happened and everybody’s hands out now. Hands out.

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No, you’re gonna always wonder, well, I have all this fucking money. Why do I feel like I said, I feel like I’m missing something? Right. Because you didn’t go out and achieve it on your own.

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There’s people that are willing to go very far, and then there’s people that are willing to go far further than that. That’s it and when of your person who prides yourself on your ability to go very far and Then someone is willing to go far farther than you you have to decide Do I want to look at that as the new standard? You want to judge myself? Do I want to admire him or do I want to try to take him down because I feel bad? Yes, I can’t do what he does or haven’t done what he does, or what he does Makes me look bad because I like to think I’m a hard worker.

I could think I’m disciplined and hard, and

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With success, man, you got to be careful with it. As you work hard, you just achieve things. You have to ensure that those things you achieve never define who you are. Those things are careers, tangible items of houses and cars and structures and suggestions, even people, your wife or family, kids, everything else. They’re all very, very, very, very valuable. And you should be honored to have such, but you can not afford to be identified by such because who you were created that. And they say the expression, never forget who you came from,

never forget where you came from, never forget who you were. That doesn’t mean to be humble, be nice or to be thankful. It means the person who you were got you to where you are. And if you always remember who you were, then where you are right now, it’s not the end, but yet the intermission of what can be. Don’t allow the possessions of life, the people of life, the opportunities and the money of life to pump the brakes, the progress of your true potential, what you can be in life.

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Damn man, what the hell are you doing? This guy will knock you on your ass!

Come on, Rock. It’s not a game. You want to live in the hospital for five weeks this time? You thought I was tough? This chump will kill you! Alright. Come on, come on. Get your head on your shoulders, man. Think about the fight. Think about the fight. Clubber Langsdon, he’s trying to hurt you, Rock.

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Damn, Rod, come on! What’s the matter with you? Tomorrow. Let’s do it tomorrow. There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!

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My biggest regret of something I didn’t do was to complete pararescue training. Being afraid of the water set my mind into different spaces that I didn’t know how to control back then that I do now. So I truly wish I had the ability to go back to that training with the mind I have now, but we never had that ability to go back in time.

We learn so much as we get older, which is a sad thing. I wish I had that knowledge when I was younger.

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people say, oh, I’m so depressed. I need a drink. Yeah, you’re gonna feel good for a couple hours, but the next three days, you’re gonna wanna blow your brains out, okay? We have to be able to look past the instant gratification. And by the way, I’m glad you brought this up because if you don’t know how to do this and you lack the discipline to do this, you’re gonna spin your wheels because every time you get frustrated, you’re gonna get a little bit of relief, but then you’re gonna find yourself in a deeper hole.

And that process repeats itself over and over and over again until it costs you everything, all right? I don’t really know anybody who lives that, I got a drink when I’m stressed lifestyle that doesn’t end up at the bottom of the toilet eventually. All right, so we have to come up with helpful habits that help us manage stress. If you can go in a gym stressed and lift for an hour and still come out stressed, then you’re fucked.

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because for this man to be at the level he was and have that kind of humility to go, I’m a Medal of Honor winner, but I’m going to put that in my closet and I’m going to pick up my broom and dustpan and I’m going to pick up, you know, this rag and clean the shit for these young men. That right there is amazing for me, man. That’s where you grow, that’s growth, huge growth. And also it shows that he was doing his job. He was a servant. He didn’t look at himself any better than anybody else. The second you do that, you’re totally lost.

You cannot look at yourself, like people with me even, I always look at people, I know where you are, I know where, because I’ve been there. That’s why I help so many people out. I’ve never been above you. I’ve always pretty much been beneath you and that’s where my knowledge came from, so I know how to reach those people who are in the dungeon because I’ve been there so many times.

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You don’t have the genetics, the DNA, the money, the mind, the brain power for that. A winner locks onto their fucking goals and keeps going. That’s what the winner does.

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You know, you’re at a speed of 80, but you want to get to 99. You got to run sprints, dude, and that’ll boost your score. It’ll boost your score and it’ll boost your score. So you got to think of things like discipline and grit and fortitude and self-belief and confidence and self-esteem. All of these things are things that can be improved. It’s like a rating that you’re going to pour into and it’s going to improve. It’s no different than you going in the gym and lifting some weights and your muscles getting bigger. Your brain works the same way.

When you force it into uncomfortable situations, when you force it into intentional adversity, it becomes stronger, it becomes tougher. And then the things that come down on us through our day-to-day lives become that much easier to manage.

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Do I ever feel like Sisyphus? Of course I do. I’ve been waiting for people to start saying like, oh, you put another picture of the sweat and of a squat rack, really?

But I don’t know if they understand. I’ve been getting on that squat rack and grinding it out for 25 years. And I’m not bored with it yet.

It might seem like that’s an unwinnable battle.

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There are a few times in life where giving up makes a shit ton of sense. If your life is in extreme danger, if you feel like you could do, once again, bodily harm, if you’ve tried several, several, several, several times to complete whatever mission is in front of you and you can’t. Sometimes it’s not meant to be. But that said, there’s very few times it’s not meant to be. So there’s sometimes you need to fucking throw in the towel, but there’s a lot of times when throwing in the towel too early will take away your shot at the person that you should have been.

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It doesn’t matter if you’re stressed. It doesn’t matter if you’re hurt. It doesn’t matter if you’re upset. It doesn’t matter if you’re frustrated. If your discipline is on point, your mental toughness on point, you’re going to be able to execute in spite of the situation being that way. And you’re going to move forward whether you feel good or not. And once you can move forward, whether you feel good or not, nobody can fuck with you. Okay. Because everybody else quits when things get hard. Everybody else quits when they get sick or they have an excuse or they get in a funk or they get,

you know, whatever. If you’re able to operate, even when things are hard, you can’t be fucked with. So I would commit long-term, long-term to the development of your own mental toughness, your grit, your fortitude, your, your discipline, your self-belief, uh, your confidence, all of these things intentionally develop them. They’re not traits. They are skills and they are perishable skills. And if you don’t intentionally develop them, you will not have them when you need them.

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My grandfather walked 10 miles to work every day. My father walked five.

I’m driving a Cadillac.

My son is in a Mercedes. He said my grandson will be in a Ferrari.

But he said my great-grandson will be walking again. So I asked him, I said, well, why is that? And he said to me, tough times create strong men. Strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men. Weak men create tough times. He said to me, many will not understand, but you have to raise warriors. That’s what coaching instilled in me and so many like me. The strength and courage of a warrior.

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It’s either you have it or you don’t. That sounds like excuses to me. I mean, you got to figure it out, right? If you really have an obsession to figure it out, you will figure it out, right? And every puzzle is constructed differently. AI situation when he came into the league was different than mine. Mike’s situation in Chicago was different than mine. Everybody has a different puzzle, man. You just got to figure out your own puzzle.

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You, your limiting beliefs are gonna try and talk shit on you. Like your version 1.0 of yourself, your inner critic, your inner bitch, that bitch voice that we all have at the project, we call it the inner bitch and the inner beast, which is the critic and the advocate, right? Your beast is your advocate, and your inner bitch is your critic. Your 1.0 version is gonna try and negotiate with your 2.0 version and say, no, no, no, don’t evolve, don’t grow, don’t change, become, go back to the loser that you were, just have another drink, watch TV for another hour, eat that fucking ding dong,

and then chase it down with a Twinkie. Sick motherfucker.

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if you begin to hate the thing that you do, you negatively change your trajectory. And that means that at the time when you can benefit the most by every single unit of work, which is the later that you go, presuming that you continue to hit that upper trajectory. if you’ve completely killed any passion or desire to do the work in the early stages because you’ve not protected it appropriately, that can be by focusing on the wrong things, by not rewarding yourself, by not building it with people that care about you, by not

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takes way more energy to start a thing than to continue doing a thing, and yet in the beginning the rewards are way lower than they are at the end. But if you don’t protect your passion, your motivation is at its lowest when you are at your highest amount of efficiency in terms of returning your time put in.

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is you have to really analyze your life. Because I guarantee you, most of the things that we’re going through, someone else has already gone through. So what one person can do, another can do. And it’s important that we believe that you are not alone in this journey. You’re not the first person to go through what you’re going through. Whether it’s death, illness, whatever you’re dealing with, a learning disability, you’re fat, you’re bullied, you are not the first person to endure whatever you’re going through. So what that means is this,

you are just as tough as all the other people that have endured what you are enduring right now. So always stay in the fight.

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tell you, man, just stay on the track, keep executing, look for ways to do what you do better. learn, make mistakes. learn, make mistakes and eventually it’s all gonna come together for you and it’s gonna work. so you know, I think you might just be in this. this life situation might be occurring at a time where you’re sort of in the beginning stages of the hockey stick curve. right where you’re, you’re,

you’re going through the long part of inactivity and it sounds like you’re just a little bit frustrated because the life circumstances of your family are not aligning with the success that you want. time wise, and that shit will all come together, bro.

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You cannot wish for a strong character and an easy life. Each is the price of the other. What if what you’re going through isn’t hard? What if you’re just sensitive?

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It’s not about winning.

It’s the battle itself. It’s the struggle. It’s the daily test. That’s what life’s about.

Not just physically, but mentally. Getting that rock to the top of the mountain,

that’s not what my goal is. My goal actually is pushing the rock.

Because pushing the rock, that pushes me. That makes me tougher. That makes me harder, mentally and physically.

It gives me much more than I give it. I wanna struggle. I wanna grind and claw and scratch, and I wanna dig in and I wanna push. And I don’t want it to end.

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if you can just make it through this, everything else is downhill. It’s not that the things that you’re, the dragons are going to slay aren’t going to get bigger, they are, but you become so much more equipped to slay them back. And you have so many more allies. You have people in the stands cheering for you. You have the audience. You have all of these other things that are behind you. But at the beginning, it’s just you with a stick against a bear. And arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon when you have a nuclear bomb and six nations behind you, .

And so it’s not even like the size of the hardship. It’s just also the resources and how few of them you have and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you have, which is time. Because you have no leverage. You don’t have the money to pay other people to help you. You don’t have the resources to go like get someone to, no one can learn it for you. It’s like there’s a lot of the things that we care about a lot. Like no one can work out for you. It doesn’t matter how much money you have. No one can learn skills for you. And so in the early days,

it feels so painful because you look around to see who can help you and then you’re like, fuck, it’s me again. And

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you can accept that the work that you have done has created the outcome that you’ve created, but you do not need to accept that the outcome that you’ve created is the end all be all and the last outcome that you need to have. And so for me, the only version of acceptance that I have is that I accept that the version of myself that I want to be is so far from who I am, that I have this massive discrepancy that I have to overcome. And then just breaking that down one step at a time, I can still be that man, but I can still do the things that can create it.

And that also means that I have to go through the circumstances that would create that man, which means that if I have unbelievable big dreams and big goals, then I have to go through hard times. It’s like hate, the hard times are a requisite for success. And so if you’re going through hard times right now, it means that you’re on the path to success. And it’s not that you’re on the wrong path, it’s the feeling of being on the right path. And so I’m going to be.

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I don’t look at failure as failure. I look at failure as attempts at what I’m trying to accomplish. So, let’s say I fail the first time. That’s just my first attempt. And I have a second attempt and a third attempt. I don’t look at it as failure. Because when you start putting a title on different things, names, you start to brand certain things. Failure is a big word. But if you’re failing at something that’s extremely difficult, to me it’s not really failure. It’s your first attempt. And through that first attempt you gain so much knowledge for the second and possibly third attempts.

And then you’ll finally succeed. So, it’s how you look at failure.

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And as a winner, 80% of the time, you’re gonna feel like you’re failing. 15% of the time, you’re gonna feel like you just tread in water. You just got your nose above the water line. 4% of the time, you feel like it’s fucking over. This is it, I’m about to tap out, but you don’t because that 1% of the time, my friend, that 1% of the time is when you know you’re winning and you go, I’m gonna take these 1%ers, I’m gonna stack them and stack them and stack them and stack them. And you know what happens when you stack winning over years and decades?

You become a fucking formidable force to be reckoned with.

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I think getting comfortable with the idea that each of these things, kind of like Slumdog Millionaire, if you’ve seen that movie where he… I’ll give you the TLDR. He goes through his entire life of randomness and he gets on the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire version in India, and it has 12 questions to make a million dollars. And from only 12 random experiences in his life that seemed meaningless at the time, was he able to answer all of the questions and then ultimately win. The skills that you develop along the way, like Steve Jobs,

learning calligraphy that then became Apple fonts that transformed how we type. Those early days, that little trench winning in the weeds, oftentimes gives you these huge advantages later on because you have more context than anyone else. And so, rather than lament them and hate the fact that you’re going through it, remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver that you’re going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons. And so expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is.

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If I ever got the rock to the top of the mountain and it stayed there,

I’d push it back down myself.

I don’t want to rest and I don’t want to coast and I don’t want to reach a point in my life where I say:

That’s it, I’ve done enough, I’m not gonna give anymore. I’m not gonna push anymore. relentless cycle of day-to-day challenges. They aren’t maddening to me. They don’t frustrate me. they inspire me. Inspire me to drive and push more and to push harder.

That’s what that rock does to me. So I say, Dig in and get to pushing.

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Start living like a savage who deserves success abundance happiness security prosperity legacy meaning fulfillment significance purpose Doesn’t that sound fucking sexy? Like? you’re either gonna play video games sitting on a couch, have fucking cheeto dust in your belly button- That’s gonna be the highlight of your day, Telling your sad victim story to others, Or you could literally take the pen back and start rewriting the story of how your life goes from this day forward. That takes fucking work, And if you’re willing to do the work, You will achieve the outcome.

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So, if there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go and there’s a judgment, you’re going to get there and you might see a chart and that chart may tell you who the fuck you should have been. And now you get the rest of your life to think about that. Man, I could have lived a much better life if I just would have just suffered a little bit more. If I just would have went in that shit and realized I had so much more. But fear and the 40% and living here versus living here being afraid. Stop me. So that’s I I’m a big guy in visualizing. I’m a big guy in making a world.

It may not exist to me. It does to me. It does and I’m overpowering myself every day and you got to find tools to do that. That’s the tool that I use. So that’s what it’s all about.

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Opportunity comes to you many times. Opportunity comes, you can either take it or remain scared of it. If you don’t take it, it’s gonna knock on somebody else’s door and it’s gonna invite them to the adventure. Either you take it or you don’t. The more I work, the luckier I get, right? Luck is not something just happens, it’s earned.

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It’s never too late. If you’re alive, you can get better. If you’re alive right now, you can improve your condition. You can improve your situation. And it starts with improving the way you think.

That’s the most important thing. The way you think of things, the way you address things, you’ve got to change that. And you’ve got to look at things objectively, and you’ve got to be brutally honest with yourself. And the more you bullshit yourself, the more it’s going to be difficult. You’re literally throwing weights on your back and making it harder to move forward.

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All right, Donnie, get into your stance. Make a small target. Turn sideways. Okay. You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life, okay? Now throw a jab in the jaw. All right, one to the gut. Now, every time you punch this guy, what’s he doing? Start holding back air. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it, or get out of the way. So…

I’ll leave you two alone for a while.

Good luck.

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Turn your feelings off. when it comes down to you wanting to be better, what that means is when that alarm clock goes off, Your feelings got to go away It’s raining outside. It’s cold outside when you don’t want to put those long hours in that work That’s what I’m talking about. Your feelings must go away but you got to learn to shut your feelings off if You want to achieve? greatness in Greatness is only achieved when your feelings about that kind of shit and let me say that kind of shit. So for those soft people who may be listening to this, don’t put words in my mouth.

much a bunch of fucking family. I’m talking about the grind, the fucking grind. your feelings have to go away.

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If I have a cookie cutter message, it may hit five people out of 25. You just failed. My message needs to be in a way where I can hit all 25 people. It needs to be broad enough to where all 25 people may not like the message, but they’re getting something from it. And that is evolution. You must continue to evolve. And you don’t evolve for me in my job unless I cap myself somewhere and say, okay, you made this much money, get back to fucking work. It’s time to get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk, get off the podcast, don’t be on social media too much,

cut out all the fucking noise, get back to the fucking mental lab. Because that’s where the knowledge came from. So for me, I must cap myself so I can come back with better, more unique knowledge versus the cookie, no, all that cookie cutter knowledge that’s out there. That’s why people buy the books I have because it’s not cookie cutter. It’s real knowledge.

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I want you to be a formidable force to be reckoned with but that means going from average to figuring out what you you want to do as a passion and Then bypassing your passion and making it your obsession where everybody around you thinks you’re crazy But then when you meet people like me and all the other people that I hang out with You know, holy fuck. I’m wired just like them. We’re not so crazy. after all, They’re the crazy ones. they’re the losers. they’re average. they’re in debt, they’re broke, they have a negative mindset, they are emotionally irrational, absolutely mentally distressed.

one paycheck, two paychecks away from being broke. a horrible example of what a man should be. a Horrible example of a husband, of a father, of a leader. that’s what average people are. that’s what the average man is: a walking cautionary tale.

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I always say because I love what I do. And I have that passion on me. And I love what I do. And I enjoy it. And I’m that kind of man. I’m that kind of person say, if I’m going to do something, I’m going to do 100%. Not in the middle, not 90%. No, I’m 100%. I always try to do my best and try to do my everything. And I think because I love what I do.

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The most important conversation you will ever have in your fucking life is the one you have with yourself. You wake up with it. You walk around with it. You go to bed with it. Eventually you’re going to act on it, whether you’re good or bad. You have to. That’s why the whole thing about this book I have, it’s about you. It is about you. It’s strictly about you finding who you are. So many people die, live a hundred years, never fucking know who they are. Never know who they are.

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The reality is the more risk you take, the luckier you get. So people need to learn to take one big risk a day. Practice that risk muscle. You know, every day take a risk and build up that risk muscle because risk is where success comes. Every single day, if you take a risk, a year from now, you’ll have some sort of success. It’s not a one-time thing.

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I don’t just get a job. I don’t just squat for reps and, oh, I can do 10. If I have 50 in me, right guy, I’m gonna do 50, okay? You know what I’m talking about? I’m not talented. It was life and death. Either you live or you die. Which one do you want, Tom? That was the decision. In the corporate life and in the gym. But if you want something bad enough, if you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something. I’ll repeat that. If you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something, not even yourself.

A lot of days I’m like, oh, you can’t do this, Tom. You can’t be as quick as a 30-year-old on the computer. Bullshit, let me show you, man. I would have arguments with myself. I could do it. People doubted me. I doubted myself sometimes, too.

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The man who never fell, the man who never fell has no glory. The man who fell and got back up, that’s where his glory is. The man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times, that man has even greater glory. Wow. That man has more courage, way more courage than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never fell. There’s no glory in that. You know, it’s not. And so I just, you know, I just try to encourage guys to say, hey, we’re humans, but we have inside of us, we have a courage and we have a determination, and we can have a strength and a gentleness at the same time.

And that’s our glory. Our glory comes from our faults, accomplishing what we accomplish in spite of our faults. And without the faults, there is no glory because there’s no victory.

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But are you willing to do the work to break the seal and overcome those limiting beliefs? Or are you gonna constantly butt up against that glass ceiling in your life and take the path of the victim? Because I’m telling you right now, you might have a moment of dopamine hit when you take the path of the victim by telling someone your story and then you get some kind of awesome feeling about the fact that they feel bad for you and they feel sorry for you. But, big picture, every time you tell your sad, pathetic story,

all you do is you reinforce the fact that you’re sad, you’re pathetic, you’re undeserving. Effectively, you reinforce the fact that you’re okay with being a loser.

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You have to look in that mirror and know there’s so much more in here, man. Because I can literally right now be a 300-pound guy spraying for cockroaches, still to this day, if I did not look in that mirror and say, there has to be more to this. This can’t be it. And then willing to go into it, dive deep into it, and give all I have to find it. So that’s what all that’s about.

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The reality of achievement brother is it takes way longer than we think, it’s way harder than we think and that’s just the way it is bro.

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I know the difference between champions and everyone else. And I was like, what? And he said, everyone always looks at them and says, what do champions have that I don’t have? And he said, they have it backwards. He said, it’s what do champions not have that I have? It’s what do they lack? And it’s an off button. They just don’t stop. And so in dealing with the gold medal, he’s like, they just never stop. They just can’t stop. Everything in their life is geared towards one goal. And so finding that thing, and they approach everything in their life that way.

And I think that that level of obsession around everything that you touch on a daily basis is required for really getting to where you want to go.

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It hurt. It hurt my ego. It hurt my pride to take the blame.

But I also knew. I knew that to maintain my integrity as a leader and as a man,

I had to take responsibility. And in order to do that, I had to control my ego so that my ego did not control me.

And you know what? I didn’t get fired. In fact, my commanding officer, who had expected excuses and finger pointing, when I took responsibility, when I took ownership, he now trusted me even more.

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What separates me from a lot of people is they go into a daunting task and the task is overwhelming Like when I heard the pull-up record was four thousand and twenty pull-ups and I was talking about breaking this record People are like, oh my god. I went right to a pen and paper. What are you doing? I’m doing the math man We talked about. I’m open-minded to the fact that, okay, If I do five pull-ups on the minute for so many hours, I can get some pull-ups in how much time to have the rest? I was breaking the math down. you have to be open-minded to the possibilities that I can do this.

Once you shut your mind down to the possibility that it can be achieved is no way can happen.

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I listened to myself, what I needed to do in my training set up and outside of the gym and I executed them. I followed what I said to myself that I needed to do and it’s given me energy, it’s given me focus and I’m happy now. I’m enjoying my training.

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I don’t want you to be a fucking loser. What if you told people the story of hey, I had a fucked-up life But I don’t want to tell you that I’m gonna tell you what I’m gonna do next. I’m gonna go out and do it Right. That is what self-development is about. That is what peak performance is about. That is what breaking through self-limiting beliefs is about, is Rewriting the story, because as long as you have breath in your lungs, as long as your heart is beating, as long as you have Consciousness in your mind,

You can go and rewrite the story of how your life ends and how your life continues from this day forward, the legacy that you live. Man, I gotta tell you: Bedros 1.0 versus Bedros 2.0, two very different people, and I want to see you develop into the 2.0 version of yourself.

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oh, I wake up and I just do this or I do that or it’s just, no, I watch people every day go through life and it’s so easy. For me to be where I’m at today, it takes every bit of me. So when I speak about it, and as I get going here, you’ll start seeing me, the temple will rise, the passion will come out because I’m back there. I’m doing what I do every day to become a human being. And so nothing is easy. Like running is running. It sucks. But you have a choice to make. Do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were? No. So this is what it takes. This,

it takes that misunderstanding of people and they’ll never get it because they were never David Goggins. So that is what it takes for me to do what I do. It may take you something differently. So for me, everything has to be in the study. Everything has to be into this. Everything has to be, and everywhere I am has to be there. Me, focus where I am.

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You know when you say to yourself, right, you know what you’ve got to do, right? We all know what we’ve got to do. We say to ourselves, I’ve got to do, I should do it this way or I should do this. And when you don’t do that and then you carry on, you feel, you know, like I always say, doubt is removed by action. So if you’re not working, then that’s where the doubt seeps in. So I knew things I should have been doing and things I shouldn’t have been doing. And I still did them and didn’t do them, if you get me. But now I’m listening to myself and I’ve followed my internal instruction.

And it’s just given me more passion and more focus and more drive. And I’m doing what I feel I need to do and it feels good.

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If you’re in a fight, you have to attack. You have to keep attacking. The enemy has to know he is not going to give up. You must break the soul of whatever the fuck is in front of you. That’s what I realized. I was never breaking the soul of anything in front of me. So that’s why I came with the thing called Taking Souls in my book. I started to devise ways to break a soul of a human being, of an object, of whatever’s in front of me. If you keep on attacking something, nothing wants to stand in front of anything that is relentless.

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It’s all on you. And as long as you get that, the rest of your life gets better. Because you go out there and figure it out. But you go in a lot of Western countries, and then, even though, coming from where you come from, you see that there’s a lot of opportunity, and people are still there, sitting and complaining, we don’t have this, this should be like that, it should be like that. You’ll be like, Man, this is more than all that I need.

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You have to be obsessed. You have to be mission focused, you have to be driven by something greater than what average people are driven by, which is Eating ho-hos, ding-dongs and Cheetos. average people want to watch TV and drink fucking kool-aid and soda pop. They want to gossip over bullshit stuff standing by the by the water fountain at work. They want to watch the news and hand-wring about all the shit that they can’t control, While they don’t make any effort about controlling all the controllables in their life,

that is what average people do But winners go far beyond that they go far beyond that You want to prove people wrong?

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Find something difficult to do. You need that. You’re not built for comfort or pleasure. Like if that comes along, good. You know, if you have a day where you’re comfortable and there’s some things around you that give pleasure, have some sense and enjoy it. But don’t be thinking that’s what your life is aimed at.

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Stop making excuses. Simple as that. You can make a million excuses why you didn’t work out this morning. You can make a million excuses why you missed your wife’s birthday. You can make a million excuses why you didn’t get that raise, why you didn’t take that leap of faith. You can make a million excuses, but you know deep down inside and consciousness is eating away at you, that it’s an excuse. I’m not saying that everything you do you should be successful at. You will have periods of defeat, but that defeat will be temporary and not permanent because you will dust yourself off,

get back up and try again. But you first have to stop making excuses in order to achieve the higher level of life that you want.

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You can help yourself get through the times that suck real life. This is real life. 90% of your life will suck. 10 will be fucking happy. You may be lucky guy and have a lot of fucking money have a great ass woman all this Trust me one-on-one with that fucking guy. He’s missing something. His life still sucks because he hasn’t faced something that bothered him his whole fucking life. Something is still eating that motherfucker up- almost everybody, everybody eating you the fuck up.

but maybe you found a good way- How I did growing up- on how to ignore that voice that’s saying you ain’t facing some shit.

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Well, it’s an opportunity. You get adversity, if you build yourself back, it’s only going to make you stronger, even if it doesn’t work out. But a lot of times it does, if you really pursue it. And look what can happen. Break records. This is what people are going to write books about. This is going to be in movies, you know what I mean? Like, that type of shit, that’s what it’s all about.

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Take ownership of everything in your world, the good and the bad.

Take ownership of your mistakes, Take ownership of your shortfalls, take ownership of your problems And then take ownership of the solutions that will get those problems solved. Take ownership of your mission, Take ownership of your job, of your team, of your future, and take ownership of your life and lead,

lead,

lead yourself and Your team and the people in your life. lead them all

to victory.

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lift weights, do jiu-jitsu, go for runs, stretch out, eat good, stop drinking.

It’s pretty straightforward. If you don’t use it, you’re going to lose it. Every day that you don’t do work, you’re going backwards. And it definitely will hurt you and it’ll show up. You can’t get away with what you got away with when you were 23. It doesn’t work. You have to stay ahead of it.

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You don’t just need what can be given to you. What will be given to you is just a way, is a. What could be given to you is just a way for you to a bridge to help you get where you’re going, because you have set your goal way beyond what you can get.

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You’re going to continue being out because every day you wake up, like he says, not like, get the coffee, make the pancakes, kiss the girl, kiss the kids. You wake up, right to work. Immediately, your mind is in action. No one wants to do that. No one. And I don’t blame them. But don’t be mad. When you’re laying there in your fucking bed and you’re in the fucking hospital and you’re 70, 80, 90 years old and you’re thinking, man, I feel like I didn’t fucking do something. Because you did. You didn’t do it. You didn’t do shit.

You may have lived a great life, man, but you’re always going to feel empty inside. I don’t feel empty. So call me what you want. There’s not one empty bone in my fucking body because I have figured out that really the magic potion, at least to my life, and it’s very rewarding.

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you will become the 2.0 that you deserve to become and that your family deserves to have as a leader. Average is the enemy, success is your duty, and life can switch to the 2.0 version when you are ready to flip that switch.

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You know that expression I always say guys, you burn the midnight oil now, otherwise you stay awake in the midnight hours wondering what if.

We destroy that here tonight. It’s 2am right now. No one here. Mono to mono, me and you. And where we want to go tomorrow. 2am, what I love about 2am is that we’re not living by the clock man. Cause you got the clocks at 10 o’clock time to go to sleep or 9 to 5 time to go to work. That’s bullshit. If you’re in bed right now and you’re rolling around and you can’t fall asleep, get the fuck up. It probably means you haven’t done an honest day’s work to earn that rest at night. 2am, not a fucking person’s here. I can scream my fucking ass off. No one hears me. I can cry. I can shit myself.

I can put an honest day’s work in here that more than anyone does in a week. And no one sees it. Cause it’s supposed to be that way. This is a fucking means to the end. It’s not the end. It’s not the end.

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For me, I built Goggins from the ground up. I was born David Goggins, David Goggins wasn’t good enough. He was a scared, bullied, abused kid who struggled in life. And that kid, whenever something got tough, no matter how hard I trained, no matter how ready I was, whenever something got tough for me, David Goggins, the real David Goggins, would come out and he would quit. So I realized this over a period of time. So I had to build Goggins. And in that process, I had to go back to that mental lab. And that mental lab is at scratch. That mental lab isn’t that trained humility.

And so that’s where I get better. I get better when I’m digging holes in the ground. When I’m waking up early knowing I don’t have to do these things. That’s where I get better.

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But the point is, you’re still trying to aim for the top, and what the hell are you going to do if you don’t try to aim for the top? You know? Flap about uselessly and whine about your life? It’s not helpful! It’ll just make you miserable, you’re not reliable to anyone, you can’t help out in a crisis. It’s like, so you tell young people, and this is another message for conservatives, like, I don’t care what you’re going to do, but go out there and make something of yourself for God’s sake. Be an honest person, and work, and get to the top of whatever it is that you want to get to the top of.

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You know, what if I was a dog catcher? Would I be the best? What if I was a, you know, what if I’d worked on a avalanche, you know, search, you know, searching for avalanches and predicting them? Or what is it called? A geologist. Who would I, you know, would I be able to do it? Would I, you don’t know.

Until you say, yeah, you know what, I’m gonna take action. Nothing changes if nothing changes, man. And I’m not preaching at you, I’m just,

I just wanna remind you, cause I, you know, I’ve spent a lot of time in my life sitting around wanting things to change.

And not being able to make them change and not thinking I could.

And I wish somebody had told me that earlier sometimes.

That in order for something to change, there needs to be change.

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self-help or self-management or self-improvement. I don’t really like what those words have come to mean these days. Because there’s a lot of people out there that are constantly trying to improve themselves by looking for the one change. The one change, right? The one change in their life that’s gonna make their dreams come true.

And even worse, on top of that, there’s a lot of people out there, a lot of self-help gurus and these hyperactive motivational speakers and these other self-appointed modern Zen yoga warriors that they’re trying to sell the one thing. They’re trying to sell: the nine steps, or the enlightened path that’s gonna allow you to unlock all of your human potential and fulfill the dreams so you can live the life that you’ve always wanted to live.

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Sometimes life’s gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is gonna fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it,

and like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking, don’t settle.

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My life isn’t their life, they’re focused on themselves. Wow, they’re doing what they’re supposed to do. Hey, jackass, go sit by yourself and figure it out because this is where you should be. Lesson learned, any opportunity given should be taken serious from this point on. Because if not, you can find yourself feeling just like this. So I didn’t get down on myself for a moment, I learned from it. I learned from it.

Now, if I gotta take a goddamn test, you best believe I’m studying for that fucking test because I don’t want to feel like I’m the guy that didn’t prepare. Now I got a story to tell my kids about what it feels like to be the kid in class that didn’t prepare, that’s got the worst grade when they give all those grades back.

But it’s because of my experience. I don’t look down on those moments. You take those moments, you make the best of them because they’re life lessons. It’s that simple. You’re saying it’s positive,

but it’s really just simplicity that’s real.

It’s real.

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If there’s one art in life to learn extremely well, that’s got to be one of them. The art of asking.

What does ask mean? Ask means, what do you want?

And the formula is staggering. It says ask and what? A guy ought to look into that.

He says, yeah, but you work where I work by the time you struggle home. It’s late. You’ve got to eat a bite of supper, watch a little TV, get to bed. You can’t sit up half the night, ask, ask, ask. And the guys be, huh?

See, you’ve got to be better than a good worker. You’ve got to be a good asker.

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don’t worry about next week, next year, just focus on every 24 hours that you get, you know? And that’s done a lot for me, you know? Because I think so many of us are, you know, even if you, you know, the entrepreneur in us is always thinking about next week. If you dealing with a personal trauma, you trying to process it, you focus on that. Everything for me is just 24 hours. So I’ve been, that’s done a lot for me with the just being able to just kind of process things.

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The part that why there always be the ones of ones is because putting that practice, , putting that into actual work, no, man, no, no. That’s where the demons come in. That’s where you’re like, I don’t wanna be better. I don’t wanna be better. This is what it takes to be better? I don’t wanna be better. So everybody’s, that’s why there’s a lot of average. And it makes me so fucking mad. Every day I walk this earth and I see average all over the fucking place. And they wanna ask me, how did you do it? I can’t tell you how, cause you’re not gonna fucking, you’re not gonna do it.

You’re not gonna do it. You’re gonna continue being, cause every day you wake up, like he says, like get the coffee, make the pancakes, kiss the girl, kiss the kids. You wake up, right to work. Immediately your mind is in action. No one wants to do that.

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I’m just a man.

But I will tell you this, it isn’t one thing. And it isn’t 10 things, and it isn’t 100 things. It isn’t a quick path, and there are no shortcuts.

Meditation won’t get you there, and neither will a miracle drug, or an organic supplement, or some superfood.

Getting better isn’t a hack, or a trick, or a one change that you need to make. Getting better is a campaign. It’s a campaign, it’s a daily, a weekly, it’s an hourly fight.

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You know, my father used to say, whatever you do, do it 100%. When you work, work. When you laugh, laugh. When you eat, eat like it’s your last meal.

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What happens when I decide for myself that I’m gonna do something different?

You know, one thing, you know, Jocko Willink was in here last week and one thing that’s really been pressing with me that we discussed is staying motivated. And I have been finding myself more motivated even when I do not feel like doing something to do it. That my brain doesn’t dictate how, my brain does not get to choose, my brain can feel a certain way, but it’s not gonna choose how I behave all the time. I just can’t let it do it anymore. I’m gonna have setbacks, I know,

but if I’m feeling bad, that doesn’t mean I’m doing bad, that doesn’t mean I am bad, that doesn’t mean that I can’t still take some action.

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You know, it’s not like a dry, intellectual aesthetic.

It’s like, it’s a rush of blood to the head.

It’s like, I’ve got one fucking life and this is it.

And we’re in it right now.

And there isn’t a second to waste.

Let’s do this. What are we doing? What am I doing?

What’s exciting? What’s fun?

What’s, and kind of stand or fall,

it doesn’t matter.

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It’s like the journey of your life, like you’re born: you lift the weight up, feels light at first. As you keep going, it gets harder and harder and harder. So what happens is Your physical strength has left the ability. the only thing left to override a differential Of continuing the journey or stopping the journey. It’s the mental strength and you start to Develop that and mentally you have a number in your head you’re going for even though your body’s physically hit failure you keep pushing past Mentally three more and when you finish it you’re like, damn man.

I’m so glad I believed in myself. I’m so glad I didn’t sell myself short, because at the end of the day, if you don’t believe in yourself, who can you ever expect to? you guys must be: Be the now what you want to be later. it starts right now.

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The total number of people who have ever been born, the number’s about 100 billion.

Now ask, how many total possible people can be born? Just look at the genome and rearrange it. You know, it makes tall people, short people, dark-skinned people, light-skinned people, everybody in between. You can make all kinds of people with the human genome. How many total humans are possible? That number is astronomically large. It is large, 10 to the 30th power, which is a billion, trillion, trillion. It’s likely even bigger than that. Which means, in practical terms, no one who will ever be born will be identical to you. That’s a lot.

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If you think you want to do what you think I’ve done, then do what I’ve done and stick with God. Number two, fail big. That’s right. Fail big. Today is the beginning of the rest of your life. And it can be very frightening. It’s a new world out there. It’s a mean world out there. And you only live once. So do what you feel passionate about. Take chances professionally. Don’t be afraid to fail. There’s an old IQ test was nine dots. And you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots without lifting the pencil. The only way to do it was to go outside the box.

So don’t be afraid to go outside the box. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box.

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I mean, it was my life worth the sacrifice of all these men.

If that doesn’t make you get the fuck up and do something,

I don’t know what else will. Because all those men that died for Ryan to live, don’t tell me that their spirits, their afterlife, they never had family or kids maybe. Don’t tell me they don’t feel the connection of being married through Ryan’s marriage. Having a kid Ryan did, don’t think they feel the fatherhood there. Having a family, I don’t think that they can feel, they never felt it live in mortality. Don’t tell me that the opportunity they gave to him, they don’t feel it in mortality. What that means. It’s a responsibility there.

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In fact, it means the opposite. It means it’s time for you to fight harder, to dig in. It means it’s time for you to go on the war path.

And that starts with one of the fundamental laws of combat leadership, prioritize and execute.

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What do you want? Statement of purpose? Should I email you? Should I put this on your action item list? You decide your own level of involvement! Wanna know what your thinking? Fuck what you know. You need to forget about what you know. That’s your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship, and especially about you and me. What is that supposed to mean? Guys, what would you wish you’d done before you die? Paint a self-portrait. Build a house. You? I don’t know. Nothing. You have to know the answer to this question!

If you were to die right now, how would you feel about your life? I don’t know. I wouldn’t feel anything good about my life. Is that what you want to hear me say? Fine. Come on! Not good enough.

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You only have one life. You only have one chance. If you spend it doing what other people expect you to do, you will wake up to your regret at some point.

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If you decide today that you’re going to live every day like it’s your last for real, which means have a conversation with yourself every night that, okay, that was it. May not be no more after that. And really count yourself every day like this could have been it. All right. Before I go to bed, this could be it. All right. How’s that looking? If you can do that, it’ll change your life. You really start making decisions and living your life like this all you got just this one day. But you could be a winner. You could be a winner on this day. It just, it’s just work ethic.

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You will have a temptation. It’s the biggest temptation in life. It’s the most dangerous temptation in life. It’s the most powerful temptation in life Let me tell you what it is in that moment You will have the choice of either blaming something on the outside or taking for responsibility That temptation is so subtle. No one knows it. No one knows it. I have let thousands of salespeople that I’ve worked with and I’ve seen some of them keep growing, growing, growing, growing, growing.

one guy went From 30 grand year to 50 grand year 200 grand year to 200 300 400 500 600 700 million dollar your income Well, they had a lot of drama fast in three years What happened to them? They never blamed. they always took responsibility. They never blamed and I’ve had people that are ten times more talented. every six months They have some kind of a subtle stop. you know why? because they blame the different circumstance. Well, because of this, because it’s this person’s fault, that person’s fault, this person’s fault. look, in life, It’s gonna be very easy for you to blame everybody.

You.

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Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others opinions drowned out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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And if you’re not doing the now, don’t ever expect the later to be the person you want to look in the mirror.

Everyone’s like, oh, later in life, I want to do this. Later in life, I want to do that. Later in life is turning around, looking in the mirror right now. That’s the later in life. Unless that turnaround is something in progression, later in life, ain’t going to be anything different.

Belief, when you turn around, you’re going to see something that will put a smile on your face. It’s going to make you turn around the next day for action. Turn belief into productivity.

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Don’t be mad. When you’re laying there in your fucking bed and you’re in the fucking hospital and you’re 70, 80, 90 years old and you’re thinking, man, I feel like I didn’t fucking do something. Because you did. You didn’t do it. You didn’t do shit. You may live the great life, man, but you’re always going to feel empty inside. I don’t feel empty. So call me what you want. There’s not one empty bone in my fucking body. Because I have figured out that really, the magic potion, it leads to my life. And it’s very rewarding.

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Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big. But remember, dreams without goals are just dreams. And they ultimately fuel disappointment.

So have dreams, but have goals, life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day. Sometimes just to not curse somebody out. Simple goals, but have goals. And understand that to achieve these goals, you must apply discipline and consistency.

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Explain where you are at. Be blunt, be upfront, and then give them the simple plan of how you’re gonna get things back on track. Don’t sugarcoat it. You give it to them straight. Next, you got some late payments. Call those creditors up. Explain to them what’s going on. Set up some kind of a minimum payment plan. So you can start making some progress and get them off your back. And then you got your job. Right, you’re falling behind at work. Okay, talk to your boss. Face it. Tell him that you’re gonna step up your game. Tell him you’re gonna be at work early, you’re gonna be at work late,

you’re gonna be at work during lunch, you’re gonna be wherever you need to be whenever he needs you to be there.

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But one day you’ll sit down and people will say, how come you didn’t make it bigger in life? You were very talented. What happened there? You can make up any BS and sell them because typically people who are good at blaming other people are great salespeople. You can blame everybody else. But there’s one person that’s gonna know that you didn’t take responsibility, and that’s you. That’s a tough one to live with. So I told you I needed three minutes of your time. Here’s my challenge to you. Next time you have a loss, next time you have a breakup,

next time something happens that hurts, truly hurts, instead of blaming the world, take a piece of paper and take responsibility and say, what did I learn from this? What can I do better? What bad habits do I have that keep showing up? What bad trends do I have that keep showing up? And I’m gonna make a decision to stop it now and not blame everybody. And if you decide to do that, don’t be surprised where your life changes drastically in a positive way. That’s why I said I only need three minutes of your time. Thank you.

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I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen. Fifty years I spent like that, finding myself awake at three in the morning.

But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. I came to realize it’s that fear that’s the worst of it. That’s the real enemy. Get up. Get up in the real world. And you kick that bastard as hard as you can right in the teeth.

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In order to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline, which you have already done, and consistency every day, not just on Tuesday and miss a few days. You have to work at it every day. You have to plan every day. You’ve heard the saying, we don’t plan to fail, we fail to plan. Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. And in this text, tweet, twerk world that you’ve grown up in, remember, just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Remember that. Just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done.

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their own rules, live their own way and live every day as if it’s the last day, . Not necessarily to waste it by being wasteful or silly, but to recognize that today is a day to be productive and constructive for yourself. If you don’t want a career, today’s not the day to start pursuing a career just because someone else told you to do it. If you want to learn a language, today’s a day to find a way to buy a ticket to another country and learn through immersion. If you want a date, if you want to get married, if you want a business,

today is the day to just go out and take one step in that direction. And as long as you, every day, you just make one new step, just like CIA recruited me, just do the next thing. If the step seems like it’s too big, then there’s probably two other steps that you can do before that. Just make constant progress, build momentum, move forward, and live on your own terms. That way you don’t ever wake up to the regret.

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tell him you’re gonna get after it. And tell him that you’re 100% committed to supporting him and the company and the mission.

And then you get started.

And I’m gonna tell you right now, it won’t be easy. It will be hard because life is hard. That’s what life is.

And these challenges, these challenges that you face, they’re gonna do their best to take you down.

Do not let them. Stand up, dig in. Line up those problems and confront them. Face them. Fight them. Do not let them bring you down.

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You’re even more of a slave than you were because you’ve labored another 10 years under the thumb of the tyrant and stepped backwards every time you were asked to, so you got smaller and smaller as the tyrant got bigger and bigger. It’s like, think about that, and that means imagine it. Imagine that, okay? Now that’s the situation. You’re stuck where you are, but it’s 10 years from now. And when I say think of that, I mean imagine that. It’s like really play it out. It’s like, you know how miserable you are now?

You’re afraid of making the necessary changes, but you know how miserable you are now? Just imagine how miserable you could be in 10 years. And in all likelihood, what you’ll find is that you’re way more afraid of that than you are of whatever’s stopping you in the present. It’s really useful to know what your own particular brand of hell might be.

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This is what makes you a man. When I was growing up,

this was all the protection we needed. You win some,

you lose some.

But you live.

You live to fight another day.

You think you’re a man with that gun in your hand, don’t you?

Now you’re a man. Your uncle picked up a gun, too.

He had to find out the hard way.

22 years old.

You’ve got a choice.

He’s all you need.

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At the end of the day, you’re alive, not dead, nor not having ever been born. So take every occasion you can to smell the flowers, to drink in the sunsets and the sunrise and the majestic sky above you that they cradle through the nighttime hours, and celebrate life because you won the lottery,

and most people will never even know there was a lottery. If that’s not motivation to live life to the fullest and not fear death, because I’d rather die than never having been born, I don’t know what is.

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to live life to your fullest, because so many even better than us have perished well before their times for us to have this beautiful thing called life. We cannot take that in vain. Fall unnever forgotten.

We celebrate that through our life, through living life, not being scared to join them next to them in the ground. That day is coming. There’s a party going to happen later, a big party, where you reconnect with all your loved ones in the afterlife, I feel. Is that going to be a celebration? We tell all these great stories of what you did and everything else? Or is it going to be more like you’re sitting there watching as a spectator listening to somebody else’s stories?

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Don’t confuse movement with progress. My mother told me, she said, yeah, because you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. So continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress.

Number three, you’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

I’ll say it again. You’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. I don’t care how much money you make, you can’t take it with you. The Egyptians tried it. They got robbed. That’s all they got. You can’t take it with you. And it’s not how much you have. It’s what you do with what you have.

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In fact, let those challenges raise you up. Let them elevate you. Let their demands and their trials make you stronger.

Let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow.

So, in the future, you look back at these struggles and you say to them, Thank you. You made me better.

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So the formula really reads make plans like an adult and believe in them like a child and the most incredible things will happen Just try it for 90 days Just try it You can always go back to the old ways. Just try it. just 90 days. 90 days, Remember. you won’t get everything you want and we’ve already studied the reason for that. simply, sometimes it hails on your crop and Rains on your parade. It’s that kind of planet. So you won’t get everything you want. but if you will work this goal-setting formula, you can get plenty for wealth and happiness.

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On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words, stay hungry, stay foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off, stay hungry, stay foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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The campaign of hard work and dedication. It’s waking up early and going to bed late and grinding out every second in between. Every single day.

So, you wanna get better? You wanna self-improve? Stop looking for a shortcut and go find your alarm clock and find your discipline and find your guts and your passion and your drive and find your will.

And then, and then, you will find your freedom.

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Whew.

Yep. I said it before and I’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.

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I’m fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed. I’m fine with it all. I don’t hide from it. I don’t run from it. I don’t avoid any of it. I’m fine. It’s all right. It’s a bed that I made for myself. I happily lay in it and I’ll be fine figuring it out moving forward. Sun don’t stop for nobody, man. Sun don’t fucking stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning regardless. That sun is gonna be up in the morning regardless of how I fucking feel and how depressed I am. The sun is gonna fucking shine in the morning and at nighttime the moon gonna be there and

you gonna look up these days gonna keep going by. So do you let the days go by and look up and you don’t waste a year doing what? Or do you just pick it up? All right. Well, gotta figure it out. Made some mistakes. Life goes on. Let me figure out life from this point. I’m a life goes on type of guy.

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There’s a saying when the devil ignores you, then you know you’re doing something wrong. Wait a minute, I’m not done now. You know, the devil goes, oh no, leave him alone. He’s my favorite.

Right, right. Don’t you bother him. Yeah.

Conversely, when the devil comes at you, maybe it’s because you’re trying to do something right.

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If you will change, everything will change for you. You don’t have to change what’s outside. All you’ve got to change is what’s inside.

To have more, you simply have to become more.

And then he said, don’t wish it was easier. Wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Start working on yourself, making these personal changes. And he said, it’ll all change for you. So let’s talk a little bit about personal development. That extraordinary adventure I undertook starting at age 25. And I’ve never ceased that adventure. I’m still going for it in the nineties. I want to get better and better. I want my craft to get better. My business operations to get better. The things I do to get better. Because once I picked up the simple formula,

I’m telling you it’s easy to figure out where the problem is if you go to work on it.

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How afraid are you of not making a change? Let’s make a little vision of that. You’re 35, you hate your job, what’s the consequence? You’re not motivated, you don’t want to get out of bed in the morning, you’re starting to get depressed, you’re getting bitter, you’re getting resentful, you’re getting cynical, you’re amotivated at work, you’re not doing a very good job, and you’re starting to shrink. Now, play that out for 10 years. You don’t change it, you don’t fix it. And what happens? It’s not like it’s going to get better of its own accord. What’s going to happen to you?

Well, for sure, at minimum, what’s going to happen to you is you’re going to be in the same situation, but 10 years older. And if you can’t get out of that situation now, what the hell makes you think you’re going to get out of it in 10 years?

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When will I know I’m ready?

You won’t. It’s a leap of faith. That’s all it is, Miles. A leap of faith.

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What am I doing with my life?

I’m alive! I’m alive!

Free yourself!

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When will I know I’m ready?

You won’t. It’s a leap of faith. That’s all it is, Miles. A leap of faith.

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The total number of people who have ever been born, the number’s about 100 billion.

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The total number of people who have ever been born, the number’s about 100 billion.

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So do what you feel passionate about. Take chances professionally. Don’t be afraid to fail. There’s an old IQ test was nine dots, and you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots without lifting the pencil. The only way to do it was to go outside the box. So don’t be afraid to go outside the box. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box. Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big. But remember, dreams without goals are just dreams, and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

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It’s these few moments in life that you have. Like for me, I always talk about it. Rocky won round 14. That one two minute and 13 second clip

of Rocky getting up when Apollo knocked him down. That one clip when I was going through a very bad time in my life, I saw what I wanted to be. And it wasn’t a guy that won. It wasn’t a guy that won everything he did. It was a guy that kept getting up after being knocked down.

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It’s these few moments in life that you have. Like for me, I always talk about it. Rocky won round 14. That one two minute and 13 second clip

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Spike Lee is everything that you said I was in my intro. He’s just really an innovator and a groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind dynamo.

And I knew that they were—like, they tried to sabotage me even then. Like, as soon as I said I wanted to get Spike Lee to direct it, because that was the biggest thing I could do, they immediately gave Spike to Gerard Carmichael and had him do his special two at the Comedy Store, just to undermine. But if there’s one thing you can take away from me as a person, whether you like me or you don’t, if you take this from me, you will be a better person. If you decide today that you’re going to live every day like it’s your last for real,

which means have a conversation with yourself every night, then okay, that was it.

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Your subconscious is just… let’s look at it this way. Your subconscious is just there to try to protect you. And if your subconscious can get you not to try, then you’ll never get hurt, and you’ll never fail. And you also never reach your full potential, and you’ll look back on life and regret the shit out of it. Right? No regrets. No regrets. We need to live into who we’re supposed to be. Whether you believe in God, the universe, your maker, you have so much more to give the world.

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You make those little changes, those little habits that you have, you have to change them, those bad habits, and you’ll be surprised. You’ll be surprised the little things, the little changes, they add up and they become big things.

Change the little things and over time you can change your life.

But if you don’t change, if you don’t change what you’re doing and how you do it, nothing else will change.

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Change the little things and over time you can change your life.

But if you don’t change, if you don’t change what you’re doing and how you do it, nothing else will change.

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Because yeah, nothing changes if nothing changes, man.

You know, we’ll sit around forever wondering, well what if I, you know, what if I was a dog catcher? Would I be the best? What if I was a, you know, what if I’d worked on a, you know, avalanche, you know, search, you know, searching for avalanches and predicting them? Or a, what is it called, a geologist? Who would I, you know, would I be able to do it? Would I, you don’t know.

Until you say, yeah, I’m gonna, you know what, I’m gonna take action. Nothing changes if nothing changes, man.

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Because yeah, nothing changes if nothing changes, man.

Until you say, yeah, I’m gonna, you know what, I’m gonna take action. Nothing changes if nothing changes, man.

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Because yeah, nothing changes if nothing changes, man.

Until you say, yeah, I’m gonna, you know what, I’m gonna take action. Nothing changes if nothing changes, man.

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Miles, I can see your shadow moving around.

Yeah, okay. I get it. I get it is still ignoring me Look,

can we talk for a minute?

something,

Something happened look sometimes people drift apart much,

and I don’t want that to happen to us, okay?

Look I know it don’t always do what you need me to do or say what you need me to say But I’m I see this this spark in you.

It’s amazing. It’s why I push you,

but It’s yours.

Whatever you choose to do with it. You’ll be great.

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Happy people seem to have a special quality that enables them to live a better life than the average. Can you guess what it is? It’s the quality of optimism and positive thinking. The best news about optimism is that it is a learnable quality. You can learn to become a more confident and optimistic person and have a more positive attitude by thinking the way that optimists do most of the time. By the law of cause and effect, if you do and say what other healthy, happy people do and say, you’ll soon feel the same way and you’ll get the same results,

and you’ll enjoy the same positive attitude and experiences that they do.

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and you’ll enjoy the same positive attitude and experiences that they do.

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and you’ll enjoy the same positive attitude and experiences that they do.

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So have dreams, but have goals. Life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day. Sometimes just to not curse somebody out. Simple goals, but have goals. And understand that to achieve these goals, you must apply discipline and consistency.

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How many times do you have to hear, if nothing changes, nothing changes? Right? We all have heard this, I don’t even know where it comes from. I probably heard that first when I was 10 years old. If nothing changes, nothing changes. And yet, somehow we expect things to change. We expect things to change. You think you’re gonna get in better shape. You think you’re gonna get more money. You think your relationship is gonna improve. You think you’re gonna get promoted. You think you’re gonna get a raise. You think the world is going to get better without you doing anything. But it isn’t.

Nothing is going to change unless you change what you’re doing. Change the world.

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Nothing is going to change unless you change what you’re doing. Change the world.

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Nothing is going to change unless you change what you’re doing. Change the world.

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So I realized if that two minutes and 13 seconds changed my life,

so I was,

I saw something that I needed to be in the world I was living in.

Maybe my story will give someone the two minutes and 13 seconds they need to change their life.

Means that people live in a very comfortable place, that’s fine.

Don’t listen to me.

A lot of people are looking for that two minutes and 13 seconds and I might be that person.

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So I realized if that two minutes and 13 seconds changed my life,

so I was,

I saw something that I needed to be in the world I was living in.

Maybe my story will give someone the two minutes and 13 seconds they need to change their life.

Means that people live in a very comfortable place, that’s fine.

Don’t listen to me.

A lot of people are looking for that two minutes and 13 seconds and I might be that person.

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This 30 seconds is your life passing you by, an opportunity to change. It’s your prerogative. Do you want to go down the path you have right now of your life and where it’s going? Or do you see an alternate path that’s not flatlined, but climbing up an echelon of remembrance, a possibility where dreams exist, legacy exists, the possibility of change? It’s within the grasp of these hands, within the grasp of 30 seconds. It’s within you. You had the will. You’re here. I know you had the will.

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You only have one life. You only have one chance. If you spend it doing what other people expect you to do, you will wake up to your regret at some point. I woke up when I was 38 years old. My wife in many ways is still waking up to it as she watches her grandparents pass and, uh, and an older generation pass away. The folks that I’ve, that really have a blessed life are the people who learn early on to live with their own rules, live their own way and live every day as if it’s the last day, not necessarily to waste it by being wasteful or silly,

but to recognize that today is a day to be productive and constructive for yourself.

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but to recognize that today is a day to be productive and constructive for yourself.

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Make your luck. Yeah, you got to make your luck and if you make it, if you keep, If you keep putting forth the maximal effort that luck’s gonna come you’re gonna make your luck happen. You know that. You know that actually, when we, when we came when tasking a bruiser, came home from Iraq, There was, there was, you know people were like: all you guys got super lucky On that deployment because we got a lot of action right, and there was two like Immediate thoughts behind that was number one, like hey, You know, first of all we lost our bros.

like there are nothing lucky about that Was the first immediate thought in my head was like hey, man, Like cuz cuz. the bottom line is seals want to go into combat. bad, and that’s just a broad statement. and so when we came home, had been in a lot of combat and killed a lot of bad guys, and People were kind of saying, Hey you guys got lucky and and again the first thought was hey, man, you did if this is luck. I don’t want it.

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We’re the lucky ones. A point made by Richard Dawkins, more poetically than I can recite here. We’re the lucky ones. We’re the ones who get to die.

Because you only get to die for having lived.

Most people who could ever exist will never even be born.

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We’re the lucky ones. A point made by Richard Dawkins, more poetically than I can recite here. We’re the lucky ones. We’re the ones who get to die.

Because you only get to die for having lived.

Most people who could ever exist will never even be born.

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Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept.

No one wants to die.

Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.

And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.

And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

It’s life’s change agent.

It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept.

No one wants to die.

Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.

And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.

And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

It’s life’s change agent.

It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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Open up your own cabinets and then go talk about it. Let me see how pretty it looks. Let me see how pretty you sound. Let me see how put together your words are. I bet you a f***er or a motherf***er comes out because for you to go back in there again to clean the same f***ing cabinet a demon came out of, takes some big balls, bro, to do it every day of your life. To go back in there and spring clean every day, not once a f***ing year, once every decade. Every day you know it gets dusty. And every day you don’t start with the victories. You don’t go, oh, this is nice.

Look at my, I love me wall. Let me clean up this little dusty. Nope, I go right for the things that are gonna keep me buried. I go right there first, because if I don’t clean those out first, the day doesn’t start.

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There is no one coming to save us. There is no one to blame. There is no easy button. If you look at the most successful actors, comedians, business owners, people in a great family with a great body, people that have great personal development, people that are good parents and have incredible kids, none of it came easy. They had to put the work. No one hit a button and made it easy for them. They had to do it. And if you look at the people that it came too easy,

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Focus on being a father his road to becoming a better father what he went through with this kid’s mother How he developed a relationship than the bond with his sons like nobody else Wow Didn’t know that D That’s dope. I love how you put it on page. There’s certain things that you just want to know. Certain books Help I understand why people read books. I get what the information Does you know? the book that I’m working on now is all about the mental approach that you have with life and People not understanding that your biggest enemy is you. My whole book is about you battling yourself.

People understand. is you against you? the only person that gets in your way is you. Nobody else. It’s you.

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People understand. is you against you? the only person that gets in your way is you. Nobody else. It’s you.

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This is what makes you a man. When I was growing up, this was all the protection we needed. You win some, you lose some. But you live. You live to fight another day.

Now you think you’re a man with that gun in your hand, don’t you?

I’m a man without it. Put the gun down.

Come on, put up your dukes.

Now you’re a man. Your uncle picked up a gun, too. He had to find out the hard way. 22 years old. You’ve got a choice. These are all you need.

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This is what makes you a man. When I was growing up, this was all the protection we needed. You win some, you lose some. But you live. You live to fight another day.

Now you think you’re a man with that gun in your hand, don’t you?

I’m a man without it. Put the gun down.

Come on, put up your dukes.

Now you’re a man. Your uncle picked up a gun, too. He had to find out the hard way. 22 years old. You’ve got a choice. These are all you need.

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We all have a story. And I believe that we’re all teachers.

We’re all teachers.

And if you don’t learn something and give back,

like what you learned,

what’s the point of living? And you’re wasting.

Yeah, you’re wasting. You have all this knowledge of what you learned.

Some people may think you’re crazy.

Some people may put a title on you,

but it’s those few people who are like,

you know what, I need to hear that. So you have to put yourself out there.

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We all have a story. And I believe that we’re all teachers.

We’re all teachers.

And if you don’t learn something and give back,

like what you learned,

what’s the point of living? And you’re wasting.

Yeah, you’re wasting. You have all this knowledge of what you learned.

Some people may think you’re crazy.

Some people may put a title on you,

but it’s those few people who are like,

you know what, I need to hear that. So you have to put yourself out there.

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Almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year, but many years of doing work without reward where they have to do things that other people find boring and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting that most people want to do during that entire season of their life. And they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most.

And that’s the Rocky Cutscene.

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And that’s the Rocky Cutscene.

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We didn’t like crush ourselves in the workup and try and be the most you know prepared we could be and then get overseas and then form relationships with all the conventional forces and do good work for them and Continue to you know just get go as hard as we could the whole time no that didn’t have anything to do with it was Just luck and it kind of fell into our lap, but you know of course just nod your head and say thanks, man Appreciate it. Yeah, good times. so Luck is definitely a part of it, a little part, because, where we look,

was I lucky to be in Ramadi Because I could have deployed a year later, and a year later Ramadi was pacified. so is there luck there? there absolutely is. so I don’t want to sound arrogant, but Luck is a part. It’s like foot locks. It’s like heel hooks They’re a part of the game.

They’re not a game-changer if you don’t want a career today’s not the day to start pursuing a career Just because someone else told you to do it if you want to learn a language Today’s a day to find a way to buy a ticket to another country and learn through immersion If you want a date if you want to get married if you want a business Today is the day to just go out and take one step in that direction. And as long as you, Every day, you just make one new step, just like CIA recruited me. Just do the next thing. if the first, if the step seems like it’s too big,

Then there’s probably two other steps that you can do before that. just make constant progress, build momentum, move forward and Live on your own terms. that way, you don’t ever wake up to the regret.

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You have the intestinal fortitude you have the want of change I’m gonna be with you. I’m gonna support that want And I’m gonna make your dream into reality stay with me this workout right here is right here in your home Your confidence secure you’re gonna build that confidence up so we can embark on the third party subjective natures of the world and beat them down and Rise superior about them. It all starts with 30 seconds. believe it or not. Everything starts the first step you guys came here you guys had that in you I’m gonna enhance it. Here we go.

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Like when anyone comes to try and like, they’re playing a different game than you, . So you shouldn’t try and play by their rules because they’re going to try and get you to play their game so that they can beat you at the game, which is the status game of that little circle. But you’re playing a much wider game that includes more players. And so even though locally you have these, your incoming information that you’re taking in is disproportionate for people that you’re not actually playing against. And so it’s basically just noise. It’s irrelevant.

Because if you look on a long enough time horizon, the likely that you’re like, I mean, again, I think about death a lot, but the idea that when I die, people will be dividing up my assets, arguing over who gets what. There’s going to be a caterer at my funeral. Some people won’t make it because something came up and they got busy. And then the few people that are there are probably no one that I have in my life right now.

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I don’t really like those words. Self-help or self-management or self-improvement. I don’t really like what those words have come to mean these days. Because there’s a lot of people out there that are constantly trying to improve themselves by looking for the one change. The one change, right? The one change in their life that’s gonna make their dreams come true.

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and really count yourself every day like this could have been it. All right. Before I go to bed, this could be it. All right. How’s that looking? If you can do that, it’ll change your life. You really start making decisions and living your life like this. All you got just this one day. But you could be a winner. You could be a winner on this day. It just is just work ethic and not the work ethic they talk about. They tell you work ethic where they do all these movies. I’m the hardest working man. No, everybody goes to work every day. Right. Yeah. I’m saying I’m going to work all the time.

Everybody who works goes to work every day. Shut up. Shut up. You get what? You think I respect you more than my gardener? I don’t. I don’t. He work every day. Rain or shine.

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Everybody who works goes to work every day. Shut up. Shut up. You get what? You think I respect you more than my gardener? I don’t. I don’t. He work every day. Rain or shine.

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No matter what your lot is in life, if you have a disease, or you have cancer, you’re crippled, whatever is the thing, at the end of the day, you’re alive, not dead, nor not having ever been born. So, take every occasion you can to smell the flowers, to drink in the sunsets and the sunrise and the majestic sky above you that they cradle through the nighttime hours, and celebrate life,

because you won the lottery, and most people will never even know there was a lottery.

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because you won the lottery, and most people will never even know there was a lottery.

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Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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We got to start in a dungeon and we got to stay here for the rest of our lives. For you to become successful, the dungeon is a place that has to be clean and it’s the scariest place to be. That’s why I’m misunderstood because I’m speaking from the dungeon. That’s why I am successful because I go there every damn day. And that is the truth what he says. It’s the exact truth. Those cabinets are fucking dusty, dirty, and scary as shit. Broken glass, fucking dark, spiders, cobwebs, but most of all, your biggest fears. The biggest things that put you in the place you are today are in there.

That’s why we all like to keep them shut. Even like to lock them up, act like they never happened. That’s why you never grow. You never improve.

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That’s why we all like to keep them shut. Even like to lock them up, act like they never happened. That’s why you never grow. You never improve.

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So even though the mountain that you’re climbing is actually a smaller one than the one that you ultimately want to climb, you’re actually at the top of their mountain. And so they start tearing you down. So that’s where the underdog story that we said at the very beginning of this was the quote, which is like, on the way up, they root for you. And then when you’re at the top, they try and tear you down because you remind them of the dreams that they couldn’t accomplish. And so you quitting drinking or you staying in to work on your side hustle,

or your project or the business that you want to launch- the podcast that might be- you might be at the top of their mountain. And so they are tearing you down because now you remind them that they haven’t done it. And it’s purely a projection of them onto you and has nothing to do with you. And that, I hope that that comforts someone. Because what you said, I think is like, if you’re going through that right now, and like, and I promise you,

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If you’re thinking wrong and weighing all your decisions on the temporary comfort levels of heat, or you’re tired, or the job’s on your ass, or the girlfriend, or your husband, boyfriend, whatever’s on your ass, all these little nitpicky things, I think they’re tests, really. When you find yourself going down a road and everything’s kind of going wrong. if there’s a higher power, I think that’s when they’re testing you to see if you’re ready for the responsibility of greatness. Because with great achievement comes that responsibility that everyone’s gonna be looking at you,

and judging you, and picking you apart, and trying to break you down. Are you strong enough for all that? Yes, you’re capable of achieving it, but are you mentally strong enough to endure it?

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and judging you, and picking you apart, and trying to break you down. Are you strong enough for all that? Yes, you’re capable of achieving it, but are you mentally strong enough to endure it?

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Build momentum build confidence and momentum with each good decision that you make from here on out You can do it. Anyone can do it. We live in unique times. We live in one of the rarest times in human history where you can choose almost all the input that comes your way, Whether it’s the movies that you watch, the books you read, the podcast you listen to, you can choose to be inspired, Do that, do that and be the hero of your own movie.

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It isn’t one thing. And it isn’t 10 things, and it isn’t 100 things. It isn’t a quick path, and there are no shortcuts.

Meditation won’t get you there, and neither will a miracle drug, or an organic supplement, or some superfood. Getting better isn’t a hack, or a trick, or a one change that you need to make.

Getting better is a campaign. It’s a campaign, it’s a daily, a weekly, it’s an hourly fight.

An incessant fight that doesn’t stop against weakness, and against temptation, and against laziness. It’s a campaign of discipline. It’s a campaign of hard work, and dedication. It’s waking up early, and going to bed late, and grinding out every second in between. Every single day.

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It isn’t one thing. And it isn’t 10 things, and it isn’t 100 things. It isn’t a quick path, and there are no shortcuts.

Meditation won’t get you there, and neither will a miracle drug, or an organic supplement, or some superfood. Getting better isn’t a hack, or a trick, or a one change that you need to make.

Getting better is a campaign. It’s a campaign, it’s a daily, a weekly, it’s an hourly fight.

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But do you know many trust fund kids, if you know any of them, that are balanced and happy and excited about what they’ve accomplished? I don’t. But I surely know a lot of people that struggled and fought and were told no and criticized and lost everything and had no respect from their family and friends because they thought they were a dreamer and thought they were crazy. I know a lot of them that have made the money they always dreamed of, have donated more money than anyone could imagine, are happy as heck because they went after it and realized they were in control.

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Everybody’s going to college. I felt like the biggest idiot in the world. The biggest idiot in the world. Because the same people that I went and rushed to go to Great Adventure with, they had taken an SAT the week before. They already got their work done. They did everything they was supposed to do. So that moment of fun was real fun for them. I was the only dumb ass that didn’t prioritize and take care of my shit. So I’m the only one going to community college. Everybody else off to Villanova, Temple University, Drexel University. Goddamn. I just got left behind.

Why didn’t y’all tell me that y’all did it the week before? How come y’all didn’t tell me that we was serious about the college? Y’all didn’t tell me y’all was trying to go to Temple or Drexel? Oh, wait.

It’s because my life isn’t their life. They’re focused on themselves. Wow, they’re doing what they’re supposed to do.

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Remember: just because you’re doing a lot more

doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Remember that Just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Don’t confuse movement with progress. My mother told me, she said, yeah, because you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. So continue to strive. Continue to have goals. Continue to progress.

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Remember: just because you’re doing a lot more

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You want to get better? You want to self-improve? Stop looking for a shortcut and go find your alarm clock. Find your discipline. And find your guts and your passion and your drive and find your will.

And then,

and then you will find your freedom.

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And then,

and then you will find your freedom.

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Healthy, happy people think about what they want and how to get it most of the time. The power of positive thinking and developing a positive attitude are two of the most important qualities a person can have to change their life. When you think and talk about what you want and how to get it, you feel happier and in greater control of your life. When you’re thinking about something that makes you happy, your brain actually releases endorphins which give you a generalized feeling of well-being. As a result, you develop a positive attitude. You’re happy most of the time.

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The sign of success is the hate that you get along the way. And what you can’t do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the conformity because it’s comfortable and it’s warm because like in the matrix, when Trinity opens the door, when, when Neo’s about to go take the red pill and he wants to get out of the car, she says, Neo you’ve been down that road and you know exactly where it leads and I know that’s not where you want to be. And then he closes the door. Like right now. this moment that you’re going through, is Trinity opening the door and being like, you could go back,

but then you’d have to remember exactly what the reason was that you decided not to go out to begin with, because you listen to this podcast and you consume this constantly. You’re like, I can do more than this. Like because you are starting to live in some of that hell where you look in the mirror and you’re like, I can do more. And you start to see the person that you could be and you’re like, this does start to feel like hell.

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Just relax and enjoy it. You know, my father used to say, whatever you do, do it 100%. When you work, work. When you laugh, laugh. When you eat, eat like it’s your last meal. You want another piece? Here. Have a breast. Delicious. Take it. Here you go. What do we do about the bones?

We do this.

This is what we do.

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We do this.

This is what we do.

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Hey, jackass, go sit by yourself and figure it out because this is where you should be. Lesson learned. Any opportunity given should be taken serious from this point on. Because if not, you can find yourself feeling just like this. So I didn’t get down on myself for a moment. I learned from it. I learned from it. Now, if I gotta take a goddamn test, you best believe I’m studying for that test because I don’t want to feel like I’m the guy that didn’t prepare. Now I got a story to tell my kids about what it feels like to be the kid in class that didn’t prepare,

that’s got the worst grade when they give all those grades back. But it’s because of my experience. I don’t look down on those moments. You take those moments, you make the best of them because they’re life lessons. It’s that simple. You’re saying it’s positive, but it’s really just simplicity that’s real. It’s real.

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Don’t expect anything from anybody. Expect that your government will let you down. Expect your friends might let you down. Expect it, don’t judge them. And realize this is on me. If I want more, let me learn what other people have done to get more. If I want more, I might have to change my mindset. I might have to read those books, study the past, model someone who’s already been successful. If I want more out of my life, I gotta stop waiting with my hand out and time to get up at 5 a.m. and figure out how to gain the capabilities needed to live the life you want.

And if you’re happy with where your life is and you don’t want more, well then you’re probably still not listening to this. You probably got mad at me earlier. And if you are someone that wants more, then let’s just do it.

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First, they keep their minds on what they want, and they keep looking for ways to get it. They’re clear about their goals, and they’re confident that they will accomplish them sooner or later. Second, optimists look for the good in every problem or difficulty. When things go wrong, as they often do, they say, that’s good, and then they set about to find something positive about the situation. And what we know is that if you’re looking for something good or beneficial in a person or situation, you’ll always find it. And while you’re looking, you’ll be a more positive and cheerful person.

Now, optimists seek the valuable lesson in every setback or reversal. Rather than getting upset and blaming someone else for what has happened, which is what most people do, they take control over their emotions by saying, what can I learn from this experience? So resolve today to develop a positive attitude toward yourself, the people around you, and your life.

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But the real answer to your question is that when it feels scary to jump, Ian, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise, you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

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You grow up and you make game winning shots and it’s awesome. You come back the next day and miss a game winning shot and it’s misery. And then the next day comes and you’re back playing again. And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it’s, what you do on Monday is fantastic, but then Tuesday is a bad day, but guess what? There’s Wednesday. So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? Versus just staying like this and understanding that it’s really just a journey of evolution every day.

It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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It’s just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don’t really matter. It’s the figuring out that matters.

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I think a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard.

then it flips from being this thing that you’re like, oh, poor me, to oh, poor everyone else who’s going to have to fucking try. And I think that is so much more motivating as a frame for the exact same circumstance.

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I think a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard.

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I think a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard.

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But I had a dream and a goal and I realized no one was coming to save me. I had a mom who worked three jobs to make 90 bucks a week and had nothing and no quality of life and I couldn’t wait to retire her. And by 27, I was sending my mom a check every week. I’ve been sending her a check every week for 20 plus years. I bought my mom a house. I bought my dad a house. I bought my parents their cars. I get to give my life, my children a life that I could have never imagined with security and strength that they could carry on a legacy. I don’t say that to brag.

I say that because that’s what’s possible when you decide it’s possible. When we stop waiting for someone to fix it, stop getting sucked into the news. Doesn’t matter what your politics are. Get sucked into you. Get sucked into unleashing that full potential that God or the universe, whatever you believe in, gave you. When you unleash that, you realize you don’t need anybody and there’s no limits to what you can achieve.

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Whatever it is you want to do, that thing that you want to do to help others and to grow and to make money, that desire, that itch, that’s God’s proof to you, sent beforehand already to indicate that it’s yours. And anything you want good, you can have. So claim it. Work hard to get it. When you get it, reach back. Pull someone else up. Each one, teach one. Don’t just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.

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staying motivated. And I have been finding myself more motivated even when I do not feel like doing something to do it. That my brain doesn’t dictate how, my brain does not get to choose, my brain can feel a certain way, but it’s not gonna choose how I behave all the time. I just can’t let it do it anymore. I’m gonna have setbacks, I know.

But if I’m feeling bad, that doesn’t mean I’m doing bad, that doesn’t mean I am bad, that doesn’t mean that I can’t still take some action.

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But if I’m feeling bad, that doesn’t mean I’m doing bad, that doesn’t mean I am bad, that doesn’t mean that I can’t still take some action.

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And I don’t view it, I don’t view atheism as like, this isn’t gonna be Christopher Hitchens and Dawkins. You know, it’s not like a dry intellectual aesthetic. It’s like, it’s a rush of blood to the head. It’s like, I’ve got one fucking life and this is it. And we’re in it right now. And there isn’t a second to waste. Let’s do this. What are we doing? What am I doing? What’s exciting? What’s fun? What’s, and kind of stand or fall, it doesn’t matter.

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So when I see all these random things going wrong in my life, I’m like, fucking hey man, why is everything going wrong? What the fuck did I do to cause all these problems, you know? Part of me thinks it’s like the calm before the storm in a way, making sure you’re equipped mentally to endure what you’re about to achieve physically or to achieve with title-wise or whatever that may be. So think of it that way. Everything I’m saying, guys, is perspective on how you see it. The reality of what it is isn’t as strong as the perception of how you see it. Today, hot as hell in there. That’s cool.

Muscles warm up faster.

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Muscles warm up faster.

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that every single person that I have in my life might not even make it to the funeral to speak over me while I’m dead. It’s like, why on earth would I listen to them while I’m alive? They can’t even make it to probably the single most important personal day of someone’s life is someone’s funeral, right? The one time you can pay your last respect, and they don’t even do that. And so it’s like, why would I give any weight to what these people are doing when they’re not even going to be there on the day that matters most? And six months later, they’re not even remember who I was.

And anybody who’s had a death in their family recently knows that in the moment, it’s terrible for you. And then six months later, life moves on. But the thing is, is that we just never paint ourselves as the person who dies. But to me, that’s incredibly freeing. Because then it’s like, if six months after I’m dead, no one is going to say my name, no one is going to remember what I did. Then no one’s gonna, then it doesn’t matter what I do today. And I think that some people see it as really hopeless, but I see it as very hopeful, because it means we have absolute freedom.

And we can do crazy shit like why have you money if you can’t say fuck you.

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And we can do crazy shit like why have you money if you can’t say fuck you.

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I’m fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed. I’m fine with it all. I don’t hide from it. I don’t run from it. I don’t avoid any of it. I’m fine. It’s alright. It’s a bed that I made for myself. I happily lay in it. And I’ll be fine figuring it out moving forward. Sun don’t stop for nobody, man. Sun don’t stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning regardless. That sun is gonna be up in the morning regardless of how I feel and how depressed I am. The sun is gonna shine in the morning. And at night time the moon gonna be there.

And you gonna look up these days gonna keep going by. So do you let the days go by and look up and you don’t waste a year doing what? Or do you just pick it up? Alright. I figured out, made some mistakes. Life goes on. I figured out life from this point. I’m a life goes on type of guy.

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I’m fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed. I’m fine with it all. I don’t hide from it. I don’t run from it. I don’t avoid any of it. I’m fine. It’s alright. It’s a bed that I made for myself. I happily lay in it. And I’ll be fine figuring it out moving forward. Sun don’t stop for nobody, man. Sun don’t stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning regardless. That sun is gonna be up in the morning regardless of how I feel and how depressed I am. The sun is gonna shine in the morning. And at night time the moon gonna be there.

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I’m fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed. I’m fine with it all. I don’t hide from it. I don’t run from it. I don’t avoid any of it. I’m fine. It’s alright. It’s a bed that I made for myself. I happily lay in it. And I’ll be fine figuring it out moving forward. Sun don’t stop for nobody, man. Sun don’t stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning regardless. That sun is gonna be up in the morning regardless of how I feel and how depressed I am. The sun is gonna shine in the morning. And at night time the moon gonna be there.

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So when you look for something good in their words and actions, you’ll almost always find something. Finally, resolve to be cheerful. No matter what happens, a positive attitude, looking on the bright side, is most important when things go wrong. It’s easy to have a positive attitude and be cheerful when everything is going according to plan. But it’s when you encounter unexpected setbacks and difficulties that you demonstrate to yourself and the world around you what kind of an attitude you really have. Make sure that it’s a positive attitude.

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Want you to know that these people aren’t a bunch of of elite special operations warriors That’s not who they are. They aren’t a bunch of high-level athletes or highly screened in, highly trained individuals. These are just just normal people, really. But they’re normal people that knew they needed to make a change And they decided they were going to make a change and then they made it. and That is What I do, and that is what you can do too, if you have Something to change. if you want to change something, Change it.

change it now.

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the junk food that you’re eating. Change the time that you wake up. Change what you do when you get out of bed. Change what you do with your time.

That’s what you need to do. You have to change some things or nothing will change. Get up a little bit earlier, get a workout done. Doesn’t have to be epic. Doesn’t have to be epic. You don’t have to do a three hour leg day, but get up and get something done. And how about you plan your day? How about you plan what you’re gonna do in the day? How about you bring your lunch to work with you so you don’t have to eat a slice of pizza or a damn burger and fries?

How about you change what time you get to work by showing up 10 minutes earlier and you square your gear away or you dial in your tools or your desk or your workspace? That’s what you need to do.

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the junk food that you’re eating. Change the time that you wake up. Change what you do when you get out of bed. Change what you do with your time.

How about you change what time you get to work by showing up 10 minutes earlier and you square your gear away or you dial in your tools or your desk or your workspace? That’s what you need to do.

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when we’re born, you don’t have the pen, someone else has the pen. They decide that Bedros, well, he’s chunky, he’s clumsy, he’s slow at math, his favorite color is gonna be this, and we’re gonna dress him up in this. Like, people write your narrative because you’re a child, you’re helpless. And even through elementary school and high school, you realize that you kind of believe that story. And so you create this upper limiting, this glass ceiling.

you begin to create this upper limiting belief system about yourself and I have to remind folks that in your book of life you could either continue to keep reading all those pages that other people wrote, not knowing who the fuck you were, because even your parents, even my parents, and I don’t know my own beautiful daughters and sons’ heart, I don’t. I know what makes Chloe up, I have an idea of what makes Andrew up, but I don’t know what’s in their heart, and the human heart is amazing in its depth and its capacity.

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When is it ever going to be the ideal situation for you to run your course, to start your action or pursue your endeavor? This is never going to be ideal. It’s never going to be as perfect storm of opportunity for you to say, okay, this is a time, it’s never going to broadcast it and highlight it for you. It starts when you put one foot in front of the other. And if you’re going to use like excuses, sure it’s hot as shit outside. That might be too much for a lot of people. But for a lot of other people,

you know what’s to be is more exciting and overrides whatever today’s trials and tribulations are. And when you can do that, man, when you start seeing the future, going to sacrifice today for that kind of opportunity to mature into a reality, man, you’re really thinking the right way. You’re that person that sees the journey ahead as yes, we still have a long way to go, but man, we sure come a long way up to now. Most people quit because they focus on how far to go still never realizing how far they’ve already come. And perspective, it’s not that much further. It’s not that much further.

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Oh, you think darkness is your ally. You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man. By then it was nothing to me but blighting.

The shadows say you, because they belong to me. I will show you where I have made my home, whilst preparing to bring justice.

Then I will break you.

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You’ve hit the wall someplace, you’ve looked in the mirror too many times and haven’t smiled. You want to change the situation, move from where you are. The journey is not easy. Before you start that journey mentally, you must fuel yourself with the right reasons, the right fuel to sustain the entire journey. Everyone’s hot off the start, but after a month or so into it, or a couple weeks into it, where the wear and tear and the grind starts to hit you, you start losing focus on the horizon, do you not? You get caught away in the daily hiccups, the ups and downs, and the wear and tear.

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It certainly lit a fire under my belly. Every single person doubted me. Every single fighter doubted me. Doubt me now.

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I don’t believe in talent. I’m here because I worked hard my whole life. Without that work, no one in this room would know who I am, except my family. So to all the kids around the world watching, paying attention, and aspiring to be like one of us or even on the stage someday, put the work in and watch the magical ride you go on. Thank you to the hall. Thank you, Fran, for your amazing work that you put in this week. Thank you to all of my fellow inductees. What an amazing class that I’m a part of,

being able to parallel some of the careers that I’ve had the opportunity to parallel and play against some of you guys and grow up watching and admiring you. You set such a great example for us all, and you continue to set that same example.

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The small steps in between the big successes. everyone sees. no one sees this right now. I’m saying like There’s a confidence to it man There’s this there’s a bad motherfucker that’s right here. You know that that’s getting ahead of the competition is an overwhelming sense of Fulfillment and pride and satisfaction with that. You know, I didn’t have to shoot up anything. I didn’t have to drink anything, I didn’t have to to go party anything, I just all I had to do was just go work out. and now what’s gonna happen is a residual effect of that.

Not only does my body grow from my belief, and whatever my current endeavors are, They, they’re just. they seem closer, they seem like you know I can reach out and grab them now, and You don’t get that sense of confidence By going through society’s Ryan. the reason:

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Go from three to 350 to 400 to 450 to 500 because you don’t want it. And that’s the harsh reality. I can’t give you shit. You can’t give him shit. I can give you ideas. But in the day when I was losing the weight, I had to miserably wake up every morning in the cold because it was Indiana, November when it started. I was miserable. This is your new life.

Take it or leave it. There’s no happiness about it. There’s no peace behind it. It sucks. It just fucking sucks. And that’s the one thing if I could teach anybody anything, it just fucking sucks. And it’s gonna continue to suck. And then one day you get to a special part in your life that it might get a little bit better.

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Everyone is jealous of what you’ve got. No one is jealous of how you got it. People see the trophies, but not the training ground.

Everybody wants the view, but no one wants to climb.

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Listen, the work is behind the scenes. Competition is the easy part. Behind the scenes is where the work is done. Everything is done to get to that one race that you need to run.

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sacrifice today for tomorrow’s betterment. But if we don’t know what that betterment is, the want factor, what we’re really doing it for, we can’t win this war, guys. In order to be successful in the MFT program or in life in general, it’s the want factor. You have a capable body to do whatever you want. You have a sound mental, nutritional diet. Now what the f** * do you want? Once you find out you want, regardless of what it is, then you combine the mind and the body together, that’s when life gets exciting, guys. Stories of inspiration where the person overcomes the odds.

When you see the good, man, pump the brakes. Put your hands together, man, give credit where it’s due. Remember the name of the person that overcame the odds because that same person you’re gonna use in your own battle one day when you hit rock bottom and you feel like the walls and monkeys on your back and Murphy’s hitting you down every single step. You’re gonna use that inspiration to take that one more step forward that makes all the f***ing difference.

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I’d like to let you in on a very important secret I learned when I was about your age, boy. You see, power, real power, doesn’t come to those who were born strongest, or fastest, or smartest. No, it comes to those who will do anything to achieve it.

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Some of it might sound fucked up. First thing is you gotta be selfish as hell.

You gotta be selfish. I don’t give a fuck. It’s the sacrifice, but without great sacrifice and without great risk, there is no such thing as a great reward. Can’t have one. That doesn’t … That math will never math. You know what I’m saying? You have to have, and I don’t like this word, but I’m gonna say it because it’s true. You have to be a little maniacal with this shit. Maniac. Right? That word isn’t good in a lot of situations, but when you’re pursuing your destiny, when you identify with your destiny, you have to be selfish. You have to be maniacal. You have to be uncompromising.

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Something in you has to wake up. And usually the only person that can wake it up is you. Sometimes you can read a David Goggins book because I was all this shit and then a lot more of fucked up. But if you don’t have a little flame, you know, just that, just barely, you’re done. I can’t, I can’t light it for you. And that’s the harsh reality of this life that I want to get across so fucking bad. You can watch me, you can watch you, you can watch fucking Rogan and Cameron Haynes, all these motherfuckers. You can go to Tony Robbins’ fucking bullshit. You can do all that shit. If you,

you could keep going back and keep spending money and spending money and spending money with no results. You can wonder, wow, maybe let me go try out David Goggins. He ain’t gonna fucking help you. You have to explore, examine the insides of yourself. And what do you really want out of life? Your friend, a lot of people out here, just don’t fucking want it. So guess what? Have fun with your life.

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of people that overcome the odds. This kid couldn’t speak. Everyone else in his peer group speaking all good. He couldn’t speak. At age seven, everyone’s reading and talking. He can’t read. He was slowing down so much, the teachers brought his parents in, and the man said, dude, the kid’s gotta go, man. He’s just slow. He’s not creative. He’s slowing down the betterment of the entire class. Gotta go. Parents brought him home, and he’s like, man, what are we gonna do with this child of ours? Too bad. They put him to work. He got fired from every single job he ever tried.

All this guy knows up until 21 years old is failure. He’s never tasted success. He just gets up and keeps trying, fails. Gets up and keeps trying. Until one day he found out what he wanted, what inspired him, and he gave it everything he had. Day in, day out, man. He burned the midnight oil so he didn’t have to stay awake in the midnight hours wondering what if. This guy tried something 1,093 times before it was successful.

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Because then when you’re 300 pounds, you’re going to go out to lose weight, you could probably get injured. So then you got to work on the injury and then you get even more depressed. This is what I went through. And then you’re hungry because now you’re depressed. It’s just a vicious cycle. And if you’re not strong mentally and you have no willpower, you’re going to continue falling back in this hole versus the man that sits back and goes, all right, motherfucker. This is why I cuss because this is what is in me. This is what it took for me to be me. Sorry.

It didn’t take, hey, okay, we’re going to do this today. No, this fucking really sucks. This is real, dude. This is real. And every day I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back. So this is what I would tell your boy. This is exactly what I tell him. Every day you wake up, you’re going to probably be set back for the first four weeks before you lose to significant weight because the mind is going to be fucking with you the whole time. There’s no dopamine. There’s no dopamine in there at 300 pounds. You got nothing. Your hormones are shot.

You have to envision something that is more powerful than you.

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You know you do your own thing, you know Especially when everyone else isn’t doing and they call you crazy or whatever else Oh, you’re in here and people driving by me in life. That’s like I got doing up so late well What’s up so late mean? I don’t know. It’s the moments in life, the decisions you make on a moment to moment basis that add up to be the guy Or not the guy. Tonight I did something. you know That I feel more of a guy for me, who I am, my guy. You know repeat that over and over and over again It’s just one it’s a better life. You feel like more confident.

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You have to move in a way, when it comes to those three things, when you function completely in a way where it’s an unwavering faith. Like it don’t matter how fucked up that shit might look. It don’t matter how much it feel like it ain’t gonna work. Delusional. Complete delusion. You gotta believe the delusion. Because it’s only delusional until it works. So is it really delusional?

A motherfucker only gonna call it delusion until it don’t work for nobody else to see, but for the whole world to see. And then once the world see it, there’s nothing delusional about it. Now your delusion becomes, oh, he was a fucking genius. We didn’t see it when he saw it. We didn’t understand it when he did. We thought this motherfucker was crazy. But he definitely always, he always figured this thing was the thing to do and he’s stuck by that shit.

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When the hell have you ever tried something more than 10 times before you throw in the towel? I can’t say I have. This guy did. And why? That was what he wanted. How was it nourished? Failure. Everything failed in his life. So when it failed another 1,000 times, he’s like, well, f*** it, man. That’s an average f***ing day. It always fails. I keep on going. But his invention got smarter and quicker. That failure made him more and more successful. He was getting closer and closer and closer. And finally, the light bulb lit. That was Thomas Edison, man. Failure. Dumbass his entire life.

He had over another 1,000 patents, man. Remarkable. Couldn’t speak at four. Was written out of class because he couldn’t read at seven. Kicked home because he was mentally challenged. One of the greatest inventors of our time. We all fall down in life, guys. The question is, who gets back up? Again, it’s not the potential of the individual. It’s not the genetics. It’s the perseverance. The never-say-die attitude. If you constantly keep throwing s*** against the wall, eventually something will stick, guys. Never give in to what you want.

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So I’m out here in Eugene, Oregon. Just got through training with Cameron Haynes. If you don’t know him, make sure you look him up. We did a 50K yesterday. A lot of people ask me about, you know, how do you train for ultra marathons? The big thing is you got to put some big runs in followed by some medium runs. Yesterday I did a 50K. My legs were all beat down. What was me tired for like shit? But guess what? I know. How about days off? One day, but not today. If you’re training for a nice big race, get your legs all tired, mucked up, jacked up,

where your mind and body say, I don’t want to fucking do shit anymore. And guess what you do? You go out and get some more miles in. So yesterday I did a 50K. Today I’m going to do a nice 15 miler. Nice and easy. Legs feel like shit, but that’s how they’re going to feel at mile 60 and 70 of a hundred mile race. Get after it. Like I said, not today. Get after it.

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And even if it’s not so, you have to have, and that’s where delusion comes in, because delusion is only delusional when you don’t accomplish the goal of making your delusions a reality. That’s what is delusional.

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We want to find out how to be someone else. What we don’t do is we don’t go inside. So literally turn yourself inside out. Read the book that says … We’re writing a book every day of our lives, but we never read that book. So what I would challenge this young man or young woman to do is you have to look inside of yourself and see what you really want. What are you passionate about? We use these words and these little phrases of only the strong survive and all this other crap. They’re all just words. I get so tired of hearing people just talking.

Right now, someone may think Goggin’s just talking. You don’t know me. So when I speak, I speak from passion. I speak from experience. I speak from suffering.

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You do that every single day. You are, you repeatedly do. In anything you do. If you look in the mirror and you frown upon yourself, you created that. That’s not an accident, it’s a habit. It’s like you look in the mirror and you smile because you see excellence. That’s not an accident, it’s a habit. You start, you guys need to start taking responsibility for your actions. When you start taking responsibility for your actions, you start to find the belief in what you’re doing. The passion behind it. You create value in what you’re doing. There’s no longer mundane tasks.

Everything has a purpose and an instinct. There’s a direction to a designation. If you don’t like the designation you’re going to, well, you can’t change that overnight. You cannot change it overnight. But you can change the direction overnight. So if you are looking at your life right now, and what you do every single day, and it’s a one-way street to hell with no return, that’s not so fucking appealing to me, man. I don’t want to be part of that. So get off that fucking beaten path society says is so right. Believe in yourself and what you’re doing, man.

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Louis, a moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.

Remember that.

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It’s pushing the water and there’s a jogger actually look at this wow the Florida man right there for you Blake jogging in the hurricane.

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Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships? You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball?

You think Jeff Bezos was just interested in shipping packages?

You think Elon Musk is just interested in whatever the hell he’s interested in today? Those individuals are obsessed. They are obsessed. In order to be the best, in order to reach that next level, you can no longer be interested. Interested is a hobby. You can be interested in many things. Oh, I’m interested in reading, I’m interested in gardening, I’m interested in cars. You can fall in and out of your interest.

But your obsession stays with you all the time. You have to become obsessed.

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And I got home, it’s probably like 3 in the morning, and I went down to the high school, which is down the street from my house. And the janitor let me in the gym, and I shot all day. All day. I mean, all day. And this was right after that playoff game. And I didn’t leave the gym. I just kept shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and practicing and practicing. And I got a chance to let out the steam of disappointing my teammates and millions of fans. I got a chance to let all that out instead of bottling it up.

And envision that moment over and over and over and over and over. That was a huge summer for me because I felt like everybody had written me off after those air balls. I was really excited when the schedule came out and I saw we had Utah.

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One thing important is that we all have these moments, these moments in time that either make you or break you that can determine the rest of your life. The rest of your life can be determined by one simple decision. 19 years ago, 300 pounds, I was spraying for cockroach. I made a decision to try to be a Navy SEAL. My whole goal was to go on this path every day after work and to run a mile to mile and a half. This rock was about the 0.5 mark in my run. This rock was a moment that should have broken me. I got 0.5 into it, I weighed 297 pounds, I sat on this rock and I had a decision to make.

I wanted to quit, I wanted to give up. There wasn’t some inspirational quote, there wasn’t some, there wasn’t nothing. It was me, myself, and it was freezing out here. I had to make a decision. Decision I make was to get up and keep on going. That one moment changed the rest of my life.

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So many people believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself. So many people doubted me and motivated me every single day to be who I am. I fell so many times and got back up.

I’ve been through the toughest times with my family,

but I’m still standing.

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Dude, I’m out there for fucking hours every fucking day and no one sees what the fuck I’m doing. No one. it’s a great beautiful thing, man.

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I’m just confident in my ability and in my mind frame. I know, I know, nobody can tell me that I move the same as any of these guys because I don’t move the same. I move differently, I move unique, and I know I move unique. Not only that, I speak unique, I act unique. I’m just different than these people. You know what I mean? So I have- You dress unique. I dress unique, whatever. I just feel different to these on another level, on another playing field than any of them before me. That’s why I know, I have no doubt in my mind, that I’m the greatest, that I will be the greatest of all time.

In my head already, I am better than everybody. And I know, I know, you know, there’s a lot of hate come from people, you know, but I know and I will prove, you give me time and I will prove it to everybody. Nobody has my mindset. You know, I’m a specialist in human movement, yeah? I recognize movement in live play better than anybody, yeah?

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Those I can’t catch a break guys. Yeah, get them the fuck away from me. I can’t I can’t be around those guys I don’t want to hear that yet. I don’t want to hear that. I don’t buy it because everybody has bad breaks. Yeah, I’ve had a shit ton of bad breaks, but you know what I did. I stayed up, Yeah, and I thought through it and I figured out what the fuck I did wrong and then I went back. It’s like I fucked up everything I’ve ever done a hundred times. There’s no way, there’s no other way to do it. and I’ve had a bunch of shitty breaks- Everybody has.

but you got to realize when you have those shitty breaks, what that is. It’s an opportunity for you to reassess reboot get better figure out another way find another way through It’s just little challenges and the people that look at those challenges go. Why do I always have these challenges? They’re cancer. Those people are dangerous to be around. They will rob you of your enthusiasm. They don’t give you any fuel. They’re the opposite of fuel. Yeah, Like the fuel people. they’re the whole. the people that are kicking ass,

the people that are out there just fucking hustling always, Always, getting things done.

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You don’t become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are. Outwork yourself doubt.

Yes. That’s that.

Nailed nailed completely nailed.

Yes, because a lot of people will in some of these motivational people out here. It’s the funniest thing in the world to me. They’ll go and say when you wake up in the morning pounds your chest, you know, I can look at yourself in the mirror and do all this fucking bullshit. I hope it works. What works for me is that everyday resume the things I know of accomplish the things. I know I’ve done real hard work the real calluses on my mind the real calluses on my hands. That’s that’s it. The you don’t need to pound your chest in the mirror anymore. If you have that.

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at least change their world. And I think that, so a very close friend of mine did all the Olympic teams, nutrition and supplementation stuff for a country overseas. And he said, you know the difference between champions and everyone else? And I was like, what? He said, everyone always looks at them and says, what do champions have that I don’t have? And he said, they have it backwards. He said, it’s what do champions not have that I have? It’s what do they lack? And it’s an off button. They just don’t stop. And so in dealing with the gold medalist, he’s like, they just never stop.

They just can’t stop. Everything in their life is geared towards one goal. And so finding that thing, and they approach everything in their life that way. And I think that that level of obsession around like everything that you touch on a daily basis is required for really getting to where you wanna go.

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You love me.

You love me because I’m Kobe. Because I’m a five-time champion.

Because I’m one of the greatest to step on the court.

But you shouldn’t.

You should hate me.

Hate me because I gave you 4 a.m. Because I pushed you when no one else would.

Hate me because I demanded greatness and greatness demands everything.

Love me when you become a greater.

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You’ve got to create a lot of different emotion to heighten your sense of awareness and focus. Like for me, anger was good. Anger was good because it was motivating. The more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go on and kill those guys. Now, I knew I wasn’t going to kill them physically, but man, if I could just, what did they say? You know, and what did they look like? Did they disrespect me at all? You know, and did that, still say something? Like, those are little, little, little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran on the field and I said,

let’s get go. It was really, let’s go kick some ass. That’s what we were doing.

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When you find out what you want and you combine that with a sound mental diet, a visual nutrition, a physical diet of good food coming in with good exercise, you build the body, the belief, the confidence, you put that together with a want and a drive, dude, you’re unstoppable. Your name will forever be in history. If you do it though, because it’s hard, it’s an uphill battle, it’s a path less taken, not the beaten path everyone else takes, it’s a path that leads a character. You got to earn that.

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You know what I mean? And everyone can say what they want but I know because like I said I can read their mind and I just know people, I know every one of them are sweating me. And at the same time I know they don’t out sweat me. Yeah? Nobody out sweats me. I work. I don’t just talk. Don’t confuse the talk. Don’t confuse because my mind is in the correct place. People seem to be confusing that. People seem to be confusing that because I can talk and I believe in myself and I’m confident and I’m outspoken and I say what I think that I’m a personality.

I’m a UFC personality similar to Chael Sonnen. I’m not Chael Sonnen. I’m not that guy. I’m speaking it. I’m not WWF skit or WWE skit. You know? It’s not like that. I’m just speaking. I’m speaking fact. You know everything I say is fact.

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The only way you’re ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow. to grow you must suffer and

Some people get it and some people won’t. But they have to see what their journey is to start their journey. several people live to be a hundred years old And they have great lives and they have great kids. the kids go to college and all sort of stuff. But somewhere in their life There was a point where they had a decision to make. They can go left or right on this path. left was the easy route, right was a hard route. a Lot of people take the easy route and they had a good life that way.

But the better life was going to the right side and you may have 20 years of pain and suffering to get past it. but a lot of us died never truly starting our journey. and I would tell this young person: you got to start your journey. it may suck, But it will. it will come out the other side where you’re coasting.

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When life was unfair, boxing was around to make it fair. and I’ll tell you how.

on one given night, If you worked hard enough, if you dream big enough, If you were tough enough and you made yourself tough enough, you sacrificed enough, You became polished and savvy enough and and technically

Equipped to do things that you had- then you learned those things and you just worked yourself to the bone. No matter where you came from, no matter what part of the world, no matter who your parents were, No matter what your poverty level may have been, may not have been, No matter what you had, what you didn’t have, No matter what people had told you, Didn’t tell you. All of that.

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It’s the timing, it’s the oil, it’s the favor, it’s the specific hand that’s on your life. If they keep losing sleep over my gifts, mother fucker, you never gonna wake up.

So in other words, them trying to be successful while trying to make me unsuccessful because they didn’t put me in this position.

They’re gonna keep thrusting you. Your haters will become your congratulators. And the more stones they throw at your ass, your mansion gonna get bigger.

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They weren’t interested.

And you know what obsessed people do? Obsessed people give interested people something to talk about. They give you something to talk about. Everybody that who’s obsessed, everybody who’s obsessed in their business, in their field of action, they are the topic of the conversation of the employees at work. They’re the water cooler conversations. They’re the individuals people are texting about. Because they’re so engrossed in your life, with your obsession with what you’re doing, they don’t have time for their own. Because they’re interested in what’s going on with them.

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So, you know, it’s lonely, man. It’s like being this only car out in the parking lot. But if you’re cool with that, man, if you’re cool with walking in the shadows of yourself and, you know, the only person you got is the man right there in the shadow, man. How you doing? Pretty good. How you doing? All right, man. Cool. Cool. It’s kind of weird having a conversation with you, but ain’t no one else around because everyone else has faded way back then, way back there. You know, if you’re cool with that kind of walk of life, they’ll tell you, man.

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Something has to get you out of bed and you have to create it. It has to be false because you’re not it. You’re a fat piece of shit and that’s the reality of it. So you have to create a false reality to live in that just to get to work on yourself. That’s the reality.

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If you made yourself and took advantage of that opportunity and got yourself ready and you were ready to behave like a champion, You could get in that ring on one given night And make the world fair and have your hand lifted and be called champion of the world. That makes boxing special and that’s what these judges don’t get. That kids are waiting to hear that and they give everything.

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One is the belief in what you’re doing. Like Muhammad Ali believed so much he was a champion. He said he was a champion before he wasn’t champion. That’s a belief, it has to be that way. That’s the steering wheel of life, the direction. And what’s gonna fire that through is the engine.

Your undying will, the conviction to see it through. That was Michael Jordan’s quote. I failed and failed and failed and failed. And because of that, I succeeded. You learned and learning got stronger and stronger. It’s like that steel going into the lava get hotter and hotter and hotter. You know, this hammered into the strength, the tensile strength of it all. It takes that kind of pressure of life to create something that stands the test of time.

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You got to have the mentality to show up every fucking day of your life, No matter what life throws at you It’s our responsibility To show up to the Coliseum of life Prepare for fucking battle. I don’t care what you’re going through What life’s throwing at you? It’s your responsibility to find your new hundred percent. Take it upon yourself to do that. Stay hard.

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Well, he made her own choices, Michael, now.

No one close to you makes a choice without your opinion, Tom.

Not Arthur. Not me. Not Ada.

We can’t escape you.

Your lethal hand is always on our shoulders.

Well, it was half of me.

Still visits me in my dreams.

She’ll visit me no more. I have no limitations.

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Fired up man, fired the fuck up man, motivated, pumped up man. Early still man, early. Some people just getting up, going about their first endeavor of the day. We’ve already done a few endeavors man. We already kicked some ass. We like a taste of that, we want to kick some more ass. So the next step of the endeavor we’re doing, because we’re putting value in our day. An hour in the gym wasn’t just an hour where you go in there, check the box, and you get shit. Fuck no man. We had a plan of action. We went in there and achieved that fucking plan.

We spoke the words and we walked the motherfuckers. Now here we stand, energized, spending energy in the gym, but we create more energy, a mind-body connection, a belief, a quantum physics of it all. Energy expelled, value in what we’re doing, and the belief in something hard work behind the belief grows into prosperity of something. Fuck yeah. We didn’t just wake up and grab a fucking shower, you know, wash our nuts and then grab a coffee for some energy to go to work. No, we just earned some fucking energy. That kind of energy once lit never goes out.

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For some reason, God put me in almost every fucked up situation on the planet Earth. So when I talk to people, it’s not sugar-coated, because I’m not saying it from I was a hundred and seventy-five pounds my whole life. I don’t say much to those people.

Maybe you’re a piece of shit. Maybe you want to be nobody. Maybe you’re happy exactly where you are in life, because obviously you are. Maybe you don’t have the determination to be somebody better than who you are. And if you want to live with that, I’ll support you in that. If you’re good with being who you are, and every day you wake up and every day you smell like shit because you can’t wash your body well, and your skin’s messed up because your health’s so bad, and you can’t put your clothes on right, you need help with that,

you need help like when I was three and a half, I needed help wiping my ass. That makes you feel good? Nothing I can say to you. If every day you wake up with this… See, people are haunted, but they obviously like horror films because they keep watching the same fucking movie. I don’t like horror films. A lot of people like horror films, so I don’t say much to them. I say exactly what I said to you right there, because I was once you. I didn’t like horror films, so I changed it. Some people are just… They become, like you said, it gets real small when you’re lazy and you’re fat.

Your will, their will is so small that they don’t have any, and you can’t give it to them. There has to be something. This is what I’m talking about now, because this isn’t a hack. This has to be in you.

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golf’s a good example. I see these guys on the range. Like they’re all buddies and their caddies are friends. And I’m like, that’s not the killer instinct. That’s just not. I don’t know how you can wanna crush the competition because they are your competition.

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People think that you are not a threat.

But I know differently.

Out of all of my sons,

it was you I wanted to bring here.

And it is you that I believe is the most important to the future of our people.

You have many gifts.

Andrew is a gift. What is in here is a gift.

You do not think like other men. You are unpredictable.

And that will serve you well.

Use your anger intelligently.

And I promise you, my son, that one day the whole world will know and fear Ivar the Boneless.

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Retired Navy SEAL David Goggins says he knows how to make those changes stick. Goggins is described as one of the toughest men on the planet.

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I’m talking about a person that knows their value and knows that when they come to the table, it’s the best in the fucking world. That’s why now my price is so high at everything I do, and everything I do, everything is high, because I am a game changer. Not being arrogant. A game changer has built that belief through hard work. They know who they are, and they bring the difference to the table. Game changes everything, man, but it’s very few people who have that ability to do that. No, a lot of people can do it, but very few people want to put in the discipline,

the hard work, and the dedication to become a game changer.

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It’s like, is there something wrong with being competitive? There’s nothing wrong with it. There’s something wrong with cheating. There’s something wrong with being a tyrant. There’s something wrong with winning unfairly. All of those things are bad. But you don’t want people to win? What’s the difference between trying to win and striving? You want to eradicate striving?

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You might have more talent than me.

You might be smarter than me. You might be sexier than me.

You might be all of those things, you got it on me in nine categories.

But if we get on the treadmill together, right,

there’s two things.

You’re getting off first, or I’m gonna die.

It’s really that simple, right?

So let’s go back to the question about what if people block me out.

There’s gonna be two options.

I’m gonna get back in,

or I’m gonna be dead.

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As a competitor, if you’re trying to do something meaningful, if you don’t have the mindset that you’re the best ever, you’ve failed already. So if you don’t have the mindset that you are the best reporter ever, then you already failed. And that’s been my mindset since I can remember. That will be my mindset as long as I can remember anything, that I am the best ever at what I do. And every day that I step on the basketball floor, I will strive to be that. But my mindset will always be as such as I am the best to do what I do. And that’ll give me a shot at being the best.

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What do you do about the negative guy that’s trying to bring you down?

And sure, you can confront them, right? And you can, by doing that, join in their little game. And in doing that, you give them the satisfaction. They now know that they got into your head. And then you’re turning your workplace into your basic grade school gossip hall.

So we don’t like that. But now there are times, unfortunately, that you have to address things. And when you do it, you do it professionally. And you do it, your goal is to disarm them.

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desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. And if you know, if you basically know that you’re never willing to put the work in to get the thing. Yep.

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No one’s gonna fucking come to help me No one’s gonna come to help me. It’s just me against me, period. and So I had the man up and I said: the first thing I started doing is facing every fucking fear I have, no matter what the fuck it is. man And I in these things would keep me up, and I no one. people who are hearing this. they will never Really understand and grasp, when you face these things and so many things, how they keep you up and haunt you at night. I think there’s a lot of people out there that know what you’re talking about, I mean. and so that’s what it did. and I had two options:

to either Be that 300 pound guy who’s prayed for cockroaches and made a thousand dollars a month And at 24 years old, knowing when I’m 50 years old I can reflect on this and think about what guy I never became, or I can totally just Sack it up and fail and fail and fail and try to succeed.

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It does not take talent.

You don’t have to be talented, right? You don’t have to be gifted.

You don’t have to be the quickest, the strongest. You don’t have to be the most intelligent to get to where I am. That’s what you gotta do. You just gotta grind though.

You’re grind.

You gotta out grind. So many of you heard me say this. Your father, listen to me, might own a company. Your mama might be a millionaire. You might come from privilege. Your daddy might hook you up with a car. He might know people. He might be able to get you a job. But you will not outwork me. And what you have to decide in your position in the NCAA, you have to make a decision that nobody in this league, in your position, will outwork you.

Listen to me, you better grow up and get to the point as a man that if you ever get beat, you better get beat by somebody that’s just purely more talented than you are. You better not ever get beat by somebody because you beat yourself.

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You gotta be selfish. I don’t give a fuck. It’s the sacrifice, but without great sacrifice and without great risk, there is no such thing as a great reward. Can’t have one.

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You gotta have the mentality to show up every f***ing day of your life. No matter what life throws at you. It’s our responsibility. To show up to the Coliseum of Life. Prepared for f***ing battle. I don’t care what you’re going through. What life’s throwing at you. It’s your responsibility to find your new 100%. Take it upon yourself to do that. Stay hard.

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It does not take talent. You don’t have to be talented, right? You don’t have to be gifted. You don’t have to be the quickest, the strongest. You don’t have to be the most intelligent to get to where I am. That’s what you gotta do. You just gotta grind though. You’re grind. You gotta out grind. So many of you heard me say this. Your father, listen to me, might own a company. Your mama might be a millionaire. You might come from privilege. Your daddy might hook you up with a car. He might know people. He might be able to get you a job. But you will not outwork me.

And what you have to decide in your position in the NCAA, you have to make a decision that nobody in this league, in your position, will outwork you.

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I think the best way to prove your value is to work, is to learn, is to absorb, to be a sponge. But you always wanna outwork your potential. As hard as you believe you can work, you can work harder than that. And that’s what I tried to do when I first came in the league, but basketball is such a direct competition sport that me coming in at 17, I hated when my teammates would say, I get hit with an elbow. Shaq would hit me with an elbow in practice. And like, you know, Nick Van Exel would come up and say, are you okay?

I’m like, mother fuck, what? And my, are you okay? What the hell is wrong with you? You know, so like I always had that extra chip on my shoulder. So like every day in practice for me was really trying to annihilate everybody that I was playing against. So I wanted to prove you don’t need to babysit me. Like I’m fine, you know? And so it was always that competitive nature, the work ethic and curiosity.

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My next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle.

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Listen, the work is behind the scenes. Competition is the easy part. Behind the scenes is where the work is done. And everything is done to get to that one race that you need to run.

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I think it’s just giving yourself permission to suck. It’s giving yourself permission to be unhappy. It’s giving yourself permission to not achieve while you do for a long period of time. It’s giving yourself permission to lose friends. It’s giving yourself permission to do things that’s different than people in your social circle or your age group are doing. It’s giving you permission,

giving yourself permission to be an exception so that you can become exceptional. A lot of that, the whole positive poly mantra of like, I saw that. I saw a post a girl made and she was like, you are worthy. That’s what made that tweet. All my tweets are just responses to shit I see. This girl was like, I say this to myself in the morning, you are worthy, you are amazing, you are a goddess. I was like, you’re not a goddess because you don’t control me. You don’t have the things that you want. You keep thinking that you saying that you’re worthy is going to somehow make it true.

But like the way that you know you’re worthy is that you have it. That’s it.

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That’s the difference.

That’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground and do it again.

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I was in a spot that life forced me. I had a choice. I had a choice to be this guy or the guy that’s in front of you. I had choices. I chose this path. I found out something with those stress fractures. I found out something through facing all these things. I found out a whole nother world which is why I walk around with all my stuff in a black backpack. Wow. I found out a whole nother way. A whole nother way of. no matter how far you get in life, you have to be able to go back to scratch in your mind at a moment’s notice. You can never get so far beyond scratch.

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If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. There is a path between where you are and the place that you want to be. If you’re not prepared to do that walk, still wanting to reach the end of the path is just guaranteeing that you’re going to live an unsatisfactory life.

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If you frame things right in your life, if you frame things, if you frame a business challenge as an opportunity to build a stronger team. If you frame a personal challenge as an opportunity to overcome and improve yourself, these things that seem so horrible are actually very positive components of your existence, and they’re going to make you better.

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There’s people that are willing to go very far and then there’s people that are willing to go far further than that. That’s it and when your person who prides yourself on your ability to go very far and then someone is willing to go far farther than You you have to decide Do I want to look at that as the new standard? You want to judge myself? Do I want to admire him or do I want to try to take him down because I feel bad? Yeah, I can’t do what he does or haven’t done what he does, or what he does Makes me look bad because I like to think I’m a hard worker Right.

I could think I’m disciplined and hard and then I see this fucking dude out there They’re just making me look soft. Right? And so instead of just going Yeah, right, instead, of, a smart person will look at that person as fuel. But you have to make your own decisions too, because right you do requires a Dedication that will eliminate a lot of things from your life that some people enjoy and think are important.

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I started realizing through this, through this process, that The fucking mind is what you created. and I started opening different doors that I didn’t think were even there, They didn’t think even existed. and the more doors open up, the more I start realizing that my potential is damn near endless. And it changed my whole mindset. So I went from David Goggins and I created Goggins,

and That journey is a priceless journey that it’s hard for me to even explain to people because it sounds so quick and easy That guy’s lost this weight and I went through three hell weeks I went to Ranger school went to Delta Force Lexington, whatever it is. It was brutal.

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Everything I wanted to do I did the second I thought about it. Not 47, I am 100% retired and I still live like I’m not by choice. Most people don’t have a choice. I work my ass off and now I have choices. When I went to go speak to you guys, I could have said no like I do to 99% of mother fuckers. I don’t need that fucking money but guess what? It was my choice. Most people have taken that word out of their vocabulary. They got a boss saying get the fuck up. Come here now, answer the phone now, get to these emails now.

Everybody goes to that time but I always knew David Goggins was going to be his own boss and I am now. And now I say go fuck yourself, I ain’t doing that.

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What’s not always open is the opportunity to check the box in life, you know, to achieve your dreams. That’s not always open, though. And it’s funny, like, you know, I’m not saying you do it all the time and everything else because everyone needs a release in life, but it’s funny when you’re coming here and you’re closing the gym up and there’s no one in the parking lot except for my car. And everyone else is probably getting home from some party right now because bars are closed right now, too. You know,

they’re probably going to sleep and they’re probably going to wake up and apologize to somebody for however way they acted because that’s not who they really are. They’re chemically induced to be a certain way and have the social lubricants or be able to talk, to be liked and say they take something in order to be that guy. It’s like people that do steroids, whatever else. I have to take this to be all that, you know, but who I am as an individual isn’t quite good enough. That’s why I need to take something and become somebody else. You know, it’s a sad reality.

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Well, you always have to have, and even if it’s not so, you have to have, and that’s where delusion comes in because delusion is only delusional when you don’t accomplish the goal of making your delusions a reality. Right. That’s what is delusional.

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Oh yeah, to allow those delusions to be the reality of your assessment.

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Your attitude has a giant effect, not just on your life, but on other people’s lives around you. That’s the other thing about it. Those I can’t catch a break guys, get them the fuck away from me. I can’t be around those guys. I don’t wanna hear that shit. I don’t wanna hear that shit. I don’t buy it. Because everybody has bad breaks. I’ve had a shit ton of bad breaks. But you know what I did? I stayed up and I thought through it. And I figured out what the fuck I did wrong and then I went back. It’s like I fucked up everything I’ve ever done. A hundred times. There’s no other way to do it.

And I’ve had a bunch of shitty breaks. Everybody has. But you gotta realize when you have those shitty breaks what that is. It’s an opportunity for you to reassess, reboot, get better, figure out another way, find another way through. It’s just little challenges. And the people that look at those challenges and go, why do I always have these challenges? They’re cancer. Those people are dangerous to be around. They will rob you of your enthusiasm. They don’t give you any fuel. They’re the opposite of fuel.

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Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships? You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball?

You think Jeff Bezos was just interested in shipping packages?

You think Elon Musk is just interested in whatever the hell he’s interested in today? Those individuals are obsessed. They are obsessed. In order to be the best, in order to reach that next level, you can no longer be interested. Interested is a hobby. You can be interested in many things. Oh, I’m interested in reading. I’m interested in gardening. I’m interested in cars. You can fall in and out of your interest. But your obsession stays with you all the time. You have to become obsessed. You have to become obsessed.

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I’ve tried to eliminate as much time between I think I should do this thing and beginning doing it. And I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle that occurs every time you start, I call it pulling the thread. It’s like, I just need to start pulling the thread. And then all of a sudden, what feels really unknown becomes very tangible. And you’re like, oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing. But now I know the problems. And then it feels like you can wrap your arms around it, and then you can start taking it one bite at a time.

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The worst thing in the world is growing up in poverty and coming here and getting worshiped and not taking advantage of this and you gotta go back to the hood. That’s the worst thing that could ever happen to a bro. Traveling and being in hotels and seeing the world and eating like you eating and not taking advantage of this and getting kicked out and going back home to the hood. Being somebody that they talk about because you were sweet for four years. You better not lose this. This is an opportunity of a lifetime. Your grandma counting on you to do the right thing. Your mama counting on you.

Your cousins, your brothers and sisters are counting on you to cash in on this opportunity.

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Life is one big mind game and you’re playing it with yourself. Is it true? I don’t care. It got me through the hardest training starting out broken. When most people quit, I had just started. Wow. And when you take that mindset and you learn to flip that around, that’s what made me powerful and my body followed. And three months later, my stress fractures were healed by running on them. I ran 7,000 miles in 2007, haven’t had a stress fracture since. And I’m not saying to do that. I’m just saying that when the mind and the body connect and you don’t give yourself a way out,

the only way out for me at that time was death. Wow. I’m going to be a Navy SEAL. Or I’m going to die. Or I’m going to die trying. Yeah. Period. And my body said, Roger that. We’re going to get you through this.

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But the one thing I realized why I wrote the book is, honestly, I have a story to tell, as we all have a story to tell. And what I realized on my journey was a lot of us don’t believe that we can achieve the impossible. And I was like, my God, I’m busting down so many barriers of, like, I have a learning disability, okay, but I’m catching up with everybody. I figured that out. I figured out all these negative things in my life that were keeping me in this hole. I’m like, I got to tell people, man, that, hang on a second, man, you can achieve the absolute impossible.

You don’t need great parents. You don’t need, like, a private school. You don’t need to have this humongous GPA and all this other shit. What you need is the one thing I talk about in my book, which is straight up brutal work ethic.

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I would say not just huge value, but the value.

I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that.

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any person, any human realizes that if you want some kind of a good outcome, you’re going to have to work hard for it. And if you, and if you don’t work hard for something, you’re not going to get an outcome that’s really worth much.

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You get absolutely better returns at the top ends of achievement, because oftentimes assets pool to the winners. The problem is, to achieve the highest levels, you have to give up proportional amounts of the things you hoped the achievements would get you. There comes a time when the hard work you have to do is learning that you can’t work any harder any longer, and that you have to change what got you here to what will get you to where you want to go. You can work to get anything you want, but you have to sacrifice the other things you want to keep it,

and that’s sometimes harder than the work.

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You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small, I mean, one half a step too late or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.

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So just decluttering your life, making it more simple. That’s why I love to go and surfing. That’s like the most tranquil kind of thing that I get to do, sit in the ocean and sometimes just sit and ponder about life, what I’m gonna do next. And that’s my getaway. I think people have to find that balance of work. Because if you just work, work, work, work, and you don’t replenish your energy with positive things, then you will just continue to be breaking yourself down. So I try and find that balance. I think everyone needs to do that.

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How dare anybody talk on someone who was trying to level up in their life, in their marriage, as a father, in their personal income, in their health, in their mindset, how dare they? That society has gotten to a place that when you try and better yourself, that they will throw shade on you. I believe that you have the right to throw shade right back. And you just slap their gelatinous little titties and go, look at this, I could milk you, bro. I could milk your little titties. So I’m gonna go to the gym and build some fucking pecs while you go and drink booze and pump out estrogen.

Now listen, man, I’m not trying to say you ought to be that level of an asshole. I can be that level of an asshole because I am, and I’m passionate and I give a shit. And if you want to, you should, but I am saying be unreasonable in your expectations. I don’t take shit from anyone. I don’t want you to take shit from anyone like that. Because you only live one life, right?

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Yeah, I get up and get out of bed.

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Are you interested or are you obsessed? All right.

Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships?

You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball?

You think Jeff Bezos was just interested in shipping packages?

You think Elon Musk is just interested in whatever the hell he’s interested in today?

Those individuals are obsessed.

They are obsessed.

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One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, boss, we got this and that and the other thing and I’d look at him and I’d say, good. And finally one day he was telling me about some issue that he was having, some problem and he said, I already know what you’re gonna say. And I said, well, what am I gonna say? He said, you’re gonna say good.

He said, that’s what you always say. When something is wrong and going bad, you always just look at me and say good.

And I said, well, yeah. When things are going bad, there’s gonna be some good that’s gonna come from it.

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If you haven’t gotten what you want, then you’re not worthy of it. Period. And that’s okay. Now you can admit that you suck and improve. Better to know you’re bad for a season than pretend you’re good for a lifetime. You’re not making as much money as you want because you’re not as good as you think you are. You’re not struggling from imposter syndrome. You’re a student and pretending to be a teacher. No students say they feel like frauds for trying to learn. You’re a fraud when you get up to teach the class and you’ve never done it.

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And I got home, it was probably like 3 in the morning, and I went down to the high school, which is down the street from my house. And the janitor let me in the gym, and I shot all day. All day. I mean all day. And this was right after that playoff game. And I didn’t leave the gym. I just kept shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and practicing and practicing. And I got a chance to let out the steam of disappointing my teammates and millions of fans. I got a chance to let all that out instead of bottling it up.

And envision that moment over and over and over and over and over. That was a huge something for me because I had a lot of time.

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When you accomplish something in life, if you want to go back to scratch and go back to that $7 a month place where I once lived and visit that place for a long period of time. If you were here, when you went back to scratch, you would now be here. Scratch is what makes you better. Scratch, friction, obstacles create growth. There’s no friction when you’re this far up in the game anymore. You think there is. That’s right. When you achieve so much, the friction is minor. Because why? I’m sore. I’m going to get a massage today. I’m hungry. I’m going to eat today. The refrigerator is always full.

So your discomfort is now very minuscule to your discomfort back here in the $7 a month place. So you have to go back to the total discomfort to then raise your level of where you’re at now. I’m not saying stay there and stay there. Visit it. And then you raise your level.

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Most things that are bad to people is because they can project what the fuck it takes to get there. And as they’re fucking projecting that shit, they’re like, oh man, dude, you’re destroying your life, your health. You have no family, you’re unbalanced. I can make up a million things. But what the real thing is, you projected what the fuck that shit looks like, and it looks like fucking hell. It looks like hard work. It looks like suffering. It looks like a dedication that people don’t understand. And it is that. But at the end of all that shit, my friend, I front loaded my life, front loaded.

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It don’t matter how fucked up that shit might look. It don’t matter how much it feel like it ain’t gonna work. Delusional. Complete delusion. You gotta believe the delusion. Because it’s only delusional until it works. So is it really delusional?

A motherfucker only gonna call it delusion until it don’t work for nobody else to see, but for the whole world to see. And then once the world see it, there’s nothing delusional about it. Now, your delusion becomes, oh, he was a fucking genius. We didn’t see it when he saw it. We didn’t understand it when he did. We thought this motherfucker was crazy. But he definitely always, he always figured this thing was the thing to do and he stuck by that shit.

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I felt like everybody had written me off after those air balls. I was really excited when the schedule came out and I saw we had Utah.

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everyone wanted to be equally successful. Like everyone had equal drive. So I thought that was like an equal, equally distributed ingredient amongst the population. And that was, that was my naivete. I didn’t realize that like motivation and like drive and grit and hustle was actually like an exceptional quality. And so then quickly I realized like, whoa, I’m just going to outwork everybody. Like I’m not the most charismatic person, you know, I can speak, I got a good thing going, but I’m not the most, I’m not the smartest person to go to Harvard law. Right.

I don’t have the highest IQ, but I can compete with the best of them, but I am going to outwork you. Like I’ll put in more hours, I’ll read more books, I’ll listen to more podcasts. Like I will do more meetings, I’ll travel to more cities like that I can do.

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The guy who is willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball. You know, he got the, oh, he got the, oh, okay, he got two. He go, ooh, God, he hustling grabbed that one. That was gonna be out of bounds, but he saved it back in. It’s like the commodity that I see. the majority of people who aren’t getting the places they want or aren’t achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle. It’s strictly based on being outworked. It’s strictly based on missing crucial opportunities.

I say all the time, if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready.

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If you worked hard enough, if you dream big enough, if you were tough enough and you made yourself tough enough, you sacrificed enough,

you became polished and savvy enough and technically equipped to do things that you had and you learned those things and you just worked yourself to the bone. No matter where you came from, no matter what part of the world, no matter who your parents were, no matter what your poverty level may have been, may not have been, no matter what you had, what you didn’t have, no matter what people had told you, didn’t tell you, all of that, if you made yourself and took advantage of that opportunity and got yourself ready and you were ready to behave like a champion,

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In order to be the best, in order to reach that next level, you can no longer be interested. Interested is a hobby. You can be interested in many things. Oh, I’m interested in reading, I’m interested in gardening, I’m interested in cars. You can fall in and out of your interest,

but your obsession stays with you all the time. You have to become obsessed.

Interested people watch obsessed people change the world.

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I can’t catch a break guys. Yeah, get them the fuck away from me. I can’t I can’t be around those guys I don’t want to hear that shit.

I don’t want to hear that shit.

I don’t buy it because everybody has bad breaks Yeah,

I’ve had a shit ton of bad breaks, but you know what I did I stayed up Yeah, and I thought through it and I and I figured out what the fuck I did wrong And then I went back.

It’s like I fucked up everything I’ve ever done a hundred times. There’s no way,

there’s no other way to do it. and I’ve had a bunch of shitty breaks.

Everybody has. but you got to realize when you have those shitty breaks what that is.

It’s an opportunity for you to reassess, reboot, get better, figure out another way,

find another way through. It’s just little challenges.

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and they wanna ask me, how did you do it? I can’t tell you how, cause you’re not gonna fucking, you’re not gonna do it. You’re not gonna do it. You’re gonna continue being out, cause every day you wake up, like he says, not like get the coffee, make the pancakes, kiss the girl, kiss the kids. You wake up, right to work. Immediately your mind is in action. No one wants to do that. No one. And I don’t blame them. But don’t be mad when you’re laying there in your fucking bed and you’re in the fucking hospital and you’re 70,

80, nine years old and you’re thinking, man, I feel like I didn’t fucking do something. Cause you did. You didn’t do it. You didn’t do shit. You may live the great life, man, but you’re always gonna feel empty inside. I don’t feel empty. So call me what you want. There’s not one empty bone in my fucking body.

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What would you do if you weren’t afraid? And I just, I love thinking about that when I’m thinking about big life decisions. Like what would I do if I weren’t afraid? And it’s usually like the big one, the bigger thing that I really want to do, but I’m afraid to do it. It’s like, that’s what I should do. And to your point about, you had the five things that you told your team. The one that we have is, originally it was something that we called one of one, which is, make only things that we can make.

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And so what the game of life involves is knowing your uniqueness, is knowing who you are, is knowing what makes you weird and what makes you odd. Okay? And the problem is, is that we’re social animals, and the pressure continually on us is to fit into a group, is to be like other people, to have their ideas, to have their values, to have their taste, to dress like them. Okay? And that happens when you’re young, you’re in your adolescence, we all go through that phase, I went through that phase. But if you keep on that track when you’re in your 20s and on,

which is happening a lot today through social media, you’re going to lose that sense of what makes you odd and different.

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Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

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You know, it’s kind of Saturday afternoon. Too many people there, man. I’ll tell you that much. Aren’t too many winners out here in the world. That workout in there, no weights involved. Just our body weight and our ego. How bad do we want it? We made something happen right there that’s going to transform the rest of our work in the gym. Meaning we broke the monotony up, made our body guess, and shocked to new situations. Take that kind of rubble back into our normal workouts. Exponential growth comes. When you do the same thing over and over again, you get the same results.

Shock it up like we just did. Get ready for a little bit of a tsunami coming in of success.

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I’m always there, my mind is always on this, it never shuts off, I can never stop thinking about this game. Like I’m sure you with your film and things, you would look at something and think of a shot or a scene. I’d look at a movement and think of another movement. My mind is always on it. I just know that. I just look around and I don’t see nothing that troubles me in these divisions in that UFC roster. I’m just confident in my ability and in my mind frame. Nobody can tell me that I move the same as any of these guys, because I don’t move the same.

I move differently, I move unique and I know I move unique. Not only that, I speak unique, I act unique. I’m just different than these people.

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Everyone always looks at them and says, what do champions have that I don’t have? And he said, they have it backwards. He said, it’s what do champions not have that I have? It’s what do they lack? And it’s an off button. They just don’t stop. And so in dealing with the gold medalist, he’s like, they just never stop. They just can’t stop. Everything in their life is geared towards one goal. And so finding that thing, and they approach everything in their life that way.

And I think that that level of obsession around everything that you touch on a daily basis is required for really getting to where you wanna go.

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The people that surround them are all idiots because only idiots want to be around. I can’t catch a break, guys. Yeah, only the dummies stick around after a while, Even if they’re your good friend, you got to be like bro, you got a can stop You got to stop with all this. I can’t catch a break bullshit all the time You’re complaining you could be instead hustling. You could be instead chasing your dream. You could be instead figuring out what you’re doing wrong, trying to prove certain aspects of your life, getting your shit together, reading a book, Meditating something, fucking something.

but this I can’t catch a break. it is not helping anybody and it pushes everybody away from you.

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You may never get another one some of you after this there may not be another opportunity Let me tell you what I tell athletes the worst thing in the world is not growing up in poverty The worst thing in the world is growing up in poverty and coming here and get worship and not taking advantage of this and you got To go back to the hood.

That’s. that’s the worst thing that could ever happen to a bro. traveling and being in hotels and seeing the world and eating like you, eating and not taking advantage of this and getting kicked out and Going back home to the hood being somebody that they talk about because you were sweet for four years You better not lose this. This is an opportunity of a lifetime. Your grandma counting on you to do the right thing, your mama counting on you. your cousins, your brothers and sisters are counting on You to cash in on this opportunity.

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Game changer is all-encompassing. People look at, oh my God, this guy’s a game changer. No, game changer is a very, very big, big topic. It has a lot of things shoved into that. You don’t just show up and you’re a game changer. You don’t show up to game changing, man. It’s something that you have to harness. Something that you want to be. You have to be that person that has developed a game changer mindset. A person that wants to be the uncommon amongst the uncommon. You are not a game changer. If what I say right now offends you, scares you, makes you like, oh man,

I don’t know if that’s for me. You’re not a game changer. A game changer is a mother****** that says, I’ve been training my entire life to take the big shot.

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three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today.

We heal as a team or we are going to crumble. Inch by inch, play by play, until we are finished. We are in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch at a time.

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that Buddha black line where you reach greatness. And I started realizing that’s what I can do. I cannot work a motherfucker. I can outwork everybody, that’s what it takes. I can’t dunk. But over here, everything that I want is over here in this fucking pile of shit. Hard work, dedication, sacrifice. I can do that. I can do that all fucking day long. I can get up at three o’clock in the morning. I can outwork you. That’s where I found greatness over there.

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One thing important is that we all have these moments, these moments in time that either make you or break you, that can determine the rest of your life. The rest of your life can be determined by one simple decision. Nineteen years ago, 300 pounds, I was praying for cockroach, I made a decision to try to be a Navy SEAL. My whole goal was to go on this path every day after work and to run a mile to a mile and a half. This rock was about the 0.5 mark in my run. This rock was a moment that should have broken me.

I got 0.5 into it, I weighed 297 pounds, I sat on this rock and I had a decision to make. I wanted to quit, I wanted to give up. There wasn’t some inspirational quote, there wasn’t something, there wasn’t nothing. It was me, myself, and it was freezing out here. I had to make a decision. The decision I made was to get up and keep on going. That one moment changed the rest of my life.

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When you start taking responsibility for your actions, you start to find the belief in what you’re doing, the passion behind it. You create value in what you’re doing. Those no longer mundane tasks. Everything has a purpose and an end state. There’s a direction to a designation. If you don’t like the designation you’re going to, well, you can’t change that overnight. You cannot change it overnight. But you can change the direction overnight. So if you are looking at your life right now, and what you do every single day,

and it’s a one-way street to hell with no return, that’s not so appealing to me, man. I don’t want to be part of that. So get off that beaten path society says is so right. Believe in yourself and what you’re doing, man. Say, fuck that. Now, that is going into nowhere. I don’t want to be nowhere. I want to ensure that I am some value to somebody.

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how greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know, it’s something that truly exists in all of us. Sitting with Ali, sitting with Nelson Mandela, it’s very simple. This is what I believe, and I’m willing to die for it. Period.

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do you want to accept you… Do you want to accept a version of you that you shouldn’t accept? One that you ‘re not proud of, ? One that doesn’t live up to their word? One whose thoughts, actions and intentions aren’t aligned fully? You go, well, I mean, I can, but I don’t particularly feel good about that. That feels like the higher version of me, the potential version of me that I want to live up to, is I’m sort of derogating them, that this isn’t really the tribute to them that it should be. And yeah, that’s why the self-acceptance movement, that’s why people feel icky about it.

People feel icky about the self-acceptance movement because they know that people are accepting a version of themselves, which is falling short from what it could be.

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But the chances are you won’t. You won’t need that rest. Chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness, it was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path.

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when you say you’re gonna do something and then you follow through and you do it, not at the end when you cross the marathon, you finish it or your hands raise. I’m talking about right now. The small steps in between the big successes that everyone sees. No one sees this. Right now I’m saying like there’s a confidence to it, man. There’s a bad motherfucker that’s right here, you know, that’s getting ahead of the competition. There’s an overwhelming sense of fulfillment and pride and satisfaction with that. You know, I didn’t have to shoot up anything. I didn’t have to drink anything.

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Wow. What I’ve learned is to always keep going. Always. You know, there’s been times, particularly early in my career, where it just feels like this is the end. But what I’ve come to find out is that, you know, no matter what happens, the storm eventually ends. And when the storm does end, you want to make sure that you’re ready. And so I’ve really learned to put one foot in front of the other, good, bad, or indifferent, because eventually that storm passes.

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I can’t give you shit. You can’t give them shit. We can give you ideas. But in the day, when I was losing the weight, I had to miserably wake up every morning in the cold because it was Indiana, November is when it started. I was miserable.

This is your new life.

Take it or leave it. There’s no happiness about it. There’s no peace behind it. It sucks. It just fucking sucks. And that’s the one thing, if I could teach anybody anything, it just fucking sucks. And it’s gonna continue to suck. And then one day you get to a special part in your life, that it might get a little bit better.

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Just get up, move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. Move towards that challenge and go attack it. And you may be successful and you may not be successful, but you will be better. And the next challenge, you’re gonna be more prepared for. And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for. And you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and then you’re gonna win. And that’s life. Life without those challenges, it’s just existence. Don’t just exist, go live.

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Everybody want to be a beast. Everybody got a lion. Tattoos of lions. Lions all on their Twitter feed. But everybody got the lion thing now, they tweeting out, rawr. But when it’s time to practice, you ain’t on beast mode. When it’s time to watch film, you ain’t on beast mode. You ain’t watching your dudes. Let me say this and I’m getting out of here. Can I be real with y’all? Most of y’all think that a lion is who he is because of how ferocious he is when he catch that gazelle, when he catch that zebra. Can I be real with y’all?

I want y’all to study this when y’all finish and tell me if I’m telling the truth. If a lion see an animal that’s wounded or a real hunter see an animal that’s wounded, what do they do? They do what? They watch him, but they don’t do what? They don’t kill him. Why don’t they kill him? He already heard. And they beast.

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Passion. Passion is free.

Nobody can nobody can charge you for passion. Nobody can tell you what passion looks like, because that’s all about you. Effort. Effort is isolated. The reason why effort is isolated because nobody can dictate it. Effort is 100% in the mind. No coach, no player, nobody else can make you run to the ball. Nobody else can make you finish a tackle. Nobody else can do it. That’s why it’s the most isolated things in this earth right now is effort and when you finally figure it out how to win real battles is found through fundamentals. That’s what wins championships. That’s what wins battles.

Blocking, tackling, blocking, tackling, and today get tired cuz you don’t know what tired feels like. That’s the only reason we do this.

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Are you worthy of a billion dollars? Well, are you a billionaire? No, then you’re not worthy. And so just like, I think we have these things, it’s just like you’re unbalanced. It’s like, you’re not worthy. There’s these things that we’re programmed to say, oh, that’s bad. You have to tell everyone they’re worthy. Everyone’s beautiful. No, if everyone are beautiful, then no one’s beautiful. And yet again, we’re back at square one. And so it’s, I guess, drinking the tonic. It’s going through the shit, which is honestly the boring stuff that no one wants to do for an extended period of time.

And accepting that you suck and that it is okay because the first step is accepting that you suck so that you can do the second step, which is doing something about it.

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One thing important is that we all have these moments, these moments in time that either make you or break you, that can determine the rest of your life. The rest of your life can be determined by one simple decision. Nineteen years ago, 300 pounds, I was praying for cockroach, I made a decision to try to be a Navy SEAL. My whole goal was to go on this path every day after work and to run a mile to a mile and a half. This rock was about the 0.5 mark in my run. This rock was a moment that should have broken me.

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it is gonna be more difficult than you think because people are gonna throw shade, people are gonna talk shit. You, your limiting beliefs are gonna try and talk shit on you. Like your version 1.0 of yourself, your inner critic, your inner bitch, that bitch voice that we all have at the project, we call it the inner bitch and the inner beast, which is the critic and the advocate, right? Your beast is your advocate and your inner bitch is your critic. Your 1.0 version is gonna try and negotiate with your 2.0 version and say, no, no, no,

don’t evolve, don’t grow, don’t change, become, go back to the loser that you were, just have another drink, watch TV for another hour, eat that fucking ding dong and then chase it down with a Twinkie. Sick motherfucker.

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And so like, if you want to do big shit, it takes a way longer period of time because the easy shit, the little hills, everyone conquers really quickly. I’m on time. I say please and thank you. It’s like so fucking what? And so like, if you want to do something that most people can’t do, literally just extend the time horizon on the things that most people can’t weather. Like, there’s so much opportunity on the other side of being willing to persist for an extended period of time on the correct path without getting positive reinforcement from your environment.

And the longer you can stick with something without that positive feedback loop in terms of the big external thing, the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them.

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I mean, there is no fundamental secret here. It’s called hard work and sweat. If you have that and you’re willing to provide that in exchange for a better life, well, everyone will make that deal with you. If you’re willing to give up that for pride, accomplishment, feeling of self-worth, if you’re willing to make that transaction, Miami Fitness is your bank. And it’s open every single day for your transactions. Make your deposits every fucking day. Do your dues. Become the person you want to be. It’s the easiest fucking equation in the world.

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When you when you take that road and you don’t want to just fit in It’s a lonely road It’s a lonely road and you get a lot of haters man. Like I tell people all time, man, If I can walk on water, Motherfuckers to say, because I couldn’t swim, Take that right to for now. Yeah, take that right now. And and this is a true statement I used to get so mad like I said about this fucking shit man, but I sat back one day I was like, you know what? All these people hating on me man Like I have a guy who’s trying to who’s trying to write a book saying that I was telling people He’s a famous author.

I’ll never drop names. Do I’m not trying to hurt your business, but you’re funny These people are funny. Keep on talking your shit. I will absorb it and make a mixtape out of your fucking ass, like I do.

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Just get up,

move towards that challenge,

whatever that challenge is.

Move towards that challenge and go attack it.

And you may be successful and you may not be successful,

but you will be better.

And the next challenge,

you’re gonna be more prepared for.

And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

And you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail,

and then you’re gonna win.

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I’m from Detroit, homeless, mama got pregnant with me at 17 years old, high school drop out, took me 12 years to get a four year degree, I’m coming now, it’s in view, you finally made it to the big leagues and now you want to chill? Now you got the big head, now you can’t grind? You here now, you here now, you finally made it and this is where you break up? This is where you start chilling? This is where you get comfortable? You made it now, you made it now, you in the big leagues now, they watching you now. This is where you make it permanent.

Yeah, I saw it, I saw it, perfect, perfect, nope, practice don’t make perfect, practice make permanent. This permanent. y’all. this is permanent. You can go wherever you want to go from here.

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Now we’re outside right now. Why are we outside? Because we want to f***ing transform man. So why are we gonna do what we’re gonna do? We’re gonna get a little more motivation. I’m gonna tell everyone motherf***ers out here that we’re here to f***ing win. This is my f***ing time!

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I don’t want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. You know, I want to represent an idea. I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right? That you’re in a universe and two plus two equals four. Two plus two only equals four if you accept that two plus two equals four. Two plus two is going to be what I want it to be. You know, and there’s a redemptive power that making a choice has, you know, rather than feeling like you’re at effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Like you just decide what it’s going to be, who you’re going to be,

how you’re going to do it. Just decide.

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Going to the pool used to scare me. So I went to the pool an awful, awful lot. And then the bike got easier. I was able to run more. I went from like one mile, one mile was a great accomplishment, two miles, and then from two to three was a big one. Then I went from three to six. And then, like they have a warning order that they give people to get ready for BUDS. And the whole thing was running six miles five days a week. And that was my goal. And so I just kept, I failed. I go back to scratch. I use some positive motivation. I have like one day where I’m like, I’m defeated.

But I started realizing this is part of the process. This is part of the journey. I had to realize this is part of my process versus just saying, like I used to, I’m just not good enough. If I’m not good enough, we always say that. I’m just not good enough. And then we try something else. I’m gonna make myself good enough. And that became my mentality. I’m gonna make myself good enough.

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So if I say,

is there a version of yourself that’s better than you are right now?

And most people hopefully would say, yes.

It’s like, great, accept that person.

And I think that to me, when we talk about the authenticity,

accepting yourself is accepting the ideal that we can live up to. And that is what we accept,

not the shitty version of that that we are today. And I think that marries both sides of the argument.

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And I got home, it’s probably like three in the morning, and I went down to the high school, which is down the street from my house. And the janitor let me in the gym, and I shot all day, all day. I mean, all day. And this was right after that playoff game. And I didn’t leave the gym. I just kept shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and practicing and practicing. And I got a chance to let out the steam of disappointing my teammates and millions of fans. I got a chance to let all that out instead of bottling it up.

And envision that moment over and over and over and over and over. That was a huge something for me because I felt like everybody had written me off after those air balls. I was really excited when the schedule came out and I saw we had Utah.

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And by simply going through the motions,

you overcame that path. And you stayed on the righteous path, the disciplined path. You stayed on the war path,

which is right where you know that you belong.

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Anybody looks at you at 26, 27, 28 years old and says, hey man, what’s wrong with you? How come you don’t have everything figured out? They’re a fool.

Knowledge and experience and wisdom takes time. Wisdom comes from experience and experience takes time. The more experience you have, the more you learn from that experience, the wiser you can get.

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The big thing is you gotta put some big runs in followed by some medium runs. Yesterday I did a 50k. My legs were all beat down. What was me tired for like a shit. But guess what? I know how about days off? One day but not today. If you’re training for a nice big race, get your legs all tired, mucked up, jacked up where your mind and body say I don’t want to fucking do shit anymore. And guess what you do? You go out and get some more miles in. So yesterday I did a 50k. Today I’m going to do a nice 15 miler. Nice and easy.

Legs feel like shit but that’s how they’re going to feel at mile 60 and 70 of a 100 mile race. Get after it. Like I said, not today. Get after it.

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Legs feel like shit but that’s how they’re going to feel at mile 60 and 70 of a 100 mile race. Get after it. Like I said, not today. Get after it.

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As you get older, you don’t hear it anymore because you’re hearing all the other voices. You’re hearing your voices of your parents, the teachers, the culture around you, your peers, your friends, telling you, this is what’s cool, this is what’s not cool. And that little voice becomes completely drowned out. And so you don’t know who you are anymore. And you’re afraid, particularly young people today. I mean, maybe it’s always been that way, are so afraid of being different. They’re so afraid of being odd. But look at all the powerful people in this world.

Look at your Elon Musks, look at your celebrities in entertainment, in business and politics. They’re one of a kind. They have like, I hate that word, but it’s like a brand. They’re different. They stand out for something that’s truly different. You know, even Albert Einstein, there’s nobody else like Einstein. There’s nobody like Da Vinci. Okay? That’s where your power lies.

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But you don’t have to love everything about what you do.

But this is what you have to do. You have to create that. You have to crave that end result so intensely that the work that you put in is irrelevant. You know you have to do the work. You know you have to do the process. You know how I love individuals. They come in and they tell you on stage, you know, you got to outwork the competition. It’s early mornings. It’s late nights. You got to do all these things. The same, we all know that. We all know that. It’s just like people that say, you know, follow your passion. Well, follow your passion. How about act on your passion?

Your passion is like, OK, where are we going? Your passion says, let’s go. Now it’s asking you for direction. Now that you form a partnership with those three things, then you form a partnership with your success.

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So if I say, is there a version of yourself that’s better than you are right now? And most people hopefully would say, yes. It’s like, great, accept that person. And I think that to me, when we talk about the authenticity, accepting yourself is accepting the ideal that we can live up to. And that is what we accept, not the version of that that we are today. And I think that marries both sides of the argument.

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burning the candle at both ends. eventually it’s gonna catch up with you, and For me it’s can come in the form of too much travel, too much exercise. Sometimes I’ll just be pressed at work working with a bunch of different companies Sometimes I’m writing and I’m trying to get a bunch of writing done Sometimes I’m training so much jujitsu. It’s going crazy,

So anyways or a lot of times it’s the combination of all these things going on at once because I’m trying to get a bunch Done in a short amount of time and I end up whatever coming off the coming off the track a little bit coming off the rails A little bit and so what do I do on those kind of days when I’m starting to feel like that? Well number one, I like to force myself to do it. Anyways.

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You know you do your own thing, you know, especially when everyone else isn’t doing and they call you crazy Whatever else. Oh you in here and people driving by being like I got doing up so late well What’s up so late mean? I don’t know. It’s the moments in life, the decisions you make on a moment to moment basis that add up to be the guy Or not the guy. Tonight I did something. you know That I feel more of a guy for me, who I am, my guy. You know repeat that over and over and over again It’s just one it’s a better life. You feel like more confident. You have a better sense of reality.

You know the way you go about your day is is in a more productive fashion, You’re more goal-oriented. they all just synergetically go together into a movement of force. that’s, It’s very unstoppable man.

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You have to be willing to outwork Everybody in the world and that that that’s the hard part That’s the hard part. This isn’t like some five-step process where you can do these five fucking steps, You’re gonna end up with this magical world. No, I’m basically teaching you how to callous over your victims mentality. I’m teaching you how to Like. I did 67,000 pull-ups in training for the pull-up record. I Was seriously calloused in my hands to protect them What I’m trying to do with people is teach them how to find more themselves to where they empower themselves I’m all about the underdog.

So that’s all that. So that’s what the books all about, man. It’s all about having that step process, and I had to share this with people.

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The weight you have to lose, my friend. Sorry. It’s gonna suck every f***ing day. Because then when you’re 300 pounds, you’re gonna go out to lose weight, you could probably get injured. So then you gotta work on the injury and then you get even more depressed. This is what I went through. And then you’re hungry because now you’re depressed. It’s just a vicious cycle. And if you’re not strong mentally and you have no willpower, you’re gonna continue falling back in this hole versus the man that sits back and goes, all right, motherf***er. This is why I cuss. This is what is in me.

This is what it took for me to be me. Sorry. It didn’t take, hey, OK, we’re gonna do this today. No, this f***ing really sucks. This is real, dude.

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I just feel different to this on another level, on another playing field than any of them before me. That’s why I know,

I have no doubt in my mind that I’m the greatest, that I will be the greatest of all time. In my head already I am better than everybody and I know, I know you know, there’s a lot of hate come from people you know, but I know and I will prove, you give me time and I will prove it to everybody. Nobody has my mindset. You know, I’m a specialist in human movement, yeah. I recognise movement in live play better than anybody, yeah.

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A part of being a beast just ain’t eating a gazelle. A part of being a beast is the hunts. It’s the hunt that they’re excited about. They like to see the gazelles run. Then boom, they take off. Do you know that even before the gazelles get there, that the lions start listening to the gazelle? They plan and they all stop and they steal and they wait for the gazelle to come. Do you know that they take a couple lions and say, y’all go that way, and then boom, y’all chase the gazelle. Don’t even eat them, just chase them and make them come this way. And when they get this way, they playing games.

Cause real lions like to hunt. They love the process just as much as they love the prize. And some of y’all just want to score. You don’t like the process. You’re not in love with the process.

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if I could work that hard every day,

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That’s selfish? I’m meaning even more extreme than that. Yes, selfish to my father because, and in a way I don’t want to look at it as selfish to him. I was just on some, I don’t want to do what you want to do. That’s not really being selfish. That’s just having a difference in opinion, right? Selfish, when I say selfish, it means my children, right? I’ve had to miss moments that were never going to get back. I missed my oldest son’s high school graduation. I missed one of my daughter’s college graduations. I’ve missed times when I should have been there to teach my child how to drive,

or I should have been there to teach my child how to ride a bike. I missed a lot of that.

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Everybody wants the view, but no one wants the climb. The people who win love the climb.

And the real mountain has no peak. And so the view is always present the whole way up the climb.

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Because only idiots want to be around I can’t catch a break guys. Yeah only the dummies stick around after a while Even if they’re your good friend, you gotta be like bro, you gotta fucking stop You gotta stop with all this. I can’t catch a break bullshit all the time You’re complaining you could be instead hustling. You could be instead chasing your dream. You could be instead figuring out what you’re doing wrong, trying to prove certain aspects of your life, getting your shit together, reading a book, meditating something, Fucking something. but this I can’t catch a break.

shit is not helping anybody and it pushes everybody away from you. But some people they get caught in that pattern and it might be their parents It might be how they were raised somebody might have told me they were useless real early on It’s stuck and they just they always they never feel like they get enough reassurance They never feel like they get enough motivation and they feel like other people get more and they look at all these other people How come he gets that? How come she gets this? How come he’s got that going on and that all that’s bad for you to that ain’t no good for you.

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I’m comfortable with the understanding of hard work brings great rewards. This is a reminder of the hard work and dedication that I put into everything that I’ve done. I’m not content because I know where I came from and I don’t ever want to go back. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to go back to the city. That doesn’t mean I want to go back to the people. That means I don’t want to go back to living like I once was. I want to go back and I want to help. I want to inspire, I want to motivate. I want to show people that there is a way out, that there is a way to do more,

to get more, to obtain more. But I personally don’t want to lose all that I’ve been able to get. So I need to make sure that I do everything to keep it.

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Most people, like for me, he’s just crazy. That’s why I don’t like talking about it, man. I know I’m not crazy. I know what I had to do to get where I had to go. People look at it as crazy because they’re people that just, if you can’t imagine yourself doing something, if you can’t imagine yourself doing something, the person that’s doing it is crazy. Because in your mind, the logic behind it, it doesn’t compute. Therefore, you have to give somebody a title. And a title for me is usually, he’s crazy, he’s this, he’s that. No, no. For some reason, me wanting to be somebody is so bad in my life.

I created that. And I’ve been trying to figure out years of my life, trying to explain to people. But even though you’re explaining it now,

this is the easy part. Them listening to this is the easy part.

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Just like we walked in there, that blitzkrieg. what it is is two forces joining. One is the belief in what you’re doing like Muhammad Ali believe so much. He was a champion He says a champion before he wasn’t champion That’s the belief. It has to be that way. That’s the steering wheel of life, the direction. Then what’s gonna fire that through is the engine?

your undying will, the conviction to see it through. that was Michael Jordan’s quotes. I Failed and failed and failed and failed, and because of that I succeeded. You learned and learning got stronger and stronger. It’s like that steel going into the lava: get hotter and hotter and hotter. and you know This hammered into the strength, the tensile strength of it all. It takes that kind of pressure of life to create something that stands the test of time.

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Your haters will become your congratulators. And the more stones they throw at your ass, your mansion gonna get bigger.

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We’re all writing a book. What’s your book look like? What does your fucking book look like? Like your life is a book.

You got a bunch of chapters in your book, but when they close that book, how good was the book? How good was your book? What was the ending to your book?

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Everyone is jealous of what you’ve got. No one is jealous of how you got it.

I love that quote.

My god. People see the trophies, but not the training ground.

Everybody wants the view, but no one wants the climb. The people who win love the climb. And the real mountain has no peak. And so the view is always present the whole way up the climb.

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a lot of people say, don’t be like him, like me. And I get it. And you say, was it worth it? It was worth it. I’m going to challenge these people who say, man, that’s a little too much. It is, which is why most of my messages is for everybody. When it comes down to the uncommon amongst the uncommon, it is only for 0.0000001%.

And these are the people who are want to be the uncommon amongst the uncommon. I’m talking about Grover. Michael Jordan is in that category. It’s those people who realize what they want and beyond all things, I’m going to achieve it.

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You want to put 48 minutes of great basketball out there on both ends of the floor. And that’ll always be our mindset. It’s kind of played out the way it’s played, but, you know, that’s never the goal.

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And with that success come a lot of people that are going to applaud you, but the majority will hate you, man. They really will. They’re going to hate you because your success is a spotlight shining down their misfortune. They f***ing hate you for what you’re doing is reminding them of their missed opportunities and stuff.

So it’s lonely, man. It’s like being this only car out in the parking lot. But if you’re cool with that, man. If you’re cool with walking in the shadows of yourself and the only person you got is the man right there in the shadow, man. How you doing? Pretty good. How you doing? All right, man. Cool, cool. It’s kind of weird having a conversation with you, but ain’t no one else around because everyone else has faded way back then. Way back there. If you’re cool with that kind of walk of life, I’ll tell you, man.

The world is your playground.

You will rewrite the book on it all. You will. You will.

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So if, even if I don’t feel like working out, I’ll be like, you know what, just go do a quick workout, an easier workout, or I don’t wanna train jujitsu, we were talking about this earlier, don’t really feel like training, gonna go train anyways. Then maybe there’s some form of work that I’m supposed to do, I’m just gonna go and do the work anyways. Now, if the next day I still feel like I need a break, that’s sort of my red flag to say, all right, you know what, you need a break, you need to take some time, time, relax,

do some kind of active rest. I don’t really like just kind of sitting around. I’ll do something kind of active.

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You just like to put the pads on. you love when it’s showtime. everybody in the crowd you like: hey, Mom, can you see? you can’t even start until you know your people there. once you see them, you’re like showtime.

A real man in the dark when nobody’s watching. he putting in work. A real man when coach ain’t even watching he’s studying film on his own Because he’s he loves the process If you will be a champion if you will be a beast you’re gonna have to go through something Ain’t nobody gonna hand you nothing. Anybody gonna hand you no championship. Ain’t nobody gonna hand you no title. So this is my year. I end. this is my year.

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Someone who never let losing stop them. You know, and the idea that a single loss in a competition is somehow a defeat is completely insane. First of all, well, let’s say you’re a hockey player and you’re a good player and you lose the tournament. It’s like, well, so what? You played the game. You’re increasing your skills. It’s like there’s always next time. And one of the things that I’ve also been telling people, informing people about, is the idea that life isn’t a game. It’s a series of games. And the right ethic is to be the winner of the series of games. And part of that means, well,

you have to learn how to be a good loser because you’re not going to win every single game.

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A real man in the dark when nobody’s watching, he putting in work.

A real man when coach ain’t even watching,

he’s studying film on his own.

Because he loves the process.

If you will be a champion, if you will be a beast,

you’re going to have to go through something.

Ain’t nobody going to hand you nothing. Ain’t nobody going to hand you no championship.

Ain’t nobody going to hand you no title.

So this is my year I end. This is my year.

Listen to me. Say, be phenomenal. This is it.

I want you to chant it out. This is it.

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Was telling people to run into your kidneys got fucked up that my mentality of running is is I was telling people I was telling people to run into your kidneys got fucked up the way I think Compared the way he thinks I never told a motherfucker in my life. I Tell you to do better and go as far as you can I don’t tell you to go into you fucking kill yourself until you get rabid. Oh, but we’ll tell you this, Joe: You will never, never in life, Meet a hater doing better than you. that’s a fact. ever so I Realize that, and Jennifer gets so mad at the lies she hears and this and that,

because it comes all through, they spew it. Yeah, I told you for that man stop. Yeah, I can calm down bro.

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So I’m here to tell you that it will take longer. It will be more difficult. It will require more effort on your part. But you know what I can tell you about that? When you do the hard things, you will have a happy and easy life. But if you constantly choose to take the path of easy and negotiate and compromise, you will have a hard life. A hard life that ends with regret. So I’m here to tell you that if you live a no compromise life, if you become unreasonable in your expectations, find a group of fighter jets to belong to and no more f***ing crop dusters,

you will become the 2.0 that you deserve to become and that your family deserves to have as a leader.

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The preferred methodology for this situation for me is quite simple. And that is ignore and outperform them. While you’re over there watching me and talking about me, I’m working. I’m working hard. I’m taking things to the next level. You keep gossiping and I’ll keep working. You keep talking smack and I’ll keep working. You keep focusing on everything and everyone else and I’ll keep working. And when you finally look around at where you are and where I’m at,

you’ll realize that you have nothing left to talk smack about.

And you will lose and I will win. .

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Shh! I’d like to let you in on a very important secret I learned when I was about your age, boy.

You see, power, real power, doesn’t come to those who were born strongest, or fastest, or smartest.

No, it comes to those who will do anything to achieve it.

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I started from the bottom, like you like listening to it and see, started from the bottom, now what’s your bottom? What is your bottom when you’ve been worshiped since middle school? You’ve been tall your whole life, big your whole life. They worship you so much now that you think it’s about you. You don’t even know what the grind look like. I’m from Detroit, homeless. Mama got pregnant with me at 17 years old. High school dropout. Took me 12 years to get a four-year degree. I’m coming now, it’s in view. You finally made it to the big leagues and now you wanna chill?

Now you got the big head, now you can’t grind? You here now. You here now. You finally made it and this is where you break up? This is where you start chilling? This is where you get comfortable? You made it now. You made it now. You in the big leagues now. They watching you now. This is where you make it permanent. Yeah, I saw it, I saw it. Perfect, perfect, nope. Practice don’t make perfect. Practice make permanence.

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it’s not about being perfect, it’s about just everyday, one step at a time, trying to be better, trying to do more. And I’m learning a lot about myself. I had to break myself down in order to be able to be better. And- What do you mean by breaking yourself down? Well, just when I told you about like all those barriers you put up over time to protect yourself and then kind of like knocking those barriers down. Yes. And it’s enabled me to connect with more people. It’s enabled me to realize my place in the world. And I don’t feel like I don’t belong anymore.

I feel like, you know, I’ve got a place and I’ve got a purpose. And that’s, and I think a lot of people are struggling to find that purpose, but it’s okay. You will find it. Do not give up. Keep getting up, you know, like, just keep saying those things to yourself and you will eventually find it. And, you know, you’re already living in your purpose and-

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You’re crazy until you’re successful, then you’re a genius.

I think for a lot of people, when you’re grinding, people think you’re too obsessed, you’re a weirdo, stop only making videos, get a life, be realistic. People will convince you you’re out of your mind for wanting to do this, but then once you’re successful, they’re like, yo, your drive,

your tenacity was great, but it’s like, yeah, well, where was that back then? You know what I mean?

I didn’t get that when I was a small channel, and so I think you’re crazy until you’re successful, then you’re a genius.

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Energy expelled value what we’re doing their belief in something hard work behind the belief grows in the prosperity of something Yeah, we need to just wake up and grab a shower You know wash our nuts and then grab a coffee for some energy go to work. No, we’ve earned some fucking energy. That kind of energy, once lit, never goes out. Work better get ready for this man. You’re all the employees and shit the house. You know the people you work with in those cubicles.

They’ve heard duck and cover because and heats coming in you’ve earned guys you do that every single day You are you repeatedly do and anything you do if you look in the mirror and you frown upon yourself You created that that’s not an accident. It’s a habit. It’s like you look in the mirror and you smile Because you see excellence. That’s not an accident. as a habit you start. You guys need to start taking responsibility for your efforts. You.

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Look, I’m pumped man. I’m pumped. I’ve been listen to me. I’ve been reading your post some of y’all you like ET I’m frustrated ET. I can’t I can’t fail another test II. I can’t take another loss. Listen to me some of you I’ve been reading it you tired. I feel you, you tired. some of you scared. look, some of you hurt. Listen to me very closely. I need you to do me a favor. I need you to be a favor. Listen to me, Uh-uh, don’t, don’t worry about what’s gonna happen the rest of this year. Like, don’t even give me the rest of this month.

like, flat-out I I’m not interested in tomorrow like today do me a huge favor. Just can you just survive today? All right. I want you to say this with me Cuz I’m gonna give you a help your boy out. All right, so I need you I need you to say this with me and that is to me I can Mm-hmm. I will, yeah, I must.

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See, when it’s hard and there’s a struggle, see, what you become in the process is more important than the dream. That’s far more important. The kind of person you become, the character that you build, the courage that you develop, the faith that you’re manifesting. Oh, it’s something that you get up in the morning, you look yourself in the mirror, you’re a different kind of person. You walk with a different kind of spirit. And people know that you know what life is, that you have embraced life. You know it was hard, but you did it hard.

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You’ve lived a life dominated by doubt and fear. How do you step into bravery?

Step.

That’s how you step into bravery. Step. Take the step. Step aggressively towards your fear. And that, that step towards your fear is the step into bravery.

Because we’re scared of what we don’t know.

And there is only one way to learn and to know, and that is to confront that fear. You have to step, you have to go. And this simple action,

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You’ve lived a life dominated by doubt and fear. How do you step into bravery?

Step.

That’s how you step into bravery. Step. Take the step. Step aggressively towards your fear. And that, that step towards your fear is the step into bravery.

Because we’re scared of what we don’t know.

And there is only one way to learn and to know, and that is to confront that fear. You have to step, you have to go. And this simple action,

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Somebody recruited you somebody thought that you could help this program do what?

Somebody talked back to me. Somebody recruited you and put their life on the line- They kids life on the line, their house on the line, they pay check on the line- because they thought you could help them do What. Act like it.

Forget what your first priority is. I don’t care how much you’re getting paid. I don’t care how much people like you I don’t care how much you feel good. You came here to win. You ain’t coming for no other reason They come here to win. No jerseys. Somebody recruited you to win. They recruited you to do what? They recruited you to do what they act like it.

Man, give you an opportunity. worst thing you could do is spit on it.

a Man give you an opportunity. worst thing you do: smoke, weed on it, drink on it, party on it. That ain’t what they gave this opportunity to you for somebody. family on the line.

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Somebody recruited you somebody thought that you could help this program do what?

Man, give you an opportunity. worst thing you could do is spit on it.

a Man give you an opportunity. worst thing you do: smoke, weed on it, drink on it, party on it. That ain’t what they gave this opportunity to you for somebody. family on the line.

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This simple attitude, it answers so many questions. So many questions. How do you get to the gym every day?

You step, you go. How do you change your diet? You step, you go. How do you overcome fear of failure, or fear of success, or fear of fear itself?

You step.

And how do you face the fear of the unknown? You step. Don’t wait anymore, don’t think anymore, don’t plan anymore, don’t contemplate anymore, don’t make any more excuses or justifications. Don’t rationalize anything else. No, no, and no.

Instead, be aggressive. Take action now. And what is the first action that you need to take? What’s the first step you need to take?

The first step you need to take is just that.

Step.

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If it don’t work out, somebody got to pack up their stuff in a U-Haul and get to ghost. Somebody’s kids got to get in another school. Somebody got to break up their friendships. Nobody’s playing. This is about… We’re here to win. We’re here to what? We’re here to what? And they’re counting on you to do it. I ain’t lacing them up. They ain’t counting on me to win. They’re counting on you to win.

I didn’t always do this. I was born a leader, but I was scared to lead. Does that make sense? I’m guaranteeing you six off the rip if leaders would lead. Because the very thing you just said you struggling with, other teams are struggling with that. One of the ways you catch up is you look for the gaps. The leader stepping up and leading and saying, yo, here go the standards. Number one, I need my leaders, lead. Leaders lead. I don’t care if they cry, lead. I don’t care if they don’t like you, lead. It doesn’t matter how they feel, lead.

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I learn a lot from those people who made mistakes. I learn a lot from my mistakes. So this is what I when I this is my life attitude. When I feel I say see I will fail. When I succeed I say well I never know I could be successful. This make me very positive and optimistic. And because of so many mistakes too much failure that make me never complain. Because I get used to that. We are making mistake every day even to today.

We made stupid decisions almost every day. Nobody knows we thought is smart but finally prove a stupid. But we learn we do again. We learn we do again. That’s the way that’s the life attitude.

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We made stupid decisions almost every day. Nobody knows we thought is smart but finally prove a stupid. But we learn we do again. We learn we do again. That’s the way that’s the life attitude.

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first and foremost, Congratulations second. That’s just legit and To have made that much progress. You’re obviously on the path and getting after it what you’ve accomplished is awesome Some people never make that transition. So stay on it. Keep crushing it. now, as far as Discouragement goes from not having gotten on the path earlier- And do I feel that way? when I feel that way negative, don’t know. Okay, you were a little late getting in the game, But I’ll tell you what 26 years old. Is that what we’re talking about 26? Yeah at 26 years old. You’re young and you’re young.

and but I’ll tell you what: even if, even if you were 40 or 50 or 60 or 70, doesn’t matter, you’re In the game now and that’s, that’s what counts. and all those quote-unquote wasted years, They, they weren’t wasted, right? They’re not wasted Because you learned.

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That’s real. That’s some how to have haters. I had all kinds stuff and I just made up in my mind Look, I might not have been stronger. Listen to me. I might not have been smarter I might not have been brighter, but I made up in my mind. I’m gonna get through this. So we’re gonna put an image up and I need you to see this image, right? And when I when you look at this image what I want you to see is this just this is just this is classic Uh, my man, look at him. He Got the two he hidden he hidden he probably got 998 hits. He got one more.

He just got one or two more hits and all them diamonds gonna come out and you know why he’ll never see diamonds. look: 998 hits he had two or three left He would have cracked that thing But you know he why he never succeeded and why most of you never succeeded because you keep giving up Every single sit to me he gave up if you was gonna give up you should have gave up last year If you was gonna give up you should have gave up two years ago. You should have gave up $2,000 ago You should listen to me. You should have quit a long time ago. You don’t already put in 998 hits. get some out of it.

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where you currently are as great as you think it is is just an intermission to the rest of your life where you can be.

Don’t stop the journeys with the same. Don’t forget where you came from.

Remember that person that was hungry, that wanted more. Remember that person now because you have more to get.

Don’t let society’s haunting take stop you from your pursuit of where you can be. Don’t be a wannabe, wanna be more. Wanna put the work in.

Everybody in life, guys,

wants to be something. No one wants to just be a wannabe.

Everyone wants to be the lawyer, wants to be the doctor, wants to be the inspiration,

wants to be someone, a principal. No one wants to be forgotten.

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One of my Direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, He would. he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on, And he’d say, boss, we got this and that and the other thing. and I look at him and I’d say good. and finally one day he was telling me about some issue that he was having some problem and He said I already know what you’re gonna say. I Said well, what am I gonna say? He said you’re gonna say good.

He said that’s what you always say: when something is wrong and going bad, you always just look at me and say good.

And I said, well, yeah when Things are going bad There’s gonna be some good that’s gonna come from it Didn’t get the new high-speed gear. We wanted- good. didn’t get promoted

Good, more time to get better.

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Learned about what it’s like to be overweight, learned about what it’s like to be weak, and the knowledge that you learned about those things is Fuel to make sure that it never happens again. Because you know. you know what is out there and you know how bad it can get, and- and this is the other reason why It’s beneficial That you you have a past that wasn’t perfect is now you can teach other people how to do it Very clearly, you know, you can inspire other people to do a look what you did deal what you did to your brother You know, right. It’s another good example that.

so Back in the day, before anybody knew what jiu-jitsu was, back in the day, I am the worst person to introduce jiu-jitsu to people Because when they see me because I’m 225 pounds and I’m you know a big guy and they think of course this guy can choke me Of course, you know, they don’t expect anything else. So when I choke them they’re like: well, yeah, you were really strong.

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Because either you scared of them or you scared of them working at the end of the year. As grown men say, when we walk out there as one, the man who walks in the arena as a winner usually walks out of the arena as a winner. Some of y’all still worried about what the analysts say about y’all. That ain’t what you should be worried about. You should be worried about what you say about you. You can’t wait for the conditions to be—you can’t wait! Whatever your position is, you can’t wait! You gotta be a winner in your position. You gotta take ownership of special teams.

You gotta take ownership offense. You gotta take ownership defense. You can’t wait! Nobody’s coming to save you. Nobody’s coming to make y’all champions. You have to make a decision when the year starts that this is where we gonna end up. And then you gotta wake up every day and do everything you can to make sure that happens. I vow to be responsible for my position. To be a team player. It’s not about me. It’s about us. You owe you.

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we became something that we’re not, okay? And that’s why it’s very important to remind yourself of who you are, remember who you are. I came out here today because there’s things in my life that I realized that labels are being stuck upon my life and my heart that I am not. Personally, that the world tried to give me, that failure tried to give me, that people tried to give me. And some of us, what we do, we become the pain that other people give us. What we do is we become the depression that the world tries to give us.

What we do is we become the insecurities that comparison of our life tries to give us. And we become that and we start to feel less like ourselves. We start to feel not motivated. We start to feel not inspired. We start to feel depressed. We started you get this COVID-19 stuff that’s going on and we start to attack our immune system, our mental health and before we know it, we don’t know who we are. Before we know it, we become something that we’re not. And so many people in this world, they’re living a life that’s not theirs.

And what I mean by that is that they’re living the life that someone else gave them. They’re living the life that pain gave them. They’re living the life that depression gave them. They’re living the life that a failed dream gave them and they end up becoming that. That is not your identity people.

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don’t limit what you’re capable of. And that was like awesome. And I said, expand upon that a little bit. And she goes, well, I just, I didn’t think I would be capable of this position. I said, why? She goes, well, it’s a little bit deeper. I’m like, what do you got? Like, this is the time, let’s talk through it. I said, if you’re comfortable, if you’re comfortable with it. She goes, well, for my past. I said, okay. And I know I’m like riding a line that this could go really bad. But I also knew as an opportunity that if we could talk through something that she never has to go through again,

or just is able to let go of something, then our day has been worth it. Like, you know, that’s what we’re here for is stuff like this. Because that’s gonna make her a better leader. If she can let go of these, you know, limitations that she’s put on herself.

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You know, these are great times. These are great times. And these are great times because, you know, when there’s a challenge, those of us, you know, who are phenomenal, we rise to that challenge. That’s what it’s all about, the shift of mentality. It’s not about what happens to us. It’s about how we think or perceive what’s happening to us.

And let me say this. I remember when I first started doing this work, you know, being from America, I remember, you know, not finishing school, you know, not having my father in my life coming from in America, what they would call not necessarily a good neighborhood. And I remember when I first started speaking, I was good at what I did, but not at this level. Why? Because people taught me how to speak, but nobody taught me to believe in myself. No class I took taught me to believe in myself. None of my mentors who taught me how to speak ever said like,

you got to believe in yourself, like you got to have confidence. So I would literally get on stage and waste the first 10, 15 minutes because I was overthinking. And so there are a lot of young people that go ahead. His product in the air.

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What if a lot of times I’ll be in a 200 mile run or something like that and I’m all jacked up Bodies broken minds broken spirits broken. I Start to say what if I can pull this off when I first walked into the Navy SEAL recruiters office He looked at me and said there’s only been 35 African Americans in 70 years make it through. You know, I said to myself What if I can be the 36th? It’s the. what if I can pull off a fucking miracle? What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be, and just that, just me. talking about that,

I have the hair going up on my arms because it makes me just like what if I can be that guy, that people who called bigger and this and that, and now I’m speaking at Tom Ferry’s fucking event.

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I mean like you can make as much money as you want. you can be anywhere, any parts of the world. There are some places in America that you got live in America to make money That this company. you can live wherever you want to live and make money. Imagine how many people we can help who are in poverty through this if we went up another 30 40 percent But do you know some people in your life that you felt like man? I wish I could help get to this level, or some people in my community that I can help get to this level? I got on the plane. I wish they were on the plane with me.

the longer you keep people Mo money mo money mo money the longer you keep people more Influence more influence the longer you keep people more impact more impact does that make sense? That’s the goal. great things happen the longer you stay together. so we’ve been together 20 years, We killing the game, not because we’re the best, Not because we had a lot of money, not because we had a great fight, but there’s power in unity. You

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When you come from another career where your life was threatened, and your life was actually threatened, she goes, because you weren’t doing what you should have done. She was like, I carry that. What was her old job? We didn’t ask. I just didn’t feel like it was the time. I should have afterwards just to get a little more, like, I guess, information or situational awareness. But we talked through it, and I said, well, hey, I’m glad that you came to that realization. That’s the purpose of the training, is for us to feel these things and realize, like, hey,

these tools work when we use them, and all the other stuff that we have in our mind, a lot of it’s all BS, because that’s not the reality. And then we did our end of the day debriefs, like our key takeaways. So we do all the runs, we rotate through different positions and then at the very end it’s like, hey, what was your biggest takeaway that you’re gonna leave this training with to implement back home? And hers was, you know, same thing. Like, I’m not gonna let my past define me. She goes, today is a fresh start.

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You become so obsessed and distracted by making excuses and convincing yourself that you can’t do something that you don’t even give yourself the opportunity to try. This way of thinking is one of the biggest preventers of achieving your goals, and that’s why I want to show you a few strategies that you can use to overcome your self-limiting beliefs. The first step in overcoming limiting beliefs is to identify your limiting step. One of the most valuable exercises you can engage in to accomplish any goal you can set for yourself is to ask yourself, what is my limiting step?

What is the one factor that determines the speed at which I achieve my goal, or whether I achieve it at all? Once you’ve answered this question, you can move on to making a plan for how to accomplish your goals by eliminating this limiting factor.

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There are some things that you can do because you have money. There are some things that you can do because you have influence. There are some things that you can do, but it doesn’t mean you should do it. And what should you do? You should only do those things that are going to build you up and build a company up. You can’t afford to tear the company down. Right. Again, just because you have money, we’re not going to talk to people any kind of way. Like we’re not going to try to pretend like we are. But we’re going to make sure we stay humble. We stay hungry. Right. We stay humble.

We stay hungry. People see me and they don’t know I’m number one in the world. I walk through some people don’t even know I got a PhD. That’s not important. I stay hungry. I stay humble. Why? Because hunger got me here. Sometimes when you buy stuff and you got too much and you get comfortable and you get settled, sometimes that’s that’s a challenge because you lost that hunger you had in the beginning. And one of the things we want to do is get but never lose that hunger, get but never lose that grit, get but never lose that grind.

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I would have this little conversation in my head as I’m wrapping my knees. I always start with my left knee first and then my right knee. And then I, you know, get under that, cinch up my belt, get under the bar, get a perfect grip, elbows down, and then unrack the bar, step back, and I’m gonna do my five reps. Well, in my head, what I would say to myself is that, and this was even before I had any kids, before I was married, and I do it today, that I’m gonna finish this and I’m gonna make it look easy. These five reps are gonna be super clean.

And if I don’t, then my future kids are gonna get kidnapped, then my future kids might get murdered. And I know that’s a dark way to look at it, but I put my back against the wall metaphorically and I would make it look easy. I would make that weight look easy. I would move it easily and I would do five reps and I’d be like, shit, I could probably do six or seven still. And that mindset is still the mindset that I use.

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And I think there’s one thing I learned. Why you should have a chance to be successful. Everybody should get used to fail. But not get used to be accepted by other people. Why other people should help you. You should earn the right to be helped. So, the thing I learned is that don’t give up. My opportunity has not come yet. When everybody complain, that is the opportunity. I always thought when I was young, when I was in high school or university, I thought Bill Gates took off my job. Bill Gates did all the successful things.

Larry Erikson from Oracle, they took all the wonderful opportunities. IBM benefits. We people have no opportunity. And I think I aim too high. I should aim to support and help the people around me.

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The Goggins that I invented, because David Goggins was weak. I never want to get rid of Goggins. The guy I created, that weak person that used to be, the guy I created that can handle anything, you don’t want to let go of that guy because you realize that that guy was made. You weren’t born him. And that is, when you get comfortable, Goggins starts to die. He starts to die. That one creature from the Black Lagoon that can live in a sewer, that can eat rats all day, that doesn’t need water, that doesn’t need sunlight, that doesn’t need nothing. He can just live because he knows he can.

That’s a powerful human being that you never want to, it’s in everybody. That’s the scary thing about, that’s what makes me so upset, man, is that everybody wants to put this daggone label on me.

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because you can’t lose the thing that got you here. Money didn’t get you here. How do I know? Because you didn’t have it when you started. But what we have to teach people so that we don’t lose the 90%, because most of them get the 90% get lost because of challenges. And we got to teach them that when a challenge comes, you can either drown with the waves. I was out in the ocean. I saw the ocean. Big waves. You can drown or you can surf on them. We’ve got to teach people that a setback is a setup for a comeback.

We got to teach people that trials and tribulations are only there to make you strong. We got to teach people that trials don’t mean quit. Trials mean keep going.

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They’re not mindful of what they’re putting in their body. They’re not mindful of anything. We depend on the media. We depend on this world to take care of us. I’m going to tell you right now, I’m not some conspiracist theory, but it’s just facts. Ain’t nobody going to take care of your life like you. You realize that? Ain’t nobody going to take care. So, if you’re looking for somebody to save you, besides Christ, if you’re a believer, if you’re looking for somebody to save you, people ain’t going to come save you. And we’re expecting, like we’re waiting for someone to come save us.

You have to do your part in taking care of your life. You have to do your part in taking care of your mental health. I’ve said this a million times over the last month. This virus has the power to destroy you mentally before it ever touches you physically. There’s millions of people that will be infected by this virus that will never be, that will never test positive. How does that work? I’m not talking about the physical part of this virus. I’m talking about injecting with fear. I’m talking about injecting with worry. The unemployment rate is at an all-time high.

So, injecting with stress, injecting with sadness, injecting with a lot of things that are destroying you mentally. And when you break down mentally, everything else breaks down.

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You ain’t nobody. If you can’t pass that bar exam, you ain’t nobody. You went to school to be a doctor, you failed. You ain’t nobody. Your mama don’t love you, you ain’t nobody. Your best friend took your man, you ain’t nobody. You ain’t nothing. All the other stuff God has done for us don’t mean nothing, but the devil going to torment you with one little area and he going to run you in the ground with that one thing.

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Although another person may not have it it can be taught and quietest kept I did not have it when I was homeless is where I picked it up. I didn’t have always had his Dog. I didn’t always had his bite- this grind- It was 16 years old, living on the streets that gave me that grind. So we can we can show them everything that they’re scared of that’s gonna actually happen. Does that make sense? We can teach him that. we can show them the 20 or 30 thing that’s gonna happen in the company and get them prepared.

So I’m telling you, 90% of them, It’s a challenge that they’ve had to endure and it’s our job to make sure we prepare them for those challenges. Make sense. you’re a boxer and you’re training your boxer. You’re not just training your boxer to give a hit and to receive. so a lot of people, when they take the hit, They can’t keep going because they’ve never taken a hit. What we have to teach them is the only way to be successful in this business. is they got to go beast mode? you.

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To develop high levels of self-confidence, you must first understand the law of concentration. This law states that anything you dwell upon grows in your reality, or as they say, what you think about, you bring about. In other words, anything that you think about long enough and hard enough eventually becomes part of your mental processes, exerting its influence and power on your attitude and your behavior. If you constantly think of boldness and courage and self-assertion, you become progressively bolder and more courageous and more self-assertive. If you want self-confidence on the outside,

you must practice complete integrity and self-confidence on the inside.

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Oh, mission got canceled. good reading. focus on another one. didn’t get funded, didn’t get the job you wanted. Got injured, sprained. my ankle got tapped out. good Got beat. good You learned

Unexpected problems good. We have the opportunity to figure out a solution. That’s it. when things are going bad, Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. if you can say the word good, Guess what? It means: you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing. and if you’re still breathing, Well now You still got some fight left in you. So get up dust off, Reload, Recalibrate, Re-engage and go out on the attack.

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Do tiny things. I never thought I could be today. After 18 years, Alibaba become today’s size.

Not because I’m smart. I don’t think I’m a smart person. But I have, I work with a lot of smart people. And most smart people, they always want to do successful things. Quick, easy things. And I think it’s not easy to be successful quickly.

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The reason why I fight for my mental health and come out here and run and work out because I know I can control those things I know I’m not gonna allow these do I go through things do I worry do I stress absolutely? But I’m not gonna stay in that place. So listen to me. I’m gonna share these things with you. do it if you want. If you don’t want to do it, that’s cool too Simple. okay, three things that you can do: move your body if you can’t get outside. I understand the restrictions of certain areas, but, as you see, nobody’s around here with me. I’m in nature.

or, if you can’t get outside, move your body in your household. You need to have some type of release when stress comes into your life and worry comes into your life You just sit on it and it has nowhere to go It’s gonna consume you and a lot of us were consumed with fear right now and literally you can research You can research this fear weakens the immune system. It does. worry weakens the immune system. These things make us even more susceptible to getting sick when we allow these things in our life.

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A lot of people come into business, they don’t want to go beast mode. And that’s what we have to teach them. A lot of people don’t know how to go beast mode. Right? When somebody talked about the mentality earlier, that’s beast mode. That’s I’m gonna dominate. That’s I’m not competing. I’m gonna dominate. Whatever my lane is, I’m dominating. We got to teach them to be driving, to be demanding, to be controlling, to be fierce. Right? But in order to make it in this business, you got to be able to take 50 no’s, 100 no’s. But the mentality of a beast is I don’t care how many no’s I get,

I’m not stopping until I get to that yes. So I’m not focused on… So what they end up doing is focus on no, no, no, no, no, no. And then they start crying and they start getting weak and they want to give up and they want to quit. And we have to teach them, you can’t stop until you get the yes. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when you’re done.

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So it’s that quiet place. Wow. It’s that place by yourself. It’s those hours and years and decades by yourself in the grip of life. When life has you by the throat and choking you out and you’re sitting there calm because you’re trying to figure it out. You’re not panicking. You’re not quitting. You’re not throwing in the towel. You’re saying there’s a way around this. And when you figure it out, when life has you gripped in advice and you can figure that out, that’s when you overcome. That’s when you overcome. And that’s why that one moment for me in that tub,

I didn’t want anyone to take away from me.

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Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core. But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses. At least twice a week, the trainees were required to run the obstacle course. The obstacle course contained 25 obstacles, including a 10-foot wall, a 30-foot cargo net, a barbed wire crawl, to name a few. But the most challenging obstacle was the slide for life. It had a three-level, 30-foot tower at one end and a one-level tower at the other.

In between was a 200-foot long rope. You had to climb the three-tiered tower, and once at the top, you grabbed the rope, swung underneath the rope, and pulled yourself hand over hand until you got to the other end.

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more crucial than ever to take care of your mental health people. Please take care of your mental health. Instead of watching the news, right, pick up a book. Pick up some information about your immune system, about your body at a cellular level. Read information about that. What can you take right now to really boost your immune system? If you’re not researching those things for your family, for yourself, then you’re allowing, you’re waiting on the world to save you, man. And I just want to be clear about that, like, most people,

the world will owe you nothing for one, and most people ain’t going to save you, especially in a time like this. So to wrap this up, stop becoming the labels that someone else gave you because some of y’all are living a life that’s not yours. You’re walking a path that someone else put you on that’s not meant for your life because maybe somebody gave you pain, maybe someone gave you rejection, then you add everything that’s going on with this and now you’re walking in a fine path of depression. And you wonder why you’re stressed, you wonder why your brain seems foggy,

you wonder why you can’t get out of this and things like that. Control what you can control, alright? Limit the inputs in your life.

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You’re you’re in a crooked horrible position. Okay, fine. There’s a lot of suffering and pain associated with that Yeah, you can’t just feel good about that because it’s not good, but you can do something about it You can genuinely do something about it. And I think all the evidence suggests that that’s the case Yes, so I’m telling it telling young people look there’s no matter how bad your situation is. I’m not gonna pretend it’s okay It’s not okay. It’s tragic, Tainted with malevolence, and some people really get hurt by malevolent people, like you know, terribly hurt.

Sometimes they never recover. It’s really awful, but there’s more to you than you think and if you stand up and face it with with the positive, with a, With a noble vision, with discipline and intent, You can go far farther to overcoming it than you can imagine, And that’s the principle upon which you should predicate your behavior.

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When you’ve done that, and you’ve figured out so much on your own, and all that pain and discomfort I had in that tub laying there, passing out everything, was confirmation of what I just figured out. I just figured out the code. I figured out a code. A code that many people aren’t looking for. And I want it to be known. I want that feeling. This was confirmation. This was like a scientist’s notes. The notes were here. The notes were all this feeling. It was a confirmation. And no one at that time could understand what I had just done. I’d cracked the code to human potential in myself.

And I would sit there like, oh my God, this is unbelievable what I just did.

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But it’s hard for me to call them fears anymore. Yeah. I don’t use that word anymore. They’re almost like it’s another challenge. Yeah. Because anything that makes me feel that fear feeling is going to get overcome. You go do it. It’s going to get conquered. That is, that’s almost like fear is my ultimate guide. It’s time for everybody to get civilized. The worst thing in life that happens to a man is they get civilized or a woman, anybody. Yeah, yeah. Because you lose the hunger for life. You think you’ve arrived. And once you have an I’ve arrived mentality, that’s my biggest fear.

Is I get to the point where I’m at that point where life has come to me and I have that feeling of I’ve arrived. I now know my life for what I know it to be is over.

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The key to making a plan of action and setting goals is to not set goals that are enormous, at least at the beginning. Big goals do not motivate you. They actually destroy your motivation. So when setting goals, it’s very important to make sure that they are definite and realistic and achievable and measurable. You also want to make sure that you have one major goal that you’re constantly working towards. I want you to try this exercise that I’ve taught to millions of students all over the world. Take a piece of paper and write down 10 goals that you want to accomplish within 12 months.

Then, look over this list and ask yourself, if I could wave a magic wand and accomplish just one of these goals in 24 hours, which one goal would have the greatest positive impact on my life?

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I wanted to figure out is there more to this horrible feeling of feeling like a loser? Can I change this? And once you figure out I have the ability, not through your mom or your dad or through a special school, through you. You have the ability to change this. That’s what makes it so mad. Once people put this title on me, you now give yourself a get out of jail free card and say, oh, he’s just crazy. He’s special. He’s unique. He’s this and that. You just saved yourself. From not having to do the work. And that’s why I want people to hear my story.

I’m trying to take away all that bull crap that you want to put on me. I’m trying to make you suffer up here to know what my guy, man. He really had a hard way to go. There was nothing special about him. He wasn’t talented. He wasn’t gifted. He wasn’t nothing. He wasn’t nothing and he made it. I want everybody to feel uncomfortable around me.

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Limit the inputs in your life. What do I mean by that? If it’s not bringing peace to your life, if it’s not bringing positivity to your life, if it’s not bringing energy to your life, limit those inputs. Put a plug. Stop letting these things come into your life. Stop picking up your phone, watching the news that’s injecting fear. Stop talking to friends that ain’t doing nothing but worrying that’s injecting fear in your life. Those things aren’t doing anything for you. Get around positivity. Get around meditation. Get around prayer. Get the right foods in your body. Let’s not talk about foods.

I’m preaching to myself, by the way. I’m preaching to myself, by the way. Because this is a battle and this battle isn’t easy. It’s not easy to better your life. Trust me. I’m not talking from a place like I have it all figured out. It’s tough, but you gotta fight for your life. You gotta fight for your health. You gotta fight for what you want. You have to fight for it. You can’t just surrender to the pain. You can’t just say, oh, this is how the world is and so I’m just gonna put my hands up. No, you gotta fight for it.

The reason why I exercise every day is not because I just want my body to look good. I’m fighting for my immune system. I’m fighting for my health. I’m fighting for my family. And I refuse to sit back and wait on somebody to give me some directions on the things that I can control.

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Sometimes you got to stop focusing and thinking about what could have happened and what should have happened and you got to live in what is Happening. right. because I always say to him: stop trying to understand it and focus on surviving it, because the quickest you quicker you can survive it, the quicker you can use it, the quicker you can extract a lesson from it, the quicker you can glean Perspective from it and for all of us, we’re gonna encounter those defining moments in our lives, right to where it’s gonna hurt. Right, you went through it,

I went through it life is so cold-blooded You’re gonna get knocked out like that again. Mmm and again and again Said the challenge is will you learn the lessons from it? So the lessons doesn’t have to keep getting repeated and you keep having to learn it?

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One of the things that I’ve been trying to lay out clearly is that life is hard. It’s tainted by malevolence and betrayal. That can make you bitter. You need a meaning to offset that. Where’s the meaning to be found? Not in rights, not in impulsive pleasure, but in responsibility. You take responsibility for yourself. So you take care of yourself. If you’re good at it, you have some excess left over to take care of your damn family. If you’re good at both of those, then you have some excess left over to take care of your community. Those are heavy burdens. You pick up the burdens.

You find that’s meaningful. The best way to pick up the burden is to continually improve yourself. And that’s where the meaning is to be found. And so that meaning is in the continual self-transcendence. That’s letting your old self die and the new self be reborn.

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I’m even shaking right now being on this show. I’m a big-time introvert. How you address it is you face it you face it every day you face it every single day of your life Where you say okay like if you’re fat you need to lose weight It’s patience. It’s patience in this fact of accepting who you are right now. I’m fat. I don’t like myself, Except in the fact if you lose three or four pounds, that’s a huge accomplishment. You have to live in your own fucking world. You cannot judge yourself. That’s why social media- always things- are horrible.

You can’t judge yourself off of the so-called competition that we have made up in our mind, The things that how people look, how people act, how smart someone is. this is a race that you run completely alone.

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If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task, and another, and another. And by the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter. If you can’t do the little things right, you’ll never be able to do the big things right. And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made. That you made.

And a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better. So if you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

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Because the amount of leadership capital that you built within our community by delivering the absolute best training It allows us to make large withdrawals. But if you make a large withdrawal that has a high return, You’re actually at a higher level when you come back. It’s like basic investing I’m gonna pull $100 out but it’s gonna make me $150 Cool. Keep doing that. every time you’ve ever made a withdrawal In your career, especially in tasking a bruiser and at trade, it, The return on that investment was ridiculous. And that’s what we try to tell companies like: hey,

if you’re gonna make a withdrawal There, better be a large investment. There better be a large investment. and the more Relationships you have within your team, the more trust. the more trust you have, the more influence And you can actually go out and do those things.

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Finally, commit to working on that goal every single day by doing something from that list that will help you to get there faster. When you identify what it is that’s holding you back, develop an unshakable self-confidence that you can do anything you want, and make a plan for exactly how to do it, you will be completely free of limited thinking and you will be on your way to becoming unstoppable your personal, professional, and financial goals. There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life except for the limits you accept in your own mind.

Use this time to remind yourself of who you are, man. Who you are is greatness. Who you are is a warrior. You hear me? Who you are is a conqueror. Who you are is greatness. You hear me? Who you are is all of that stuff. You’re not the fear. You’re not the depression. You’re not the stress. Yeah, that might be your identity for a temporary time because you believed it, but it’s time for you to stop believing the lies about your life, man, and start believing the truth about your life. You feel me? He who is inside of you, all right? Remember who you are and whose you are.

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But these aren’t even level, not even a bar to hold on to, a lot harder than you would expect. But that’s what life is. Life’s never going to be a smooth sail of it. You’re never going to have an ideal situation for you to run your course to start your action. You must learn to overcome adversity. You’re never going to have a day where your heart is sick or legit. You’re always going to have some bump or bruise or ache or pain that you hit the shoulders throughout that workout. It’s because one part of you maybe got a pulled muscle here or a bruise or soreness.

Because you have one handicap here, doesn’t mean the rest of your body’s unfunctional. Don’t allow the excuse to set in, guys. Push past that. It’s a lesson not just on physique, ability, and it’s mental. But once you apply yourself, you learn to shoulder the aches and the pains, overcoming adversities here and there. That’s what a real life lesson is all about. Welcome those events. Welcome the adversity. So when you look back on your life, you’d be like, yeah, I did it right then. I’m doing it right now.

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That we need to go to battle against the virus. We can’t just operate as business as usual, and that is a problem with most of you out there today. You operate as business as usual, as though you are guaranteed to have good times. You are guaranteed that all marketing platforms will always be available, that you are guaranteed The cost of living will never go up, that you are guaranteed. and now, for years, I’ve told you guys that winter is coming. motherfuckers, winter is coming. as Tony Robbins says, prepare for winter. Well, winter has come. winter has come with that pandemic.

winter has come with that inflation. winter has come with the recession and the depression that we’re headed into. and you must operate like your back is against the wall, the Immigrant mentality, and the way you do that is by having that no choice, to feel like you have no choice But to have this high level of work ethic.

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Listen to me and you can get through this. You just got to work a little harder, right? You just got to press a little deeper. Let’s do me I don’t know what you got to do, but I’m telling you just don’t give up and don’t give in and it’s absolutely nothing You can’t do so if it was easy, everybody would do it. Hey, but I know something about you if you watching me I know something about you. I know something about you. I know you’re not a quitter. I know you’re a survivor I know you’re a survivor if you’re watching me right now. I know something about you.

You were a survivor, So I want you to get off this. I want you to cut it off, I want you to go in the mirror and I want you to make the rest of your life the best of your life. I can, I will, I must, I Can, I will, I must, I can, I will, I must.

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A decision made from fear is almost always the wrong decision. Because if you make a decision based on fear, you’re living in a world of scarcity of some sort. Would people rather be happy or outraged today? The overall population. You go online, you know that people want to be outraged. But why? Which human needs are met? The many get really angry. Certainty. So it’s because they’re so fearful. They’re so fearful and they’ve been trained to be fearful because the fastest way to control a population is fear. Now when you’re feeling really uncertain,

most people value certainty as a survival instinct. Then the other one is significance. How significant are you when you’re ranting about how messed up somebody else is? Zero to ten, where would you put it? Maybe a fifteen, I would agree with you. So the two things they fear most, fear most. I’m completely uncertain what’s going to happen and I’m not enough. I get rid of both of those by ranting. And it works, unfortunately. The only problem is it works in the moment. So it’s like sugar. Sugar will make you feel good in the moment. But then what happens an hour and a half later? Boom.

You plummet.

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I would love to discuss something about the failures, mistakes we made. The thing I feel most thankful is all the mistakes, all the refuse that I got. Because without that, there would never be Alibaba. In the past 18 years, every day we make mistakes. Every day we were rejected. I think being rejected, being refused by people, that is very natural. Why people should help you? You have to prove yourself, then people will help you.

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I can I will I must are you hearing what I’m telling you now? I’m not an English teacher, So I’m not asking you to say this, just to be said. like I want you to speak life into that thing, Whatever it is, whatever it was frustrating. you like, for real, you feel like II, I can’t, I can’t spell another test, Like I can’t go through another day like this, like II, I can’t handle it, I can’t take it. listen to me very closely, Say it with me and breathe life into whatever that thing is. We’re gonna speak life into death right now, whatever your circumstances say with me. I can’t. Yep.

I need you to feel it I can’t I remember when I was homeless. I was like, I can’t get through this. Listen to me. I will. I will get through this. Ah, I must get through this look. I need you to look at that sickness that’s going on in your life right now, Whatever it is.

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What you doing here? Don’t you have practice?

Not anymore. I quit.

Oh. Well, since when are you the quitting kind?

I don’t know. I just don’t see the point anymore.

So you didn’t make the dress list. There are greater tragedies in the world.

I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad. To prove to everyone that I worked… Prove what?

That I was somebody.

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They weren’t interested. And you know what obsessed people do? Obsessed people give interested people something to talk about. They give you something to talk about. Everybody that who’s obsessed, everybody who’s obsessed in their business, in their field of action, they are the topic of the conversation of the employees at work. They’re the water cooler conversations. They’re the individuals people are texting about. Because they’re so engrossed in your life, with your obsession with what you’re doing, they don’t have time for their own.

Because they’re interested in what’s going on with them.

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I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition. I prayed.

I prayed and I prayed.

So you will catch a break and I did catch a break. Last year I did a play called Fences on Broadway. Someone talked about it. Won the Tony Award.

And I didn’t have to sing by the way. But here’s the kicker. It was at the court theater. It was at the same theater that I failed that first audition 30 years prior.

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because if somebody comes to work for me at say 21 years old and says, 5.30, I’m off and don’t bother calling me on the weekend, I’m going to go, well, I’m not going to bet the house on you.

When I was younger, genuinely, I didn’t even think about weekends. It was like when I was a runner, I would do 80 nowadays and loved every second of it, because for every day I was doing it, I was learning something more.

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Writers write, actors act, directors direct. I know that sounds redundant, but it’s true. If you want to be an actor, get out there and act. Nobody’s going to knock on the door because they saw you in something. They have to see you do something. Director, make friends with writers, actors. Network, network, network. Get your stuff out there so people could see. The biggest advice I could give you right now, the biggest advice that anybody could give you, and this is not my words, Woody Allen told me this. He said, I said, Woody, what’s the secret to success?

He said, 85 to 90% of life is just showing up. Show up. If you show up, there’s a chance something could happen.

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What did I say to you? What were my words to you? Maybe it was your time to lose. You didn’t think so. Lose? I don’t lose! I win! I win! I’m a lawyer! That’s my job! That’s what I do!

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You train, you fight way harder than those other guys, and you win. You get out from under them. Or you keep going the way you’re going and you end up as a bum in the streets.

You can do this, Lou. Just gotta believe you can.

I don’t believe.

I do.

Come on. Andiamo! Forza! Andiamo!

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I want to give you the single easiest razor to predict my behavior.”

I said, whatever will be the most epic story is the thing that I will most likely do.

Oftentimes, the most epic story is not the shortest outcome to victory.

It’s the long saga that results in this big thing later eventually.

I was like, if you ever want to know,

if you’re like, I’m not sure what he’s going to do in this situation,

just wonder what the most epic story to would be,

and that’s usually what I will do.

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So my all moments now are like, oh, I ran today, I went to the gym today, I did this and this today, I studied today. I have about eight hours off. And those eight hours are glorious to me. And every day you go back out and you start earning that. And every day you wake up, it sucks, and when it’s over, you feel better. It sucks, you feel better. And as you get going, every step you take in that journey, as you’re like, for me, I run every day. I hate it. But every step I take, I’m like, all right, motherfucker, you beating the demon again.

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Certain friends the way way wrote a book Focused on being a father his road to becoming a better father what he went through with his kids mother How he developed a relationship and a bond with his sons like nobody else Wow Didn’t know that day That’s dope. I love how you put it on page. There’s certain things that you just want to know. certain books Help. I understand why people read books. I get what the information Does you know. the book that I’m working on now is all about the mental approach that you have with life and People not understanding that your biggest enemy is you.

my whole book is about you battling yourself. People understand. is you against you? the only person that gets in your way is you, Nobody else. It’s you.

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One thing you can’t escape is that to be good at anything, you’ve got to put the hours in. It is hard work. I mean, look, yes, people win the lottery. You hear about these crazy success stories, but they are one in literally a billion. I mean, for me, the majority of people I’ve met who haven’t inherited anything, but have just built something on their own, they’ve done it because they’re talented, they’ve got great instincts, and importantly, they have really, really put the hours in.

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In my home, like many other homes in Ireland, the real stress and the real fights come from the mortgage, come from the stress of home. A lot of people are getting evicted from their homes around here. So that’s something that I’ve grew up with. That was a big stress in my family. It caused a lot of stress, so I just wanted to give it back and help out and just do that. My mother and father are still young. Now they have their feet up, they can relax. They are in a new place, so it’s good. That’s something I always dreamed of. I always visualized what giving would feel like.

Giving to people who have given to me, what that would feel like. I always dreamed of just showing up one day and be like, here. And that would always give me good feelings.

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I know I get extreme ownership.

I you, yeah, I buy into extreme ownership a hundred percent, Yeah,

but this time is actually really is echoes fault?

Echoes plants really not as good as yours.

You should I get it.

I know you want to be humble But hey if you’re humble now,

it’s actually gonna cost you in the long.

That’s the way your ego talks to you Yeah,

it’s like a little savage in there just manipulating.

So you got to be very careful that.

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When you’re elevated, an elevated mindset is completely different. An elevated mindset is not what you require or demand from somebody else.

It’s what you demand of yourself. It’s when your obligation to yourself is greater than anybody else’s obligation to them.

An elevated mindset does not let your feelings get in the way. When people come in, man, I don’t feel motivated. I don’t feel like going to the gym. I don’t feel like going to work. I don’t feel like getting up. I don’t want to make calls. I don’t want to do emails. That’s your feelings. That’s your feelings. That’s motivation.

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And then I think there is a point where when hopefully you realize that you’ve kind of got your groove, you know what you’re doing, you’re being successful, you’ve got a good team around you. Then I think it’s a question of, okay, well then don’t kill yourself in the process. I mean, seriously.

And this is going back to phones, which is, and I’m the same with emails, is even if it’s great news and you get the news at seven, eight o’clock at night, you can’t just go, right, I’m going to sleep now because your brain’s going to go into overdrive. And I think getting good sleep is crucial, absolutely crucial.

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The odds were stacked against me. I won anyway. Because I win.

You won because Edward Darby came forward. You got lucky.

Guys like you always think other people get lucky. I don’t get lucky. I make my own luck.

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I got up about five o’clock, I woke up and saw you chilling out and shit. Saw the fucking dog all fucking hungover from treats and shit. And I thought to myself, that fucking dog is lucky we feed it. About myself, I gotta feed myself. And every foot strike that hits the pavement, that’s how I feed myself. Motherfuckers look for inspiration. Inspiration is found in every footstep you take. Every grasp of that fucking iron bar. All that shit, all the miles in the pool. Inspiration is found in suffering. So right now, this is my greatest recovery. As I recover, I find inspiration. Stay hard.

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Until you win, effort always goes unnoticed. Get used to it. No one roots for you until everyone roots for you. That’s just how it works.

Yeah. People only root for those who don’t need to be rooted for.

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But do you have the guts to fail? Here’s my second point about failure. If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying. I’ll say it again. If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying. My wife told me this great expression. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. Les Brown’s a motivational speaker. He made an analogy about this. He says, imagine you’re on your deathbed, and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential. The ghost of the ideas you never acted on. The ghost of the talents you didn’t use.

And they’re standing around your bed angry, disappointed, and upset. They say, we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say. And now we have to go to the grave together. So I ask you today, how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

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What I told his son was pretty much this right here. He asked me a question about he wants to be really good at tennis. But what happens after I play tennis for a while, I want to go play video games. You obviously don’t want it bad enough. Because a person that you want to ‑‑ I became obsessed. I became obsessed with being the baddest mother fucker that God ever created. Am I that? I don’t care. I believe it. And I was trying to tell him once you become obsessed with something, obsessed, it’s okay to be unbalanced for a while. It’s okay. Don’t be all this stuff people say.

You got to be balanced. To be the best in the world at what you do, it’s not about being a Navy SEAL, people. The best at what you do. you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of fucking energy and strength that you have to pull it off. Then you get balanced once you become great. And then you help other people become better from you being the best in the world.

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Fell down, got up again and continue the set. You gotta be willing to fail. If you can’t fail, what I learned in the gym is you gotta go out there and fail. You gotta go out there and fall down. Most people who have won big have failed big, okay? You know, see even you know. And what I promised myself as a little boy, I said I can never leave the gym knowing I have 5% left. That 5% is magic. That’s the magic place where very few people go. You can go there. I’m giving you permission to go there. We have people behind you. If you fall down and drop the weight on the floor, who cares? Who cares?

But if you make it, I care. I want that. I want you to fail and I want you to get up and do it again. The same thing in life is the same thing here. If you can do this, you can do anything, anything. Right now you’re 5% away. 5% away from being a champion.

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Are you interested or are you obsessed? All right. Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships? You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball?

You think Jeff Bezos was just interested in shipping packages?

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Sounds good for me to say hey, I’m more experienced. That’s why I’m making this decision. Yeah, but that’s the equivalent as Dude, I’ve been doing this for 20 years. You need to shut up and listen to me. any of those things. if the main driver of Your decision and the way you’re convincing people is through experience or through rank or through position or authority, you you already lost. You already let me decide. you say you lost, But you need to reconsider what’s happening. because if I can’t articulate to you- echo Charles, why I made this decision,

without saying cuz I Outrank you, or because I’m in charge of this, or because I have, because I’ve been, I’ve done this type of thing 20 times, If I have to go there, that means I’m not really. I can’t articulate why we’re going with my plan And that’s a problem. and the problem most likely is my ego.

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But you don’t have to love everything about what you do.

But this is what you have to do. You have to create that, you have to crave that end result so intensely that the work that you put in is irrelevant. You know you have to do the work. You know you have to do the process.

You know how I love individuals, they come in and they tell you on stage, you gotta outwork the competition. It’s early mornings, it’s late nights, you gotta do all these things. The same, we all know that. We all know that.

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Unchosen suffering is going to happen in life. Your parents are going to pass away. Loved ones are going to die. Your relationships are going to break down. Your body is going to fail you. You’re going to become ill or sick or destitute. Things are going to happen that you have no control over. And the only way that you can prepare yourself for unchosen suffering is with chosen suffering. You can elect to put yourself into a position to become a stronger alloy of whatever the metal is that you’re made of. And by purposefully choosing difficult things,

you will armor yourself against that situation. It’s still going to suck.

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And the Mamba mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself. That’s what the mentality means. It means every day you’re trying to become better. It’s a constant quest. It’s an infinite quest. So starting at the age of two when I first started playing the game and on and on and on I always asked questions. I always tried to get better every single day, learn more, learn more, learn more. You were asking questions at two? Oh dude, I was asking questions all the time. You’d be surprised. Like some people, like my kids at two could do a lot of things.

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Here I am, I’m all fucked up in this chair. I’m at mile 70, they got 30 fucking miles to go. I’m jacked up. I gotta go to the bathroom, and the bathroom’s like 20 feet from me. It’s a porta potty. I can’t get out of the fucking chair. So I’m peeing blood down my leg. Whoa. Pooping up my fucking pack, and I got 30 miles to go. And I can’t stand up because my blood pressure’s all messed up. I’ve been in three hell weeks, Ranger School, overcome so many obstacles in my life. This last 30 miles of this race is when I realized a human being is not so human anymore.

We have the ability to go in such a space. If you’re willing to suffer, and I mean suffer, your brain and your body, once connected together, can do anything.

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throw that bag of Doritos away, get rid of it, go do some pushups, go spend $12 at the hardware store and hang up a pull-up bar in your room and start doing pull-ups. And if you can’t do one pull-up, hang on that bar and you’re gonna start to get a little bit stronger. You’re gonna start to get a little bit healthier. You’re gonna start to get more focused. You’re gonna start to become more resilient and you’re gonna start to be able to do a pull-up and you’re gonna start to eat healthy all the time. And you’re gonna start to understand the world better.

And you’re gonna start to progress in every aspect of your life.

And you’ll see that if you have that kind of discipline right now,

you’re gonna end up with freedom.

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If you want to be successful in life, you’ve got to be sure what your priorities and values are. And your highest value must be the people that you love and the people who love you. They must be your help. They must be your energy. They must be your peace of mind. They must be your emotional and spiritual development. They must be the completion of you as a human being. So when you are using all these time management techniques, remember that the purpose of using these time management techniques is to enhance the overall quality of your life. Ask again, what would you do?

If you only had six months to live, what would you do? If you only had six months to live, who would you spend your time with? Where would you go? What would you want to do? What would be important? What would be unimportant? If you ask that question over and over again, you’ll have a tendency to keep your life in balance. Everything in moderation.

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I’m fine with the good, the bad, the ugly. I’m fine being flawed. I’m fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed. I’m fine with it all. I don’t hide from it. I don’t run from it. I don’t avoid any of it. I’m fine. It’s alright. It’s a bed that I made for myself. I happily lay in it. And I’ll be fine figuring it out moving forward.

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Can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that. Don’t do that.

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but think about how much more fragile you would be if you hadn’t overcome all of this stuff. We spoke about this yesterday. Every single person that I know that is incredibly successful in a balanced way and has a good perspective on it elects to do very hard things regularly. It humbles them, it reminds them that they’re just mortal. And it also means that if the entire mainstream media apparatus tries to come down on top of you, let’s say, just as a hypothetical, let’s say that that occurs, that you can deal with it,

because you know that you’ve dealt with a thousand disgusting kettlebell workouts followed by a cold tub.

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I feel to be at the pinnacle of any game, in any, whatever you do, you’ve got to be a little bit gone to it. You’re not all there. You’ve got to be almost insane to your craft. Not a lot of people can understand that. That’s why I don’t know about nothing else. I do not pay attention to nothing else. There was games of football on yesterday, there was rugby, there was this, there was that. And like normal society is like, let’s talk about this and let’s engage in this. And I just don’t, I can’t do it. I just don’t, I’m, people are talking to me and in my head I’m, I’m counting something.

I’m counting up a number or I’m, or I’m knee deep in a sequence on the mat or on the feet. That’s my life, sequences and numbers, nothing else. I cannot pay attention to nothing else.

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If somebody puts you under a pressure situation, that means they believe in you.

Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe in yourself?

And you know how you handle pressure is you put yourself under pressure situations under a daily basis.

The only difference between pressure and stress is stress is pressure you decided not to deal with.

And we have pressure every single day.

You have pressure every single day. So if you deal with that pressure every single day,

the likelihood of it turning into stress is less.

But if you don’t deal with pressure every single day,

it turns into stress. And you know what happens when it turns into stress?

You stop believing in yourself.

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The key to goals is to write them down and to make organized plans for their accomplishment. The key to those organized plans is to set priorities and determine what is more important and what is less important. And always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. The key to concentrating on the most valuable use of your time is to stay at the task until it’s finished. Persevere without distraction or diversion. Keep at it. Hammer, hammer, hammer until your most important tasks are finished. And finally, finally develop that sense of urgency. Do it fast. Do it now.

Fast tempo is essential to success. Fast tempo goes hand in hand with energy, with happiness, with enthusiasm, with self-esteem. So make crystal clear what you want to do. Make crystal clear the steps. And start working on those steps and do something every day to move you toward the most important goals of your life. And if you do that, you will be an excellent time manager, an excellent personal manager, an excellent life manager. You will have a great, great life.

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21 stress fractures. You know what I did? I taped my ankles up. Roger that. I want to be a SEAL. So I did it. Become obsessed with being great. It changes everything.

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You feel like you’re alone, Will? What? Do you have a soulmate? What?

Define that.

Somebody who challenges you. Chuckie? No, Chuckie’s family. He’d lie down in f***ing traffic for you. I’m talking about someone who opens up things for you, touches your soul.

I got… Who? I got plenty.

Well, name them.

Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Frost, O’Connor, Kant, Pope, Locke.

That’s great. They’re all dead.

Not to me, then.

You don’t have a lot of dialogue with them. You can’t give back to them,

Will. Without some serious smelling salts and a heater.

Yeah. That’s what I’m saying. You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you’re always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.

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Just get up,

move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. Move towards that challenge and go attack it.

And you may be successful and you may not be successful,

but you will be better.

And the next challenge,

you’re gonna be more prepared for.

And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

And you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail,

and then you’re gonna win.

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And that has allowed people to skip steps One through thirty has allowed people to jump straight to 100. Fuck you cut a job off. Take him down. You should be dead. Oh God, I can’t stand this. whatever the hate of the anger is When, listen, when listen- okay, when I listen- and I can change, I’m not that guy. We’re doing these weird things now that people aren’t taking the time to sit and think through. What I’ve understood is that what people are doing has nothing to do with me. I should always be a step ahead because I’m thinking differently, because I’m thinking about myself.

Making myself better puts me in a position to make others better. Be the example not the problem the best way to take away. The problem is to alienate yourself from it.

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So on that journey as I started getting more and more into my mind and start realizing that while what I’m capable of doing My mind got stronger. So the so the pain in my knees While it sucked I’ve been doing it for so long. It was like it became my new norm, like, okay, my knees hurt, Fuck it, stop. you know, and I call it like I’m stop feeling sorry for yourself. but you sometimes have to ignore your feelings.

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Well, I mean, every day, I mean, since 20 years. It was an everyday process in trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses. For example, jumping ability. Now my vertical was a 40, it wasn’t a 46 or a 45. My hands are big, but they’re not massive, right? So you gotta figure out ways to strengthen them. So your hands are strong enough to be able to palm a ball and do the things that you need to do. Quickness, I was quick, but not insanely quick. I was fast, but not ridiculously fast, right? So I had to rely on skill a lot more. I had to rely on angles a lot more.

I had to study the game a lot more. But I enjoyed it though. So like from the time I was, I can remember when I started watching the game, I studied the game and it just never changed.

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I don’t want to live in a hole anymore. It makes me feel poor. We are poor, but we’re happy. Come si, come sa. Anyway, the views are better above ground.

Honey, I’m seven non-Foxy years old now. My father died at seven and a half.

I don’t want to live in a hole anymore. And I’m going to do something about it.

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I don’t want to live in a hole anymore. It makes me feel poor. We are poor, but we’re happy. Come si, come sa. Anyway, the views are better above ground.

Honey, I’m seven non-Foxy years old now. My father died at seven and a half.

I don’t want to live in a hole anymore. And I’m going to do something about it.

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Since when were you so smart? Come on, faster!

Why? No one’s chasing me!

I’m chasing you.

I can’t do this, Pete. I’m not like you. I’m nothing. Just let me be nothing.

What are you talking about?

I can’t make a track team. I don’t even know why you want me to- Yes you can.

If you can take it, you can make it. What? If you can take it, you can make it. You can make it.

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because I took myself in that chair, crapping up my back, peeing blood down my leg, shin splints, stress fractures, I use all that for motivation versus negativity, I use it for motivation. I said to myself, who on this fucking earth would still be going right now? You are. You are. You gotta be the hardest motherfucker on the planet. Is it true? I don’t give a fuck. At that time, it got me to the finish line of that fucking race. I believed it. I believe it today. I believed it enough to where my body said, he’s not gonna stop.

And that’s, I took all the negative things, I need to go to the hospital, this and that, and I used it all. Who the hell could even get out of that chair? You did. Who the hell would even think about taping stress fractures up? You did. All those things I use for motivation.

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your humanity, that is your glory.

You know, that is your glory. Your failure and then your getting back up. The man who never fail, the man who never fail has no glory. The man who fail and got back up, that’s where his glory is. The man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times, that man has even greater glory. That man has more courage, way more courage than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never fail. There’s no glory in that.

And so I just try to encourage guys, just like, hey, we’re humans, but we have inside of us, we have a courage and we have a determination, and we can have a strength and a gentleness at the same time.

And that’s our glory.

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What I tell people is just be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story. Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t. It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, what you have too much of,

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The truth is, whatever game you play in life, sometimes you’re going to lose a point, a match, a season, a job. It’s a roller coaster with many ups and downs, and it’s natural when you’re down to doubt yourself and to feel sorry for yourself. And by the way, your opponents have self-doubt too. Don’t ever forget that. But negative energy is wasted energy. You want to become a master at overcoming hard moments. That is, to me, the sign of a champion. The best in the world are not the best because they win every point.

It’s because they know they’ll lose again and again and have learned how to deal with it. You accept it, cry it out if you need to, and then force a smile. You move on, be relentless, adapt and grow, work harder, work smarter. Remember, work smarter.

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Goggins is saying, okay, David Goggins, you’re a punk. Life made you this way. We can’t live like this. We can’t live in fear. We can’t live in judgment. We can’t be afraid of what the fuck people right now are looking at me saying about me. We cannot be afraid of that. That’s Goggins. Goggins is saying, fuck all of you who don’t like me, who don’t want to, and that person then comes in. But you have to be David Goggins and say, man, I’m afraid of this. I’m fucked up here. Life made me this way here. I stutter. I have these issues with reading and writing, and I’m fat and I’m insecure.

You have to face that in that dark room. In that dark room is who you are. But in that dark room is where you have to create another human being that walks out of that dark room to face who you are. That’s the only way you’re going to get over all those things.

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Dave’s last 5% is crucial that he gets there. What I say to people where David is right now is go out there and fail. Go out there and fail miserably, I can’t even say the word, miserably. Drop the weight on the ground, toss the weight, but achieve failure. Achieve failure. If you can do that, you can also win. If you can fail, you can also win. And all winners have failed.

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To me, the mentality is a really simple one in the sense that the confidence comes from preparation. So when the game’s on the line, I’m not asking myself to do something that I haven’t done thousands of times before. So when I prepare, I know what I’m capable of doing, I know what I’m comfortable doing, and I know what I’m not comfortable doing. So in those moments, if it looks like I’m ice cold or not nervous, it’s because I’ve done it thousands of times before. So it’s one more time.

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I had somewhere to go. I had somewhere to go and I got there. And buddy, when motherfuckers tell you, you can take a break now, hey, you’re fucked up. As long as my knees are halfway working, I got to run. You’re telling me maybe a chance I can’t run no more? Give me an excuse to not do shit, but as long as I have no excuse, I gotta do it. But I was happy where I was. I gave everything. I gave everything to who I am. And that’s why I’m, people are, I don’t believe that, don’t believe it. I gave everything. And when you give everything, you have no regret.

People didn’t understand me, people don’t understand me now. I don’t give a fuck. I know exactly what I was doing. I’m not a masochist, I’m not crazy, I’m not this and that. People try to title me and label me. No, I had something to fucking do.

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Effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough anymore. And if you’re not dedicated 100%, you’re not gonna reach the level that you want. For example, you arrive home, you had a lunch, you do a quick nap, and you wake up. You play with your kids, and I have to go to the gym at least 30-40 minutes. But this will make the difference in the end of the day, you understand? If you don’t do that work, you miss one. The next day, it’s two sessions that you lost. And I know in the end of the day, in the end, they’re gonna make a huge difference. This is why I’m 34, and I look 28.

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Imagine that you’re in a movie, and imagine the movie begins now, and you’re the hero of the movie. Yeah. What would that guy do? Yeah. What would that guy do right now? Yeah. Because you are.

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You’re gonna take the professor’s side on this?

Don’t give me a line of shit, no.

Look, I didn’t want the job.

It’s not about the job. I don’t care if you work for the government. But you can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing. What are you passionate about? What do you want? I mean, there are guys who work their entire life laying brick so their kids have a chance at the opportunities you have here.

I didn’t ask for this.

No. You were born with it. So don’t cop out behind, I didn’t ask for this.

What do you mean cop out? I mean, what’s wrong with laying brick? Nothing. There’s nothing wrong with it. That’s somebody’s home I’m building.

Right, my dad laid brick. OK? Busted his ass so I can have an education. You could be a janitor anywhere.

Why did you work at the most prestigious technical college in the whole fucking world? Why did you sneak around at night and finish other people’s formulas that only one or two people in the world could do and then lie about?

Because I don’t see a lot of honor in that, Will.

So what do you really want to do?

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You have to create someone else. Not like you have two different personalities. It is you. But you have to find strength. And that visualization of almost me cracking out Goggins. Like almost like that Superman cape. Like I’m coming out a different person. A person that doesn’t give a fuck about anything. Who doesn’t care about being judged. Who knows I’m weak. Who knows I’m afraid. Who says whatever you think about me, take it. Whatever. I’m here. That’s Goggins. In the dark room, you face yourself. You realize you want to be better.

You realize you don’t want to be this weak, insecure person in the world. Who has all these problems that we all have. We all have. Social media is a great platform to tell you who we want to be. Not who we are. So that’s where that dark room is.

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Sun don’t stop, for nobody man. Sun don’t stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning, regardless That Sun is gonna be up in the morning. regard, regardless of how I can feel and how depressed I am, the Sun Is gonna fucking shine in the morning and a nighttime. the moon gonna be there and you gonna look up these days gonna keep going By so do you let the days go by and look up and you don’t waste it a year doing what? What do you just pick it up? All right, Got to figure it out made some mistakes that life goes on let me figure out life from this point. I’m a life goes on type of guy.

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It says patience, the thing that goes beyond hustle and hard work, the discipline of patience, the thing that goes beyond hustle and hard work, right? Because we all talk about hustle, we talk about working hard, we talk about grinding, this, that, and the third, but nobody talks to you about patience. Nobody speaks about that patience, because in the patience, that’s where you going to make it or you going to break.

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And you keep eating those Doritos, and you don’t work hard, and you don’t exercise, and you don’t apply yourself, you’re going to end up shackled.

You’re going to end up shackled by a boss that you don’t like, doing a job that you don’t like to do, with sicknesses and diseases that you don’t want, relying on people that you can’t even count on, alone.

And you don’t have to, but if you have discipline,

if you have discipline, you will attain freedom.

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It’s just like people that say, you know, follow your passion. Well, follow your passion. How about act on your passion?

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When I was in the military, we’re going to need to structure lead runs. Most of the time we knew the start and end point. So on the way back, I started seeing people getting happy because the end was near, but there were some asshole instructors that would hear the happiness and go right on past the end point. When that happened, everybody stopped talking, heads would stop dropping and I started taking f**king souls. At that time I knew what happened in their minds. They were living off the hope factor. They hope the instructors would stop running. They hope the water was never cold.

They hope the weather was good. I don’t live off that hope s**t. I wish the water was cold. I wish them motherf**king instructors keep on f**king running. I wish for f**king rain. When the ending is unknown and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the f**k you are.

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Yo, we all are great. We all should think that we’re great. There’s no reason for you to not think that you’re great. If you don’t think you’re great, ask yourself why. Why don’t you think the highest of yourself? When you do,

people have no choice but to follow suit. You got no choice but to follow suit.

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And nowadays, you know shit for past 20 some years. I don’t need some purpose and people miss out on this man The purpose we’re all looking for this golden purpose. Is it this is it that isn’t making money? It is it my family mother for the purpose is you We forget that every fucking day. I wake up. I don’t want to do some fucking shit. I’m like, okay, man Do you want to be a bitch today? Do you want to feel like a little bitch? do you won’t walk around all day knowing that you could, but you didn’t. So I It’s performed without purpose.

You have to learn how to get up and do when you ain’t got no fucking 5k No, 10k nothing. Nothing exists. Your life can sucks. You’re in the fucking dungeon But guess what motherfucker? I’m still going to get it, because when that time comes, because the time is gonna come, When that purpose is there, You’ll be ready. But most of us can already, because we don’t know how to do without having the golden carrot in front of us.

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You would be shocked and dismayed at the number of decisions that are driven by ego Driven by ego there. They’re almost 100% in some cases, driven by ego. Am I making this decision based on my ego? Am I imposing it as punishment? Subconscious punishment, on someone who questioned me? Am I forcing this to prove? Echo, that my plan was the better plan?

so you have to be extremely cautious of that and And the thing that we have to be careful of is that our, our ego can, Absolutely are not. even your ego is going to lie to you. That’s what our ego does. our ego is going to lie to us, And so my and, and if it’s tricky to your ego, smart your egos. It’s like the devil You.

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If your job is to try to be the best basketball player you can be, right? To do that, you have to practice, you have to train, right? You want to train as much as you can, as often as you can. So if you get up at 10 in the morning, train at 11, right? 12, say 12, train at 12, train for two hours, 12 to 2. You have to let your body recover. So you eat, recover, whatever. You get back out, you train, start training again at 6. Train from 6 to 8, right? And now you go home, you shower, you eat dinner, you go to bed, you wake up, you do it again, right? Those are two sessions.

Look how much more training I have done by simply starting at 4, right? And so now you do that, and as the years go on, the separation that you have with your competitors and your peers just grows larger and larger and larger and larger and larger. And by year 5 or 6, it doesn’t matter what kind of work they do in the summer, they’re never going to catch up because they’re five years behind, right? So it makes sense to get up and start your day early, because you can get more work in.

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Deep breaths, kid.

Deep. You are up on the cards. You’re winning this. You are gonna win this. But just keep smart and keep away from me. He’s going to sleep this time. He’s going out this round.

I should have stopped this one with your father. I’m stopping this one now. Don’t, okay?

Let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what? I’m not a mistake.

I’m gonna knock that son of a bitch down.

I know you are. You know why? Because you are Creed. And I love you, kid.

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Everyone is fighting a battle. Whether that battle be physical, whether it be emotional, whether it be financial, you know, it could be fought at home, it could be fought at work, it could be fought in someone’s head. Everybody has their struggles. Everybody has that one thing that they’ve let creep into their lives and snowball and become this huge, gigantic obstacle that they deal with on a daily basis. Everybody knows what I’m talking about and it’s not the same for everyone. You know, even the people who you look at and you see and you think, man, that person’s got everything together.

Those people have their obstacles too.

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I think one of my greatest inspirations or things that I would feed off of basically was just,

obviously people not believing in the, you know, the cloud of doubt that kind of I felt hung over my head and wanted to just prove everybody wrong. You know what I mean? I wanted to make it and I was going to make it regardless of what anybody said.

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Well, I found out is that with no crowds no one cheering for you.

No races.

No finish line It’s an amazing amazing thing. I’ve learned in my mind by no one cheering you on like Like what that is is every morning.

I do what I do. I Don’t have a trainer waking me up There’s no one saying David you have to do this. I Don’t have to do anything anymore. I’ve done it. That’s the beauty of all this:

Knowing that everything I talk about no one even knows what the fuck I’m doing every day and I know that I am Grinding like a motherfucker. They see a one-minute video.

Let me run in there some bullshit. Hopefully it motivates you. Merry Christmas, Dude.

I’m out there for fucking hours Every fucking day and no one sees what the fuck I’m doing- No one. it’s a great beautiful thing, man.

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So to motivate someone is to explain to them why they’re doing what they’re doing, how it will help them, where it’ll take them, why they should continue to work and to struggle and to fight.

And when you need motivation yourself, don’t look for someone to scream and yell. Don’t look for someone else to give you motivation.

Look at yourself.

Look at yourself and remind yourself why.

Why you are doing what you are doing. Remind yourself.

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You know, here I am, the CEO of one of the best supplement companies on earth, and when I look in the mirror, I see what you guys see. You know, I’m disgusted with what I see. You know, that’s not what I want for myself in that area. You know, and I have people point it out, like I don’t see it. Of course I see it. You know, but the reality is, is that we all have things that we let get out of control. You know, I’m running six companies. You might have six kids. It doesn’t matter. We all find excuses in our life that allow these other areas to become problem areas in our life.

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If you’re not great at it, but you love it more than life, should you go after it? To me, the answer is yes. The problem is, please also recognize, you’re probably not gonna get rich. Like, if you love basketball more than life, it’s just what you always loved, you might just make $49,000 $49,000 a year being a basketball coach and having a lot of time on your hand to play basketball. It’s just, you gotta understand, you can’t have everything all the time always, it’s just life. I think happiness trumps everything.

Easy for me to say because it really worked out for me because happiness coincides with financial upside. I have friends who make $74,000 $74,000 a year that are just happier people than friends that are making 18 million a year that are not. You’ve gotta do you, but please don’t let the entrepreneurial society, don’t let me, don’t let your parents push you into what success is. It’s different for all of us, but, and this is the big but, you gotta be self-aware about it.

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Just by that motherfucker getting up Not winning just by him getting the fuck up Apollo crew was he was champ. He’s the best Rocky had taken his soul Had literally taken his soul. His head goes down. He looks at him like who what the fuck are you? I want it to be that not rocky I want to be the guy that people looked at I don’t care if you like me or didn’t like I don’t care But said this motherfucker is gonna keep coming after whatever the fuck is in front of him.

I wanted that I wanted that I wanted that worse than anything in the world so that is I kept picturing me Falling down and getting up and every motherfucker that called me nigger. I was dumb, even myself, Even myself. I wanted to feel something besides defeat. I wanted to just go to distance, And that going to distance pushed me to a point of where now I go way past the distance.

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When I think about what I want to do for myself this year, you know, I always say, are your goals really your goals? And what I mean by that is if your actions don’t match up what you say your goals are, then your goals really aren’t your goals. And for a while now, you know, my physical self hasn’t been my goal. Because my actions have been drinking whiskey and having beers with my buddies and eating whatever I want to eat and concentrating my energy- my positive energy- on building companies, on building a culture that people can be proud to be a part of, . And I think we’ve done that.

We’ve accomplished that. But and I am proud about where our community has grown to and what the example is that we set. But this year, you know, I want to take it a step further. I want to take the investments that we’ve made in our customers and I want to turn those from a situation of rewarding people who are good examples of people to a situation where we reward people who go out and do the work.

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War teaches you about sorrow and loss and pain.

And it teaches you about the preciousness and the fragility of human life.

And in that fragility, war teaches you about death.

But war also teaches you about brotherhood and honor and humility and leadership.

And unfortunately, war teaches you the most when things go wrong.

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This fight that you’re in, this is what will make you stronger, and faster, and smarter, and better.

And then, with that motivation,

go forward into the fray, into the storm,

into the heat of the battle where victory is forged.

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Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile. Most people don’t want to find that extra because it sucks. It’s miserable. It’s lonely. You talk about that you were kind of lonely by yourself. I was the same way and that used to hurt me growing up. Now I fucking thrive in that shit. That’s the only place to be.

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And I want to know that our company is not just known for, oh, being a great culture, oh, including everyone, or being great community examples, or being great people. I want our company to be known as the people who get the best results. And that’s what we’re going to do. And the coolest thing is, is we’re going to do it together. Our job is to help people change their lives. And it all starts with the physical. I’m not talking about just bodybuilders dieting from out of contest shape to in contest shape. I’m talking about your brother. I’m talking about your mom. I’m talking about my mom.

I’m talking about, you know, anybody that we can grab onto and say, hey, look, we’re going to do this, and we’re going to do it together. That’s what we are going to do.

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Started being able to take negative shit and Be happy and this whole. I say what if a lot? it sounds corny and it sounds weak, but it’s true. One of the recruiters said there’s not many black Navy SEALs. Matter of fact, I was a 36 African American SEAL in history It’s in over seven years Because the fucking water, you know, I mean people get mad at me. It’s fucking true. Just get over it. and And so I was like Matt. what story would it be if my fucking fat dumb, Lying to be friends with people- insecure ass Can overcome this shit and that? what if? mentality like that,

that, that dreamer mentality, just would always fuel me.

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When I miss something like competition, I go to the gym and I wrestle, grapple, train, you know, I spend my energy there, you know Like come back, go to the cage, you know, I don’t miss it because all my life it was on my hands not inside my heart It was never was inside my heart, you know. Of course, I like it. You have to love you what you’re doing. Yes, I was like very big fan of sport, you know, because my goal was like become the best, Like become the champion, you know, it’s like like everybody have to do, you know, but when finish finish I really I you know, it’s like Release, you know,

there is this The Beverly it’s it’s it’s it’s easy. It’s very easy. But if you inside your heart, you know to Leave this alone. It’s very hard. It was inside my heart. Okay, well, finish What you want. all week you was work hard And though the week if you don’t tire it this is good question you have to worry about yourself But this is Saturday your sickest day. You work so hard. Of course you’re gonna tire it. Tomorrow rest and Monday. We’re gonna begin one more training If you don’t want go back to Dagestan and stay with your mom. She’s gonna give you every day good breakfast.

You don’t do nothing, stay there. But if you come here don’t complain you want to become best you want to become champion and now you want to say like you Tired who cares you tired or not? Nobody care about you. Even you. if you’re gonna watch fight, you just watch fight. They walk out inside the cage they fight and they leave you don’t know what happened behind the scenes. Yeah, this is not your business Nobody care about this. Yeah,

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So my first run when I decided to lose the weight I was like I said 297 I was about 32 body fat And I went my idea was to run four miles for my first run I didn’t know how bad it’s gonna fucking hurt me I used to run before I was fat and I was like, okay, I can do this. I ran a quarter mile and walked home. I walked home and sat on my couch and cried. I went to my mom’s house, who was about 40, About maybe 20 minutes down the road, and cried again her couch, saying I can’t fucking do this. I I don’t know what I’m gonna do.

I uh Just got somebody pregnant My life was this I was making a thousand dollars a month. My rent was 8- 10 a month And my mind just kept fucking with me.

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But now there are times, Unfortunately, that you, you have to address things and when you do it, you do it professionally and you do it, your goal is to disarm them because remember that this negative person inside, they Probably want the confrontation. That’s what they want. And so you know, you say something like: hey, I heard you had some critique points for me About how I’m doing my job. you know, if I’d love to get your feedback so I can tighten up my game, you just disarm them a little bit and Something like that will likely diffuse this scenario a little bit and, you know,

Hopefully the people will under the person will understand that there are other people that are telling you what’s going on. it’ll kind of put them in check and stifle the situation. but the preferred Methodology for this situation for me is quite simple and that is Ignore and outperform them.

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So people always ask me, when they saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days, they said, why is it that you’re working out so hard, five hours a day, six hours a day, and you have always a smile on your face?

The others are working out just as hard as you do, and they look sour in the face. Why is that? And I told people all the time, I said, because to me, I’m shooting for a goal. In front of me is the Mr. Universe title. So every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal, to make this goal, this vision, turn into reality. Every single set that I do, every repetition, every weight that I lift will get me a step closer to turn this goal into reality. So I couldn’t wait to do another 500-pound squat. I couldn’t wait to do another 500-pound bench press.

I couldn’t wait to do another 2,000 reps of sit-ups. I couldn’t wait for the next exercise, for the next half hour of posing and all the kind of things that you have to do to be a champion.

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You can fucking achieve the absolute impossible. You don’t need great parents. You don’t need like a private school. You don’t need to have this humongous GPA and all this other shit. What you need is the one thing I talk about in my book which is straight up brutal work ethic. You have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world. And that’s the hard part. That’s the hard part. This isn’t like some five step process where you can do these five fucking steps. You’re going to end up with this magical world. No, I’m basically teaching you how to callous over your victim’s mentality.

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Two things. I think if I play four solid rounds, we’ll go off to a good start today. If I can do that for three more days, I’ll be very happy and a victory would be awfully nice too. I’ve always figured that why go to a tournament if you’re not going there to try and win? There’s really no point in even going. That’s the attitude I’ve had my entire life and that’s the attitude I will always have. As I always explain to my dad, second sucks and third is even worse. I want to win. That’s just my nature.

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I just put the work in, you know, I don’t slack off 365 days a year 24-7 and I’m Getting better, you know that that’s what it’s about. This game is about growth I find that a lot of mixed martial artists or a lot of athletes period get to a stage Where they are happy with their ability and then it’s about maintenance. It’s about showing up at the gym. It’s about getting hard rounds in. it’s about getting miles on the road in, but really Their skill level is not growing there. The skill level is staying the same and then throughout time their body is deteriorating. throughout wars in the gym,

Throughout wars in the octagon they deteriorate as I feel I train smart I listen to my body and this is only my second fight back back from ACL It’s been under a year since ACL surgery. I’ve had two fights, two first-round finishes. Would you doubt me you probably did but would you doubt me now?

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If I do five pull-ups on the minute for so many hours, I can get so many pull-ups in. How much time do I have to rest? I was breaking the math down. You have to be open-minded to the possibilities that I can do this. Once you shut your mind down to the possibility that it can be achieved, there’s no way it can happen. So that’s why my eyes and my body light up about things, because I know that if you’re in a fight, you have to attack. You have to keep attacking. The enemy has to know he is not going to give up. You must break the soul of whatever the fuck is in front of you.

That’s what I realized. I was never breaking the soul of anything in front of me. So that’s why I came up with a thing called Taking Souls in my book. I started to devise ways to break a soul of a human being, of an object, of whatever’s in front of me. If you keep on attacking something, nothing wants to stand in front of anything that is relentless. Nothing.

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And if you can see it here, and you have the courage enough to speak it, it will happen. So I see these shots, I see these sequences, and I don’t shy away from them. A lot of times people believe in certain things, but they keep to themselves. They don’t put it out there. You truly believe in it, if you become vocal with it, you are creating that law of attraction and it will become reality. I knew he would overextend, and I knew I’d catch him.

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And they’ll be right. And that’s what’s painful, is that it takes more effort to start in the beginning and more people are right about the fact they’re like, hey, you’re not going to hit it big. And guess what? A month in, you’re not. But they’re only measuring on months. And at six months, you’re also not going to have hit it big yet. And they’re going to be like, I’m still fucking right. And at a year, you’re still not going to have hit it big. And they’ll still be fucking right. And every day that you haven’t hit it, they’re going to feel like they were right. But they’re wrong.

Because they’re measuring in days and you’re measuring in decades.

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That’s a lesson that people need to hear and learn. It’s so important because everybody just wants to be comfortable. Everybody wants to sit in the car,

I don’t want to go outside, it’s cold. I don’t want to do this, it’s hot. Like you’ve got to do things that you don’t want to do because you show your body that your mind is the boss. Your mind is telling your body what to do and then you have control.

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If you’re too scared to show up and you sit back at home, wondering what if and everything else, no one in hell is going to call you an opportunity because you weren’t present. The winners always show up. They’re willing to lose in order to gain. Big mental thing there, guys. This body is great as you are, as sharp as you make the arsenal. It can’t do anything if you don’t have confidence in yourself. We all fall down in life. The question is, who gets back up? You go after and you give it all you have. If you lose, at least you tried, man. I failed.

It’s 10 times more of a man than someone said, what if? Because what if never went to the arena?

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By coming up on Dad’s Day, I was asking myself, what’s a value that I learned as a child that has really helped me become the man I am today and pursuing to be? And the one that I remember the most, it was preached to me by my dad, is this, don’t half-ass it. Don’t half-ass it. Boy, that never goes out of style, does it? I mean, think about it. If you’re gonna do something, if you’ve chosen to do something, whatever it is, easy, hard, if you give it your all and you don’t half-ass it, win, lose, draw, get what you want, don’t get what you want, whatever the outcome is,

if you don’t half-ass it, at least you’re not gonna have to wonder, ooh, would the outcome have been different? What if I did give it my all? And boy, wondering that is what keeps us up at night.

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Start watching those instructors on the side, you know, there’s there’s three shifts There’s eight instructors three shifts could you know, the guys going to do hell week? They’re up all day and all night for her at 30 hours. This is the promised land of mental hardening for me. I love this place and You have the instructors who know. you know they’ve been there, done that. now they’re instructing you so they do the eight-hour shift. They have their park is on, it’s usually cold coffee drinking their coffee and they’re beating their crap out of us.

And when I started realizing I started playing mind games, I was like, you know what I bet these fuckers are Looking at us Judging themselves about when they were going through hell week about let me see. I’m looking at Goggins right now I was better than him. I was better than that guy better than that fucker over there. I was like: okay, Okay, you gotta judge me, right?

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That’s the one thing I realized. I walked around, I put these people on a fucking pedestal. Everybody was better than me, So I can’t tell you anything about me, because you’re gonna judge me and I’m gonna feel even worse than what I am. What I realized once I calm my mind down and sat back and looked at how jacked up this world is, Once you realize that you are not alone- Everybody that’s talking to you about how jacked up you are. Only thing they’ve done better than you is they’ve hidden their fucked up world better than you have. That’s all they’ve done.

So once I realized that, if you want to sit back at like, for instance, There’s all these things that are on TV and we have all these news people judging people who fuck up in life- Yeah, they made big mistakes, But that person who was judging you on TV- I guarantee you that that news person- and say: I’m glad that my shit didn’t come out, But I’m gonna judge the hell out of you I know that about people So if you want to sit back and judge how jacked up I was and how messed up my life was Merry Christmas Go for it. Have a good time.

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You see while you’re over there watching me and talking about me. I’m working I’m working hard. I’m taking things to the next level. You keep gossiping and I’ll keep working. You keep talking smack and I’ll keep working. You keep focusing on everything and everyone else and I’ll keep working. And when you finally look around at where you are and where I’m at you’ll realize that you have nothing left to talk smack about.

And you will lose and I will win.

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Everything I ever did, the thing that I heard out of people’s mouth was, that’s impossible, that can’t be done. Oh no. I remember when I wanted to be a bodybuilding champion, including my parents and everyone else around me, said, this is impossible. Why don’t you become a ski champion? That’s what they do in Austria. Or a bicycle champion, or do some track and field. You can’t be a bodybuilding champion.

That is exactly what I heard. And of course, I proved to the people that it can be done. So whenever someone said to me, it can’t be done, I heard, it can be done. When they said no, I heard yes. And when they said it’s impossible, I heard, it is possible. Because I am a strong believer.

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And when I was a kid I come home every day and I watched it- fucking show Rocky- and I would fast-forward with the little VHS tapes to round 14. Round 14 fucked me up like nobody’s business Why the song came on right. so when I bought the pull-up record I listened to the song for 17 hours- it’s 2 minutes and 13 seconds- and I’m able to visualize and dream Like nobody’s business, and I know that I can create a vision that many people can’t and I work for it. So the vision I had was when Apollo Creed beat the fucking shit out of Rocky beat the shit out of him He’s kept fighting.

He was a dumb Fighter couldn’t read couldn’t fuck. That was me. couldn’t read, couldn’t write, just Punchy everything about him and Rocky beat this or probably she’ll he’s in that corner. Everybody was saying stay the fuck down and And Him getting up, him getting up. Apollo Creed raises arms up in the fucking air, turn around. thought he won the fight. He turns around and sees this guy getting up, and it was the face of Apollo Creed that changed my life.

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And this here applies to when people are playing office politics Or forming their little clicks or working their personal agendas. And again, I know Sometimes you have to play those games. but let your first course of action, let the fundamental core of your Reaction be to outwork and Outperform every last one of them.

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War is a nightmare. War is awful. It is indifferent and devastating and evil.

War is hell.

But war is also an incredible teacher. A brutal teacher. And it teaches you lessons that you will not forget. In war, you are forced to see humanity at its absolute worst.

And you are also blessed to see humanity in its most glorious moments.

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Haters motivate me, Because when they talking about me, that means I’m doing something. if you have no haters, if you don’t have any haters,

You need to get some. you need to get some haters, because if you have no haters, You ain’t doing nothing, man.

So one last piece to that: if you give up, You know exactly what’s gonna happen: Nothing. but if you can just manage to wake up tomorrow and Just see what tomorrow brings- if it don’t bring what you want tomorrow, if you can wake up one more day and See what tomorrow thing brings, because here’s the one thing about it- The reason God wakes you up in the morning is because he still has something for you.

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I didn’t keep control of the Iraqi soldiers I was with. And they left their designated sector, and that was the root of all these problems.

And I said, no, it wasn’t your fault.

And then another SEAL raised his hand and said, it was my fault. I didn’t pass our location over the radio fast enough so no one knew what building we were in, and that’s what caused all this confusion. It was my fault.

And I said, no, it wasn’t your fault either.

And then another SEAL raised his hand and he said, boss, this was my fault.

I didn’t properly identify my target.

And I shot and killed that friendly Iraqi soldier. This was my fault. And I said, no, this wasn’t your fault either. And it wasn’t yours or yours or yours, I said as I pointed to the rest of the SEALs in the room. .

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With success in life comes more haters. Don’t make them hurt your feelings. Use them for fuel. Use them for energy. In times of need, put them on the fucking mental rolodex in your mind. And when you don’t want to do shit, roll through your brain. Pull up that motherfucker that you need. That person who said you couldn’t do something. Weren’t fast enough, good enough, smart enough, whatever the fuck it may be. Use it for energy. Instead of killing them with kindness, torture them with fucking success. In life, we have to continue pushing past the odds.

Use everything this world has to give you for fuel. Stay hard.

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He was tired, he had personal problems, family problems. Nobody cares. You don’t know. You just see how he fight and he go. And for this one you have to train so hard. If you don’t want, go back to Dagestan. Nobody gonna ask about yourself. Without you or with you, there is always gonna be champions. With your name, this is your choice. You wanna put your name there? Ok, work hard. No? Bye-bye. It’s like very simple. Nothing special.

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What if I can be a seal man? What if I can go from we’re in a quarter of fucking mile now? I run touring five miles. What if I can go but just what if I can go in and what if how would that feel if I’m graduating kind of get? At the graduation thing- I was talking about 224, that like the video I sat down and watched- This command officer stood up and he said to the graduation guys are graduating buds like 18 of them. He said we live in a society where mediocrity is often rewarded. And he went on to say something about these men to test mediocrity.

and I wanted to be a man that the test mediocrity. You know it got me a lot of trouble in the seal teams and going forward in my life because I just I started looking Down on people for not going hard as fucking shit and I started to create different things, But that’s for a different day, but I just believe that it, you know, my whole mind changed.

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Get control of your ego.

Don’t hide your delicate pride from the truth.

Take ownership of everything in your world, the good and the bad.

Take ownership of your mistakes, take ownership of your shortfalls, take ownership of your problems, and then take ownership of the solutions that will get those problems solved.

Take ownership. Of your mission. Take ownership of your job, of your team, of your future, and take ownership of your life.

And lead.

Lead.

Lead yourself and your team and the people in your life. Lead them all.

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That’s the thing. All I’m doing is sparking the awareness in others to go, why not? Why can’t I create? Why can’t I start? Why can’t I be a business? Why can’t I be a CEO? Why can’t I be a tech guru? Why can’t I fucking create cooking products, lotions, scents? There’s so much that some people just don’t understand they can do. Let me be a spark to show how much, how many different, you don’t have to do just one thing. When it’s all said and done, my book is going to be full of all the shit that Kevin Hart did, because I never was content with doing just one, two or three. Why not?

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The boredom of normalcy and the numbness of mediocrity stiffens your passion. What that meant was I was so sick of myself. I was so bored in my life, man. I was so tired of being mediocre. I was just tired of it and it was all my fault. I was mediocre because I wasn’t doing the things to be exceptional and I was bored. I was losing my mind, man, on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company, going door to door selling life insurance at a debit company. I was tripping, man. I said, man, what is this? My life can’t be this. You ever say to yourself, man, it’s gotta be more to my life than this?

If you’ve ever said that, that’s cause it is.

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Ain’t gonna do what I’m gonna do. So this is how you level up. That’s how you level up. I know there’s a whole bunch of people with that right there, that fires me up. That makes me fucking happy what you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there’s so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours, refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that’s where I gain the advantage. It’s so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak.

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So when you have your lower self talking to you telling you what you can’t do part of what you’ve got to do is be your Own motivator you can you can’t talk casually to yourself. You can’t say Ross it down. You must calm down now. No, that’s subconscious mind won’t hear that. You’ve got to have a good conversation to yourself Hey and answer yourself to don’t pay these people any attention you answer yourself. Hey, what you’re gonna do? I’m going in get off. All right, very good, go in there and take care of business.

You’ve got to talk to yourself and you build yourself up and you’ll feel your energy level coming up and people will feel that around. You see now if you go through life being afraid people can sense that They can pick up that fear. So that’s why you’ve got to stand up inside yourself. I’m reminded of the little boy that was on a bus and and some bigger fellows were picking at him, you know And so he wanted to move from by them They were thumping him on the head and so he stood up just to get from by them and they would push him back down And he would stand up again.

They push him back down and he stood up again. They pushed him on, held him down. He said: you might hold me down, but I’m standing up inside myself.

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We think it means that we’re fired up to do something. We think that it means we’re eager and passionate to make something happen.

And we think that somehow we should just be able to turn on that eagerness and turn on that passion,

but we can’t, because you just can’t turn on passion. You can’t just turn on the desire to execute a task. It just doesn’t work that way. And honestly, that isn’t even what motivate means.

Motivate doesn’t mean to yell and scream and encourage.

No, to motivate actually means to provide a motive, a reason why.

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Children, gather round.

No retreat, no surrender.

That is Spartan law.

And by Spartan law we will stand and fight.

A new age has begun.

An age of freedom.

And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.

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I’m back, motherfu- I’m back! All of this fuckin’ solitary confinement shit!

Got me back!

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Flying a fighter around the ship, with all the things that made me think about not wanting to do it, all the danger, all the emergencies, I loved it. I freaking loved every second of it, even the things that I hated. And there were things I hated about it. I loved it. And I loved doing it. And I hated it at the same time, but not once did I ever say, I don’t want to keep doing that.

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Congratulations. You achieved failure. Failure has been achieved, thank God. Now, the only place to go from failure is to win. You have to achieve failure. You have to take it that far. Nobody wants to go that far. It’s too scary. But you know something? I got news for you. That’s where winning is. It always has been. Nothing’s changed since the 70s. Nothing. Except people train not as hard.

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And me, I answer to the man who may have disappeared, my f**king father,

and who will do the same to us if we don’t move this product.

Now I don’t know about y’all two,

but I’d like to stay alive long enough to enjoy what I’ve made.

So from here on out, I don’t want to hear anything else about kilos or prices.

Y’all want to go out in your own?

Fine, but do not for one second f**k around with what I got to do to get mine.

Cause I promise you,

there is nothing I’m not prepared to do.

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So what got me through horrible times was the dark side.

My name is David Goggins. I created Goggins. Goggins is the guy that can take anything you put in front of him. You wanna break my motherfucking legs, so be it. I have a way of going to a place like I did in that race where all the pain and suffering that they put on top of me in Hell Week, I will reverse that pain and suffering and I will take your soul. So every instructor that put me through BUDDs my job. what drove me was I wanted you to go home that night after you beat the living shit out of me and I smiled in your face.

I wanted you to feel worse than I did and you were going home to a nice, warm bed with your wife or your kids and a nice meal. and I was still out there in the grip, suffering for another 100 hours.

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I hear that I’m over 40, I’m pushing 50, whatever. Bring it. Back off, negative. Not happening. In fact, I’m stepping it up. I’m training harder, eating cleaner.

I’m training more. I’m learning and reading and studying more now than I ever have in my whole life.

Do I get dinged up? Of course I do. Do I take some injuries? Yeah.

You know what? No factor. No factor. Deal with them.

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Life is this. I like this. Each exercise is a super set. By try, one set, right? There’s three of them per exercise, and there’s seven total. It’s a fast hour, man. You gotta be a little Muhammad Ali to get through it. But you’re gonna love the way you feel after it, man. Don’t cut corners in there. Don’t ever say, oh, let’s do one more set’s fine. Is it really fine? I mean, when you’re that exhausted, and you go that extra distance, that extra step in life, that’s the difference of champions and losers. That’s first place and second place. Second place is okay, I guess, for some people.

I consider it the first loser. So, I mean, someone’s gotta win it. Why can’t you win it? It doesn’t, you don’t win it by saying, I’ll take today off, you know, I’ll just take it a little easy. That’s a bull mentality.

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I own this town. I own Rio de Janeiro. So for him to say he is the king and I am the joker. If this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to walk. But we are in a new time, so I’ll whoop his ass in July. But the short story, I’m gonna bang a left hand straight down the pipe and break his nose.

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Maybe you were a victim of being called fat growing up- Folks make funny in it. Maybe you weren’t the smartest motherfucker in school. If people can’t match you for that shit, I’m gonna tell you right now: There’s great power in adversity. If you’re a victim of any kind, Make sure you use that shit to become successful. Don’t look for revenge. Look for the fucking reckoning and I guarantee you All those people you’re going up You might just be the boss. We’ll come looking for your favor And when they do, you got an option to say: okay, but do what I do. They say: go yourself.

Ha beware of one thing motherfuckers Spitting in the wind That shit comes back in your face. Stay hard.

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You know what? You know what I hear? I hear the clock ticking. That’s what I hear, and the end is nigh, and time waits for no man.

And you young guns out there, 18 years old, 20 years old, 24 years old, listen,

life goes by, and it goes by quick. Don’t waste those years. Don’t waste them, live them.

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Eyes not so dry now, are they?

Hurts, does it? Ah! You looking for your balls or a hole in the wall? Where the do you think you’re going? Cause you’re not going out the way you came in, you deluded duck eating. Ah! Talking to me about the laws of the jungle. What was it? Something about being beneath me, silver on back? Ah! There’s only one rule in this f***ing jungle. When the lion’s hungry, he eats.

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That sounds like excuses to me. I mean, you got to figure it out, right? If you really have an obsession to figure it out, you will figure it out, right? And every puzzle is constructed differently, right? AI situation when he came into the league was different than mine. Mike situation in Chicago was different than mine, right? Everybody has a different puzzle, man. You just got to figure out your own puzzle.

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Mike Tyson, and I seen it myself with my own eyes.

When I seen that Bentley at the boxing gym,

and I seen that diamond Rolex, I said,

I want that.

And I knew what it took.

So I know when my opponent is asleep,

I’m out there at 4 or 5 in the morning, chopping trees, working.

To this day,

because I can retire today,

I’m well off, very comfortable.

But I got the will to win.

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when you said before this whole thing started, you said I can be me. The second you said I can cuss and be me, and cussing, people are saying, man, you cuss all the fucking time, why? Well, I hate to say it, the best way for me to get how I feel acrossed, I can’t sit here and say, you know what, yeah, I went through hell week, and man, it was really hard. No, that motherfucker takes your damn soul, rips it inside out, and then they say, now we’re going to fucking start. It allows me to express where I was at at a point of my life. If I don’t give you all of me, why the hell am I here?

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The war path is just that it’s a path It’s a route it leads somewhere and so you ask okay, then where does it lead and?

Yes, Yes, it can lead to war, And that’s fine. in fact, I Am waiting and I am ready,

because the war path is a War against weakness, and so it leads to strength. It’s a war against ignorance, and So it leads to knowledge. It’s a war against confusion,

And so it delivers

Understanding.

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But the rest think the more they lock us down and isolate us,

it strips us of our power.

They even think we close the books. We’re a dying breed.

They’re dead f***ing wrong. We’re just real selective who we choose to call our brother.

So the question is,

are you ready?

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They know it now, and when we transform, goddamn, they’re gonna know it there on a visual sense.

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This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die! And these Shield Boys! Ho! Remember this day, Red. For it will be yours for all time.

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What when I haven’t tasted blood in a while? I don’t really, I don’t notice, I’m not sitting there thinking about it, And then, all of a sudden, something will happen, something will Will will happen what you know could be any number of things it could be it could be something as simple Well, not not usually jujitsu to me isn’t isn’t this type of thing. Maybe occasionally will be, something Will happen on the mats, but normally that’s not it. I just enjoyed you just too much. but something will happen some, some situation will unfold and I’ll I’ll go into what like war mode,

and when I go to war mode I just feel so good and When I get there I’m like, oh yeah, and it makes me, You know, sometimes I, when I get there, It makes me just look around and I just think I wasn’t really, I Wasn’t really supposed to be doing anything else.

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I want you to think about me, knowing that I’m comfortable being very Uncomfortable, and I want you to think about when you went through fucking hell week, how uncomfortable you were, how bad you wanted to quit, Knowing I’m not thinking that way. So the dark side is something that I’ve designed It’s the evil place I can go that Very few things can hurt me. I Used to hurt you’re trying to put on me. I flip it upside down and use it. you try use it for kryptonite. No, it’s power pellets for me. I’m using it for strength. I just flip negative into positive. So it is.

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And if you’re an old man like me,

and you haven’t gotten on track yet,

get on track, get on it now.

Everyone listening to this,

here’s the deal. No complacency. No complacency, no backing off.

No slack whatsoever. Fight.

Fight that ticking clock with everything you got.

So, like the end of a hard day, you can put your head down with ease.

Satisfied that you’ve given your best.

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Get it, David, come on. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Energy, let it out. Seven, eight, nine, ten. The machine here. There you go. Nobody works like David in this house. 13, come on. 14, come on. 15, shut that muscle down. 16, come on. Get it. 17. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 18. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 19. They don’t know me, son. Yeah. 20. You got some more in you. They don’t know me, son. 21. Yeah, get it again. Come on, we want to see it. Good, 22. Who’s going to carry the boats and the logs? That’s you, buddy. Come on, 23. Come on, 24. One more, David.

Who’s going to carry the boats? You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You did it. Yeah.

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And you have to come to the realization very clearly that you fucked up and you got yourself stuck. So whatever you’re doing, you have to do it like your life depends on it. And whether it is you’re trying to be an author and you’re gonna, if you’re gonna try to be an author and you’re working eight hours a day, plus commuting, plus family responsibilities or whatever else you have, whatever time that you have, you have to attack like you’re trying to save the world. You’re trying to save your life. You don’t wanna drown. That one and a half hours a day that you have to write, God damn,

you better be caffeinated and motivated. You gotta go, you gotta get after it and you gotta have discipline. That’s most people don’t have those things. Most people don’t understand what it’s like to really go for something. And to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific.

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And what makes me so crazy, it doesn’t need more, is people go, well, why do you run if you hate it? What are you talking about? I don’t wanna take showers and eat either, I hate that too. That’s life, man.

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the key factor for me wasn’t whether or not I was ready. It was the fact that if I wasn’t ready, I was determined to figure out how to get ready. And ultimately, even if I was ready, I still need to improve anyway. Right, so the work’s not gonna stop. And it was just a matter of, do you wanna come to the league and learn from the best? And I’m doing the math in my head. I’m looking at Stockton, how many years he’s playing. Drexler, how many years he’s playing. MJ, how many years more he’s playing. Hakeem, and these are players that I studied growing up.

And the best way to learn from them is to have that jump off of the film, jump off of the page and see it face to face. That’s the best way to learn. Cause I had, it was like a database. I had everything in my mind of what they could do, what they didn’t like to do, where they did it, when they did it. Now, if I could see that up close, that is the greatest form of education that I could possibly receive. So that’s when I was like, nah, I’m gonna go pro.

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Supposed to be doing that that thing, because it makes me feel so,

So good to be in that mode, to feel that focus. to have like for me in this is just so weird. for me, because you know, I like to, You know where we are we’re building relationships. We’re building teams. We’re working together. For me when I have an opponent Not not just an opponent. It has to be stronger than that. when I have somebody or some entity that

That isn’t, that is that is antagonistic to me and my family, my friends, my team- I Feel something That is the best feeling to me and it and it doesn’t happen that much anymore. I mean it just doesn’t. I mean that’s just the way it is You.

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This is gonna be your only warning. You don’t want to stay in my prison, that’s fine.

Kandak is your prison now. You step one foot outside of it, you will not live to regret it.

There’s no one on this planet that can stop me.

I can call in a favor and send people who aren’t from this planet.

Send them all.

As you wish.

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This is gonna be your only warning. You don’t want to stay in my prison, that’s fine.

Kandak is your prison now. You step one foot outside of it, you will not live to regret it.

There’s no one on this planet that can stop me.

I can call in a favor and send people who aren’t from this planet.

Send them all.

As you wish.

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Can you be strong for 15 minutes? Can you? Yeah. Listen, your concentration’s weaving a little bit.

Pick it up. Okay. Pick it up!

Okay. No pulling straight out. Bend your knees and be strong on the inside and go around them. Let’s control the outside. Look, the fire’s coming. Are you ready for the fire? We’re firemen.

Okay. We are firemen! You got it, coach. The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. Yeah, that’s right. It tells us that we’re ready. We’re at home. We’re where we’re supposed to be. Flame phone infiminators. What do we do? We control the flames. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

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Everyone in here have good days. I have bad days. I’m only gonna have my bad days in a boxing gym

Cuz I’m under the lights type fighter, because when I go under no lights, no matter how I win, I win.

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Everyone in here have good days. I have bad days. I’m only gonna have my bad days in a boxing gym

Cuz I’m under the lights type fighter, because when I go under no lights, no matter how I win, I win.

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Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings. Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings think about every poor decision you’ve made in your life There was more emotion that was involved in it Then there was mind every single one of them think about it really was your feelings keep you in bed Your mind tells you get up. Hmm, Hmm think about it every single day your mind is what it tells you get up and your feelings like an extra 30 minutes Just roll it. Don’t worry about it. Hmm.

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It wasn’t until I changed that mentality that I became somebody. I hated going to school, so guess what? I was dumb as shit. That’s what, one plus one is two. But if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness. That’s what people don’t understand. By me running, I am callousing my mind. I’m not training for a race. I’m training for life. I’m training for the time when I get that two o’clock in the morning call that my mom is dead or something happens tragic in life, I don’t fall apart. I’m training my mind and my body and my spirit so it’s all one,

so I can handle what life is gonna throw at me. Because the life I’ve lived, it throws a whole bunch at you. And if you’re not physically and mentally prepared for that, you’re just gonna crumble and you’re good for nobody.

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because everybody has dreams. And as much as you wanna be able to listen a little bit, cause somebody’s gonna give you a gem, but nobody knows but you. You can’t get advice on what you should do with your life. Right? Nobody knows what you are. Like even sometimes you don’t really even know what you are. You gotta take your shot. And it’s like, as much as you want people to agree and you want the people around you to be supporting your dreams and all, it’s not gonna be like that all the time. You gotta do it alone and people will help you.

And when you get the ball rolling, people will jump on. But if you don’t believe, nobody else is gonna believe. People come along because your belief is so insane.

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Even when I was a platoon commander and something would happen some some other you know Whether it was whether it was the enemy whether it was some part of some organization You know some person that had something did something that was I? Want to throw this word out there because it just it just sets off a whole bunch of you know What could it be but you know if there’s a betrayal scenario where someone betrays? Me and they want to go to war with me,

That delivers me. you know, that’s when I I love the taste of blood and I and I can feel it. and you know, like I said, it’s, it’s uh, You know it’s an old man talking now and just don’t get those situations very often. but

It’s good. It’s good. It’s a good feeling.

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Six down.

Guys, I know it sucks.

I know you’re like,

what’s the point?

Sometimes in life,

the answer isn’t always what you feel at the forefront.

You learn the reason behind it later in life.

And later in life,

you get hit with adversity where so much is riding on you.

Not just you, your family,

everything’s riding on us.

And you overcome it without even losing your wind.

It’s easy for you because you paid the price and hit failure over and over again in here.

So when it mattered up there, guys, victory, motherfucker.

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Just be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story. Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t. It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, what you have too much of. All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life,

and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. Make sure you live in the moment and work your butt off every single day. And I hope I inspire people all around the world to just be themselves, be humble, and be grateful for all the blessings in your life. And I’m truly honored to be your MVP this year.

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the war path leads to control and leads to ownership of your life, and

That, to me, is the war path, the path of fire And adversity, the path of blood and of sweat and of suffering.

The war path is the preeminent path of discipline,

which is why it leads to freedom and

beyond that, in the end, the war path. It leads to peace.

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You’re gonna fucking hate yourself in the morning. Why are you pulling back? No, don’t tell me yes. Why? Stay inside. He’s hitting you the right hand. Every time you don’t fucking listen. God damn it. Lexus. Where are you supposed to be? Do not back up. What happened? You were three punches. What happened to the last round? Listen to me, son. Okay. You cannot do what you just did that last round.

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You will never learn from people if we always tap dance around the truth. Tom Bilyeu- Oh God, I love that. Gary Vee, We tap dance around the truth by finding the right words. so I don’t hurt you because you have thin skin. No, tighten up people. It’s okay. Trust me. It’s okay. You might be called a nigger one day. It’s okay. You might be called some Jewish word or some faggot or gay word. It’s okay. Let them call you that. What are you going to do now? They don’t own your life. How are you going to control that now? How are you going to flip it upside down and say, Roger that.

Now I’m going to harness this shit and you’ll read about me years from now. How? That’s the question. How are you going to do that? Thicken your skin. Become more of a human being. Don’t be afraid of the reflection in the mirror because that’s all you can be afraid of. Once you overcome the reflection in the mirror, you’ve done it.

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Welcome back.

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Who’s the victor? You guys are. They’re killing it in here. Again, guys, something in life’s going to be hard. It’s either going to be hard in here that you put yourself through, or someone’s going to put you through something hard out there. I’d rather control what I’m going through than being put to a subjective nature of somebody else. Guys, pay your prices right now. When you pay for it right now, it’s an investment. And the growth potential is limitless. Limitless.

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Even if you’d like to be.

To them, you’re just a freak. Like me. They need you right now. But when they don’t, they’ll cast you out. Like a leper. See, their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble.

They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these, uh, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other. See, I’m not a monster.

I’m just ahead of the curve.

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But keep your ink clean so they can’t validate you. It’s how we lull the enemy to sleep. I understand. You have the keys out here now. Roberts will single-sell you. Get you some privacy. Works for me. You like to read? I got a good collection on psychology. Just finished reading The Human Animal. I’ll send it over with some of my favorites.

A warrior’s deadliest weapon is his mind.

Welcome to the family, brother.

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Basically, I just don’t walk around with a dad going to smile on my face all the damn time. So, you know, Merry Christmas. But basically, what the dark side is, is we all have a cookie jar and we all have a jar of fuck. Tom Bilyeu, That’s its official name. Jason Miller, It’s a jar of fuck man where shit just ain’t going right. And in Hell Week, what they do in Hell Week, because this is where I really went to the dark side, what they do in Hell Week is they design Hell Week to find your flaws. And they do a really good job of that.

It’s 130 hours of continuous training, you may get two hours of sleep, and they beat the shit out of you and find everything wrong with your mentality. And then they start Hell Week. And that’s the beauty of it.

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the path.

Well, I can tell you what path I’m on and what path I strive to stay on. And that is the war path. That’s the path I’m on. The war path. A path of war.

Because to me, war path means moving toward a battle, a fight towards war.

And that is what I am doing. And that’s what I’ve always been doing. Whether it was the actual war against our nation’s enemies or the war against my own weaknesses. That is what I am doing. Preparing.

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I’ll tell you what this workout is, it’s an hour. You can do it in 45 minutes if you want, but faster and better out there. Slow, methodical, controlling the weight up and down, going for the burn, holding it at the top, holding it at the bottom. You’re always in control of that weight. That’s going to lead to the biggest strength, biggest growth. We were sitting right there, we went to war guys, the Bison tribes. These two guys collided each other to give you the arms and stuff that you want. You need that size, working the peaks, the inside, the outside heads, tricep, the whole horseshoe.

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Know who I am? Yes. They sent Redwood to death row after what happened.

It took him four months to finally get that screw. F*** em. These cops, they need to understand that we run the show.

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Beautiful, aren’t they?

Yet, up there, on the surface,

no one even knows they exist.

They’re monsters.

There’s a monster inside all of us.

What? No. No, no, it’ll kill me!

I’d like to let you in on a very important secret I learned when I was about your age, boy.

You see, power, real power, doesn’t come to those who were born strongest, or fastest, or smartest.

No, it comes to those who will do anything to achieve it.

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You were scared you’re gonna fail. you’re scared. if you started, you never finish it. You didn’t want to tell anyone about. you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it. until something fucking hits. You get fired or somebody else gets success, remind you what you could have been, And then the fucking spark is born And, no matter what happens i’m never gonna be in this boat again And you get up and you go even it gets knocked down. You just keep going, keep going. you’re a wild man And life has never been so sweet.

That can happen in early age it can happen at a later age it’s gonna happen to somebody every you know No matter what’s gonna happen to you. And when it does happen to you. Thank you, lucky stars, that finally you’re alive. It’s time to unwrap the potential. you can be Superior man.

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I don’t ever want him and his sister to know what it’s like to be homeless. People say, well, they’ve got to go through it. They do, but not homeless, God. You can figure something else out, a heartbreak or something. You know what I’m saying? Not homeless. Are you hearing me? I must. I live in America. There are other people that are inspired by me. We can’t keep talking about the people who lived in America in the early 1900s. We can’t talk about people, Henry Ford, the Vanderbilt. We are the Vanderbilts of this time frame. We’re the Louis Vuittons of this time.

We’re the Hiltons of this time. We’re the Marriotts of this time. It’s our time. It’s our turn. Ford is gone. It’s our time. It’s our time for our family to understand wealth. It’s our time to take our wives on a trip for 30 days and not have to worry about anything. It’s our time for them to get manicures and pedicures. It’s our time to let them live a certain life. It’s our time. It’s our turn. It’s our country. Let’s eat it up. Let’s enjoy it.

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When you’re in 6th grade, everybody has these insane visions. They seem so realistic. When you’re in 6th grade, you think you can conquer the world. All of a sudden, you grow up, you’re 18, and that spark, that spark is completely gone. What changed? Think about it this way. If you set up a 1-foot wide plank and laid it across the floor, you could walk across that thing 1,000 1,000 out of 1,000 1,000 times. But if you took that exact same plank and put it 1,000 1,000 feet in the air, 99% of people are gonna fall because you’re too busy looking down. What if I fall?

If I fall, I’m totally f***ed. Most people aren’t even gonna try and cross that beam when it’s 1,000 1,000 feet in the air because you’re too worried about what if it goes wrong. Even though the task itself, cross that skinny mother f***er, is not that difficult.

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If I see something, I see an opportunity, I’m going to go for it. You know what I’m saying? We’re all going to die one day. So live like that. Live like you could die tomorrow. Go for it.

Those steps have been the platforms that allowed me to make it this far.

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I want more. Always want more. Go post, go back. Oh, we’re in the end zone. Moving back again. Oh, man, we got pretty high. There’s another level. So I just I’m always trying to get better.

And I just believe this is what I’m supposed to do. The wise man picks me up in the morning. How are you doing? I woke up. Everybody else is fucked because I woke up. That’s how I look at it. You all had a chance until I woke up. It’s a day’s mine. That’s just what it is.

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I just, it’s a shame if you don’t notice the shift in energy around you. I mean, you can’t be oblivious to what’s going on around you. And I just, I just like kind of woke up one day like, yo, this is my, this is my time. This is my like, I like, this is my ting. I run this, you know, like, nobody can really talk to me. I’m good at what I do. And you know I’m, I’m, I’m ready for anything really. you know, whatever it is, whether it’s a one dance or whether it’s know yourself or whether it’s energy or whether it’s whatever, I’m ready. I’ll shell out anybody, you know, I’m not, I’m not, I don’t,

it was just a point where I was just like, yo, I don’t give a fuck. I’m ready to take on anything.

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The average man, I believe, the average real man, does not need to go get therapy for the battles and the burdens he’s carried inside. What he needs is for those that he’s carrying them for to recognize that they’re there and to respect it and to be grateful for it. They don’t need to talk it out to get rid of it. They need the one that they’re going through this hell for to recognize it’s there and to be grateful that the man is carrying this for them. They don’t need therapy, they need gratitude.

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You got the world in front of you, so-called world, right, in front of you. And then you go to sleep and you wake up and your life is totally different, right? I look in the mirror, my appearance was totally different, right? From that point moving forward, everything was totally different. And so it showed me the fragility of life. And so when I speak to, you know, just the pain of regret and price of discipline, I firmly believe when you give everything you got to something, right? I’m talking about blood, sweat, and tears, everything you got to something, right?

The peace in that is not the result or the reward. The peace is the fact that I gave everything I had to it because this is who I am. So now even if it doesn’t turn out the way I want it to, I didn’t go to the NFL. That was a dream I had since I was seven. It didn’t happen, but it was a certain level of peace that resided inside of me because I knew September 9th, 2006, my last tackle, I can honestly say with every fiber of my being, I gave everything I had to it.

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I was lazy as a kid growing up. My dad would say, why are you so lazy? Why are you so lazy? Why are you so lazy? So I studied the topic of laziness. Why are some people lazy? Because their life is boring. They don’t have a target. They don’t have something they’re going after. So laziness stems from boredom. If you look at bitter people, why are some people bitter? Why are they so bitter? Because they’re not creating anything. They’re not building something new. They get bitter and upset and agitated about everybody else that’s trying to create something.

Element of bitterness is they’re not creating. They’re in a state where they’re no longer building anything. People say, you have no idea how hungry I am. Really? Yeah. What you do about it today? Oh, not today but tomorrow. I’m going to. You ain’t hungry, man. You just think you’re hungry. You are not hungry. You are not hungry.

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Stop being average. Average people can’t forgive. Average people can’t let go. The greats, we do whatever it takes for self-preservation. We do whatever it takes to be happy. You think I wanted to let my biological father off the hook? You think I want to let him off the hook? He left my mom. He left me. You think I want to let my man off the hook? I was with my family my whole life. I thought he was a friend of my family. I didn’t know he was my father. I know my grandma. I know my aunts. I know my cousins. I just thought he was a friend of the family. And I asked him, why?

He said, your mother said. I said, my mother said? How dare? No, you’re right. My mother said.

That wasn’t the answer I was looking for. But if that’s the answer you have, I’ll take it and I’ll take the rest of my life and I’ll be happy the rest of my life.

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What separates me from a lot of people is they go into a daunting task and the task is overwhelming. Like when I heard the pull-up record was 4,020 4,020 pull-ups and I was talking about breaking this record. People are like, oh my god, I went right to a pen and paper. They’re like, what are you doing? I’m doing the math, man. What are you talking about? I’m open-minded to the fact that, okay, if I do five pull-ups on the minute for so many hours, I can get so many pull-ups in. How much time do I have to rest? I was breaking the math down.

You have to be open-minded to the possibilities that I can do this. Once you shut your mind down to the possibility that it can be achieved, there’s no way it can happen.

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People don’t believe in me. People don’t support me. Nobody wants me to win. People talk shit. All of these things are irrelevant. The only thing that is keeping you from where you want to go and who you want to become is your ability to recognize that you are your own biggest enemy. And the reason that you’re your own biggest enemy is because for years and years and years you were filled with mediocrity. You were filled with the vocabulary of people that lose. And your brain now talks to you in that same way.

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It’s within you, It’s within every single one of us, and the people that have that have risen to that level. We’re no different than any one of us. It says they believed it and they’re willing to work their keen ass off to get it. It wasn’t about the potential. It wasn’t about the genetics.

It was about the perseverance and It was about being the hardest working worker in the room That’s what got him there and it didn’t happen overnight They got knocked down more than he ever stood up But they kept going and kept going and kept going and kept going because what else is the alternative to be average again? That sucks, man.

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Get off of Instagram and snap and get off all these blogs and get into something that can really really move your life forward. It’s really not important what the majority of people that are blogging are saying. As a matter of fact, bloggers are not relevant people. They’re not shakers and movers and they’re not decision makers and they’re not power brokers. So when you spend so much time in the blog world, the Instagram world, the chat world, all of this, you’re wasting valuable time.

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I will my way through every situation, every trial, every AAA, I will my way through it. I don’t care if it’s cancer, I will my way through it. I don’t care if it’s MS, I will my way through it. I don’t care if I’m struggling in school and I’m trying to get a degree, I will my way through it. I don’t care if you fail the boards, go again. I don’t care if you fail the law exam, go again. Will your way through it.

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Imagine that you’re in a movie, and imagine the movie begins now, and you’re the hero of the movie. Yeah. What would that guy do? Yeah. What would that guy do right now? Yeah. Because you are.

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You worked pretty hard today, you deserve a break. You know what? You did good on your diet for three days, cheap meals not gonna hurt you that bad. You know what? I’ll start tomorrow. We’ll start next week. We’ll start on Monday. After the holiday, after that wedding, after that vacation, I’m gonna get my shit together. And then when things are going good, you’re working too hard, don’t forget to smell the roses.

Don’t forget who you are. That’s an interesting statement, isn’t it? Don’t forget who you are.

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I was proud of all we had accomplished.

And yeah, I just made that switch. Like, yo, it’s my time for the next however long till I decide it’s not, you know? Till I decide to stop coming in here and working this hard. Cause you know, I just, I just feel like that’s, that’s where we’re at. And it’s not even like, it’s, it’s, it’s more, I say that more to like, encourage, like, even, even when we’re talking about the playoffs, it’s like, yo, sometimes you have to realize, like, yo, this is it. It’s happening now, you know? And, and this, this moment decides the longevity of this whole thing.

So, you know, sometimes, some mornings you gotta wake up and be like, yo, this is my thing, not anyone else’s. No one can talk to me.

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Why are you so focused on what could go wrong when everything could go right by nature the journey is intimidating? It’s built in that that’s how it should be. no movie would be exciting if there It wasn’t. oh, what if he falls off that beam? what if he falls off the bridge and dies? if every movie was super easy, wouldn’t it? if I’m not gonna watch that movie if it’s the antagonist. antagonist Protagonist just gets the loot at the start of movie. I’d be the worst movie of all time. It’s supposed to be scary That’s why it’s incredible. It’s supposed to be scary.

You’re supposed to risk everything and you’re meant to accomplish it It’s like the movies. I’m telling you you’re like a lifestyle movie It’s just like a movie your life You should treat your life like a movie and you’re the main character because that’s all it really is Do you really think that if you were the main character of a movie? Are you destined to sit at a desk job for eight hours a day? Everybody else’s opinions, what everyone else is doing, because you’re the main character of your movie?

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Now, I’m going to count to three, because as somebody else, you’ve got a lot of pride.

That’s why you’re where you are right now. Let your ego go. You’re amongst family. Let your ego go. You’re amongst family. Let it go. You need to stand, because you’re still holding somebody else hostage for what they did to you. I need you to let it go. Where are you? I want you to stand right now.

Let them go.

I know they hurt you. Let it go.

They only still have power, because you’re still holding on to it.

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you know when your wife and kids are on your ass because you don’t have support anymore. There comes a fucking day Where push comes to shove? We’re being mediocre being like average and shit just fucking burns. It sucks so much You can’t deal with one more day and you get off your fucking ass and you create something. It’s always been there, It’s always been inside of you trying to come out, But you’ve never wanted to unwrap it because there’s too much fucking pain and commitment.

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So when you keep on doing that guess what people start doing I ain’t fucking with these guys no more So bro crew to got a lot more sleep bro crew to just became that broker like hey We could we just kept charging and we start fueling off of that We start fueling off the fact that man it takes one second of energy to steal Everybody’s and then you have all the energy you need. It’s all you need. You need to look at someone’s eyes You know how it is when you fight somebody and you broke that motherfucker. He’s like, oh god, man, I don’t want to go back to the next round and you feel like my god.

I can fight all day I can fight all day long. That’s what taking souls is but you have to have the will the heart the courage To go that distance when you’re exactly jacked up. We have nothing left to give and give more.

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And it really sucks. when you’ve tasted success at one point in your life, When you when you when you have sex with a woman and it’s the best sex ever you want to have sex with her again When you eat a fucking great juicy steak, man, you want to have that again When you go out and you train hard to play baseball and you connect and you hit the winning home run You want to feel that way again? When you taste these finer things of life, All the pain all the work all the sacrifice to get them is well worth it If anything,

it’s a small down payment for the price and the reward you got and that feeling once felt How do you ever turn your back on it? Stop running from the potential of what you can be guys. It’s inside of you. It’s always been there. Grab a buddy of yours, Say man me and you are gonna fucking do this together And you’re gonna be on my ass if I start slacking. i’m gonna be on your ass for such slacking and i’ll never accept mediocre again.

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when you leave this room, you will take full ownership. And the reason why I say it’s my fault, even when it’s not my fault, because when I say it’s your fault, I give you power. I give you control over my life, and I will never give another human control over my life.

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whatever will be the most epic story is the thing that I will most likely do. Oftentimes, the most epic story is not the shortest outcome to victory. It’s the long saga that results in this big thing later eventually. I was like, if you ever want to know, if you’re like, I’m not sure what he’s going to do in this situation, just wonder what the most epic story to tell would be, and that’s usually what I will do. I don’t know if that’s self-aggrandizing, but that’s genuinely my razor for even making the big decisions about, okay, I’m going to sell Gym Launch. I’m going to marry Layla.

I’m going to slum it and live at the gym. I’m going to fly around and do turnarounds. I’m going to start this whole idea of a media company that just gives exclusively. How do I put all these together? It’s like, well, what would be the most epic story? I thought of this idea of, just like when I think about who that story I want to tell is this billionaire that documented the entire thing the whole way and just gave.

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is that when it feels scary to jump, Ian, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise, you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

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You know how you get that fight-or-flight response when you get to move real quick? Yeah, and you know I I started learning the mind a lot how to get myself jacked Extremely fast, like in a horrible environment when everybody’s miserable. I learned how to really find strength in the misery, When everybody’s suffering, everybody’s all poopy pants and their mentalities down and everything. I started just like, my god, This is where I shine. and I started using all that misery For tons and tons of tons of drive and motivation to to then lead people further,

Because you can get a lot of power through misery and once people see that my god Goggans is going Then everybody says Roger that Let me get my it and go to so I started realizing that if you can just find strength Just a little bit longer. You will have a crew of people following you along the way You

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Who are you? What does that insinuate? What it insinuates is that you are an average.

You’re doing good. Don’t forget where you came from. What the does that even mean? What does that even mean? Does that mean that you are supposed to be average? You are supposed to be like everybody else. Don’t forget where you came from. Isn’t that the whole reason you’re doing all of this? Isn’t that the reason you want to win? Isn’t that the reason you’re sacrificing and investing all of this time, energy, blood, sweat, tears, frustration, anger into creating this life that you desire so you can get the away from who you are? That’s why you’re doing this.

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If you want to be compelling, a demonstration or a model is always more compelling than anything else. And so me even going through that entire narrative, right, is taking everyone else who’s been listening to this on some journey, it’s like, if you wanna make a compelling pitch for a business, it’s like, we pretty much just kind of went through one. And so that’s really what it comes down to. It’s like, well, what do I do with my business? It’s like, create your narrative of why you’re even doing this. And if you can explain to somebody why they should care about this problem,

or more specifically, why you care about this problem, what everyone wants to see is obsession. And unfortunately, in like some of the world, I know more in the UK than the US now, like that kind of perspective of like just being all in obsessed with stuff has almost been like bastard or like, you know, been chastised.

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You too can get past the success you’re living right now. You’re not finished. If you’re alive, you’re not finished. I know you feel good about yourself because you’re doing better than your brother and your sister. You’re killing a lot of Americans. But the Creator ain’t comparing you to your sister. He’s comparing you to the gift that you have. He’s not comparing you to your brother. Now, I’m going to say it one more time. The Creator is not comparing you to your sister. Your mama might be thinking, your mama, like, she killing the game compared to her brothers and sisters.

She’s the best in our family. That doesn’t mean that the Creator is going, well done. You still got more in you. So I want you to say, because you’re looking at them like, oh yeah, y’all can. We did. You must. No, no, you got another gear in you.

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I’m always gonna give it my hundred ten fucking percent. That’s the only thing I can ever say. a Solid day’s work. That’s all that will ever find peace in. if you guys do not do that, I promise you your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. If there’s potential inside of you which you know it’s there But you’re too scared to tell anyone else about it, and you go on and on, get older and older, and older and older, And the windows are between start to close and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it. I promise you it will haunt you. It’ll be more.

it’s a living nightmare, dude, That fact that you had the ability to do something and you’re too weak to fucking turn the key and start the engine on it. It’s a greater disappointment And a greater burden to carry than any. this physical sweat equity or pain in the gym or school or or sacrifice- all that is just Nothing compared to a life For your burden by regret, guys.

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You all have stuff at your fingertips that can make you great. But if you can combine your technology with your parents and your grandparents’ work ethic, your could be rich. You could be rich, man. But you cannot erase the work ethic part. There is no getting around. Ain’t no elevator to the top. You got to take the stairs. The elevator don’t go to the top, man. Not in the world of success. You got to take the stairs. Y’all got to start getting gritty, man. I hate it when I see young people wasting their time, wasting all this technology got. Just bull.

Just sitting around in this world that’s been created for you, that everything is instant.

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And I’m telling you guys you’re meant to succeed. Oh my God. You’re meant to succeed It drives me mad just thinking about how many people don’t truly believe that they can succeed the task itself is not that hard Crossing the beam is not that hard guys.

I promise you okay Let’s put it this way the beam sure not the best comparison in the world because that’s not one-to-one You know realistically life is not walking across a beam. Let me put into real terms. How easy your dreams are. The WNBA gets 50 million unique viewers a year The WNBA have you ever in your entire life watched a WNBA game another example? Scrub Daddy you guys know that sponge with the smiley face on it.

It’s like a billion dollar company. scrub Daddy, We’re talking about. think about what that is. scrub Daddy, scrub Daddy, We’re talking about a sponge in which you scrub.

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I’ve been around the world, man, because I’ve traveled it. But I traveled it because I made myself uncomfortable. I have a life of convenience now. But in order to get the life of convenience, you gotta have a very uncomfortable life. You got to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Stop trying to do everything the short way. Stop trying to figure out the easy way because the ain’t gonna happen. I got news for you, man. It’s not happening, young people. You got to get messed up sometimes. You got to get dirty. You got to get your feelings hurt. You got to get disappointed.

You got to get told no. You gonna ask somebody for some money. He gonna tell you no. But at least then, when I see somebody trying and I tell them no, I try to at least give them something else. See, I’m not gonna hand you a fish sandwich. I’ll teach you how to fish. But I’m not giving your ass a fish sandwich. You can forget that.

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But we are filled everywhere we look with messages of average, messages of mediocre, messages of taking it easy from people who have never ever done a f***ing thing in their entire lives. And I would suggest to all of you that if you don’t want to turn out like them, you better become aware of their influence in your life. Because that little voice that you hear that tells you, oh you worked hard today, you could skip your workout, we’ll do double tomorrow, that is your f***ing enemy.

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So I got a lot of questions over the holidays. The one major question I got was, how do I finish where I start? I get two weeks into it, and then I stop. Well, here’s the thing about it. People forget one thing about me. I used to be you. I used to be a fat guy, a guy that didn’t care much, a guy that got D’s and F’s in school, a guy that blamed other people, a guy that was under mediocre. I wasn’t even average. So this is the thing about it. I’m going to tell you what people don’t want to tell you. Why you stop is because you’re lazy. It’s because you don’t mind getting bad grades in school.

It doesn’t bother you enough to be mediocre, to be average, to sit around and watch people do great things. You don’t mind it. So there’s your answer. Your answer is, you don’t care enough about yourself, so you don’t stay in the fight. Stay hard.

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I’m telling you what, man, once you get it, come on over this side of the fence, you don’t see fucking problems anymore, man. Uh-uh, you see situations, you see possibilities, and you can’t wait to get them started, man. You’re like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn’t matter about the past, it’s today. What are we doing today? What are we gonna engage now? And once we engage, we commit. There’s no half commitment, there’s no quarter commitment, there’s no three quarter, it’s full commitment. Once we engage, it’s every fucking day we engage, because that’s the better life,

and the people you surround yourself are like-minded, and they’re better friends. Friends and family for life, man, they have your back, they’re solid individuals doing solid tasks, leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That’s a fucking solid life, man.

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Quitting. You’ll regret it for the rest of your life. Baseball is what gets inside you. It’s what lights you up. You can’t deny that. It just got too hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.

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Find the gap Don’t complain Don’t murmur don’t talk negative. That’s our average people talk normal. Average people talk problem the greats talk solutions Average people use their time to whine and complain average people say it’s their boss fault It’s their mother’s fault is there cut average people? I used to be average I used to say when is my daddy coming to get me? When is my biological father gonna come in my life and why I would talk like that I end up getting kicked out of school and why I talk like that I end up being homeless and why I talk like that.

I was broke and Then one day I woke up and said: Eric, nobody’s coming to save you, Nobody’s coming to get you, but you can go to the library and get yourself.

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Eagles fly alone. I have no friends. Friends are problems. Friends are challenges.

If you can’t, if you aren’t into yourself, and that means something else now than what I mean, if you’re not into yourself enough that you can’t spend the weekend by yourself, then something’s fucking wrong with you. Vis-a-vis self-esteem, being a high-performance person, and accomplishing high-performance acts, something’s wrong with you.

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You are up on the cards, you’re winning this. You are gonna win this, but just keep smart and keep away from it. He’s going to sleep this time. He’s going out this round. I should have stopped this, that was your father. I’m stopping this one now. Don’t, okay? Let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what? I’m not a mistake.

Look at me, I never got a chance to thank Apollo for helping me out after Mickey died. But it’s nothing compared to what you’ve done. You taught me how to fight again, and I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna fight this thing. But if I fight, I want you to fight too. I want you to go across this ring and knock that son of a bitch down. Can you do it? Say it. I’m gonna knock that son of a bitch down. I know you are. You know why? Because you are Creed, and I love you, kid.

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I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend And I dedicated this fight. I wasn’t gonna fight. I dedicated this fight to him. I was gonna rip his heart out I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion has ever been there’s no one could stop me Legs of the conqueror. No, I’m Alexander. He’s no Alexander. I’m the best ever. There’s never been anybody’s losing I’m Sonny listen, I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s no one like mom from their clothes. There’s no one that can match me. My style is impetuous.

My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. praise be to Allah.

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I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend And I dedicated this fight. I wasn’t gonna fight. I dedicated this fight to him. I was gonna rip his heart out I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion has ever been there’s no one could stop me Legs of the conqueror. No, I’m Alexander. He’s no Alexander. I’m the best ever. There’s never been anybody’s losing I’m Sonny listen, I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s no one like mom from their clothes. There’s no one that can match me. My style is impetuous.

My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. praise be to Allah.

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So who am I I might be I might become a Buddhist in the next 10 years and my whole perspective on life might change So who am I is a hard? Thing to say because you’re always subject to change in your life and at that stage in my life Just f everyone. Yeah, I’m just tired. I’ve been through a lot Yeah, I don’t get the respect. I felt like I didn’t get the respect. I felt like I fought a lot of fighters at the time and It wasn’t about money. It was about the pride and winning and I’ve lost and it’s like well You’re not good and it’s like well, of course if you fight the best Over and over again,

you might come up against it They’re like, you know, forget all that stuff. It’s just about the money. Yeah, what are you doing it for? You still passionate? Yeah, but I want to get paid and at that stage in my career That’s what it was and then after the fight it’s done. Everyone gets pain. It’s like well, what is it about? Yeah, you know, I’m trying to say what is it now? if I was to ask you that question now, It’s because I have a passion to keep on improving.

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The problem is that your mom and dad and school teachers and everybody around you has conditioned you and indoctrinated You and becoming average and accepting average and just doing what the Joneses do what the neighbors do to keep up with the Joneses Joneses, so they have two cars you have two cars. They have a little shitbox of a house You have a shitbox of a house. They’re always in debt and they’re two paychecks away from going broke. So you’re always in debt to paychecks away from going broke.

That’s that’s the extent of it like that is what you’re encouraged to do by mom and dad and grandparents aunts uncle school teachers They don’t want you to change They don’t want you to transcend. They don’t want you to become the best version of yourself because if you do That is threatening to them. That is scary to them. So what else do you need to know? Well, You could either Do the work today to become your highest version tomorrow, Tomorrow, you can feel a lifelong of regret.

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I like to be one step ahead when it comes to seeing the game and to understanding what’s going on and being observant. And if I can train my mind to be there and to be sharp, you know, and to really push me to that next level, then I think that’s as important as being physically ready as well. That means when everything’s in sync and when I’m confident, the sky’s the limit for what I’m able to accomplish.

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This is real. And every day I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back. So, this is what I would tell your boy. This is exactly what I tell him. Every day you wake up, you’re going to probably be set back for the first four weeks before you lose significant weight because the mind is going to be fucking with you the whole time. There’s no dopamine. There’s no dopamine in there at 300 pounds, you got nothing. Your hormones are shot. You have to envision something that is more powerful than you.

Something has to get you out of bed and you have to create it. It has to be false because you’re not it. You’re a fat piece of shit and that’s the reality of it. So, you have to create a false reality to live in that just to get to work on yourself. That’s the reality.

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I wanted to run, I couldn’t. I looked at her, I said, hey, you won. I couldn’t chase her. And I stopped, I went, what are you doing? Like, I couldn’t, I just couldn’t. I’m not even joking, Steven. I, she ran and I just couldn’t move. What are you doing? That’s when I knew I couldn’t handle pain anymore. Because this is why it is. People forget about anything that you can think of. You need to love pain to be an athlete. And I know, no pain, no this, whatever, all the, you know, the… The cries and stuff. Oh my, no, this is real. You need to love pain. However, mentally, physically, love it.

You need to love it. If not, stay where you are.

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That’s a given. the people who know that they were meant for more and didn’t go for more end up with a lifelong State of regret. and the reason for that is is because They didn’t want to hurt the people around them, didn’t want to hurt family members, They didn’t want to feel like they’re missing out on birthdays and weddings and funerals, but instead they gave in to the life of average, just so they can blend in and not stand out. and Years later they regret not doing the things that they could have done to become a winner.

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Think sometime God doesn’t like me because he knows I can’t handle this shit. I’m serious. He knows I can’t handle this shit Now I got a label on me. I’m the best fight. I got it. I have to, I I’m. I have to conduct myself in a certain way to be the champion before you become the champion. so that means lifestyle

Have to be in before you become. You gotta be him before you become him. You have to live his lifestyle his lifestyle of a champion I’m the champion you look at the champion. That’s how it starts. You look at somebody. I want to be like him You don’t say hey, I’m a bad motherfucker. I want to fight anybody out here, Nobody’s gonna kick my ass. you see somebody and say, hey, I might want to do that Absolutely, and then I had cuss over there telling me why why should he have it? That’s one day.

I never had in my life being cuz I always got picked on and I never had jealousy Envyness about anything and cuss possess that You know and he was telling me why should he have all that money you don’t why is he why do I why why do you? Believe that he’s better than you? Why do you think he should have all that money? you don’t. and he was really serious about it and that was the competition shit.

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It’s cool that people are seekers.

I think that’s very interesting that we’re seekers,

but we have to believe that we’re divine and that we learn from our experience because confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence.

They go hand in hand.

You can’t accomplish anything unless you say, oh,

I’m a prick, I could never do that. I’m not born to do that.

Only certain people, only white people could do that.

I can’t do that.

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It’s cool that people are seekers.

I think that’s very interesting that we’re seekers,

but we have to believe that we’re divine and that we learn from our experience because confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence.

They go hand in hand.

You can’t accomplish anything unless you say, oh,

I’m a prick, I could never do that. I’m not born to do that.

Only certain people, only white people could do that.

I can’t do that.

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Well, greatness is when you make your delusions your reality. Okay. You know, something that’s just totally unbelievable to the human’s imagination, and you make it your slave. Nothing’s impossible for somebody who’s going to try. If you’re going to try, it’s capable of being done. You have to live the lifestyle of a fighter. You have to, um, isolation. That’s what people really don’t really dig. When you’re a hundred miles away from New York City, and you’re in the woods, and you hear coyotes and all that crap, it’s not fun then. But, um, that’s discipline.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it.

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But it happened at an appointed time. I just never gave up the faith. I kept going cuz I ain’t know how to quit Cuz I know if I quit it cannot happen. But if you stay with it, like this dude’s story right here, if you stay with it, you have no idea what can happen for you. But you gotta stay with it, man You can’t quit cuz get hard just doing it lost his legs. He still he’s still funky with it You can’t quit cuz something you got your leg what you tripping for Your punk. I mean well, sorry about that You can’t quit man. You got to stay with it.

It’s somebody having it way harder than you and they didn’t give up That’s inspiration. Just do this inspiration, man.

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I cannot stress this enough. The more you put into anything in life, the more you’re gonna get out. Now for whatever reason, people understand this and they understand that the more you put into building a business, the more you’re gonna get out of it. The more hours you spend working on anything, the more you are gonna get out. Work pays. Now for whatever reason when it comes to bodybuilding and only bodybuilding, everybody has this mentality that you can do too much.

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Wow, what I’ve learned is to always keep going. Always. There’s been times, particularly early in my career, where it just feels like this is the end. But what I’ve come to find out is that no matter what happens, the storm eventually ends. And when the storm does end, you want to make sure that you’re ready. And so I’ve really learned to put one foot in front of the other, good, bad, or indifferent, because eventually that storm passes.

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You said you could take me down 100 times out of 100 times, right? And that’s what you’re going to do, right? I challenge you to get me down five times in that five round fight. You won’t be able to do that. Maybe you will get me down once. I believe in my whole heart that I’ll get you down too. But the difference is when I get you down, your face will open up. There is nothing you can do to stop me from coming at you round after round with the most malicious techniques I know. You will lose this fight, Daniel Cormier. I want you to believe it.

Every ounce of training you put in leading up to this fight will be a waste of your life.

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Do me a favor and just try it. F***ing try it. Give it a try. Train chest for three f***ing hours. Do it every week for three hours for two or three months straight and I f***ing guarantee you, you are not, your chest is not gonna diminish and shrink away and turn into nothing. It will only get bigger and stronger. And instead of arguing the fact, try this s***. Try it. Give it a try. Don’t take everybody’s word for everything. Don’t read something and believe that s***. Try it out for yourself. Find out if it works or it doesn’t work.

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People say I’m an over-thinker but I’d better be an over-thinker than an under-thinker. My brain’s active and it works and I’m searching for ways to improve and it’s just, there’s just something in me that knows I can get better. There’s just something in me that keeps on telling myself like, I’m getting better, I’m getting better, I can get better, I can get better. And if I get better, what happens? I beat someone, I win. What happens when I win? I become champion.

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5% does not only have to do with bodybuilding and the outer shell. For me, it has to do more with business, success, and being the best I can be as far as my career goes. Success to me is the most important thing in my life. You know, I love bodybuilding, I love looking good, I love feeling good about myself, I love looking in the mirror and being happy with the way I look. But you know, there’s a lot more to us than the outside shell. Success is my number one goal. If you spent as much time building a business as you did getting ready for a bodybuilding contest,

you would probably have an incredibly successful business. Bodybuilding is a great sport, it’s fun, bikini, figure, physique, all of that, I love it. And it’s great, everybody thinks chasing the trophy is gonna make them successful, make them rich, you know, make them fulfill their dreams. And most people chasing the trophy end up broke with nothing in the end to show for it. And that’s the goddamn truth. Basically be a 5%er, well-rounded and diverse in your entire life. That’s my message to you today.

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Yeah, 100%. I can’t allow my past to hold weight over me. You’ve got to forgive yourself for mishaps in life and you’ve got to move forward. You can’t hold yourself in prisons and you can’t allow anybody else to hold yourself in prisons. If people are talking about things I did five years ago, that means I’m doing something right.

Was that always the case or was that just a part of your maturation process where you started to say, I need to start letting go of the past?

Yeah, it wasn’t always the case. It’s taken a while for me to be able to be comfortable with some of the mistakes I’ve made and things like that. But I’m grateful that I am at a place where I’m comfortable with who I am, comfortable in my own skin. There’s no good without the bad. So yeah, I’m grateful and I just feel good.

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Was that always the case or was that just a part of your maturation process where you started to say, I need to start letting go of the past?

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5% mentality basically is a person that’s willing to do whatever it takes to reach his goals, and That is basically anything in life. We’re not talking about just working out. There’s much more to life than working out. We’re talking about business, success, Education, you know, bettering yourself in every way and willing to do whatever it takes. I’ve talked to a lot of bodybuilders and I’ve explained that if we were able to To take What we learn from bodybuilding and all the effort and energy put into, say, preparing for a contest, And we could take that and put that into something else.

It would be amazing the results. You know You spend three to six months preparing for a show. Think about what you put into that show, from beginning to end. if you were to take and put that much effort into building a business, You would definitely have a successful business that could last you a lifetime.

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Anybody that follows me knows one thing, I used to be a fat guy. So I get all these emails about how people want to lose weight. I want to lose 50 pounds, I got to get to 3 months. How do I do it? My response to them is, what have you done so far? I know the answer. The answer is nothing. I know you didn’t wake up one morning and decide to fucking damn email me to see what you can do. You woke up for days and weeks and months. Not like when you saw in the mirror. Going out for a little run. Feeling your fucking damn fat. Jiggling shit.

If you want something, everything out there is free to you. Google the motherfucking thing.

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that has helped me get to the point that I am now. And something that you can take with you is study. You know, a lot of athletics is not just a physical thing. You know, I try to study my competition. I try to study nutrition. I try to study other great athletes, guys who’ve done great things in the past and try to model myself after them. So I’m big on the mental game when it comes to being an athlete, sports psychology and things like that. So really focusing on the mind, not only the body is important. I think nutrition is extremely important. I take a lot of protein down.

I stay hydrated constantly. And I’m very aware of what I’m putting in my body. I think what you put in is what you get out. And it took me a long time to realize that. But, you know, since I’ve taken nutrition a lot more serious, I see much greater results in my training. My mental attitude, my alertness, everything. I mean, it’s a direct relationship.

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I will not be defeated. I will not be destroyed I will take everything that happens in my life and I will allow the pain to push me to greatness You will not break me. You will not stop me. You will not defeat me. The only way I lose is if I quit. it’s going to be a dogfight,

And so if you ready to quit then don’t get started If you ready to quit don’t get started if you’re looking for this easy path Don’t get started if you think they’re not going to close the door on you and say no a million times Don’t get started. But every time they close the door, I just get excited. Why? cuz I am NOT a no, I’m one yes away, I’m yeah, I’m one yes away. You can’t keep telling me no forever, You can’t keep denying me forever this type of energy, this type of passion. You can’t stop it You can contain it for a while, but you cannot stop.

This is life And you can’t defeat me There there is not you don’t have enough power. You don’t have enough energy. You don’t have enough strength to stop this. Contain it for a year you might.

My fingers one over God has been I’ve been that mental lab see There’s all kind of months Some folks got sober October They get all kind of shit for people go through trying to better themselves I Got fuck you every day Get after it every day mentality. That’s it. When you push that hard, you go to the well. Well, my well it was fucking empty The cookie jar in there has stale moldy cookies. They were working no more To find something else and get that conquerors mindset back. Well, I just don’t give a shit about anything.

this fucking grind a lot of people out there talk about They’re missing something in their lives and they don’t know what the fuck it is. You know what it is because live in a soft environment 24-7.

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I have came across many individuals in my life that are strong as fuck and look incredible without the use of steroids. You can get as big as you fucking want.

When you’re on a cycle, put two plates on and squat 30 reps. Full reps all the way down, nonstop, boom, boom, boom, boom. Being natural, you’re going to get a lot better results. Lifting heavy, getting stronger, tearing the muscles down and letting them rebuild. That is where the pain sets in. To be able to go through that pain barrier and keep going and fight the pain.

There’s a lot of people out there who constantly say, oh, that’s impossible. Oh, there’s no way this, there’s no way that. And that’s just a complete negative mindset.

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We have so many tools to put in our arsenal to strengthen our minds, to put those calluses on our minds for when we need them. so one of those great tools: positive self-talk. Positive self-talk works well, But you got put the work behind it. It’s gotta be the truth Positive self-talk has to be the truth. So let’s say you’re taking a test Hard test in college But you haven’t studied But you have a positive mindset You’re positive self-talk going into it chances are You’re gonna fail that test positive self-talk Doesn’t work unless you put the work behind it. It’s only bullshit.

Put the work behind your positive self-talk.

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Put the work behind your positive self-talk.

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you know, winning a trophy, possibly winning a trophy. And after that trophy is won, it’s basically done. It’s over. And, you know, let’s move on to the next contest. Now, business lasts forever. So basically, I just like to tell people that there’s so much in life, and there’s so many things to accomplish. And to think outside the box, and be willing to do whatever it takes in every aspect to be the best you can be. And have that 5% mentality to where every day you’re working harder and harder to accomplish those goals, whatever they may be. Accomplishing stuff in life is what makes us live,

what makes us feel good about ourselves, what keeps us pushing towards everything.

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and it’s like that quest for perfection.

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and it’s like that quest for perfection.

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Think strategic all the time. Now that you know what you’re trying to achieve, ask yourself this question. Ask yourself this question before any action or any inaction.

Ask yourself this question. What I am doing, what I am about to do, is it going to help me get where I am going? Is this action going to make me stronger or weaker? Is this action going to make me smarter or more skilled? Will this action move me toward the strategic, long-term goals I am trying to achieve in my life? And do not lie to yourself.

Don’t rationalize, don’t negotiate.

You have to tell yourself the truth.

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Let’s approach our goals this year with a different mindset a surgical mindset Well now it’s the elementary our science teacher had us get a glass and put in the sink He said before you go to bed Turn the faucet on so this one drip gets into that cup and by time you wake up and be full of water It was teached us about value. I Patience.

That’s not how our goals go. our goals don’t go fast like that. They go like that drip of water. but what I took from it is this: The drip of water was building that endurance in your mind. The drip of water is building that calluses in your mind and that’s we need to have. this is slow process.

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One of the biggest reason why I become champion, I think this is about my mental part. How I can control my emotional, you know? I think I can control anything. Anything happen with me in the world, I can control this. I can handle this, you know? And I know a lot of people, like I remember when I was supposed to fight with him, like coach tell me, hey, you have to focus, you know? And I was like, coach, hey, I’m focused. You say, oh, you call home, you call friends. I said, no, I’m good. This is normal for me. You suppose, after like 30 minute, your biggest fight in your life,

biggest fight in UFC history become. You call your friends on phone, like I said, coach, please don’t worry. Everything is good. I’m good, I’m relaxed. And when time come, I’m gonna show you.

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You’re going to show up to play and you’re going to lollygag through the scrimmage, through this drill. I’m going to beat you. I’m going to let you know I beat you. I’m going to want you to reconsider your professional life choice. People will say, okay, that doesn’t make a great teammate. Well, I’m not here to be a great teammate. I’m here to help you win championships. And they were really good about identifying that and bringing players in here that had that competitive streak and getting rid of the ones that did not. If I’ve got to fight to get you in the gym, that’s a problem.

That’s a problem. You want players that are gym rats, players that want to be in the gym, that want to work. And then from there you build on top of that. But if you’re lazy, man, I don’t want to talk to you. I won’t deal with you. You’re going to make me feel dumber.

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I believed for that last 19 miles, I was indestructible. Because I took myself in that chair, crapping up my back, peeing blood down my leg, shin splints, stress fractures, I used all that for motivation versus negativity, I used it for motivation. I said to myself who on this fucking earth would still be going right now? You are. You are. You gotta be the hardest mother fucker on the planet. Is it true? I don’t give a fuck. At that time, it got me to the finish line of that fucking race. I believed it. I believe it today. I believed it enough to where my body said, he’s not gonna stop.

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How bad do you want this? If it’s as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep, whatever the hell it may be, I can work with you. But a lot of people, most people don’t want it that badly. Which is why they always ask the question, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don’t want to do it. So I can’t make you do it in order to have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it. There’s no luck in this game. It may be a little bit of luck,

but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn’t happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might happen. And that’s what people don’t know. But to get there, luck ain’t gonna happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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There’s human beings that have different temperament and different minds and different mentality and a ruthless competitive drive that’s almost terrifying to the ordinary person. That guy, if we were living a thousand years ago, he would be on a horse with the biggest battle axe waiting in the back, hacking heads off, and everybody would be running. And those people have always existed. These dominators have always existed.

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When I fought Stephen Bonner is when I really dug into the power of the mind and how important it is to look at yourself in a higher regard and to believe that first you can. And yeah, that’s when I started to fly.

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You have to explore, examine the insides of yourself. And what do you really want out of life? Your friend, a lot of people out here, just don’t fucking want it. So guess what? Have fun with your life. Go from three to 350 to 400 to 450 to 500 because you don’t want it. And that’s the harsh reality. I can’t give you shit. You can’t give them shit. I can give you ideas. But in the day when I was losing the weight, I had to miserably wake up every morning in the cold because it was Indiana, November is when it started. I was miserable. This is your new life. Take it or leave it.

There’s no happiness about it. There’s no peace behind it.

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There’s no happiness about it. There’s no peace behind it.

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Everything in life comes down to this. I’m telling you right now, no matter how hard you train, how hard you go out there and run and swim and lift weights, it always comes down to this. We all want to be loved, cared for, appreciated. And when we’re not, it becomes a poison in our f***ing minds. It starts to really infect us like a damn cancer. I work with this one athlete and every day he wake up, look at Instagram, look everywhere. They were always hating on him, wanting him to lose, picking him to lose. And it started to bother him.

And before the big day, he came to me and goes, Hey man, Goggins, I can’t get this s*** out of my f***ing head, man. All these people want to take your f***ing heart. Not only are you going against this opponent, you’re going against all of these haters. You need to know one thing, you have the opportunity to take every mother f***er’s soul. Stay hard. Stay hard.

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I like taught myself how to believe in myself and how to think that I was greater than just this kid that was a dropout who, you know, never really had great grades, never really was the starter, never was the captain of a team. I was just always kind of this average person and overnight I taught myself that I could be great and change myself forever and I’m forever grateful. I’m never going back.

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But I just feel it in my whole being that I’m the best fighter on the planet. And now my job is just to prove it.

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We’re telling people the truth. a lot of people come up to me talking about their loved ones gain and weight, The loved ones being depressed. Except there’s so many things that they’re telling me but they’re not going to tell them. so we walk around all time, Allow our family members, our loved ones, to be depressed, to be fat, so we’re going to see them having diabetes, Having depressed mindsets. they can’t find the best selves. We’re willing to live with that We’re worried about them being upset with us. Let me tell you this: Whether someone hate me and get better,

Then like me and stay the same. So in life, you got a decision to make. don’t have these sidebar conversations behind people’s backs. Make sure you tell them that they can get better, that they can do better and there’s a way of doing it.

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People out there, they’re going to say, oh, well, you’re taking steroids. They’re not bullshit. Believe me, the more you put into anything, the more you’re going to get out. The longer you train, the more you eat, the more you sleep, the better results you’re going to get. If I’m eating 12 meals a day, I’m training three hours a day and I’m sleeping 10 hours a day, I’m going to get better fucking results than the guy that’s training an hour a day, eating six meals a day and sleeping six hours a day. It doesn’t take a fucking scientist to logically understand what I’m saying.

The more you put in, the more you get out. So stop fucking making excuses. Get out there and do whatever the fuck it takes to reach your fucking goals. Jesus Christ.

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You have the opportunity of using the blueprint that has been laid down by me. Yeah, like, if you’ve got nothing to lose, do do the me thing. yeah, you know, you have all of the mistakes, all of the failures and all of the successes. and There was another one where you said: the rarer you are, the rarer the people are who share your perspective. In this way, the greater your success, the fewer people you can share it with. and I was playing with this quote from alanda botton from the school of life for ages, which was: uh, Loneliness is a kind of tax.

You have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind and i’m really not sure because since i’ve been in austin the Complexity of mind thing which is that hasn’t stopped but the loneliness changed and I figured that that was a big function of change of environment and maybe like whatever embracing or acceptance of Of what was going on?

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The winners that I know in the world Do more Than they ever thought they needed to do in other words. They bring a nuclear bomb to a gunfight when in reality average people they expect to have a winner’s Outcome, but they bring a water pistol to a gunfight. Do you understand the difference? I would rather bring a nuclear bomb to a gunfight than a water pistol to a gunfight. So you’re not doing enough. like the winners that I know always feel that they’re behind, the winners that I know Always feel Like they should have done more at the end of the day,

even though they worked harder than everyone else around them. The winners that I know always feel they’re behind, that they should have done more Than then they did that day, that they could have achieved more, they could have made more, they could have added more value. right, and- and that’s That- is a mindset that you can develop. that is not some kind of innate trait That I have or other people have that you don’t have. You can develop that by setting higher standards for yourself.

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But also now I look back, priorities change, it’s like I want the W but I also want the finesse. It’s all in here, it’s where you are here. If you’re still that same fighter in your mind, even though people say you’re not as good as you used to be, if you still believe it somewhere in here, you can claw something out of you. And in a fight, when you need to claw that out of you, you’ll have it. Especially a fighter like me, where people really wanna beat me. They don’t just wanna win, they wanna beat me. Even if you play the, what’s it, what, a Division II team,

they’re gonna play like they’re a Premier League team and they can just pull off an upset and that’s why I have to be on my Ps and Qs for this fight.

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they’re gonna play like they’re a Premier League team and they can just pull off an upset and that’s why I have to be on my Ps and Qs for this fight.

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David, sacrifice is…

To get anything of value, you have to sacrifice.

I know that, Dad, but I think if we continue down this road, it’s going to be too detrimental for the kids. It’s just too hard.

Do you know that the harder thing to do, and the right thing to do, are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. Easy doesn’t enter into grown-up life.

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Look at the opportunities you have now and say bye-bye to those so you can get greater opportunities. Are you hearing me? It’s going to take a sacrifice and everybody talk that talk. Everybody talk about going to the next level. Everybody talk about next level living. Everybody wearing a t-shirt. Everybody’s talking it until it’s time to pay up. And when it’s time to pay, there are people who not willing to pay. You’re going to have to sacrifice some sleep to get this one. Yep, you can’t get up at the same time. You’re going to have to sacrifice some friendship to get to this one.

You’re going to have to sacrifice some entertainment to get to this one. And the only way you prove to yourself that you really want it.

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When you’re 25, you can be an idiot. It’s no problem. Even when you’re out in a job search, it’s like, well, you don’t have any experience and you’re kind of clueless. It’s, yeah, yeah, you’re young, you know, it’s no problem. We can… that’s what young people are like, but they’re full of potential. Okay, well, now you’re the same person at 30. It’s like, people aren’t so thrilled about you at that point. It’s like, what the hell have you been doing for the last 10 years? Well, I’m just as clueless as I was when I was 22. It’s, yeah, but you’re not 22. You’re an old infant.

You’re an old infant.

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Right? And that’s an ugly thing, an old infant.

So, part of the reason, you choose your damn sacrifice. Because the sacrifice is inevitable.

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If you want to become the best, there is no family. If you want to spend time with your family, kids, okay, be with them. You’re going to become the best family man. I’m not against family people. I just say if you want to become best in this business, you have to sacrifice. Sacrifice your time, sacrifice your health, sacrifice everything good you have. Other way, I don’t know. I was in this game not only like coach, like fighter too. And when people try to talk with me, give me like some excuse what they have to do. I’m like, I just see this guy,

he can be just regular fighter like thousands and thousands other people. Just regular, regular fighter. He’s going to make money, he’s going to be good, but he’s never going to be champion.

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You are willing to do whatever it takes, whatever it takes. I’ll do whatever it takes to get to that milestone. And if you don’t have that in you this year, baby, I’m telling you, you’re going to be stuck on average. You’re going to be stuck on good. You will not get to great without making a great sacrifice. It’s your boy ET saying, if it was easy to do, hmm, yeah, if it was easy to hit milestones, everybody would be hitting them every single day. It ain’t easy, but it’s doable. But only to those who are willing to give up, to go up. and you got to ask yourself this question.

Are you really, really, really, really ready to make the sacrifices necessary to get to the next level? And if that answer is yes, then I guarantee you, I guarantee you it’s only a matter of time before that dream is no longer a dream, but you are living in that reality. So do me a favor, make the sacrifice.

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I pick up the phone at six o’clock, he goes, I gotcha, I fucking gotcha, ain’t I? I said, Charlie, he goes, how are you mate, how you doing? I’m good, he goes, what’s going on? I thought, um, and I’d just split up with my girlfriend at the time and I thought, oh, well, do you know what? I’m gonna beat around the bush, I’m just gonna fucking tell him straight because I’m breaking the ice. He goes, right, right, he goes, Tom. I go, yeah? He goes, did you, do you remember the floods?

Oxford? He goes, yeah, the floods, do you remember the floods? I was like, yeah? He goes, do you remember that boy who got his foot stuck in a grate and the river kept rising and it kept rising and it kept rising and eventually they tried to get him out but he drowned? Yeah. Sometimes, yeah, you’ve gotta cut a little piece of yourself off, yeah, no matter how much it hurts, in order to grow, yeah? In order to move on.

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You need to eat good, you need to take care of yourself, and you need to stay out of no free time. Because free time is where drug dealers live. Free time is where depression and the devil live. Okay? Like, I don’t have free time. If this place was burning down right now, you ain’t gonna be saying, oh, I’m depressed, I can’t leave. If this room gets hot enough, you will fucking roll your ass out of here as fast as you can. So urgency, man. You want to have urgency in your schedule. The only time I’ve ever gotten in trouble in my life, right before I got in trouble, I was bored.

Every fucking single time I got in trouble in my life, every time, I got bored, and then I compromised the people I was around. When you’re bored, you compromise. You say, why? Because you got bored? Okay, you should have been home, dude. You should have been sleeping, preparing for the next morning, getting up early, go get your workout in, get your hustle on, go to breakfast with somebody, get in a group, a mastermind with some people that won’t put up with that bullshit. Because people that are hitting, playing on all the cylinders like they’re running and gunning,

they don’t have time for bullshit. They don’t want the trouble, and they’re not bored.

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On your journey to self-mastery you will lose 99% of your friends Now I know that sucks, especially if you’re young you think like man in high school We were tight now in college. We’re tight and we’re hanging out with boys. We’re always doing the thing. but i’m telling you, the moment you truly decide to commit to self-mastery, to becoming your 2.0 self, to really Elevating to the highest version of yourself. You will lose 99% of your friends and the reason for that is You will scare them.

They will not Understand why you’re so committed to self-development Self-actualization making more money becoming a better human stopping the alcohol. You won’t have things in common anymore, Right, because if you are trying to transcend to self-mastery,

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I tell kids all the time, and mind you, we got 10 schools now, 10,000 10,000 kids with Slam, and I tell them, hey, forget about followers and likes. Always think about and keep yourself around people that are leaders and unique, like you were saying earlier. So with that said, is on the execution part, what allowed us to do it, why? Because while everybody’s over here being cool, and I tell people this all the time, there’s no future in cool. That’s a trend, that’s a fad. It comes and it goes, just like dope money. Dope money comes quick and leaves quicker, okay?

We’re here for a slow, but a for show. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Paso corto, vista larga, which is short steps, long vision.

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personal sacrifice is huge. There is no soccer game on Saturday. There’s no Sunday dinner with the family. You’re working because some guy in China or in India or some woman out there is kicking your ass because we’re in a global competition now. And so I don’t care what your business is, men, women, you have to understand that you’re going into a huge lifestyle change. And I tell people it’s not for everybody.

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Some of you need to give up your cell phone because the time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success. The time you could be using to be successful, you’re using it on the cell, and the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill. And somebody has told you you couldn’t live without it. I’m talking about going deep now, giving up stuff. Watch what it says. To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be. I don’t do well in math. You’re right. You ain’t never studied. I’m not good in writing because you have never written before.

But I dare you to fail in writing for a whole year to see if you can get to the end. I dare you to fail. I dare you to take that same class over and over again. I dare you to stop dropping classes like you soft.

Always want to give up. I’m dropping. Why you dropping? I’m so grateful that the slaves didn’t drop and quit. Say, I’m just gonna stop. I’m a slave. I’m just gonna be a slave. I’m gonna quit. Listen to me, the slaves said, we will live because one day we will become.

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Everything you want in life, you can have. You can have all you want in life, but not one second before you stop making excuses for not having what you want. When you get rid of those excuses of life, get rid of the voices of what everyone else says, because there’s two people inside of you, right? There’s a person that everyone else sees on the outside looking in, and there’s the other person, the person you believe your potential can be, what you can see is what you see that you can be. And then dying will the individual come out. That kind of scary. Too fast to scare.

One, it takes hard work. You have to feel like this to give birth to them. You know, it’s just scary for a lot of people. They have to go through, they have to endure that sweat of dedication and sacrifice, but you’re diligent to see it through. The unknowns of life.

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If you want to be great at something, there’s a choice that you have to make. We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with your friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There are sacrifices that come along with making that decision. I knew that I was not going to be stopped. At the age of 18, this was my life. You can’t possibly become better than me because you’re not spending the time on it that I do.

Even if you want to spend the time on it, you can’t because you have other things. You have other responsibilities that are taking you away from it. I already won.

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and I know the sacrifices that went along with standing here today. And we’re not on this stage just because of talent or ability. We’re up here because of 4 a.m. We’re up here because of two a days or five a days. We’re up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way. If anything tried to bring us down, we used it to make us stronger. We were never satisfied, never finished. We’ll never be retired.

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It’s the path less taken. That’s scary. But also once you get through it, it gets really scary. Because everyone looking at you who saw that other person, not the person you saw, but the other person, is now freaked the f*** out. Because who the f*** you are now stands there in that dominating force who took the advantage of the time they had and now is reaping reward by the seeds they planted today and yesterday and the days before. Bearing the fruit of their potential of what they can be. No regrets. No wonders of what if. Just damn sure proud and excited of what’s gonna come.

What’s gonna be. That’s a good f***ing day, man. Don’t also think all these critics that talk s*** to you, you know, call you names and everything else. Don’t think that disrespect isn’t just a few degrees separation of true love they really feel for you.

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You’ll be a lot happier if you stop blaming your parents for all your problems Like there’s no other way to say that your parents weren’t perfect. They did the best they could maybe they divorced. Maybe they’re crazy. Maybe one’s crazy and one’s not, Who knows. they did the best they could with what they had. Now that you’re an adult, it’s on you. if you’re repeating the crazy patterns, Then you are equally as nuts. You gotta stop blaming the parents for the problems that you have and start taking personal responsibility.

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So that’s why I like to be isolated and that’s why this has helped me coming out here and being locked in an apartment on my own, building back up my leg, going from rehab to home to rehab to home because there was no outsiders. It was isolation, it was visualisation, it was motivation and it was dedication. There was no nothing else going on in my life, you know what I mean? I mean it’s not that I don’t like people, it’s just that I’d rather just, for this, this needs to be, to get to the level, to get to the pinnacle, it needs to be like that.

It needs to be no outsiders, you need to have your team and your focus and that’s it. I don’t need friends that aren’t involved in this game.

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Society’s finally waking up, gonna get something done today. It’s about time, man. It’s funny how like, and it’s really true, the world rotates around the sun. Sun comes up, sun sets, agriculture, environment, everything has grown and there’s a birth and a death every day around the sun. You know, and everyone gets up during the morning hours and goes to sleep when the sun goes down and we revolve around the sun and that’s cool, I get it. And that’s just nature. Well, the thing is, if you wanna get ahead in nature, if you wanna get ahead in society,

then maybe you need to sacrifice a little bit and get up when it’s dark to ensure that your future is brighter than today.

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Most of everyone who’s listening to this who isn’t achieving what they want is fucked with their time. They think that they’re spending all their time working, but your output, like you don’t even know how to work. I’m being really real with you. Like you think you know how to work, you don’t know how to work. Like the amount of output, and I’ll measure this by like, what is your output? It’s probably not as high as you think. And so rather than trying to learn all these productivity hacks, the ultimate productivity hack is no, N-O, is you stop doing shit.

And then when you create space, then you can fill it with the thing that matters. But trying to add on more to your schedule of all the things that you’re not willing to sacrifice is the very reason that you’re not doing what you need to do.

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Well, I don’t really know how I could make it better, but I’m open to suggestions, man. If I can figure out how to do it, I’ll try it. That’s the humility and the inquiry. That’s a humble inquiry. How could I make things better? It’s something like that. And that’s like, what sacrifices do I need to make in order to make things better? That’s a good question to ask yourself. You could ask yourself that every morning. What sacrifice do I have to make to make things better? You can decide what constitutes better. How about that? Then it’s not even as if it’s being imposed on you.

Come up with your own notion of what constitutes better. You know, try to make it sophisticated. It should just be better for you.

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A friend of mine actually said to me on a trip recently, she said, in successful spaces, oftentimes people will use the word sacrifice. You know, we heard many people, we heard Martin, we heard so many people up on the stage saying, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice. And she said one of the most powerful things ever to me, she said, when we say we’ve sacrificed something for our career, we shouldn’t be afraid to put a name to who that sacrifice was, because oftentimes it was the people in our lives that we call friends. And I think that’s a really important thing.

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It’s something that I’m known by. It’s on our tapes called Choosing Your Futureness. It says simply this, that if you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it, for that your dream and scheme is about it, and life seems useless and worthless without it, and if you gladly sweat for it and fret for it and plan for it, and lose all your terror of the opposition for it, and if you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity,

strength and sagacity, faith, hope, and confidence, and stern pertinacity, if neither cold poverty, famish, or gulp, sickness, or pain, or body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want, if dogged and grim, you besiege and beset it, with the help of God, you’ll get it.

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All that’s in your control, you know what I mean? I feel like the people that have done that, no matter how long they did it or, you know what I mean? They found some type of success from it. You couldn’t have had this if you didn’t focus up, you know what I mean? You wouldn’t be doing interviews. You had to focus up. So it’s the same with any craft. I feel like if you put that time to it, or you dedicate, you sacrifice that little, you know what I mean, all them distractions, you’ll see some type of success. And people don’t understand that. They’d rather watch,

they’d rather see you get successful and then be mad at it or be wondering, well, why that’s him and not me? You ain’t did nothing. You ain’t did nothing to become successful, you know what I mean? So.

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I made the biggest sacrifice. It was the only sacrifice I could make. Yeah, my dad, I’ve had a luxurious life. A luxurious life, a blessed life. I don’t know hardship. The only sacrifice I could make was my family. And it’s the sacrifice I chose to make, but it don’t make it any easier. It don’t make it any easier. Not half the fighters here would do what I do. And if they had what I had, they wouldn’t graft as hard as I do. It’s only conversion for me. I’m the first to get there and the last to leave. I’m crushing numbers in the sprints. I’m crushing numbers in sparring.

I wouldn’t be doing that if I wasn’t hungry. They say that it’s hard to get out of bed in silk pajamas. I get out of bed in silk pajamas in my heated Range Rover seats with a nice massage on the back, heated steering. I still train harder than all these fools.

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But it’s funny when you’re coming here and you’re closing the gym up and there’s no one in the parking lot except for my car and everyone else probably getting home from some party right now because bars are closed right now too. You know they’re probably going to sleep and they’re probably going to wake up and apologize to somebody for however way they acted because that’s not who they really are. They’re chemically induced to be a certain way and have the social lubricants or be able to talk to be liked and say they take something in order to be that guy,

just like people do steroids whatever else. I have to take this to be all that you know but who I am as an individual isn’t quite good enough that’s why I need to take something and become somebody else. You know it’s a sad reality coming here at night and you know I don’t know what it is about it man but like man it’s just the air smells a little bit better right now.

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That’s what I’m sacrificing, and I think a lot of people create these to-do lists when,

in my experience,

It’s been so much more useful to write down all the things that I’m willing to sacrifice,

because if you sacrifice everything,

There’s nothing left than to do the one thing that matters,

and I think Jerry Seinfeld talks about this from a writing perspective.

He says that every day, no matter what,

he sits down and he writes for two hours.

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There are more people that I have met in my life who are dissatisfied by their live it up 20s than dissatisfied by their work it up 20s. Because most of the time in your 20s you have no idea what you want, but knowing what you need to do to work and move ahead is fairly straightforward. And so you can take the known and make progress on the one that you have high confidence that you can make progress on, and then along the way gain perspective on what are things that are actually important to you in your life.

And you may find out often that there are far fewer of those things than you really originally thought. Because what you thought live them up in your 20s was, was actually your mom and your two homies who are both mediocre, and you don’t care about their opinion now when you’re 30 anyways. But what a waste of a life it would have been to quote live up your mom’s dream or your friend’s dreams to then only get to your and realize you didn’t live it up and you also didn’t work it up. And now you have neither.

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Nowadays, everybody’s messed up here because they choose the machines before the free bar squat, okay? So they have no flexibility here and as a result, they have to squat sideways, they have to use their butt and their lower back. The secret or the mentality should be forget the machines when you first start, do the squat. It’s the hardest thing in the world to do the squat. This is balance and control and it’s scary but that’s why it’s so effective, okay? The hardest things are usually the best. If it’s easy, leave it to somebody else, okay?

If there’s a risk involved in an exercise and there is, you’re out here in the open wind and you could fall. If there’s a risk associated with a movement, it’s a good exercise. If there’s minimal risk, why do it? It’s probably a bullshit exercise, okay?

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Because if you want to become a millionaire, if you want to become a person that’s successful, if you want to develop a better physique, it will require sacrifice. And if you want to get to the next level, it’ll cost you. There is a price to success. It hurts. Like you’ve had to neglect friends. You’ve had to neglect certain comments from family members. You’ve had to work overnight for years and years, and nobody’s gonna see that. But that’s the price. And you will either live the price with two aspects, because you’re gonna pay the price regardless of life.

You will pay the price of discipline and hard work, or you will pay the price of regret. And the last thing I want to live is a life of regret, where I’m sitting on my deathbed by myself. My girl won’t be there. You won’t be there. It’ll just be me, myself, and I. And I will have to live and deal with the consequences and the pain of did I pursue my fullest potential, or did I settle for average and mediocre because I wasn’t able to sacrifice the current version of myself for who I was able to become.

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I talked to a group of lawyers this week. When I got done, one guy came over to me frustrated. He goes, man, I keep on failing. Took me four times to pass the bar. I’m trying to start my business. I keep on failing at that. The whole time he was talking to me, I started smiling. He goes, why are you smiling? I said, because you missed it. I don’t see failure. I see grit, determination, drive, sacrifice. Failure means you’re trying. Whole bunch of people out here never fail, because they never try. He said, how do you handle failure, Goggins? I said, I don’t look at it as failure.

I look at it as my first, second, third attempt. One thing in life that’s for sure. The valiant motherfucker always wins. Stay hard.

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Everybody can live their own life. at the end of the day, the more people that you share a bed with, You give them a piece of your soul, whether you like to or not. You give them a piece of your memories. you give them a piece of your, of yourself. So you just have to be very careful who you decide to spend your time with and at the end of the day You know, I just like I said, I reward and I enjoy being with people and hopefully they do too where loyalty and longevity Are pillars of a relationship? So my girl used to drive me to work.

I used to flip toss wings and work in the kitchen She would drive me to work when I didn’t have a car. So hopefully now we’re able to build something together. that’s that’s a dope life and It would make no sense whatsoever and it wouldn’t be very good of me to Neglect all of that sacrifice that’s been done.

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You like, I want to be a lawyer, I want to be a doctor, I want to be an engineer. You study and I got to focus. Your mom’s going to be hurt. Your family going to think you better than everybody else. Your people going to challenge you like, where are you? Like, you too good for us. But I’m trying to tell you, number three, you got to make a sacrifice. If you’re going to get to the next level, you’re going to have to give up something, right? You’re going to have to give up something. And I’m just going to keep it real with y’all. When I say give up, when I talk about sacrifice,

I’m saying give up your current blessings. Like, this going to be hard. Give up the current blessings. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? I had to make a sacrifice. And so what I mean by sacrifice, again, is giving up that which is in your hand. Giving that thing up that’s like right in your hand. That the thing that you could see, that you could touch, that you could taste. Like, the thing that you’re holding onto, risking everything I have now for what could be. Are you hearing me?

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People sacrifice the thing that they want for the thing which is supposed to get it So a lot of the time we will sacrifice happiness in order to be able to achieve success So that when we finally have enough success we can allow ourselves to be happy So you sacrifice the thing that you want which is happiness right for the thing which is supposed to get it which is success. Yeah, and it’s a super common pattern amongst high performers, and Growing up this person internalizes the lesson.

It is very important for me to over perform and they’re driven by this desire to do more and to prove people wrong and a chip on their shoulder and all of this You’ve already achieved goals. You said would make you happy. You’ve already achieved goals You said would make you happy. How can you presume that your happiness sits on the next side of the next set of goals? Given that right now you are on the other side of your last set of goals?

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I was believing in myself and believing in what I do. My coach, he said to me from day one, you just do what I say to you. If you do that, you’re going to become a better player.

We did that. We do it still and do it. The coaches take me out from the session. You can’t do so much training and you’re going to get injured. I can do more. This is my work. That’s why I train hard, five, four sessions, three sessions every day.

I was believing that it was going to happen. That’s why I was staying here three years.

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Just different things. We did stuff for his eyes. We created all kinds of distractions Just stuff that I knew that would that would work that would just work And he was open to it He was like open because he was just like man Just I don’t want to do what everybody else is doing if I do what everybody else is doing I’m gonna be like everybody else his obsession with winning. Yeah, he knew there was a price that needed to pay For winning, and he was most people everybody knows. you got to pay a price for winning, But most people aren’t willing to pay it. they may pay it once,

but literally you got to pay it Every single day and the crazy part about that Is the price changes daily. just like the stock market goes up and down, the price of winning changes On a daily, daily basis and you got to be willing to pay that price, whatever it is on that day.

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You know this generation, F4 Kids, you know what I’m talking about. They have everything easy. They have computers, they have good food and a table. They don’t sacrifice a lot to get what they want.

I want him to suffer a little bit to reach what he wants to be. He didn’t believe because what he sees now, he doesn’t imagine what we sacrificed, the hardest time that we had. He doesn’t believe. So it’s hard, but I think I’m going to be, I know how to do it, to motivate him, to push him. But we’ll be here.

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They see I don’t party, bro, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. And they see that and they’re like, bro, why? Like, you know what I’m saying? Like, go have fun. You are. You feel what I’m saying? But I’m having fun. And I try to tell them like, don’t let me affect what you do, bro. I’ma be good regardless. I’ma be good regardless, but I’m comfortable who I am. I have fun sitting at home watching six games at a time with my daughter, my family, my girl, or on FaceTime with my family. You know what I mean? Like, I have fun doing that. Answering prison calls over and over, chopping it up with them.

That’s my life right now. When I’m done, like, I’ll probably start doing more. But right now I just know, I feel like it’s messed up that it’s this way, that I gotta think like this. But it’s like, I feel like I go to the club or something. You not about to play with me.

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Life is a box of surprises and it’s hard. It’s not easy to be in this level and still push and still motivate to carry on, to score goals, to be in good shape, to compete with the young lions. They’re coming and when they play against me, they want to show me that they are stronger than me and faster than me. You have to prepare very well, not only physically but mentally too. I think it’s very hard but in the same way it’s a challenge. Because as you can see, if you treat your body well, you can maintain it for many years. This is the big challenge for me and it’s great.

I feel proud for that. To have this age and still compete in the highest level for me, it’s great and gives me motivation to carry on.

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That’s how you level up. I know there’s a whole bunch of people with that right there, that fires me up. That makes me fucking happy what you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there’s so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours, refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that’s where I gain the advantage. It’s so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile. Most people don’t want to find that extra, because it sucks.

It’s miserable. It’s lonely. You talk about that you were kind of lonely by yourself. I was the same way. And that used to hurt me growing up. Now I fucking thrive in that shit. That’s the only place to be.

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I will party later. I work hard now so the second half of my life I can do whatever the fuck I want. That’s been my mentality. I’m not gonna trick off my early years for partying and then worry about struggling, how I’m gonna make it, how I’m gonna take care of my family, how I’m gonna take care of everybody else. That’s not gonna be me. I’m gonna grind it out now. You know what I’m saying? I’m gonna set up the foundation so I can enjoy myself later. That’s always been my mentality. And that works for me all the time. You know what I’m saying?

And I’ve been blessed to be around cats who gave me the game and wisdom and just told me like it is. And I was just open enough to listen.

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almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year, but many years of doing work without reward, where they have to do things that other people find boring, and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting, that most people want to do during that entire season of their life. And they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do, to do stuff that they would not prefer to do, because of the one thing they want most. And that’s the Rocky Cuts scene.

And instead of lasting five minutes, it just usually lasts five or ten years.

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People are gonna think that I am maybe lying or maybe fibbing or Exaggerating. No, I am literally I was the lowest form on earth No talent No ability to learn and I literally know what it is to be rock-bottom and to build that up So that question about learning it’s a pain in my ass and I don’t have to do it It’s the thing about I’m 49 years old. I am a multimillionaire. I Don’t have to do anything. So I thought about when I was growing up: is man, I Can’t wait to one day get to the point where I no longer have to do this stuff. But what happens? I got older, it became a way of living.

So how I do every day is how I do every day. It’s a it’s a discipline. It’s a regimen It’s a it’s a it was a choice I made and the choice I made was what are you willing to? To sacrifice and what are you willing to give up to find every bit of who you are as a human being? And I was willing to give everything to do that. So Studying is no joke.

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You have to sacrifice your lower self to your higher self in order for you to proceed in a healthy manner, to be resilient, but also for you to participate in the covenant that would make for a united society. You have to, and there’s no difference between that and maturation, because a lot of what maturation is, is to give up the attractions of the immediate present in the service of something broader and higher. And that would be you, in the broader sense, and what’s in your best interest, but also the community. Simultaneously. Those are the same thing.

So at the center of the community you have the sacrifice, the voluntary sacrifice of self. That’s the center. Around that you have the church, you have the altar, then you have the church, then you have the town. And around the town you have the state, and then you have the nation. And that’s all resting on this spirit of voluntary self-sacrifice, right? And that’s the foundation stone of the community. Jung knew that.

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Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don’t be afraid of being hurt. Don’t be afraid of sacrificing some blood.

And the whole week I was thinking, I wanna finish this fight. I’m gonna finish this fight before the championship rounds. This is, I should be able to smash this guy. Goggins’ message, it was for a reason. His reason, and Greg Jackson’s been saying it for years, be comfortable being uncomfortable. But Goggins gave me a really good reminder. John, you should want this fight to be miserable. You should want this to hurt.

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I’m always saying it was the toughest time in my life. It was when I left my family at 11 years old to live in a different world, which is Lisbon. In the same country but it looked like it was a different part of the world. I cried almost every day to miss my family, but I don’t regret it because it was probably the most intense moments in my life that I lived through. Without sacrifice, we cannot win nothing. I did an unbelievable sacrifice, my family too. I think I did a good option.

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I had to be selfish during that time. And I had to, the only reason I had to be selfish during that time is because I had a path and a goal that I wanted her to be able to achieve and her to be able to see. And knowing that I had to make this sacrifice now for the benefit of what was gonna deliver down the line. And if I couldn’t deliver what I wanted to deliver down the line, it would actually be more detrimental to myself and to the family and to my growth and her growth if I didn’t complete what I was set out to complete.

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but I would propose that self-love you would ultimately be happier because in some Taoist roundabout way, the reason we want validation from others is to give us a good enough reason to validate ourselves. And if you compromise yourself in order to gain favor with other people, you’ll know. Even if you think you’re not keeping score, your subconscious is. And this sacrifice of the thing that we want for the thing which is supposed to get it, sacrifice the thing we want, self-worth, for the thing which is supposed to get it, validation, means that we need to prioritize ourselves.

And Marx’s contention in Models, basically the entirety of Models as a piece of advice for male dating, is neediness is the attraction killer. Therefore, you cannot prioritize other people’s opinions of yourself ahead of your own.

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For the people getting started, one is find a mentor, somebody who has gone the path that you want to go and follow them. Two is do not compare yourself to other people that are farther along the journey and assume that you’re going to get there overnight. Once again, the killer of joy is comparison. You need to run away from that. And finally, you need to understand that you must be willing to sacrifice who you are today for who you want to become tomorrow. You have to sacrifice who you are today for who you want to become tomorrow.

The Bible, there’s a verse in the Bible that says, When I became a man, I put away childish things. You can’t become the best version of yourself unless you’re willing to neglect who you are today.

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we almost don’t lose and I talk about like about 25 fighters 25 professional fighters we fight we almost don’t lose everybody we fight around the world everywhere Japan, Middle East, Europe, U.S., South America. we’re fighting in everywhere in this world and we almost don’t lose. like we have so many belts, we have so many champions and all about because of sacrifice and all these guys. they was with me, they was with my father when I beginning. when they finish, couple guys with me already finished. there is like coming like six, seven, eight on very high level.

they still there when they finish, I’m gonna finish too.

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You have to go in the trenches, bro. It’s ugly. And if you’re not willing to do that, if you’re not willing to sacrifice maybe your current life or sacrifice going out with friends or chasing girls, then, yeah, then that’s the price you are paying, right? So, no, in the beginning it didn’t really work out. It’s instant pleasures. People like junkies on their phone, on TikTok, like consuming, ordering food. Oh, 10 minutes here. People want everything now, bro. People want everything now. But what makes me different, I’m willing to sacrifice right now for who I want to be in the future.

I’m willing to sacrifice my current reality for the lifestyle I want to live forever, right? And if you can create that for yourself, then you’ll be dangerous. Then you’ll be a dangerous man and there’s no competition because that’s funny to me.

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That’s tough! And for an entire year, I wasn’t answering the phone like that, y’all. I wasn’t doing the entertainment thing. I wasn’t going out like that on the weekends with my girl like that. I wasn’t spending as much time as I would like to with my family and with my children. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? Number three is going to be the most important one. Yup, write it down, shut it down. Yup. But that might last for about two weeks before it starts getting to you. Like, it might last a month, 30 days before it starts getting to you.

When people start walking out your life and people start calling you out, right? And you start losing stuff to gain stuff. Listen to me, I’m talking to somebody, you ready to give up. You ready to give up on great because good is telling you bye. And I’m telling you to look good in the face.

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All about sacrifice. All about. People talk about discipline, but sometimes discipline is not enough. You know, all about sacrifice. Like a couple days ago- it was, I think, maybe one week ago, one guy, he’s from Mexico, he trained with us. We allowed him to come. We don’t allow anybody to come to our team because we have enough sparring partners. You can look at anybody, champion, champion, champion. We don’t need nobody. We have almost 30 killers inside one gym. Why do we have to invite some people? And he came to me and was like, oh, on holidays I want to go to Mexico.

And I told him, brother, you’re in Mexico, you’re family, everybody has to wait. If you want to become the best in the world, you have to be inside the room. You have to be inside the room.

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You must be committed to your dream. Oh hallelujah. I’m scared to talk about it, because I believe it so bad. You ought to see my toes are dancing in my shoes. Glory to God.

I don’t have no hair on my head, but my hair on my chin is jerking over this right now.

I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they had suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and tests. And if you have a dream and you commit to it, it will come to pass.

Go the vision, Terry.

Wait for it.

He’s not just the beginning. He’s also the end. If God started it, he will finish it. Shout yes.

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So here is the secret to self-control. The secret to self-control is to give up control. Because otherwise we get into a tug of war with a monster. A craving monster. And the craving monster says, come on, smoke a cigarette. Come on, have that cookie. Come on. And you’re on the other side saying, no craving monster, I’m going to distract myself from you. I’m going to ignore you. No, no, no, no. And craving monster says, no, no, come on, you know you want it. And you’re just back here and you’re going back and forth and back and forth. And pretty soon the craving monster overpowers you.

You have that cookie. You have that cigarette. And still the craving monster comes back. And then you’re in the tug of war again, doing what we’ve learned how to do. Unless, unless you drop the rope.

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Here’s a good one. You want to get through that moment, nod your head slowly in the affirmative. Right? So when someone’s telling me something that’s making me mad, I’ll just slowly nod my head. Like I understand, this is the way things are. I accept this. And this is, I’m calculating what my next move is gonna be. And then you see whatever, guys will count to 10. You tell your little kids that. Tell your little kids when they start losing their temper, you need to count to 10. Count to 10, count to 100, count to 1,000, 1,000, whatever it is you gotta do,

and get control because like I said, if you’re losing control, it’s not strength, it’s weakness.

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My dad always tells me Tommy all as you can do is the best you can do with the opportunities that are presented in front of you And I think what it means is just do your best Do the very best you could do and look whatever the outcome is fucked outcome is it’s not like you can control the outcome You can’t in life. You just can’t control your attitude. You can control your effort, you can control what you put into it and sometimes you have to be okay with that. the process of Self improvement, the process of trying to win a Super Bowl,

The process of trying to be a parent, is doing the best you could do. and you know what? sometimes I could play the best Game in the world and sometimes you get unlucky bouncing doesn’t go your way. I could be totally prepared for the, for a game, and go out there and just not play. well,

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And I argue that point. Absolutely. I think the most dangerous men on earth are the weak men. I think inside of every single man, we’re born with a fire inside of us that we do not control can destroy ourselves and other people. And if you look at men who have no emotional control, because that’s what they’re trying to teach us to have to say, listen, you’re a man, you’re allowed to just cry all the time and have no emotional control, no stoicism, just be react to your emotions. Do you know what happens when you tell men to just react to their emotions?

Anger, you have school shootings, you have rape, you have violence. That’s what happens when you tell men to have no emotional control. These school shooters are kids with no emotional control. rapists are men with no emotional control. Violence and the bullshit you see on the street are men with no emotional control. Telling men to not be stoic is going to create a breed of violent young men who have no emotional control, can’t control their emotions and act out on them. That is absolutely and utterly more dangerous to society than me coming along saying,

listen, I don’t give a fuck how you feel young man. It doesn’t matter how you feel you have duties and your responsibilities as an adult and you must comply and act a certain way regardless of how you feel.

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It’s a practice that you have to, it’s a habit. So if you know that at 40%, I’m feeling pain. At 40% I’m feeling pain. That’s where the 40% rule kicks in. Now it starts, okay, I’m feeling pain. My mind’s saying all this shit to me. It’s saying get out of here, run, flee. The fight or flight kicks in. Okay, we’re done, we’re not good enough. It starts telling you all these things. You start to believe it. Because the mind controls all. This is the time where you have to gain control back of your mind. It’s okay, let me see if I can go 45%.

And once you start giving yourself more and more hope, and start realizing, okay, the mind starts to be, okay, what are you doing? We’re supposed to be going right, and you’re going left. You start then controlling your mind. Start finding more in yourself. And it goes from 40% to a lot further than that. But that’s the start of it though. Get to the spot where your mind is saying stop. Wherever that is, you gotta get there first. And then that’s when that shit starts to work for you. You gotta control yourself in that moment.

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If you really like to control, you don’t like to admit that you like to control because you like to be in control of other people’s opinion of you. And so you’ll say, I’m not controlling. And then you’ll say things like, I’m just aggressively helpful. Or I’m just thoroughly organized. Now, listen, you are so controlling, you make coffee nervous. I just want to say it right now. And you can see it on Easter weekend because you get everything the way you want it. You know, we’re gonna go to Easter church and you’re gonna look perfect and we’re gonna have matching outfits.

And whenever you hunt for eggs, you’re gonna just be so cute so we can get the picture. And then we ended up running late for church. And so we tell you to shut up, get in the car. We’re gonna worship Jesus. And then you’re gonna love it. All for the glory of God. You can be controlling. Some of you may have been there.

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We all want that control, but here’s the funny thing. We don’t have any control whatsoever of most things. Control is an illusion. We have influence. People go, I don’t want to lose control. You already did, you never had it. But we can control what we’re going to focus on this week. We can control what we believe. We can control what we feel. We can control what we do. We can control what we focus on. And we take control of that, we’re able to take control of the inner world. Because remember we said, there’s only two worlds you can master. We want to master them both.

The external world, that’s how you achieve things. That’s how you convert your dreams into reality. How do I take what I dream about and manifest it in the real world? Physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, spiritually, whatever. I know a lot of people, and I bet you do too, that are real great masters of the external world, but inside they’re a disaster.

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What is your wake-up call?

What is enslaving you?

What is controlling your thoughts?

Is it the television set? Feeding your mind images of what life should be?

Is it the internet drawing you in and controlling your time?

Is it drugs or alcohol numbing your brain and diminishing your desires?

Or is it weakness?

A lack of discipline that prevents you from accomplishing what you want to accomplish.

And I’m not saying that you have to rebel.

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If I can wake up, if I can get up, I’m trying to get to this spot, right? And I’m trying to get to you. So you got to do me a huge favor. I want it, but you got to want it too. Listen to me. I told you this before. I told you this before. Your mind, right, and attitude. Your mind and attitude is all you need to be successful. That’s right. That’s all you need. You don’t need to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth. You don’t need money, right? You don’t need no… Listen to me. You don’t even need folk that like you. As long as you believe in you, you got the right mindset.

You got the right attitude. We can make it happen. You can have whatever you like. You heard me. You can have whatever you like, all right? But I need you to give me… I need 120% of your mind.

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So when we are in a situation, there is a way to get out, Can you do it overnight and sometimes it seems overwhelming you might find yourself right now in a situation where you don’t like your job You don’t like where you’re living You don’t like what’s going on in your life and it might seem like oh, how am I ever going to get out of here? It’s gonna take time. Did you ever see the movie the great escape? classic war movie? And they’re trying there’s a bunch of american soldiers and some brits and whatnot. They’re trapped in a nazi War camp, prisoner of war camp,

and they come up with plans and they’re trying to break out of there for you. I guess, the Shawshank redemption, right? Yeah, these guys don’t like the situation that they’re living in. What do they do? They start to come up with a plan to get out of there. By the way, that’s not only a plan to get out of there, It’s also how they’re going to stay sane. It’s also kind of going to look at the world and and and and dig up some kind of control over their life. And that’s what you can do in your life.

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When you feel yourself moving step by step, each hour, each day, toward achieving something that’s important to you, you feel positive and happy most of the time. By the way, do you know what unsuccessful people think about most of the time? They think about what they don’t want, the things that make them angry or sad, usually past events that they can’t change, and they think about who’s to blame for all their problems. So whenever you see people talking and complaining about things that they can’t change, things in their life that are their responsibility,

and then blaming others for their problems, you know you’re dealing with a negative, unhappy person with a very limited future and a very unhappy present. So the way you take control of your mind, like grabbing the wheel of a vehicle, is start to think about what you want and how to get it all day long.

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So more often than not we blame other people we blame our spouse we blame our boss we blame our subordinates We blame our co-workers. We blow it blame our peers. We blame our friends. We blame our enemies. We blame our kids We blame our neighbor we blame everybody about what our shortfalls are It’s everybody else’s fault Because they didn’t show up. I didn’t pick me up. They made me late. They were late. They needed me the boss called me They didn’t tell me what was going on. They didn’t tell me I had to be here. They, they, they, they they.

that’s what we’re doing, Just excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses. Here’s the thing about other people and here’s the thing about blaming other people it’s a lie. It’s a lie. You’re lying to yourself Here’s the deal. You can’t control other people and you shouldn’t for one second think that you can’t. you shouldn’t, You shouldn’t put any reliance on your success on some other person’s behavior because you can’t control them. You.

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That you can lose your temper and then all of a sudden you have this extra strength And so when you’re a little kid and when I say a little kid, I mean when I was 13 14 years old I thought hey if I go if I could get that rage going and people are scared like I used to feel that’s a positive thing and Then like I said as I got older now, you know now you’re talking 16 15 16 17. I realized, hey, This isn’t This isn’t cool. This isn’t strength. That’s actually weakness. And when I realized it was weakness- and I didn’t realize that overnight,

But I started getting the idea that that was weakness- and now, When you see someone that is in control, and even when bad things are happening there, look there. you know they’re standing stoically saying, okay, Let me take another look at that and I’ll get it done.

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I need you to take control over every single area, and we’re not gonna do it in one day, We’re not gonna do it in a hundred, that we’re gonna do it one day at a time And you’re gonna get control. and when you get control over that one area, You’re gonna blow up in every area and then someday gonna be your day. How many are ready for some day to be your day you tired of being broke good? Come on. Come on Come on, you tired you tired of having problems. Are you ready to get on the other side of those problems? Whatever they are. Come on. Let me see your hands high.

America’s spending 200 billion in health care and a criminal justice system. 200 billion. We out of control y’all and we’re gonna get control back. You’re gonna get control of your life You’re gonna stop saying this person ain’t this and this person ain’t that look It’s only one person has got control of your life. And if somebody else got control who gave it to him Come on,

if somebody else got control of your life, who you who gave it to him?

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We have control and listen, can you get yourself in a situation where it might take some time to get out of? Yep, we can we can be there I’ve told this story many times my first deployment to Iraq We move into these old broken-down buildings on a on a former Iraqi military base And what do we do when we move in there the day we move in there? We start squaring them away, We start fixing things, we start building them out. I built myself a desk and a bed and partitions between other Rooms for where other guys were sleeping. That’s what we’re doing. We’re immediately squaring that stuff away.

We’re immediately making a habitat that we want to live in.

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We engage in unhealthy behaviors because of our genetics, because of brain neurotransmitters, because of environmental influences such as peers and the media. Each of those pieces of the puzzle are not things that you and I can solve on our own. But there is one piece of this puzzle that may hold the key. Our choices. About what we do with our cravings to engage in addictive behaviors like smoking or in overeating. Our choices. There is a new science of self-control that may hold the key to reversing these epidemics. It’s called willingness.

Willingness means allowing your cravings to come and to go while not acting on them by smoking or eating unhealthy.

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It’s time for those of you in this room to take control. I told you right someday You could be living in someday. You’ve held up your someday either You didn’t get the right information or you got it. You didn’t use it. You’re not getting up early enough You’re not taking it back. I don’t know what you’re doing But when you leave all I want for you is to live your someday No more playing after today. Come on. Raise your hand. Come on. Raise your hand.

You like II I’m feeling you Yeah, I owe it to myself. Come on. Give me your hands. I owe it to myself. I’m not playing no more when I leave. I’m not just listening to this stuff. I didn’t come to just get pumped up I didn’t just come to get motivated. I didn’t come to just get inspired. when I leave this place today, I’m taking control right down the area that you most need to take control. write it down right now, the air You know, you most need to take control like right this second. I know this is the area that’s got out of control. It’s out of control.

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In the military. it’s very frowned upon If you get on the radio and you are emotional, if you scream help over here, if you panic, like this. So every time I ever talked on the radio, My goal was to never sound panicked, never sound emotional, no matter what was going on, Sound very calm and cool. So that means whenever things were going crazy and I was about to have to get on the radio, What would I have to do? I had to breathe, I had to take a breath, and so it’s the same thing. It’s just that something that I was doing so that I could, you know I’d be. oh, there’s got stuff going on.

Okay, I’m about talking radio.

Hey, this is Jocko. we need about ten more guys down at this building right now, and that- Me taking control of my, of my breath- Also would help me get into a controlled emotional state where I’m not losing my mind.

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because your mind chooses the path of least resistance. Your mind has the ultimate tactical advantage over you. It knows what scars you, it knows your fears, it knows your insecurities, and it protects you. That’s why I talk about the 40% rule in my book. The 40% rule is all about the brain has the tactical advantage over you. It knows and it keeps you away from all that. That’s why it says don’t jump out of an airplane, don’t go in the ocean where there’s sharks. It’s a protective mechanism. Don’t go back to the place where your dad beat shit out of you in your mind. Don’t go back.

The brain protects you, but protects you so much, it doesn’t allow growth. So the brain is an amazing thing, but the brain controls you. You must control it. You must take power over your own mind or your mind will guide you into all the soft spots, soft places that your brain wants to live in. Your brain has enough information, it doesn’t want to go through that process of mind hardening.

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Most people are out here believing things and repeating things that were told to them by people who don’t even fucking like them, by their enemies. Everyone’s mind is fundamentally fucked all of it. Look at me. I’m a guy who decided to conquer social media. I Blinked I cured my brain. I used basic into fatigability. I use perspicacity. I use compendiousness I used my mind and I focused and I fucking conquered the world in a few short months. It’s not difficult. There’s just no competition because everybody’s fucking distracted.

They’re getting distracted by this, distracted by that, watching fucking Netflix, jerking off to porn hub like fucking jackasses. It’s so easy to win if you can control your own mind.

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The first thing you have to do when you’re in this chaotic time and you don’t know why you’re there and you can’t figure out how to get out of it is to ask yourself a very simple question. Are you controlling the things that you are capable of controlling? And I’m going to bet that the answer is no. Okay, because if you were to control the things that you can actually control, you would have far less chaos in your life. You have far more that you can control than you cannot control in your life. Okay, you can’t control the weather, you can’t control what other people do,

but you can control a lot of what you do. Let me give you some examples. Okay, you can control what you eat, you control what you drink, you control what you read, what information you consume, you control your activity level.

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And your mind goes spastic, starts to think, I have another 129 hours. You’re not going home, you’re getting yelled at, you could be frozen. So you panic, you freak out, and you want to quit. What I realized about the mind is those people who can be in that time and embrace that time and be in that moment and not allow the mind to go to 129 hours on hour one. It’s the control that we don’t have in our minds. It’s a control that you had to have for three months when you’re miserable, when you’re suffering, when you’re laying on the floor,

when you’re doing all the disciplines it takes to be a monk. You cannot think about the whole process. It will make you so insanely crazy. It’s impossible, it’s inhumane what I’m about to do to myself. You have to be able to break all these big, humongous, painful things in life down to the smallest molecule.

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Remember what I told you, you’re different than an animal, you’re different than a beast, right? You’ve been given the freedom of choice and you can choose. So we’re not talking about what kind of day it is, if it’s raining, if it’s sunny, you know, if it’s snow, right, if it’s below freezing, I don’t care what’s going on around you because it’s not what goes around you. Listen to me, it’s not what happens around you that depicts or determines your success. It’s what happens inside you and you can’t control the elements.

You cannot control, but you can control your attitude and you can control your mindset, all right? So I need you with me, baby. I need 120% because this is the fourth quarter. We don’t have a lot of time. Remember I told you, the reason why I get so pumped up, baby in the fourth quarter is because this is it. There are no more quarters after this. After December, it’s over. 2011 is a wrap, it’s over. So I need you to do me a huge favor. I need you to get totally locked in. I need you in the zone.

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So there’s only two things that control the quality of your life. Please jot them down for the rest of your life you want to remember. The quality of my life is controlled by two things, meaning and emotion.

Meaning and emotion.

The meaning you give to things controls the emotion that you feel.

People come up with different meanings, and that produces different emotions, and those emotions make you make different decisions. When you’re angry, you’re going to decide differently than when you’re playful, or grateful, or excited. So the secret to life is controlling meaning and emotion.

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If you cannot control your own mind, then you are just a feather in the wind of life. Because your own mind is the only thing you can control. You can’t control the weather. You can’t control other people. You can’t even control whether your heart stops beating. You might have a heart attack tomorrow. You can’t control anything besides what you think. If you cannot control your own mind, then you go through life with zero control. Zero influence. You can’t control anything. You’re just a feather in the wind waiting for life to blow you from happy place to sad place to happy place to sad place.

Completely hoping on the gods to be fortunate to you because if any genuine discomfort comes your way, you’re fucked. It is trained like everything else in life. It is trained. So if you find yourself not appreciating what you have until it’s gone, then you must blink and cure your brain. If you find yourself unable to focus or concentrate on tasks, you must blink and cure your brain. If you find yourself unable to go and dedicate yourself to something you don’t want to do, you must blink and cure your brain.

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The minute that you say: the guards are never gonna let me out of here and the judicial system was bad and I got screwed over By my wife, framed me and that’s why I’m locked up in this prison, because that’s what they’re all saying.

But you can do something about it and you take a little tiny step. You take a little tiny step. you take out the little uh, What they use? the mineral hammer. Oh Yeah, I’m Shawshank. Yeah, it was a rock camera. little rock hammer, little tiny rock hammer, so he could look at minerals and Carve a hole in the wall over months and years, years, years That’s what we’re all doing That’s what we’re all doing making little decisions. Not just making little decisions, then taking action that backs up those decisions. And you got to keep that strategic vision in mind.

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The brain is the most powerful weapon in the world. And it’s crazy how a kid that wasn’t real smart, I was forced to go only internal. External had to go away. The external world had to go away. And living so deep inside myself, it was me in this brain and figuring out how this thing works. And so many people are doing exactly that, the supplements, the this, the that. I agree, it helps. But once you figure out your brain, you become unstoppable to almost anything. Yeah, you can’t beat death, you can’t whatever, whatever. Your brain is amazing.

Once you feed it the right conversation, the right mental nutrients, the right mental supplements, the right internal dialogue at the right time with the right hit, with the right proof of what you’ve done in the past, and you send it right to the right circuit, dude, you’re a fucking beast, a beast.

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So we do everything we can do. So if I’m struggle, you cannot rest. You have to keep up with me. So when I’m 80, you 110. So you start to regroup and start to seeking for air. And that’s time normally where mistakes happen and I really make the, close the deal. So breathing become my best friend, not only to control my emotions, to keep my heart rate and the best performance to recoup. So to be controlling panic, controlling emotions, become calm to strategize. Everything coming from this capacity within to control yourself by breathing.

So I felt like was a great addition to my practice and makes a huge change in my life.

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So I felt like was a great addition to my practice and makes a huge change in my life.

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Come on, it’s time to take what? Come on, it’s time to take what? It’s time to take what? And who can do it? You can do it. You can do it guys. And you will never get to your someday of you out of control. You think the three o’clock in the morning was just for three? A part of that was discipline. And I took that transferable skill, discipline in one area and took it to different areas. I need y’all to get control. Let’s go to the next one. It’s gonna blow your mind. Drugs. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health,

21.5 million adults age 12 and older battle with substance use disorder in 2014. 21.5 million people are out of control. Out of control. 21.5 million. We out of control y’all. And here’s the crazy part. All you gotta do is look in the mirror. All you gotta do is deal with yourself. And then we’re gonna get you a whole other level.

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Now, 95% of who we are by the time we’re 35 years old is a memorized set of behaviors, emotional reactions, unconscious habits, hardwired attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions that function like a computer program. So then, a person can say with their 5% of their conscious mind, I want to be healthy. I want to be happy. I want to be free. But the body’s on a whole different program. So then, how do you begin to make those changes? Well, you have to get beyond the analytical mind because what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind.

And that’s where meditation comes in because you can teach people through practice how to change their brainwaves, slow them down. And when they do that properly, they do enter the operating system where they can begin to make some really important changes.

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That you are in charge of your choices. No one else is in charge of your choices. You control your choices, your effort, and your attitude in life. Those are the three things that you can control without doubt. Everything else around you can go wrong, but you can control your choices, your effort, and your attitude. Love up your family. Love up your family. I can’t imagine that someone died on their deathbed and they said, man, I should have played more video games as they were dying. I should have hung out with my retarded homies more. I should have made more money.

Like the only regret people have is that I didn’t spend more time with my family. I didn’t love up my family more. The love wasn’t deep enough. And if you can learn these lessons, these lessons so early on in life before it’s too late, then you can go and infect others.

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Don’t believe everything that you’re told and don’t follow the path just because it’s there.

Don’t get in line just because other people are.

Get up and wake up and be conscious of what is creeping into your mind. What’s getting in there? What are you letting in there? What is forcing itself in there?

And what does it want you to do? you have Only one life, so don’t waste it being controlled by someone else.

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A sense of control is the key to a long and happy life. The more you feel in control of yourself and your life, the more you will love yourself and the happier you will be. The more you accept complete responsibility for every part of your health, happiness and relationships, the more in control you will feel and the more powerful you will become. The more in control you feel, the more confidence and personal pride you will have. The more you feel in control of your life, the higher will be your self-esteem and self-respect and personal pride.

So resolve today that you are going to live a long and happy life. This is the very best time in all of human history to be alive and you are one of the very best people to be alive at this time.

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but free your mind, they don’t understand what it means. It’s hard to comprehend what it means to have your mind not be free. It’s a little harder to comprehend that. When I say your mind is not free, it’s a little bit easier. But to say like, oh, free mind versus what, slave mind? Yeah, trapped mind. Yeah, trapped mind, something like that. It’s hard to truly comprehend what that means, even at a surface level. So I’ve started saying open your mind more, but it’s the same thing. When I wrote this book, free your mind. That’s what I meant. Open your mind up.

Be able to comprehend, be able to see, be able to understand more. That’s what our goal is.

Discipline your body, free your mind. Get up early and go. Get after it and you’ll become the person you wanna be.

And you become that person through one small decision at a time.

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We out of control, spilling all kinds of stuff. Like I’m tripping on, how many cars you need? How many cars you need? What kind of car you need to go where you going? Why you need that big old car to go where you going? Why you got that big old car and you still, you use a Uber, why in the world you use a Uber and you got a car? Why are you buying that? Why are you wearing that? Why are you going there? Who you trying to impress? We sick, y’all. And once you can fix that and get it right, then we can get control of our lives and move on.

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You know what they’re gonna do. people are freaking crazy. Think of the shortfalls you’ve got and you don’t think other people are gonna let you down. You don’t think somebody’s gonna show up late. You don’t think someone’s gonna call you with an emergency, some panic situation You don’t think that’s gonna happen. It’s gonna happen.

You can’t control them. The only person you can control is you or at least the person that you better control is you?

I’m going to the book right now. I’m going to the discipline equals freedom field manual. Let me tell you about a little bit about this. You can’t control other people You can’t make them what you want them to be. You can’t make them who you want them to be.

The only person you can control is you. so focus on making yourself who you want to be: faster, stronger, smarter, more humble, less ego.

Discipline your body,

free your mind.

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You have to control your mind. You have to be able like if your mind starts getting anxious. Okay. I know we’re getting weird It’s time to work out. Okay. I know maybe we should meditate. Maybe we should do this Maybe we should do that. Don’t just keep scrolling. You got to know when and when, but most people don’t have that kind of self-control and discipline. They don’t have to. all most people have to do is, when the alarm goes off, Get up, wash yourself, brush your teeth, eat something, go to work,

do whatever minimal amount you have to do to keep that job and Then and the bathroom breaks and whenever no one’s looking look through your phone be distracted Come home watch Netflix go to sleep repeat. That’s most people. so they don’t have to Do anything because they haven’t set up their life in a way that requires serious attention and An objective sense of your perspective and your, your, your interaction with humans and the way the world is working.

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You’ve never been in front of this many people before right that don’t matter you’ve never been this far away from home that don’t matter What matters is what you leave in that ring and what you take back with you? You know what that is? Right and knowing that you did your best- and you’re doing it for yourself, not for me, Not your father’s memory, but for you. I can see in your eyes: You’re gonna do it.

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You gotta be selfish. I don’t give a fuck. It’s the sacrifice, but without great sacrifice and without great risk, there is no such thing as a great reward. Can’t have one.

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there’s always a thread of where you are to where you desire to be at, no matter in what situation. There’s never not a way. Or else you wouldn’t feel it, or else you wouldn’t have a desire for it. It wouldn’t even be in your consciousness. You know what I mean? Like, I don’t have a desire to go to Saturn because that’s just not in my thing, right? But I have a desire to, the things that I’ve had a desire to, I always knew that there was a way. So always know that no matter what opportunity you’re in, against the impossible odds, or against odds, you know, whatever it is,

you always have your way to get to where you are. There’s always a thread leading you, and there are maybe multiple threads. So never be down and out and think that it’s impossible. It’s really not. I mean, Mission Impossible is a movie that where he defines impossible missions, you know? But my point is, is like, there is nothing that’s impossible for you. It’s all meant for you. And it’s up to you.

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Many people do not take the risks that are necessary to move out of their comfort zone because they’re afraid it won’t work out. But the fact is that until you move out of the comfort zone and get the experience from making the mistakes, it’s not possible for you to grow and become capable of earning the kind of money that you desire. Now here’s the key to the law of accumulation. This law says that everything counts. Everything that you do counts. The biggest mistake that people make is they think that only what they want to count counts. No.

When you read a book, when you listen to an audio program, when you go to a course, when you go to bed early and get up early and you work, it all counts. And it’s all going on the plus side of your ledger. But when you watch television, waste time, hang out, fool around and so on, all of that counts as well. And it’s going on the negative side of your ledger.

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If you play it safe, you’re going to exist.

You only get to live when you take risks. Ain’t no living in safety. You can’t beat a man if you don’t jump. You can’t beat Top Dog unless you fight the other dog. Ain’t nobody going to give you the championship. You don’t win the title without coming to the fight. You don’t win the fight without training. The jump is necessary. It’s like I said in the video, every successful person I ever know has jumped. Why would you not? See, you have this opportunity. All of us have opportunities in life.

And it’s going to require a decision that we have to make to go for it or stay still.

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Listen to me, more money. Listen to me, better relationships. Listen to me, a better life. Woo! That moment, if you want this moment for the rest of your life, like if you’re ready to take your game to the next level in whatever it is, sports, life, business, whatever it is, health, listen to me very closely. You got to change that mindset. So I told you, my boy Shannon Austin said something deep to me. He said, ET, I told my son, forget what your coach said. We’re not just taking 100 shots. Woo! He said, look, I told my son, we’re not taking 100 shots. We’re making 100 shots.

That’s a difference. That’s mindset. That’s mindset. That’s the difference between the average and the good, the good and the great, the great and the phenomenal. It’s their mindsets.

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When you have something you want to do, if you don’t develop the courage to do that which has been given you to do, and you spend a lot of time going around trying to convince other people or trying to get their approval, what will happen is that you will lose your nerve and other people will convince you that what you are doing doesn’t have any value and you’ll give up on your dream. It’s an interesting thing about life I’ve also found that if you don’t have the courage to act, sometimes and particularly, if you have something special to do, life will move on you.

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The fear is never reaching your potential. That’s it that: always fallen short, always quitting before you’re done, always Procrastinating always not doing the right thing and then one day you’re an old man Yep, and you look back and go god. I could have been great. Yep. It could have been great.

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Somebody came up to me. They said, E.T., man, I’m tired, E.T. I’m tired, E.T. I put in the work, E.T., I’m not seeing the results, E.T. I’m ready to give up, E. I’m ready to give in, E. Come on, E, I did what you told me to do. I read the book you told me to read. I put in the hours you told me to put in. E, I’m doing it, and I’m not seeing anything. Listen to me closely. Listen to me closely. When you get to the point where enough is enough, when you get to the point where it hurt real bad, when you get to the point you can’t take it no more, when you get to that point,

I’m telling you, I can’t explain it to you, but doors start opening, opportunities start happening, but what you cannot do is you cannot quit doing the process. You cannot give up because it ain’t what you see. You cannot give up. What you gotta do is you heard it, you heard it, you read it, I sent it out on Twitter, I told you. Champions keep going when they don’t have anything left in their tank. That’s the difference between the greats. Yeah.

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One of my favorite quotes is, every day I wake up, I’m one day closer to death. So what you gonna do with the time you got left? It’s like, understand that this is our time right now. The moment is now. These moments, we only have the moment. So a lot of us live in the future and a lot of us live in the past. And that’s something that we have to get out of the habit of. And I think when you accept where you are, you’re kind of letting go of that and making an action plan to putting your attention on your intention.

And of course you have an idea of where you would like to be but God doesn’t always give us what we want. God gives us what we need. And sometimes those are the same thing and sometimes they’re not. And it all works out.

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You stuck you can’t you cannot move forward you heard me tell the story with the line and gazelle you still stuck you gazelle You are you are a gazelle you need something to motivate you what happens to the gazelle when the lion ain’t chasing him What happens is he nothing he stops running why because he always needs something external to motivate him I’m gonna show you this right quick. I’m gonna show you this and I’m gonna get you out of here. I told you this story, but now I got a visually showing you. you see. you see, this is why I work, This is why I grind. This is why I work.

This is why I grind. This is why work. This is why grind, This is why I hustle.

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And they just walk around on their phones, just clueless to how powerful they are.

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A motherfucker only gonna call it delusion until it don’t work for nobody else to see, but for the whole world to see. And then once the world see it, there’s nothing delusional about it. Now your delusion becomes, oh he was a fucking genius. We didn’t see it when he saw it. We didn’t understand it when he did. We thought this motherfucker was crazy. But he definitely always figured this thing was the thing to do and he stuck by that shit.

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A person who has a great life by the law of accumulation is a person who’s accumulated far more credits, more pluses on the credit side than debits on the debit side. And here’s an important point. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s probably moving you away from your goals. Nothing is neutral. Everything that you’re doing is either moving you toward the things that you want to accomplish in life, the person you want to be, the wealth you want to accumulate, or it’s moving you away. Everything counts. The law of accumulation says that everything counts.

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You get on the bus, you go eat, like you, all that in a bag of chips, But you give an 80%. listen to me as a man: when somebody gives you something, it is your responsibility Not only to keep it where it was, But if you true that beast, if you true that dog, Everybody want to be a beast until it’s time to do a real beast. Oh, everybody want to go to 12 and oh, everybody want 15. You know, you won’t go to no school. You probably go to a d1 school That’s barely a d1 school and they sitting up there tomorrow. We’re going to the championship. Everybody I’ve never seen a team go we number three.

Haha three. What up? We number five. Every team I’ve ever seen said they was what. Till it’s time to make a commitment. Till it’s time to grind. Till it’s time to get up and practice at three o’clock in the morning before before everybody else practice.

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So, having this opportunity is like standing on a cliff with this gift God got for you packed on your back in a parachute pack. Now while you’re standing on this cliff, you see people soaring by, going on vacations, having a summer home, opening a business, climbing the corporate ladder, being what they’ve always wanted to be, getting the job or the career of their dreams. You see people. There’s a neighbor down the street, they get a new car every two years. How the hell are they getting a new car every two years? What are they doing down there?

You know, and you see all of this people just sailing by because they jumped. The only way you get to sail by with your parachute is you have to jump. If you don’t jump, if you don’t take that chance, you’re never going to be what you see out there sailing. Now, the problem with jumping, there is a problem, and there’s nothing I can do to safeguard you from this. When you jump, I guarantee you this, your parachute is not going to open right away. And that’s why most people won’t jump, because it’s the fear of falling.

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When it’s over, when they’re tired, when they’re frustrated, when they’re ready to give up, when they spent their last dime, that’s when they get started. Are you hearing me? It’s when you have nothing left. It’s when you depleted all your money, when all your energy gone, when you have nothing left, that’s when it’s showtime. When you find a way out of no way, when you find breath that you don’t have, when you find energy that did not exist, when you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe, that’s when you find a way.

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Look, I’m sorry your life turned out so bad, but don’t blame me, you messed it up yourself! You just focused on the bad stuff when all you had to do was… let go of the past and keep moving forward.

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What you don’t want is you don’t want to be in your 50s, in your 60s facing death, you know, because your days are numbered, who knows how long you’re going to live, and you’re going to go, damn it, I could have done something with my life. When I was a child, I had these dreams. I thought I was going to be really great at it, and I never realized it. I went off on these other paths. I was lost. I thought I was happy, but I never really fulfilled any of those childhood dreams or those fantasies. You know, it’s a terrible, terrible feeling, and I want people to avoid that.

As long as it’s something that engages you, that’s connected to that child that you were, it’s something that you love, and that you can create these challenges for you.

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A lot of us have a horrible mentality at work. We go to work, we put all these negative things in our brains and it starts to cap our potential. We cap our potential by saying we’re given 100%. No one’s really given 100%. Usually you’re given 40% because that governor is stopping you. You feel pain, you feel suffering, you feel discomfort, you stop right there. Everybody has a wall in their mind. It’s a wall and it stops us from going further. Most walls have a door or a window. You have to find that. You have to have the courage to find that.

And once you open that door or that window, you’ll realize how much further you can go. And you’re going to continue hitting doors and windows along this journey. But you have to have the courage to open them up to get to that 100%. So it’s all about having the courage and realizing that we have a governor. We have to push past that governor and past our own mind games.

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Everything changed for me when I realized that we’re not meant to feel excited and perfect all the time. I started accepting that where I am right now is where I’m genuinely meant to be.

Tough days are all a part of the process.

Lean into them. Bad days are also part of a very good and meaningful life. So on my toughest days, I think about getting through one more day,

one more workout, one more rep.

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So deciding as you look at your life, as you look into the future and say, what fears am I holding on to? What fears that I’m allowing to imprison me, that’s keeping me from breaking out? That’s keeping me from living up to my true potential? That’s keeping me from really being happy? That’s keeping me from having a sense of adventure and excitement in my life? What’s keeping me from controlling my destiny? What fears that I’m giving that permission to? Notice what I said, that we must give our permission to fear to immobilize us.

Because whatever discomfort you experience, whatever challenges or difficulty that it is, you got to handle it.

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Conor McGregor, Conor you’ve been dreaming about this moment, you’ve been talking about this moment. Honestly though, does it feel the way you thought it would?

Yeah it does, it feels beautiful. I dreamt this so much, so clearly, so precisely and so frequently that it has manifested itself into reality and that’s what I am feeling right now. It’s a dream come true. When you hit the soft part of the face, you actually don’t feel nothing. It’s an unusual kind of feeling. I hit it and he was on the floor and when you hit it clean you don’t feel it. It’s nice, it’s soft.

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I’ve been waiting for people to start saying like, oh, you put another picture of the sweat and of a squat rack really.

But I don’t know if they understand. I’ve been getting on that squat rack and grinding it out for 25 years and I’m not bored with it yet. It might seem like that’s an unwinnable battle, But really to me It’s not about winning, It’s the battle itself It’s the struggle. It’s the daily test. That’s what life’s about, Not just physically but mentally, Getting that rock to the top of the mountain. That’s not what my goal is.

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It’s a dream come true, brother. You know what I’m saying? I want to say, Salamat, say adios, thank God. Gracias, adios, alhamdulillah. God gave me everything. This would not have been possible without the Spirit. I want to go ahead and give a message to the children. Believe in yourself. Don’t fear failure. Dream big, work hard, stay positive. Enjoy the journey. Thank you.

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This isn’t a hack. This has to be in you. Something in you has to wake up. And usually the only person that can wake it up is you. Sometimes you can read a David Goggins book because I was all this shit and then a lot more of fucked up. But if you don’t have a little flame, you know, just that, just barely, you’re done. I can’t light it for you. And that’s the harsh reality of this life that I want to get across so fucking bad and keep spending money and spending money and spending money with no results. You can wonder, wow, maybe let me go try out David Goggins.

He ain’t going to fucking help you. You have to explore, examine the insides of yourself. And what do you really want out of life? Your friend, a lot of people out here just don’t fucking want it. So guess what? Have fun with your life. Have fun with your life.

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You don’t have to feel good about it. You just have to keep going. The feeling will pass, but you will remain. You are greater than your feelings. Going to bed late and waking up early to work for a few days won’t kill you. You’re not going to burn out. You’re doing what it takes. If you’re one of those people that push work-life balance, just remember the people who like working a lot don’t care. I’ve never regretted trying harder at anything ever. Hard times last long, but an epic story feels like a lifetime.

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It’s the value. You wanna know if you’re talking about young men that might not have any direction right now, go do something that’s hard. Go try and accomplish something that’s hard. You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what, you’ll be better. If you avoid those things that are hard, if you don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water, and you sit on your couch and eat Doritos, I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that.

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You have to figure that out along the way. Just get involved. Stay moving forward. Don’t be stagnant. Don’t let that pond just sit there in your backyard. You know, with no movement. What is that pond? Stagnant water. We’re crossing stagnant water, algae and shit. Mosquitoes come and fest on that shit. No one wants to come to your house and look at that shit. It smells like ass and get bitten. You know, that’s a bad day. You know, put a sprinkler on that motherfucker. Get some flow in that thing so it smells good, looks good. It’s a visual oasis soothing to the ear and the eye.

Now that’s a good pond. I know it sounds like whatever, but that is it. That’s life. That’s someone who believes in themselves or who doesn’t believe in themselves. And that’s the birth of every success. And that success is just showing up, guys. Just showing up.

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These are the years when a man changes into the man he’s going to become the rest of his life. Just be careful who you change into.

This guy Flash Thompson, he probably deserved what happened, but just because you can beat him up doesn’t give you the right to. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.

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Boy, I can tell bad times are right around the corner again. I can tell by all the emails I’m getting talking about, I can’t get a break in life. I hate that damn mentality about I can’t get a break. You aren’t giving any breaks in life. You make them for yourself. We are all being tested in life. While my test is different than yours, you will be tested. And how you face that test and how you overcome that test determines the rest of your life. The one mentality that you must have in life is that regardless of what’s in front of you, you still must grind. I’ll never be in the Olympics.

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Go from three to 350 to 400 to 450 to 500 because you don’t want it. And that’s the harsh reality. I can’t give you it. You can’t give them it. We can give you ideas. But in the day when I was losing the weight, I had to miserably wake up every morning in the cold because it was Indiana, November when it started. I was miserable. This is your new life.

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I’m gonna hit on the cynicism point. The world belongs to optimists. Because if you’re going to do anything big, you have to believe that it can happen. Otherwise it never will.

That Sean Poorey thing, the cynics get to be right and the optimists get to be rich.

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99% of people in the world are convinced that they are incapable of achieving great things,

so they aim for the mediocre.

The level of competition is thus fiercest for realistic goals,

paradoxically making them the most time and energy consuming.

If you are insecure, guess what?

The rest of the world is too.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself.

You are better than you think.

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How about you plan what you’re going to do in the day? How about you bring your lunch to work with you so you don’t have to eat a slice of pizza or a damn burger and fries? How about you change what time you get to work by showing up 10 minutes earlier and you square your gear away or you dial in your tools or your desk or your workspace?

That’s what you need to do.

You make those little changes, those little habits that you have, you have to change them, those bad habits.

And you’ll be surprised, you’ll be surprised the little things, the little changes, they add up and they become big things.

Change the little things and over time you can change your life.

But if you don’t change, if you don’t change what you’re doing and how you do it, nothing else will change.

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Do not give up. Do not feel like you’re tired. When you’re tired, think of last year and think of that f***ing record. Every time I get tired or I think I can’t go no more, I think of that f***ing record. That ain’t us. We can make it. We gotta believe. We gotta be mentally strong. When we’re tired, that’s when we gotta put our fundamentals together. That’s when we gotta be more focused. When we’re tired, look across the field and see how tired they are. That should give you more effort. Be like, I’m gonna beat his ass. I’m gonna get fundamentally strong.

Everybody’s great when they’re not tired. The champions is when they’re tired, that’s when the real champions come out. That’s when the real dog come out. Cause if you go piss like a puppy, stay on the porch and let the big dogs eat. Let them all the f***ing feel. Have some heart. I get emotional about this. I’m about to cry cause I care about y’all. Last year wasn’t it.

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My goal actually is pushing the rock, because pushing the rock, that pushes me. That makes me tougher. That makes me harder, mentally and physically. It gives me much more than I give it. I want to struggle. I want to grind and claw and scratch, and I want to dig in and I want to push.

And I don’t want it to end. If I ever got the rock to the top of the mountain and it stayed there,

I’d push it back down myself.

I don’t want to rest and I don’t want to coast. And I don’t want to reach a point in my life where I say, that’s it. I’ve done enough. Inspire me to drive and push more and to push harder. That’s what that rock does to me. So I say, dig in and get to pushing.

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You’ve got to go up in there and wrestle with it. Will it be easy? No. Will it be challenging? Yes. A friend of mine who’s going into recovery, he’s been addicted to crack cocaine for years and alcohol. He was talking about how challenging it was and why he was dreading going into cold turkey. I said, what do you want me to tell you? That it’s going to be a picnic? No, it’s not. It’s going to kick your butt? Yes, it is.

Are you going to want to die? Yes, yes. That’s a part of it. But that’s just what you must go through in order to get where you want to go. And guess what? You are strong enough to do it.

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I appreciate that, but maybe you’re looking out for your interests just a little bit more. I mean, you shouldn’t be asking people to come down here and pay the freight on something they paid. It still ain’t good enough. I mean, you think that’s right? I mean, maybe you’re doing your job, but why you got to stop me from doing mine? Because if you’re willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get to where you want to get, who’s got the right to stop you? I mean, maybe some of you guys got something you never finished,

something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something. And you’re told no, even after you pay your dues, who’s got the right to tell you that? Who? Nobody. It’s your right to listen to your gut. It ain’t nobody’s right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do.

You know, the older I get, the more things I got to leave behind. That’s life.

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day after day after day, grind after grind after grind, airport after airport, driving mile after mile. E.T. aren’t you tired? Yes, I might be, I don’t know. E.T. aren’t you ready to take a break? Yes, I might be, but listen to me, I can’t. Why? Because I grind for Jaylen, I grind for Jada, I grind for Dee Dee, I grind for my mother. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? I grind for Vanessa, I hustle for, so the days I want to hit that alarm clock, I think about my wife, I can’t quit. My son, $25,000 a year, I can’t stop, he counting on me.

My daughter, I can’t quit, I can’t stop, I can’t get tired, I can’t give up, I can’t give in. My mama counting on me, my wife is counting on me. Listen to me, when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, when you ain’t got nothing left in your tank, you gotta think about the people in your life that you doing this for, and then if you could think about them, you could go one more mile, you could go one more day at work, you can find a scholarship.

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So you’re always fighting that motherfucker, even though you beat it. You never truly beat it. So when they get on stage and then talking to Joe Rogan, it’s a, it’s a, it’s not even real. It’s not real all those mornings that you want to fucking get up and and I look at it as like a fucking, Like a rock- and you find this fucking rock, and that rock is you, and every day you can Fight, not wanting to get up, and you do anyway. You chip another piece off that fucking rock. and every day you can eat the right foods and every day you go to Train, you train hard and hard and hard and harder,

and you get up earlier and all these things you do to start Forming yourself. you’re chipping another fucking piece of that rock up. before you know it. He had this beautiful fucking piece of artwork, that that you built, But people don’t and then once you get there you see it and it becomes real like oh my god I can did this shit and so like the Fucking journey becomes so real then but so many people aren’t willing to fucking chip away at that stone. That is them, To start chipping off those fucking rough edges.

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Without two parents without a network without being in a with a crew like don’t nobody know Eric Thomas I’m like it ain’t no circle that you like ET in that circle. Yeah, where did I come from? I came from the grind, I Came from the grind, and every day I put in the grind, the grind rewarded me. So don’t you ever think for one second that if you put in the work, you’re not gonna get the reward. You’re gonna put it in. but you gotta do me a favor When I come out here and look at this crowd Eric didn’t get this crowd in five years.

He’d been doing this for 30 years 30 years is what it takes to get this and you looking to get this in five months and it don’t work like that So let’s do me very closely. I love you. I just came to be an example to show you that you could get it done, That anything is possible. I’m just a living example that anything, Anything is possible if you put your mind to it, you can do whatever you want You can have whatever you want. You can be whatever you want You can write your own narrative. You can die on your terms.

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Attracting energy and chasing energy, well, like I said, when you’re chasing something, you’re already implementing the energy of it running away from you. You know what I mean? And not to say you can’t get it, but it’s a lot of effort to chase something. It’s like, even police on a high-speed chase, it’s like they might have to crash into other cars and they’re chasing you. And when you attract something, it’s you are using the powers that have been granted to you from God, universe, whatever you call it or believe in, of it magnetizing to you and you have that power.

It’s been the power that’s been, you know, we use it on a level, on small levels every day. Even if you just said in a, hey, today I need to take a shower. That’s literally, you set a goal, you did it, it’s done. You can do that on a scale of anything that happens. And some things may take a lot more time than others.

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But when you put that practice in every day, you lace them up, and I mean run. It’s just a metaphor for life. When you lace them, fuckers, up every day, pretty soon you win. Pretty soon. you’ll fucking win if you have the courage and the heart and the dedication and the mindset about everybody and go fuck themselves. I know what I know. i’ve listened to myself enough to know. I know what I know. None of you can hear what i’m hearing And that’s what people don’t do enough of they don’t listen to their journey They listen to everybody else’s shit before you know it i’m crazy,

but if i’m so fucking crazy You’re not looking at the truth in front of you. The truth in front of you is: it sucks, It’s painful, It’s fucking mind-numbing. And that is the truth. And that’s why a lot of people don’t like listening to me, Because this is what it takes: creating another voice and sometimes going at it alone. All the time going at it alone because no one’s gonna believe in you.

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I wish I could tell you something else. I wish I could tell you you’re tired, go take a break. I wish I could tell you you’re tired, rest for a year. I wish I could tell you that it’s gonna get easier. I wish I could tell you it’s gonna get easier. I wish I could tell you that if you just keep going, it’s gonna get lighter. The weight is gonna get lighter. I wish I could tell you that, but that’s not the truth. The truth is you gotta find something within. You gotta find something within, and that’s gotta push you, and that’s gotta elevate you,

And that’s got to drive you and that’s got to move you and when you find out what your why is and your why got To be deeper than you when you find your why you don’t hit snooze no more when you find your why You find a way to make it happen. So let me just say this to you if it was easy, boo Everybody would win the Rose Bowl if it was easy boo. Everybody would be a national champion. Everybody would be a millionaire or billionaire. Everybody company would blow up. Everybody would get a four-year degree, a master’s degree. Everybody would have a medical degree or a PhD or a law degree.

if it was easy,

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Your body of knowledge is a result of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of small pieces of information. Any person with a large knowledge base has spent thousands of hours building that knowledge base, one piece, one idea at a time. And what you see when you meet the individual is an expert in his or her field with that high level of knowledge that makes him very valuable in the marketplace.

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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. I think if you’re the sort of person who is regularly surprised by how well things go, that’s maybe a good indication that that could be about you. And basically, I think I’m certain that most capable people don’t believe in themselves enough. And a lack of confidence killed more dreams than a lack of competence ever did. You can kind of think of confidence as a speed limiter that’s on your system. You have capacity for more, but your self-doubt limits your ability to chase it. And it causes you to avoid taking risks,

which means that you move more slowly than your competition. And it encourages you to criticize your performance, even when you do well, which derogates your motivation. And it makes you compare yourself to other people’s achievements, making you feel inferior by comparison. Basically, your mind is not helping you here. Placing insatiable demands on your performance doesn’t drive more. It doesn’t help you to get there. It just makes you despondent at never feeling satisfied, even with a job well done.

Yeah, from nothing to something to everything. So, that’s where I am right now.

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To those who have everything more will be given, from those who have nothing everything will be taken. It’s like what’s very pessimistic in some sense, because it means that as you start to fail, you fail more and more rapidly. But it also means that as you start to succeed, you succeed more and more rapidly. And so you take an incremental step and well, now you can lift 55 pounds instead of 52.5 pounds. You think, well what the hell is that? It’s like, it’s one step on a very long journey. And so it’s, and it starts to compound on you. So a small step today means,

puts you in a position to take a slightly bigger step the next day. And then that puts you in a position to take a slightly bigger step the next day. And you do that for two or three years, man, you’re starting to stride.

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Write down things you won’t tolerate from yourself. Write down things that you’ve done in the past that you never want to see yourself do again. And go forth from here as the hero of your own movie. Build momentum. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision that you make from here on out. You can do it. Anyone can do it. We live in unique times. We live in one of the rarest times in human history where you can choose almost all the input that comes your way. Whether it’s the movies that you watch, the books you read, the podcasts you listen to, you can choose to be inspired.

Do that. Do that and be the hero of your own movie.

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No, it’s not a disaster. You learn something from everything. I’ve learned a lot about myself through it. And don’t get me wrong, the work was great. Like, it’s not like I was coming into the gym being lazy and half-assed. Like I said to you, I was almost too, too intense and too serious and working too hard in the gym and then not working hard enough outside of it. Because that’s a big part of it as well. You know what I mean? You’ve got to be focused outside because then the next day rolls around and if you aren’t focused when you left the gym and then it’s time to go back,

you’re not as sharp, you’re not as fresh, you’re not as eager to be there. And that’s what kept happening to me. And I just eventually didn’t want to be there. And then I’d get there and then I’d have the scrap and then I’d off and go again. And it is what it is. Everything’s a lesson. And some parts of it were enjoyable, though. I do love a good scrap. I’ve just got to stay focused outside the gym. That’s it.

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One of the greatest success principles of all time is called the Law of Accumulation. This law says that everything great and worthwhile in human life is an accumulation of hundreds and sometimes thousands of tiny efforts and sacrifices that nobody ever sees or appreciates. This law says that everything accumulates over time, that you may have to put in many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. It’s like a snowball. A snowball starts off very small,

but it grows as it adds millions and millions of tiny snowflakes and continues to grow as it gathers momentum, turning into an avalanche that takes the whole mountain in front of it.

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A lot of people out there that are constantly trying to improve themselves by looking for the one change, the one change, right? The one change in their life that’s gonna make their dreams come true.

And even worse, on top of that, there’s a lot of people out there,

a lot of self-help gurus and these hyperactive motivational speakers and these other self-appointed modern Zen yoga warriors that they’re trying to sell the one thing. They’re trying to sell: the nine steps, or the enlightened path that’s gonna allow you to unlock all of your human potential and fulfill the dreams so you can live the life that you’ve always wanted to live.

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Said this is my life. You are exactly who the fuck this is it. and I said this ain’t gonna be it for me. So in that restaurant I quit my job, Left my canister in that restaurant my spray canister got back in my eco lab truck and I went home And I started working out like somebody I was I became the most obsessed person on the planet Earth. It was basically I had to Invent a guy that didn’t exist. I had to invent a guy that can take any pain, any suffering, any kind of judgment, Be called bigger, be called whatever the fuck in the world and be able to stand a fucking room and say: go,

fuck yourself How they built I had to build this callous mind and I built it through suffering. I Built it to downright fucking just crushing myself. if it was raining outside three o’clock in the fucking morning for snowing, The first thing is think is don’t go out there and do shit. My instinct was: we got a fucking. go out there.

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If you could have what you needed and wanted, what would it be? What sort of friends would you have? What would your family relationships look like? How would you conduct yourself with your children? How would you educate yourself? You need to think through how it is that your life could be properly arranged if you had that ability. And then you can aim at that. And the funny thing is, is that if you do posit a goal of that sort and work towards it, you will move towards it. The goal will change because you’ll learn things along the way.

But we set a goal, we develop a vision, and work towards it. And things inevitably get better for people. So it’s not a luxury. It’s difficult. It’s a moral responsibility. And it isn’t happiness. The pursuit isn’t for happiness.

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It’s in you the whole time. That fit body is there and you think it’s way over there. And that’s the lie. So the lie is another guy comes in the gym, he walks in like, hey man, you can’t lift that. And he walks by and you feel shame again. But you don’t let nobody do that to you. I’m here to tell you. And fitness, it’s one thing that you say, you know what? I am fit. Even if you don’t see it, I am fit. And you know what fit people do? Fit people go to the gym. Fit people don’t eat donuts. Fit people eat protein.

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But one of the things that really motivates me or one of my most powerful motivational frames is thinking about the person that I want to become as the destination and thinking like I want to be bulletproof. I want to be bulletproof in these ways. I want to be bulletproof in my marriage. I want to be bulletproof in my business, etc. I think about that man, whoever I want him to be. Like we said, hell is when you look at who you could have been and realize that you’re not that person.

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The comfort zone is dangerous. When you’re comfortable, you are at most danger. The comfort zone is somewhere you should never feel comfortable. You should be happy and dissatisfied.

Anybody ever tell you, hey, look, you know what? Just be satisfied with what you got. Don’t believe him. Get him away from you. You should never be satisfied with what you got. Because the attempt to get more makes you into something better all the time. Don’t let anybody tell you, hey, man, you know, you should just be happy with. No! You should double your business. Triple it!

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It isn’t one thing. And it isn’t 10 things, and it isn’t 100 things. It isn’t a quick path, and there are no shortcuts.

Meditation won’t get you there, and neither will a miracle drug, or an organic supplement, or some superfood.

Getting better isn’t a hack, or a trick, or a one change that you need to make.

Getting better is a campaign. It’s a campaign, it’s a daily, a weekly, it’s an hourly fight. An incessant fight that doesn’t stop against weakness, and against temptation, and against laziness. It’s a campaign of discipline. It’s a campaign of hard work and dedication. It’s waking up early, and going to bed late, and grinding out every second in between. Every single day.

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Anything that was fucking horrible in my life that I would normally say no That was inhumane to most people. I had to go do it and I started callous in my mind at this point in my life, and I lost the weight I Lost the weight and I went back to recruiter. I got into that class and I went through three Navy- still held weeks in one year. Only got it ever be in three hell weeks in one year, to my knowledge. the first one I didn’t make it through. the next two I did, and and That I just didn’t. I didn’t stop anymore from there and I started realizing through this,

through this process, That the fucking mind is what you created. And I started opening different doors that I didn’t think were even there, They didn’t think even existed, and the more doors open up, the more I start realizing that my potential is damn near endless. And it changed my whole mindset. so I went from David Goggins and I created Goggins.

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Well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful. But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable. It’s like the first thing you want to do is dispense with the idea that you get to have any permanent security outside of your ability to contend and adapt. It’s the same issue with children. It’s like you’re paying a price by sitting there being miserable. You might say, well, the devil I know is better than the one I don’t. It’s like, don’t be so sure of that. The clock is ticking.

And if you’re miserable in your job now and you change nothing, in five years you’ll be much more miserable and you’ll be a lot older.

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And then I think if I were to make that man, what would I put that man through to make him who he is? Like it wouldn’t be easy times, it wouldn’t be quick wins, it wouldn’t even be easy wins. It would be the toil and the struggle of achieving and reaching for things that are right out of grasp, that are right above my threshold. And continuing to do that to like lift the weight, to build the muscle, to break it down, and do it over and over again, because like that’s what creates the character traits that are the man that I want to be.

And so when I’m going through those like really harder times, I like to think of like looking in my mental mirror of like, I’m making you, I’m not there yet, but I’m making you.

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So, you wanna get better? You wanna self-improve?

Stop looking for a shortcut and go find your alarm clock and find your discipline,

and find your guts and your passion and your drive, and find your will

and then, and then, you will find your freedom.

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and That journey is a priceless journey that is hard for me to even explain to people because it sounds so quick and easy like I Lost this weight and I went through three hell weeks. I went to Ranger school went to Delta Force Lexington Whatever it is. It was brutal. It’s a brutal journey every fucking day. And it ever was what are you happy? If anybody knows my life story, I’ll try to give you a just a snippet of it.

Where I’m at today is in front of Joe Rogan telling you my life to get through where I became To get through where I’m at now There’s nothing but pride I have for myself that I can’t really I can’t really show people Because I have this face and it’s face that they see like are you happy? What’s wrong with you? I’m driven, I’m obsessed and that’s what you see.

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See, you gotta see what God be doing for you, man. Because a lot of people don’t take an inventory. Y’all don’t know, every funky thing that ever happened to you, God got you by it somehow. And if he ain’t got you through it, he currently pulling you through it right now. That’s why you sitting in here. So now, with that piece of information right there, I understand the hesitancy to jump. But knowing that, why would you not jump? Why would you not take a chance? Like B. saying, yeah, it’s scary. I was, hey man, I went to work the next day and quit my job. What you talking about?

I was finna. get in the car and drive for some dudes, I don’t even really know, . But I was gonna take a jump, dumb jump. I was gonna take a jump, I got two kids in here that ain’t eating. I was gonna… But it’s the risk, man, that make life so rewarding. You have to take them, partner. Without them, you ain’t gonna do.

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How many times do you have to hear, if nothing changes, nothing changes? Right? We all have heard this. I don’t even know where it comes from. I probably heard that first when I was 10 years old. If nothing changes, nothing changes. And yet, somehow we expect things to change. We expect things to change. You think you’re going to get in better shape. You think you’re going to get more money. You think your relationship is going to improve. You think you’re going to get promoted. You think you’re going to get a raise. You think the world is going to get better without you doing anything.

But it isn’t. Nothing is going to change unless you change what you’re doing. Change the junk food that you’re eating. Change the time that you wake up. Change what you do when you get out of bed. Change what you do with your time. That’s what you need to do.

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Some people see the thing that they want, and some people see the thing that prevents them from getting the thing that they want. I could only see the bagels. He could only see the line.

And so I walked up to the line. I leaned in between two people, put my hand in the box, and pulled out two bagels. And no one got mad at me, because the rule is you can go after whatever you want. You just cannot deny anyone else to go after whatever they want. Now, I had to sacrifice choice. I didn’t get to choose which bagel I got. I got whatever I pulled out, but I didn’t have to wait in line. So the point is, is you don’t have to wait in line. You don’t have to do it the way everybody else has done it. You can do it your way. You can break the rules.

You just can’t get in the way of somebody else getting what they want.

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You have to change some things or nothing will change.

so make changes and start little. Get up a little bit earlier, get a workout done. doesn’t have to be epic, doesn’t have to be epic. you have to do a three hour leg day, But get up and get something done. And and how about you plan your day? How about you plan what you’re gonna do in the day? How about you bring your lunch to work with you so you don’t have to eat a Slice of pizza or a damn burger and fries how about you change what time you get to work by showing up ten minutes earlier and You square your gear away, or you dial in your tools or your desk or your workspace?

That’s what you need to do.

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Fear is a mile wide and an inch deep. And so it looks like this ocean that you’re gonna step into and drown. But as soon as you step into it, you realize it was not that deep at all and you can keep walking through it. And I just love that visual because a lot of times when it’s like, we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to make, if you actually take the step and realize that it’s not death, you’re not gonna drown immediately. There’s plenty of other steps you can take from there, even if you get a little wet.

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If you play it safe, you’re going to exist.

You only get to live when you take risks. Ain’t no living in safety. You can’t beat a man if you don’t jump. You can’t beat Top Dog unless you fight the other dog. Ain’t nobody going to give you the championship. You don’t win the title without coming to the fight. You don’t win the fight without training. The jump is necessary. It’s like I said in the video, every successful person I ever know has jumped. Why would you not? See you have this opportunity. All of us have opportunities in life.

And it’s going to require a decision that we have to make to go for it or stay still.

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Wanted to be that not rocky. I want to be the guy that people looked at I don’t give you like me or didn’t like I don’t care but said this motherfucker is gonna keep coming after Whatever the fuck is in front of them. I wanted that I wanted that I wanted that worse than anything in the world So that is I kept picturing me Falling down and getting up and every motherfucker to call me nigger. I was dumb, even myself. Even myself I wanted to feel something besides defeat. I wanted to just go to distance, and that going a distance pushed me to a point of Where now I go way past the distance.

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Something that you know you should do. You can hesitate for one second. That one second of hesitation, all of a sudden it turns into five seconds. And then 10 seconds. And then 10 minutes. And then just like that, you drifted into the eternity zone. One second became an eternity because something that was gonna happen is now never gonna happen, ever. Why is that? Because you hesitated. You hesitated. So don’t take that chance. Instead, take action.

Take action. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. You’ve had enough damn rest. Go take action.

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There’s no excuse for people not being able to do what they want to do. You can do anything that you want to do. For example, as I’ve told you before, I lived in the back of an old car. I taught myself to read and write.

So if you’re young, don’t give up. Don’t say, the world is just against me. That’s not true.

I taught myself to read and write. I’ve had five books published. I went to college, got a little bit of college. I’ve studied scripture for many, many years. I’ve raised five children. I buried a mother, father, sister, brother, wife, and daughter.

So a person can accomplish anything that they want.

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Let’s say my thing is God. You get to heaven, I’m 300 pounds, I sit down, I was a cockroach, terminated my whole life, and we’re sitting down just like this, you’re God and I’m David. And he gives me that chart, and he says, look at this. Now look at this chart, and on the chart it has all these different things, but my name’s on it. But these things aren’t me. I was going to change the world. I was going to set records, I was going to be a Navy SEAL, I was going to be all these things in the military that I accomplished.

You’re going to get the VFW award, you’re going to be honored here, honored there. I’m like, God, this isn’t me. Like it says David Goggins, I was an Ecolab guy, I sprayed for cockroaches, and I’m 300 pounds, instead here I’m 185. It says here I got a bachelor’s and a master’s, it says all these things. And God goes, no, that’s who you were supposed to be. Wow. Wow.

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You’re always afraid to take the first step,

because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.

You’re gonna take the professor’s side on this?

Don’t give me a line of shit, no.

Look, I didn’t want the job.

It’s not about the job. I don’t care if you work for the government.

But you can do anything you want.

You are bound by nothing.

What are you passionate about? What do you want? I mean, there are guys who work their entire life laying bricks so their kids have a chance at the opportunities you have here.

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I know I need to change something. What I do is I change it. That’s what I do. I change it,

and I’ve had people that listen to the podcast and they’ve reached out to me over the past few years and One of the main messages that they took and Put into action was actually putting things into action, Whatever that was. they- they stopped eating sugar. They stopped sleeping in they they started waking up early They they quit playing video games for 10 or 12 or 14 hours a day. They sold that Xbox thing.

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It applies to doing a job, making more money, playing golf, cooking, raising children, teaching, anything at all. Now, while this has long been known by the most successful people in the world, it seems to have escaped the great majority. Whatever it is that you would like to do better, act as though you’re a top-flight expert at it. And if you continue to play this part long enough, you will become an expert. When Arnold Palmer was 10 years old and on his way to becoming the world’s greatest golfer of his time, he used to pretend that he was playing in national tournaments.

He would even pretend to be the sports commentator announcing that the champion, Arnold Palmer, was now getting ready to tee off. You can take a great many strokes off your golf game simply by pretending you’re playing in a great tournament, and that every time you swing or putt, you’re surrounded by a large gallery and the television cameras. You’ll find that you take more time, line up your shots better, and swing more like the pros and less like the deffers.

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I uh Just got somebody pregnant My life was this fuck I was making a thousand dollars a month. My rent was 8 10 a month And my mind just kept fucking with me and kept you’re not good enough, man This isn’t for you man. These guys are bad motherfuckers on the planet earth. You’re not that.

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You get to live life one time. And this is the time right now to understand what’s actually happening and actually map your behavior to something that will impact you for the next 80 years. So promise me, promise me, all you youngsters that are watching this right now in the fucking comments, because I’ll jump in and talk to you. Promise me that you understand that the land grab of happiness starts right now. That you don’t have to worry about getting that job. What you should do is go and travel and learn. Go and start that business that you’ve always wanted.

Hook up with those three teammates and start that band you’ve always wanted. This is the time to be massively risk, massively risk oriented. I know that this is when you’re supposed to grow up and go see the world. But guess what? The world isn’t what mommy and daddy told you. The world is exactly going to be what it’s going to be with or without the way you thought it was gonna be.

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You don’t have any shame anymore. What happens is people use this to manipulate you. They’re like, yeah, but you know, you ain’t all that good. Anybody that tries to put that on you, tell them to get out your face. I’m serious. Anybody who tries to put you, anything that, yeah, but look at your past. See, remember when you walk away, you leave, or you tell them to go. But this is the best news you’ve ever heard in your life because once you understand that you’re good, you act accordingly.

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We need to make us stronger again. Very simply said, this society is too weak.

And why? Because of all the technology which is available right now, so you don’t need to use your body anymore. I always think about in the Stone Ages. Do you think somebody in the Stone Ages had depression?

Or even a more modern variation, the Spartans. Do you think they had depression?

Maybe you are laughing, but all of these groups, they are too busy with their body, they are too busy with activity to be depressed.

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There may be some days I get up with poopy pants, and I’m like, you know what, man? Fuck this, man. What am I training for? I have no race in the docket. Why am I having such a structured life? Why? And I’m like, you know what? I’m good. I’m done. I retire every day. I’m done with this shit. And I sit around, I say, okay. And then this is my thought process. So you want to be normal. So you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world, not knowing the power that’s in them. Being fine with being mediocre. You want to go back to who you were, huh, David? And I’m like, fuck that, man.

Not every day is those bad days. It’s those bad days. I see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. Now I’m talking about talent, like some God-given ability. Talent that sometimes you have to hone, you have to work on, and you have to harness yourself. And they just walk around on their phones, just clueless to how powerful they are.

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There was a guy that bit his nails for his whole life and he’s in his like 30s. Hey, well, whatever no big deals, right? You know, he bit his nails Oh, you know what? His nails are all chewed up and they’re bloody and they’re gross looking and he’s self-conscious when he’s meeting people and shaking hands And he can’t keep his hands away from his mouth while he’s in meetings or in interacting with people. But he couldn’t stop and then he stopped. He just stopped, and the list goes on.

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well I’m afraid to make a change and I’d say that’s okay, that’s understandable. How afraid are you not of not making a change? Let’s make a little vision of that. You’re 35, you hate your job, what’s the consequence? You’re not motivated, you don’t want to get out of bed in the morning. you’re starting to get depressed, you’re getting bitter, you’re getting resentful, you’re getting cynical. you’re a motivated at work, you’re not doing a very good job and you’re starting to shrink. Now play that out for 10 years. You don’t change it, you don’t fix it. and what happens?

Well it’s not like it’s gonna get better of its own accord. What’s gonna happen to you? Well for sure at minimum what’s gonna happen to you is you’re gonna be in the same situation but 10 years older and if you can’t get out of that situation now, what the hell makes you think you’re gonna get out of it in 10 years?

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If you can get a mental image of the person you would most like to become, begin now to act as that person would act in everything you do. Gradually, imperceptibly, you will actually become that person. It goes back to what the great German poet and philosopher Goethe once said, before you can do something, you must first be something. Before you can do what you would most like to do, you must first become the person who can do it. A woman cooking dinner has only to act like a great chef to turn out a better meal.

The student who begins to act like a top student will begin to get better grades. You can even look much better by simply acting like the person you would most like to look like and be like. The secret is to get and hold fast in your mind the mental image of the person you would most like to be. Then in every situation you act and talk as you feel that person would. You make the kind of decisions you think that person would. This is the way to constantly grow into a better, more effective person.

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Don’t stop. Never stop learning. Always reach out to better yourself. Because when you do that, things expand. You understand more. You’re happier. You’re healthier. This old saying that if you don’t use it, you lose it, is absolutely true. If you don’t use that brain that God put in your head, one of these days, you’ll be sitting on a front porch somewhere, and you won’t hardly know what’s going on. So don’t give up. If times are hard, good things nor bad things last forever.

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What can happen if we decide, I’m gonna see what happens when I decide that I am qualified.

What happens when I decide for myself that I’m gonna do something different?

You know, one thing, Jocko Willink was in here last week, and one thing that’s really been pressing with me that we discussed is staying motivated. And I have been finding myself more motivated even when I do not feel like doing something to do it. That my brain doesn’t dictate how, my brain does not get to choose, my brain can feel a certain way, but it’s not gonna choose how I behave all the time. I just can’t let it do it anymore.

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So those things that come out of me that extract from me in the darkness People are looking for that pound the back. Where is it? Oh, I Don’t need it Because what I’ve done is in the fucking unseen work. I’ve built Frankenstein So whenever it gets nasty David Goggins goes You had nobody anyway motherfucker. So see I’m Thomas up for now. That’s me. That’s it fires me the fuck up That shit makes me fucking nuts. You had nobody anyway motherfucker. Look around you. There was no fucking team. It was you. There was no weight loss programmer, mom and dad waking you up, saying you can do it,

You can be better, trying to build belief. you built belief when you had nothing. rock bottom.

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Dad’s study is occupied by Dad.

I don’t want to live in a hole anymore.

It makes me feel poor.

We are poor, but we’re happy.

Come see, come saw.

Anyway, the views are better above ground.

Honey, I’m seven non-Foxy years old now.

My father died at seven and a half.

I don’t want to live in a hole anymore,

and I’m going to do something about it.

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only do things that only we can do. It was about doing things that we didn’t even know we could do yet, which became one of zero. And that’s why that became the brand that I’m gonna continue to wear for the next few years and build that association. But I think that that kind of encapsulates my personal life goal, which is like, what would I do if I weren’t afraid? And what would I do if I didn’t, if I knew I couldn’t fail? And the idea that I will never wish for fewer epic stories at the end of my life. And I’ve never regretted failures. I’ve always regretted things that I didn’t try.

And so just along those lines of trying to create more bias internally towards action rather than inaction and normalizing consequences of failure as we said earlier, win or learn.

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And don’t look for what you are supposed to be fully, completely polished, sharpened, edged, tempered at 26 or 36 at 46. You’ve got a lot more forge time left. You’ve got a lot more hammer blows left and it takes time. But if you will patiently embrace the process, then by the time you get up in years, you can be a man that you’re proud of. Embrace the journey and the process of life. You only get stronger hiking by going uphill. Nobody gets stronger hiking by just going downhill.

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There’s a saying, when the devil ignores you, then you know you’re doing something wrong. Wait a minute, I’m not done now. You know, the devil goes, oh no, leave him alone. He’s my favorite.

Right, right, right. Don’t you bother him. Yeah.

Conversely, when the devil comes at you, maybe it’s because you’re trying to do something right.

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As times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as fuck. It’s real. It’s tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I’m reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. So that is what people don’t get. That is what motivates David Goggins is the unseen work, everybody needs that pat on the back. They need that training partner. They need that accountability coach. I don’t hear that shit. And neither do they. But it’s what we’ve trained ourselves to believe that we need.

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Because the rule is you don’t get to leave and there’s a reason for that rule now I’m not saying that there aren’t situations where there should be exceptions made for that. That’s not the point. The point is that there’s some games you don’t get to play unless you’re all in, And the other thing that’s so interesting about being alive is that you’re all in.

No matter what you do, you’re all in. this is going to kill you, So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can While you’re waiting because do you have anything better to do? Really? Why not pick the best thing possible that you could do? Why not do that? Maybe you could justify your wretched existence to yourself that way. I think you could. that’s what it looks like.

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There’s people that are quit drinking and quit doing drugs and quit losing their temper and I’ve heard from so many different people that have implemented change in their lives so so many letters and messages and notes and I want you to know that these people aren’t a bunch of of Elite special operations warriors, that’s not who they are. They aren’t a bunch of high-level athletes or highly screened in, highly trained individuals. these are just just normal people, really.

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You immediately begin to act with more confidence, and confidence is the first step to accomplishment. As your accomplishments begin to grow, which they most certainly will, real confidence slowly takes the place of the part you’ve been playing. Now, your life will not be transformed overnight. There’ll be no sudden miracles, perhaps, but steadily, day by day, you’ll grow into the image you hold in your mind. If you doubt this, try it for 30 days and watch what happens. You’ve got nothing to lose. The time is going to pass anyway.

Why not put it to work, becoming the person you most want to become? It’s the trick of the experts in every field. Life is much too short to live fearfully, to settle for less than the best that’s in us. We can become only what we expect of ourselves. We must act the part before it can become real.

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It’s okay to be alone. It’s also okay to be unhappy It’s okay to be unhappy sometimes man. It’s okay to say you know what man i’m fucked up So you gotta go to the truth first. Who are you? Get get really accountable And say okay, who am I? What’s the truth about me? Get to that dark place in your mind, figure out. it may take months, may take years. figure out your purpose. Figure out what you want to be in life And then from there, Okay, I have my purpose It may take a long time. No one knows their purpose because it’s too loud Finds your purpose from there.

All right, You gotta start planning. People love the planning phase because it’s very comfortable. Then from the planning phase you gotta go to execution. So the execution phase will be all hate, Because that’s where the real work begins and that’s when the failure happens and the failure and the failure. So, but you know that’s that. that’s kind of how you have to do it.

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But nowadays, how does the time look? You can sit if you want from morning till evening, just in front of the screen. And nothing is going to happen anymore. So this is one reason why, since almost 10 years, our organization and myself are trying to share a little bit into this world. Maybe in a more funny and a light version of everything, . But what we would like to encourage to people everywhere in the world is get more physicality into your life. Simply said. Not much talking around it. Get more physicality into your life.

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but they’re normal people that knew they needed to make a change and they decided they were going to make a change and then they made it. and that is what I do, and that is what you can do too, if you have something to change. if you want to change something, change it.

change it now.

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Just get started. Just get started. The longest time in the world is the hesitation between thought and action. Well, at least it has the potential to be the longest time. It can actually be forever.

Forever.

Einstein, his theory was that time is flexible, time is pliable. And to prove that, beyond what Einstein said, one second can actually become an eternity. That’s how much it can flex. You can hesitate for one second to get started on something, a workout, a project.

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The world changes every goddamn day. Right now what you need to recognize is you can afford to. And not all of you, I’m sure somebody will leave a comment and say, I’ve got a loan. I get it, respect. But that loan is gonna be there whether you go and try to build something for yourself or not, one way or the other. And by the way, you can work at night. This is when you put in the 18 hours a day to make your life that you want happen. And again, because I’m scared, I can hear myself fucking talking. I’m not saying it’s the secret, it’s practicality. When you are in your early 20s,

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If you don’t jump, here’s the other guarantee, your parachute will never open.

You get to be safe. You ain’t going to fall. You ain’t going to get cut up on the rocks. None of that, you don’t have to worry about none of that no more. You’re playing it safe. Your parachute don’t open, but you ain’t sailing either. And if that’s the life you want, man, that’s a sad life, man. I would rather wake up trying to do what I was born to do than to never take a shot at that. I would hate to die and never do the thing I was born to do. That’s crazy, man. Like if you were born to teach, but you never taught, how you going to live with yourself with that?

If you were born to be a business owner and you just keep working for somebody, how you going to live with that? How do you do that, man?

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My biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world and there’s a final judgment and you talk to something much bigger than you. I don’t want to sit down and have a conversation with someone with something that says, you’re in heaven, this is what you should have been on earth. And are you really in heaven now or are you in hell? Thinking about how much I left on the table for fear for not willing to go over the wall and over the next wall and over the next wall. So in my mind, I believe that. And God knows all. At least I believe that.

I want God to be up there right now as we’re speaking writing stuff down saying, my God, he exceeded even my expectations. That’s how I live my life. I now know that there is no cap on the human mind. There’s no cap. We cap it ourselves.

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You make those little changes,

those little habits that you have,

you have to change them, those bad habits,

and you’ll be surprised.

You’ll be surprised the little things,

the little changes, they add up and they become big things.

Change the little things and over time you can change your life.

But if you don’t change,

if you don’t change what you’re doing and how you do it,

nothing else will change.

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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy. It’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful. and that doesn’t mean it’s easy. it might require sacrifice If you need to change your job too. Let’s say you have family and and and children and a mortgage. you have responsibilities. You’ve already picked up those responsibilities. You don’t just get to walk away scot-free and say well. I don’t like my job I quit that’s no strategy, but what you might have to do is you think well this job is killing my soul all right? So what do I have to do about that? Well?

I have to look for another job. Well. No one wants to hire me It’s like okay. Maybe you need to educate yourself more. Maybe you need to update your, your curriculum vitae, your resume. Maybe you need to overcome your fear of being interviewed. Maybe you need to sharpen your social skills. like you, you have to think about these things Strategically. if you’re going to switch careers, you have to do it like an intelligent, responsible person. that might take you a couple of years of effort to do properly.

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The mere fact that we’re addressing it dramatically reduces any stress that might come from it. So stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn’t be ignoring, I think in large part. So stress doesn’t come, people get stress wrong all the time in my opinion. Stress doesn’t come from hard work, for example. You can be working incredibly hard and loving it, and likewise you can be out of work and incredibly stressed over that. And likewise, if you kind of use that as an analogy for what I was just talking about,

if you’re out of work but you’re going through a disciplined approach of a series of job interviews and so on and working to remedy that situation, you’re going to be a lot less stressed than if you’re just worrying about it and doing nothing.

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Now while you’re standing on this cliff, you see people soaring by, going on vacations, having a summer home, opening a business, climbing the corporate ladder, being what they’ve always wanted to be, getting the job or the career of their dreams. You see people. There’s a neighbor down the street, they get a new car every two years. How the hell are they getting a new car every two years? What are they doing down there? You know, and you see all of this people just sailing by because they jumped. The only way you get to sail by with your parachute is you have to jump.

If you don’t jump, if you don’t take that chance, you’re never going to be what you see out there sailing. Now the problem with jumping, there is a problem, and there’s nothing I can do to safeguard you from this. When you jump, I guarantee you this, your parachute is not going to open right away.

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When I was up there stranded by myself did I think I was gonna die?

Yes, absolutely. And that’s when you need to know going in because it’s gonna happen to you This is space. It does not cooperate At some point everything’s gonna go south on you. Everything’s gonna go south and you’re gonna say: this is it? This is how I end. Now you can either accept that or you can get to work.

That’s all it is. You just begin, you do the math, you solve one problem and you solve the next one, and Then the next, and if you solve enough problems, you get to come home.

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I don’t care how good you are at anything, you don’t have discipline, you ain’t nobody. You’re nothing without discipline, because you give up on the slightest struggle without discipline. Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.

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And people think a lot of times about me that I’m angry.

Oh my God, you sound so angry, you cuss so much. Oh my God, why you cuss so much? Why you so crazy?

If you read my book, I cannot explain my life by saying, hey, it was a merry fucking Christmas, man.

No, it wasn’t.

I want you to go there with me.

I’m taking you there with me. I’m a storyteller. I wanna take your ass down paradise. So the house I lived in in Buffalo, New York that I got my ass beat every day, funny. We lived on Paradise Road and it was anything but fucking paradise.

So I want you to go there with me.

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But you just gotta keep your eyes on the horizon. You can’t get worked up on the daily ins and outs and struggles and external factors that beat on you in life. If you really want it, it takes work ethic, sacrifice, due diligence, sweat equity to get there. And you can get there. And you learn those lessons in the gym that transform yourself from A to B. Discipline is in the gym, right? You go in the gym, you wake up at 5.30 in the morning, it’s raining outside, you don’t want to go to the gym, but you get up anyway and you go to the gym. And why? Because you believe in a higher cause.

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If you treat your body well, you can maintain it for many years. This is the big challenge for me. And it’s great. I feel proud for that. To have this age and still compete at the highest level, for me, it’s great. It gives me motivation to carry on.

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It’s about treating people the way you would want to be treated and doing the tasks that you don’t necessarily want to do, but that you know will help you or help your team.

It’s about facing your fears. Takes discipline to face your fears so you can conquer them. And that’s what discipline is. Because discipline means taking the hard road, the uphill road, to do what’s right. For yourself and for other people.

It’s so often the easy path. The easy path that calls to us. To be weak for that moment. To break down for that moment. To give in to the desire and the short-term gratification.

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Every day we are choosing sh** that’s not in our own best interest. Right? So if the world is attacking you and the world wants to fight you and the world’s trying to hold you down, so you’re going to kick yourself in the balls? You’re going to stop yourself from getting what you dream. Self-discipline is the center of all material success. You cannot win the war against the world if you can’t win the war against your own mind.

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You know, when you were, when you were starting out, when you were just getting going, you must I must have taken Some flyers here and there and done something. It was a little wild.

I’m just curious- never took long shots.

I’m gonna say something to you You’re smart. You’re talented, you know a few things but telling me is nothing in this game if you don’t make the right choices There’s plenty of talented people out there. We never see the light of day anymore. Lasting takes discipline because this whole game is one big long shot And if you don’t have the discipline to stay away from the flyers or from the gambles or whatever else you want to call a stupid Move then my friend. I’m afraid to say one day you will go down. It’s inevitable. You want my advice?

Make a list of everything you want now and then plan on spending the next 25 years of your life getting it slowly, piece by piece.

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You don’t have to feel good about it, you just have to keep going. The feeling will pass, but you will remain. You are greater than your feelings. Going to bed late and waking up early to work for a few days won’t kill you. You’re not going to burn out, you’re doing what it takes. If you’re one of those people that push work-life balance, just remember, the people who like working a lot don’t care. I’ve never regretted trying harder at anything, ever. Hard times last long, but an epic story feels like a lifetime.

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the most important level of competence that you want to achieve. First of all, you have clear goals, and then you say, what is it that I really love to do that really helps other people to improve the quality of their life? And how can I become really, really good at doing that more and more of the time? The third C is the C of concentration. And these are not necessarily in order, but in a way, these are. The C of concentration is your ability to focus, which we’ve talked about before. It’s your ability to focus single-mindedly on one thing at a time,

and to work on that one task until it’s complete. And to discipline yourself not to do anything else, or to become distracted by emails and bells and bips and noises and things like that. It’s just your ability to focus like a laser beam on a single task.

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But the discipline will not allow that. The discipline calls for strength and fortitude and will.

It won’t accept weakness. It won’t tolerate another breakdown.

The discipline can seem like it’s your worst enemy.

But the reality is discipline is your best friend. It will take care of you like nothing else can. And it’ll put you on that path.

The path to strength and health and intelligence and happiness. And most importantly, it’ll put you on that path to freedom.

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So I want you to go there with me. You wanna learn from me? Let me take your ass home. Let me take you there. So that’s the whole thing about it, man. We’re scared to dive into our lives. What made us who we are? The beautiful people that we are, we’re all jacked up in so many ways. That’s the beauty of us. That’s the beauty of me. I’m jacked up, but I figured out my own little process on how to get unjacked up and how to, I’m not gonna get the same, you know, I’m not gonna get the same way you’re gonna get there. You may get there by going point A to point B.

I might go point C to D to E to F, but I’m gonna be there the same way you are, just a little harder. That’s how I train my brain. So it’s just different. I’m a different thinker.

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The emotionally immature man seeks out motivation to do something hard one time. The emotionally mature man uses discipline to do something hard a thousand times. Why is emotional maturity related to motivation and discipline?

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I give you the map, you are willing to do that? Yeah. It’s the main point because everyone wants to be Christiano but I give you the map. You think you will do it? It’s difficult. It’s the discipline. The discipline is the most difficult thing, not only in the sport but in the life.

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I initiated that movement to you, first you need to learn it and now comes the time what is about you, not about what other people expect from you, now you have it, now it’s up to you to cultivate it, yes? And that one gives insight, because now the mind is free to discover many, many things that go on inside of there. and now it’s not just about the martial art movement, this principle of you: think a lot about what needs to be done, then it is being replaced and the mind is free, this now we apply to the life itself,

this is the reason why waking up and thinking too much about what to do today.

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When I look at you in particular, and I realized this during our second conversation at the start of this year, the reason that people get confused about your motivation and your workload is that they don’t realize that the thing you do for work is the thing that you do for fun. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding that people have. And because of that, you’re prepared to work hard. And working hard doesn’t feel like wasted time. Lots of people associate working hard with not making progress. Therefore, working feels like wasting.

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Where does discipline come from? It’s pretty simple and pretty obvious. Discipline comes from within. It’s an internal force. Now sure, of course you can have discipline imposed on you by some person like a drill instructor or like that self-help guru on TV. But the reality is that type of discipline isn’t the real type of discipline that we’re talking about. That discipline isn’t as strong. It won’t survive.

What you need is self-discipline.

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that he cared for the down-trodden people and this and that for the blacks and Latinos and Irish people who were being abused by the Irish people of that time, which is crazy. He really was that guy. He was the guy that fought for the people that didn’t have anyone to fight for them. He was just that guy. He wanted to be that person. He wanted to be a person that people looked up to and he was a boss and stuff. He just wanted to be a person. And when I read his book and I found out about him, he was successful his whole life.

He was always the guy in the neighborhood that people came to to settle beefs and talk things over with and loan people stuff and help people out. And he liked being in that position of being able to teach people something, what he believed was teaching them something.

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But without a clear headspace, there’s no discipline. What do you mean? So let’s say we have a circuit breaker, okay? And I’m loading everything up to one fucking circuit, just load it up. It’s going to fucking blow. And once that thing blows, man, the circuits all fucked up. You got to have each thing plugged into the right spot, like a fucking crowded garage. You can’t put anything in it. Once your brain is crowded, discipline is great. Motivation is great. But if you can’t fit it in your brain because it’s all fucking cluttered with shit, there’s no discipline.

You may have it sometimes when it fits in that crowded garage of your mind, but you don’t have the consistency that you need to have with that discipline.

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I think you have to take care a little bit of your body, but without obsession. If you start today, you’re going to have benefits in the future. Doesn’t matter the time. What is important, it’s what you want to achieve. What you want. You want to live a good life. Yes. I like to drink. I like to eat a burger. Okay. You’re going to pay the bill in the future. I think the most important thing is to find the balance. Sometimes I can eat a burger or chips. It doesn’t matter. It’s important too, for your mind too.

Sometimes I sleep two o’clock in the morning because last night I was in UFC here in Saudi and they man-evented two o’clock. Yes. It’s quality of life too. But the most important thing is the consistency. If you have consistency, you’re going to be good in the future or you’re going to be better than other ones in the future. This is my opinion.

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Now, self-discipline comes from the self, it comes from you. it comes from when you make a decision to be disciplined, When you make a decision to be better, when you make a decision to do more and to be more. Self-discipline comes when you decide That you’re gonna make a mark on the world, and if you think That you’re not disciplined or you can’t be disciplined. It’s because you haven’t yet decided to be disciplined, It’s because you haven’t created that discipline.

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So you first have to shed your false identity and say, who do I wanna be known as? And you can rebuild yourself. Every man has the time and the ability to rebuild themselves. No one takes the pause to go, how do I wanna rebuild myself? Or what do I wanna rebuild myself into? Do I wanna be a better entrepreneur, a better husband? Like the actual intent.

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I watched a lot of movies and I was really big into visualization and I always equated working out to struggle and I struggled my whole life but I ran from it. So I started realizing I gotta start facing the struggle and I gotta be mentally strong for the struggle So that’s why I started coming up with like I’m training for life Mentally, I’m training for life. I’m not training for like So to lift 400 pounds. and I found out on my own pretty much is that through this, through through discipline, through self-discipline, through Repetition, through tons of repetition,

the same thing that you don’t want to do, And that’s it. That’s the key thing through repetition the things you don’t want to do you develop mental like Like an armor for your mind start to armor your mind. Okay, we suffer we suffer every day It’s what we do. We do stuff that sucks every day. So then when the suck stuff comes, You’re ready for it, and that’s how I started coming up. you know, I just started being very uncomfortable. now It’s like a, just a way of life.

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behind the action versus just like, oh, okay, I’m gonna go work today, now I’m gonna go work out, da da da, and so you’re kind of robotically going through life but not really having intention. And so when the false identity is shed and you decide that I’m gonna be this man, a man of discipline, I’m gonna keep my word, because my word to myself is my reputation. the reputation that I have with myself is the highest thing that I could have with anybody. the relationship with myself is the highest thing I could have with anybody, and I wanna have a great reputation with myself,

and if I have a great reputation with myself then everybody else, my reputation will precede me, like Craig will never have to wonder about B’s character.

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the master key to riches is self-discipline. And what we have found is that the most successful people have come to that conclusion as well, is that self-discipline is the master key to success. So for you to write down your goals and make a plan and set priorities and start with your most important task takes tremendous self-discipline. If you haven’t done it up to now, it’s so hard. But Goethe said, everything is hard before it’s easy. And everything at the beginning is difficult, but later it becomes easy and automatic.

You have to force yourself to discipline yourself at the beginning, but after that, it becomes easier and easier and you actually feel happy. Now here’s the most wonderful thing. When you discipline yourself to start and complete a task or a part of a task, you feel like an athlete.

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And this means you have arrived.

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I was the lowest form on earth, no talent, no ability to learn. And I literally know what it is to be rock bottom and to build that up. So that question about learning is a pain in my ass and I don’t have to do it. So think about it. I’m 49 years old and I’m a multimillionaire. I don’t have to do anything. So all I thought about when I was growing up is: man, I can’t wait to one day get to the point where I no longer have to do this stuff. But what happens, I got older, it became a way of living. So how I do every day is how I do every day. It’s a, it’s a discipline. It’s a regimen.

It’s a, it’s a, it was a choice I made. And the choice I made was what are you willing to sacrifice? And what are you willing to give up to find every bit of who you are as a human being, and I was willing to give everything to do that. So studying is no joke.

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So it’s a process, it’s a process, it’s a real process that you can actually, in the three month time, you have absorbed the self-discipline. That’s why I always tell people, it’s not a one night event. To get vitamin and learning to say no in everything is not easy. The disciplined ones are free in life. The indisciplined ones are not free. They’re in prison. Because you are in discipline and wherever you go, you know that I am not supposed to do this and you are doing it. That means you are in prison. In this world, we need to be free, walk free, live an honest life,

and that’s the way to go.

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But but the fact of the matter is that the reason discipline is hard to maintain is because it is hard to Maintain that’s what makes discipline hard. It’s hard, and If you hear me claim that Discipline is easy for me then Straight up. That’s just my ego talking. That’s what that is, because I’m Unfortunately, just as human as everyone else and it is a work to maintain the discipline. That’s what it is work: Holding the line, Maintaining the standard giving no slack none. That’s the discipline.

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I also think that sometimes this strong mindset is also not existing anymore because of the lack of movement.

So because it is very simple. Look even in the disciplines that you are practicing, lifting the weights, there is that moment where the animal comes out. There is that moment where it is like your animal instinct comes out which is producing suddenly more of this power. There is something which wants to push through it.

In the different methods of what we are practicing here, there are also things to call out this type of instinct.

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That you’re just going to go to some man’s house you don’t even know? People buying stuff. I’m like, well, you ain’t grateful for what God, you got to get the extra hookups?

I ain’t mad at you, but if you do, you understand what you’re attracting. And then you mad when you ain’t attracting a successful man of character and integrity in God, but you’re not putting that out.

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I always tell people that about working out like fuck Your motivation fucking motivation you need discipline because motivation is not there every day motivate I’m missing motivation most days Wow some days. Yeah, sometimes I got motivation. So I’m just like okay today. I feel good I can’t wait to get to the gym a lot of days like gotta get to the gym And then once I get going then I feel great. Yeah, I feel great when it’s over. but it’s that beginning part That’s hard, because your body wants to stay comfortable, your body to trick you like man. today, Take the day off Theo.

Yeah feel good Theo. What did you get like six hours sleep last night? That’s not enough.

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So what are you talking about here? Are you saying doing self-work and reflecting on you as an individual? Are you doing therapy?

I call it mental zones. I don’t get into it much because it would be here all day. But basically, it’s you’re organizing your mind so you can put that discipline. So a lot of people talk about discipline. Okay, great. Why do you fall off the fucking wagon? Why can’t I continue with this routine? Going to the gym, being better, waking up early, eating the right foods. It’s because maybe it’s your kids, maybe it’s your wife, maybe it’s your job. And it’s all just stuffed in your fucking brain. You don’t have it compartmentalized and organized in these nice shelves.

Like you look in the garage, it’s all fucking a nice organized militant garage. Hey, where are my dumbbells? Right there. A lot of people whose brain, hey, where’s my dumbbells? Let me look. They’re fucking throwing shit. They’re looking through totes. They’re all fucked up. So where am I going to put discipline in that mind if I can’t find other shit?

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I discovered Whoop a few years ago and to be honest, for me, it’s a tool that can help me. It’s like having a doctor in your wrist. And for me, I cannot live without Whoop because it’s helped me a lot, not only in terms of physically, but mentally, in a sleep way. It’s a great tool, in my opinion. So I’m really pleased that I use it. It’s like in the beginning, I’ve fallen in love since I started to use it. So I feel good with that.

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But I think my main strength is my mind.

I think it’s my strongest point,

it’s my mind.

Piers, the numbers, they don’t lie.

If you see during the last 15 years,

my level is always kind of the same.

So effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough anymore.

And if you’re not dedicated 100 percent,

you’re not going to reach the level that you want.

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because the more discipline you have in your life, the more freedom you will end up with.

So if you lack the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, you will end up being a slave to disease. If you lack the discipline to work hard, save your money, you will end up a slave to finances. If you lack the discipline to manage your time correctly, you will end up with no free time.

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The reason diet culture is so fucked up is because it does not address the core problem. The core problem is that you do not have the discipline to adhere to the program. Meaning, you know what you have to do, but because you know, and dude, people will, I did this, and you probably did this too. I tried keto, I tried this, I tried that, I tried cycling my carbs, I tried this, I tried doing this thing, I tried all this over here. I tried everything looking for the solution, not realizing that the solution was the way that my mental was framed.

Like bro, this is not a physical thing, this is a mental thing.

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Discipline was huge, but then we always fall back on what’s comfortable to us. What’s comfortable for me was if it’s easy for me, you know, I’m going to do it. And so when I was going through peer rescue training, I ran up against an obstacle that I didn’t think I was going to run up and it was the water. I fucking hated the water. And but I tried hard to get over that and I would go to the pool and I would try and I would try. But my mind wasn’t strong enough. David Goggins, even with all the discipline, I didn’t have that next fucking level.

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Be really intentional with what it is that you want. Like if you’re subconsciously have told yourself like, man, I’m just a lazy person. Like, you know, maybe you don’t have to say it outward. If you’re subconsciously telling yourself, I’m a lazy person, or I’m the kind of person that kind of gives up, I’ve got no work ethic, that gives up easily. Then you will always show up lazy. You will always show up and give up when things get a little tough. If you start saying that my identity is that I’m gonna be a disciplined human, I’m gonna be a disciplined woman, I’m gonna be a disciplined man.

Once you take on that identity, now you have to do the things that discipline requires. And discipline doesn’t care if you’re tired. You’re tired, do it anyway.

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Because if you’re a kid right now and you’re eating Doritos off your belly, I know they taste good and there’s some immediate gratification and I get that. But I’m going to tell you it starts right now. Throw that bag of Doritos away. Get rid of it. Go do some push-ups. Go spend $12 at the hardware store and hang up a pull-up bar in your room and start doing pull-ups. And if you can’t do one pull-up, hang on that bar and you’re going to start to get a little bit stronger. You just start to get a little bit healthier. You start to get more focused.

And you’ll see that if you have that kind of discipline right now,

you’re going to end up with freedom.

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process of self-discipline is like a muscle that you can grow. And so I think the mistake many people make is they start with these huge things that they think require self-discipline and unless they do these huge things they lack it. Whereas I believe you start in the micro, you start small in life and that’s what builds the real discipline. So this may sound crazy but I have eliminated and written down the things that take my my self-discipline away. I have scheduled the things that make me look like I have self-discipline.

I still do little things that create momentum because momentum as I’ve said before is a magnifier. Momentum can make an average ordinary person like me produce superhuman results.

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You go and I drive one and a half hour to bring them to training. And I said to them, you do 200% in training. Because me bringing you to training, I do it for you, not for me. I could do something else, but you give 200%, or else I’m not doing this. But in the end, you’re doing it for yourself. Because every time you step on the field, when players get angry at coaches, teammates, or whoever’s surrounding, or media, they forget every training they do is not for the surrounding. You do the training for yourself.

You do it to become better, and make a better version of yourself, and test yourself.

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character, commitment, discipline. These are things that every human being can work on on their own. You don’t need talent. You need discipline. I said, man, I have that. So I started gravitating more towards the everyday person that went way beyond. They went to that blue to black line I talk about in the book. That blue to black line where you reach greatness. And I started realizing that’s what I can do. I cannot work a mother. I can outwork everybody. That’s what it takes. I can’t dunk. But over here, everything that I want is over here in this pile of shit.

Hard work, dedication, sacrifice. I can do that. I can do that all day long. I can get up at three o’clock in the morning. I cannot work you. That’s where I found greatness over there.

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Good question, because when you have emotional maturity, you realize that some days you’re not going to sleep well, some days you’re going to wake up and you’ve got your schedule and everything’s planned out and the poop hits the fan. You got to eat those sandwiches, right? And whether things go well or not that day, the emotionally mature man will still do what he has to do to stack his wins. To focus on his purpose. Whereas the emotionally immature man will say, well, I didn’t sleep well. I had nightmares, so I’ll stay in bed. I didn’t sleep well, or it’s raining outside. It’s cold outside.

I don’t feel good. The, I just woke up and the airplanes hit the world trade center. So I guess I have to change my pattern of life. You have to stay the course no matter what. And it takes a high level of emotional maturity because your emotions dictate your motion, like what you’re going to do. And so if you have emotional maturity, you’re more likely to lean into discipline when things are sub optimal. If you lack emotional maturity, then how you feel determines what you do next, which is very damaging to outcome driven humans.

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And I remember when I was talking with my father and he told me, hey remember, you know how people make diamonds? Diamonds make it under big pressure. If you can handle this pressure, you’re gonna become diamond. But if you lose, you’re gonna be loser. Just be careful. You have to understand. You have to understand what you want. When time comes, you have to shine.

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Discipline says oh, you know, you don’t you don’t feel good. We’ll do it anyway. Discipline says it’s raining outside and it’s cold. It’s windy do it anyway It becomes the identity. I’m a disciplined man. To do anything outside of what a disciplined man would do Makes me an irresponsible man, makes me a weak man, And I don’t want to be in the irresponsible weak man, because our country already has too many of those, Which is why we’re eroding as a country. And so the identity change along with the clarity of what you want to like, how do you want to be seen? How do you want to show up?

Like not everyone has to show up as Ed Milett and Tim Grover and Andy for Scylla. show up as the version of you.

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If you have self-discipline, if you have the discipline to save your money and work hard and invest your money properly, if you have the discipline to manage your time correctly and not waste a bunch of time, if you have the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, you will end up with freedom. And I know it’s a counterintuitive, it’s contrarian, but I’ve seen this over and over and over again. If you want freedom in your life, you have to have discipline.

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the barbaric life that I live, that you have to live, the almost obsession that you must have to be great, you can’t put that shit in a fucking book, bro. You can’t put it in a book. You can’t. You can’t write about it. It has to be experienced. It has to be experienced. And you can’t even, after you experience it, to write it in a book, it would seem like it needs to be locked up. This ain’t- Too gory. It’s too gory. It doesn’t make sense for a guy that everything, every second of the day, he is trying to extract more from something.

He’s constantly thinking, he’s constantly disciplined, never going off the path. Whatever is injured on him, he figures away. It’s a conqueror’s mindset. And very few people, if any, can really understand what that is.

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It can be quite similar being also seen with this monastery. If everybody would have the ability to bring out the self-discipline you don’t need, like disciplinary masters. Meaning you don’t need a monastery also that takes care that you are keeping that external rules and the external structure. But like for example today, all the young guys that came, if they would already be so self-disciplined that they know exactly what they can do, what they cannot do, if they want to achieve something that they just focus on that, if they knew all of these things.

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Like I think everything about discipline, everything about discipline and every day and every day, every day like you know train, sleep, eat, repeat. Yes, it’s have to become your lifestyle. and everything here in mental. you know everything about mental. you know it’s like like people ask me, like when you become champion, what you feel like, and I said no, in my mind. I was always champion in my mind all the time when I see someone compete like in my weight classes and I think okay like since when I was like when UFC signed me it was like 2012, 2013,

14 like that time I will think about I’m gonna beat these guys I’m gonna I can beat all of them you know like everything about mental.

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People think self-discipline, people that get up, that work out, that do their stuff, that make their calls, that have these relationships, that are sending out a bunch of emails, that are making a bunch of contacts, they’re tired. That’s not the case, because after a while, this is automatic. Their brain’s not having to think about it. It’s just what they do. It’s their routine. Your brain, on the other hand, if you’re not disciplined, isn’t nearly as organized. So it’s having to work to think through, to get back up, to start over, to restart, to get going again.

It’s constantly having to work. And what you’re doing is you’re depleting yourself of the energies that could have gone towards creativity, focus, awareness, and intentional activities. Does that make sense? So actually, undisciplined people are more tired at the end of the day than disciplined people.

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You arrive home, you had a lunch, you do a quick nap, and you wake up. You play with your kids, and I have to go to the gym at least 30, 40 minutes. But this will make the difference in the end of the day, you understand? If you don’t do that work, you miss one. The next day, it’s two sessions that you lost. And I know in the end of the day, in the end, they’re going to make a huge difference. This is why I’m 34 and I look 28.

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If there’s one thing I would say that does make it easier, it’s to Envision what it feels like when you’re done, what it feels like After you’ve worked out or you’ve held the line on your food intake or you’ve pushed through some monotonous Project that you have to do and all those things. When they’re done, that they feel good

and Contrary to that, Envision what you will feel like later When you let the discipline slack. You know the feeling,

feeling weak and Defeated, and you know that you’re falling behind.

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You got to be able to find all these different things in your mind. Oh, I can put discipline right there. I can put consistency right there. I can put all these things right there in that spot. So, that’s what I’m talking about. If your life is not organized and your life being everything around you, because it takes one little f***ed up piece of an outside interference to clutter your whole mind. Because it’s on such a knife edge. That’s right. And people don’t get that. Your mind has to always be clear. That’s why I meditate two hours every single night.

Because I refresh, I reorganize the garage, which is my mind, every night. So then, discipline’s in there, organization, everything is in its right spot. So, when I wake up, I’m ready to go.

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Hey Will, I wanna be an actor man, I wanna be an actor just like you. You know, usually people say stuff to me like that. I’m like, yeah man, you know, you do is give them an encouraging word. But I was just sitting here thinking and it dawned on me, 99% of people that say stuff like that are not willing to do what it takes to make their dreams come true. The Marines have a saying, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. And that’s just real. at the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self-discipline. You know, something as simple as food and eating,

it’s not about your body as much as it is about your mind. It’s getting command of your mind to be able to choose actions that are in your own best interest.

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If I could like grab someone by the ears, you know, like when you really got to tell someone, like when we played football, you know, your coach would grab you by the ear holes and look you in the face. And if I could just do that to people and be like, bro, the problem is that you cannot adhere. Let us fix that problem. Let us fix your discipline. When we fix your discipline, and it’s gonna be have to fix by grit and force and fortitude. You are going to have to grind it out. You are going to have to push through it. And you’re going to have to force yourself into this place of momentum.

But if we can fix this, it will fix fucking everything in your life. And if I could just like grab everybody listening to this and like grab them by the ears and like, that’s what I wanna do. You know what I’m saying? Like, it’s like, fuck, this is so simple to fix, bro. Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it takes effort, but it will change your fucking existence in every single area, man.

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that you sacrifice those passions and pleasures to allow you to do or to work on your career.

How can you have self-discipline?

The rule number one is to get vitamin N. Vitamin N? Yes, that’s the rule number one. You need to inject yourself with vitamin N.

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if you give a commitment even just by word and afterwards you break it. You break your promise, somebody breaks you, finished. Why? Because a man that you can’t trust his words, something’s wrong.

Something initially as being a man is wrong.

And this is where I think things are going hand in hand. So once you really commit and also commit to a certain type of practice that means you need to bring out that discipline. It is that discipline that is fueling up this drive because we know that it’s not easy. But no pain no gain.

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So get to know those two different types of feelings and ask yourself which one you wanna feel in 10 minutes or in a half an hour. When the thing is done, when the discipline has been implemented, remember what that feels like and then remember that those minutes and those hours, they turn into weeks and months and years and holding the line in those critical minutes will put you in an infinitely better place physically and mentally if you maintain the discipline. So work through the weakness, fight through the temptation, hold the line. Hold the line, maintain the discipline. It is not easy.

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Sometimes we give so much energy for situations that don’t go well in your life, but you just stop when you have a problem, a healthy problem. And your priority is the cure to resolve the sickness that you have. The other things are not important. And we make everything in the same package to solve so many problems. But sometimes this is not a problem, this is situations of the life, the daily things. And we focus on so many things, and we forgot to focus on the main thing. And I give you the bad example, it’s like, when you are sick, you only focus on the cure of this problem.

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When you make a person feel like a winner, you feel happy. When you discipline yourself to complete a task, you give yourself a buzz. Alfred Adler, one of the top psychologists of history, called this a positive addiction. He said if you start and complete a task, you get a buzz. And the buzz becomes addictive. You start thinking, no, I want that buzz again. But the buzz is a positive addiction in that it makes you happy when you do it. So every time you start and complete a task, you feel like a winner. And when you feel like a winner, you want to do it again and have that winning feeling.

If you’re happily married, make sure that your spouse feels like a winner all the time. How do they feel like a winner? Is when you praise them or compliment them, thank them for what they did, acknowledge their success, whatever happens to be, make them feel like a winner. Because every single time you start and complete something and it’s acknowledged, person feels like a winner.

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Folks see how much that work out, and they think I’m running from demons. It’s not demons, it’s discipline. And I’m a disciple of discipline. You cannot run from demons, they’ll always find you. Only way to beat them motherfuckers is look at them eye to eye and make them your bitch. Mindset’s the only thing that gets you through hard times.

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We ain’t got no more business to do. You told me you wanted a two-hour presentation. I did it. I’m going home. But E, this is a resort. And I’m going home. Why? Because I can’t get in trouble at home. I can’t get in trouble at the crib. I can get in trouble at this resort.

It’s a lot of temptation at this resort. So I’m going home, where it’s OK to get into temptation at the crib.

The bed is undefiled. Like, I can come home and do this. I can’t be doing that over there. And many of you are not where you’re supposed to be, not because you’re not gifted. You have absolutely no discipline.

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Focus your priorities. Yeah, you understand, don’t focus so many things. and this is what I learned by the time and I’m going well with my life. I, to be honest, I mean, enjoy so much, so much more, that before that, you start to see the life in a different way. you know, and people, They will find out, Better soon than late, you know, to try to to make the life more interesting.

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So when I first joined the Navy, I had to join the Reserves because I couldn’t get an active duty because I was so fat. So being a Reservist, I got titled a lot of times as a weekend warrior. In the Reserves, you work one weekend a month, two weeks a year. A lot of us live our lives that way. We can’t work out without purpose. We need to get into our dress for the wedding. Summertime’s coming, so we want to look all good. Our high school reunion’s coming up, so we got to lose weight. The biggest purpose in life, getting all that shit, is how you respect yourself, how you look at yourself.

That’s an everyday fucking journey. So every day, you should be getting after it. We look at determination, self-discipline. We look at hard work. All these terms, it’s almost like we dread them, almost like a fucking punishment. Those are the biggest words of all time as far as respecting yourself. So don’t look at them as dread and punishment. Look at those words as a lifestyle. Stay hard!

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So make the decision, make the commitment, discipline, the root quality that will improve every aspect of your life. And it’ll make you better and stronger and smarter and faster and healthier. And most importantly, it’ll make you free.

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Life is a box of surprises and it’s hard, you know It’s not, it’s not easy. you know, to be in this level And still push and still motivate To carry on. you know, To score goals, to be in a good shape to compete with the Young Lions, they they coming and when they play against me They want to show they want to show me that they are stronger than me and faster than me. You have to prepare very well not in terms of Physically, but mentally too. I think it’s very hard, but in the same way is a challenge.

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Yes, discipline, it does start with waking up early. It really does.

But that is just the beginning. And I always say that discipline is the root of all good qualities,

but you have to absolutely apply it to things outside of just waking up early. It’s everything. It’s working out every day, making yourself stronger and faster and more flexible and healthier. Discipline is eating the right foods to fuel your system. It’s about disciplining your emotions so you can make good decisions. It’s about having the discipline to control your ego, so your ego doesn’t get out of hand and control you.

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You fight like a younger man,

since nothing held back.

Admirable, but mistaken.

Oh, you think darkness is your ally.

You merely adopted the dark.

I was born in it,

molded by it.

I didn’t see the light until I was already a man.

By then it was nothing to me but blighted.

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Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions, Lift the weights, sprint the hill, work on the project, get out of bed Now. as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done,

But if you are going to rest that is one thing that you should Procrastinate on that’s the one thing. I want you to put off until tomorrow. and if, when tomorrow comes, You still feel like you need to rest or you need to take a break, then okay, Take it,

but the chances are You won’t.

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You know, when I was growing up, there was this statement, I think it was Pascal, he said, all of man’s problems arise because he cannot sit by himself in a room for 30 minutes alone. And it’s very true, I always needed to be stimulated. And when the iPhone came along, boredom was dead. I would never be bored again. Even if I’m standing in line, I’m on my iPhone, and I thought it was great. And when I was a kid, I used to try and overclock my brain, be like, how many thoughts can I think at once? The answer is only one, but I would try to like, think multiple thoughts at once.

And I was proud of that. I was proud that my brain was always running, this engine was always moving. And it’s a disease, it’s actually the road to misery. And now that I’m older, I realize like, you actually want to, again, rest your mind. You wanna learn how to settle into your mind. Now, I look forward to solitary confinement. You leave me alone for a day, it’ll be like the happiest day I’ve had in a while. And that is a superpower that I think everybody can attain.

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People think it’s easy, it’s not easy. Because everybody think, hey I train, I go do individual skills, I go do that, I get an agent, I get this coach and I’ll become a pro. Doesn’t work like that. It has to be about luck, hard work, where you come, it’s meant that you should be where you are. And it’s easy to say, hey I could have been a pro, I would be the best in the world. No, it’s not like that. It’s all this combined and then we see what happens. They have to be happy, healthy, but with discipline they have to do the things.

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So those things that come out of me that extract from me in the darkness People are looking for that pound the back. Where is it? Oh, I Don’t need it Because what I’ve done is in the fucking unseen work. I’ve built Frankenstein So whenever she gets nasty David Goggins goes You had nobody anyway motherfucker. So see I’m Thomas up for now. That’s me. That’s fires me to fuck up that shit makes me get nuts you had nobody anyway motherfucker look around you There was no fucking team. It was you.

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What’s interesting about humans is that our ability to endure is very robust if we know that we’ll make it out. And so they’ve done mice studies where they drop the mouse in and then they let it drown and it drowns really fast. And then they drop a mouse in and then before it gets to the point where it drowns, they pick it up and then they put it back in. And the second time they put it in, it can last like 20 times longer.

I think for the stats of something around, will drown in less than an hour. If it’s taken out, dried off and allowed to relax, it’ll swim for a day.

An absurd amount different.

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In this country, being weak is thought of as a virtue. Jordan Peterson has a really interesting way of looking at this, and he said it to me once, and it made a lot of sense. He said, people think that you should be weak, and you should be docile, and then you should be a pacifist. He goes, no, you should be a monster. He said, you should be a monster, you should be ruthlessly ambitious, and then learn how to control it. And it’s that old expression, it’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. It’s an old expression, but it makes sense,

because it doesn’t mean that you can’t be kind if you’re strong, but it does mean you can’t be strong if you’re weak. If you’re weak, you’re fucked. And there’s a lot of weak people in this country right now that are trying to take control, and they’re gathering up all the other weak people, and they say, yeah, let’s all be weak together. And they’re willing to embrace all sorts of ideas that have been disproven.

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I would encourage everyone to play football for the simple reason that it is hard. It’s hard when you’re young to wake up in the off-season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out, knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. It’s hard when you’re on your way to practice, weighed down with all your gear, and it’s 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach, and your body is already completely exhausted from workouts in two days. It’s hard to throw, catch, block, and tackle, and hit kids when they’re way bigger and way more developed than you,

only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained, but knowing you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again. But understand this, life is hard.

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There was no weight loss program or mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it, you can be better, trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing, rock bottom. You did that. So as times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as fuck. It’s real. It’s tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I’m reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. So that is what people don’t get. That is what motivates David Goggins is the unseen work. Everybody needs that pat on the back. They need that training partner.

They need that accountability coach. I don’t need that shit. And neither do they. But it’s what we’ve trained ourselves to believe that we need.

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But here’s the thing,

I didn’t quit.

I didn’t fall back.

I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition.

I prayed.

And I prayed.

But I continued to fail and fail and fail.

But it didn’t matter because you know what?

There’s an old saying,

you hang around the barbershop long enough,

sooner or later you’re going to get a haircut.

So you will catch a break.

And I did catch a break.

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Failure has been achieved, thank God. Now, the only place to go from failure is to win. You have to achieve failure. You have to take it that far. Nobody wants to go that far, it’s too scary. But you know something, I got news for you. That’s where winning is. It always has been. Nothing’s changed since the 70s, nothing. Except people train not as hard. You know, I’m here laying on the floor going, I feel like somebody was stabbing knives in my quads. I used to lay there, put the towel over my face. My training partner was saying, people thought I was dying.

Well, no, he’s okay, don’t worry about him. After about 10 minutes, one more set, okay? But you’re doing great, you’re doing great. I’m happy. You can do this. It can happen.

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Get it done. Even if I’m just going through the motions. I Go through the motions. I Don’t really want to work out. I work out I Really don’t want to hammer on a project. I Hammer on the project. Don’t really want to get up and get out of bed. Yeah, I get up and get out of bed Now. these Could be signals that you need some time off, and those signals might be right. they could be correct. but Don’t take today off, Not today. wait until tomorrow. No, don’t give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear.

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the superpower of learning to be alone and enjoying it. Yeah. Well, I think it’s critical. And I do think that these times where you just think about things, just be alone and think about things are so rare these days. And I think during those rare times is when you really get to understand what you actually believe or don’t believe.

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hey, I need you to hold your breath, but I don’t tell you how long. 20 seconds in, you might be thinking, this is stupid. Is he gonna stop? Is he gonna wait for me to pass out? And all these stupid thoughts go into your mind. But if I say, I need you to hold your breath for three minutes, your lungs might burn, but you can see that there’s this end that’s coming. The difficulty with personal development and entrepreneurship is that you don’t know when the end is coming, but you still need to fight like the second mouse who gets out, gets right off and gets put back in.

So it’s actually a benefit to me, but the benefit is not like a benefit like that. You have to have the courage and the patience to overcome and overcome before you know it, man, you have a whole medicine cabinet, but there’s no medicine in the mother. There’s no pre-workout. I don’t take none of that shit. All I gotta do is flip my brain, put my finger in there and say, okay, that’s a good one. So all I gotta do, man, I got the Rolodex of just like go fuck yourself Goggins and, oh, but you won. Let’s do that one today. There’s nothing I need.

And this is the thing that people don’t get about David Goggins. I can’t teach it in a one minute video. We all have this ability to have our own medicine cabinet, but unless you go in there and put the medicine in there, it’s always gonna be fucking empty, man. You’re always gonna need the pre-workout.

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So when I got older and I graduated from my rehab when I was 21, That was the only picture I had and I told myself that I want to be a better man. I Want to be bigger than him? I’m never gonna be anything like him. So every day I would look in the mirror at the gym. I remember that picture when it started out, when I was, you know, Just getting started, and I envisioned myself being bigger and I pushed myself and I fought. Every day I pushed myself. And now you guys might not know that or know my story,

but I Take this seriously and that’s the reason why it bothers me so much. That’s the reason why I defend my natural status is because I fought for it, Because no one gave it to me, because I it was just me, me alone in the gym, me alone in the mirror, me alone in my head. no one did it for me. I Worked for it and I’m never gonna let someone else take that from me.

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Work, work, work, work, work, no results, but I’m a little bit better.

Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, no results, but I’m a little bit better.

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You have to go through this time where you don’t go to failure, you get out of shape, so to speak. You’re not out of shape, but you… Because the only way to get in shape is to get out of shape. The only way to go to failure is not go to failure and you know the difference. Most big guys like yourself have a problem going to failure. I’m shocked. It’s like most guys don’t have the wind. 15, 20 reps is like, oh my God. To me, that’s like half a cent. I mean I’m doing 50s all the time. . It was crazy. I wasn’t good at reps. I trained for reps, but the reps is key.

Reps is a secret, but that failure, that last rep where you think eventually you’ll know. I know even today, even last month when I was squatting back in LA, I know I don’t have one more rep. I know there’s nothing left, but I’m willing to take it to that far to where it’s like, okay, I can make it back to the rack, maybe. Okay? That’s where I want you to go.

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You have to learn how to fail. Because I’m gonna explain this to you. I had big dreams. A lot of us have big dreams, big goals. And when you have goals that are maybe outside your reach, you have to know that getting to that goal, you’re gonna have a lot of bad days, a lot of setbacks. So like when I was losing 106 pounds in three months, the first two months or first two weeks, it’s like I was gaining weight. You know, I would lose a pound, gain two. So I was just failing. I kept failing and kept failing and kept failing. So I had to teach myself how to fail right.

And what that means is when I fail, I can’t spend much time in that fail zone. I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast. Because my goals was to be a Navy SEAL. I don’t have time to stay here and feel bad for myself for weeks and months and years, because I’ll lose that time.

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And these young fighters right here will tell you, I’m a man of my word. If I could tell you, you got to work with me now. Don’t work against me, work with me. If I tell you that I can get you to a certain point, because my thing is this, I teach you how to fish. I don’t fish for you. I tell these guys I can put you in a position to fight for the title, , but you have to win the fights. I can’t fight for you.

I don’t, I put on my shoes, I put on my clothes, like everyone in here, I have good days, I have bad days.

I’m only going to have my bad days in a boxing gym,

because I’m an under the lights type fighter. Because when I go under them lights, no matter how I win, I win.

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If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today? Forget everything else. Forget everything else. Forget that there was any sunlight left. What would you spend today thinking about?

Yourself or the man that’s beside you? Or the man that you know you’ll give everything in your heart for? We get one opportunity in life, one chance in life to do whatever you’re gonna do. To lay your foundation, to make whatever mark you’re gonna make. Whatever legacy you’re gonna leave, leave your legacy. And it’s found through effort.

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To find your way in life, it’s not an external search. It’s an internal search. Because God equipped you the moment He gave birth to you. God equipped you at birth with what you needed. He gave all of you a gift, all of you. Every last one of you, you’re gifted. God never created a soul without giving them a gift. All of you sitting in here were given a gift at birth. He put it inside you. You ain’t gotta look under the ocean. It ain’t on a mountain, it ain’t under no rocks. He put it in you at birth. He gave you a gift.

It is the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort. That’s your God-given gift. That’s the thing you should pursue. The scripture says your gift will make room for you and put you in the presence of important men. That’s what your gift will do for you.

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Those are false dopamine hits that people are giving you, man. There’s no belief in that. These are teamwork dopamine. Like, I’m out running at 2 o’clock in the morning, 1 o’clock in the morning, in the gym, long sessions by myself. That’s real. How I’m able to just extract dopamine, the good dopamine whenever I want, man, I’ve trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on the back. I did all of the work alone. And while I’m still hard on myself, I know what I did. So whenever times get bad for people, all this, who’s going to carry the boats and all? That’s real.

I hate that people know me for that guy, because that guy is not every fucking day. Like, when they see me, they want that energy. That’s not me every day.

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Well, what one big thing could that guy accomplish that would make all of the mediocrity of your life up to this point irrelevant? And why are you not putting every single ounce of your effort to prove that one point so that you could then justify everything up to that point? So it wouldn’t have been mediocrity, it would have been the path to get there. Exactly. Thank you. It would have been the journey.

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I wanted to be David fucking Goggins for too long in my life, and it got me in trouble for two I’m a life. I wanted to be accepted Growing up. I lied I could do what I could if you can like UFC, and I did it. I love it I love it man. Let’s go watch me be my friend be my buddy that can we cash it I found out through this path of life. Who is David Goggins? Who am I? So going through? all I did it alone. There was no control fee. on the wall, the mantle, that’s what he’s in my fucking brain. No one helped me get to know I pay my fucking bills. No, I did it for me.

No one ran those miles, lost that fucking weight with the. I suffered on my own and developed this man who said: It’s who I am, man, a very competitive, ultra competitive. do that? take it what you want, man.

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It’s kind of Saturday afternoon. Too many people there, man, I’ll tell you that much. Aren’t too many winners out here in the world. That workout in there, no weights involved. Just our body weight and our ego. How bad do we want it? We made something happen right there that’s gonna transform the rest of our work in the gym. Meaning we broke the monotony up, made our body guess, and shocked to new situations. Take that kind of rubble back into our normal workouts. Exponential growth comes. When you do the same thing over and over again, you get the same results.

We can shock it up like we just did. Get ready for a little bit of a tsunami coming in of success.

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Life is a box of surprises and it’s hard, you know. It’s not easy, you know, to be in this level and still push and still motivate to carry on, you know, to score goals, to be in a good shape, to compete with the young lions. They’re coming and when they play against me, they want to show me that they are stronger than me and faster than me. You have to prepare very well, not in terms of physically, but mentally too. I think it’s very hard, but in the same way, it’s a challenge, you know, because as you can see, if you treat your body well, you can maintain so many, many years.

And this is the big challenge for me.

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But the fact of the matter is, is if you want to be good, you really don’t have a lot of choices, because it takes what it takes. You have to do what you have to do to be successful. So you have to make the choices and decisions to have the discipline and the focus to the process of what you need to do to accomplish your goals. And all these guys that think they have a lot of choices are really, you know, sort of sadly mistaken. And I think, as we all have done with our own children, they learn these lessons of life as they get older.

And sometimes the best way to learn is from the mistakes that you make, even though we all hate to see them have to make them. And we don’t really condone it when they do.

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So the big thing is know that if you have big goals and big dreams, along the way failure is gonna happen. So how fast do you get up from that? You gotta teach yourself that. But the biggest key to success in anything you do is you gotta have an unlimited supply of fucking fuck you. This drive and passion, and it may come from nothing. For me, there was no passion, no drive, no nothing. But I had this fire that I’m gonna be somebody. And it has to be there because on all those bad days, on all those days you don’t wanna do shit, you have to be your own motivator,

your own coach, your own trainer, your own everything. So to do that, you have to come into work and work as whatever your work may be, ready to go.

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I’ll tell you right now, if I had the opportunity that these young men had, like in the real world, and they can go learn from a millionaire directly, exactly how to do something and make money right there, and they got 15, 20 other guys in the chat room right now saying I had that same problem yesterday, I did this and I made a sale, bro, I’d have been all over that shit, believe me. What’s scary about that is that kid ends up getting a Lambo and he skips the gym. He skips the sparring, or he skips spending the time working on himself internally.

So in addition to money, you have to work on all those areas of your life, because you can fill up the money bucket, you can be a rich dude, but you’re a slob.

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So in addition to money, you have to work on all those areas of your life, because you can fill up the money bucket, you can be a rich dude, but you’re a slob.

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Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain’t got nothing to do with nobody else. So that team that think they’re ready to see you, they think what they’ve seen on film, they ain’t saw what film shows. Because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you got to go out and show them that I’m a different creature now than I was five minutes ago. Because I’m pissed off for greatness. Because if you ain’t pissed off for greatness, that mean you okay with being mediocre.

Ain’t no man in here okay with being just basic. So let’s do what we do. Tonight.

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There is no fundamental secret here. It’s called hard work and sweat. If you have that and you’re willing to provide that in exchange for a better life, well, everyone will make that deal with you. If you’re willing to give up that for pride, accomplishment, feeling of self-worth, if you’re willing to make that transaction, Miami Fitness is your bank. And it’s open every single day for your transactions. Make your deposits every fucking day. Do your dues. Become the person you want to be. It’s the easiest fucking equation in the world.

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People want to find their passion, but you don’t find it, you create it. And you create it by getting good at something. And to get good at stuff, you start by doing something you suck at. Then you get good. Then you like it. Then people ask how you found your passion. Answer, by starting when you sucked and not giving up.

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People want to find their passion, but you don’t find it, you create it. And you create it by getting good at something. And to get good at stuff, you start by doing something you suck at. Then you get good. Then you like it. Then people ask how you found your passion. Answer, by starting when you sucked and not giving up.

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Welcome to the death of the age of reason. There is no right or wrong. Not anymore. There’s only being in, and then being out.

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is you may have failed miserably yesterday, but you come to work like, people are like, man, you just lost everything. How the hell are you just fucking damn motivated? Because this is what it takes. This is what the fuck it takes. And you got to get it from wherever you can. Whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated, whatever gets you motivated, it’s got to be here at the tip of your brain at all times. Because in those dark moments, you got to pull it out. So that’s the big thing for me, man. I was always fired up at all times.

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Everything else you’re doing has nothing to do with what God created you for. And if you’re unhappy with your life, if you haven’t figured your life out, if you’re thinking there’s more to your life than it is, it’s because the only reason you have that question is because you’re not living in your gift. Once you discover your gift, there lies your greatest chance for success. That’s what God gave you, equipped you with. You just gotta quit looking at gifts as running, jumping, singing, and dancing.

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Is that what you want to do? You come all this way have one bad day and you’re ready to back down. No, but they said you love this game. I Mean love it with your whole heart, because if you don’t, Let’s not even bother, Let’s not open that door. They’re just gonna slam it right in our face. I Love this game. I live this game. There’s a thousand other guys waiting in the wings who are obsessed with this game.

Obsessions gonna be talent every time.

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integrity, purpose, determination, and discipline that it takes to be a champion in life.

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external had to go away. The external world had to go away. In living so deep inside myself, it was me in this brain in figuring out how this thing works. And it’s, so many people are doing exactly that, the supplements, the this, the that. I agree, it helps. But once you figure out your brain, you become unstoppable to almost anything. Yeah, you can’t beat death, you can’t whatever, whatever. Your brain is amazing. Once you feed it the right conversation, the right mental nutrients, the right mental supplements, the right internal dialogue at the right time with the right hit,

with the right proof of what you’ve done in the past and you send that right to the right circuit, dude, you’re a f***ing beast.

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You got all the talent in the world, but are you obsessed?

Is it all you ever think about?

Let’s face it, it’s you against you out there.

When you walk on that court,

you have to think I am the best guy out there.

I don’t care if LeBron’s playing.

So let me ask you again,

do you love this game?

Yes.

Is there a newborn kitten purring in here right now?

I couldn’t hear you.

Do you want to be in the NBA? Yes!

Well, let’s make that happen.

Never back down.

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You may be a lucky guy and have a lot of money, have a great ass woman, all that shit. Trust me, one on one with that fucking guy, he’s missing something. His life still sucks because he hasn’t faced something that bothered him his whole fucking life. Something is still eating that motherfucker up. Almost everybody. Everybody, eating you the fuck up. But maybe you found a good way, how I did growing up, on how to ignore that voice that’s saying, you ain’t facing some shit. Period, man. I’m not special. I just stopped listening. I listened to that voice. It’s why I talk so fucking aggressive.

People say, man, do you believe in God? You cuss so much. When I say fuck, it’s letting you know what I’m thinking. If I try to make it all pretty and shit, that’s not what my life was. It was a violent, violent struggle daily to get where I’m at today. I’m not gonna water it down. I’m not gonna water it down. This shit wasn’t fun. It ain’t fun today, but I’m happy.

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I don’t care if you’re detrend, what a loser, that he wants to pull others down because he’s unsure of his own self. Because I worked hard for what I have, that he wants to try to pull me down or anyone else that’s natural and belittle them? My content was always made to encourage and to advise and to help. It was never for myself. It was never just to put myself out there and be famous. I never cared for that. All I care about is fitness. All I care about is being a better man. And you guys don’t understand that. You look at the finite details and you try to compare yourself to me,

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You do it to become better, and make a better version of yourself, and test yourself. So I tell them, you give 200%. If it’s a good or bad training, can happen. But you do it for yourself, and you give 200%. Because I have other things to do. And I push them so hard that they do their best, and more than that, they cannot do.

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What do you want? What is your, what objectives do you have? I said before we started, like, certain players need to finish his career in big stage because that is like the high end of your career because you have to be remembered for your talent, not for what you earned. Because if you be remembered in opposite way, what we are training every day for, what we are being recognized for is our talent. And that’s what you want to be remembered for. So I think certain players that reach a certain level, they have to stop in a certain stage. And that’s the big stage.

You cannot go in a lower stage and finish your career in a different way.

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You won’t need that rest. Chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. It was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path.

And by simply going through the motions,

you overcame that path. And you stayed on the righteous path, the disciplined path. You stayed on the war path,

which is right where you know that you belong.

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You have to be a fucking practitioner. And in that practice is where that becomes proof positive. What I’m saying is like, God, David Goggins, he’s blowing my mind. What is this? He’s not crazy. And so many people, a lot of people,

have listened to me in the right way. And they come back, and they’re like, I’m totally on board. It happened. It happened. I’m like, it’ll keep going, man, if you keep doing it. But that is it, man. There’s no sun. There’s no glory. There’s no carrot. There’s no victory. But there is all of it in one. I can’t explain it real well to people, man. But what you get at the other end is something that you’re not, you’re always found. You’re never lost anymore. Doesn’t mean the journey’s easy. Doesn’t get any easier, but you’re always found.

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This is my life, man.

Do you know how hard I worked to get here? You pulled yourself up once. I’m sure you can do it again. But if I were you, I might reconsider my attitude moving forward.

My attitude?

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I’d say one of the strongest mental frames that has gotten me through my hardest times is thinking this will be the story that I will one day tell. And that means the harder it is, the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story, and by consequence, the more epic the hero. And if you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen, and losers define themselves by what happened to them. And the difficult part of the lonely chapter is that the rocky cutscene lasts 90 seconds in the movie and lasts 5 years in reality.

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Is that hard times create hard men. hard men create soft times. soft times create soft men. soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times.

We’re. we’re in the time of toxic masculinity, right where you could be toxically male And then if you’re if you’re suppressing masculinity You’re you’re going to bring on hard times you’re going there’s it doesn’t mean masculinity doesn’t mean you’re mean It doesn’t mean you’re angry. It means strength,

it means Disciplined it means the ability like like You need a military and if you don’t think you need a military You need to go and pay attention to the rest of the world because there’s militaries all over the world They’re doing horrific things if you don’t have a military in this country that can combat that and at least Act as a deterrent to them doing things you’re going to get taken over. That’s what’s happened.

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I can extract it immediately when I need to because when you train alone, and I lived alone for so many years in this misery and you’re able to get out by yourself, I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion and purpose. And like, the feeling I get is something I can’t even explain by myself. I don’t need anyone. That’s why people come to me to motivate them. No one can motivate me. I have a resume full of motivation that whenever I’m down, I’m like, oh, hang on, motherfucker. Oh, you know. You know the truth. You know the truth.

You know the darkness of the fucking dungeons and the fucking demons that fly. You know. And then from there, it’s like, okay, you were there. You know this. There was no one there to pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat, to pick up the log, to go in there. It was you. It was you. There was no patting the fucking back at 300, at 275, at 250, at 220. No. That was you.

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You are up on the cards, you’re winning this. You are gonna win this, but just keep smart and keep away from it. He’s going to sleep this time. He’s going out this round.

I should have stopped this one with your father. I’m stopping this one now. Don’t, okay?

Let me finish. I gotta prove it. Prove what? I’m not a mistake.

I’m gonna knock that son of a bitch down.

I know you are. You know why? Because you are Creed and I love you, kid.

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But if you want something bad enough, if you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something. I’ll repeat that. If you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something, not even yourself.

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Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes and it doesn’t matter whether it’s there or not. The discipline is infinitely more important So no matter how you feel Get up and do what you’re supposed to do. That’s it. And that’s discipline. That’s not motivation. If you only did what you were supposed to do when you were motivated to do it, that’s leaving it to chance But if you’re disciplined you go to what you’re supposed to do. That’s the way it works. You know the weekend where you really only had two things to do for the weekend. Whatever it was.

you had to write this thing and you had to answer this other thing, and On Friday you’re like I’ll do it tomorrow, and on Saturday like I’ll do it, And it’s basically hanging over your head the whole weekend, Whereas if you just done Friday afternoon, the whole weekend would have been a lot better. So just do the thing.

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Now listen, man, I’m not trying to say you ought to be that level of an asshole. I can be that level of an asshole because I am and I’m passionate and I give a shit. And if you want to, you should, but I am saying be unreasonable in your expectations. I don’t take shit from anyone. I don’t want you to take shit from anyone like that because you only live one life, right? Your limiting beliefs are going to try and talk shit on you. Like your version 1.0 of yourself, your inner critic, your inner bitch, that bitch voice that we all have at the project.

we call it the inner bitch and the inner beast, which is the critic and the advocate, right? Your beast is your advocate and your inner bitch is your, your, your critic. Your 1.0 version is going to try and negotiate with your 2.0 version and say, no, no, no, don’t evolve. Don’t grow. Don’t change. Become, go back to the loser that you were. Just have another drink. Watch TV for another hour. Eat that fucking ding dong and then chase it down with a Twinkie. Sick mother fucker.

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get him absorbed, just get rid of your own personal ideas and just get in touch again with sometimes what people call is

the flow. if you like, you are getting back into observation state, because in the training there you’re not always in observation state only, there is something you want to achieve so that means you see a goal in front of your eyes, you see something that why with all of this training you want to go through and therefore to balance this out we have the physicality of ourself at the same time merged with the mental exercises.

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But the chances are, you won’t. You won’t need that rest. Chances are, you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. It was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path.

And by simply going through the motions,

you overcame that path. And you stayed on the righteous path, the disciplined path. You stayed on the war path.

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You had to go through a lot of stuff to get to this day. Not only you know what it took to get here, and that’s why you value it. So other people on the outside in may say, oh, Vic, you’re so lucky. You get to do this and you get to be, you know, you have all these followers. You have these people that pay attention to you. You get to do these cool things. Well, yeah, but in your mind, you’re probably still the same kid, you know, with your brother and your other brother and your sister and your dad and your mom. You’re like, no, no, no, you guys don’t know or remember where I came from.

And this is why I value this because I have perspective. I knew where I came from. I knew where I started. Now I appreciate it where I’m at.

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you know, you’re the closest to getting what you want is always the hardest. It’s always the feeling when you’re getting ready to, you know, people give up right before they get what they’ve always wanted to get. People quit and they give up. And I will not be the person who quit before I got what I wanted or what I needed or what I felt I was supposed to have, you know? Like, and if that wasn’t for me, it wasn’t for me. I’m gonna keep grinding, I’m gonna keep knocking on the door until I get what I feel. That’s been something I’ve always felt.

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then dreams do come true. Anything you want can happen and become a reality. I believe that sincerely, and I’ll die on that thought. And I say that not from something I read. That’s from something I lived.

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Winning does not always equate to happiness. It just doesn’t. For I’ve had a lot of individuals that have come to me and just said, this is too intense. I’ll give you a great example. You know, everyone, Kobe’s known for mama mentality. You know, that was his thing, mama mentality. I’ve seen mama, first of all, mama mentality is not a mentality, it’s a lifestyle. That’s the first thing I tell an individual. And once I tell them about the lifestyle, I’ve seen mama mentality destroy more careers than I’ve seen it help. Too intense, too hot.

People want the flame, but they don’t want to touch the fire.

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prepare yourself slowly, step by step, to get out of that hole right now, and i think

there are so many different approaches also out there. i can only tell you the one that is working for us over here, but you have other people that you have also talked to in the past. i think if there is something in common when it comes to people that are not living in these holes,

there’s a reason why you are not in that hole: because you have figured out another way of how dealing with this world. your view has become already a bit more clear about how things are functioning here.

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It causes you to stick about when you should have already moved on or pivoted or changed your approach or something, But because your tolerance for working hard is there, you just continue to press your nose against the grindstone Anyway, next one. An ode to people who don’t believe in themselves. What comes first, belief or action? Do you need to believe that you can do a thing before you can do it? Fake it until you make it is one option, but incredibly hard if you’re introspective and have low self-belief and high standards. So what about make it until you believe it?

Here are some lessons that I’ve learned. You can believe you’re not worthy of a thing and still attain it. You can be adamant that your efforts are going to go badly and still succeed. You can grip and grasp and fear and it ruin the enjoyment and be totally unwarranted and things still go well. You can have no self-belief and show up anyway. You can want more for yourself without knowing exactly what that looks like.

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So as God just passed me, he said, Goggins,

just be average today.

Some of you just don’t understand.

Some of you have been average for so damn long, you don’t know what it is to do hard work.

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If you’re too scared to show up and you sit back at home, wondering what if and everything else, no one in hell is going to call you an opportunity because you weren’t present. The winners always show up. They’re willing to lose in order to gain. Big mental thing there, guys. This body is great as you are, as sharp as you make the arsenal. It can’t do anything if you don’t have confidence in yourself. We all fall down in life. The question is who gets back up? You go after it and you give it all you have. If you lose, at least you try, man. I failed.

It’s ten times more of a man than someone said what if because what if never went to the arena. When you guys find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you. I love fear. The reason why, behind every fear is a person you want to be. Fear is self-imposed, meaning it doesn’t exist. You create it, you can destroy it too. It’s an intangible. It’s a physical thing.

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because you have to want it. You have to want to be better.

And it starts off with you have to have pride in yourself.

You have to have pride in yourself.

You have to have, there’s something about you,

whether it’s your last name,

whether it’s just the smallest thing,

you have to be proud of yourself.

And if you have no pride in yourself,

I can’t give it to you.

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If a bird lands on a branch, does the bird trust the branch or does it trust its wings? And the clue, I’ve seen many birds land on branches, but what I’ve never seen is a branch break and the bird fall and die. Trust your wings. Start with a standard. What you accept, you can’t change. So if you don’t set the standard, the best coaches, the best leaders, right? Think of home plate in baseball, it’s 17 inches. If you play little league baseball, high school baseball, it’s a standard. Coaches don’t widen the plate. You got to play to the standard. And then what you accept, you can’t change.

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So on that journey as I started getting more and more into my mind and start realizing that while what I’m capable of doing My mind got stronger. So the so the pain in my knees While it sucked I’ve been doing it for so long. It was like it became my new norm, like, okay, my knees hurt, Okay, stop. you know, and I call it like I’m stop feeling sorry for yourself. but you sometimes have to ignore your feelings.

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I said, you only feel you got there if you stop there. If you keep going to the next level, you suck at the next level. You’re not doing anything at the next level. So here’s what that example is. Here’s a human being. They’ve reached here. They’re beating most people. They think they’ve reached it. They have no idea that there’s that level there. Because there’s fear. And every time you and I, believe me, I know this from experience. Every time people that tell you, oh my gosh, you’re so amazing. You’re so this. You’re so great. Wow, Patrick. Wow, Johnny. Wow, Steve. Wow, Bobby. Boom.

You believe it. But you’re not there yet. Because you haven’t reached your capacity yet.

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when I’m tired or worn out or just basically sick of the grind. What do I do on those days? I go anyways.

I get it done even if I’m just going through the motions. I go through the motions. I don’t really want to work out. I work out. I really don’t want to hammer on a project. I hammer on the project. Don’t really want to get up and get out of bed.

Yeah, I get up and get out of bed.

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If you face your fears, guys, you will realize it’s not that big. And once you face it, you go, my God, man, I spent all this time running from it. It was so small. If I just faced it, my God, not only did I face it and I beat it back, energy is never lost, transferred. That negative energy, that fear, is destroyed. It comes back and it’s confident. You’re like, what else am I capable of? What else am I capable of? What else am I holding my back from that I’m capable of more? What am I running from when I don’t need to? What else can I overcome? You face your fears.

You become the person you want to be. You run from your fears, you’re not living. You’re alive, but you’re not taking the freedom. You’re not running the day. The day’s running you. You always be the f***ing servant, not the master, guys.

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I made a decision and my decision was to be the best person I could. And I basically, a lot of mornings I wake up and say, fuck your feelings. And that doesn’t mean like, you know, don’t take it literally, fuck your feelings. But sometimes you have to go beyond what you’re feeling. And my knees were fucked, but guess what? I wanted to run. And I knew that, okay, you can get knee replacements, this and that. Like I said, it wasn’t because I ran too much.

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Don’t separate yourself from your family. But there’s a lot of times that your family doesn’t see the same things that you see and the same things that you believe in. They’ve had a certain way of doing things. My family, very supportive, very supportive. But to them, success was working for a institution that you got a paycheck every single two weeks. You got health insurance, you got paid vacation, you got a 401k. That was their definition of success and happiness.

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You can doubt the process,

question your talent, be uncertain that you’re making progress,

disparage your accomplishments,

permanently feel like you’re not working hard enough no matter how hard you work,

never give yourself a break,

fail to fully feel gratitude,

be terrified of never reaching your goals,

and still end up in a place that your 20-year-old self could not imagine you’d ever get to.

Self-belief is overrated.

Generate evidence, says Ryan Holiday.

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Don’t take today off. Not today. Wait until tomorrow. Don’t give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear.

Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

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shift the view. Nobody else at the moment has the power to change you unless you have that initial spark and say I must do something. I don’t want this anymore. Because if somebody is still sitting there and says, no, I want it like this, it doesn’t matter how many videos that person is like watching or how many exercises that person is doing. In order for something new to come something old must go and that old can sometimes mean let go of what you know until now.

Empty the cup and start from the beginning.

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I want to be the standard. I want to be that guy. Every place I went in the military, there was this ethos about how this place is, how we’re going to live, how we’re going to represent ourselves. I walked around and I saw that most people didn’t live up to that ethos. If you go to whatever, whatever company, they have this mission statement on how we want to run our company. I made one for myself on how I want to be. That is why if people can make up a mission statement, an ethos in which they want to live by, make up your own mission statement. What do you want to be in life?

Once you do that, now you can work with somebody to get better. You can work with yourself to get better. Until you know what you want to stand for, you will always just be sitting down. You’ll never stand for anything.

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or it’s when you get fired from your fifth job, you know, when your wife and kids are on your ass because you don’t have support anymore. There comes a fucking day where push comes to shove, where being mediocre, being like average, shit just fucking burns and sucks so much. You can’t deal with it one more day and you get off your fucking ass and you create something that’s always been there. It’s always been inside of you trying to come out.

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The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life. And there are two parts to that. One is getting what you want, so you know how to get it. And the second is wanting the right things, knowing what to want in the first place. I could want to be a, you know, 6’8 basketball player, and I’m not going to get that. So it’s wanting the wrong thing.

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Anything hard in life, once you get through it, it’s like you become a POW. Like how many POWs you know want to go back to POW camp? None. When something sucks so bad in life, this is on this that we’re talking about now, very few people want to go back. They’re happy they graduated.

I realized, I’m the same way. I don’t want to go back. I have to go back. I must go back because that is exactly where all the knowledge of my life exists, was back there in which you exactly were talking about. Well, I didn’t know anything about this, but how I grew a will was constantly doing these things to now, it’s just life. I wake up while it still sucks, it’s just life. You don’t sit back and like, oh my God, like I have days I don’t want to do it, but I know I’m going to do it. I know from years of just doing it.

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When I say you can have it, that’s whatever it is to you. Like, I’m not going to decide for you what it is. Like, for real, like whatever you think you should have, however you think you should live. Like, for me, it’s family. Like, for me, it’s having a phenomenal relationship with my wife, a phenomenal relationship with my creator. Whatever habit is for you, listen to me, you can have it. And not just have it, you can have it in abundance. But listen to me,

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A blade does not become strong. It does not become tempered until it’s been through the fire. Until it’s been through the fire several times. And this is just your first or second time through the fire. And there’s a lot of hammer work that has to take place. And then you’re going to have to go back in the forge again. And it’s hot. And it melts you down. And you’re uncomfortable. And then life is going to pull you out and it’s going to put you on an anvil. And it’s going to hammer on you some more. And you’re going to say, well, am I done yet? Am I a sword for the ages? No. No, you’re not.

You’re not done yet. All right. So just chill. Just chill. Continue to have fun.

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I think of all the time, what regrets would I have? How do I solve them now? Right? And it gave me a freedom that I never realized existed. So if you want something today to fight for, to fight for the person you’re supposed to be, you’re meant to be, fight for that. Fight for the healing that you could be. And then, here’s the cool part. Then, like, when I got to, and listen, I also know how many of you are successful in here. Please, I’m not talking to you like you have nothing, and that’s not what I’m saying. But I want to tell you this evolution, is I got money out of the way,

and I started seeing success, and then when I started becoming a better version of me, I got in better relationships, I was better to my team, I became a better trainer, I became a better human. Then all of a sudden, when I got my own money out of the way, I love that saying when you’re on an airplane, and it says, put your oxygen mask on first, right? Think about that. You put your oxygen mask on first, and then what’s the next thing you do? Then you put it on other people. Once you get your oxygen mask on, then you could say, okay, I’m safe, I’m secure, I’m feeling better.

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I’m defeating my competitors silently where they don’t even know it. They’re out partying. I’m not here getting ahead. I just it.

Invincibility man and a year from now it’s gonna happen like that and who is your future self one year from now? Who is it? Just like everyone’s out of here, . Go party Saturday night. They’re not going to sacrifice I’m like the lone survivor in here You know tonight will be over with two tomorrow. I’ll be stronger for it Another day will go by 365 and then happen so fucking fast Who are you gonna be in a year from now and in a year from now? Does that future person hold regrets or pride? We know that day is coming. We can’t go backwards. We can only go forward.

We know that day is coming What we do right now? We’re unsure, it goes our way.

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The biggest mistake a person can do right now, no matter in which situation you are, is to give up.

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because human beings need to hear this. They need to stop hearing these hacks on this and that. There’s no fucking hack, bro. There’s no fucking hack. Yeah, you may, this and that and saunas and all this shit that they, yeah, it’s great. There is no fucking life hack. To grow that thing, how do you grow it? Do it and do it and do it and do it. That’s the hack. The hack is gonna fucking suck. And that’s what I realized. That’s what I realized.

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And what kill me about people is you think you can give 80%, right? But you expecting to live like the folks that’s giving 120. Like, look at the athletes. Look at the athletes that we consider to be the GOAT. Look at the athletes. Like, look what they’ve accomplished. Look what they have done. Look at the practice they put in. Look at the sweat, blood, tears. Like, look what they’ve been through. And you’re going to have the audacity to say, you want the life that they live, but you don’t want to do what they do? And, okay, and some of you like, but ET, I’m doing it,

but you’re not doing it to the level or the effort. Like, you’re not doing it phenomenally. You average at best. Like, I want to be a millionaire. You can’t handle the $50 you got all doggone in your pocket. You’re making about $4,000, $4,000, $5,000 $5,000 a month, and you can’t, you spending that, like, you can’t manage that. So listen to me. I got, I want to manage. How you going to manage somebody when you can’t manage yourself? And I said it’s going to be easy, but what I’m telling you is you got what it takes to get it done.

So do me a huge favor, make the rest of your life the best of your life.

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That’s why I wanted to come on here today. I didn’t want to come on here and talk about no passion and purpose and how to get the fuck out of bed and how to hit a fucking alarm clock and all this catchphrase bullshit. Because that wasn’t how I lived. That wasn’t how I lived. I lived, I woke up like every human being does and goes, fuck man, I’m a fucking piece of shit today. How the hell is this going to work out for me? And you fight that. And you fight that. You don’t override it. There’s no override button. It’s the conversation in your fucking, in your head. So how do you do that?

We don’t have enough of these conversations about the real conversation that every human being is having. And they have no idea how to get out of it, but they do. It’s that shit right there, man. You gotta build your will. How do you build your will? Exactly what you said, man. Exactly what you said.

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be your age and just embrace the process. And don’t look for what you are supposed to be fully, completely polished, sharpened, edged, tempered at 26 or 36, at 46. You’ve got a lot more forge time left. You’ve got a lot more hammer blows left and it takes time. But if you will patiently embrace the process, then by the time you get up in years, you can be a man that you’re proud of.

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You were scared you’re gonna fail. you’re scared. if you started, you never finish it. You didn’t want to tell anyone about. you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it. until something fucking hits, You get fired or somebody else gets success, remind you what you could have been, and then the fucking spark is born And, no matter what happens, I’m never gonna be in this boat again. And you get up and you go, even against knock down. you keep going, keep going. you a wild man, and life has never been So sweet.

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But you cannot erase the work ethic part. There is no getting around. Ain’t no elevator to the top. You got to take the stairs. The elevator don’t go to the top, man. Not in the world of success. You gotta take the stairs. Y’all gotta start getting gritty, man. I hate it when I see young people wasting their time, wasting all this technology got. Just bull. Just sitting around in this world that’s been created for you that everything is instant.

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Consistency doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be successful, but not being consistent will guarantee that you won’t reach success. You have a productivity hack, an easy productivity hack. Instead of spending time getting in the mood to work, just start working. Confront the work. People think they need perfect conditions to start, when in reality starting is the perfect condition.

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It might be April where you are and you’re expecting nice weather is it was 20 degrees so You might be somewhere where it’s too fucking hot so You might have sore legs sore back sore shoulder so The struggle is real It never gets any easier You got to get harder. I was out yesterday Getting after it Had one of the best runs I’ve had in a long time. PR get bitch. so No one cares what you did yesterday, It only matters doing today. Those who take me literally. so I’m a cheerleader for those who want to be better, Not for those who want to stay the same. Stay hard.

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When you go out and you train hard to play baseball and you connect and you hit the winning home run, you want to feel that way again. When you taste these finer things of life,

all the pain, all the work, all the sacrifice to get them is well worth it. If anything, it’s a small down payment for the price and the reward you got in that feeling. I once felt, how do you ever turn your back on it? Stop running from the potential of what you can be, guys. It’s inside of you, it’s always been there. Grab a buddy of yours, say, man, me and you are gonna fucking do this together. And you’re gonna be on my ass if I start slacking. I’m gonna be on your ass if I start slacking. And I’ll never accept mediocre again. I’m always gonna give it my 110 fucking percent.

That’s the only thing I can ever say a solid day’s work. That’s all that I’ll ever find peace in. If you guys do not do that, I promise you, your life will haunt you for the rest of your days.

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When you do the hard things, you will have a happy and easy life. But if you constantly choose to take the path of easy and negotiate and compromise, you will have a hard life, a hard life that ends with regret. So I’m here to tell you that if you live a no compromise life, if you become unreasonable in your expectations, find a group of fighter jets to belong to and no more fucking crop dusters- you will become the 2.0 that you deserve to become and that your family deserves to have as a leader.

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All the training and sacrifice just flew out of the window with one step that I’ve done millions of times. The frustration is unbearable, the anger is rage. Why the hell did this happen? Makes no damn sense. Now I’m supposed to come back from this and be the same player, or better, at 35? How in the world am I supposed to do that? I have no clue. Do I have the consistent will to overcome this thing? Maybe I should break out of this rocking chair and reminisce on the career that was. Maybe this is how my book ends. Maybe Father Time has defeated me. Then again, maybe not.

It’s 3.30am, my foot feels like a dead weight, my head is spinning from the pain meds and I’m wide awake. Forgive my venting, but what’s the purpose of social media if I won’t bring this to you? No real image. Feels good to vent, let it out, to feel as if this was the worst thing ever. Because after all the venting, the real perspective sets in. There are far greater issues and challenges in the world than a torn Achilles. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, find the silver lining, and get to work with the same belief, same drive, and same conviction as ever.

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If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying. My wife told me this great expression. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. She says, imagine you’re on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential. The ghost of the ideas you never acted on. The ghost of the talents you didn’t use. And they’re standing around your bed, angry, disappointed, and upset. They say we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say. And now we have to go to the grave together.

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Until you have had the taste of finishing, you will not respect yourself.

Until you follow through, until something is done, come hell or high water, tears and struggles and pain. and you go through it anyway and you show up and you continue to fight on, no matter the circumstances. after a while, something begins to wither inside of you.

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And the only way that I can do that is know that when no one’s watching, I work harder than when they’re watching. And thinking about it like that has given me this persistent and ever present scorecard or third party. That’s like, no one’s watching, which means now you have to work because otherwise you’re full of shit. And so it’s this continuous reinforcing cycle of the me and other me holding the whip behind me to see how much I can take. But with each lash of the whip that I take, learning that I can take it and continue to trudge on.

And so as long as you keep going, you bear witness to yourself of what you are capable of. And I find that incredibly satisfying in the trenches of misery when you have to go through it.

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So I’ve been grinding lately. Had to go back to the f***ing lab. Readjust some s*** in my brain. Put a lot of miles in. Every day, run over 20 miles a day. Getting up early. Going to bed early. Eating the right s***. This last week, started taking a toll on me. I usually don’t think too much. Get my shoes on, head the f*** out. I’ve been thinking a lot. That internal voice has been talking to me. Talking about, oh man, you’re tired. Looking at my shoes about 30 minutes before I put the motherf***ers on. Pushing back the time that I go out to go run. So I decided to tape record myself.

That internal voice I put on tape. Sounded like a straight b***h when I listened to that motherf***er. So if you ever have a hard time out there, tape yourself. Listen to what kind of b***h you’re being. Stay hard.

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Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future. Now some unions would argue with us on this, that’s my papa’s seminar in a sentence. Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.

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You don’t see fucking problems anymore, man. Uh-uh. You see situations. You see possibilities. And you can’t wait to get them started, man. You’re like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn’t matter about the past. It’s today. What are we doing today? What are we going to engage now? And once we engage, we commit. There’s no half commitment. There’s no quarter commitment. There’s no three quarter. It’s full commitment. Once we engage, it’s every fucking day we engage. Because that’s the better life. And the people you surround yourself with are like-minded. And they’re better friends.

Friends and family for life, man. They have your back. They’re solid individuals doing solid tasks, leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That’s a fucking solid life, man.

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Friends and family for life, man. They have your back. They’re solid individuals doing solid tasks, leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That’s a fucking solid life, man.

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The man who never fell, the man who never fell has no glory. The man who fell and got back up, that’s where his glory is. The man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times, that man has even greater glory. Wow. That man has more courage, way more courage than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never fell. There’s no glory in that. You know, it’s not. And so I just, you know, I just try to encourage guys to say, hey, we’re humans, but we have inside of us, we have a courage and we have a determination and we can have a strength and a gentleness at the same time. And that’s our glory.

Our glory comes from our faults, accomplishing what we accomplish in spite of our faults. And without the faults, there is no glory because there’s no victory.

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When you have emotional maturity, you realize that some days you’re not going to sleep well, some days you’re going to wake up and you’ve got your schedule and everything’s planned out and the poop hits the fan, you got to eat those sandwiches, right? And whether things go well or not that day, the emotionally mature man will still do what he has to do to stack his wins, to focus on his purpose. Whereas the emotionally immature man will say, well, I didn’t sleep well. I had nightmares. So I’ll stay in bed. I didn’t sleep well, or it’s raining outside. It’s cold outside. I don’t feel good.

The, I just woke up and the airplanes hit the world trade center. So I guess I have to change my pattern of life. You have to stay the course no matter what. And it takes a high level of emotional maturity because your emotions dictate your motion, like what you’re going to do. And so if you have emotional maturity, you’re more likely to lean into discipline when things are sub optimal. If you lack emotional maturity, then how you feel determines what you do next, which is very damaging to outcome driven humans.

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We can learn from past regrets to ensure we don’t re-regret them. To ensure we don’t go out tonight. If we stay in here, even if no one else is here, and you know push you a little bit further, there’s still work to be done. The party I might smile at tonight, the laughter I might be had tonight, is a huge distant second. To the fucking pride one feels of accomplishing their goals. And here, even though it’s painful, it’s joyful, because I can taste it, I see it clear, I’m closer to it. A year will come with great honor, not great regret.

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If you find a fear, the quickest, the easiest way you can beat it is initially, right when it comes in. If you allow it to sit, it will grow roots and start breaking you down, destroying the potential of the person you can be. Again, the champions, guys, it’s not their potential, it’s not their genetics. It’s their perseverance to always show up, always willing to fail, because then failure, that’s part of success. Success is not a marathon of life of just ups. Success is formulated through failures, through facing your fears, through falling down and getting back up.

That’s what creates the champion. Success does not define us. We define the success.

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But there’s a lot of you out there who want to be much more than average But just don’t know how to do it every single day the grind You need to find someone to oil those fucking gears up So check it out This is a mindset. Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s not But there’s a motherfucker out there who wants what you have Who wants the position you are who wants the job you have who wants the wife that you have or the husband? There’s someone out there hungry and wants everything you can have Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s not, but if it is, It’s gonna be your ass. So make that a motivation for you.

stay hard.

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A lot of days I’m like, oh, you can’t do this, Tom. You can’t be as quick as a 30-year-old on the computer. Bullshit! Let me show you, man. I would have arguments with myself. I could do it. People doubted me. I doubted myself sometimes, too. But you know what? I watched Arnold fall down. Nobody remembers when he fell down. When he was, you know, Arnold wasn’t the glorified winner as he was in the first 70 through 75. He got up. I become a famous film star. He became governor. He kept getting up and getting up. I saw Trump do the same thing.

I saw a lot of these guys I admired in business do it.

And that’s what it takes. To do anything successfully in life, you’ve got to want it as bad as you want to breathe. And if you want it that bad, if you’re willing to give it that much, you get a big piece of what you want.

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You want that attitude to permeate the people that you’re competing against you want them to give in to their mind You want them to say? Oh, it’s too hard. I can’t do it. but you want to be the one that says: fuck it, I’m gonna do it anyway. I know I don’t feel good today, But I’m gonna go out there and I’m gonna prove to myself that even on days that it doesn’t feel right, I push myself. the only way to gain confidence in yourself is to build something. It’s not to wait for it to happen. Hey Vic your life just happened in front of you. I just show up today and make it happen. Tom- No,

you had to do a lot of shit today to get to this day that no one really knows except you. So that’s why you appreciate it.

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We are overcoming the suffering. We are not running away from the suffering. You are overcoming it. You go through it until you have become so strong. Your body becomes so strong. Your mind has become so strong that it doesn’t matter afterwards anymore. You feel it, but it’s not the same like you felt before. So therefore, how to translate this into our nowadays lifetime? Maybe it means we need to make us stronger again. Very simply said, this society is too weak. And why? Because of all the technology which is available right now. So you don’t need to use your body anymore.

I always think about in the stone ages,

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Now, being mentally strong should actually lead you to being physically strong because if you are mentally strong,

then you can work and train to become physically strong.

But if you’re mentally weak,

then you will not hold the line on the good foods and the good workouts and you won’t get physically strong or healthy.

So, can you be weak and strong at the same time? Yes, but I say be strong.

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Well, the opportunity takes place usually when you’re young and you don’t have any responsibility Though that’s when you have your options. Well, your options are severely limited the more you gather Responsibilities, like if I had, as a 51 year old father of three, Married man, pays taxes, has a house and a mortgage and a business and all that jazz. If I had to quit everything now and struggle the way I struggled as a stand-up comedian, It would never work. but the only way I could be this person now is if I took that chance when I was 21,

when I was Dead, broke and had my cars repossessed and all that stuff. That’s the only way you you ever get where you want to go. You have to. you have to take a path. It’s dangerous and most people want to take the safe path and the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet Desperation almost every time. it’s hell.

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So there’s a lot of pockets of weakness nowadays. And we try to fill those pockets with lies. I did it for many years. So I’m out here in Colorado for a conference. And I go to the gym, and this trainer calls me over to talk to this group of people he’s training. He says, hey, man, what are you doing out here? So I tell him. He says, what kind of workouts are you doing? I said, well, one workout I’m doing, I’m climbing up this mountain 3,000 feet, 3 miles. Because I do that every day. So the next day, I’m out looking for him. Didn’t see him. Couple days later, looking for him. Didn’t see him.

So here I am on the mountain again, climbing it. And there’s a gondola that takes you up, takes you down. I’m going up it. I see a gondola. I’m about five minutes from the top. I look up at the gondola. I see him, face pressed up against the window, looking at me, our eyes meet. It’s called the look, when you take a mother fucker’s soul. Don’t talk about it. Be about it. Practice what you preach.

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Two years People were telling me I was the best bodybuilder in the country. I did then win the British Championship to be To get the pro status. So it was not something where I wanted to attract the girls or I wanted to Be stronger to protect myself because I was already okay. This was not the motivation the motivation was To change my life because what I see around me is not for me. I don’t want to have a normal job I don’t want to be unemployed. I don’t want to Get a wife and a kid and a small house and a job and normal life,

Whatever whatsever is normal, but that’s the average existence Was not for me. I know I was gonna do something different and I knew I had to put like my heart and soul Into this bodybuilding I had to change my life. I had to. I didn’t want to, I had to. it was my destiny.

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And it’s not about going out and lifting weights and getting a bunch of tattoos and wearing leather jackets and walking around with your chest and shoulders up, hulking around saying, I’m dangerous. That’s very rarely is that a dangerous man. Often the most dangerous man in the room is the quietest man in the room. When we were in Wyoming, um, this last trip, I was talking to the neighbor behind me, he, the manager of all this, uh, grazing land, ranch land, and across the road, he had just, he and his wife had just a few head of sheep, not, not very many, 10 or 12.

And we were talking about, and he was talking about this is here and this is over here. And he said, nah, I don’t, I don’t recommend you go over and, and, uh, check out the sheep. He had one of those, he has one of those great Pyrenees dogs over there. He said, that dog doesn’t know you. And, and he might, he might eat you up, uh, protecting those sheep.

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When I found you in that jail,

you were lost. But I believed in you. I took away your fear, and I showed you a path. You were my greatest student. It should be you standing by my side, saving the world. I’ll be standing where I belong. Between you and the people of Gotham.

No one can save Gotham.

Comes down by one of the very people they were trying to help. Create enough hunger, and everyone becomes a criminal. Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself, and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job. This time, no misguided idealists will get in the way. Like your father, you lack the courage to do all that is necessary. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.

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Perseverance will always override potential, always override genetics. And perseverance isn’t this marathon of life. It’s not this long race that we have to pursue. It’s a lot of short races, back to back to back. Every day we get up and we fight for it. And we plant those seeds in the ground on what we want to bear fruits on. So what I got here, guys, is 20 exercises you probably haven’t seen before. All these exercises are going to move and shake and create those opportunities we want. If you want to go through the pain here, if you want to sacrifice today,

that sweat equity today for tomorrow’s betterment, meaning you’re willing to plant that seed on fertile ground of something that you want to see, you know, blossom and your fruits of your labor that you can harvest later. It begins today, guys. You must be that person now that you want others to remember you by later. Abba Salt, get ready.

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The biggest thing you have to do is shut off technology. You have to go dark. Remember about that is you have to be quiet in your mind. Get away from people. We love being around people. We love talking. We love parties. We love all that shit. It’s okay to be alone. It’s also okay to be unhappy. It’s okay to be unhappy sometimes, man. It’s okay to say, you know what, man? I’m fucked up. So you gotta go to the truth first. Who are you? Get really accountable and say, okay, who am I? What’s the truth about me? Get to that dark place in your mind.

Figure out, it may take months, it may take years. Figure out your purpose. Figure out what you wanna be in life.

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Can you be Weak but strong at the same time. Yes, you can. You can’t because you can be. For instance, you can be physically strong But at the same time you could be mentally weak or you could be the opposite. You could be mentally weak but at the same time, physically strong. and I would love to be able to put a priority on one of those. and- And I know I’ve said before that Knowledge is the most important thing. But the reality is, if you don’t have the strength or actually the health To back that up or even to function as a human being physically,

then your knowledge and your mental strength Doesn’t really even matter. that comes into play. and being big and strong is also totally useless if You’re mentally weak and you quit.

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You know, I really don’t have regrets. I’m a person that says, you know As soon as you look back in your history and you come up with something that you feel like you want to change Something else has to change, you know, so What about your biggest disappointment? Once again, that’s the same same analogy, you know disappointment to me to win you got to lose To be successful. You got to have something that’s Not successful. To be happy, you got to have this appointment.

so I think all of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and Understand the benefits and the privileges I have for being who I am.

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Everybody’s on their own path and I don’t want to judge someone for wanting to be free and easy I just want you to understand that there’s a cost to that and the cost that you’re going to have that isn’t going to come Until later. All right So really the truth is most people need to shut the fuck up and focus on that version of themselves They want to become and actually be willing to become it and that’s what’s ultimately going to create the fulfillment that you’re looking for It’s not gonna be your cold plunge.

It’s not gonna be your morning routine. It’s not gonna be your journaling, It’s not gonna be your grounding. It’s not gonna be your granola lunch. It’s not gonna be you living in the van, It’s not gonna be your therapy.

It’s gonna be the work that you can do to become that version of yourself, That is the exact version that you know you’re supposed to become, and then being proud of it. that’s what’s going to create the fulfillment that you’re searching for, and all of this other shit is Just band-aid shit to try and fix something that you know is a real problem in yourself.

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I need to make peace with it and there is no shame to admit that you’re afraid because there is no courage without fear. And when I made peace with that, it changes everything in my life because I made peace and I said it to even in my openness, like, yeah, I’m scared of you, but no matter what, I’m gonna freaking walk the walk on Saturday night and there’s nothing you can do. And the way you counter fear, whether you’re a fighter, an entrepreneur, or whatever, it’s with the preparation. The more well you prepare,

the more you will build up your confidence. And if you have confidence, remember, confidence is not the absence of fear. It’s knowing that you have what you need in order to succeed.

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Honestly, looking back on my life, it’s almost like a movie that played out that was predetermined. Deep down, I knew this was gonna happen. I knew that I was destined for something different.

And that was the motivation. Change my life. Get out of this, everything what’s around me. I don’t want it. And for me, this was a huge motivation. Do or die, really, this is not for me. And this is what I’m supposed to do. This is what I’m good at. And I love doing it.

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Started getting the idea that that was weakness, and now When you see someone that is in control and even when bad things are happening there, you know, they’re standing stoically saying, okay Let me take another look at that and I’ll get it done. You know, I mean, they’re just okay then you realize okay This guy is really unflappable, which is a lot more impressive. Yeah. so Again, you got to be able to detach from this and You know, I like to take pride in the fact that I’m gonna keep my cool no matter what happens.

and definitely once I was in that once you’re in the seal teams You definitely want to be that guy that’s keeping you’re keeping you cool No matter what’s happening whether it’s people are doing the wrong thing or you just want to be the guy that’s hey, okay Come back over here. We need to redo this. You just want to be that guy That’s way more impressive than the guy that says: I can’t believe this. don’t be that person.

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Okay, I have my purpose.

It may take a long time. No one knows their purpose,

because it’s too loud.

Find your purpose.

From there, all right, you got to start planning.

People love the planning phase, because it’s very comfortable.

Then from the planning phase, you got to go to execution.

So the execution phase is what we all hate,

because that’s where the real work begins, and that’s when the failure happens,

and the failure, and the failure.

So, but you know,

that’s kind of how you have to do it. Yeah.

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You have to have a plan and you have to spend all your waking hours, outside of whatever shit job you do, Planning your escape, and you have to come to the realization, very clearly that you fucked up and you got yourself stuck. So, whatever you’re doing, you have to Do it like your life Depends on it, and whether it is you’re trying to be an author, and you’re gonna, you’re gonna. if you’re gonna Try to be an author and you’re working eight hours a day, plus commuting, plus family responsibilities or whatever else you have,

Whatever time that you have you have to attack like you’re trying to save the world. You’re trying to save your life You don’t want to drown that one and a half hours a day that you have to write Goddamn, you better be caffeinated and motivated. You got to go, you got to get after it and you got to have discipline. That’s most people don’t have those things. Most people don’t understand what it’s like to to really go for something And to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific. You

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Don’t wear your reputation, don’t wear your accolades, don’t wear your personality on your sleeve. Let it happen. Let it be you. It is who you are. Don’t hide from it. But don’t wear it and rub it in people’s faces. So when you sit there and you say, well, in 1990 or 2005 they voted me as the best or the most popular athlete, well, it’s ironic that I’m the youngest of the three. So in essence, it’s all relevated on who is watching now. If you ask 20 years from now, I’m pretty sure LeBron may beat me, you know, based on who’s going to be making the voting.

So I take, I say that to say, to understand that.

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A good analogy is if I talk to young students at school, I’m telling them: if you have an exam Friday and you study very hard, yes, you will still be afraid Friday, the day of the exam, but you have the right to be confident, to walk in there with confidence, even though you’re afraid. But if you have not studied, you will be afraid, but you don’t have the right to be confident because you know you didn’t do the work, you didn’t put in the work. And confidence, whether you’re a fighter, an entrepreneur, whatever you do,

even in any situation, even if you go ask a girl on a date, confidence, whatever you do, it’s the most important thing. One of the most important thing. You need the skills, the preparation and the confidence.

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So what I started doing was I went back to the old school. Like I said, nothing is learned at the top of a mountain. I had to go back to where David Goggins was fat in his mind. And I said, how did you get to where you are? I became feelingless.

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A lot of you are trying to find inspiration and motivation with a depressed mindset. You’re depressed because you’re not doing it with yourself. You don’t find inspiration by not living in the grip of life. You need to live in the grip of life to find inspiration. Put challenges in front of yourself. When you put a challenge in front of yourself and you attack it, that’s when you find inspiration. Try to be 10% better than you were last week. So if you’re running 30 miles a week, run 33. If you’re swimming 500 meters, swim 550.

If some of you aren’t doing it, you’re 10% is just getting off the fucking couch. The more you walk away from accountability, the weaker you become. Find yourself in the grip of life. You can’t find yourself by doing nothing.

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And one thing that everybody has to overcome to be able to do this is, am I going to do what I feel like doing, or am I going to choose to do the things I need to do to accomplish the goal and the vision that I have? This is a huge hurdle for everybody. Because how many times have you heard somebody say, I don’t feel like doing that? It doesn’t matter what you feel like. You got to make choices and decisions based on what you want to accomplish and what you want to do. You got to be committed to it and it’s got to be important to you if you’re able to do that.

The other thing that people get affected by so much is, are you able to focus on the vision that you have, or are you going to get affected by the circumstance that you’re in all the time?

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You’ve got to have a purpose no matter what you do in life. You’ve got to have a purpose. So that’s rule number one, have a vision. Rule number two is don’t listen to the naysayers. Everything I ever did, the thing that I heard out of people’s mouth was, that’s impossible. That can’t be done, or no. I remember when I wanted to be a bodybuilding champion, including my parents and everyone else around me, said this is impossible. Why don’t you become a ski champion? That’s what they do in Austria, or a bicycle champion, or do some track and field. You can’t be a bodybuilding champion.

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There’s no combatant, true combatant,

that has never gotten to the point where there’s nothing left.

When there’s no physical strength left. When there’s no energy left. When there’s no speed left. When there’s no joy left in that fight.

All they have left is the will to get back up again.

And they don’t know how they’re gonna pick their fist up. They don’t know how they’re gonna move their feet. They don’t know how they’re gonna take another swing. They don’t know if they’re gonna be able to get up when that next punch hits them in that fight.

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I think people now, they don’t like hard work. They want to have the result. Yeah. But they don’t want to take the journey. And it’s the journey which makes you, not the result. It’s the journey which strengthens you when you push yourself to the limits and you push yourself to the limits and you find out about yourself and you become stronger because you overcome, you overcome, you overcome and you build strength. I don’t see that in a lot of kids these days. Everything’s too easy, too accessible and there’s almost too much information where everyone wants the technical information.

Yeah, okay, I can give it to you. But you got to work hard. There’s no way to go around this. There’s no magic tricks. You’re going to work hard. You’re going to push yourself. You’re going to be sweating. You’re going to be in pain if you want to be successful. And that’s the very thing, not just bodybuilding, everything, life, everything is too easy now. People are weak.

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Show you or reveal to you that your temper is about to be lost. What are they? Is it you clench your fists right? Is it you raise your voice and you start doing doing that stuff? Do you start to heavy breathing? Do you? Flare your nostrils, right? Because that’s an animal thing where you’re gonna take in more oxygen So you open up the nostrils because you’re about to get after it Do you you know use your does your your head? You know shaking or whatever you just like these things. What is it?

What indicators do you have when you know that you’re starting to feel that and as soon as you feel that? You you detach you go. Oh, that’s what that is. That’s an indicator and it’s a weakness. Mm-hmm, and I don’t like weakness, So I’m not gonna allow it.

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I have to cap my success because for me to help people out, I can’t just say I did it once and I’m good. I have to continue to reinvent the wheel of the mind and figure out more and more ways for you to pull because if I have a cookie cutter message, it may hit five people out of 25. You just failed. My message needs to be in a way where I can hit all 25 people. It needs to be broad enough to where all 25 people may not like the message, but they’re getting something from it. And that is evolution. You must continue to evolve.

And you don’t evolve for me in my job unless I cap myself somewhere and say, okay, you made this much money, get back to work. It’s time to get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk, get off the podcast, don’t be on social media too much, cut out all the noise, get back to the mental lab because that’s where the knowledge came from.

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The bar for excellence has never been so low. Most of your competition quits after the first sign of difficulty because they’ve never known what hard feels like. If it’s hard for you, it’s hard for everyone. And most people avoid hard things. Which is why you can beat most people by just trying.

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The guy that gets out and explores, right, what’s going to happen is he’s going to be in a situation where he’s like the baddest of the bad, you know, he’s the top dog, you know, and he’s going to cruise through those spots of life. But then in other portions of life where he isn’t, he’s a small man on a totem pole where he has to really up his game to even survive. Well that shock, that forcing of changing that situation forces him to evaluate what his strengths and weaknesses are so he can apply effort into what his weaknesses are to grow that chain,

that link, improving that chain of life and stronger. That’s what’s going to happen. Even though both brothers have the genetic capability of achieving both, the guy who’s traveling is going to be more closer to reaching his full potential than the person who’s sitting at home because the person at home is only going to be challenged by his immediate surroundings. So that potential will only rise up to a level by the competing potential. Where the guy that’s traveling, the potential’s all over the place, so I mean it challenges.

So he has to grow and reach his max potential, not the max potential of the environment, his max individual potential.

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When I was going through training, we had to carry these heavy-ass boats on our heads. We had six people carrying these boats. The heaviest part of the boat was in the front, so those weaker people would always look for the very back of the boat. The back of the boat is where the boat would barely be touching your head. We had a name for it. We called it ducking boat. A lot of people put their head down, crouch under it, so that boat wouldn’t be breaking your f***ing neck. A lot of people in life out here are riding the back of the boat. They’re ducking that f***ing weight.

They’re part of a team, but you’re the weakest person in that team, and everybody knows you’re ducking the boat. You don’t want that boat to touch your head. You don’t want it to hurt your neck, but you want to be part of the team, but you don’t want to do any f***ing work. In life, it’s important to not always draft. Sometimes you got to lead and block the f***ing wind. Stay hard.

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You want to get through that moment? Nod your head slowly in the affirmative. Right? So when someone’s telling me something that’s making me mad, I’ll just slowly nod my head. Like I understand, this is the way things are. I accept this. And this is, I’m calculating what my next move is gonna be. And then you know, you see, whatever. Guys will count to 10. You know, you tell your little kids that. Tell your little kids when they start losing their temper, you know, you need to count to 10. Count to 10, count to 100, count to 1,000, whatever it is you gotta do and get control.

Because like I said, if you’re losing control, it’s not strength, it’s weakness.

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We agreed not to drink, we didn’t do drugs, like we didn’t date, we didn’t do anything. We just literally obsessed from the time we woke up to the time we went to bed. That’s literally all we did. It’s wild, like I’ve told this story before, but for people who didn’t listen to our other podcasts, like one day I literally got up and we had an 18 hour Skype call, and then I went to bed, and that’s all I did. And we were just tearing apart YouTube videos, studying trends and stuff like that. I don’t even know how I got food.

Like pretty sure I was just ordering food so I didn’t even have to leave my house so we could keep working.

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So they get up, they get up. And do they look triumphant? No. Do they look all shiny faced? No. Do they walk around in tailored suits talking about their, their, uh, private aircraft? No. Do they talk about their private collection of cars and their $50,000 watches? No. They look like hell. They feel like hell. But they fight like hell. We all do.

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What the hell are we all waiting for to start attacking life? Waiting for the f***ing stars to align? Back when I was growing up, the song came out. All I need is a miracle. Well, guess what? That miracle ain’t coming. There is no perfect time to start. You gotta start now with changing your life. We’re all being tested in life. And guess what? This is one test you can’t cheat on. We all have our own test. Some of us are obese. Some of us are depressed. Some of us are insecure. In the military, we had this big old rucksack on the back. Had batteries, water, extra gear.

Your extra gear is the s*** you’re dealing with in life. And the only way to overcome it is for you and you alone to face it. You have to do your best work when you’re least motivated. So those days you don’t want to do it, guess what you gotta do? You gotta suck it the f*** up and do it. Stay hard.

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If I’m running on a treadmill and I get to mile nine and I get complete cramp in one of my legs and I know I’ve told myself I’m gonna run 10 kilometers today. He goes, I will have to limp the last mile even if no one’s watching because I can’t let the demons in. And if I let the demons in, they’ll show up in the 11th round of a championship fight when there’s 50,000 50,000 people watching me in the audience. And I know deep in myself story that I’m the type of person that quits when things get hard because I got off that treadmill at mile nine when no one was watching.

It would modify myself story. The commitments we keep to ourself and what we do when no one’s watching is the most persuasive evidence that governs everything we then do every day thereafter.

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what would you tomorrow want you today to do? You tomorrow would want you to keep that promise to yourself. And it’s why discipline is so much more valuable. I remember this conversation between Jocko Willink and Sam Harris six years ago, and they’re talking about how you can’t fake bravery because if you do a thing in spite of being scared of doing the thing, that is bravery. There’s no such thing as fake bravery. Like you just, if you do the thing and you’re scared, that’s bravery. If you don’t do the thing and you weren’t scared, that’s not bravery, right?

The same thing goes for discipline. Doing the thing in spite of not wanting to do the thing is discipline, right? You don’t need motivation to get yourself up to go and do a thing. Make the promise small, build it up step by step. Know that you are going to have setbacks. And this is my favorite rule from James Clear, which is a habit missed once is a mistake. A habit missed twice is the start of a new habit. Never miss two days in a row.

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I think it’s my strongest point, it’s my mind. Piers, the numbers, they don’t lie. If you see during the last 15 years, my level is always kind of the same. So, effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough anymore. And if you’re not dedicated 100%, you’re not going to reach the level that you want.

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And sometimes all the voices are telling you the wrong shit, man. But through years, years, not a podcast or listening to a book or reading a book, years of sacrifice, of suffering, of diligent pinpoint fucking work on what you want to do for yourself. Not like, oh, let me just do a bunch of shit. Let me, I want to be in every task possible. No. Pinpoint what I want to do with my life. What happens is you have all these voices that are telling you you’re fucked up and this is gonna be hard,

but for some reason you put so much practice into you that you can ignore every one of them that are telling you you’re not gonna fucking make it. And still be able to fucking make it. Because you have put the practice in that you know this is the process.

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I think the vast majority of people don’t actually know what it looks like to put tremendous effort into something. And I think one of the most valuable things that the office, which now you’re going to have, has given me is the people who now work in my proximity. One of the number one things that I get back as feedback is like, I really didn’t understand how much he works and like he doesn’t stop. And it’s easy to say these things and it’s hard to actually because one of the difficulty especially the vast majority of successful people have one thing in common, which is they’re consistent.

And consistency you cannot see in a snapshot.

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I want you to think of our entire history of me always winning and you always losing. And when you finish doing that, you’ll realize that it doesn’t really matter what you do because whatever it is, it’s going to be the wrong decision. See, that’s exactly what I was talking about. All I had was 10 high.

Not only did you lose, but you have to sit here on tilt for the rest of the night while I take the rest of your money. Because like I said, poker isn’t about playing the odds. It’s about playing the man. I have to say, that was impressive. Well, Steven, I didn’t beat him to impress you. I beat him because that’s what I do. I don’t follow orders. I don’t bend a knee. I win.

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A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control. And you also see that, like one of the central female stories, let’s say, if the hero archetype is the central male story. There are variants of hero archetypes that are relevant to women, and one of them is beauty and the beast. And beauty isn’t interested in the guy who isn’t the beast. She’s interested in the guy who’s the beast, and that’s exactly right. But she’s interested in the guy who’s the beast that can be civilized and disciplined,

and who can use that in the service, well, let’s say, of a family. And that’s exactly how it should be.

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It’s raining outside, it’s cold outside, when you don’t want to put those long hours in at work, that’s what I’m talking about, your feelings must go away. When you know everybody’s gone home to their families, but you want to be the top salesperson in the world, or you want to be the best lawyer in the world, whoever the fuck it is, when everybody leaves to go home, and there’s only one light on in a building, a 15-story building, and only one office, every office is fucking dark. There’s one office with one light on, and as those motherfuckers go from the club,

they look up every day, two o’clock in the morning, and that fucking light’s always on. That’s the motherfucker right there you got to be. You can’t have feelings about when everybody leaves, oh man, I wish I was going home to my beautiful family. That is true, but you got to learn to shut your feelings off if you want to achieve greatness.

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That most men live lives of quiet desperation. It’s one of my favorite quotes ever because it’s true and I’ve been that guy You just you’re just in this world where you just can’t wait to just run away And how do people get stuck there?

How do you think they get stuck there bills? Bills like financial bills.

Yeah, bills and commitment.

You have an apartment you have to pay for. you have a car you leased, you have a wife that you have to feed, You have a child you have to raise, you have to. You have your mortgage, you have you this, you have you that,

and that’s where it all comes from.

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I want to be able to go through a day or go through a week not worrying about what I got to do Wednesday, what I got to do Thursday, what I got to do because I never enjoy Monday. I want to be able to, you know, and sometimes I surprise the shit out of myself saying, look, I got nothing to do today. Oh, I got nothing to do tomorrow. I got nothing to do on Wednesday. That to me is ultimately retirement. You know, that’s where I want to be. And if I choose to get involved in things, then, hey, you know, I want to go to Charlotte and I want to see what’s happening with the team.

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N equals X. And it’s like, and if I want 10X, I do 10N. I’m like, great, then can we do 1000N? Like, I just want to do as much of that as a humanly possible. But when we, like, I love competitors who like optimizing because I always see it as a weakness, because it’s so easy to exploit. It’s like, oh, you need your eight hours of sleep, or you need your morning routine. Or if you don’t have your supplements, you’re just totally fucked. Or like I didn’t have my coffee this morning, so I can’t function. Like, I love to compete against people like that, because they’re so easy to break.

It’s fragile. Yeah. And so what happens is the optimizations become superstition.

It’s more important to own your weaknesses. You got to really triple down on those, man. Because why? You want to become a full human being. We like to run away from weaknesses. Like, for instance, if you’re good at running, all you want to do is run. If you’re great at reading, you have several books. But we don’t do those things that we’re not good at. So for me, I realized, man, like, I keep on running away from these things I’m not good at. I have to dive into these things. I have to become one with these things. And that’s what happened. And so I own them both.

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A person’s strengths are often their biggest weaknesses. And so that also means that their weaknesses can be their strengths.

So, me, I am weak. In all those ways that I listed, I am weak,

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What I say about body language, your body has a language of its own. And the faster you can learn that and learn how your body’s working and get in sync with it, the faster it’s telling you what it wants to do. It’s telling you, hey man, don’t work me today. I’m just too tired. You’re over-training me. Or I need more food. Or this or that. It has a language of its own. If we can learn that language and apply what we know education-wise on how the body works, combine those efforts and back-end it with desire, we’re going to achieve any goal we want. But these guys?

so what I say about proper form is that if you’re not feeling the muscle burning, if you don’t feel that pump, then you’re not working it, man. You’re really not working it. And you guys are like, oh, I’ll just put more weight on it. I’ll start throwing stuff up. And the whole time you’re just growing more and more of the problem. You know, that added proportion look. That weak point training, it’s only weak because you’re not hitting it. That’s why it’s weak because you’re not hitting it as much as the other portions of our body.

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Do you think somebody in the Stone Ages had depression?

Or even a more modern variation, the Spartans.

Do you think they had depression?

Maybe you are laughing,

but all of these groups, they are too busy with their body,

they are too busy with activity to be depressed.

But nowadays, how does the time look?

You can sit if you want, from morning till evening, just in front of the screen.

And nothing is going to happen anymore.

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Once again, not every message I have is for everybody. So as weak or soft people out there, who want to pick apart the messages, just tune it out. Life ain’t about medals. Ain’t about f***ing certificates. It ain’t about houses, money, cars, fame, all that bulls***. It’s about scars. So when you get judged, when everything is said and done with, you won’t get judged on your medals. You get judged on your scars. Those scars show your willingness to get to the other side. They show your failures. They show your willingness to start from scratch.

They show what you’re willing to do to go the distance, to see what you’re capable of. So make sure in life, don’t be afraid to get scars. Stay hard.

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Some days I win,

Some days I don’t,

But each and every day I get back up and I move forward with my fists clenched toward the battle,

toward the struggle, and

I fight with everything I’ve got to overcome those weaknesses and those shortfalls and those flaws,

as I strive to be just a little bit better today

Than I was yesterday.

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I am not like everybody else. I don’t want to be like everybody else. I have something inside which is burning. And I look around and this life and everything I see is not for me. I’m supposed to be something different. I have to be something different. And I’m gonna change my life with bodybuilding. I don’t know exactly how it’s gonna change, but I can continue down this road with the and be a criminal or not. And I have something else. The other guys, maybe they don’t have something else. I have something here and I want to do this.

And hey, maybe I can be like, I don’t know, a British champion one day. Maybe I can have my own gym. This was how I started, you know, and then quickly I got very successful.

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You have to learn to cap success. So what I do is, like right now, I don’t like doing podcasts. There’s a lot of things I don’t do that I have to do now to get the message out there to help people out. And what I mean by capping success, I believe everybody should live their life. So everything that someone says in life, take it with a grain of salt. Take what they give and don’t be like, oh, David Goggins said this or whoever said this. No. No. Do not take what I say and do exactly what I say.

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Everybody wants these abs in life, right? Everybody wants a six-pack, because in this world, man, image is everything. If you got abs, it means you’re in shape. But, you know, you gotta go after and make that happen. That opportunity doesn’t just present itself. Opportunities don’t come knocking on the door. They present themselves when you knock the f***ing door down. So today, we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna start planting the seeds of the harvest that we’re gonna bear fruits of later. It doesn’t just happen one day.

You don’t just wake up with abs every day, but it comes every single day, man. It’s called perseverance. Every day, showing up, hitting your f***ing dues. It’s not gonna happen one day. We just wake up and have them, man. You gotta earn that, you gotta take what’s yours. You can’t expect someone to give it to you. Progression, man, is a key to happiness. Always in a progressive state of progress. You stop progressing and start moving towards progress, then all of a sudden, you lose purpose in life. When you’re always moving forward and having a belief in something, then all of a sudden,

what you’re doing actually has purpose. And that makes it very valuable.

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Welcome to the death of the age of reason. There is no right or wrong. Not anymore. There’s only being in, and then being out.

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One doesn’t expect to get from life what one has already learned it cannot give. Rather, one begins to see that life is a kind of sowing time and harvest is not yet here.

He was just a humble preacher’s son. And yes, he had his demons, but they never stopped him from searching for beauty.

Because when you find beauty, you find inspiration.

If that is, you stay as determined as Vincent. Never stop, no matter how many failures. When you know you’re doing what you’re meant to do, you have to try.

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the life you want is on the other side of a few hard conversations and you’re living a life you hate because you’re too afraid to have them.

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A lot of people make decisions to end relationships, to quit their job, to start the new thing, but they don’t become committed to the decision until they remove the other options, and then you’re forced to take action on it. And so I think actually defining those two different things, now you could define decision as to kill off, like decadere from Latin. But from a colloquial thing, I think there are two different instances. It’s like, I need to change this and then I do change it. And the making the decision is when it becomes a commitment.

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You feel like you’re alone, Will? What? Do you have a soulmate? What? Define that. Somebody who challenges you. Chuckie? No, Chuckie’s family. He’d lie down in fucking traffic for you. No, I’m talking about someone who opens up things for you, touches your soul. You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you’re always afraid to take the first step, because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road. You’re going to take the professor’s side on this? Don’t give me a line of shit, no. Look, I didn’t want the job. It’s not about the job.

I don’t care if you work for the government. But you can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing. What are you passionate about? What do you want? I mean, there are guys who work their entire life laying bricks so their kids have a chance at the opportunities you have here.

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Although the failure rate is greater when you try new things, the success rate is also greater. If you don’t try it, you don’t know if you can do it. Maybe you can, maybe you can’t, but I can tell you this, if you keep trying new things, you’re going to find some of them you can do. You’re going to find some of them are easy for you to put together, and you’re going to find that you get some answers and open some doors and get some results. So I would encourage you as you go throughout your day, find one thing, determine one thing that you’re going to try that’s going to be new.

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You’ve never talked to a successful person and said, how did you get to the top of the mountain? And then look at you and say, I have no idea. If they’re at the top of the mountain, they know how they got there, because they had to have effort. It took energy, it took time. Everything worthwhile, everything worthwhile is uphill. So today on Minute with Maxwell, I want you just to think of the things that you cherish, the things that you value, the things that you want to possess. They’re all uphill. It’s okay. Once I know that’s where they are, I’ll begin to put forth the effort, the energy,

the time to get there. And I’m just gonna sign off today by, one more time, letting you look at my arm.

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Let me tell you a secret. No one does when they begin. Ideas don’t come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started. If I had to know everything about connecting people before I got started, I never would have built Facebook. Movies and pop culture just get this all wrong. The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate, because we feel like we haven’t had ours yet. And it prevents people with seeds of good ideas from ever getting started in the first place.

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The heaviest things in life aren’t iron and gold, but unmade decisions. The reason you are stressed is that you have decisions to make, and you’re not making them.

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Every morning when you get up, say over and over to yourself, do it now, do it now, do it now, I do it now, do it now. Whenever you have this tendency to procrastinate, program your subconscious mind with this automatic conditioned command, do it now, do it now, do it now. The key to overcoming procrastination is to develop a sense of urgency. Be the kind of person who gets things done quickly. Be the kind of person who launches fast on a task. One of the ways to launch fast on a task is to take the task and break it up, what is called salami slicing it. Slice a piece of salami.

Don’t try to eat a whole loaf of salami, you should eat it one slice at a time. Take your task and break it up into small pieces and do one piece at a time. Say over and over to yourself, do it now, do it now, do it now, do you know that less than 2% of the population have a sense of urgency? And that there is not an example of a successful person anywhere who does not have a sense of urgency? That if you just develop a sense of urgency when somebody gives you a task, that you get on it and do it fast, that alone will move you into the top ranks in a very short period of time.

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Never, ever give up. There’ll be times in your life you’ll want to quit, you’ll want to go home. You’ll want to go home, perhaps, to that wonderful mother that’s sitting back there watching you and say, Mom, I can’t do it. I can’t do it.

Just never quit. Go back home and tell Mom, Dad, I can do it. I can do it. I will do it. You’re going to be successful. I’ve seen so many brilliant people. They gave up in life. They were totally brilliant. They were top of their class. They were the best students. They were the best of everything. They gave up. I’ve seen others who really didn’t have that talent or that ability and they’re among the most successful people today in the world because they never quit and they never gave up.

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We talk about discipline and we talk about living clean,

but it is not an easy path.

It is filled with temptations and pitfalls and hazards and traps And it’s hard to stay on the path And if you fall off it can seem even harder to get back on.

But you can do it You got to be honest with yourself.

Do not be a slave.

Don’t be a slave to drugs or booze or emotion or whatever Weakness is trying to be your master.

Don’t allow it.

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Remember this you’re never good probably the first time but it’s okay. You got to do the first time to get a good second time. Go for it. Roll up your sleeves. Dive. I encourage you. Get out on the limb. You see the fruit’s not around the tree trunk. It’s out on the edge of the limb. I want that to be for you today. Try something new and see what it will do for you.

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Fast tempo is essential to success. Fast tempo goes hand in hand with energy, with happiness, with enthusiasm, with self-esteem. So make crystal clear what you want to do. Make crystal clear the steps and start working on those steps and do something every day to move you toward the most important goals of your life. And if you do that, you will be an excellent time manager, an excellent personal manager, an excellent life manager. You will have a great, great life.

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You cannot go to the gym today and build your muscle.

You should get a program and go slowly by slowly. That’s the way to build your muscle. And that’s the way discipline, that’s the way you can hone and cultivate your self-discipline.

Remember, only the disciplined ones are free in life. I repeat again, only the disciplined ones are free in life. If you are in discipline, you are a slave to your moods. You are a slave to your passions.

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How do I face that thing that is before me that just intimidates the heck out of me? Let’s talk about it for a moment. The first thing I wanna talk to you about courage is this, that you will never get rid of fear. So don’t think that courage is the absence of fear. If you have no fear, it’s not a courage issue, it’s a mental issue, okay? We all have fears. The second thing I want you to know about courage is the fact that nothing is ever accomplished unless you do something. And courage gives you the power to do something. Courage gets you up, gets you walking, gets you started.

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You know why it’s Jim’s energy right now? It’s not because it’s hot out, summer time, and it’s fucking like 90 some degrees in here. No, that’s not the reason why. It’s because they’ve already quit mentally. They quit before they got the weather report. The weather report just encouraged them to stay quitted. If that’s even a word. People quit, guys, because their focus is off, mental focus is off. Meaning they’ve started a journey, right? And all they focus on is how far they have to still go. Instead of looking at how far they’ve already come.

If you look at how far you gotta go, it’s like, oh my god, another mile? Then you look back and say, I’ve already gone 18 miles. Another mile, no problem. But if you never focus on the past and realize all those things you’ve overcome to get where you are, that this is ahead always seems like a forever journey.

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The reason why you’re a loser, and the reason why you’re not fucking making it, and the reason why you’re trying to go to all these, I go to all these fucking conventions, speak all the fucking time. I look in the fucking audience, and these people sign up, sign up, sign up, fucking every year to go to convention, thinking they’re gonna learn something fucking different. No, you’re lazy, you know exactly what to do, exactly what to do, because even me, in my state of, I can’t read and write, I knew exactly what to do. It just sucks doing it. It sucks to do it.

It sucks to wake up every morning of your life and say, God, man, I’m not smart, so guess what I gotta do? I gotta study the same shit that I got one of the highest scores in the nation on, and do it again, do it again, do it again. It’s not just there. It’s not just there permanently for me. So yeah, it’s all stick. It’s all stick.

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The best things for you aren’t on this side of courage, they’re on the other side. You’ve got to go through that door. It’s on that other side that you find the yeses of life. It’s on that other side that you find the promises of life. It’s on that side that you find the benefits of life. In other words, life is composed in this way, my friend. You have to pay a price before you get the goods. It’s just the way it works. And any time you get the goods without paying the price, you begin to get a spirit of entitlement which will hurt you instead of help you.

So look at whatever you have to face or go through and understand two things. It will make you a better person if there’s nothing on the other side. It will just make you a better, stronger person.

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60, 70, 80% of people are not aware of how they spend their time. They think they spend a lot of time in meetings. It turns out they spend a lot of time socializing. They think they spend a lot of time working on reports. It turns out they spend a lot of time on the telephone. They think they spend a lot of time doing important jobs. It turns out they spend a lot of time wasting time. So keep a time log or just keep a sheet and whenever you have a chance to look at your watch,

write down what you’re doing at the time or have somebody else watch what you’re doing and feedback to you how you’re spending your time. And then you have to ask is how I’m spending my time consistent with my major goals, my top priorities, my high payoff tasks? And you’ll find that it’s not. And you’ll also find that you feel frustrated and you feel stressed if you are not working your time on the things that you’re supposed to do. So keep measuring your time, logging your time, analyzing your time. How am I spending my time? Am I spending my time on the things that are important to me?

Am I spending my time on the things that give me a big payoff? And if you’re not, keep adjusting and modifying your schedule. Thank you.

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Am I spending my time on the things that give me a big payoff? And if you’re not, keep adjusting and modifying your schedule. Thank you.

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It’s the reality of mental perception that dictates the physical attributes of action. If you don’t believe it, this body can’t do it. If you believe it, this body has unlimited potential of what it can do. We’ve seen throughout history, the Olympics right now, the average man trained, pushed beyond his capabilities to something that no one’s ever thought possible. And he’s standing there at the testament that yes, it can be done. And yes, you can do it too. If you stop getting everything confused inside, allowing all these excuses to come in saying, oh, I can’t do this, I can’t do that.

You can do it. Why would you ever say you can’t until you go out there and try it?

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You can do it. Why would you ever say you can’t until you go out there and try it?

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The first thing I look for is a person that can produce results. Why? Because if you can be successful and produce results for yourself, the odds begin to increase that you can help someone else do the very same thing. If you can’t produce, you can’t teach others how to do that. You see, we teach what we know, but we reproduce who we are. So ask yourself, what do I do well? What am I good at? Whatever it is, get better, practice it, and then pass it on to someone else and help them get better also. Results, production, good words.

People that can do that well are people that become highly successful.

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People that can do that well are people that become highly successful.

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I hated going to school, so guess what? I was dumb as shit. That’s what, one plus one is two. But if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness. That’s what people don’t understand. By me running, I am callousing my mind. I’m not training for a race. I’m training for life. I’m training for the time when I get that two o’clock in the morning call that my mom is dead or something happens tragic in life, I don’t fall apart. I’m training my mind and my body and my spirit so it’s all one, so I can handle what life is going to throw at me.

Because the life I’ve lived, it throws a whole bunch at you. If you’re not physically and mentally prepared for that, you’re just going to crumble and you’re good for nobody.

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Because the life I’ve lived, it throws a whole bunch at you. If you’re not physically and mentally prepared for that, you’re just going to crumble and you’re good for nobody.

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Learn to say, fuck you, to the world every once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, numbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nitpicking, piss-trickling, nose-sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball-poking, finger-pointing, alleyway-sneaking,

long-waiting, small-stepping, evil-eyeing, back-scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just do!

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The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label. Being an outsider is fine. Embrace the label. Because it’s the outsiders who change the world. And who make a real and lasting difference. The more that a broken system tells you that you’re wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. You must keep pushing forward.

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How do you grow it? Do it and do it and do it and do it. That’s the hack. The hack is gonna fucking suck. And that’s what I realized. That’s what I realized. That’s why I wanted to come on here today. I didn’t wanna come on here and talk about no fucking passion and purpose and how to get the fuck out of bed and how to hit a fucking alarm clock and all this catchphrase bullshit. Because that wasn’t how I lived. That wasn’t how I lived. I woke up like every human being does and goes, fuck man, I’m a fucking piece of shit today. How the hell is this gonna work out for me? And you fight that.

And you fight that. You don’t override it. There’s no override button. It’s the conversation in your fucking, in your head. So how do you do that? We don’t have enough of these conversations about the real conversation that every human being is having and they have no idea how to get out of it. But they do.

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people will try to put the same limitations on you that they put on themselves. Don’t mistake their insecurities for your ceiling. Is lovely. Something else that I’ve seen, which has happened to a bunch of people around me recently, is a very real sign of success. How you can know when you’ve fully made it, which is people start to accuse you of having wealthy parents. The real sign of success is when someone says, I bet you had wealthy parents. I’ve kind of wondered where this… Like, that’s satirical for the people on Instagram that didn’t get that that was satirical.

I wasn’t saying that it was an actual marker of success. I was saying that it is the sort of thing that appears to come along for the ride as a side order when you achieve something that some people would say of as being success.

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Positive procrastination is when you procrastinate on doing low priority tasks. It is when you procrastinate on doing things that do not contribute very much to your major goals. Negative procrastination is when you procrastinate on what is called your most important tasks. Now there’s an interesting point is that their tasks are either urgent, which means they have to be done now, or they are important, which means they don’t have to be done now, but they have a very high impact on your future. We have a natural tendency to always do what is urgent rather than what is important.

Important tasks are seldom urgent, and urgent tasks are seldom important.

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Important tasks are seldom urgent, and urgent tasks are seldom important.

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The reason that you’re probably stuck in this loop continually is because the things that you’re blaming on other people. Take ownership of them, get them fixed. take ownership of them and get them fixed. take ownership of make some moves. Take ownership and look what you can do different. That’s what you have to do.

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Much confidence in you and, even though you are tormenting yourself, the work you do is very good. Try to do something bad. try to do some bad work- the worst thing you could think of to see what happens. But mainly relax and let everything go to hell. You are not responsible for the world. You’re only responsible for your work. So just do it Don’t think that your work has to conform to any preconceived idea form or flavor. It can be anything you want it to be, But if life would be easier for you if you stop working, then stop. don’t punish yourself. However,

I think that this is so deeply ingraining you that it would be better for you to do.

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So I’m about 15 miles from home and I often talk about taking souls. This morning, this person, I usually train alone. This person wanted to run with me. And I said, fine, we’ll run 15. This morning comes, there’s storms coming in this way. And the person calls and said, hey, why don’t we do it tomorrow? Taking souls is what I told the mother fucker. I’m gonna run 15 today and I’ll run with you again tomorrow. That’s what taking souls is about. Don’t worry about the elements and what’s going on. You gotta get out there and get it. And that’s taking souls and obviously,

he wasn’t the only one that felt about taking the day off. Cuz the storm is coming in right now and there’s not a soul out here but me.

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We are all human beings, we are not happy every day, we are not in a good mood every day. It’s normal, it’s part of us. I fight against that. You know, it’s the big challenge, it’s when you’re not willing to do something, but you have to do it.

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the fish just don’t jump in the boat. No, meaning you better go out there and do it yourself. You know, don’t fucking wait around and wait for someone to hand deliver something. Go make it happen. You know, the fish don’t just jump in the boat. If you wanna go catch them, go catch them. You know, throw that line in the water and go do some work. And if it doesn’t work that day, do it again the next day.

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So be prepared to be misunderstood. Anyone working on a big vision is going to get called crazy, even if you end up right. Anyone taking on a complex problem is going to get blamed for not fully understanding it, even though it’s impossible to know everything up front. Anyone taking initiative will always get criticized for moving too fast, because there’s always someone who wants to slow you down. And in our society, we often don’t take on big things because we’re so afraid of making mistakes that we ignore all the things wrong today if we do nothing.

The reality is, anything we do today is going to have some issues in the future. But that can’t stop us from getting started. So what are we waiting for? It is time for our generation-defining great works.

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You certainly have my attention.

Because I can keep going,

brick by brick, dollar by dollar, body by body.

Or, you can call your boss and tell him to shut down this operation. Tonight.

That’s not much of an offer.

That’s the only one you’re going to get. When you pray for rain, you got to deal with the mud, too.

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that there’s two ways to see the world. Some people see the thing that they want, and some people see the thing that prevents them from getting the thing that they want. I could only see the bagels, he could only see the line.

And so I walked up to the line, I leaned in between two people, put my hand in the box and pulled out two bagels. And no one got mad at me, because the rule is you can go after whatever you want, you just cannot deny anyone else to go after whatever they want. Now I had to sacrifice choice, I didn’t get to choose which bagel I got, I got whatever I pulled out, but I didn’t have to wait in line. So the point is, is you don’t have to wait in line, you don’t have to do it the way everybody else has done it, you can do it your way, you can break the rules,

you just can’t get in the way of somebody else getting what they want.

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I just think about stacking days, stacking days. My son is small, right? He’s small just like I was. And I’ve talked to him about the training and how hard it is and this, that, and the third. But he’s finally starting to see a little bit of change, right, in his game or whatever, in his ability. And all I keep telling him is just keep stacking days. Just keep stacking days. As long as you keep stacking days, I promise you, I promise you, you will see the change. But my coach used to always say, everything that you want is on the other side of hard.

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When you die, you’re gonna regret the things you don’t do. You think you’re queer? I’m gonna tell you something. We’re all queer. You think you’re a thief? So what? You get befuddled by a middle-class morality? Get shut of it. Shut it out. You cheat on your wife? You did it. Live with it. You f*** little girls? So be it. There’s an absolute morality? Huh? Maybe. And then what? If you think there is, go ahead. Be that thing. Bad people go to hell? I don’t think so. You think that? Act that way. Hell exists on Earth? Yes. I won’t live in it. That’s me.

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I started thinking like every day, I was like, I hope I don’t wake up. You know what I mean? And that was the thing where I was like, this is a big enough problem that if you don’t want to wake up, then- What have you got to lose?

Exactly. And that was it. And I was like, I have nothing to lose. And that was when I think in the last podcast, we talked about this where it’s like, if everybody who’s like at the bottom and feels like they have nothing going for them, reframe that as I have nothing going for me, which also means that I have nothing to lose by taking action. It makes you a much more dangerous person. And I think that was the flip that I’ve had repeatedly shown to me in my life that allowed me to take the step that I was afraid to take.

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So it wasn’t a confidence on the decision. It was a confidence in my ability to make decisions based off of the skills that I had developed. And if the decision doesn’t play out, that’s okay because I have developed the skills and I have trust in who? Myself. I’m gonna fuck up, but it’s all a game of probabilities. It’s not a game of luck. And you have to increase your probabilities by increasing your skillset. And that’s what a lot of people don’t do. They don’t work and they don’t increase their skillset. Leonardo da Vinci famously said, God will sell you anything at the price of labor.

And that is true. So what you have to do is if you want something, you have to work for it. And most people that think that the world is based off of luck have never truly worked for something. Not enough to understand that luck does not exist. It’s merely a game of probabilities. You work hard, you work more, you work longer, and eventually you can increase your odds of success.

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You know, fuck your tired body, fuck that unmotivated mind, and get out there and do it anyway. You know, you better fight yourself, because you’re not only winning when things are going your way. You gotta figure out how to win when things aren’t going your way. You gotta figure out when your body’s fighting you, when your mind’s fighting you, how do you still, you know, just say, fuck it,

I’m gonna beat my mind today. Or do you just give in to your mind and say, oh, I’m tired today, I’m lazy, I don’t wanna do it, it’s too hard, no one else is doing it, it’s a weekend, it’s too late, these are already off hours, oh, exactly what I want isn’t happening right now. Like, okay, great, you know who that’s great for?

Your competition. You want that attitude to permeate the people that you’re competing against.

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As soon as you look back in your history and you come up with something that you feel like you want to change, something else has to change.

What about your biggest disappointment?

Once again, that’s the same analogy. Disappointment to me, to win, you got to lose. To be successful, you got to have something that’s not successful. To be happy, you got to have disappointment. So I think all of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the privileges I have for being who I am. And not to wear it on my sleeve, be very humble about it. That’s one thing my parents taught me very well is don’t wear your reputation, don’t wear your accolades, don’t wear your personality on your sleeve. Let it happen. Let it be you.

It is who you are. Don’t hide from it, but don’t wear it and rub it in people’s faces.

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Our mind is a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it’s hard. It’s what many people say, you like to go to the gym every day. Of course not. It’s not true. Nobody likes to go to the gym every day. But you have to do it. Probably yes, because your mental strength is coming from that. From that moment, in hard moments, you know you should do it. And I do it. Because after that, maybe in the beginning you feel hard to start, but after when you finish the gym or cold planche or even the training, you will feel better.

I think it’s the big key there.

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A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure, or dream about being a SEAL, or dream about being an astronaut, and all it is is a motherfucking dream. They don’t put the work behind the dream. That dream has become their fucking master. When you become the master of your fucking dream is when you say, I want to go be a Navy SEAL, and you say, okay, I’m going to lose 106 pounds in less than three fucking months. The dream was the one thing I thought about, and the dream was now gone. Now, what comes in, the dream goes away,

and the fucking laundry list of fucking details and tasks come up. Gotta do this, gotta do this, gotta do this, gotta do this. That’s when you become the master of your dream.

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And I kind of, I don’t know, I’ve tried to work out where this motivation comes from. I wonder whether it’s that if somebody has achieved something that other people are envious of or would desire in one way or another, and if they’re not that different than they were, the reason that the other person observing them hasn’t achieved the same thing is put more on them. It’s more to do with their efforts, their agency, the way that they’ve shown up in life. But if it’s because of an unfair head start that that person had because they had wealthy parents,

you don’t need to do the same level of self-reflection to work out why you’re not necessarily in the same place.

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If you ever heard me lecture live, the odds are very high that you’ve seen me visually do this to the audience. Because this is a visual demonstration of an incredible truth. What’s the visual demonstrate talk about? Everything worthwhile is uphill. And today’s word is uphill. You see, every dream that you’ve ever had, it’s all uphill. If you have a great relationship with somebody, you had to work on it, it’s uphill. If you’ve built a wonderful business, guess what? It was uphill. If you’ve made the right decisions, they’re not easy, are they? It’s uphill.

And the only way that you can go uphill is to be intentional. Nobody ever accidentally went uphill.

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I wonder how many times I’ve missed that positive something on the other side because I didn’t have courage to take action and open the door. I can promise you I’ve had a lot of losses in those areas. You see, most of the losses that we have in life that hurt the most are losses that we never know because we didn’t get there. So I would encourage you, the next time you see something before you that’s formidable, big, intimidating, do it anyway. On the other side, you’ll become a better person. And perhaps on the other side, you’ll find the rewards of going through that door of courage.

I want to encourage you to be a person of courage. It will make you a better person.

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You want them to say, oh, it’s too hard, I can’t do it. But you wanna be the one that says, fuck it, I’m gonna do it anyway. I know I don’t feel good today, but I’m gonna go out there and I’m gonna prove to myself that even on days that it doesn’t feel right, I push myself. The only way to gain confidence in yourself is to build something. It’s not to wait for it to happen. Hey, Vic, your life just happened in front of you. I just show up today and make it happen with Tom. No, you had to do a lot of shit today to get to this day that no one really knows except you.

So that’s why you appreciate it because you had to go through a lot of stuff to get to this day. Not only you know what it took to get here and that’s why you value it. So other people on the outside in may say, oh, Vic, you’re so lucky you get to do this and you get to be, you have all these followers, you have these people that pay attention to you, you get to do these cool things. Well, yeah, but in your mind, you’re probably still the same kid, with your brother and your other brother and your sister and your dad and your mom.

You’re like, no, no, no, you guys don’t know remember where I came from. And this is why I value this, because I have perspective. I knew where I came from. I knew where I started. Now I appreciate it where I’m at.

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don’t let your parents push you into what success is. It’s different for all of us, but, and this is the big but, you gotta be self-aware about it.

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Long as you don’t surrender, as long as you don’t give up, as long as you don’t quit, then you haven’t failed.

just means you’ve made a Temporary tactical retreat, means you’ve made a brief withdraw so that you can regroup and re-attack. so, As far as I’m concerned, if you get beat, unless you’re dead, you are not defeated. You have not failed. what you’ve done is: you’ve learned, You’ve, you’ve gained experience

And you’re still alive and you have memories to make. So get up And go, get after it.

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After a while, you can see some better than others, but also you can see what direction you’re going. Sure you know all that. You also must know that you don’t have to justify your work, not even to yourself. Well, you know I admire your work greatly and can’t understand why you are so bothered by it, but you can see the next ones and I can’t. You also must believe in your ability. I think you do. So try the most outrageous things you can. Shock yourself.

You have at your power the ability to do anything.

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great insight which was don’t aim for mediocre. 99% of people in the world are convinced that they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for realistic goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy consuming. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. I love that, do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself.

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So if you’re not going to do it, don’t say it.

As a young person, what I had to learn was to,

before I made the promise, to weigh the promise.

Is it something that I can do? Is it something that I should do?

So the next time you are with somebody and you’re trying to build a relationship of value and a relationship of trust,

and you cross that bridge of promise,

make sure that you build it right and you cross it all the way.

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Look, man, when you beat me, I hurt all over, and I didn’t want to know from nothing or nobody, not even my kids. But hell, every fighter knows that hurt, and we get sick inside trying to live with it, so don’t back off now. Make it right for yourself, or you’ll be sorry you didn’t. We held the greatest title in the whole world, Abe. You lost that fight, Rock, for all the wrong reasons. You lost your edge.

Alright, I know your manager dying had you all messed up inside, but the truth is, you didn’t look hungry. Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man, the edge. And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean?

Maybe we could win it back together.

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I don’t know what your future is, but if you’re willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes, the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory, then you will not regret it. Now, this is your time. The light of new realization shines on you today. Howard’s legacy is not wrapped up in the money that you will make, but the challenges that you choose to confront. As you commence to your path, press on with pride and press on with purpose.

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Are you trying new things?

Are you testing out new territory?

Are you taking a path through a virgin area that you’ve never been before?

What Bill was trying to do for me, I’m trying to do with you on Minute with Maxwell.

When’s the last time you did something for the first time?

When’s the last time you got up in the morning and said, Wow,

I’m going to do something today that I’ve never done before?

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That lawyer knows just what to say.

That lawyer knows all the legal loopholes and definitely knows how to sway the jury.

Definitely knows how to sway the jury.

He’s going to leave you standing there like an idiot.

So how do you compete with that?

How do you compete with that?

It’s actually pretty simple and pretty straightforward.

Don’t play the game.

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Do I have talent, Dad? Of course you have talent. You got all the talent in the world. Can I be a baseball player? You can be anything you want to be. Remember, the saddest thing in life is wasted talent. You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don’t do the right thing, then nothing happens. But when you do right, guess what? Good things happen.

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So the guy had a lighter. He made friends with roaches, because roaches would get in a box. So he was in there for years. And I was like, yo, if he can get through this, I’ll be OK. So that make me strip, same thing, cough. I’ve been through it all. But like I said before, I’m Floyd Mayweather. Can’t nothing stop me. Yeah. That’s how I felt. Fuck that. That’s how. I mean, I mean, can’t nothing stop me. When you say Canelo, it was nothing. You say Pacquiao, it was nothing. Because at the end of the day, I feel like every time I go out there and compete,

or I go out there and fight, I be like, yo, listen, I’m fighting just an opponent. He’s fighting Floyd Mayweather. So that’s the difference.

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You can’t wait for everything to be perfect to start living your life. You can’t wait for everything to be perfect to start living your life. And that hit me. I mean, he packs a powerful punch and that, damn, he hit me with a damn word punch, you know, with a word hook. Because that’s what I’ve done.

My whole life has been like that. Inside of me it has been, as soon as it’s all lined up, I’m gonna show you myself. As soon as I’ve got it all looking the way I want, I’m gonna show up for you. And for me.

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And we sit there and think about that one issue and it’s all we think about and we forget to fly the plane. The plane is us. We forget to focus on everything in life, our habits, our goals, our destination. We end up failing. So stay hard.

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What are you passionate about? What do you want? I mean, there are guys who work their entire life laying brick so their kids have a chance at the opportunities you have here.

I didn’t ask for this.

No. You were born with it, so don’t cop out behind I didn’t ask for this.

What do you mean cop out? I mean, what’s wrong with laying brick? Nothing. There’s nothing wrong with it. That’s somebody’s home I’m building.

Right. My dad laid brick. Okay? Busted his ass so I can have an education. There’s honor in, you know, taking that 40 minute train ride so those college kids can come in in the morning and their floors are clean and their wastebaskets are empty. That’s real work. That’s right. Right. And that’s honorable. Sure, that’s why you took that job. I mean, for the honor of it. I just have a little question here. You could be a janitor anywhere.

Why did you work at the most prestigious technical college in the whole f***ing world? Why did you sneak around at night and finish other people’s formulas that only one or two people in the world could do and then lie about?

Because I don’t see a lot of honor in that, Will.

So what do you really want to do?

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I was a kid and you’d see someone get angry and it made you afraid, and So for a while I saw it as like a power. You know, It’s kind of a way to achieve power that you can lose your temper and then all of a sudden you have this extra Strengthened. so when you’re a little kid- and when I say a little kid I mean when I was 13, 14 years old- I thought, hey, if I go, if I could get that rage going and people are scared, like I used to feel that’s a positive thing and Then like I said as I got older now, you know now you’re talking 16 15 16 17. I realized, hey, This isn’t this isn’t cool.

This isn’t strength. That’s actually weakness. and when I realized it was weakness- and I didn’t realize that overnight, But I started getting the idea that that was weakness. and now, When you see someone that is in control and even when bad things are happening there, look there, you know There’s standing stoically saying: okay, Let me take another look at that and I’ll get it done.

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I think a lot of times the decisions that we make are predicated on the conversations we need to have. Because usually like that, and what’s interesting is like, you can define commitment by eliminating alternatives. So if you’re committed, you’ve eliminated alternative actions. Or like you can say I’m committed, but until you eliminate other options, you’re not committed.

There’s always a get out of jail for you.

And so a lot of people make decisions to end relationships, to quit their job, to start the new thing. But they don’t become committed to the decision until they remove the other options. And then you’re forced to take action on it. And so I think actually defining those two different things. Now you could define, you know, decision is to kill off like dicadere from Latin. But from a colloquial thing, I think there are two different instances. It’s like, I need to change this and then I do change it.

The life you want is on the other side of a few hard conversations, and you’re living a life you hate because you’re too afraid to have them.

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What I discovered about focusing in on a goal or something you want to accomplish is that the moment that you focus in on what you want to do, that’s when you begin to have energy to do it. A distracted person lacks energy. And when they get to the thing they need to be focusing in on, they don’t have the energy to give. But when a person says, no, this is the one thing I’m going to do, and they set their mind to it, they set their eyes on it, and they set their hand to do it, all of a sudden energy begins to fill their life. Why?

Because what you focus on, what you concentrate on, what you desire to accomplish, once your eyes are fixed on that, it begins to energize you, and you begin to see the possibility of making it happen. So, what’s your target? What’s your goal? Whatever it is, focus. Trust me, the energy will come.

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What the hell were y’all waiting for to start attacking life? Waiting for the f***ing stars to align? Back when I was growing up, the song came out. All I need is a miracle. Well, guess what? That miracle ain’t coming. There is no perfect time to start. You gotta start now with changing your life. We’re all being tested in life. And guess what? This is one test you can’t cheat on. We all have our own test. Some of us are obese. Some of us are depressed. Some of us are insecure. In the military, we had this big ol’ rucksack on the back. Had batteries, water, extra gear.

Your extra gear is the s*** you’re dealing with in life. And the only way to overcome it is for you and you alone to face it. You have to do your best work when you’re the least motivated. So those days you don’t wanna do it, guess what you gotta do? You gotta suck it the f*** up and do it. Stay hard!

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And so for me, those years of spending hours and hours and hours with people, roughly 10 years later when I post my first video and I start to have the groundswell experience of more people finding out about my work, I live in gratitude every day. I post those to show people that no one starts in an arena. Everyone starts at zero. And the reason why we don’t start is not because we’re scared of starting at zero, we’re scared of people watching us start at zero. We’re scared of the opinions of people around us starting at zero. We’re not scared of starting from scratch,

we’re scared of our friends seeing us start from scratch. And I just want to remind people that everyone started at zero, you did, you did, you did, and everyone on planet Earth did. And that means you can do it as much as I have.

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You got to be able to detach from this. And you know, I like to take pride in the fact that I’m going to keep my cool no matter what happens. And definitely once I was in that, once you’re in the seal teams, you definitely want to be that guy that’s keeping you’re keeping your cool no matter what’s happening, whether it’s people are doing the wrong thing or you just want to be the guy that’s, Hey, okay, come back over here. We need to redo this. You just want to be that guy. That’s way more impressive than the guy that says, I can’t believe this. Don’t be that person.

So, and I’ve talked about this before. What are the pre event indicators that show you or reveal to you that your temper is about to be lost? What are they? Is it you clinch your fists, right? Is it you raise your voice and you start doing that stuff? Do you start to heavy breathing? Do you flare your nostrils? Right? Cause that’s an animal thing where you’re going to take in more oxygen. So you open up the nostrils cause you’re about to get after it.

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You got 24 hours in a day. Eight hours you sleep, right? And most people work a nine to five. So eight hours you’re working. 16 hours. Okay, so we have 16 hours. We got breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So we’re, what we at night? That’s 19? It take you an hour to get ready. So we had 20 hours. So I cannot spend, you guys cannot spend four hours going on about, oh, they lying. Oh, I like this photo. Oh, they faking. Sending photos to other people. Y’all got to get focused. I’m where I’m at because I’m focused. Tunnel vision. I’m focused on what I got to do. Y’all got to have a game plan.

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My mom reinforced, you don’t start things and not finish them. You don’t quit. There’s nothing that comes out of quitting besides knowing that you didn’t finish. We finish everything. You start it, finish it. If you’re going to do it, do it to try and be the best. Not be better than other people, be the best for you. If you’re in school and you’re going to class, I’m not asking you to get straight A’s. I’m asking you to get the best grade that you can possibly get. Give me 100% all the time, and I’m a happy mother. When you half-ass me, I’m on your ass.

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More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever. Make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you. Your weird humor. You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool. Make your own uncool. Make your own, make your own world. If you fear, make it work for you. Draw and paint your fear and anxiety and stop worrying about big, deep things such as to decide on a purpose and way of life, a consistent approach to even some impossible end, or even an unimagined. And you must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking empty.

Then you will be able to do.

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Well, one of the really difficult things to learn when you’re down and out is how far you’re down because it’s humiliating. You know, I was ill recently and when I started to recover, I couldn’t really, I couldn’t really button my shirts. I had to learn to do that again. I did, I’d forgotten how to put my hands on keyboard, I didn’t know where to put my hands. I had to learn to type again. Now I hadn’t lost all the knowledge and it came back quite quickly. But,

and the reason I’m saying that is because one of the impediments to people who’ve really taken a blow in their life is that things have fallen apart around them so badly that where they have to start is humiliating, even to consider the rule, it’s pretty straightforward rule when you want to get back on your feet. And the rule is you have to make the task small enough so that you’ll do it. No matter how small that is.

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it’s because I have this hamster wheel on the back of my mind where I keep playing out different scenarios. And so I keep thinking like, well, maybe I need to change what I’m currently doing. Maybe if I just rethought, like, because I’m a big frame guy. So I’m like, maybe I just need to be thinking about this differently, right? Maybe if I zoom all the way out, the earth doesn’t exist. So maybe this doesn’t matter. Or maybe I’m just making a problem that doesn’t exist. Maybe the best action I should take is nothing, right? Like I reframe all those things.

But usually it’s just because I’m afraid of something. And then that’s why I’m not making the decision. And I think, once I name and put a face- and it’s usually not even a thing that I’m afraid of, it’s one person’s judgment I’m afraid of. And then when I name the person, then it becomes, then it becomes real. Instead of being this amorphous, like people, society, judgment, it’s like Tom. Like, do I really care what Tom thinks? I guess so. It seems like I’m not making this big change in my life because of Tom.

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behind every fear, guys, is the person you want to be, and it’s right there. it’s right there. all you gotta do is open the door. this door is self-created, guys. you’re creating this fear, this block.

right behind that fear is it life you want. wondering where to go in life, what to do, how to make it happen, and you’re lost,

become unlost and get on the path. success is identifying your own fears, guys, seeing how you’re giving birth to them, creating them, giving them life. and once you realize that, you realize that that fear ain’t much and it’s a small doorway that’s breaking you from becoming the explosion of success in you.

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God says in Jeremiah, I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future. Graduating class, hear me well on this day. When you hit this day, when you have reached the hilltop and you are deciding on next jobs, next steps, careers, further education, you would rather find purpose than a job or career. Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history. Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill.

Whatever you choose for a career path, remember the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.

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Because if you’re thinking, then you’re not taking action. And if you’re not taking action, then there’s no consequence. And if there’s no consequence, then there’s nothing to be afraid of. So I think that the overthinking can be an excuse for actual fear. And same thing with like, oh, I’m a perfectionist. That’s also fear. It’s fear of not being perfect. And then on top of that, low confidence. Well, if you have low confidence, guess what? You’re afraid. Your confidence is low. You’re not sure of yourself. So you sit around and think about doing it instead of actually doing it.

And then anxiety? Well, yeah, anxiety actually is fear.

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Get it, David, come on. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Energy, let it out. Seven, eight, nine, ten. The machine here. There you go. Nobody works like David in this house. 13, come on. 14, come on. 15, shut that muscle down. 16, come on. Get it. 17. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 18. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 19. They don’t know me, son. Yeah. 20. You got some more in you. They don’t know me, son. 21. Yeah, get it again. Come on, we want to see it. Good. 22. Who’s going to carry the boats and the logs? That’s you, buddy. Come on, 23. Come on, 24. One more, David.

Who’s going to carry the boats? You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You did it. Yeah. Yeah.

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Mom, I wanna do this, I wanna play baseball. Well, then you gonna play. Mom, I don’t like that no more. Then why’d you start the season? Because I thought I wanted to do it. Then you gonna finish the season. You don’t quit. There’s other people that invest the time and energy into you you don’t just quit on people. But I don’t wanna do it. Finish the season. Mom, I wanna swim. Then you gonna finish swimming. It didn’t matter what I did. I was never allowed to quit. So now in anything I do, when I pick it up and say I’m gonna start it, I gotta finish it. It all don’t work.

It all ain’t the best. It all ain’t knocked out the park. But I walk away saying I finished it. I did it. I did it.

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Pretty easy to focus on the battle. That’s right in front of your face, and When you’re doing that, sometimes you can lose track of the long-term goal. but I want to have that, that long-term goal, so embedded in my mind That I never lose sight of it, ever. And those little tasks and projects and short-term goals that you tackle. they need to lead toward that strategic victory, winning the long war.

And we get very caught up in Instant gratification. we want results now. We want the shortcut to the winners podium.

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The devil don’t care about you. The devil wants to keep you from your destiny. That’s his one job. Satan got one job, to keep you from your destiny. The devil don’t ever want you to be what God created you to be. So guess what? When you discover your gift, and you think I’m about to make a move and go be what God created me to be, then here go the devil. You got this job over here, you gonna lose your 401k. Once you get your paper straight, you can skip all of this. You can get yourself started in the process, man,

but you gotta quit letting the devil keep you from your destiny by tying it to this little job you got. Cause he tricky with it now. He got you thinking, you gonna mess your credit up if you quit your job. What you mean mess your credit up? You overextended now. You got good credit, but you can’t buy nothing else with it.

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The thing that I heard out of people’s mouth was, that’s impossible. That can’t be done. Or no. I remember when I want to be a bodybuilding champion, including my parents and everyone else around me, said this is impossible. Why don’t you become a ski champion? That’s what they do in Austria. Or a bicycle champion, or do some track and field. You can’t be a bodybuilding champion.

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That make sense to you guys? So many people think all day long on what they’re scared of. You know, before a wrestling match, you know, back in the day, I remember a lot of my opponents would be like, oh man, what happens if I lose? What happens if I get caught? What happens if they take me down? What the f*** are we talking about? All that tension, all that energy going into the possibility of failure. Why can’t the individual, the human, erase that mentality? And put all that tension is, you know, how great it’s going to feel when I pin that motherf***er.

When I take him down, when I beat him down, and form his home crowd. When I win something, when I go after something, when I put the work in and achieve it, why don’t we think that way? We’re always thinking about losing something, something being taken from us, trying to maintain what we have, like, you know, we can’t lose this s***, it’s so valuable. Why do we think that way? Why are we always thinking about the fears, the worst case scenario? All we do is put all that energy in there. Why don’t we put the energy into the dreams that can be?

Why don’t we put the energy into the dreams that can be?

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You walk out of this room, you owe yourself. I didn’t get here making excuses. So what if my father wasn’t in my life? The truth of the matter is, he ain’t never coming in my life. So what, I’m gonna wait for the rest of my life for my man to come? He ain’t coming. I live in America. I’m an African-American male. They don’t treat us the same. It’s something called racism. I ain’t gonna cry about it. It’s probably gonna be racism to the day I die, but I’m not gonna cry about it. I’m still gonna be a millionaire. I’m still gonna be one of the top motivational speakers in the world.

No, I didn’t grow up on that side of the town. No, my mama don’t have no network. No, I don’t know a whole lot of people. No, I’m not at a country club. No, I don’t play golf, and I don’t plan on playing no time soon. But I’m still gonna be successful. I’m still gonna get you where they are. Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can’t nobody stop me but me. And you need to get rid of them excuses, and you need to stop pointing fingers at people, and you need to start pointing fingers at yourself. What did you not do?

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I started it and I said, why am I doing this? I’m not gonna be a professional fighter, I’m not trying to be an amateur fighter. I’m doing it to get in shape. All right, then I started getting in shape, then I said, so much that I don’t know about the sport. I at least wanna make sure that I’m paying homage to the people that do this for a living by really understanding and learning it. You know what, I’m gonna get a real trainer. I’m gonna get some real people to show me everything so when it’s all said and done and I look back after my training,

I can go, I gave it 100% and look at how good I got. Look at what I’m a product of. I spar.

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If they even went home and dared to start cleaning up the room, they’d face resistance within the family that was just a manifestation of the 50,000 50,000 times they’d been discouraged in the past, but also a move that would upset the insanity that characterized the pattern of familial interactions. And so actually when, if they even made a move to clean up their room, what they were doing simultaneously was confronting the dragon in the family that had made every single person in that household insane for like five generations, right? So it looks simple. It’s not bloody simple.

And so in a situation like that, you cut it down so that maybe the first thing they do is clean up. Like maybe they look inside one drawer and see the mess that’s there and just look at it for a minute and think about how they might reorganize it if they were going to.

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you’re afraid to do something. And then IQ, now that might be, I guess maybe someone has a high IQ and therefore they’re thinking a lot, and maybe that’s not fear. But let me ask you a question. If you’re so smart, then why aren’t you taking action and making something happen so you get a big IQ that’s no excuse to sit around and overthink things? Especially because if you’re so smart, why can’t you come up with a quick solution? Why can’t you realize that overthinking is actually causing the problem harm? It’s not moving the problem forward.

So quit thinking so much and take action.

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If they’re at the top of the mountain. they know how they got there because they had to have effort. It took energy. It took time. Everything worthwhile, everything worthwhile is uphill.

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Because whenever I feel anxious or insecure or angry or sad, I’m like, what conversation do I need to have that I’m not having? And so then, and usually if I just think for not that long, I’m like, this is the conversation I’ve been putting off. And then, I’m not the poster child of mental health. And so I’ll just call myself a pansy for not having the conversation. And then I just have it. And so again, I think it’s like, I need to have this conversation. And the time between when I have it versus, or when I know I need to have it, when I actually have it, just continues to compress.

And if you’ve ever had like a breakup or an employee firing, one of the, or a quitting if you’re an employee, like these things that you dread, I don’t know if you notice it, but like the day you do it, the moment after you do it, I’m like, how many other conversations can I have?

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I’m not really giving the Lord a chance to tickle me. You know, I’m not really giving, and stay with me. I’m not, by saying, okay, I’m not, when, as soon as this, then this, and then this, you know? Soon as I get my slippers on, my feet will be warm, I’m gonna go to daddy’s, I’m gonna make a pot pie. You know what I’m saying? But only, I ain’t having no pot pie till I do the other thing, till I do my, you know? When I have my own plans, stay with me.

What I’m saying is, I’m always, I’m always waiting for everything to be perfect before I live my life.

I’m always waiting for everything to be perfect before I live my life. As soon as these things line up, I’m gonna live my life.

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Because like I said, if you’re losing control, it’s not strength, it’s weakness.

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Even when you wake up, you won’t remember as much of it as you know, but once you start writing, you can start tapping into more, oh, and before that, this happened, and then this happened after that. And you’ll start noticing more details. And the more you practice it, the better you get at it. So I did that for a period of time, and at the time, the dreams made no sense. They were just these abstract Salvador Dali paintings. And just went on abstract, I have no idea, strange, strange dreams, no idea what they are.

And then years later, I found that journal, and I read it, and when they were happening, I thought every dream every night was completely different, and none of them were about anything I understood. And years later, when I look back at it, all the dreams were about the same thing, and they all were, it was so clear what my subconscious was telling me.

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When I dared to challenge the system that would relegate us to victims and stereotypes with no clear historical backgrounds, no hopes or talents, when I questioned that method of portrayal, a different path opened up for me. That’s right. The path to my destiny. When God has something for you, it doesn’t matter who stands against it. God will move someone that’s holding you back away from a door and put someone there who will open it for you.

If it’s meant for you, I don’t know what your future is. But if you’re willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes, the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory, then you will not regret it. Now, this is your time.

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of the things that you cherish, the things that you value, the things that you want to possess.

They’re all uphill. It’s okay.

Once I know that’s where they are,

I’ll begin to put forth the effort, the energy, the time to get there. And I’m just going to sign off today by, one more time, letting you look at my arm.

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When I was 19 years old, I was super angry, like all 19 year old men, right? That’s the standard default, right? I was angry at both my parents because I was 19, right? And I remember blaming them for everything, blaming them for my life, blaming them for not being a better person. I literally blamed them for being a bad person. And I remember realizing that when I blamed them, that I gave them control over my life.

And then the idea that the people that I hated the most at the time were the ones who actually were controlling me was the thing that most sickened me to then actually flip my narrative to actually taking control. That was the one thought process. My mother, I’m giving her control over my romantic relationship? My mother controls this? Fuck that. I was like, no. And so just the idea that somebody who I was disgusted by at the time had that much power is what gave me the power to start taking action.

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When people are very down and out and they decide to make a move forward, in some ways they’re facing the whole panoply of problems that confront them in the guise of that single problem, right? It’s all lurking behind it, right? It’s like, you know, they see the tip of a reptile’s tail outside a gigantic closet, let’s say, and they look and they think, well, that’s just the tip of a tail. What harm can it do me? But it’s connected to the whole damn beast. And the advantage to that is that if you make that first step forward,

you’re actually advancing in the form of, in the face of all that opposition. The disadvantage is that the first task seems so small that you literally have to be on your knees to be humble enough to lower yourself to take that first step.

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And at some point, after you lose sight of that goal and years have gone by, you think to yourself, maybe I can’t, maybe I can’t do it.

And so you give up. You let it fade.

And you settle.

You settle for mediocrity, you settle for average, you settle for, oh well.

But no, no. Don’t do that.

Embed that long-term goal in your mind. Burn it into your soul. Think about it and write about it and talk about it and hang it up on your wall. But most important, do something about it.

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if you can dream and not make dreams your master. We all have dreams. I had them when I was younger. So I figured the best place to make those dreams come true are in isolation. So I walked into isolation as David Goggins. But I walked out of isolation as Goggins. Where you become a savage is in isolation. When you train for a big MMA fight or just a boxing match, you don’t stay outside of isolation. You go in isolation. And that’s when your mind changes. That’s when your focus changes. Your dedication changes. Don’t use this time to f*** up your mind. Use it to gain strength. Gain focus.

Isolation is the key to strengthen your mind. Come out a savage.

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It’s not all gonna, I’m never gonna get to that where everything’s okay, where everything looks a certain way. And in the meantime, I’m burning the best time I do have available.

I’m burning that candle up.

I’m burning this candle down. And I’m saying, as soon as it gets bright enough or warm enough in here, I’m gonna show up. But the candle’s getting smaller.

It’s a trap.

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The more and more you do this shit, the more and more it becomes almost impossible to accept second place outside of here.

Impossible, again guys, I said earlier, it’s spelled impossible. Perception on how we see things, guys. We create it or we destroy it right here. You either give birth to our fear or we blaze the path of our dreams. You’re either living your dreams or living your fears, one or the other. And which one are you giving the most time to? This workout travels with you to ensure your dreams never spoil, always stay true. You come back from the gym, after doing the body weight beat down, you won’t lose an inch. You wouldn’t have lost a step, you gained an inch. And in life, it’s a game of inches.

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I’m about 19.2 miles into a run. And he went up by 2007. 2007, I did the Hurt 100. I did Big Knot in 150. I did Badwater 135. I did Leadville. I did a Bear 100. I did AC 100. I did a Plane 100. I did a couple of the hundreds and I forget them. I did a few, I did seven 50 mile races. I did, I think five 30, 50 Ks. Basically how I did it was, I was very focused on the race that was in front of me. I was focused on that. I didn’t think about anything else the next race. And what was really big was my recovery. I didn’t run a whole bunch in between. What I did was basically I would rest.

I run about 20 miles a week and I run a race. So keep in mind the game.

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Much confidence in you and, even though you are tormenting yourself, the work you do is very good. try to do something bad. Try to do some bad work- the worst thing you could think of to see what happens. but mainly relax. Let everything go to hell. You are not responsible for the world. You’re only responsible for your work. So just do it Don’t think that your work has to conform to any preconceived idea form or flavor. It can be anything you want it to be, But if life would be easier for you if you stop working, then stop. don’t punish yourself. However,

I think that this is so deeply ingraining you that it would be better for you to do.

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What’s cool about understanding how important the small things are rather than overlooking them is that actually gives you some insight about what you can and can’t tolerate. Meaning if I don’t pay attention to any of the little things, cause I’m a big picture guy and I don’t care. There are some little things that are going to kill me and I want not might not know about it. But if I’m sort of obsessive about knowing all those things, what it actually gives me in an airplane and really in anything, it gives me an understanding of that, that little thing, that is a little thing.

We’re going to ignore that and we’re going to press or that little thing. It’s fine now, but if it leads to this and this, then we got a problem that could get worse or that little thing will get us killed. You got to know what those little things are and know whether to ignore them, pay attention to them or respond to them. And those are three different kinds of key criteria. But if you don’t know what those things are, you can’t make those smart decisions. So you’ve got to know those things.

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Do something about it every day, every day. do something that moves you toward that goal, That keeps the goal alive and in sight and in focus.

however, however small or Insignificant that step might seem, take it, do it, do that little piece, Make it happen,

because that goal Isn’t going to achieve itself.

It’s all on you.

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I know you’re gonna have to do almost everything alone up here. But you know I’ll be with you. Yeah, I know. Apollo was like my son. I raised him. And when he died, part of me died. But now, you’re the one. You’re the one that’s gonna keep his spirit alive. You’re the one that’s gonna make sure that he didn’t die for nothing.

Now you’re gonna have to go through hell. Worse than any nightmare that you ever dreamed. But in the end, I know you’ll be the one standing.

That’s right.

You know what you gotta do.

Do it.

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Do you have a soulmate?

Define that.

Somebody who challenges you. Chuckie. No, Chuckie’s family. He’d lie down in fucking traffic for you. I’m talking about someone who opens up things for you, touches your soul.

I got plenty.

Well, name them.

Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Frost, O’Connor, Kant, Pope, Locke.

That’s great. They’re all dead.

Not to me, they’re not.

You don’t have a lot of dialogue with them. You can’t give back to them,

Will. Without some serious smelling salts and a heater.

Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you’re always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.

You’re going to take the professor’s side on this?

Don’t give me a line of shit, no.

Look, I didn’t want the job.

It’s not about the job. I don’t care if you work for the government. But you can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing. You’re bound by nothing.

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The heaviest things in life aren’t iron and gold, but unmade decisions. The reason you are stressed is that you have decisions to make, and you’re not making them.

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besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just do!

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Sometimes, you know, when we don’t get that short-term glory that we want, we lose track of those long-term goals. And you look up in six weeks or in six months or in six years and you’ve made no progress. None. You never moved.

You might even be further from your goal than you were.

Why?

Why did you let that happen?

It’s because you lost sight of that long-term goal.

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Look, here’s a fundamental reality of driven human beings. Driven human beings are going to always feel like they’re behind. They’re gonna always feel like they’re not doing good enough. They’re gonna always feel like they’re not far enough. They’re all gonna always feel like you’re losing. Look, winning, this is how it feels. 90% of the time, you’re gonna feel like you’re getting your balls kicked in, all right? 8% of the time, you’re gonna be confused and you’re frustrated. 2% of the time, you actually win. And those moments come and go, and then you’re back in the 90%.

And that’s the reality of a winner’s life. People don’t understand that. They think it’s all about cruising around in a cool car, having a free and happy and easy and go-lucky life. And that’s not reality because true winners are built for the fucking fight. They’re built for the battle. They don’t find peace and joy and happiness in the win. They find what they’re looking for in the fight.

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Yeah, and the important thing to realize as well is the next year’s gonna go by whether you’re doing something about your life or not. I mean, we’re sitting here right now at the end of February, and the next 10 months are gonna go by whether somebody is working to make change or whether they’re not. And they may think, you know, oh my God, I’m so far overweight, I’ll never get it under control, or I’m so behind in my bills, or I’m so, you know, just depressed, or everything is so out of control. Well, you know what?

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If you’re a high driven, ambitious individual and you’re looking around and you think everybody else is like living their, uh, you know, free and easy life. That’s because that’s what they’re showing you on the internet. But I can assure you that anybody who’s built anything real, anybody who’s built anything significant- all right. these people live in a constant state of frustration and aggravation because they’re so driven and they go so hard and they’re so impatient that it actually wills the result into reality. All right.

There’s no high level competitor that exists in the world out here that doesn’t feel that way. If they tell you that they’re lying, all right, or they’re not very good.

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You have to understand six elements for that. Take pen and write. Number one, what is your goal for this year? It leads to number two. What is your goal for this month? It leads to number three. What is your goal for this week? It leads to number four. What is my goal for today? And finally, what can I do good for my family this week? Write all this down. It will be a promise to yourself, to your friends and to your family. Hang it on a place where you can see it every morning instead of your phone. When Suki come and want to steal your time or energy, it will be easy to say no, thank you.

But I have to do some shit. I made promise. Be honorable.

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Do something that you don’t know if you can accomplish.

If I’m gonna climb a mountain Yeah, I could go up to you know mission San Luis Obispo You know, which is like a 2,000 2,000 foot mountain and I’m pretty confident. I could climb that. you know,

Mount Whitney without some training. honestly, we’ve kind of challenging, You know, obviously a k2 Everest, different, different beasts couldn’t do it. Do that, Do that, do that thing that you don’t know if you can do. Stop Being afraid of hard work. That’s the thing that’s gonna Really determine success or failure. one is Your desire to actually do it, and then to the commitment that it will take to achieve it.

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So another year has come and gone and a lot of us are in the same fucking place we were last year. What the fuck are you waiting on? We sleep one third of our fucking lives and we think we can take fucking days off. We think we have the right to sit back and give ourselves fucking options on which way we’re going to go in life. Am I going to run today? Am I going to work out today? Well, it’s Christmas. It’s New Year’s. It’s my birthday. Do you think time gives a fuck that it’s Christmas, that it’s New Year’s, that it’s your birthday? You’re giving yourself too many fucking options.

Let me tell you one thing. Time is running out. You keep on sitting around wondering what the fuck you want to do. You’re just going to run out of time. So make sure you do one thing. Stop following the fucking crowd. They may take time off, but you can’t afford to. Stay hard.

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Instead of spending time getting in the mood to work, just stop working. Confront the work. People think they need perfect conditions to start, when in reality, starting is the perfect condition.

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Instead of spending time getting in the mood to work, just stop working. Confront the work. People think they need perfect conditions to start, when in reality, starting is the perfect condition.

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It’s about winning. It’s about being the best. It’s about doing something other people can’t do or haven’t done or don’t have the balls to do. It’s a different game. See, people who think it’s about money and success and cars and houses, they get it confused because that’s cool. I like that shit. That’s part of my life, but that’s not why I do this. Has nothing to do with it, actually. I don’t really give a fuck. In fact, I drive home to probably one of the coolest houses in the whole country, maybe even the whole world, with one of the coolest car collections in the world for sure,

at one of the coolest headquarters of one of the coolest companies that exists on the planet every single day. That’s my life. And I’m highly dissatisfied with it. Not because I want more, but because I recognize that I’m not even close to the best. I’m not close, like, dude, yeah, I’ve provided an income, created jobs, I’ve done all this shit, but like, bro, there’s so many people that are so much better than me and have done so much more than me, and that’s the game I’ve chosen to play, and I’ve dedicated my life to it, and I intend to fucking win it.

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Not only do you want to stop being scared and do that thing that you don’t know if you can do or not, But you know what you got to do is you got to start taking the steps now.

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Because when you’re 18 years old, your life seems like it’s gonna last forever. And I will tell you right now, it’s not gonna last forever. And those years go by like a summer’s day. And the next thing you know you look up and you’re 36 years old, or you’re 44 years old. And that time’s gone. You cannot get it back. You cannot get time back.

So those dreams that you have, those goals that you have, don’t put them off another second. Not one. Not one second. Get on them and go out and make them happen starting right now.

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I got big goals this year, but in true guidance fashion, there will always be setbacks. So people think I killed that 300 pound man of mine. Oh no, he lurks. That’s my inner bitch. Whenever I’m in a setback or defeated, he pops up in my mind. Every morning I wake up and get a nice green smoothie, get after it. This morning, I smell in the kitchen, baking and eggs cooking. That big boy in my mind, he’s always waiting with a knife and fork in one hand. Big on there so he don’t get all fucked up. Wait and call me back to the dark side. Oh no, not today motherfucker. I know how you look.

I know how you sound. There’ll always be complications and setbacks before the finish line. We must be ready for him. Stay hard.

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everybody deserves to eat.

Not everybody deserves to eat at your table.

Who you invest your time with and spend your time with,

is it valuable or are you just wasting time? Wow.

Don’t waste your time.

Time is the most valuable thing that you have.

Every moment should be accounted for.

You should feel great about. You’ve learned something. If you’re not learning, you’re dying.

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But I’m just asking I what y’all gonna do with it? You know I’m saying like you got to go on to next year in a great position. all this, I’m a man when 2022 come on man. I’m gonna do this You know I’m saying like start now start today, so then when the next year come you already in motion You know I’m saying like I go like you watching this like you will be great I even got another choice like if you watch me like you have to be great You know I’m saying you just have to be it’s a rule. You know I’m saying so: Whatever, whatever goals you got, better start today.

whatever you, whatever you’ve been procrastinating on, stop doing that and let’s get it popping today. And I know it’s easy said to said and done. You know saying it’s been a lot of times where Folks it gets over one because I got so many tasks to do in one day. But that’s why you make a checklist, make you a daily checklist and try to complete it every day. You know saying: try to get 80% You got. if you got four things you need to do, complete three out of four. if you got ten, complete, add ten. You know saying: if you got six, complete four out of six.

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Take what they give and don’t be like, oh, David Goggins said this or whoever said this. No, do not take what I say and do exactly what I say. So for me, what makes me who I am, because my mission is very different than yours or anybody else’s, I have to go into a situation, okay, I’m a guy who wants to make people better. For people to get better, I have to continuously get better myself. For me to do that, I can’t just say, oh, I have this resume. The resume is there forever. I’m good. I have to cap my success because for me to help people out, I can’t just say I did it once and I’m good.

I have to continue to reinvent the wheel of the mind and figure out more and more ways for you to pull. Because if I have a cookie cutter message, it may hit five people out of 25. You just failed.

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Will you be ready when that opportunity comes? So you’re running out of time. You don’t know how much time you have. You keep telling yourself you got time and watch what happens. Now, you got to get what I’m telling you. Being average is dangerous. Being average is hazardous. Do you know how many young people right now, you average? Do you know you average because your father was average or your grandfather was average? I told you, I dropped out of school because my father dropped out, because my grandfather dropped out. Average.

There’s some folks right now, because you average, your life is messed up. Your wife’s life is messed up. Your kid’s life is messed up. Are you hearing me? Because you average. You average.

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You just have the time. You have the time because you don’t want to put that time into bettering oneself. So I know why I’m misunderstood. I’m misunderstood by people who have plenty of time on their hands to misunderstand me because they are exactly where I once was, which is a low-life, lazy piece of shit. It’s the harsh reality of people who troll you, who go after you. They have nothing better to do with their lives. It’s not some after-school special. It’s the truth by once was that way. I know where it all comes from.

That’s why it’s frustrating me now because I’m not so frustrated at the fact that I’m being trolled. I’m frustrated by the fact that you don’t have the courage, the courage to try to be somebody better than what you’re not. And that’s the frustrating part.

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I mean if you’re going to be successful and you’re going to have a chance to be successful, you have to do some of the same things. But it really all starts, it all starts with who you are. You know I always tell our players, who you are is more important than what you do. How high you jump, how fast you run, because who you are is your character. And your character is an accumulation of your thoughts, your habits, and your priorities on a day-to-day basis. Because those three things determine the choices you make, and the choices you make, make you who you are.

Good guy, bad guy, hard working, lazy, responsible, irresponsible. And it takes a certain amount of discipline to do what you’re supposed to do, when you’re supposed to do it, the way it’s supposed to get done. If we were talking about business, it would all, it would be all about doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time.

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600 some odd thousand people looking at me saying Motherfucking Goggins is somewhere out there. He’s somewhere out there fucking getting after it and I am so you ain’t never fucking alone I’m out there somewhere 600 some thousand people there’s a chance that when you’re working out I don’t care if you’re in fucking Washington DC and I’m in Nashville. There’s a good chance at the same time We’re getting after it. I want people to know that and it’s the real deal. We are getting after it together, not know like happy family shit, But we’re getting after it, you know.

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It’s not time for some soft shit. It’s not time for soft shit, man.

This isn’t a fucking playground.

Don’t come on my Instagram, Facebook,

or Twitter talking some bullshit.

Come on, if you wanna join the community and get hard and see what you’re about,

don’t talk about rest.

You know, how do you do it?

No, let’s fucking stop thinking so much and let’s put the shoes on and get grinding.

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You got 24 hours in a day. Eight hours you sleep, right? And most people work a nine to five. So eight hours you’re working. 16 hours. Okay, so we have 16 hours. We got breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So we’re at night, that’s 19? It take you an hour to get ready. So we have 20 hours. So I cannot spend, you guys cannot spend four hours going to them about, oh, they lying. Oh, I like this photo. Oh, they faking. Sending photos to other people. Y’all got to get focused. I’m where I’m at because I’m focused. Tunnel vision, I’m focused on what I got to do.

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because we creating greats. And when you create great, everybody around you gets to experience great. And when you average, it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous. You average in your house, bruh, you average. And so your kids going to school being average. Your son play basketball, he being average. Your daughter is not pushing herself, why? Because you average. And I’m telling you, average is dangerous. Average is dangerous. Average is hazardous because it’s contagious. Are you hearing me? It’s contagious. And it’s like the bubonic plague. It spreads and it spreads. It’s like a virus.

And so I need you to do me a favor. I need you to get off average, right? I need you to get off average.

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We all have time We all have time what you’ve done wrong. Is that you you didn’t prioritize? yourself You didn’t prioritize that look motherfucker I got get up and win this war today against myself unreal how much time you waste during the day and most of it on These fucking computers phones, you know Instagram and back and forth wherever the hook you call it nowadays tweeting and texting it We waste so much time on our little gadgets. It’s unreal Every time. but we have no time. if you really take, you have to take your day and write, write down this one day,

Everything you do write that down and you like my god. I am wasting so much time on frivolous bullshit It’s not even funny. I mean it will it will if then Infuriate you it should because there’s so much time. I can’t get it in. look at your schedule. Just wasted seven hours today on bullshit. I mean you don’t have an hour a day to try to get something in for yourself? I guarantee everybody can find an hour.

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Stay focused on what really matters. There will be times when your resolve to serve humanity will be tested. Be prepared. People will try to convince you that you should keep your empathy out of your career. Don’t accept this false premise.

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Don’t let people who have mediocre goals deter you from taking actions that make you great because it makes you different. Realizing that I thought most people actually made no sense. They say they had these goals but they took no action and they called me work obsessed and they would tell me I should take time off and they’re like, hey you’re not as cool anymore. You’re not hanging out with the boys. Why aren’t you participating in the fantasy league? Why aren’t you watching football on Sunday with us? And for me, I actually used to love watching football with my friends.

It was actually one of my biggest things that I looked forward to. But the thing is that I needed that Sunday because I had to prep workouts. I had to prep the music list for the next day. I had to run billing. I had to do all this other work. And the thing is that I looked at that football game and I was like, my goals are more important to me than this. And so I think that a lot of people don’t actually look at themselves in the mirror and say, one year from today, will I remember this football game, Or will I remember the fact that I’m not where I said I wanted to be?

And to me, that was significantly more painful.

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What we do right now, we’re going to ensure it goes our way. We’re going to ensure that there is no regret. That’s something you can’t ever fucking fix. It’s a debate inside your head that never stops. We’re going to learn from past regrets. We’re going to ensure we don’t re-regret them. We’re going to ensure we don’t go out tonight. We’re going to stay in here, even if no one else is here, and push it a little bit further, because there’s still work to be done. The party I might smile at tonight, the laughter I might be had tonight, is a huge distant second.

This is the fucking pride one feels of accomplishing their goals. And here, even though it’s painful, it’s joyful, because I can taste it, I see it clear, I’m closer to it. A year will come with great honor, not great regrets.

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My message needs to be in a way where I can hit all 25 people it needs to be broad enough To where all 25 people may not like the message But they’re getting something from it and that is evolution You must continue to evolve and you don’t evolve for me in my job unless I cap myself somewhere It’s okay. You made this much money. get back to fucking work. It’s time to get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk, get off the podcast. Don’t be on social media too much. cut out all the fucking noise. get back to the fucking mental lab, Because that’s where the knowledge came from. So for me,

I must cap myself so I can come back with better more unique knowledge versus the creek No all that cookie cutter knowledge that’s out there That’s why people buy the books I have because it’s not cookie cutter. It’s real knowledge.

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The greatest pleasure I’ve had is trying to do something that everybody says could not be done.

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Things go wrong, they always seem to happen at once and they just compound on top of each other. And it’s pretty easy sometimes to feel beaten when you’re faced with all those issues and all those problems and they all hit you at the same time. But let me tell you, that doesn’t mean give up.

In fact, it means the opposite. It means it’s time for you to fight harder, to dig in. Means it’s time for you to go on the war path.

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Dude, I want more time is what I want. And I want more health. As long as I have people around me that I wanna be around, okay? Because I don’t wanna be around, I don’t wanna be around people I don’t like, okay? Under any condition. That’s the thing that makes me most unhappy, really. I don’t like being around people that don’t do stuff. I don’t like people that talk about doing something and don’t. I don’t like people being around people that can’t pay mills and can’t throw in and can’t contribute. Because I know they can.

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I say one of the best ways to get things done is to write things down, write down what you’re trying to get done, write down what you need to get done on a long-term basis and what you need to get done on a short-term basis. And write off a checklist. Force yourself. Be accountable.

Darrell Bock: Yeah, the difference between a dream and a goal is a timeline and accountability.

Ramon Mateo, Yeah, accountability’s gigantic.

Darrell Bock, You’ve got to have somebody, whether it’s yourself or a friend or somebody that’s going to say, look, did you do what you said you were going to do by this time? And if you don’t, hold your feet to the fire. Because just sitting around dreaming, someday, someday I’m going to get a different job. Someday I’m going to change this. Well, someday ain’t a day of the week. There’s Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Look on your calendar. Someday’s not on there. So you’ve got to say, okay, I’m going to take this small step by here,

this small step by there, this small step by there. And then pretty soon, we don’t leap tall buildings in a single bound. We take it a floor at a time.

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Darrell Bock: Yeah, the difference between a dream and a goal is a timeline and accountability.

Ramon Mateo, Yeah, accountability’s gigantic.

this small step by there, this small step by there. And then pretty soon, we don’t leap tall buildings in a single bound. We take it a floor at a time.

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Explain where you are at. Be blunt, be upfront, and then give them the simple plan of how you’re gonna get things back on track. Don’t sugarcoat it. You give it to them straight. Next, you got some late payments. Call those creditors up. Explain to them what’s going on. Set up some kind of a minimum payment plan so you can start making some progress and get them off your back. And then you got your job, right? You’re falling behind at work. Okay, talk to your boss. Face it. Tell him that you’re gonna step up your game. Tell him you’re gonna be at work early, you’re gonna be at work late,

you’re gonna be at work during lunch, you’re gonna be wherever you need to be whenever he needs you to be there.

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I’m not thinking about joy. I’m not thinking about contentment. I’m not thinking about… I’m thinking about action. Yeah. I want the action. I want the grind. I want the action. I want the possibility. Like, the political thing, like, hanging out with… We were just talking to Newsom yesterday. I’m like, man, I can’t imagine playing in your arena, bro. Like… Like, it seems so intriguing to me. He’s like, look, you don’t want anything to do with it. I said, no, that’s what I mean. Every time I bring up politics to anybody, they’re like, but you want nothing to do with this.

I’m like, sounds intriguing. Like, to me, that wouldn’t be a happy place. Right. But it will be an action place. Interesting place. It would be like, oh my God, man, somebody’s gonna rip my face off. Or I’m gonna rip their face off. But somebody’s face has gotta get ripped off. Let’s keep it real in that game.

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Rise, young warrior. You must get up. Your journey is not over.

I can’t fight him. He has all my weapons. I have nothing.

When you began your journey, you were determined. Nothing could stop you. And now that you are so close, are you willing to give up so easily?

It was easier at the beginning.

Beginnings are often easier. But think of all that you have accomplished along your journey. What you have learned from your battles with the bear, the snake, the monkey.

What’s the point of fighting my way up the mountain when someone else is just going to come up the easy way?

There is always going to be someone who does things the easy way. But that should not stop you from doing things the right way. It is your journey, young warrior. Only you decide when it ends.

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It won’t be easy It will be hard because life is hard. That’s what life is. in

these challenges, These challenges that you face, They’re gonna do their best to take you down.

Do not let them stand up dig in Line up those problems and confront them face them Fight them do not Let them bring you down. In fact, In fact, let those challenges Raise you up. Let them elevate you, Let their demands and their trials make you stronger.

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Hear that I’m over 40. I’m pushing 50, whatever. Bring it back off Negative not happening. In fact, I’m stepping it up. I’m training harder, eating cleaner. I’m training more. I’m learning and reading and studying more now than I ever have in my whole life.

Do I get dinged up? Of course I do. there take some, some injuries. . Yeah,

You know what? no factor, No factor, deal with them, because You know what? You know what? I hear? I hear the clock ticking. That’s what I hear, and the end is nigh and time waits for no man.

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Do I get dinged up? Of course I do. there take some, some injuries. . Yeah,

You know what? no factor, No factor, deal with them, because You know what? You know what? I hear? I hear the clock ticking. That’s what I hear, and the end is nigh and time waits for no man.

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It’s something that I can never really… It’s a frustrating thing for me because I know the majority of people. I know what goes on in the brain, because I studied the mind more than almost more than you, because I’m a practitioner. So for you to be a piece of shit and come out of that, you don’t just come out of it. You spend decades studying your mind in the human mind on how it functions in good environments, bad environments, stressful environments, patient environment. You studied all because you had to put all this together to create the mind to become successful.

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Enjoy where you are and be hungry for the next thing. Like, bro, I don’t feel like that’s the truth. The truth is, you know, and people will judge this, you know, people who are not ambitious and who are wired different, they judge this. They say, well, fuck, that’s no way to live. Well, it’s no way to live for you because you’re not wired for it, all right? Some people aren’t wired to live like that. In fact, most people aren’t. In fact, it’s less than 1% of the actual population. That’s why the 1% is the 1%, you know? So you have to understand, if you’re out there building something,

whether it be an athletic career, a professional career, a physique, a business, whatever it is you’re building, you’re gonna spend most of your time feeling frustrated. You’re gonna feel most of the time like you’re losing. You’re gonna feel like most of the time you’re getting your ass kicked. And then some good stuff’s gonna happen, all right? But then after the good stuff happens, you’re gonna automatically flip your brain over to what’s next, all right? And then the process starts over again.

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Let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow.

So, so in the future, you look back at these struggles and you say to them, thank you.

You made me better.

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Damn man, what the hell are you doing? This guy will knock you on your ass!

Come on, Rock. It’s not a game. You want to live in the hospital for five weeks this time? You thought I was tough? This chump will kill you! Come on, come on. Get your head on your shoulders, man. Think about the fight. Think about the fight. Cover legs, and he’s trying to hurt you, Rock. He’s trying to hurt you. Okay, here he comes. Damn, Rock! Come on! What’s the matter with you? Tomorrow. Let’s do it tomorrow. There is no tomorrow!

There’s no tomorrow!

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So what happens with these opportunities that come and go? They produce a byproduct of water when I say water two different types of water one’s powerful and one’s submissive The submissive one will be tears of water crying the powerful water is a sweat that comes out both water, right? So my question would be For all these people that cry out there. They cry about opportunities missed Instead of smiling for opportunities lived Miami Fitness, we’re about to live an opportunity right now tricep style. Come on.

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Stress doesn’t come from hard work, for example. You can be working incredibly hard and loving it. And likewise, you can be out of work and incredibly stressed over that. So and likewise- if you kind of use that as an analogy for what I was just talking about- if you’re out of work but you’re going through a disciplined approach of a series of job interviews and so on and working to remedy that situation, you’re going to be a lot less stressed than if you’re just worrying about it and doing nothing.

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You need to make time. You need to get up earlier. You need to pick up the pace when you’re going to your car, maybe even jog a little bit.

Rest less between your sets when you’re working out. Focus harder when you’re at work so you can get the job done faster. Put a schedule together and compress your meetings and your calls. See where you can save three minutes or five minutes or ten minutes. How can you move faster with more efficiency and maximum effectiveness? You save those three minutes, you save those five minutes, and those minutes add up. And those minutes become hours and days and weeks. That is how you make time.

So get that sense of urgency and go get after it.

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Find something, find a thing that you genuinely enjoy because getting good at things you genuinely enjoy is extremely beneficial for young people because it lets you know that, everybody thinks they’re a loser. Every young person thinks they’re a loser, at least a young person in the situation I was at. I didn’t know I wasn’t a loser until I started winning, till I started doing martial arts. Martial arts taught me that I could get better at stuff, that I wasn’t really a loser, I just was someone who was like in a fucked up situation,

but you could channel all that energy that you have as a young person into something and get better at it, and then all of a sudden people admired me. I was like, this is crazy. So I went from being someone who was incredibly insecure, and basically a failure, to someone who was really successful at this one thing that was very dangerous, that other people were scared of.

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Like I’m 54 years old right now, like that.

I mean, it just fucking flew by.

And, uh, you think when you’re young that you have all this time,

you have no time. There’s there, there’s no time.

I mean, one of the, one of the quotes on the wall and the gym in there’s, um, you know,

there is no tomorrow from, from,

from Rocky three, you know,

there is no tomorrow,

fuck that shit.

Let’s let’s, let’s get all this shit done today.

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Like I’m 54 years old right now, like that.

I mean, it just fucking flew by.

And, uh, you think when you’re young that you have all this time,

you have no time. There’s there, there’s no time.

I mean, one of the, one of the quotes on the wall and the gym in there’s, um, you know,

there is no tomorrow from, from,

from Rocky three, you know,

there is no tomorrow,

fuck that shit.

Let’s let’s, let’s get all this shit done today.

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I just picked up this month’s issue of Forbes magazine. It’s called Billionaires. It’s on some newsstands right now for April. And the overwhelming fact there, right, was that the majority of the billionaires, that was 200 and some in 2001, now there’s over 400 in 2011. So there’s so much growth of billionaires. And if you look at the stats and they broke it down, they broke it down, how were they made? Were they made by inheritance? Or were they self-generated, self-created?

And majority, 60% of all billionaires are self-created. Think of that, guys. Because what that means is that these guys are no different than us. They had an idea, or they had an opportunity, slapped them in the face at any given time. And if we think about it and we dissect our day, we have opportunities coming up every single day. It’s our ability or inability to notice them and then to react to them.

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75 years. That’s how much time you get if you’re lucky. 75 years. 75 winters, 75 springtimes, 75 summers, and 75 autumns. When you look at it like that, it’s not a lot of time. Don’t waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that preoccupy your existence and get back to what’s important now. Right now, this very second. And I’m not saying drop everything and let the world come to a grinding halt. I’m saying that you can become a seeker. You can be loving more. You can be taking some chances. You can be living more.

You can be spending more time with your family. You can be getting in touch with the part of you that lives instead of fears. The part of you that loves instead of hates.

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God put it in your imagination. He don’t put it in other people’s imagination. Stop telling your visions to other people because they’re not going to see it.

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And the problem with most of you, you never felt no pain before. Y’all spoiled. Y’all spoiled, some of y’all spoiled. Just bottom line, your parents have done everything for you. You never had to do nothing for yourself. You’re spoiled, we’re gonna keep it real tonight. Some of you are spoiled brats.

Every time you ever got in trouble, somebody in your house got you out of it. Every time you done something you’re not supposed to do, people say, Eric, your mother’s a tyrant. You’re right, she kicked me out. You’re right, she’s mean, but she developed a man because she put me out there and said, you’re gonna have to grow up. And some of you have never learned to grow up.

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For those of you that have experienced some hardships,

don’t give up on your dream. No one could have convinced me by holding on, by continuing to push forward, by continuing to run toward my dream,

that one day I would have my own talk show.

It’s a long shot,

ladies and gentlemen,

from Liberty City, an abandoned building on a floor, never knowing my mother or father. It’s a long shot. Being here with you today in this dome in Atlanta, it’s a long shot. No college training, labeled, educable, mentally retarded, but I kept running toward my dream.

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How do you decide an opportunity is worth 10 years of your time?

Immediately I go to what would my days look like? And I tend to reverse from that. Maybe there’s many different big opportunities that exist, but which is the one that has the most days in a row that I would like to live? Because I think the likelihood that I stick with it is pretty high if I like what I’m doing every day.

Every single good thing that happens in our lives, everything comes at a cost. There’s nothing for free. Somebody with an incredible career has no relationship with their kids, right? Everything comes at a cost. But at the same time, everything we struggle with has opportunity and lesson that goes with it. It’s always balanced.

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You’ve already achieved goals you said would make you happy. You’ve already achieved goals you said would make you happy. How can you presume that your happiness sits on the next side of the next set of goals, given that right now you are on the other side of your last set of goals?

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You want to reach your goal? How to reach the goal the quickest? Be focused with your energy. Meaning be focused with the mind. Don’t lose the goal from the mind. Whatever you do from the moment of waking up until the evening, whatever you do, keep the goal in the mind.

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I want you to know that you are blessed and highly favored and that, as you go toward the future, begin to know that you have greatness within you. and if just one of you here begin to envision yourselves as being blessed and highly favored to reach your goals, if just one of you capture the essence of what that means, that you have greatness within you and a responsibility to manifest that greatness, that you can make your parents proud, you can make your school proud, you can touch millions of people’s lives and the world will never be the same again because you came this way.

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You have to keep people on their heels. They can’t know everything about you. And what I said is, disappear for a couple weeks. Make people talk about you. Make people wonder, why is she not posting as much? Why are we not seeing what she’s wearing in the morning and having for breakfast and all these other things? I said, Beyonce did that. She disappeared for like a couple of years. And then she comes out with like a country Western album that nobody expected. Michael Jackson did that. He would disappear between albums for three or four years.

And it just made people go crazy and talk about him and wonder who he was. That was before the era of social media, Grant. But you have to disappear sometimes so people don’t take you for granted. If they know everything about you, it’s human nature that you become too familiar and they’re not interested in you anymore at a certain point. So you have to create mystery.

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Ideas are shit until you execute them. Every day I roll up on people, they’re like, yo, I’m gonna buy the Seahawks and you’re gonna buy the Jets. And I’m like, great, can’t wait to see you. People are always telling me that they’re gonna do this and that and this and that. And you know what I do? I don’t know if you do this. I ask lots of them to email me in 60 days. And you know how many do? Goose egg. People talk shit. 99% of you aren’t gonna do anything about it. And that sucks.

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Don’t stop! Don’t stop!

Don’t stop running toward your dream!

It’s very important, as you hold on to that dream,

there are moments when you’re going to doubt yourself. There are rough times that are going to come, but they have not come to stay. They have come to pass. It’s very important for you to know that. Don’t say, I’m having a bad day. Say, I’m having a character-building day. It’s very important for you to believe that you are the one to make this happen.

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Why how what? This little idea Explains why some organizations and some leaders are able to inspire where others aren’t. let me define the terms really quickly. Every single person every single organization on the planet knows what they do 100% Some know how they do it, whether you call it your differentiating value proposition or your proprietary process or a USP, But very, very few people or organizations know why they do what they do.

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You don’t believe it until you start talking about it.

And let me tell you something, you can always tell when a vision is from God, it makes you look like a fool.

If they believe you the first time you tell them, it’s not from God.

Because the end is always so amazing. Every vision only has one believer first.

Sometime you got to convince your spouse. But once you’ve seen it, it takes over your life.

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When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it. Didn’t get the new high-speed gear we wanted? Good. Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better. Oh, mission got canceled? Good. We can focus on another one. Didn’t get funded? Didn’t get the job you wanted? Got injured? Sprained my ankle? Got tapped out? Good. Got beat? Good. You learned.

Unexpected problems? Good. We have the opportunity to figure out a solution.

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Success doesn’t just happen. It’s not an accident. Success is attracted to certain kinds of people. Success isn’t just about what you have. It’s about who you are. It’s about the person you become in the process of achieving your goals. You see, success leaves clues. If you look at successful people, you’ll notice they have certain habits, certain ways of thinking, certain attitudes that set them apart. And the good news is, these are all things you can learn and develop. So let’s start with the foundation.

The first step in becoming the person who attracts success is to take full responsibility for your life.

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Know why you are doing what you are doing and then get out there every day and win those small, tactical, short-term battles So you can win the strategic, long-term victory That puts you where you want to be. and it’s not gonna be easy.

The fight, the daily fight, is a challenge. You will not always Want to do what you need to do. You will not always feel like doing something you need to do. You may not want to fight that battle, But you need to. you need to. you need to know your strategic goals and you need to know why they are Important. and then you need to get up, get out of your damn bed, get off your phone, Get out of the soft and addictive comfort zone.

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When you take responsibility, you’re saying, I am in control of my life. My success or failure depends on me. You stop blaming others, you stop making excuses and you start taking action. I remember talking to a young man once who was complaining about his job. He said, I hate my job. My boss is terrible. The pay is lousy. I’m stuck. And I asked him, well, what are you doing about it? He looked at me blankly. He hadn’t even considered that he could do something about it. That’s the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people. Successful people don’t wait for things to happen.

They make things happen. They don’t say, I can’t. They ask, how can I?

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When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated.

If you can say the word good, guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing. And if you’re still breathing,

well then hell, you still got some fight left in you. So get up, dust off, reload, recalibrate, re-engage, and go out on the attack.

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Everything we do,

we believe in challenging the status quo. We believe in thinking differently.

The way we challenge the status quo is by making our products beautifully designed,

simple to use, and user-friendly.

We just happen to make great computers.

Want to buy one?

Totally different, right? You’re ready to buy a computer from me.

All I did was reverse the order of the information.

People don’t buy what you do, people buy why you do it.

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Stress is when like if you look at an iron beam, when an iron beam is under stress, it’s because it’s being bent in two different directions at the same time. So, when your mind is under stress, it’s because it has two conflicting desires at once. So, for example, you want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish and you can’t reconcile the two and so you’re under stress. You don’t want to go to work, but you want to make money, so you’re under stress, right? So you have two conflicting desires, and I think one of the ways to get through stress is to acknowledge that, oh,

I actually have two conflicting desires and either I need to resolve it, I need to pick one and then be okay losing the other, or I will decide later. But at least just being aware of why your stress can help alleviate a lot of stress.

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Now having goals is great, but it’s not enough. You need to write them down. There’s something magical that happens when you put pen to paper. It’s like you’re sending a message to your subconscious mind saying, this is important, pay attention to this. And don’t just write them once and forget about them. Review your goals regularly. I recommend reading them every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to bed. This keeps them fresh in your mind and helps you stay focused. But here’s where many people go wrong. They set a goal and then they sit back and wait for it to happen.

That’s not how it works. Goals without action are just wishes. You need to take consistent, persistent action towards your goals. This is where discipline comes in.

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you’re what you are and where you are because of what’s going into your mind.

You can change what you are. You can change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Have you ever noticed that people who are the problem never recognize that they are?

They’re in complete denial. They think denial is just a river in Egypt.

You’re not gonna change anybody else.

Did you change you?

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You have to decide along the way which one you’re going to be. You can be a leader, but a leader is a developed set of skills. It’s a developed set.

And the more, but see, here’s what stops the average person from being a leader,

is the fear of the consequences of leading.

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In any area of your life that you don’t have what you want, whether it’s the amount of money, the amount of people on your team, the amount of sales, the amount of trips for your family, if you only did the things that you don’t feel like doing, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted. Those areas where you’re happy, you do the work. Those areas where you’re complaining, you don’t feel like it, so you don’t do it.

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You can’t Google success and you can’t Google exposure.

You can’t Google now one of them things.

Matter of fact,

go home and Google it.

Google success, see if you get it. Google exposure, see if you get it.

You have to be exposed to certain things in order for you to know it.

And success is hard.

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. It’s what gets you out of bed early to work on your business when you’d rather sleep in. It’s what makes you save money for your future when you’d rather spend it now. It’s what pushes you to keep going when things get tough. Now, I know discipline isn’t a very popular word these days. We live in a world of instant gratification. Everyone’s success now without putting in the work. But let me tell you, there are no elevators to success. You have to take the stairs. Think about it this way. Every day you’re building your future.

Every action you take, every decision you make is like laying a brick. One brick might not seem like much, but if you lay a brick every single day, eventually you’ll have built a wall. Keep going and you’ll have a house.

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You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want. That’s true in your personal life, it’s true in your family life, it’s true in your corporate life.

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If you want to attract success, you need to know what success looks like for you. I like to think of goals as a destination on a map. If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? How will you know which road to take? But here’s the thing about goals. They need to be your goals. Not your parents’ goals for you. Not society’s goals. Not what you think you should want. Your goals need to be what you truly desire.

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Every moment of your life, you’re answering three questions. Jot them down. Three questions. First question is, what are you gonna focus on? Right now, whatever you’re focusing on affects you. If you’re focusing on how you’re gonna use what you’re gonna learn this weekend, you could be focusing on the smell of your neighbor after all that jumping up and down. There’s so many things you can focus on. We don’t focus on everything. We focus on a small number of things and that’s what we experience in life. And focus right now equals feeling.

Whatever you focus on, you’re gonna feel, even if it’s not true. So the most powerful decision we make, and most of us don’t make it consciously, is what are we gonna focus on?

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Like I always say, This message isn’t for everybody. Some of you are so weak. Just being in your very presence Can make a man go impotent. Your fucking energy, It’s so fucked. I can’t even explain it. I put a video up of Some fucking feet 10-second video and you all got so much to say about it My balance is fucked up this and that Is this the message you really want to put out there Goggins? Fuck yeah, that’s the fucking message I want to put out there. That’s what effort fucking looks like. Stay hard.

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I believe that the greatest thing to even when your back’s against the wall, if money’s tight, when you can dream a compelling future, it is like a rope pulling you. And I would say someone who feels there’s no hope, there’s no way I can do it. Is there no way? Our resourcefulness, our courage, our confidence to move forward is in direct correlation of how big our compelling future is. Just go Google some of the most successful people in the world and then find when was their lowest time, before they found the mechanism, the tactics, the marketing strategy,

the business to be in, before they found that, they found a way to say it sucks we’re on that. But someday it’s going to be so good, I can accept the suck for a little while because tomorrow’s going to be better.

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I’ve never seen anyone not be able to progress if they made the task small enough. But, you know, that can be pretty humiliating. Now, the upside is that once you’ve take that first step, you’ve looked the beast in the face, and you’ll start progressing not linearly, but exponentially in speed. So what’s cool is that it doesn’t really matter how small that first step is, because it’ll start doubling, and anything that doubles grows unbelievably quickly. And so that’s a very useful thing to know too. And that’s true when you’re learning anything new.

It’s like you’ll feel like an imposter, you’ll feel like a fool, because you are, and you’ll think, I’ll never get there, and the destination might look very distant. But if you take a sufficiently small first step and get the ball rolling, you can be cruising along at a pretty good rate, generally faster than you’ll think.

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You will go to Cali, you will live in that house, you will get a pool, you will learn how to swim, you will be in the sun in the winter time, you will live your best life. I’m not on my watch and you ought to be ashamed of yourself of some stuff that has happened on your watch.

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If I asked you, there are two things you could focus on, what you have or what’s missing. Which one do you spend more time focusing on? If your brain is constantly focusing on what’s missing, how can you ever sustain happiness no matter how successful you become? It is impossible.

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You are here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

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You can’t make me want what I don’t want.

You can’t dangle something in front of my face that says I don’t want that. And many of you are taking anything because you don’t know what you want. And so if I can do one thing for you when you leave this room, I don’t want nothing from you but for you to leave this room and know what you want. What do you want in your marriage? What do you want with your son and your daughter? What do you want in your health? What do you want financially? Like how much money do you want to make a year? What do you want to drive? How do you want to live? Stop just waking up like an accident.

What do you want? And then once you find out what you want, spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it.

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Accept the pain. Smile at the pain. Embrace the pain. Pain is the gatekeeper of destiny. Pain is there to ask you one simple question. Do you really want to achieve your goals? Or are you just a token?

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That’s how success works. It’s the result of small consistent actions over time. But here’s the exciting part. As you develop discipline and take consistent action, you start to see results. And those results motivate you to keep going. It becomes a positive cycle. Success breeds success. Now, let’s talk about something that’s crucial if you want to attract success. Your mindset, your mind is like a garden. Whatever you plant in it will grow. If you plant negativity, doubt, and fear, that’s what will grow. But if you plant positivity, confidence, and faith, that’s what will flourish.

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There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse.

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You got to be careful when you got talent because sooner or later, if you’re not careful, you can become a victim of your own talent. And when you become a victim of your own talent, You don’t value the small things anymore. and at a certain point in the early years, the small things with the foundation, And this is the thing that got you to the point that you are at now.

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Some of you going to sleep and you don’t deserve to be, you don’t deserve rest.

You lazy, you don’t deserve rest. Rest is for people who work.

You ain’t doing nothing. Every day you chilling.

You need to know your why.

And my why wakes me up every single morning.

Oh, you don’t get it.

Listen to me very closely. You can write everything down if you want to. Be brave enough to write every one of your goals down.

But I’m going to tell you something. Life’s going to hit you in your mouth and you got to do me a huge favor.

Your why has to be greater than that not doubt.

At the end of your feelings is nothing.

But at the end of every principle is a promise.

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Breakthrough I’m gonna break these boys why because where they come from they couldn’t get up at three o’clock in the morning They wanted to they smothered me. They come from privilege. They got the language. They got the code They got the rule they grew up in it, but they will not get up earlier than me They will not put out more content to me beast mode one two three beast mode one two three beast mode one two three Beast mode I beast mode my way to number one. I Beast mode my way to number one. I looked at their weaknesses and I said boom they will not outwork me.

I’ll go quicker I’ll go harder. I’ll go longer. I’ll go faster.

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Let me tell you, if someone told me that something is impossible,

I would go out and do it.

That’s just the way I always was. I was told to my face,

you’re nothing but a giant muscle.

You can’t act.

You have no future and you have an accent that is laughable.

Ignore the naysayers.

Work like hell.

Trust yourself.

Break some rules.

Don’t be afraid to fail.

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Every day you say no to your dreams, you might be pushing your dreams back a whole six months. That one single day, that one day you didn’t get up could have pushed your stuff back I don’t know how long.

The first level to success in life, listen to me, the very first level, the very first level is you seeing it. Like it’s clear to you, like you know exactly what you want. You know exactly when you want it. Listen to me, you know exactly what it tastes like. You know what it look like, you know what it smells like. Before you really blow up, blow up and you get success, you literally have it in the palm of your hand without having it.

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Don’t listen. Just visualize your goal, know exactly where you want to go, trust yourself, get out there and work like hell, and break some of the rules and never, ever be afraid of failure. I couldn’t have gone to one lifting event in my life if I would have been afraid of failure, because of course there’s a chance that you can fail. When you lift a weight, I tried 10 times to lift bench press 500 pounds, and I failed, but the 11th time I did it. So never give up and never be afraid of failure because otherwise you box yourself in and you limit yourself.

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We won’t always be slaves. So today, although we’re slaves, we’re going to act like we’re free and one day our children will be free. If the slaves would have just said, we quit, we give up, we would have died in the middle passage. But some slaves said, I don’t care what we go through, we’re going to survive this. 400 years of slavery, we’re going to get through this. And you can’t get through it 1825. You can’t get through a writing class and you got tutor after tutor, resource after resource. The problem is you ain’t never felt no pain before. You’re soft. It’s a soft generation.

You quit on everything.

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You gotta be hungry.

People that are hungry are willing to do the things a day others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.

People that are hungry believe always strive to get on top in life because it’s the bottom that’s overcrowded.

I didn’t do what I’m doing right now because it was hard.

If you do what is easy,

your life will be hard.

Complain, point at your circumstances, give up your power,

blame the government, blame the economy.

If you do what is easy,

your life will be hard.

But if you do what is hard,

your life will be easy.

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You gotta be hungry.

People that are hungry are willing to do the things a day others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.

People that are hungry believe always strive to get on top in life because it’s the bottom that’s overcrowded.

I didn’t do what I’m doing right now because it was hard.

If you do what is easy,

your life will be hard.

Complain, point at your circumstances, give up your power,

blame the government, blame the economy.

If you do what is easy,

your life will be hard.

But if you do what is hard,

your life will be easy.

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but I’m unbeatable. I’m totally and completely unequivocally unbeatable. It’s all in the head. Other times you go in the ring and think, this skis is too good for me. You’ve lost before you start. It’s in the head. But over a period of time, you learn a little bit more about yourself because you have more experience in different circumstances. Then you find out what you really are.

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discipline, it does start with waking up early. It really does. But that is just the beginning. And I always say that discipline is the root of all good qualities,

but you have to absolutely apply it to things outside of just waking up early. It’s everything. It’s working out every day, making yourself stronger and faster and more flexible and healthier.

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discipline, it does start with waking up early. It really does. But that is just the beginning. And I always say that discipline is the root of all good qualities,

but you have to absolutely apply it to things outside of just waking up early. It’s everything. It’s working out every day, making yourself stronger and faster and more flexible and healthier.

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It’s about disciplining your emotions So you can make good decisions. It’s about having the discipline to control your ego, So your ego doesn’t get out of hand and control you. It’s about treating people the way you would want to be treated And and doing the tasks that you don’t necessarily want to do, but that you know We’ll help you, or help your team.

It’s about Facing your fears. Takes discipline to face your fears so you can conquer them.

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What is the impact that you want to have on the world? The impact I want to have on the world is … I have several answers for it, but the biggest one is we are all great. No matter if you think you’re dumb, no matter if you think you’re fat, no matter if you are fat, no matter if you’ve been bullied, or no matter if you just got back from Iraq or Afghanistan and you have no legs or your arms or whatever, man, we all have greatness. It’s just you got to find the courage. You got to find the courage to put your Bose headphones on and silence the noise out of this world and to find it.

And to find it because it’s out there, but it’s going to take hard work, courage, self-discipline. It’s going to take all the non-cognitive skills. All the non-cognitive skills to be great.

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And the funny thing is, when you grew up and moved out, your parents never said to you, guess what? You are a total pain in the rear end. You never feel like doing anything. You don’t feel like doing your homework. You don’t feel like going out. You don’t feel like making your bed. You don’t feel like saying hello to strangers. You don’t feel like using your manners. You don’t feel like cleaning your room. Good luck to ya. So the only way to get what you want is to parent yourself.

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Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.

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From the moment that you have the idea, I should email out the fall collection. I should go through the contact list for my college or university and reach out to people. I should go through my contact list and invite 23 people this week to just take the dogs for a walk. I should make a request of a friend and ask if I can come do a presentation at lunch at his law firm. From the second you have that idea, you’ve only got five seconds to take action. Otherwise, it’s gone.

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My personal question to you is why not you?

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Here’s the big challenge of life. You can have more than you’ve got because you can become more than you are.

That’s the challenge. And of course, the other side of the coin reads, unless you change how you are, you’ll always have what you got.

I have found in my experience that income does not far exceed personal development.

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Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water, my friend. You are not ready. I know. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

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Now, sometimes income takes a lucky jump, but sure enough, unless you grow out where it is, it’ll usually come back where you are. Life has strange ways. If somebody hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire quickly so you get to keep the money. Otherwise, sure enough, it’ll disappear. Somebody once said, if you took all the money in the world, divided it up equally among everybody, it would soon all be back in the same pockets.

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If you want to do something and you want it that bad, you’ll make sacrifices. Growing up for me as a kid, I made a lot of sacrifices that I didn’t seem that they were a big deal. I don’t think of them as being a big deal right now. There were Saturdays or Fridays where I’d give up going to a dance or hanging out with my friends because I had work out the next day. But those things that I gave up were things that I wanted to, to help me get to my goal. There were times where I’ve been put in uncomfortable situations, but I’ve used my mental power, my mental strength to push through it.

I think that’s how you can look at any of the athletes in the world. I mean, Tiger, the guy has a busted knee and still comes and destroys the rest of the field.

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reinterpreting our past, understanding and knowing that we can move from where we are, that we can begin to design the kind of life that empowers us, that gives us happiness, that enable us to be on top of who we are, knowing that as we begin to explore new horizons and new vistas in life, that as we begin to focus on developing ourselves, as we begin to elevate ourselves and not to follow the crowd.

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When you went through BUDS, do they teach you how to think or do they show you by example? They don’t teach you how to think. They just show you, they harden you through all that work. And through all that work, through that insane hell week, all the shit that you have to do when you’re going through BUDS training, the six months of breaking you down and building you back up, they teach you you could do anything just by making you do anything. So you will understand how you can pass your limits. What you thought your limits were are no longer your limits.

That’s what I feel like is missing from a lot of people that are getting into motivational this, motivational that. They ain’t doing shit. You gotta go do something. That’s the number one thing, right? Is fucking action. Take action.

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Every transformation always gets worse before it gets better. It’s supposed to be that way. The journey you’re embarking on here with NFT 28 is not an easy path. It’s not for the ill-hearted or the weak natured. It’s for the strong people. And before you embark on this journey, mentally you have to prepare yourself for it. No one’s gonna get worse before it gets better.

When you embark this journey, you must know that it’s gonna go down before it comes up. But when it comes up, it’s gonna go so much higher than you’ve ever been. Sacrificing today for tomorrow’s betterment. If you’re a guy that’s just working out for the first time in this program, you hit a couple workouts, you’re gonna feel this soreness you’ve never felt before. That’s a Dom’s effect. Delayed onset muscle soreness. It’s supposed to be that way. It means you’re using muscles you haven’t used before. Your body’s waking up. Sharpening your arsenal for perfection of what you can be.

But if you didn’t know that, mentally you didn’t prepare for that. You think something’s wrong, maybe it’s time to stop. No, it’s time to move even further.

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There never was a better time. Mark has brought Herbalife to an incredible mountaintop. He’s brought Herbalife with the help of others who have brought it here. It has been brought to a special moment. Barcelona was special and Orlando was outrageous. But I’m telling you this extravaganza has been the most awesome thing I have ever seen. All of your cooperation, the way you have learned and listened and worked hard to get it all, I congratulate you for that. But Mark brought us here. And what a time now for us to take this dream and not let it die. Take this dream and give it life.

Take this dream and breathe into it your own personal spirit until finally it becomes a flame that burns around the whole world. Let’s go do it now.

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If you walk down the natural logic of that statement, who do you blame? If you’re saying, must be nicer, tell me that you don’t have kids without telling me that you don’t have kids, then does that mean that you blame your child for all the things that you don’t have in life? It’s a tough weight to put on a kid. Because I mean, I would hope that they don’t see that comment because then they’d be like, wait, mom, dad, like you didn’t live out your dreams because I exist? Tough.

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It’s a selection effect. And I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this, then it flips from being this thing that you’re like, oh, poor me, to oh, poor everyone else who’s going to have to fucking try. And I think that is so much more motivating as a frame for the exact same circumstance.

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Just a mentality really. As much as I would love to be up here and tell you guys all of what I’m thinking, I just know that the process itself is something I need to focus on rather than trying to appease anybody in here. You know, the game itself is the most important thing. It’s the object to win. So just gotta stay focused on that. And I tweet that because I know other people are watching and other people are looking at you know kind of my social platforms for the same thing that I was looking for when I was a kid. Some type of inspiration.

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You know what, it was over a period of time that voice became haunting. When I was younger, I could get away from it a little bit. When it becomes something that steady this pecks at you all day long, no matter what you’re doing, like if I was talking to you back then, I was 300 pounds, I could be talking to you in this voice at the same time like, what are you doing? What are you doing, man? You’re a loser. Where are you going, man? This is what you could do your whole life. It’d be talking to me as I’m talking to everybody. It was almost like I had two people.

I’m like, good God, just shut up. I want to be comfortable. I want to be left alone. I don’t want to face all these things that life gave me.

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If you don’t take advantage of this opportunity, go back to what you know best, I’m going to fire you anyhow. He was joking. But it’s like being in the mob. Once you get in the mob, you can’t ever get out. You’re in it for life. And I don’t know if that makes sense to you. The mob, meaning the crime syndicate, meaning like the Sopranos. Once you get into the Soprano family, so to speak, you can never get out. And that’s bodybuilding for me. Bodybuilding has given me a lot, tremendous life. It’s been good to me financially, mentally, spiritually, physically. I learned about life in the gym.

Everything I know about life, I learned at the squat rack. I learned how to fail in the gym. I learned how to fail and fall on my face many, many times that you never read about. And I keep getting up. And the same attitude working in the office. I’d fail every day.

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When I say I am God, you think I’m joking or not? You tell me. I’m not joking. When I come on the field, I feel like that. You feel like God? I feel like God when I’m on the field. An omnipotent power. I feel untouchable, and I feel I will smash everyone that comes in my way. That is the mental part. Let’s say boxing, Tyson Fury is the champion. If you ask me if I could smash, I would say yes. I would smash him. You think you could beat Tyson Fury? In my head, yes, but when I come in the ring, he would knock me out after two seconds. But the mentality is I can.

But in the ring, he would eat me alive, without doubts. But my mentality is I can.

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So if you’re intelligent and you can manage that situation to change your game, because obviously you have to change the game.

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It’s like people don’t make excuses. Some of the best athletes, the greatest athletes in the world, do things when they’re uncomfortable. You know, everybody can compete when they’re feeling good, happy, excited, rested, but it’s the best people who can overcome when they’re tired, sore, not in the best mindset. And I think mental power that the greatest athletes have can push all the pain aside. You know, I mean, like when I was doing that Navy SEALS thing, was it easy for me to do it? No. Was it easy for me to climb over a 45-foot wall and look down? Not at all, and I’m afraid of heights.

But, you know, I said to myself, I’m going to do this and no one’s going to stop me. And I think that’s the biggest thing, is how strong you can be mentally. I think that really shows who the person is. So I think that’s one thing that separates the good from the greatest.

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Take ownership. Take extreme ownership. Don’t make excuses. Don’t blame any other person or any other thing.

Get control of your ego.

Don’t hide your delicate pride from the truth.

Take ownership of everything in your world. The good and the bad.

Take ownership of your mistakes. Take ownership of your shortfalls. Take ownership of your problems. And then take ownership of the solutions that will get those problems solved. Take ownership of your mission. Take ownership of your job. Of your team. Of your future. And take ownership of your life.

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Anthony Pettis, and we have to give him credit because that dude’s a champ. He was a champ from WC. He’s Mr. Kickoff the Cage. You guys got to realize when you’re up and coming, you see these guys doing these types of things. It’s crazy. You have to up your level. You have to up your game, not only mentally, but physically and emotionally. You got to be testing yourself inside and outside of that octagon. I’m doing these sprints. I’m doing these hill climbs. I’m doing this crazy stuff, right? And I’m putting it out there. Just wait the next week.

I’m going to throw out my real videos of my training. You guys will really see what I went through. This was no easy task for myself. You guys have no idea. When you’re hurt, how do you feel? You lay down, right? You take a second. You go, you know, you take your vitamins. You do your thing. When I’m hurt, I love it. I love that feeling because it’s real. That’s the most realest feeling that you could ever have is being in pain because everything else, happiness could be fake. Crying could be fake, but pain? S***. That’s real.

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I see the look on your face when you order all them bottles in the corner with like 15 to 20 bad ones around you, as Soon as that lady walk up to you with the little flashlight, You up in the corner looking miserable as a mother because you ain’t got it. It’s time to stay focused. It’s time to decide clubs party and trying to fit in and socialize Rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird Why are you so antisocial? Because I’m trying to get it. Why are you staying on the basketball court so much? because I’m trying to get it.

Why are you out there practicing in the hot Sun when ain’t nobody else out there? because I’m trying to get it. Why are you not clubbing, like every time I text you and invite you to go do some fun and cool? You always studying. because I’m trying to get it.

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That if you want it, you got to go get it. Some of y’all got this concept of what you want, what you want to accomplish. You know some of y’all are motivated by broke I’m broke. I’m stuck. I’m fucked up. I can’t do nothing. some of y’all are motivated by Just wanting to accomplish the things that you want to accomplish. Other folks are motivated by materialistic things. It’s a very simple concept: if you want it, you gotta go get it.

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You don’t burn out mentally because you always burn out physically. When you guys burn out physically, you push your current limitations to a new barrier, do you not? You hit failure and you go beyond. You force your body to create demand to grow even more. By burning out physically, you ensure that you grow physically. If you don’t burn out physically, then even though you go to the gym, you put your time in there, you check the box, yeah I went to the gym man, all good. You come back around, you look in the mirror, man, I’m not seeing anything,

I’m not seeing anything, I’m not seeing any change in, no. Well, because you haven’t pushed yourself for your body to have a reason to change. If I gave a valid effort to something, day in, day out, I saw no change, I’d probably quit too. But the reason why you’re quitting man, the reason why mentally you’re burning out, it’s because you’re not burning out physically. It’s that mind-body connection of invincibility when you sync them up, guys.

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When you get people out of survival mode, they start thinking different. I did. When I figured out how to get myself out of the situation, my approach to life and people was different. I wasn’t so angry. I didn’t have my guard up. I wasn’t so aggressive. I wasn’t so expecting, if you ain’t helping me, fuck you. That wasn’t the mentality no more. I can’t blame nobody. That’s thinking about how they’re going to pay their rent or going through not having food at the house, being young and having to go outside to hustle to feed they self with school clothes. That’s going to change people.

That’s going to make you feel a way. You can’t fault them. You just got to empathize with the scenario and understand you put a person in survival mode, they’re going to survive by any means.

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He wants to be really good at tennis. But what happens is after I play tennis for a while, I want to go play video games. You obviously don’t want to bad enough because a person that you want to, I became obsessed. I became obsessed with being the baddest motherfucker that God ever created. Am I that? I don’t care. I believe it. And I was trying to tell him, once you become obsessed with something, obsessed, it’s okay to be unbalanced for a while. It’s okay. Don’t be all this. Some people say you got to be balanced.

To be the best in the world at what you do, it’s not about being a Navy SEAL, people. The best at what you do. you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of energy and strength that you have to pull it off. Then you get balanced once you become great.

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And what you have to decide in your position in the NCAA, you have to make a decision that nobody in this league, in your position, will outwork you.

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A lot of times I’ll be in a 200 mile run or something like that and I’m all jacked up. Body’s broken, mind’s broken, spirit’s broken. I started to say, what if I can pull this off? When I first walked into the Navy SEAL recruiter’s office, he looked at me and said, there’s only been 35 African Americans in 70 years make it through. You know what I said to myself? What if I can be the 36th? It’s the what if I can pull off a fucking miracle. What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? And just me talking about that, I have hair going up on my arms because it makes me just like,

what if I can be that guy that people who call nigger and this and that. And now I’m speaking at Tom Ferry’s fucking event.

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You’ve got to create a lot of different emotion to heighten your sense of awareness and focus. Like for me, anger was good. Anger was good because it was motivating. The more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go and kill those guys. Now, I knew I wasn’t going to kill them physically, but man, if I could just… What did they say? You know? And what did they look like? Did they disrespect me at all? You know? And did that asshole say something? Like, those are little, little, little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran on the field and I said,

let’s go. It was really, let’s go kick some ass. That’s what we were doing.

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hard times create hard men, hard men create soft times, soft times create soft men, soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times.

If you don’t have a military in this country that can combat that and at least act as a deterrent to them doing things, you’re going to get taken over. That’s what’s happened.

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The campaign of hard work and dedication. It’s waking up early and going to bed late and grinding out every second in between. Every single day.

So, you wanna get better? You wanna self-improve? Stop looking for a shortcut and go find your alarm clock. And find your discipline. And find your guts and your passion and your drive and find your will.

And then, and then, you will find your freedom.

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You have to be equipped mentally to endure this process. Knowing what you’re about to go into is step one. Knowing it’s an uphill battle, but a winnable one and one that’s achievable. And at the end of this race, guys, you’re going to be more capable. The first step, guys, is knowing it’s a tough road. But through that effort, builds the character of the person you want to be at the end. Accept that. How else do we stay on track? We document everything. To know where we are, guys, we must first know where we’ve been. And when we hit plateaus in our current day,

the key to success to break that plateau is in our past. You take a picture of yourself on day one. You put it on the mirror. That’s who I’ll never be again. That’s day one. Say goodbye to them. Behind that picture, you write down your weight, your height, all your information, your body fat, tape measures around your arms, your waist, your thigh. Record where you’ve been. Because when the struggle gets hard and you feel like you’re not going anywhere, you go back to that day one. Remeasure and go, man, it’s working.

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and I know the sacrifices that went along with standing here today.

And we’re not on this stage just because of talent or ability.

We’re up here because of 4 a.m. We’re up here because of two a days or five a days.

We’re up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way.

If anything tried to bring us down,

we used it to make us stronger.

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You have to be equipped mentally to endure this process. Knowing what you’re about to go into is step one. Knowing it’s an uphill battle, but a winnable one and one that’s achievable. And at the end of this race, guys, you’re going to be more capable. The first step, guys, is knowing it’s a tough road. But through that effort, builds the character of the person you want to be at the end. Accept that. How else do we stay on track? We document everything. To know where we are, guys, we must first know where we’ve been. And when we hit plateaus in our current day,

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I gotta get this done or I’m gonna fail and I’m not, this project won’t happen and people will laugh at me. You work like a fiend. Energy, your whole body responds, right? Your blood gets moving. You accomplish things that would normally take you months, you do it in days because you feel that pressure. You take away that pressure and you don’t know what to do. And I’ve got like three years I could do this or that and then you just wander around, you’re lost, you have no energy, you have no focus. You know, you’re maybe playing video games, maybe you’re watching porn,

you’re kind of distracting yourself in the moment. But your energy is just being dissipated in like 20 different directions. So your brain needs pressure, it needs constant pressure. And stress and pressure is not a bad thing.

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At some point, you gotta be fucking tired of not being number one. You have to be, and you gotta fucking play angry, and I play angry. Now, I’m cool and calm with my approach, and when I step out on my field, which is a set, or, you know, like, there’s some, and you’re always gonna have haters, and haters are like, well, god damn, man, how many movies are you gonna make, or how much shit are you gonna do? Like, you do a lot of shit. I say, yes, it’s my ambition. Of course, why not? I could do it, yeah. I love what I do, and not only that, but in what world do we not work every day?

That doesn’t mean, it’s just like you guys in the off season. You gotta work every fucking day. Doesn’t end.

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Like I want to wake you up at 3 o’clock in the morning and go, come on man, we’re going running. Like I want to see what you do when you’re tired. Let me see how you push yourself. Come on man, get up, get up again tomorrow. Get up again tomorrow. Get up again tomorrow. The next day. Get up, get up, get up, get up. Keep going. How long can you maintain a positive attitude? Where’s all this teaching? You’re teaching people you can’t do it yourself. You need to show people that you could do it.

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We all think that life happens to me, right? Life happens for you. It happens for you. I mean, opportunities will come to you every day. It’s either for you, you can remain scared of the opportunities, or you can embrace them and take them. When I finally realized that, and I want to share this with you, if you give up on your dreams, if you give up on your dreams, what do you have left?

Nothing. I can’t live that way. I can’t live that way. I have to live on the edge. If it wasn’t bodybuilding, I’d probably be a motorcycle, or cross-country, jumping cars, or something crazy. That’s why I’m in this business. It’s never been about the money. It’s always been about the love of the game, and the energy I gain from it. And when it’s about the money, you get in trouble. Money should be a side effect to what you love to do.

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Because it’s just, I take it extremely personal just starting off the fourth quarter, especially, You know playing alongside different great players in this league. I just know when I’m out there I don’t want to lose the lead in a quick three possession spurt, or you know They go on a 15 or 16, or I just came to the bench and I just knew I had to be very open with my dialogue saying that this can’t happen again and We just have to hold each other accountable Playing with a new lineup in that fourth quarter is the second game We gave up all those points.

So I think a lot of guys took it personal and we came in with a different lineup and That’s gonna be I believe that’s gonna be something that we’re figuring out Moving forward. It’s just who’s gonna start those fourth quarters third quarters and How cohesive are we about putting the ball in the hoop and getting stops consecutively? Because you saw, once we changed the lineup then the rhythm kind of changed in the game. We got one stop and you know, things kind of flow into the game and it’s not personal when guys come out, But it’s for the betterment of team.

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21 stretch fractures. You know what I did? I taped my ankles up. Roger that. I want to be a SEAL. So I did it. Become obsessed with being great. It changes everything.

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Let me tell you something, homie. These women ain’t going nowhere. These clubs, these parties, all this shit ain’t going nowhere. The more weird you are is a reflection of how committed you are to focusing on your shit, molding and shaping and developing your ideas and your craft so that when it’s time for you to make your rounds, you’re gonna fly. Stop running around here trying to live up to the hype, homie. You on a bus stop with the new iPhone 6. That shit don’t make no sense.

I’m just keeping it real, man. I’m tired of the games. Y’all out here trying to slip everybody mickeys, taking pictures on Instagram of your money. You ain’t got it. You ain’t got it. Stop frontin’. And I’m not coming at y’all on any other level but keeping it real. The life that I live, I deserve this life because I worked my ass off to get it.

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Activating the thinker in us and disciplining and putting on hold the emotional part of ourselves. It’s not easy, but through practice and practice and practice, practice makes what? Perfect. Absolutely not, dismantle that belief system. Practice makes improvement. You can always better your best. You can always go beyond anything that you have ever done. You’ll never hit a state of perfection. You’re always bigger than what you do. And so all you’re looking for are new breakthroughs through practice and practice and practice, you’ll get better and better and better.

And there’s still some things that will happen to you that will catch you on the blind side that you did not anticipate.

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Maybe someone doesn’t like me, but maybe because I’m too good. I don’t know why.

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You know, worked really hard because I developed this work ethic in high school and I realized, man, if I want to be good, I got to, I got to wake up in the morning. I got to do the extra work and I got to show up when other guys aren’t. And I’ve got to learn. I’ve got to continue to be open to learning. And my freshman year, I redshirted. Never played, barely practiced, but I learned a lot.

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Success is something you attract, not something you pursue. Success is looking for a good place to stay. So instead of going after it, you work on yourself, personal development. See, the major question to ask on the job is not what are you getting? The major question to ask on the job is what are you becoming?

See, the big question is not what am I getting paid here? The big question is what am I becoming here?

Because true happiness is not contained in what you get. Happiness is contained in what you become. So that’s our major subject for tonight, personal development. Of all the assignments Mr. Shof gave me at age 25, this was probably the most difficult. In fact, I’m still working on this one. I think it’s an unending challenge to see what you can become.

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You can’t you can’t be weak. Yeah, and in this country, being weak is thought of as a virtue. Jordan Peterson has a really interesting way of looking at this and he said it to me once and it made a lot of sense He said people think that you should be Weak and you should be docile and then you you should be a pacifist He goes no, you should be a monster. He said you should be a monster. You should be ruthlessly Ambitious and then learn how to control it. And it’s that old expression. It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

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I’ve had five to six surgeries. I can’t even remember how many surgeries I’ve had, But that’s plenty of time to learn a thing or two about a thing or two Don’t you think? And take an opportunity to say, you know what i’m not going to take your hand condescending handshake therapist guy I’m gonna do this shit on my own. You’re telling me six months to a year. I’m gonna do it in three months I did it in less than five months ladies and gentlemen. Why because I was good health Good rest. I took the kobe bryant approach The more I got towards this fight:

Sleep less run more workout more feel better eat good Rest more Repeat the process over and over and it showed inside that octagon tonight Anthony pettis very game opponent. We did our homework and we saw him quit. We made him quit.

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We have this thing where we feel like stress is bad. It’s bad for you, bad. You know, you need to relax, man, you need to chill. Stress will kill you. No, being bored will kill you. Not having anything to do will kill you. It’s much more dangerous than stress. Yes, you can work too hard. You can work where there’s no soul involved. I work like a fiend because I’m writing a book, and it’s a very hard process for me, and I’m working far too much, but man, I love it. It’s fantastic, right? And it could kill me, the stress could kill me, it gave me a stroke,

but I’d rather die under the stress than be bored and have nothing to do, okay? So feeling that pressure, it makes your eyes pop open, it makes your brain focus, it makes you alert, it makes you wanna live, it makes everything seem exciting to you because you’ve gotta get things done.

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I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend and I dedicated this fight I wasn’t gonna fight I dedicated this fight to him. I was gonna rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion has ever been. there’s no one can stop me. links is a conqueror. No, I’m Alexander. He’s no Alexander. I’m the best ever. There’s never been anybody’s ruthless. I’m Sonny listen. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s no one like I’m from their clothes. There’s no one that can match me.

My style is impetuous, My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. praise be to Allah.

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Record everything, what you eat, your training habits, how you feel. But don’t do it alone. Get a partner. That partner, they say champions come in pairs or two because you battle yourself into perfection. There are going to be days, man, where you’re dragging ass. There’s every excuse in the world why not to go to the gym. Having that partner is going to ensure you get there. We will kid ourselves, man. We will fail all the time on ourselves. But it’s a sad motherfucker that fails on someone else’s terms. When someone else is relying on you, then you say, no, man, I just can’t make it.

You won’t be that guy. You’ll show up just for your buddy’s sake. And your buddy’s energy will push you through a workout even though you’re exhausted. And what’s crazy about it, man, even though your energy levels are so low, by expending more energy, you just gain so much more in the back end. It’s crazy. And all of a sudden, you have this natural high.

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You can’t control the outcome all the time, right? Sometimes it should go the other people’s way. It shouldn’t always go your way. So you get motivated by the losses. You stay motivated through the winning. What you can control is your process. You can control those intangibles. You can control the work ethic, the consistent discipline, your attitude, your culture, how much you care. All those things are in you. They just need to be drawn out of you. And really, when you’re in that position that you feel like you’ve got those pretty well under control, ,

then you start passing those on to the other people that you’re working with, that are parts of your team. Because I don’t care how good any one of you are sitting out there, it doesn’t matter unless you’ve got a great team around you. You know, you could be great. You probably are great. You need a lot of other great people to support you.

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I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic champion sprinter, or a gymnast, or whatever sport you want to name. Now, sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have achieved some high level in those sports, but I can tell you I do not have the DNA to be the best in the world in those categories.

So, what does that mean? Does that mean that I give up? Does that mean that I quit? Of course not. Not at all. It means that I’m going to try to be the best that I can be. The strongest, the fastest, the smartest. The smartest human that I can become. That’s what I’m going to go for. I’m going to go for it.

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up your level, you have to up your game, not only mentally, but physically and emotionally. You got to be testing yourself inside and outside of that octagon. I’m doing these sprints. I’m doing these hill climbs. I’m doing this and crazy stuff, right? And I’m putting it out there just way the next week. I’m going to throw out my real videos of my training. You guys will really see what I went through. This was no easy task for myself. You guys have no idea when you’re hurt. How do you feel? You lay down, right? You take a second, you go, you know, you take your vitamins, you do your thing.

When I’m hurt, I love it. I love that feeling because it’s real. That’s the most realist feeling that you could ever have is being in pain because everything else, happiness could be fake. Crying could be fake, but pain, that’s real. I got kicked in the leg. It hurt a little bit, but I walked it off.

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And sure enough, learning how to set goals changed my life. And I often wondered why no one had ever taught me how to set goals up until age 25.

I went to high school, but if they offered it, I missed it. I went to college for a year, never heard it. I worked for Sears.

Really. And to my knowledge, Sears never taught it. Right? How to set goals. So here I am age 25, married, my family starting, I’ve been to college, I’m working and I still don’t know how to set goals. But fortunately, when I was 25, I met the man who taught me how. And it revolutionized my whole life. Economically, socially, personally, it’s incredible. So I want to share with you tonight what Mr. Shove shared with me, how to set goals. It can be a life changer.

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While I’m in the dressing room, five minutes before I come out, my gloves are laced up. I’m breaking my gloves down. I’m pushing the leather on the back of my gloves. I’m breaking the middle of the gloves so my knuckle could pierce through the leather. I feel my knuckle piercing against the tight leather gloves on the Everlast boxing gloves. When I come out, I have supreme confidence. I’m scared to death. I’m totally afraid. I’m afraid of everything. I’m afraid of losing. I’m afraid of being humiliated. But I’m totally confident. The closer I get to the ring, the more confidence I get.

The closer, the more confidence I get. The closer, the more confidence I get. All during my training, I’ve been afraid of this man. I thought this man might be capable of beating me. I’ve dreamed of him beating me. But I always stayed afraid of him. But the closer I get to the ring, I’m more confident. Once I’m in the ring, I’m a god. No one can beat me.

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Almost all decisions that you make in the beginning, you have incomplete data and you have to make decisions anyways. And so it’s growing comfortable with taking your best bad guess and being directionally correct rather than searching for a perfect answer because a perfect answer assumes perfect information, which you can only have after you begin. And so, in some ways, making a decision is the perfect answer, so that you can get the information feedback to then improve the quality of the decision later. And I think that one loop is what a lot of people miss out on is that they spend,

they obsess for years sometimes on the perfect pick, the perfect business, the perfect job, the perfect mate. When most of the times beginning each step eliminates the next step, which means the information, the feedback that you get from walking gives you more about where to walk than trying to sit at the beginning in the darkness and pick a direction.

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There you go. Energy. Let it out. 7, 8, 9, 10. A machine here. There you go. Nobody works like David in this house. 13, come on. 14, come on. 15, shut that muscle down. 16, come on. Get it. 17. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 18. They don’t know me, son. Get it. 19. They don’t know me, son. Yeah. 20. You got some more in you. They don’t know me, son. 21. Yeah, get it again. Come on, we want to see it. Good. 22. Who’s going to carry the boats and the logs? That’s you, buddy. Come on, 23. Come on, 24. One more, David. One more. I want to carry the boats. You’re going to do it.

You’re going to do it. You’re going to do it. You did it. Yeah.

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With the problems you once had going before the gym that seemed overwhelming, you come out of that gym pumped up, man, mind-body connected. Those same problems don’t look so bad. You’re generating solutions to them. You’re seeing ways in and out of them all because you’re thinking positively. Your partner, you owe that to. He got you into the gym and there are going to be days he’s down and out and you’re going to get him into the gym. Not only is a partner vital to get them into the gym, but make sure the sets go to failure. When you hit failure on your own, man, you can’t go anymore,

that partner gets three or four more sets. That makes all the difference, man, of hitting your failure and going past it. That’s where the growth is. Your partner ensures you get there. You’ve got to have an end goal in sight. What is that all about? Something in the near future, relative future, that gives value to today.

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I will compare myself to others and look at them and see what they’re doing and I’ll say that it is possible. How close can I get to that greatness? How close can I get to that glory?

But the reality is that my glory, it doesn’t happen in front of a crowd, it doesn’t happen in a stadium, it doesn’t happen on a stage.

There’s no medals handed out.

My glory happens in the darkness of the early morning, in solitude, alone, where I try.

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But you do it for yourself and you give 200%. Because I have other things to do.

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I will compare myself to others and look at them and see what they’re doing and I’ll say that it is possible. How close can I get to that greatness? How close can I get to that glory?

But the reality is that my glory, it doesn’t happen in front of a crowd, it doesn’t happen in a stadium, it doesn’t happen on a stage.

There’s no medals handed out.

My glory happens in the darkness of the early morning, in solitude, alone, where I try.

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the difference as well I think between people who are super advanced, super developed, super far down the line and people who are beginning. It’s like dude what have you got to, what are you risking by trying to do this thing? You’ve, for you it’s fine for you to spend 18 months negotiating with Sam on the school deal but if you are yet to do any business that’s probably not necessarily the right way to go about things. Tim Ferriss says: in the short term, your success depends on your intensity, in the long term your success depends on your consistency.

Do not sacrifice the latter for the former.

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Trying to live up to the hype and create the smoke that you doing it. You ain’t doing it. You still got work to do. Stay on that basketball court stay on that football field Fuck all the homies texting and calling and trying to make you feel bad about being so focused It’s grind season homie. It’s not about today. It’s about the future. you do the work now. do the work now and All of the shit that you could ever want to do for your family, your kids, your loved ones- It’s all gonna be on a whole nother stratosphere.

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Do not sacrifice the latter for the former.

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I looked in this one guy’s eyes who was ringing the bell to quit, to put his helmet down out of Navy SEAL training, and I saw myself. And I saw what everybody said I was going to be, which was nothing. What I said I was going to be, that conversation you have, that’s who I was. So that’s why I lied to people to tell them a different version of the truth. I had to make all those lies reality. I had to make them real. I had to become a real person. So that’s when I put in my mind that I’m going to go to the toughest military training on the planet.

And where it has the most water, the thing I was scared of the most, I had to go back. So a lot of us run away from our fears. And we box ourselves in to a lifestyle of this is all we can do. Because I’m afraid of everything outside this box. So I’m comfortable inside this box. I jumped the box. For the first time in my life, mentally I jumped the box and said, hey, I got to come out here and play.

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Everybody’s got a dream. Everybody’s got a goal. What’s the plan? And your plan has got to have something I call the C5 complex. Your plan has got to be clear, concise, compelling, consistent, and committed. You’ve got to have a plan. And when you’re trying to do something that you’re truly passionate about, there is no plan B. Okay. Plan B sucks. All right. Think about that for a second. Michael Jordan won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls because he was committed to plan A, not plan B. Oprah Winfrey became the queen of all media because she was committed to plan A, not plan B.

Okay. Plan B sucks.

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I came up with this thing called perform without purpose. And so many people, they need to have a 5K, a 10K. I need to have a course in front of me. I need to have something in front of me for me to get my fucking ass up and do some shit. And that used to be me. And nowadays, you know, shit, for the past 20 some years, I don’t need fucking purpose. And people miss out on this, man. The purpose, we’re all looking for this golden purpose. Is it this, is it that? Is it making money? Is it my family? Motherfucker, the purpose is you. We forget that.

Every fucking day I wake up, I don’t want to do some fucking shit. I’m like, okay, man, do you want to be a bitch today? Do you want to feel like a little bitch? Do you want to walk around all day knowing that you could, but you didn’t? So it’s perform without purpose.

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You’ll get knocked down, but you won’t be knocked out. You’ll be able to get to your feet again, be on the ropes, but you’ll have a fast recovery rate when you work on yourself. Read inspirational books, of course. Listen to tapes that begin to inspire you, and stay around people who will empower you,

people that will help you feel good about who you are as you’re in the process of transforming your life.

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Every ounce of training you put in leading up to this fight will be a waste of your life.

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So sometimes when you think you’re making the wrong decision or you have to making the toughest decision because you’re thinking about somebody else and the consequences,

if you think the price of winning is too high, wait till you get the bill from regret. And that bill from regret is generational. And there’s a lot of people listening to this, that that bill has been passed on from generation to generation and you are holding that bill right now. And somebody in some one of your generations has to pay that bill off in order for the generation to move on.

And the only way that bill gets paid off is you gotta be willing to make the hardest decisions.

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I walk around the ring, but I never take my eyes off my opponent. I keep my eyes on him, even if he’s ready and pumping. He can’t wait to get his hands on me as well. I keep my eyes on him, I keep my eyes on him, I keep my eyes on him. Then once I see a chink in his arm, boom, one of his eyes may move, and then I know I have him. Then when he comes to the center of the ring, he still looks at me with his piercing look, and as if he’s not afraid. But he already made that mistake when he looked down for that one-tenth of a second. I know I had him.

He’ll fight hard for the first two or three rounds, but I know I already broke his spirit. During the fight, I’m supremely confident. I’m moving my head, he’s throwing punches. I’m making a mess and I’m countering. I’m hitting him to the body, I’m punching him real hard. And I’m punching him, and I know he’s not able to take my punches. One, two, three punches. I’m throwing him punches and punches. He goes down, he’s out. I’m victorious.

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I’d do anything to win. You know, if that means we play team format, we win. If that means I have to do whatever I have to do, I’m going to win, no matter how you look at it. And then you had all your media naysayers. Oh, scoring champion can’t win an NBA title. Or, you know, you’re not as good as Magic Johnson. You’re not as good as Larry Bird. You’re good, but you’re not as good as those guys. You know, I had to listen to all this. And that put so much will on that fire that it kept me each and every day trying to get better as a basketball player. Now, I’m not saying they were wrong.

I may have looked at them from a different perspective. But at the same time, as a basketball player, I’m trying to become the best that I can. And for someone like me, who achieved a lot over the time of my career, you look for any kind of messages that people may say or do to get you motivated to play the game of basketball at the highest level. Because that is when I feel like I excel at my best.

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It’s not just about, oh, I hope I do well. It’s like you have to want the success in the gym as much as you want to breathe, okay? If you started suffocating in this room, you’d find every way to get out of here. You’d be knocking the doors down, yelling, screaming, breaking windows, whatever you gotta do to live, right? That’s what I brought to the gym. I don’t know why this happened to me. It was a gift. I didn’t have a choice.

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the day that turns your life around.

And under this subject, we’re going to talk about the emotions that can change your life. Human beings are emotional creatures. And emotions are powerful for life change. Now, of course, emotions are so powerful, they can go either way on you. Emotions can either build or destroy. So you really have to employ emotions properly. We call civilization the intelligent management of human emotions. If you can intelligently apply your emotions in the right direction, no telling what can happen, could turn your life around one day would be sufficient.

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My grandfather walked 10 miles to work every day. My father walked five.

I’m driving a Cadillac.

My son is in a Mercedes. He said my grandson will be in a Ferrari.

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I was just glad that this chapter in my life started a new one. That was a long chapter, man. It was like five months. When you’re reading that book, you ever have that problem when you try to read the same page over and over? I don’t have that one. I just keep flipping the page. I keep absorbing, keep learning from what my mistakes are. I keep growing because if I don’t allow myself room for growth, I’m going to start floating up there like everybody else. I’m going to start getting a big head. Like I said, you guys don’t want me to get a big head. That’s easy. I got ears to match them.

And trust me, I learned to laugh at myself a little bit. Maybe I’ll go into comedy, maybe I’ll go into entertainment, but I am an entertainer. This is entertainment, right? We enjoy what we’re doing. So until I don’t enjoy what I’m doing anymore, I’m going to keep doing what I do. And that’s cutting people up.

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Just because it feels uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s not good.

And I remember on my first X-Men movie, I came in late, I felt a bit behind the eight ball. I started shooting four weeks into filming because I was replacing the guy who was playing the role. So I came in feeling a bit behind the eight ball and there was a rhythm going and I just felt a bit uncomfortable. And I remember him giving me that advice. He goes, your stuff is good and even if it feels uncomfortable, that can sometimes be right. I think so often, not only on film but in life, we so want to feel comfortable but that doesn’t always bring the best results.

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Getting unstuck means that you are going to start living life on your terms, rather than just gliding through every day on automatic. That you are aware, that you’re stimulated and you’re excited about your unfolding future. That you have a special power within. That you know that things are going to get better for you. You know that you can handle this and sometimes you have to cry. Sometimes life will take you to your knees,

but the pain opens spaces in the heart for joy.

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You have to learn how to get up and do it when you ain’t got no fucking 5k no 10k nothing Nothing exists your life fucking sucks. You’re in the fucking dungeon. But guess what, mother fuck, i’m still going to get it, because when that time comes, because the time is going to come, When that purpose is there, You’ll be ready. but most of us fucking aren’t ready because we don’t know how to do Without having the golden carrot in front of us.

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And I try and I try again to be everything that I possibly can be. The best that I possibly can be better than I was yesterday.

And better than other people thought I could be.

Faster and stronger and smarter and with one victory that no one can ever take away from me. A victory that is earned every single day.

A victory of determination and will and discipline.

And a victory that is achieved because I will not stop.

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If you don’t want to go, don’t go. If they care whether you go or not, they don’t care about you. And if they care about you, they don’t care if you go or not. Just because you have free time doesn’t mean anyone who asks for it is entitled to it.

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Everyone is jealous of what you’ve got. No one is jealous of how you got it. I love that quote. My God. People see the trophies, but not the training ground.

Everybody wants the view, but no one wants the climb.

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We’re going to need to structure lead runs. Most the time we knew the starting end point. So on the way back I start seeing people getting happy Because the end was near, But there were some asshole instructors That were here the happiness and go right on past the end point. when that happened, Everybody stopped talking heads to stop dropping and I start taking his souls. at that time I knew what happened in their minds. They were living off the hope factor They hope the instructors will stop running. They hope the water was never cold.

They hope the weather was good I don’t live off that hope shit. I wish the water was cold I wish them other instructors keep on running. I wish for rain When the idiot is unknown and the distance is unknown. That’s what you know, who the fuck you are. Stay hard.

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You’ve got the brains, you can make decisions, you can study the plan, you can change your life, you can grow immensely in the next few years, you can make your dreams come true, you can build a financial wall around your family nothing can get through, you can become healthy, you can become powerful, why not you? And I’m here to say that I’m ready to pledge my support to make your personal dreams come true. I ask the question, why not you? But I’m not gonna ask it and just walk away. I’m gonna ask it and walk with you in this journey as we take Herbalife around the world.

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the person you want to be, the wealth you want to accumulate, or it’s moving you away. Everything counts.

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when you’re not willing to do something, but you have to do it. This is the main point. This is why I say, our mind is a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it’s hard. It’s what many people say, you like to go to the gym every day. Of course not. It’s not true. Nobody likes to go to the gym every day, but you have to do it. Probably yes, because your mental strength is coming from that. From that moment, in a hard moment, you know you should do it. And I do it because after that, maybe in the beginning you feel hard to start,

but after when you finish the gym or cold planche or even the training, you will feel better. I think it’s the big key there.

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The only way you’re ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow. To grow, you must suffer.

Some people will get it and some people won’t, but they have to see what their journey is to start their journey. Several people live to be 100 years old and they have great lives and they have great kids. Their kids go to college and all this other stuff. But somewhere in their life, there was a point where they had a decision to make. They can go left or right on this path. Left was the easy route. Right was the hard route. A lot of people take the easy route. They had a good life that way, but the better life was going to the right side.

You may have 20 years of pain and suffering to get past it, but a lot of us die never truly starting our journey. I would tell this young person, you’ve got to start your journey. It may suck, but it will. It will come out the other side where you’re coasting.

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When I say I am God, you think I’m joking or not?

You tell me.

I’m not joking. When I come on the field,

I feel like that. You feel like God? I feel like God when I’m on the field. An omnipotent power. I feel untouchable,

and I feel I will smash everyone that comes in my way.

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If I look back, I think some of my more successful things, in my point of view, have been the things I’ve been most nervous about and probably most unsure when I began. There’s something about jumping off that cliff, which means you end up going for broke and probably end up taking a few more risks, if you know what I mean. And I would say that to young actors. It’s okay, be nervous. Say you’re nervous. I used to, by the way, for 20 years, I never did. I hid it, tried to hide it. Say it. And it’s usually relieving to everyone around you.

Maybe not on the 20th take, but certainly when you walk in, it’s fine.

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I want to do it bigger and better. And they looked at me like I had three f***ing heads. And they were like, OK. But I still stayed focused. And I still had these. Still put in the hard work with my two hands. And that’s it. And that’s what it comes down to with you guys. One of the keys is, remember where you came from. Keep that s*** in the front of your mind. And when s*** goes bad and it goes sideways, a lot of s*** does, you’re getting booed out of the f***ing building. Or you’re coming through this injury. Or people are writing you off. You guys ain’t f***ing make it. Any of that s***.

You got to keep it in here. And it really has to, it should drive you.

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We changed the game and we’re gonna take everything from him. You see, I already took his advocate and upgraded him to a wise man. I took his claim to being the longest reigning champion in the past 35 years. I got my receipt and I took his blood at Madison Square Garden and this Sunday, I make the final move and I’m gonna take his title. You’re gonna know what it’s gonna be like to make it personal, because I’m gonna make it personal, because it’s always been personal to me.

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So the question becomes: how well do you represent yourself? What shortfalls do you have? now, When you first start looking, It’s like you’re looking at an overgrown lawn. There are some big obvious problems. so you do a broad, just kind of general cut of the grass. You fix some of the big easy problems That are obvious. But once you’ve done that, Once you’ve gotten rid of some of those big obvious problems, you notice some more detailed Problems. so then you handle them. and once you’ve got those handled you see even smaller and more detailed issues. So you start trying to fix them.

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I hope that it’s given the millions of people that I’ve touched the optimism and desire to achieve their goals through hard work, perseverance, and positive attitude. Although I’m recognized with this tremendous honor of being in the Basketball Hall of Fame, I don’t look at this moment as a defining end to my relationship with the game of basketball. It’s simply a continuation of something that I started a long time ago.

One day you might look up and see me playing the game at 50.

Oh don’t laugh. Don’t do that.

Never say never, because limits like fears are often just an illusion.

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I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight.

I had to bury my best friend and I dedicated this fight.

I wasn’t going to fight. I dedicated this fight to him. I was going to rip his heart out.

I’m the best ever.

I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there’s ever been. There’s no one can stop me. Links is a conqueror.

No, I’m Alexander. He’s no Alexander.

I’m the best ever. There’s never been anybody as ruthless.

I’m Sonny Linsen. I’m Jack Dempsey.

There’s no one like me. I’m from the Air Claw. There’s no one that can match me.

My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious.

I want your heart. I want to eat his children.

Praise be to Allah.

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People think it’s easy. It’s not easy because everybody think I train I go do individual skills I don’t go do that. I get an agent. I get this coach and I’ll become a pro doesn’t work like that. It’s. It has to be about luck, hard work. Where you come it’s meant that you should be where you are And it’s easy to say I could have been a pro I would be the best in the world. No, it’s not like that. It’s All this Combined and then we see what happens. They have to be happy healthy but with discipline they have to do the things because My philosophy is why be normal when you can be the best.

I don’t want to be normal I want to make the difference so everything I do I want to make the difference because when I make the difference I’m the best And that is not arrogance. That is confidence.

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And there was a lot of times where I didn’t even get a chance to speak to her. She just knew I was in the audience because I had to, it was the only flight to get back. Those are the parts nobody remembers. Everybody remembers the one event you don’t show up for . And I guaranteed every individual who’s won at multiple things, who’s been successful at many things over and over again. at some point in your career, some point in your life, you forgot a very important date, you missed an event, you just did, but nobody wants to talk about it.

Because people are going to judge you on that one thing.

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And often literally, and the gratitude for that is sorely lacking, especially among the people who should be most grateful. You see university professors, especially of the social justice bent, who are among the most protected and privileged people that the world has ever produced. They take everything they have for granted, failing to understand entirely that there’s a massive infrastructure of unbelievably hard-working, solidly laboring, working class men, breaking themselves in half on a regular basis, making sure that everything that always breaks works.

And so a little gratitude for that is in order.

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At first I said, he’s Irish, for he has an Irish way. A sympathy and friendliness that warms you through and through. And then I thought, oh no, he’s not. He really is a Jew. His eyes so dark and eloquent, like eyes of pearl, like those of Peter maybe, or perhaps Immanuel. He stood there with a quiet grace, so slim he was, and tall, I knew he was an Englishman and not a Jew at all. And yet his skin was very fair, a Viking he could be, such as those who cast their ships against the sea. His hair was dark with the mist of India, Japan. His courtesy was China’s own, his dignity Iran.

I met a man today and he was marvelously fair. He really was a child of God, and he came from everywhere.

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The worst thing in the world is not growing up in poverty. The worst thing in the world is growing up in poverty and coming here and getting worshiped and not taking advantage of this and you gotta go back to the hood. That’s the worst thing that could ever happen to a bro. Traveling and being in hotels and seeing the world and eating like you eating and not taking advantage of this and getting kicked out and going back home to the hood. Being somebody that they talk about because you were sweet for four years. You better not lose this. This is an opportunity of a lifetime.

Your grandma counting on you to do the right thing. Your mama counting on you. Your cousins, your brothers and sisters are counting on you to cash in on this opportunity.

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If you see that you have an empty calendar, most people assume that if someone asks you for that time, it’s therefore theirs. And it’s only not theirs when someone else has claimed it. Which means that your time only belongs to other people. And then you’re surprised by the fact that your investment of time has yielded nothing for you when you’ve given the only and most valuable asset that you have to everyone else. Who often give a very poor return on it for you. And so in the beginning, if you don’t have money, the only thing you have is time.

And so that is the only currency you can spend to improve yourself or get closer to your goals. And so if that’s the one currency you have, then why on earth would you give it away?

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my life would have changed forever ago. If I had this information right here, before I got in the game, before I got on, man, it would have saved me millions and millions of dollars. All I was doing, when you broke and you fucked up the way I was, soon as you start making money, everybody makes you feel bad about being so blessed. So then you trying to pay everybody’s bills and save everybody, trying to pull everybody up. Because in your mind, damn, I got more than everybody else. So you’re trying to save everybody, pay everybody’s bills because you actually feel guilty.

Don’t feel guilty when you worked your ass off to have the things that you have. But at the same time don’t feel like- because you’re on and you’re making money, that you can just kick your feet up and fucking party and wild out all day. It’s time to get back in there and stay focused, man.

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90 days out, man, I’m gonna run a marathon. 90 days out, I’m gonna enter a bodybuilding contest. 90 days out, the family reunion, high school reunion, I’m gonna look my best. 90 days to become that person I wanna be. To turn that dream into a reality, I got 90 days. Today is one 90th of that opportunity. If I don’t have a 90 day end state, there’s no bookends. I can easily push off my responsibilities of today into tomorrow and not feel bad about it. But when there’s an end, then today has value all of a sudden, doesn’t it?

If I blow off today into tomorrow, I just lost one 90th of the chance to become that. You get the mind right. If you believe it, your body physically will find a way to make it happen.

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little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran on the field and I said, let’s can go, it was really, let’s go kick some ass. That’s what we were doing.

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continually detach and then you look and then you refine, and then you detach, and then you look, and then you refine, and then you detach and You look and then you refine. That’s what you do. That’s how you get better, and that process doesn’t stop. It can’t stop, because if you stop refining, then

Then the weeds grow back and the next thing you know you can’t see yourself anymore. And when you can’t see yourself anymore, when you stop looking at you yourself, Then you accept. you accept anything

And that’s wrong.

Don’t accept the faults. Don’t give yourself the benefit of the doubt. You’ve got to be your own Harshest critic and hold the line.

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See everything about what you’re doing in the movie moves that you making. it’s getting in the way of the big picture. Everything. you still clubbing, you still partying. you still popping bottles with models- you doing the most already And you ain’t even on. You trying to convince everybody around you that you are, but you not on. You know the truth and I know the truth. you ain’t on

Most of the people who really ain’t got it they go out of their way to try and show people that they have it The more you go out of your way to show me that you have it you confirming to me that you really don’t got it Because it’s perception versus reality. It’s perception versus reality Because you pulling up to the club in the nicest car don’t mean you actually got gas money.

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The more you do things that are natural to you, the less competition you have. You escape competition through authenticity, by being your own self. If I had to summarize how to be successful in life in two words, I would just say productize yourself. That’s it. Just figure out what it is that you naturally do that the world might want, that you can scale up and turn into a product, and it’ll eventually be effortless for you. Yes, there’s always work required, but it won’t even feel like work to you. It’ll feel like play to you.

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It doesn’t mean that you can’t be kind if you’re strong, but it does mean you can’t be strong if you’re weak. If you’re weak, you’re fucked. And there’s a lot of weak people in this country right now that are trying to take control. And they’re gathering up all the other weak people and they say, yeah, let’s all be weak together. And they’re willing to embrace all sorts of ideas that have been disproven, not just disproven, that have caused the deaths of untold millions of people. It’s crazy. And they’re short-sighted.

And they’re short-sighted because in the short term, they want their tribe to win. And there’s so many weak people that will join along with them. There’s so many just simple-minded dullards that just want to promote their tribe.

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It’s very useful to tell everyone, not just men, that they have an important role to play, a necessary role, and that if they act properly and honestly and forthrightly, that they can put their lives together and they can help their families and they can make their communities better. And that that’s not toxic masculinity, that appalling phrase. It’s what keeps the world going round. If we had any sense, we’d understand that instead of doing everything at every possible moment to label what we have in the West as oppressive and patriarchal and fundamentally predicated on power,

of all the insane propositions.

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Wow, so you could create enough of a visualization for yourself if you really were to powerfully start to focus on it and do that and build that ability to visualize something that your brain at one point would have to think it’s so true that the world would meet you and put it into your life. 200 years from now, they’re gonna be like, people are just gonna be manifesting, it’s just everything, you know, everything’s gonna be so over manifested. But you know what it is? That’s one thing that I feel like there’s like some elite people in the world and they really learned that.

Sometimes when I see some people who are operating at a very elite level or the deep state or whatever, I start thinking, oh, that’s what they’re using to the best of their ability. Wow.

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You got in college. I need you to finish. I need you to graduate from high school. I need that. I need it badly.

Of course, it’s going to get hard. Of course, there’s all kind of stuff outside of school that can fuck with your focus. But you got to you got to stick that shit out man. Ladies, fellas, come on.

It’s another level to this shit man. It’s not lonely at the top if you help somebody else get there. I should not care. I should not care. I should just focus on my music and my movies and doing my thing and focus on Tyrese. I should not care about you. I should not. But guess what? I do.

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Cause real lions like to hunt. They love the process just as much as they love the prize. And some of y’all just wanna score. You don’t like the process. You’re not in love with the process.

You just like to put the pass on. You love when it’s showtime. Everybody in the crowd, you’re like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Mom, can you see? You can’t even start until you know your people there. Once you see them, you’re like, showtime.

A real man in the dark, when nobody’s watching, he putting in work. A real man, when coach ain’t even watching, he’s studying film on his own. Cause he loves the process. If you will be a champion, if you will be a beast, you gonna have to go through something. Ain’t nobody gonna hand you nothing. Ain’t nobody gonna hand you no championship. Ain’t nobody gonna hand you no title. So this is my year, I end. This is my year.

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I’ve been around you my whole life so I know how bad you want this. And I always believed in you. But trust me when I tell you, you don’t want to go to the place you about to go. It’s hell down there. And you don’t even know if you’ll be able to pull yourself back up. Okay.

Uh, let me be very clear.

I’ll never give up.

Never.

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Never say you can’t do it say I haven’t done it yet. I haven’t done it yet. And that’s true with everything. It’s like there’s nothing that you can’t do. you may not have done it yet. we don’t know if you can do it or not until you Really practice and then you find out if you can do it or not or how well you can do it. Yeah.

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What is your bottom when you’ve been worshiped since middle school? You’ve been tall your whole life, big your whole life. They worship you so much now that you think it’s about you. You don’t even know what the grind look like. I’m from Detroit, homeless. Mama got pregnant with me at 17 years old. High school drop out. Took me 12 years to get a four-year degree. I’m coming now. It’s in view. You finally made it to the big leagues and now you want to chill? Now you got the big head? Now you can’t grind? You here now. You here now. You finally made it and this is where you break up?

This is where you start chilling? This is where you get comfortable? You made it now. You made it now. You in the big leagues now. They watching you now. This is where you make it permanent. Yeah, I saw it. I saw it. Perfect. Perfect. Nope. Practice don’t make perfect. Practice make permanent.

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When does a new day start?

It starts at midnight.

Is it dark outside at midnight? Yes.

So if a new day and a new beginning

starts in the dark every day, that’s when your new beginnings start. But so many people are afraid to go to that place. And I tell them, you have to visit that place because if that place comes visit you, it will never leave. If you go visit the darkness that you’ve been running from, you’ll have the opportunity to leave a better person. You’ll have a better understanding of yourself. You’ll have a better understanding of your purpose. But if you don’t take that trip and the darkness comes visit you, it’s a guest that will never leave.

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You know what I mean? You’re going to lay in the bed you make. You’re not going to get away with nothing in terms of the energy. You know what I mean? You might beat the camera or the police. They might not catch you for what you’re doing, but the energy is always going to return to you. So when you’re just living in this cycle of being negative all day and just putting out negativity, and that’s the only energy you’re putting out, it’s going to return to you in a different form than you put it out in. So I would just say, you know, master your energy.

Do your best to master your energy and what you put out.

Unless that’s what you want, you know, because you’re entitled to whatever you want to create, whatever experience you want to create for yourself. But if you’re tired of that shit, adjust to energy. You know what I mean? As best you can . Just adjust what you wake up thinking and what you say. And then lastly, what you do. And that’s not an easy thing to do because there’s such a pressure in these areas to just go about it the way things are.

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I just eliminate all external distractions. you know that’s what’s going on and just focus on the process itself and enjoying it every single day. Chopping wood, carrying water. You know, greatness is not meant for a few chosen people. It’s meant for those who persistently pursue their dreams every day and make that choice when they wake up. So

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We did not come this far to just break down and lose.

now, Everything’s not always about winning and losing.

I’m a winner, I’m going to win.

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If you want to do something and you want it that bad, you’ll make sacrifices. Growing up for me as a kid, I made a lot of sacrifices that I didn’t seem that they were a big deal and I don’t think of them as being a big deal right now. There were Saturdays or Fridays where I’d give up going to a dance or hanging out with my friends because I had work out the next day. But those things that I gave up were things that I wanted to, to help me get to my goal. There were times where I’ve been put in uncomfortable situations, but I’ve used my mental power, my mental strength to push through it.

I think that’s how you can look at any of the athletes in the world. I mean, Tiger, that guy has a busted knee and still comes and destroys the rest of the field. That’s a thing. People don’t make excuses. Some of the best athletes, the greatest athletes in the world do things when they’re uncomfortable.

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So when you sit there and you say, well, in 1990 or 2005 they voted me as the best or the most popular athlete. Well, it’s ironic that I’m the youngest of the three. So in essence it’s all relevated on who is watching now. If you ask 20 years from now, I’m pretty sure LeBron may beat me based on who’s going to be making the voting. So I say that to say, to understand that it is what it is. I don’t wear it. I don’t showcase it. I don’t rub it in other people’s faces, someone else’s opinion. If you ask me, I can never give you an opinion about things like that because as an athlete,

all you want to do is be the best athlete you can be.

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I’m impressed that you lasted this long. So why don’t you take your participation trophy and go home? The only thing I’ll be going home with tonight is your money. You two always fight like this? Think of it this way, Steven. If I fight like this at the table, imagine how I fight in the courtroom. No, Steven, please don’t listen to him. The only thing Harvey fights hardest for is himself. Raise 50,000. 50 isn’t enough. I’m all in.

Now, Lewis, before you decide how to play the hand that could clean you out, I want you to think of our entire history. Of me always winning and you always losing. And when you finish doing that, you’ll realize that it doesn’t really matter what you do, because whatever it is, it’s going to be the wrong decision.

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Get off of Instagram and Snap and get off all these blogs and get into something that can really, really move your life forward. It’s really not important what the majority of people that are blogging are saying. As a matter of fact, bloggers are not relevant people, they’re not shakers and movers, and they’re not decision makers, and they’re not power brokers. So when you spend so much time in the blog world, the Instagram world, the chat world, all of this, you’re wasting valuable time. If I was young and I had what you have,

and you’re the brightest group of young people that have come along in a long time, man. Millennials are absolutely brilliant because you all have technology.

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The winners that I know always feel like they should have done more.

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Losers lose because they lost. Yeah, I’m going to say it again. You losing because you lost.

He lacks direction. He don’t know where he’s going. He’s actually swimming. And instead of swimming to his true North Star, instead of swimming to a particular goal, instead of swimming to a target, he’s looking at my man. Listen to me. The loser is looking at the winner, and the winner is winning. Why? Because the winner has a North Star. The winner has a target. The winner has a goal. And you’re losing because you’re looking at the winner. That’s the North Star.

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for killing it in here. Again, guys, something in life’s going to be hard. It’s either going to be hard in here that you put yourself through, or someone’s going to put you through something hard out there. I’d rather control what I’m going through than being put to a subjective nature of somebody else. Guys, pay your prices right now. When you pay for it right now, it’s an investment. And the growth potential is limitless. Limitless.

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If you quit, it’s really easy to predict your future.

How’s that feel? But if you don’t quit, if you go for it, with no proof, you can’t quantify it, people are gonna call you crazy, your friends are gonna look at you sideways,

but you’ll have the opportunity to play in the game and stop sitting on the sidelines and you might fail for a while and you might have to pay your success tax and you might have to go through seven failures, nine failures, 12 failures, you might be sleepless at night wondering why the heck you’re doing it, but on the other side of that, you get to see who you’re meant to be, who God designed you to be and tap into your full potential and there’s nothing better. Has life been easy for me as an entrepreneur starting with nothing with self-doubt? Heck no.

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If you wanna look up something about elephant, and they had two pages on elephants, that was what your knew about an elephant. Y’all got Google. You can Google anything. You all have stuff at your fingertips that can make you great. But if you could combine your technology with your parents’ and your grandparents’ work ethic, your could be rich. You could be rich, man. But you cannot erase the work ethic part. There is no getting around. Ain’t no elevator to the top. You got to take the stairs. The elevator don’t go to the top, man. Not in the world of success. You gotta take the stairs.

Y’all gotta start getting gritty, man. I hate it when I see young people wasting their time, wasting all this technology got. Just bull. Just sitting around in this world that’s been created for you, that everything is instant.

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What do you think is going to happen in the real world? You have to be prepared for anything.

Well, in the real world, I won’t have to be looking for someone to play my fake witness in my fake trial.

Wait, wait, wait. What do you think? You think witnesses are just going to jump up and present themselves? Because they’re not. And sometimes, when you have one, they disappear or recant. And you know what you do? You deal with it. Mock trial is about figuring out what type of lawyer you want to be, and there’s only two types. Winners and losers.

Okay, that sounds great, Harvey, but I haven’t prepared. I don’t have anyone to play my client or my witness, and apparently I’m going up against someone that I can’t trust.

Figure out a way to beat him anyway. Winners don’t make excuses when the other side plays the game.

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Sometimes the ambulance doesn’t get there in time. So you as a loved one goes not to the hospital to see somebody, but to a funeral parlor. And at that funeral parlor, someone stands up and gives a eulogy. Words spoken about the character of the person. They never really talk about the financial reward that person had, the money or the cars or the houses or the trophy wives. They always talk about the things stand the test of time. The character of the person that lives on even though that person is deceased. Such thing as passion and love, integrity and honor, discipline,

due diligence and work ethic. Those are the core values that made that character. Somebody that people wanted to come and pay respects to after they’re dead and gone. Someone that lives on past their time and remembrance. Inspiration for someone else. It’s a life lived of remembrance not forgotten. That’s the core values of the human character.

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You know, everybody can compete when they’re feeling good, happy, excited, rested, but it’s the best people who can overcome when they’re tired, sore, not in the great mind, you know, not in the best mindset. And I think mental power that the greatest athletes have can push all the pain aside. You know, I mean, like when I was doing that Navy SEALS thing, was it easy for me to do it? No. Was it easy for me to climb over a 45-foot wall and look down? Not at all, and I’m afraid of heights. But, you know, I said to myself, I’m going to do this and no one’s going to stop me.

I think that’s the biggest thing, is how strong you can be mentally. I think that really shows who the person is. So I think that’s one thing that separates the good from the greatest.

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You can develop that by setting higher standards for yourself The problem is that your mom and dad and school teachers and everybody around you Has conditioned you and indoctrinated you in becoming average and accepting average and just doing what the joneses do what the neighbors do to? Keep up with the joneses joneses. So they have two cars. You have two cars They have a little box of a house. You have a box of a house. They’re always in debt and they’re two paychecks away from going broke. So you’re always in debt, two paychecks away from going broke. That’s, that’s the extent of it.

like that is what you’re encouraged to do by mom and dad and grandparents, aunts, uncles, school teachers. They don’t want you to change, They don’t want you to transcend. They don’t want you to become the best version of yourself because if you do That is threatening to them. That is scary to them.

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When I was going through training, we had to carry these heavy-ass boats on our heads. We had six people carrying these boats. The heaviest part of the boat was in the front, so those weaker people would always look for the very back of the boat. The back of the boat is where the boat would barely be touching your head. We had a name for it. We called it ducking boat. A lot of people put their head down, crouch under it, so that boat wouldn’t be breaking your neck. A lot of people in life out here are riding the back of the boat. They’re ducking that weight.

They’re part of a team, but you’re the weakest person in that team, and everybody knows you’re ducking the boat. You don’t want that boat to touch your head. You don’t want it to hurt your neck, but you want to be part of the team, but you don’t want to do any work. In life, it’s important to not always draft. Sometimes you got to lead and block the win. Stay hard.

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And the purpose for saying what if is that whatever decision you make, always either going to have consequences, either pros or cons.

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But is life easy for anyone? You’re gonna deal with crap. You’re gonna deal with disappointment. You’re gonna have things go sideways. If you are, you might as well go all in on the person. you want to be, the love that you want, The parent. you want the freedom, you want the control, you want the money, you want the business you want. So this is my call to you today: Don’t quit.

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you’re losing because you’re looking at them and you’re looking to them. I’m going to say it one more time so you can hear it in the back. You’re losing because you’re looking at them, what they doing, you’re comparing yourself and you’re losing because you’re looking to them. Affirmation. You’re looking for them to affirm you, to validate you. That’s why you’re losing. You don’t have your own true North Star. You don’t have your own sense of direction. And the reason they are winning is because they got a North Star. They get up in the morning, they know where they’re going.

They know what they’re doing in the afternoon. They know what they’re doing at night. Like they have a particular North Star. And so I need you to look at this image one more time. The loser is looking at the winner. He’s looking at the winner to see what the winner’s doing. He’s looking at the winner to see how far he is. He’s looking at the winner to see how close the winner is to winning. He’s looking at the winner and the winner is not looking at the loser.

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It’s. it’s not gonna be a perfect plan, but take action, action that moves you in a positive direction,

And if it ends up being the wrong direction, that’s fine At least you’ve learned where not to go now Where this gets tough is? if it is something that seems like it’s completely out of your control, and And you know what. some things are completely out of your control, and that’s fine.

And when that happens you ask yourself, what can I control? What can I control that will make this situation a little bit better Ask yourself. What am I going to do? and then go, Do it.

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that we must encompass and grow if we ever want to build anything off of. If you build a house on the sand, guys, as strong as that house is, as fabulous and, you know, modern that house may be, if the foundation’s on sand, the winds and the rains will come and that house will crumble because the foundation’s shit. If you build that same house on a rock, no matter what happens, they’ll stand the test of time. Just like your friend or your loved one that has died, his character lives on and stands the test of time because he built strong core values.

A lot of people dying right now. A lot of people dying. In this gym, we’re going to live though. And how are we going to live? We’re going to live healthy by building the core values of physical structure.

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Until you win, effort always goes unnoticed.

Get used to it.

No one roots for you until everyone roots for you.

That’s just how it works.

Yeah. Yeah.

People only root for those who don’t need to be rooted for.

I knew that was right. I knew that thing that I was saying was right.

And I kept saying it until people realized that it was right.

Another part of it is the media matters more than the message in many ways. The frame matters more than the picture.

Totally.

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Disappointment to me, to win, you gotta lose. To be successful, you gotta have something that’s not successful. To be happy, you gotta have disappointment. So I think all of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the privileges I have for being who I am, you know? And not to wear it on my sleeve, be very humble about it. That’s one thing my parents taught me very well, is don’t wear your reputation, don’t wear your accolades, don’t wear your personality on your sleeve. Let it happen, let it be you.

It is who you are, don’t hide from it, but don’t wear it and rub it in people’s faces.

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You could either do the work today to become your highest version tomorrow, or tomorrow you can feel a lifelong of regret. That’s a given. The people who know that they were meant for more and didn’t go for more, end up with a lifelong state of regret. And the reason for that is, is because they didn’t want to hurt the people around them. Didn’t want to hurt family members. They didn’t want to feel like they’re missing out on birthdays and weddings and funerals. But instead, they gave in to the life of average just so they can blend in and not stand out. And years later,

they regret not doing the things that they could have done to become a winner.

Make no mistake about it, guys. There’s a price to pay to be a winner.

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It’s amazing, man, how you rely on technology and it’s a help to you. But young people, you gotta get gritty, man. You gotta develop some dog in you. You gotta understand that success, you can’t Google success. Go Google it. You can’t Google it, man. I got something else for you. Because I’ve lived so long and I’ve been exposed to so many things. I’ve seen stuff hopefully you’ll never see and I’ve seen some things I hope one day you do see. But go Google exposure. It ain’t gonna take you nowhere.

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day after day after day. That’s the thing about what you’re doing right now. That’s that’s challenging is a lot of motherfuckers can sign up for the one day event. A lot of people do a lot of these CEOs, a lot of these people who don’t want to suffer, you know, as a living, who don’t want to suffer as making it a habit. What they do is they go out and they recruit these people to put them through a two day, three day challenge. Anybody can do that because your mind can process two or three days of suck. What you’re doing, my friend, is going to be damn near a month of suck.

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Controversial take You really can solve a lot of male problems by getting in shape and making money. You still have problems, They’re just smaller and you have more resources to handle them. The world is there for the taking for anyone who can learn from their mistakes. Do what they say they were going to do and stick with it, Even if it’s not sexy. what used to make a man acceptable now makes you extraordinary. The bar for winning has never been so low.

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You know, when you’re going through something really challenging, how do you show up within it? Do you choose to become a victim of complaining and misery and sh**ty, or do you find meaning in how you show up in the suffering, you know? And this isn’t really my line of thinking. This is like, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl kind of talked about this. And I read that book last year, probably when I said this. And I reflected a lot about this, honestly, when Courtney was going through labor. And she had the child, and I was like, Holy f**k,

you are going through this absolutely like… I’ve never experienced that much pain in my entire life. And she just remained calm, controlled her breathing,

did what she needed to do, changed positions when I told her she needed to do, was in the tub, was on the bed, was doing all these things, and was just dialed.

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but they almost feel it’s their own force and they’re making things happen that they think are their own things, And all you’re doing is you’re, you’re, you’re being so subtle that they barely even know that they’re being led.

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The best news in today that sells is negative news. That’s what other reporters want. I know. And not that I live in a box to where I’m afraid to do things. I know that, as my father says, the what if comment is to be able to deal with the consequences of what decisions you make. And you think about that, and if you think about the consequences pro or con, you make the right decisions, that you feel is the right decision. Now, all decisions I’ve made, other people may view to be not the right decisions from their perspective, but for me to go play baseball, and everybody says, oh,

it was a failed opportunity to play baseball. That’s what they think. For me, it was the best thing that could have happened for me, because it allowed me to go back to the game with a stronger passion.

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People think, oh David Goggins just wakes the f**k up and he just gets his s**t on, he gets his f**k out. No, I don’t. I don’t get up and get after it. I look at my shoes sometimes for hours. I pass them. I go, I get something to drink. I go to the bathroom. I watch TV. I’ll start doing some work and I look at those f**king shoes because why my body’s saying, go f**k yourself. So you have to be able to win the morning. You have to be able to not allow that to get too deep in your brain. And when things get really tough for you,

when you’re out there on like day 17 and your knees are hurting and your back is hurting, your shoulders are hurting, your elbows get elbow tendinitis and all kinds of s**t going on. You got to start remembering your resume.

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Now 1% of the time, I feel like I’m actually winning. And you know what a winner does? He just takes that 1% and stacks them on top of each other day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. And that is how you build an empire. That is how you build a legacy. That is how you build a brand. That is how you build millions in money or help millions of people through impact or serve your family at the highest level because you have the means to do it. Every family deserves to have a winner. I think it should be you. But you also have to disconnect,

unplug your umbilical cord from the belly button of average and plug yourself into the mindset of a winner, which is a winner does more than expected every single time, no matter how they feel, no matter the circumstances. A winner shows up 10X times more than the average person.

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You are suffering, but you are choosing to find meaning in how you handle the suffering that makes you so worthy of those suffering. And it’s such a beautiful thing to experience. And you know, when life throws some shit at us, you’re having this baby. You’re not choosing not to have this baby. You’re going to go through this pain. You’re going to go through the suffering. How are you going to choose to show up? Like I was talking about before, there are things out of your control. What’s in your control? How can you take that power back into your own hands?

And what are you going to take from it? What kind of meaning can you find from taking power out of what you feel powerless in?

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The one that I remember the most and was preached to me by my dad is this, don’t half-ass it. Don’t half-ass it. Boy, that never goes out of style, does it?

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And with a weak core, what happens? You’re not in the gym growing. You’re in that ambulance, going to the hospital in a backwards progression, recovering instead of growing. Today, I’m gonna show you how to build that core the right way. I’m not gonna sell the sexy abs and everything else. I’m gonna sell functionality to you. I’m gonna sell you a theory that will stand the test of time. That if you put your work into the equation, everything else will grow and you can bear the fruits of that labor. .

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In a moment just like this, I was a hairline away from going, I should stick with what I know. Everyone’s right. I should be satisfied. And can I tell you something, if I made that decision, I’d be miserable today. I wouldn’t know the man I could have become, the father I could have become, the husband I could have become, the leader I could have become, the chance to donate and impact lives around the world and feed, provide 10 million meals and help children in slavery and build schools in Africa and make sure my family’s safe. This month alone, I bought my mom a brand new house.

I just put my dad in a place where he can live so comfortably like I get to do cool things because I didn’t quit.

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I need you to take your eyes off of others. I need you to put your eyes on yourself. Come on, I’m talking to somebody. I need you to get your eyes off of what they’re wearing, and off of what they’re doing, and off of how they show up, and off of their style. I need you to start looking at you. I need you to look at your schedule. I need you to look at your circumstances. I need you to look at your situation. Are you listening to what I’m saying? How you’re waking up, what you’re doing in the next 24 hours. What makes you solid? What makes you dope? What makes people love you?

What’s your gifts? What’s your talent? What separates you from everybody else? I need you to spend the next 21 days.

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And no matter how many people around him tell him to slow down, be careful, watch out, that’s too risky. You don’t have the genetics, the DNA, the money, the mind, the brainpower for that. A winner locks onto their f***ing goals and keeps going. That’s what the winner does. And throughout that process of going, whether you’re building a business, you’re building a family, you’re building your body, you’re whatever it is that you’re doing. I’m telling you right now, man, as a winner, 80% of the time, you’re going to feel like you’re failing.

15% of the time, you’re going to feel like you’re just treading water. You just got your nose above the waterline. 4% of the time, you feel like it’s f***ing over. This is it. I’m about to tap out. But you don’t. because that 1% of the time, my friend, that 1% of the time is when you know you’re winning and you go, I’m going to take these 1%ers, I’m going to stack them and stack them and stack them and stack them. And you know what happens when you stack winning over years and decades? You become a f***ing formidable force to be reckoned with. And that’s what I want for you.

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A lot of people don’t remember what the fuck they’ve accomplished in life. And at that time of suffering, you have to be able to fucking go through and pull up that fucking Who the Fuck I Am resume and say, oh, for you, I’m sure you studied your fucking ass off for hours and days and years to get where you’re at. I guarantee you did shit harder than this. And that’s basically what you have to go back to. But it’s hard to do because in that moment of suffering, all you can think about is getting the fuck out of it.

So you got to take that one second to pull yourself out of that suffering to have a clear fucking thought. It’s hard to have clear thoughts in the midst of extreme pain and suffering.

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your own ability to understand where your strengths and weaknesses lie. It’s hard. Full stop. Sure. It’s really hard if you’re 20.

Yeah. Right. Or 22. Before you win, everyone will ask why you’re working so hard. And after you win, everyone will remind you how lucky you got.

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When you consume content on the internet as an entrepreneur, as an ambitious person, as someone who wants to succeed, you have to consume it with the filter of this is not for people who are doing what I want to do. This is for everybody else. Entrepreneurs, driven people, ambitious people have a different set of rules to the game that apply to them than everybody else. And so when you consume all of this shit that’s telling you you have to do this and you have to live like that and you better feel like this, all of a sudden we start analyzing ourselves and we’re like, well, fuck dude,

I’m not really any of those things. And then you end up in a situation where you feel anxious about it. You feel like you’re fucked up or there’s something wrong with you. And dude, that shit will drive you crazy.

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The rule might not be follow this rule. The rule might be you have to follow some rules. So it’s a meta rule. And the meta rule is you have to discipline yourself. And the issue is well how? That’s not really the relevant question. You can pick a disciplinary path. That’s why I often tell my clients, especially young people, they say well I don’t know what to do. It’s like that’s okay. Nobody does. Go do something. Do the best thing that you can think of. Put the best plan you have into practice. It’s not going to be perfect and it will change along the way.

But it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path. And as you become disciplined, you become wiser. And as you become wiser, you become able to formulate better and better plans. So you can start vaguely and confused and develop a plan that’s not so great. And you start to implement it. And then you accrue incremental wisdom as you implement your flawed plan. And that enables you to fix the plan. And so that’s part of that process of incremental self-improvement as well. And so that’s part of that process of incremental self-improvement as well.

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It’s hard to imagine, but you have to learn how to fail. Because I’m gonna explain this to you. I had big dreams. A lot of us have big dreams, big goals. And when you have goals that are maybe outside your reach, you have to know that getting to that goal, you’re gonna have a lot of bad days, a lot of setbacks. So like when I was losing 106 pounds in three months, the first two months or first two weeks, it’s like I was gaining weight. I would lose a pound, gain two. So I was just failing. I kept failing and kept failing and kept failing. So I had to teach myself how to fail right.

And what that means is when I fail, I can’t spend much time in that fail zone. I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast, because my goals was to be a Navy SEAL. I don’t have time to stay here and feel bad for myself for weeks and months and years, because I’ll lose that time.

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And I want you to win and why? Why you want me to win so bad? Because I used to be a loser and there was winners who helped me, I was homeless. They got me out of those abandoned buildings. They got me out of being a high school dropout. Like they put me in a situation where I’m winning now, y’all. I know what it’s like to win. And I promised them, the way they helped me win, I’m gonna help you win. So you gotta do me a huge favor. Like come, come get close. I need you to listen today. I need you to listen. And I need you to apply what I’m about to tell you. Listen to me very closely.

I don’t need you to act like you winning no more. You putting up too much energy, trying to act like you winning. Cause you don’t want people to know where you really, I need you to humble yourself. Don’t worry about nobody else. Stop trying to compete with your siblings. Stop trying to compete with your best friends. Stop trying to compete with people at the job. You feel what I’m saying? I want you to really win. I want you to know what it feels like to be a winner. And I want you to know what it feels like to win on a consistent basis.

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remind yourself of what you’ve been through back in the past, back in the day to get to where you’re at today. So that’s what I do, it’s a constant reminder and then through that process, I guarantee you your mind and body will say, oh, we got this, we’ve been here before, maybe not in that kind of pain and suffering, but we’ve been here before in the demons of your own mind. So that’s the best reminder in the world.

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Are you embarrassed? Nope. Afraid? No. Then why?

Just let it go.

No, you are under arrest.

Then hold me in contempt.

For God’s sakes, what the hell happened to you? What kind of damage was done to you? Caring only makes you… Weak.

They think you care, they’ll walk all over you.

You weren’t weak the day you walked into my office. You were a man who believed that to win fairly was more important than to win. And you still are.

And I’ve never seen anyone walk all over you.

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You accused me of breaking the rules, and I tell you, I am playing by the rules, the very rules that you and I all Agreed upon, the very rules that you and I all wrote together. So, yes, I’m guilty as hell, but then so are all of you. Yes, the system is corrupt, But you wanted a guardian at the gate, like me. and why? because you know I will do whatever it takes. And you have all enjoyed it, Been party to it And benefited by it. Oh, don’t deny it. You’ve loved it.

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Don’t quit. Get after it. Discover who you are, who you could really be when you’re up against it. Know that there is more in you. Don’t let this society that, sorry I’m just gonna say it like it is, feels like it’s getting weaker to me. Where people are afraid to step up, afraid to say what’s in their heart, afraid to be criticized by the loud minority. Screw that. Be you. Do you. Because, at the end of your life the only person you get to look at and have a real talk with is you. And I want to be able to look in the mirror and say, as Frank Sinatra says, I did it my way.

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You have to be your own motivator, your own coach, your own trainer, your own everything. So to do that, you have to come into work and work as whatever your work may be, ready to go. And what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday, but you come to work like, people are like, man, you just lost everything. How the hell are you just fucking damn motivated? Because this is what it takes. This is what the fuck it takes. And you gotta get it from wherever you can. Whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated,

whatever gets you motivated, it’s gotta be here at the tip of your brain at all times. Because in those dark moments, you gotta pull it out. So that’s the big thing for me, man. I was always fired up at all times.

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Stop consuming all the data on the internet written by motherfuckers who haven’t done anything near what you want to do and Let me explain something to you that includes people who have just have a podcast That includes people who just have a coaching business. I’m talking about people for entrepreneurship who have built actual companies. Listen to them, Read what they say and everybody else can get the fuck out of the way, okay?

That’s what you have to understand if you consume the rules of the game Written by people who have never played the game and who have never even come close to winning the game. You’re gonna feel crazy.

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21 days, two things. One, cut your eyes and your heart and your mind off of others. Stop talking about others. Stop talking about what others aren’t doing, what they are doing. Stop talking about others. And I need you to take your life in your hands. Start focusing on what you’re doing, what you should be doing. It’s your boy ET. Ah! I know it’s going to be a challenge. I know it’s going to be tough, but you are a winner. Winning inside of you. It’s time for you to win. Your parents are waiting for you to win. Your siblings are waiting for you to win.

Your family members, your kids are waiting for you to win. Your friends are waiting for you. Everybody’s waiting on you to do what they know you’re capable of doing. Now it’s time for you to show up for you. It’s your boy ET. Small steps, great distances.

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You don’t actually need me to stand for anything. You just need me to stand. To be the strong man, the man of action. My God, you’re addicted to action and slogans. It doesn’t matter what I say. It doesn’t matter what I do. Just as long as I’m doing something, you’re happy to be along for the ride. And frankly, I don’t blame you. With all the foolishness and indecision in your lives, why not a man like me? I don’t apologize. In the end, I don’t care whether you love me or you hate me, just as long as I win. The deck is stacked. The rules are rigged.

Welcome to the death of the age of reason. There is no right or wrong. Not anymore. There’s only being in and then being out.

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The moment you are passionate about something, everybody wants to support you. Everyone’s got your back. They’re like, yeah, man, go follow your passion. I believe in you, you can do this. Because when someone is passionate about something, it’s not threatening. They still spend time with you. They’re still the, somewhat the old version of themselves. But the moment you get obsessed about something, you are a very different mother fucker. The moment you are obsessed about something, everyone else in your life dies. That’s just the reality, right?

And so I’m gonna give you an example of some winning mindsets in just a moment. But that example of Kobe Bryant, where he wasn’t the best runner, he wasn’t the best jumper, he didn’t have the most stamina, his hands weren’t big enough to naturally palm the ball, so he had to build the strength. He did that by spending extra time in the gym.

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6 down.

Guys, I know it sucks.

I know you’re like,

what’s the point?

Sometimes in life,

the answer isn’t always revealed in the forefront.

You learn the reason behind it later in life.

And later in life,

you get hit with adversity where so much is riding on you.

Not just you, your family, everything’s riding on you.

And you overcome it without even losing your wind.

It’s easy for you because you paid the price and hit failure over and over again in here.

So when it mattered out there guys, victory, mother fucker.

It was a victory, you guys are.

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Saying good, that should fix your attitude, But that alone, That will, that alone will not fix your problems.

If you’re having problems, sure, Say good That’s perfect. But then Don’t ask yourself. Why me?

Instead ask yourself now. What am I going to do about it? What are you going to do about? ask yourself that question and then Figure it out Figure out what you’re going to do say to yourself. I am going to detach. I am going to Assess the situation. I am going to come up with a plan and I am going to execute and then Start moving.

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would the outcome have been different? What if I did give it my all? And boy, wondering that is what keeps us up at night. So that’s a value that stuck with me. If you don’t half-ass it, I think it’s one we can all take in our hip pocket going forward.

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I’m guessing you people all decided that the only person who could ever kill Thomas Shelby is Thomas Shelby himself.

You made me believe death was coming. Let my nature do the rest.

You may not have to beg your lordship, Mr. Shelby,

but you are sick.

I know you.

You are sick with guilt.

You are a different man.

The gun no longer belongs in your hand.

But I am back. Back from under the ground.

Close your eyes.

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I’m guessing you people all decided that the only person who could ever kill Thomas Shelby is Thomas Shelby himself.

You made me believe death was coming. Let my nature do the rest.

You may not have to beg your lordship, Mr. Shelby,

but you are sick.

I know you.

You are sick with guilt.

You are a different man.

The gun no longer belongs in your hand.

But I am back. Back from under the ground.

Close your eyes.

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Cuz. real lions like to hunt. they love the process just as much as they love the prize, And some of y’all just want to score. you don’t like the process, You’re not in love with the process,

You just like to put the pass on. you love, when it’s your time, everybody in the crowd. you like Mom, can you see? you can’t even start till you know your people there once you see them. you like showtime. a

Real man in the dark when nobody’s watching he putting in work a Real man when coach ain’t even watching he’s studying film on his own Cuz he’s he loves the process If you will be a champion if you will be a beast you’re gonna have to go through something Ain’t nobody gonna hand you nothing. Anybody gonna hand you no championship and about gonna hand you no title.

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I’ve been listening to laughter all my career. I’ve been listening to them laugh my whole career. They’ve been laughing. What, an Irishman win a Cage Warriors world title? Hell no. You serious? An Irishman? An Irishman win a fight in the UFC? Hell no, laugh. Laughs all around. An Irish, okay, he got a win. Now he wants to win a world title? Hell no, he’s all talk, he’s all hype, he’s a joke. Laughter all around at the Joker. Then the Joker goes and wins the world title. Now he wants to win a second world title. More laughter. Listen, I don’t know.

the sound of laughter and the sound of doubt motivates me. So I’m enjoying that. I seek that. I don’t feel no doubt or I don’t feel that going to fight in any of these other UFC bombs right now. They need to rise up. Right now they’re down there. I’ve got this situation where people are truly doubting me, like they doubted me at the very, very beginning. And that’s motivating for me. That’s what’s going to drive me to the gym when I need to go to the gym to put in that work to get that win. So that’s where we’re at right now.

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So when I did decide to come back in 1995 and then we played Utah in 96, I’m at the center circle and Brian Russell’s sitting next to me and I look over to Brian, I said, you remember this conversation you made in 1994 about when you, I wish, I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you. Well, you about to get your chance.

And believe me, ever since that day, he got his chance. I don’t know how succeeding he was, but I think he had his chance and believe me, I relished on that point. And from this day forward, if I ever see him in shorts, I’m coming at him.

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Many will not understand, but you have to raise warriors. The strength and courage of a warrior. Stress and the importance of education, humility, and leadership. Why do those things matter?

It matters to me because it changed the course of my life.

It changed my family lives and everyone that’s connected to me. I’ve endured some tough times in my life. But when you have strong men in your corner, they empower you with the strength and courage of a warrior.

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The worst thing in the world is growing up in poverty and coming here and getting worshiped and not taking advantage of this and you Got to go back to the hood. That’s. that’s the worst thing that could ever happen to a bro. Traveling and being in hotels and seeing the world and eating like you, eating and not taking advantage of this and getting kicked out and Going back home to the hood, being somebody that they talk about because you were sweet for four years. You better not lose this. This is an opportunity of a lifetime.

your grandma counting on you to do the right thing, your mama counting on you, your cousins, Your brothers and sisters are counting on you to cash in on this opportunity. everybody want to be a beast and Tell us time to do what beasts do. Everybody want to be a beast. everybody got a lot tattoos of lions- Lions- all on a Twitter face, but everybody got the lion thing. now they tweet- not raw,

But when it’s time to practice, you ain’t on beast mode. when it’s time to watch film, you ain’t on beast mode. You ain’t watching your dudes.

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But when it’s time to practice, you ain’t on beast mode. when it’s time to watch film, you ain’t on beast mode. You ain’t watching your dudes.

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Because I know every mother ain’t going to do what I’m going to do. So this is how you level up. That’s how you level up. I know there’s a whole bunch of people with that right there. That fires me up. That makes me fucking happy what you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there’s so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours. Refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that’s where I gain the advantage. It’s so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak.

Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile. Most people don’t want to find that extra because it sucks. It’s miserable. It’s lonely. You talk about that you were kind of lonely by yourself. I was the same way. And that used to hurt me growing up. Now I fucking thrive in that shit. That’s the only place to be.

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He was trying to win a boxing match.

I was trying to kill that guy.

It was really strange.

I thought I’d knock him out in one or two rounds,

but about the third round I hit him and he fell on me.

I thought, that’s it.

And he started screaming,

that’s all you got George.

Show me something.

And I knew then I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Are you motherfuckers? Okay, All right. I’m putting cases on all you bitches. Huh?

You think you can do this shit?

Yeah, You think you can do this to me?

You motherfuckers will be playing basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you. shoe program bigger, 23 hour lockdown. I’m the man up in this piece You’ll never see the light of. do no fuck. you think you fucking with. I’m the police. I run shit here. you just live here. Yeah, that’s right, you better walk away. go and walk away, cuz I’m gonna burn this motherfucker down. King Kong ain’t got on me.

I’m winning anyway, I’m winning. I’m winning any motherfucking way. I can’t lose Shit. you can shoot me, But you can’t kill me.

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Yo, Jocko, what’s the best way to increase one’s confidence?

You want to increase your confidence. I’ll I’ll tell you what I think what you do if you want to increase your confidence is you do jujitsu. You work out, you get stronger, you read and you study and you learn and you get smarter.

And and then you practice speaking, and you practice speaking so that you can become more articulate, and then you practice some more, and then you Then you do hard things, things that are challenging, Things that are tough, and then you get tougher. you don’t quit.

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It’s been a long, long four years. They all doubted me, said I couldn’t do it. They all said I couldn’t do it. Look at me now. Look at me now. Pound for pound. Headshot. Dead. That’s it. It doesn’t matter. I’m from the trenches. I’m built like this. I’ll go to the battle’s done. That’s it. I’m from the trenches. I’ve been dying my whole life now. Look at me now. Look at me now. I told it’s possible. We can win a belt from the UK. I told you. Now look at me now. Look at me now. I told you I could do it. I told you. Pound for pound what? Pound for pound what? There is no pound for pound.

The belt belongs to nobody. That’s it.

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my calf on this race kind of locked up. And it’s like going up this last grade, we had to do one more summit, and I couldn’t run it. And I’m like, he took off, I was just kind of power hiking it, and I get up there and had a cameraman up there. And David was like, he was in his Goggins mode by that time. This was towards the end of the race, we had like two miles left, it’s like 33 miles in. And I asked the cameraman up there, I’m like, hey, I said, how did Goggins look? And he’s like, well, he had his shirt off, and it was cold rain, he’s had his shirt off,

and he was saying, they don’t fucking know me. I’m like, who is he? He’s like, they don’t know me, son, and doing, saying all this stuff. I said, who is he saying that to? And he’s like, there’s nobody up here.

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You’ll be less than you’ll be a fucking loser if you don’t I can’t leave the gym you do one You fucking won you walk out here today You know you’ve won Imagine walking out the door a loser. I’d rather die. I would rather die than be that loser guy. Think about that Do you want to walk out that door a damn loser didn’t walk out the door a winner? Thank you, you know I’ll fight to the death and Sometimes I actually went close to death it sounds crazy, but you got to give it that much if you want results Otherwise you’ll be like everybody else the majority of the population.

They think they’re training hard. That was hard.

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They think they’re training hard. That was hard.

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I was not Kobe.

Kobe was something else.

He was the guy, like I said, when we in the club, that mother is in the gym. You know what I mean? And that’s what separated him from a whole lot of dudes, even myself.

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There are people That are better than you are at some things, people that are smarter than you and they’re stronger than you and Faster and more athletic than you, and they have more money and they got better looks and they’re funnier.

But all that is okay. it’s actually okay because There are things that are more important,

More important than being strong and smart and athletic, more important than all those things:

things like loyalty, honor,

will,

things like courage,

The courage to stand and the will to keep going Yeah,

I was at the race. I saw him at the race where he broke all the bones in his feet You know, I saw him I was at that I participated in that race. It’s the first time I saw him. I met him and 2007 and uh, I was running this race. It was a 24-hour race as a relay team. I was with four friends and The format of the races, you know, you run a mile I run a mile my other whatever team runs the most amount of miles right wins the race. He had no teammates.

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But all that is okay. it’s actually okay because There are things that are more important,

More important than being strong and smart and athletic, more important than all those things:

things like loyalty, honor,

will,

things like courage,

The courage to stand and the will to keep going Yeah,

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Listen to me my own a company your mama might be a millionaire you might come from privilege your daddy Might hook you up with a car. He might know people, he might be able to get you a job. But you will not outwork me and what you have to decide in your position in the NCAA, You have to make a decision that nobody in this league in your position will outwork.

you Listen to me: You better grow up and get to the point as a man that if you ever get beat you better get beat by somebody That’s just that’s just purely more talented than you are you better not ever get beat by somebody because you beat yourself You have to take advantage of an opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity Let me tell you something you sit in this room You think you’re gonna be 18 for the rest of your life? You think you’re gonna be 19 for the rest of your life? You got an opportunity right now that you won’t have five years from now.

You have an opportunity right now that you’ll never have.

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When I was younger, I could get away from it a little bit. When it becomes something that steady this pecks at you all day long, no matter what you’re doing, like if I was talking to you back then when I was 300 pounds, I could be talking to you in this voice at the same time like, what are you doing? What are you doing, man? You’re a loser. Where are you going, man? This is what you could do your whole life? So it’d be talking to me as I’m talking to everybody. It was almost like I had two people. I’m like, good God, just shut up. I want to be comfortable. I want to be left alone.

I don’t want to face all these things that life gave me. So you got to a point where you were sick and tired of hearing that voice. I was sick and tired of not facing the fact that I have allowed life to make me feel like a loser. And a lot of us allow life to do that. And we accept it. A lot of us talk about how we believe in God. We believe in something higher than us. If that is truth, you won’t allow yourself to feel that way.

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the attention to detail for the human being I want to do. I call this thing, like, I want to be the standard. I want to be that guy. Like, every place I went in the military, there was this ethos about how this place is, how we’re going to live, how we’re going to represent ourselves. And I walked around and I saw that most people didn’t live up to that ethos. Like if you go to whatever, whatever company, they have this mission statement on how we want to run our company. I made one for myself on how I want to be.

And that is why if people can make up a mission statement and ethos in which they want to live by, and every morning you wake up, you hold yourself accountable to that mission, not a company, it’s your own. Make up your own mission statement. What do you want to be in life?

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Three more rules I’ll never break are live your life with character, honor, and discipline. If you live that way, I guarantee you, your goals and dreams will get accomplished.

The darkest part of my life was when I was 24 years old and I was out of shape. I was lazy, depressed, and how I overcame it was belief. Believing that I am better than who I am right now in this moment. Through that belief, I became the man sitting here today.

The defining moment was when I was 24 years old and I was watching that Discovery Channel show where that show about those guys going through Navy SEAL training. I had to make a decision to either sit here and continue watching people become great or to bet on myself and become great on my own terms.

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Surprise, surprise mother f**ker! The king is back!

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Change happens when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of making a change. And in your situation, it sounds like, well, this is less painful.

100%. I think, and I think that’s the basis of most change. Either you have to have a reward that is, that incentivizes you, it’s the away, towards or away. It’s either we’re going away from pain or we’re going towards pleasure. And I think a lot of people are really looking for that passion that’s gonna be towards. But I think early days, and I talk a lot about this, but like, I think negative motivation is poo-pooed too much. Like if you are angry, use it. If you are sad, use it. Because like, what else are you gonna do with it?

Like, you might as well let it help you. Like, or it uses you, you know what I mean? And so I always like to see when I was in my earlier days, I felt like I was wielding my anger at least, in a direction. And I think also a lot of people think that they have to get like it right on the first shot. But one of the beliefs that I had was that I just wanna be directionally correct.

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Change happens when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of making a change. And in your situation, it sounds like, well, this is less painful.

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I put a video up and it showed my leg with a lot of edema. I put my hand on it. I got a lot of bad comments on that. a lot of hate came out of that fucking thing- man talking shit. I’ll never run again. There’s a good chance. I wasn’t going to but I thought about it for a long time And they had this stuff out there called calm Before you go to sleep you play it ocean waves birds and shit Waterfall Thunder all that shit. I made a gaga remix Of all your shit talking. I put that mother. go off with the bed. evil, violent shit Woke up motherfucking refreshed ready to kick ass.

I’m 22 miles in mother Running videos are back. stay hard.

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I’m 22 miles in mother Running videos are back. stay hard.

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When you are in your process, as you have been locked in for years, especially with the aperture of what you have to deal with, is there any better feeling than being locked in? No. Like when you are locked in and you are, you know, you’re taking, and you’re in a rhythm and every day you’re knocking it down, you never miss a step, like you go to bed feeling great, you wake up feeling inspired, you go in the gym with energy, right? Like that’s the best way to live and that’s why I didn’t want to stop.

You feel like it cements your legacy or whoever that you want to become, but ultimately like the time and the commitment that you give to yourself, into your body, into your craft, into your mind, those things will take care of itself. And if it’s meant for you to have, then it’s meant for you to have. And if it’s not, if you’ve done all those things leading up to it and it still didn’t happen, you sleep better at night, you’re okay with yourself because you gave, you gave your body, your mind, your soul, everything that you could ever ask for.

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You have to have action to make traction. Now, you just add one letter in front of the word, or two letters, I’m sorry, I don’t even know how to spell action, T-R. You just put two letters in front of the word action and you got traction. And let me just say this, you’ve never gotten traction by sitting still. You’ve never gotten traction by having

just wonderful thoughts. You’ve never had traction by good intentions. You’ve gotta move and then you get traction.

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I’m back, motherfucker! I’m back! All of this fucking solitary confinement shit got me back.

There are times when all around you is crumbling and all those have quit. That’s when you know who the fuck you are. You got a lot of more miles to go before I sleep.

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People want this to be cut and dry. They want this to be easy. They want it to be quick. They want it to be painless. There’s nothing easy quick and painless about being fucking great at building anything in life Creating anything at life becoming anything at life. You are going to suffer. It is going to be hard is going to take all of your Energy, it’s gonna kick you in the face a thousand times. You’re going to be demoralized. You’re going to be frustrated You’re going to be angry. You’re going to be bitter sometimes.

This is why it’s so important to build yourself into someone who can execute regardless of what your mood is regardless of what your Circumstances is because if you can execute when things are fucked up and everybody else bails and everybody else quits What kind of advantage does that give you over the long haul? It gives you a tremendous advantage. and if you can become the kind of person that cannot be stopped by outside Circumstances or going through a tough time or being in a bad mood or being unmotivated, How can anyone beat that who can stop that?

The only thing that can stop that is your own death or God.

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going to happen. It has to happen. And that’s a fact. Like, there’s no get out of jail free car, bro. None. Like, that is a life that I don’t know. I don’t have that ability or I have the ability, I don’t have the, I’m not good enough, smart enough. I’m not talented enough to do that. Some people are. Some people can start at one. Some people don’t have to start at all. If you lack talent, you can’t sit back and say, I’ll start in half an hour.

I can’t do that. I got to start now. And after I get back from starting, I got to start again. And then when I get done with that run or that study session, if it wasn’t good enough, I got to go back again. Because repetition is what taught me everything.

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Patience. Patience is a skill we must master.

Patience is one of the most valuable skills a human being must master.

And I’m working hard to master it and I feel I’m getting there so time, time will, time will,

time will show all. That’s it.

Right now I’m focused on the belt, focused positivity,

good thoughts and I’ll say a prayer for those who try and curse me or try and bring harm to me with these type of things and that’s it.

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But if you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness, if you want to begin to really enjoy a happy, successful, healthy life, you’ve got to be willing to go against the tide. You’ve got to be willing to harness your will and say, in spite of this, I’m in control here. I’m not going to let this get me down. I’m not going to let this destroy me. I’m coming back, and I’ll be stronger and better because of it. You have got to make a declaration that this is what you stand for. You’re standing up for your dreams. You’re standing up for peace of mind. You’re standing up for health.

You want it, and you’re going to go all out to have it. It’s not going to be easy when you want to change. It’s not easy. If it were, in fact, easy, everybody would do it. But if you’re serious, you’ll go all out. Yes, I’m going to turn this situation around. I’m not going to sit back and moan and cry over what happened and what went wrong and who did what. I’m going to do something about this situation.

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you’re good but you’re not as good as those guys. You know I had to listen to all this and that put so much will on that fire that it kept me each and every day trying to get better as a basketball player. Now, I’m not saying they they were wrong. I may have looked at him from a different perspective, you know, but at the same time, as a basketball player, I’m trying to become the best that I can. you know,

and for someone like me who achieved a lot in over the time of my career you look for any kind of messages that people may say or do to get you motivated to play the game of basketball at the highest level because that is when I feel like I excel at my best.

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is that expect things to get better for you, because they are. See, life is cyclic. You’re not, whatever experience you’re having right now, it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. Not to stay, just to pass. It’s just going through. The biggest challenge is is to know what’s happening. This is a part of this thing we call life. This too shall pass. And maintaining perspective, putting it in perspective.

I was doing a training at a college.

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too many people out here that want shit easy and notice none of them win on a big scale. There might be a couple people out here that got some cars and have some shit and be winning the boat. What the fuck have they built? Well, look at them. If you’re going to be a world changing cleaner mother like Tim Grover talks about, it’s going to take everything bro. It takes free throws at three o’clock in the fucking morning. Like MJ and Kobe did. That’s what it takes. It takes total obsession dude. And most people ain’t built for it.

And we have this entire culture out here that’s telling everybody that being their own boss is about freedom and it’s about fun and it’s about doing whatever you want and you get to, and they’re all liars. They’re all lying. That’s not how it is, bro. It’s total obsession to your craft.

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Had to invent a guy that didn’t exist. I had to invent a guy that can take any pain, any suffering, any kind of judgment, Be called bigger, be called whatever the fuck in the world and be able to stand a fucking room and say go fuck yourself. I had a built. I had to build this callous mind and I built it through suffering. I Built it to downright fucking, just crushing myself. if it was raining outside three o’clock in the fucking morning for snowing, The first thing is think is don’t go out there and do shit.

My instinct was we gotta fucking go out there Anything that was fucking horrible in my life that I would normally say no That was inhumane to most people. I had to go do it and I started callous in my mind at this point in my life.

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Getting better at anything never feels good. Like if you’re building resilience, it’s not a time that you’re liking. You know what I mean? It doesn’t feel good. Like, so that’s what, okay, I don’t like this. This feels like shit, but because it’s hard, because I can’t lift these weights anymore, because I can’t, these other, you know, I’m exhausted and the other kids are still, you know, running sprints or whatever, you know. But like, those are the moments, for what it’s worth, where you’re getting better.

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that anybody that wins at the highest level, that’s how they operate. It might not be healthy. It might not be what most people want. It certainly isn’t balanced, but it’s the real story. Real motherfuckers are obsessed with what they do. The people who win the biggest are fucking obsessed. You cannot argue that. I’ve met thousands and thousands and thousands of entrepreneurs and the best ones, the ones that win at the highest level, they are fucking obsessed. It’s a huge priority over everything else in their life and people will sit here and hear, well, that’s not healthy.

Well, then don’t be a winner, man. I’m just telling you what it is. You don’t have to do it. I’m not saying you got to do it. I’m not saying it’s for you. I’m saying what it actually takes and nobody else wants to say that shit because you can’t fucking sell it.

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So many people, they want to go somewhere, but they don’t want to move. What do they expect? They expect us to pick them up and carry them there? No, no. What is it today that you’ve been wanting, but to be honest with you, you haven’t yet gotten? I will almost guarantee you the reason that your want and desire is far from being fulfilled by achieving it is because you haven’t taken action necessary. So today, don’t think about it. Don’t talk about it. Don’t wish for it. Go for it. Dive, move, start, act. Trust me, it’s the only way to get there.

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To all you computer warriors, trolls, haters: I read your fucking messages on those videos. I put up with me and my crutches me get my knees drink You were happy. I was fucking injured. You’re also happy cuz he thought I’d never run again all that see I told you tagging your friend shit Bitch, you don’t fucking know me. You see a one minute fucking video about me You know hard I trained how I live the dedication I put to my fucking life, so why do you troll? Maybe it’s a fat motherfucker at home, Lazy, but no discipline dedication. Maybe you’re jealous Who knows but guarantee this?

I’ll be back. better, never, Haha, fuck you, stay hard.

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And I wanted people to know that I am okay, that I will survive this. At first when I came in here, I had tears in my eyes.

I thought it was going to be over. And Dr. Carter said to me, and Dr. Carter had a tear in his eye, I could tell he felt for me. And he said, son, I’m sorry to say you’re not going to box again. And I looked at him and I said, no, Dr. Carter, you’re wrong. I am going to box again. He said, you don’t understand what kind of man I am.

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You ain’t got it. Stop frontin’. And I’m not comin’ at y’all on any other level but keepin’ it real. The life that I live, I deserve this life because I worked my ass off to get it. Y’all out here runnin’ around creatin’ this smoke

on the brink of destruction. And it’s all self-inflicted. You did it to yourself. Trying to live up to the hype and create the smoke that you doin’ it. You ain’t doin’ it. You still got work to do. Stay on that basketball court. Stay on that football field. Fuck all the homies textin’ and callin’ and tryin’ to make you feel bad about bein’ so focused. It’s grind season, homie. It’s not about today. It’s about the future. You do the work now. Do the work now. And all of this shit that you could ever wanna do for your family, your kids,

your loved ones, it’s all gonna be on a whole nother stratosphere.

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So this morning I was giving it go for a run with a few guys, So I was taking my shirt off and they saw my stress marks and one guy asked me Where the fuck’s the yellow stress marks from? Try to share with this guy. Well, all this going was that was 297 pounds. Insecure, had doubts that I fucked up, just a fucked up- mine. So there’s a lot of scars we have in our bodies that people can see and they tell a story, But a lot of us have scars in their brains about fucked up lives bad childhoods bad adulthood Where the fuck you’re going through those scars in your brain? We’ll talk about. we hide.

Scarring is proof that our past is real, But the one thing we do is we allowed to control our lives and we get off the log. Well, time to get back on the log, and that had those scars define the rest of your fucking life. Sometimes you gotta fight pain with pain. stay hard. You.

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Wanted to be uncommon amongst uncommon people I Wanted to be the guy I don’t care if you fucking like not give you understand me I didn’t give a fuck once I went through this fucking journey this path of life You ain’t got a whole bunch of fucking guys that don’t fucking like me. I don’t give a fuck. I’m a warrior Period. there’s a lot guys have been a lot more combat to me. a warrior is not always that Worries a motherfucker who says, hey, I’m here again today, I’m here again tomorrow. I’m gonna be here the next day. I’m 50 years old. I’m still fucking getting after it.

It’s a person that puts no fucking limit on what’s possible and that’s what got me in trouble a lot. That’s why I went to Ranger school as a seal. That’s why I try to go to Delta Force twice. You know I I’ve been. I’ve been through all these different training programs because I was looking for in the military Where I saw is in the training these people get their ass handed to him. after they get out, a lot of them get civilized. I always wanted to go back into training.

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the only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you and then you’ll forget they exist. And that’s when he said, he said, success is the only revenge. He’s like, it’s not the best revenge. He’s like, it’s the only one. There’s no other revenge because everything else is petty. Everything else does show that you were thinking about these people all day long, which means they win by default. He’s like: all you can do is think about your goal and winning. He’s like, and when you win, that’s when you become so big that they shrink into irrelevance.

You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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And to do the right things for the right reasons

and if you know. If you know you won’t give up

And you know you won’t give in, and if you test yourself and you fail, But you know you’re gonna get back up again, if you know that, If you know that,

then you know that your character is strong and that’s what matters and

That, right there is all the confidence you need.

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If a lion see an animal that’s wounded, or a real hunter see an animal that’s wounded, what do they do? They do what? They watch them, but they don’t do what?

They don’t kill them.

Why don’t they kill them? He already heard. And they beast. A part of being a beast just ain’t eating a gazelle. A part of being a beast is the hunts. It’s the hunt that they excited about.

They like to see the gazelles run. Then boom, they take off. Do you know that even before the gazelles get there, that the lions start listening to the gazelle? They plan and they all stop, and they steal, and they wait for the gazelle to come. Do you know that they take a couple lions and say, y’all go that way, and then boom, y’all chase the gazelle. Don’t even eat them, just chase them, and make them come this way. And when they get this way, they playing games.

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There never was a better time. Mark has brought Herbalife to an incredible mountain top. He’s brought Herbalife with the help of others who have brought it here. It has been brought to a special moment. Barcelona was special and Orlando was outrageous. But I’m telling you this extravaganza has been the most awesome thing I have ever seen. All of your cooperation, the way you have learned and listened and worked hard to get it all, I congratulate you for that. But Mark brought us here. And what a time now for us to take this dream and not let it die. Take this dream and give it life.

Take this dream and breathe into it your own personal spirit until finally it becomes a flame that burns around the whole world. Let’s go do it now.

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The game of basketball has been everything to me. It’s my refuge, my place I’ve always gone when I needed to find comfort and peace. It’s been a source of intense pain and a source of most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction, and one that no one can even imagine. It’s been a relationship that has evolved over time and has given me the greatest respect and love for the game. It’s provided me with a platform to share my passion with millions in a way I neither expected nor could have imagined in my career.

I hope that it’s given the millions of people that I’ve touched the optimism and desire to achieve their goals through hard work, perseverance, and positive attitude.

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they all said I couldn’t come back and do it. There is no ring rust, I told you that already. Now look at me now, champion of the world soldier, champion of the world, champion of the world, look at me now. I was born in Jamaica with nothing, I live in a wooden shed, zinc roof, look at me now, look at me now, strap season, we got it baby.

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And my personal question to you is, why not you? You’ve got the brains, you can make decisions, you can study the plan, you can change your life, you can grow immensely in the next few years, you can make your dreams come true, you can build a financial wall around your family, nothing can get through, you can become healthy, you can become powerful, why not you? And I’m here to say that I’m ready to pledge my support to make your personal dreams come true. I asked the question, why not you? But I’m not gonna ask it and just walk away.

I’m gonna ask it and walk with you in this journey as we take Herbalife around the world.

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Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential. And I see a squander.

God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables. Slaves with white collars.

Advertising as is chasing cars and clothes. Working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no great war. No Great Depression.

Our great war is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives.

We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.

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I had a conversation with a friend one day, and we was talking about family and life, and I asked him, how do you see your kid’s future? And he said to me, my grandfather walked 10 miles to work every day. My father walked five.

I’m driving a Cadillac.

My son is in a Mercedes. He said my grandson will be in a Ferrari.

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Just because it feels uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s not good. And even if it feels uncomfortable, that can sometimes be right. I think so often, not only on film, but in life, we so want to feel comfortable, but that doesn’t always bring the best results. If I look back, I think some of my more successful things, in my point of view, have been the things I’ve been most nervous about and probably most unsure when I began. There’s something about jumping off that cliff, which means you end up going for broke and probably end up taking a few more risks, if you know what I mean.

And I would say that to young actors. It’s OK, be nervous. Say you’re nervous. I used to… By the way, for 20 years I never did. I hid it. Tried to hide it. Say it. And it’s usually relieving to everyone around you. Maybe not on the 20th take, but certainly when you walk in, it’s fine.

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Because I want to be great.

And you’re not.

I want to be one of the greats. Okay, I’m going to keep pursuing what I’m pursuing. And because I’m doing that, it’s going to take up more and more of my time, and I’m not going to be able to spend as much time with you. And even when I do spend time with you, I’m going to be thinking about drumming. I’m going to be thinking about jazz music and my charts and all that, and because of that you’re going to start to resent me. And you’re going to tell me to ease up on the drumming, spend more time with you because you’re not feeling important. And I’m not going to be able to do that.

And really I’m just going to start to resent you for even asking me to stop drumming. And we’re just going to start to hate each other. And it’s going to get very, it’s going to be ugly. And so for those reasons, I’d rather just break it off clean.

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But for me, I was somebody who believed in it and somebody who believed in the process of getting there. I knew it wasn’t gonna happen overnight, like I said before, but every little small thing that we did was a small stepping stone in order to even be able to have that chance and that opportunity to do what I did in 2008. So when I say from 2002 to 2008 was basically trial and error. So for me in 2002, that’s really when I started amping up my event schedule, where I was summing four to five individual events and having a couple of relays at Pampax,

World Championships, major international competitions throughout that time frame.

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Why are you frustrated? Why are you angry? Like for real, why are you bitter? But I get it now. I get it. Like everything about you, we’ve been talking about it. You’re powerful beyond measure. And I get it. Like for real, I finally get it. I know why you angry. I know why you bitter. I know why you pissed off. Like I get it. I know why you not living life to the fullest. I finally get it. You were born phenomenal. Listen to me. You were literally born phenomenal. Like the whole process. For those of you who’ve never heard me say this before,

like there are like five million options in the womb. We’re not talking about one sperm cell and one egg. There are five million options. And out of five million options, you made it. Like your whole, the process from the beginning, before you even came out was phenomenal. Like I don’t know if you’ve ever studied that process. Right? That like that, that, that nine, 10 month process, that 40 week process, like you’re phenomenal. Everything about you was phenomenal. You were born phenomenal. And I get it. I know what the problem is.

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Close your eyes go back to when you were a kid. Well close your eyes right now. Are you the kid? hero right now The kid inside of you 20 years ago 30 years ago Whatever age you are when you were kid big dreams big aspirations anything’s possible. Every window is wide open to you. How do you let that shut? What do you still believe in if you now as an adult turn back to the kid at eight years old the same person? Is that kid proud of you? Is that kid saying that’s who I want to be if not? Open your eyes and fix some other Supremacy. the dictionary says a superior state,

overriding Authority powers and in the walk of life you’re in As a third party- subjective nature, third party agreement- that this person is superior to others.

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And so I found great strength in suffering. Great strength in it because while I threw all of that, it started to callous my mind over the victim’s mentality. This whole thing about suffering, yeah, it sucks really bad, really, really bad. But we all live on this side of suffering, on this side, this nice box that’s very comfortable that we know when everything’s going to happen. We’re in it, it’s good. We know how everything’s going to turn out. It’s those few people who are willing to go on this side of suffering.

And once they get through that, ask him how he feels now, his mind, how far he grew. In that short period of time, he grew so much more than the normal person because he was willing to go outside himself because on the other end of suffering is greatness.

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I think the most important is to find the balance. Sometimes I can eat a burger or chips, well, it doesn’t matter. It’s important too, for your mind too. Sometimes I sleep two o’clock in the morning because last night I was in UFC here in Saudi and they might event it’s two o’clock. Yes, it’s quality of life too. But the most important thing, it’s the consistence. If you have consistency, you’re gonna be good in the future or you’re gonna be better than the other ones in the future.

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Listen to me, I changed my whole life, right? I went from being average to good to great to trying to be phenomenal by doing what? Look, I’m trying to be with phenomenal people. So I had to make a commitment, come on. I had to make a commitment to greatness. My schoolwork had to be great. My timing had to be great. Listen to me very closely. I had to make a commitment to greatness. Are you hearing me? Listen, that’s all you got to do, guys. Make a commitment to greatness. I made a commitment. My time became great. My preparation became great. My process became great.

Every single thing I did, I committed to greatness. So do me a huge favor, guys.

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People say, you have no idea how hungry I am. Really? Yeah. What’d you do about it today? Oh, not today, but tomorrow. You ain’t hungry, man. You just think you’re hungry. You are not hungry. You may be hungry to go eat lunch. You may be hungry to go have dinner. Fine, I’ll give that to you. You ain’t hungry to compete in the marketplace. Because a person who’s hungry, this is how they work. I was watching an interview earlier of Musk years ago. He said, I don’t recommend you wanting to be like me. He says, because you don’t know how many hours I work.

You don’t know what it’s like to be thinking about wanting to win. You don’t know what it was like every night going to sleep, you know, thinking Tesla’s about to go out of business. When people say, hey, you think Tesla stocks going to go down, it’s going to go up, it’s going to go down, it’s going to go up. But as long as Musk is behind it, he is so flippin’ hungry, which is urgent. He’s so urgent about executing things now that, no matter what he touches, it’s going to grow because today he’s hungry.

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How can it be good when you lose a loved one?

And that’s definitely a tough question. And I almost replied, no, it isn’t good. There’s nothing good in death.

And then I started to remember the people I’ve lost throughout my life, the memories of them, the experiences, the fun, their unique personalities,

and everything they’d given me, not only in their life, but in their death.

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Be selfish for the next three years. Go get yourself strong. Go put your own oxygen mask on. Put some money in the bank. Crush your company. Be selfish with your time. Be selfish with your income. Be greedy on the amount of money you wanna make. I’m telling you, be greedy, be selfish. You know why? Because if you go all in, if you stop thinking, I wish I could do more, be more, go all in and make the money. Get secure and put your oxygen mask on. And what you can do in five years from now, what you can do in seven years from now, what you can do in 12 years from now is unbelievable.

But we need this moment of us.

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But if you could combine your technology with your parents’ and your grandparents’ work ethic, your could be rich. You could be rich, man. But you cannot erase the work ethic part. There is no getting around. Ain’t no elevator to the top. You got to take the stairs. The elevator don’t go to the top, man. Not in the world of success. You got to take the stairs. Y’all got to start getting gritty, man. I hate it when I see young people wasting their time, wasting all this technology got. Just bull. Just sitting around in this world that’s been created for you, that everything is instant.

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Look, y’all know I did it. Y’all know I did it. I’ve been talking about it this whole season. Your boy got that PhD, and now I’m about to help you make your milestones a reality. So look, this one’s important, guys. This one’s important. How do you go from average to great? Look, you got to surround yourself by greatness.

So what I did was, from the people around me, my mentors, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Pryor. Who are all on the walls. All on the walls. Yeah. All on the walls. So you surround yourself with that. I surround myself with a constant reminder of who’s great.

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And so if God said, ain’t this your time, we done with it, all right, cool, what’s next? But the pain and regret would be if I went to make that tackle, didn’t give everything I had to it, I get injured, life has changed, and now I gotta carry a burden of, man, what if I gave everything I had to it? Because people are amazing, man. Like, people are talented, skillful, brilliant. Like, people are so gifted, right? But people very seldom give everything they got to something. And so they walk around with regret, they walk around with bitterness,

they walk around with all these different things when things don’t turn out the way that they want it to because they didn’t give everything they had to it. And it’s like, bro, the price of discipline, pain and regret. Like, just be disciplined and go at it. If it doesn’t turn out, the reward is you got peace, that you gave everything you had to it.

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a royal priesthood, a chosen generation, like everything about you is great, but the problem is you have consciously chosen to be average. I get it. I get it, like innately, innately, everything about you is great. Everything about you is phenomenal, but you have consciously made a decision to be average. You are average in school. You are average at your workplace. Like everything you do is average, and not because it’s average, but because you made a decision. You made a choice to be average. Why? Because the people around you are average.

Or maybe you grew up in an average environment, or went to an average school, or you worked for an average company, and so you’ve decided. You’ve decided to go against who you are.

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In order for that third party to say an individual is superior, the individual must believe in the first person narrative that they are superior before anyone else buys the fact that they are superior. A belief must be so strong for a third party to buy that b****. There is no excuse for not being the hardest worker. Yeah, someone might be bigger, stronger, faster, quicker, younger, whatever else, but there is no excuse to not be the hardest f****** worker there. And when you believe that you have the ability to do something,

that the life that you’re living right now is going down this direction, you f****** hate where it is. There is nothing else to do but to change direction. A belief that, I cannot go that way anymore, I gotta go this way.

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To get anything of value, you have to sacrifice.

I know that, Dan, but I think if we continue down this road, it’s going to be too detrimental for the kids. It’s just too hard.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. Easy doesn’t enter into grown-up life.

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the people who are obsessed with the ones who changed the world, at least change their world. And I think that, so a very close friend of mine did all the Olympic teams, nutrition and supplementation stuff for a country overseas. And he said, you know the difference between champions and everyone else? And I was like, what? He said, everyone always looks at them and says, what do champions have that I don’t have? And he said, they have it backwards. He said, it’s what do champions not have that I have? It’s what do they lack? And it’s an off button. They just don’t stop.

And so in dealing with the gold medalist, he’s like, they just never stop. They just can’t stop. Everything in their life is geared towards one goal. And so finding that thing and they approach everything in their life that way. And I think that that level of obsession around like everything that you touch on a daily basis is required for really getting to where you want to go.

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Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success. This ability developed through practice will do more to assure your eventual success than anything else you ever learn. The 10-90 rule says that the first 10% of time that you spend planning and organizing will often account for 90% of the value of the entire process.

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Even in death, there is good.

first of all, I was Lucky to have that person in my life, even if it was only for a short time, too short of a time, But at least I got that. those Unforgettable moments, those precious moments. At least I got those and I got to experience those times, to know The beauty of Their personality, their attitude, their outlook on the world.

They were all unique and I’m thankful For the opportunity that I had to interact with them. Even if it was just for a short amount of time.

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Clarity is the starting point of great success. And second, write it down in detail and set a deadline. Set sub-deadlines if necessary. Determine the additional knowledge, skills, and abilities you will need to achieve your goal and how you’re going to acquire them. Determine the obstacles and difficulties that you will have to overcome to achieve your goal and organize them in the order of size and importance. Determine the people and groups and organizations whose help you will require and decide what you will have to do for them to earn their assistance.

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And what do you have to lose? You know the outcome if you continue the same shit. Why not just commit one time in your life to something? See what happens. There are no losers in the world of passion and commitment to something. No one loses there. The losers are the people that sit the starting line and never initiate. It’s the belief that supremacy exists. There’s so many examples in the Olympics and every day we see the common man with the odds against them overcoming what people thought could never happen. And probably he didn’t even think it.

But there he stands victorious and a role model to all of us like, oh my God, we wouldn’t be him. But before he was him, he was us. What got him there was an undying belief. And every drop of sweat that came out and every pain and ache and everything else was just a telltale sign that he’s getting closer and closer to that dream that we were when we were kids of being a reality.

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Okay, so we have to understand the external standard keeps us average. The internal one is the one that makes us elite, all right? It’s the bare minimum to live up to what other people expect of you. And you will look crazy. You will look obsessed. You will look like you’re doing things that are beyond the reasonable expectation, and that’s because you are. Because greatness is rare, all right? And when you’re living to these other standards that people put on you, you have to understand that that’s their ceiling.

They’re trying to get you to operate in a way that produces the result that they want.

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This is my life, man.

Do you know how hard I worked to get here?

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There are two type of champions for me.

Like there are champions who prepare themselves to win and there are the other ones who prepare themselves to dominate.

I prepare myself not to win because I know that I’m going to win.

I want to win in fashion. I want to dominate. I want more people.

I want people to be entertained.

I want people to be like, wow,

I’m happy that I spend the money this Saturday night going watch this guy.

This is what I want.

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you feel can’t nonstop, you gifted, you talented, you skillful, you brilliant. And I remember an elder said to me one day, always be willing to challenge and reevaluate what you think you know to be true. Right, and I’m like, okay, I’m picking up what you’re putting down, right, I got you. He’s like, no, always be willing to challenge and reevaluate what you think you know to be true. Don’t become a victim of your own talent. You could be so skillful, so gifted, so talented, you could be the cat that can roll out of bed,

do something that not a lot of other people can do, but sooner than later, it’s gonna catch up with you. Right, like that’s the trick of life, right? You YOLO, you living, you good. People tell you, oh, do your thing, right? You got skill sets, you got gifts, you got talents and abilities that can help you get out of problems, help you overcome adversity and opposition. But the trick of life is, if you’re not growing with your gifts, your talent, and your ability, sooner or later, your advantage is gonna become your disadvantage.

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So that’s why you go to the basketball games. I got it now. That’s why you spend hours watching your favorite athlete. Because when you watch him, you watch him as something about you that’s attractive to that greatness, because there’s something in you that’s great. So that’s why you watch him, because it’s easier to watch him reach greatness than it is for you to put in sweat, blood, and tears to become great. That’s why you buy all the magazines, and you’re looking at homegirl on a magazine. I got it now. Because it’s easier to look at her and get motivated and pumped up,

and you feel something inside. What do you feel? You feel that greatness and that phenomenal. You stirring up. That’s why. That’s why you put those headphones on, and you just shut the whole world out. And you listen to your favorite artists. You’re listening to them sing, or you’re listening to them rap. And deep down inside, you hurt when you listen, because it should be you.

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Tomorrow may never happen. The deal that you were going to close may never happen because you waited until tomorrow. So 2021, I can guarantee you one thing. Anybody in your circle that has been the same person, if you look at any of your best friends that you’ve been hanging out with, they’ve been the same? If one of them changes, and by the end of 2021 you say, hey man, what happened to you? Something different about you. He or she may not even know what changed, but I can guarantee you what changed about them that they may not even know.

They became more urgent because hungry people who are truly hungry, they’re just more urgent than everybody else in the game. Period.

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to find real permanent peace and enlightenment, you must go to the dark side of who you are. I could have easily just shoved my whole life under a rug and went straight to peace. Are you happy there? You overcame nothing. You jumped hell, you skipped hell, you forego this part of your life, you skip it and go right to peace. So you always have this thing back here that’s haunting you, and that’s that darkness. You must go into the darkness to truly find that light that you’re looking for, because that’s what’s on the other side of that. People get it all wrong, man. You have to face suffering.

You have to face this dark side, this darkness. And there’s a lot of energy in there. There’s a lot of goodness in there that you can use to find greatness, but you cannot find your peace you’re looking for in yourself until you’ve overcome yourself.

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What would you do if you weren’t afraid? And I just, I love thinking about that when I’m thinking about big life decisions. Like what would I do if I weren’t afraid? And it’s usually like the big one, the bigger thing that I really wanna do, but I’m afraid to do it. It’s like, that’s what I should do. And to your point about, you had the five things that you told your team. The one that we have is, originally it was something that we called one of one.

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The first thing I would say is, well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful. But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it’s making you miserable. It’s like the first thing you want to do is dispense with the idea that you get to have any permanent security outside of your ability to contend and adapt. It’s the same issue with children. It’s like you’re paying a price by sitting there being miserable. You might say, well, the devil I know is better than the one I don’t. Don’t be so sure of that. The clock is ticking.

And if you’re miserable in your job now and you change nothing, in five years you’ll be much more miserable and you’ll be a lot older.

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If you don’t, you’re setting yourself up for a miserable life.

Life is, look man, if you play it safe, you’re going to exist.

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you are attracted to greatness because greatness is all in you. But it’s easier to watch greatness. It’s easier to go see greatness than it is to put in the time, to put in the energy, to discipline yourself, to sacrifice. It’s easier. And so that’s why you average. And so you frustrated because you’re not living like you should live. No, you don’t have what you should have. You’re not being who you should be. And so that’s why you don’t want to wake up in the morning. That’s why you pissed off with Monday.

Because Monday is the day that you’re supposed to go mow and shape and create your greatness. That’s why you like Friday. I get it. Cuz Friday you get to chill. You don’t have to face yourself on Friday. You don’t have to face yourself on Saturday or on Sunday. That’s the day that everybody is partying. Everybody’s drunk. Everybody gets to forget that they didn’t become who they were supposed to come during the week. That’s why.

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And but people don’t want to go through the process of focus, of teaching yourself how to truly focus. This is where my message gets lost. It gets lost because I may say, you know, MF or F. I may because that’s the passion that comes out of me because that’s it takes everything for me to learn a sentence. So when I speak about David Goggins, I can’t speak about David Goggins in a way that’s just calm and cool because when I wake up, I know the journey that it takes for me to find my greatness. And it’s hard. Nothing is easy. Nothing just like, oh, I wake up and I just do this or I do that.

Or it’s just, you know, I watch people every day go through life. And it’s so easy for me to be where I’m at today. It takes every bit of me. So when I speak about it and as I get going here, you’ll start seeing me. The temple will rise. The passion will come out because I’m back there. I’m doing what I do every day to become a human being.

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There’s a time in the military you have this. you know You have this army physical fitness test you to do. Everything consists like push-ups and sit-ups and a two-mile run, and a two-mile run is the last portion of it. So you know what your points are.

go after the push-ups and the sit-ups. So if you want to break the record, you know exactly the wrong time you need to the second and you have stopwatch

Meaning what’s inside you is about to come up you got the puke it all out Everything’s shutting down fast.

Like it’s like an engine. That’s just the blue transmission.

Everything’s just about to blow up Your body’s about to blow up your body says stop stop stop stop. We’re done. We’re done. But mentally you want the record.

you know you want it so bad and you push through it.

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Because I think there are a lot of people who are very talented who can make it there. There are very few people who can deal with the pressure and the stress that happens when we’re there. So that’s why I say what we had to make sure that we were physically, emotionally, and mentally ready because I had to be ready to be able to kind of manage my emotions through that week. Yeah, winning a gold medal is absolutely incredible. There’s nothing better than standing on the podium listening to your national anthem play after you just won a gold medal.

But for me, I’m somebody who I knew that I had seven other events after the first day. So I have to throw that in the back of my head. I got to throw that race out. Even though if I, you know, even like in 08, I broke a world record, won my first gold medal. Like I was like, cool, like things are starting really well. So I have to put that behind me to then get ready for the next race.

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Life is how blessed we are to have every day to learn and to grow and to laugh and to live.

To live every day with purpose and with passion.

To wake up in the morning and be thankful.

Thankful for that morning and thankful for the opportunity to go out into the world and live.

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See, you have this opportunity. All of us have opportunities in life.

And it’s gonna require a decision that we have to make to go for it or stay still. So having this opportunity is like standing on a cliff with this gift God got for you packed on your back in a parachute pack. Now while you’re standing on this cliff, you see people soaring by, or going on vacations, having a summer home, opening a business, climbing the corporate ladder, being what they’ve always wanted to be, getting a job or the career of their dreams. You see people. There’s a neighbor down the street, they get a new car every two years.

How the hell are they getting a new car every two years? What are they doing down there? And you see all of this- people just sailing by because they jumped. The only way you get to sail by with your parachute is you have to jump.

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There’s a photo I have of me running when I was in the military, crossing the finish line. I finished four seconds faster than I wanted. But as I’m finishing it, they have a bucket right there next to it, trash can, puke bucket. And I’m running past it, throwing up. I threw it up, yeah. But you know what? I was pretty drained. I put myself to the limit and beyond, almost unhealthy. Within hours, I was back, back again. And inside I knew I gave it my all. I gave it everything.

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And if you’re not skillful enough, if you’re not resilient enough, it could be fatal. So I’m not telling you not to enjoy it. Enjoy it. Live it up. You should. It’s a gift. It’s beautiful. But always understand on the other side of that, it has to be a certain level of gratitude because life is fleeting. Life is short. Even in its totality, life is short. And so for me, when I speak to young people, it’s always like, man, give everything you got. Live it up. But always understand it should be a level of gratitude because even us,

we woke up today blessed, grateful, but somebody that woke up today, they’re not going to be able to see that.

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Nothing is easy. Like running is running. It sucks, but you have a choice to make. Do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were? No. So this is what it takes. This, it takes that misunderstanding of people and they’ll never get it because they were never David Goggins. So that is what it takes for me to do what I do. It may take you something differently. So for me, everything has to be in the studying. Everything has to be into this. Everything has to be in everywhere I am has to be there. Me, focus where I am.

That’s why you’re my second podcast I’ve done since Rogan, since the book came out. I don’t have time for that shit. Because if I want to be great, I’m not trying to maximize money or maximize people knowing me. I do these things because maybe someone out there will understand me and get it and say, I can grow from this guy and others just won’t.

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most people care about themselves and they don’t care about you. They want you to function in a way that gets their job done without actually creating greatness in you, okay? So you have to understand dude, if you let their standards become your bar for success, you can never be great. You’ll never find out what you’re actually capable of. You will live an average life with an average income, with an average everything, and that might be okay for you. That might be what you want, but that’s not going to create greatness, all right?

If you keep looking for someone to tell you to do more or to do extra or to hold you to a standard, you’re not going to become great, dude. It’s going to have to come from inside you. You have to understand that this is really what you’re about and it’s really what you want because nobody else is going to hold you to this.

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I love what I do. And I have that passion on me. And I love what I do. And I enjoy it. And I’m that kind of man. I’m that kind of person say, if I’m going to do something, I’m going to do 100%. Not in the middle, not 90%. No, I’m 100%. I always try to do my best and try to do my everything. And I think because I love what I do.

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when you give everything you got to something, right? I’m talking about blood, sweat, and tears, everything you got to something, right? The peace in that is not the result or the reward. The peace is the fact that I gave everything I had to it because this is who I am. So now, even if it doesn’t turn out the way I want it to, I didn’t go to the NFL. That was a dream I had since I was seven. It didn’t happen, but it was a certain level of peace that resided inside of me because I knew September 9th, 2006, my last tackle, I can honestly say with every fiber of my being,

I gave everything I had to it.

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But one of the things that really motivates me or one of my most powerful motivational frames is thinking about the person that I want to become as the destination and thinking like, I want to be bulletproof. I want to be bulletproof in these ways. I want to be bulletproof in my marriage. I want to be bulletproof in my business, etc. And I think about that man, whoever I want him to be. Like we said, hell is when you look at who you could have been and realize that you’re not that person. And then I think, if I were to make that man, what would I put that man through to make him who he is?

Like it wouldn’t be easy times. It wouldn’t be quick wins. It wouldn’t even be easy wins. It would be the toil and the struggle of achieving and reaching for things.

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Like it wouldn’t be easy times. It wouldn’t be quick wins. It wouldn’t even be easy wins. It would be the toil and the struggle of achieving and reaching for things.

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that are right out of grasp, that are right above my threshold and continuing to do that to like lift the weight, to build the muscle, to break it down and do it over and over again because like that’s what creates the character traits that are the man that I want to be.

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If you could have what you needed and wanted, what would it be? What sort of friends would you have? What would your family relationships look like? How would you conduct yourself with your children? How would you educate yourself? You need to think through how it is that your life could be properly arranged, if you had that ability. And then you can aim at that. And the funny thing is, is that if you do posit a goal of that sort, and work towards it, you will move towards it. The goal will change, because you’ll learn things along the way.

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when you become great. It’s not enough to dream it and talk about the idea. When you become great, it’s not enough to write it down on a board somewhere. It’s not enough to get a fancy plan. It’s not enough to go to some workshop and invest money into it. When you become great, you’re not satisfied until it’s actualized, until you’re walking in it, until you’re sleeping in it, listen to me, until you possess it, until you have it. And so when you are great, you’re willing to put in the time, the energy, the effort, you’re willing to make whatever sacrifice,

you’re willing to do whatever you gotta do because you’re great. So listen to me, stop dreaming, stop talking about it, stop writing it down and become great. And listen to me, when you become phenomenal, this is what’s so deep about phenomenal, when you become phenomenal, not only are you doing what you wanna do, you’ve empowered other people to do it.

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I have a life of convenience now, but in order to get the life of convenience, you gotta have a very uncomfortable life. You got to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Stop trying to do everything the short way. Stop trying to figure out the easy way because the ain’t gonna happen. I got news for you, man. It’s not happening, young people. You got to get messed up sometimes. You gotta get dirty. You gotta get your feelings hurt. You gotta get disappointed. You gotta get told no. You gonna ask somebody for some money, he gonna tell you no, but at least then,

when I see somebody trying and I tell them no, I try to at least give them something else. See, I’m not gonna hand you a fish sandwich. I’ll teach you how to fish.

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What’s the other option? There is no other option. It’s a life forgotten, man. In the acting world, if I go to the audition, I have a chance of getting the part. If I don’t go to the audition, I’m out of the game. I know the outcome. Nothing. Show up. If you get knocked on your ass, show up. At least you have a possibility. You have a chance. You have a voice of doing something with your life. Believe that supremacy exists. Believe it within you. Because every motherfucker that has ever achieved it, had to believe it. When everyone else said it wasn’t possible, they said it fucking was.

And there they stand. Boom. Did it, bitch. Your turn. No longer are we gonna accept rhymes and societies rhyme the reason that we are average.

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And there they stand. Boom. Did it, bitch. Your turn. No longer are we gonna accept rhymes and societies rhyme the reason that we are average.

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Make a detailed plan broken down by activity and organized by priority and sequence. What is most important? What must be done first? What must be done before something else is done? Perhaps the most important is to take action on your plan immediately. Do something every day to move you toward your most important goal. Get going and keep going. At each stage of your life, whenever you’re confronted with the need to make new choices to set new goals, sit down and think through them using these seven steps.

Always think on paper and always be willing to revise your plans when you get new information. Keep working on your plans until they’re complete and then execute them boldly.

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Always think on paper and always be willing to revise your plans when you get new information. Keep working on your plans until they’re complete and then execute them boldly.

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If you’re gonna do it, do it. Say what you can do, do what you say. If you can’t do it, don’t say you can do it. Don’t over-leverage yourself. Don’t over-leverage a decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe. I think I’ll try it out. Now think if you’re gonna try it out beforehand, but when it’s time to go, dive. Finish it, find out. Come out the other side. Don’t leave it and go, if I just thought it, uh-uh. That keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night. When you half-ass something and you just don’t know whether you failed or succeeded,

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If you’re gonna do it, do it. Say what you can do, do what you say. If you can’t do it, don’t say you can do it. Don’t over-leverage yourself. Don’t over-leverage a decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe. I think I’ll try it out. Now think if you’re gonna try it out beforehand, but when it’s time to go, dive. Finish it, find out. Come out the other side. Don’t leave it and go, if I just thought it, uh-uh. That keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night. When you half-ass something and you just don’t know whether you failed or succeeded,

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Average is a weak mentality. We must believe it so much so that we’re arrogant about it. We must be pissed off for excellence. Because last night I was moved to tears.

That can happen.

And it doesn’t happen until you show up. And when you show up, you give it all you have. And if you fall and stumble, you fall forward. You don’t fall backwards.

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Average is a weak mentality. We must believe it so much so that we’re arrogant about it. We must be pissed off for excellence. Because last night I was moved to tears.

That can happen.

And it doesn’t happen until you show up. And when you show up, you give it all you have. And if you fall and stumble, you fall forward. You don’t fall backwards.

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There were a lot of days where I did not want to get out of bed. And I guarantee you, if I ask the question here, if everybody is excited to get out of bed every single day, if I saw a hand, I’m going to blatantly call you a liar. Because we all know that is far from the truth. But if you have those little small goals, those little small things that get you excited when you don’t want to, it’s going to make it even better and even easier at the end when you’re getting ready for a presentation or the end of the year or this or that, whatever event you’re leading up to.

It’s going to make it so much easier. And I think if you look at the greats in any walk of life, the greats do things when they don’t always want to. And that’s the separation.

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It’s going to make it so much easier. And I think if you look at the greats in any walk of life, the greats do things when they don’t always want to. And that’s the separation.

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It’s going to make it so much easier. And I think if you look at the greats in any walk of life, the greats do things when they don’t always want to. And that’s the separation.

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I’m nervous for I’m going to go speak or something. I got a little thing in my wallet. You’re going to die one day, Makana. And I’m like, oh, that relaxes me. If I’m going in, you know, complacent, I got another note, I’m telling myself, what you’re about to say and do will outlive you. So you better fucking do it well, you know, to get me more on edge.

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Realizing that the only thing that makes me quit is not the muscle fatigue, it’s the mental fatigue that makes me quit everything in life. So I became a practitioner of the mind. The mind is a very powerful thing. It has a tactical advantage over you all the time. It knows your fears. Right. It knows your insecurities. It knows where you don’t want to go. So it will guide you away from that. And that’s why the mind will always win until you reprogram it. It will always win until you reprogram it because the mind controls you. Why is that? It’s your mind.

It’s your mind because all those things that happen to you in your life, all those bad things, all those things that you blame other people for, they’re now yours to own. You got to figure out a way to reprogram your mind to get outside the box.

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Death is horrible and death is wretched, and death is cruel and death isn’t fair,

And I don’t know why the best people Seem to get taken from us first,

but The fact is, death is inescapable,

There is no way out,

and death, in that death is part of life and, Like the contrast between the darkness and the light, without death then there is no life.

Then the people that I’ve lost, They taught me that

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Death is horrible and death is wretched, and death is cruel and death isn’t fair,

And I don’t know why the best people Seem to get taken from us first,

but The fact is, death is inescapable,

There is no way out,

and death, in that death is part of life and, Like the contrast between the darkness and the light, without death then there is no life.

Then the people that I’ve lost, They taught me that

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Let me be very clear. I’ll never give up.

Never.

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Let me be very clear. I’ll never give up.

Never.

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You have to understand, greatness does not come from doing what you’re supposed to do. It also doesn’t come from being like everybody else. It doesn’t come from, you know, living the life that everybody else wants you to live. It comes from you deciding what you actually want and you saying, I am willing to do whatever the f**k it takes to create that no matter how hard, no matter how long, no matter what I have to go through, I will get there. And then on your day-to-day standard, you have to live to that in your actions. It’s not enough to visualize. It’s not enough to talk about it.

It’s not enough to post about it. It’s, you have to live it. It has to come from your heart. It has to come from your soul and you can’t worry about what everybody else is going to think about it.

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Average is gonna suck the life out of you. And so I need you to stop being average. That’s why your boy ET said, remember what I just told you, average will suffocate you. But when you get to great, you want it as bad as you wanna breathe. Same thing, it’s just a different concept. When you’re average, it suffocates the very life out of you. But when you become great, you want it as bad as you wanna breathe, and you’re willing to do whatever it takes. So do your boy a huge favor, listen to me. Be phenomenal, and I told you, I’m gonna stop saying be phenomenal or be forgotten.

I’m telling you to be phenomenal because you are. Forget about your past, man. I know it was a dark, deep past, I feel you. I’ve been there, done that. But do me a favor, forget about your past, and make the rest of your life the best of your life. And please don’t forget, without struggle, I’m not talking to average people no more, good people. I’m talking to the great. Without struggle, there is no progress. So embrace, embrace the struggle, and remember that a setback is a setup for a comeback.

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People coming home from work late at night, Doing the same module every day, Nine to five, nine to five. living for the weekends nine to five, make a little bit of coin- a little bit of coin So they can do what they love with who they love. But the majority of their life is spent in a cubicle doing what they hate next to the mother they hate too. It doesn’t make any sense. as time goes on, the windows of opportunity is closed and they look around like man. Man, i just had some bad breaks in your life. you know things didn’t work out my way- bullshit.

Take some ownership Your life is exactly what you wanted because every day You’ve had choices to make you’re responsible and credible for every single choice. You’ve made the choices. you’ve connected the dots.

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Go out there and fail. Go out there and fail miserably, miserably, miserably.

I can’t even say the word, miserably.

Drop the weight on the ground, toss the weight,

but achieve failure, achieve failure. If you can do that,

you can also win.

If you can fail,

you can also win. And all winners have failed.

That’s the goal here today, that last 5%.

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Go out there and fail. Go out there and fail miserably, miserably, miserably.

I can’t even say the word, miserably.

Drop the weight on the ground, toss the weight,

but achieve failure, achieve failure. If you can do that,

you can also win.

If you can fail,

you can also win. And all winners have failed.

That’s the goal here today, that last 5%.

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oh my gosh, this makes so much sense, Pat. You know what? That one guy in my life, he freaks like this. All the time. And he is so flippin’ urgent about things. Exactly.

That’s how you determine who’s the hungriest. So if you’re watching this yourself, and you’re saying, you know what? I think I’m pretty hungry. Show it with your urgency.

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oh my gosh, this makes so much sense, Pat. You know what? That one guy in my life, he freaks like this. All the time. And he is so flippin’ urgent about things. Exactly.

That’s how you determine who’s the hungriest. So if you’re watching this yourself, and you’re saying, you know what? I think I’m pretty hungry. Show it with your urgency.

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If you want to go from average to phenomenal, you got to start hanging around phenomenal people and getting in phenomenal environments. It’s your boy ET saying, if it was easy, everybody would do it. But I know something about you. You have what it takes to be great. So no more excuses. Be phenomenal or you will be forgotten.

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You have no idea how much for me it’s so important to identify exactly what’s the number one thing to measure the hungriest person in the room. Number one thing to measure the hungriest in the room. Not number two thing. Not number three thing. For example, I was lazy as a kid growing up. My dad would say, why are you so lazy? Why are you so lazy? Why are you so lazy? So I studied the topic of laziness. Why are some people lazy? Because their life is boring. They don’t have a target. They don’t have something they’re going after, right? So laziness stems from boredom, right?

If you look at bitter people, why are some people bitter? Why are they so bitter? Because they’re not creating anything. They’re not building something new. So they get bitter and upset and agitated about everybody else that’s trying to create something, right? Element of bitterness is they’re not creating. They’re in a state where they’re no longer building anything.

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I had the title. I had the record that still hasn’t been broken yet at that base. That forever lives on. Even though I puked it all over, I recovered from that. No one can touch this. That’s what I’m talking about guys. If I would have shut down, you know, and give in, I wouldn’t remember that pain anymore. It’s a funny story because I have a picture of me puking, but I don’t really physically remember the pain of it. I remember the accomplishment of it. So at those times where you’re questioning if you have anything left, no, a day from then,

a week from then, a month from them, a year from them, you will never remember the discomfort of the pain. You will always remember the pride of the accomplishment. That lives on. That’s why pain is temporary. Pride is forever guys. You give it your all. You get it all. Tenfold.

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for those that don’t have the opportunity, for those that were stolen away

by death’s cruel hand. For them, I will live.

I will cherish their memory, and I will live. So, let’s cry no more. Let’s mourn no more. Let’s remember, but let’s not dwell. Instead, let’s laugh, and let’s love, and let’s embrace and cherish everything that life is and every opportunity it gives us.

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for those that don’t have the opportunity, for those that were stolen away

by death’s cruel hand. For them, I will live.

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Greatness is here, but it ain’t on cam shoulders no more, and they don’t fall he’s shoulder no more. It ain’t on Bo Jackson shoulder- no more. now greatness is on whose shoulder? That’s why I wake up every morning at 2 o’clock 230 cuz I got my mama counting on me. I got my sister counting on me I got my son and my daughter counting on me. I got a world that gets up every morning and watches me. I got little kids who don’t believe that they can do it. when they saw me, they thought now they can do it. So I get up every morning at 233 o’clock. Why cuz greatness is upon me. Dr King is dead.

Malcolm X is dead. I’m that new guy. I’m that new inspiration I’m the guy you look at when your daddy ain’t in your life when your daddy in prison I’m that guy that comes to your high school and tell you you can make it happen Greatness is upon you. You better act like it.

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You know I got all this shit hanging out with my head,

but you off trying to start a war with our partners?

The nigga diss me every time I see him, acting like he the one in charge and shit.

And Compton, he is the one.

You lose.

Every time you bite with that nigga, and I’m the one that pays for it.

And you gonna get off his corners? You gonna leave his people be? Or you the one that’s gonna find yourself a new plug?

You don’t mean that shit.

The fuck I don’t.

I built this shit. Me. Brick by brick.

And I’ll be damned if I let you tear it down just cause you don’t like the way another nigga talk.

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You know I got all this shit hanging out with my head,

but you off trying to start a war with our partners?

The nigga diss me every time I see him, acting like he the one in charge and shit.

And Compton, he is the one.

You lose.

Every time you bite with that nigga, and I’m the one that pays for it.

And you gonna get off his corners? You gonna leave his people be? Or you the one that’s gonna find yourself a new plug?

You don’t mean that shit.

The fuck I don’t.

I built this shit. Me. Brick by brick.

And I’ll be damned if I let you tear it down just cause you don’t like the way another nigga talk.

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You know I got all this shit hanging out with my head,

but you off trying to start a war with our partners?

The nigga diss me every time I see him, acting like he the one in charge and shit.

And Compton, he is the one.

You lose.

Every time you bite with that nigga, and I’m the one that pays for it.

And you gonna get off his corners? You gonna leave his people be? Or you the one that’s gonna find yourself a new plug?

You don’t mean that shit.

The fuck I don’t.

I built this shit. Me. Brick by brick.

And I’ll be damned if I let you tear it down just cause you don’t like the way another nigga talk.

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Most people who have won big have failed big. Okay? You know, see, even you know. And what I promised myself as a little boy, I said, I can never leave the gym knowing I have 5% left. That 5% is magic. That’s the magic place where very few people go. You can go there. I’m giving you permission to go there. We have people behind you. If you fall down and drop the weight on the floor, who cares? Who cares? But if you make it, I care. I want that. I want you to fail, and I want you to get up and do it again. The same thing in life is the same thing here. If you can do this, you can do anything.

Anything. Right now you’re 5% away. 5% away from being a champion.

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But I think the wake-up call is important, but it’s not the key. I think you have to take care a little bit of your body, but without obsession. If you start today, you’re going to have benefits in the future. Doesn’t matter the time. What is important is what you want to achieve. Yeah. What you want. You want to live a good life. Yes. I like to drink. I like to eat a burger. Okay. You’re going to pay the bill in the future.

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Don’t matter that you’re broke, as long as you hadn’t quit. So like you can’t, you can’t break me. That means I can take a lot of risks, because I’m not worried about going broke, because I can’t be broken. I have my spirituality, I have my creativity, I have my persistence, I got courage. Like there ain’t no breaking me, man. Shit, I’m a dangerous man. I’m a dangerous beast.

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It’s an urge. Truth be told, every champion has felt it. Every president has felt it. Every king has felt it. Every lion has felt it. Every winner has felt it. Every soldier has felt it. Every victorious person has felt it. The urge to quit.

Don’t you give up on your dream.

I don’t care if you don’t have the money, you don’t have the help, and you don’t have the family for it, and you don’t have the background for it, and you don’t have the friends for it. Don’t you give up on your dream. Don’t you do it. Don’t you do it. Don’t you do it.

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When you get scared and you have fear, everyone say fear. F-E-A-R, false evidence appearing real. It’s amazing when you actually don’t see the full picture, you come to these fearful conclusions of what you really should then hope for or not hope for. But when you have faith, F-A-I-T-H, full assurance in the heart, no matter what you see, you can still believe in something. And that’s where hope comes in.

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we can show up as victims or we can show up as leaders. Leadership is much less a title and much more an approach to going through life.

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you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. And it’s usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap that’s just you rooting for you.

And that visual I think is one that you can kind of take because it is, people struggle to do things alone. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. And rather than fighting that or bemoaning it, see it as an indicator that you’re on the right path. Because if everyone else were cheering you on, then it means you’re not in the right place because it means you’re just like everyone else and that’s not where you wanna be.

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You are your own hero. You are your own leader. You are your own master.

And that is a big one because we idolize so many people and we wanna be them.

We wanna be someone else.

And in doing that,

you lose all the potential of who you are.

You mimic, you be them, you are them, you become them and you lose you.

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It may take you twice as long. You may have to take courses and classes. You might not read as fast. You might not move as quick. You might not have as much, but don’t you quit. Don’t you quit. Don’t you quit. You do make a difference. You do make a difference. You do make a difference. As weak as you are, as tired as you are, as many mistakes as you made, you do make a difference. There is something they would lose if you were not there. There was something that they would miss if you were not there. You do make a difference. You do make a difference. You do make a difference. Keep hopping.

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The one piece I was missing was me having the courage to face myself.

And once you do that on a daily basis,

it’s not about the running. Most of us,

we live in a box.

And we don’t want to go outside that box at all, ever.

Outside that box is all these possibilities of life.

What we do is we shackle our mind.

We are a prisoner in our own mind that this is all I can do.

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I have seen days I did not want to get out the bed, didn’t want to put on clothes, and didn’t even feel like brushing my teeth. I’ve seen days so dark that I just wanted to keep driving and I didn’t even care where I ended up or what you called me. They came and they passed and they came to pass.

I kept the faith. I kept it. I lost a lot of stuff. I lost a lot of friends. I lost a lot of strength. I lost a lot of courage. I lost a lot of time. I lost a lot of money, but I kept down on my knees. I was still believing. Broke, I was believing.

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Your job is to be the best of your ability. This will hurt. The mission is not about making yourself feel better. The mission is about being better and having a greater impact in the world.

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Like the truth is gonna speak. Like you’re not gonna build a billion dollar by accident business. Like either you’re good enough or you’re not. And so I know how this plays out other than the health and well-being of myself and my family. There’s no shot. I don’t achieve enormous business success in my life. I’m too good at it.

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Embed that long-term goal in your mind, burn it into your soul, Think about it and write about it and talk about it and hang it up on your wall. but, most important, do something about it. Do something about it every day, every day. Do something that moves you toward that goal, that keeps the goal alive and in sight and in focus.

however, However small or insignificant that step might seem, take it, do it, do that little piece, Make it happen.

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Many people never achieve their goals because they have too many toxic, negative, energy-draining people in their lives. And you have to have goals outside of your comfort zone that will challenge you because in order to do something you’ve never done, you’ve got to become someone you’ve never been. And you’ve got to have a mentor who’s experienced, who’s been there, done that. And as a result of that relationship, because you can’t see the picture when you’re in the frame. Muhammad Ali said, I’m the greatest, but he never won a championship without Angelo Dundee.

And Michael Jordan never won a championship without Phil Jackson. So you’ve got to have someone that can see something in you that you can’t see, that can take you to a place within yourself that you can’t go by yourself.

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Failure. No one wants to talk about it. But we should, because the fear of it is the only thing that really stops you, because it keeps you from taking action, or only taking a limited action, and never breaking through. And what is it? We’re all afraid to not look good enough. So we come up with stories. I have ADHD. It might be true, but that’s not why you’re not succeeding. Or I went through this horrible relationship. Well, I’m sure that was true, but that’s not why you’re not succeeding now. You’re not succeeding now because you’re fearful. And guess who’s fearful?

Everyone in some situation. So how do we deal with that fear? Well, the most powerful way to just deal with it is to realize it’s not gonna go away, and you gotta learn to dance with it. You gotta learn to use the fear, not let it use you. Not pretend it’s not there, because it’s there. Everybody’s got it. But you have to overcome your fear. And the only way to overcome that fear is simply to do it, to push yourself beyond it again, and again, and again.

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But if you want to see if you’re a brave person, what they call the four o’clock in the morning courage, wait when things go completely to pieces, when things are the worst, when your very best deal falls apart, and your rent is late, and you’re tired, and you’re sick, and everybody is mad at you, and your car doesn’t work. Then it’s the person that picks themself up and says, nothing is going to stop me. You know, the best quality in the world that you can develop is to develop the quality of being unstoppable. Develop the quality of being unstoppable.

Say in yourself that no matter what life throws at me, it’ll never stop me. No matter how rough it gets, I will never quit, and nothing will ever stop me. And believe me, if you decide to go for the gold in your life, you’re going to get knocked down over and over and over and over again. But without those obstacles, no success is possible. Make the decision that you can be tired, you can be worn out, but nothing is ever going to stop you. Give it your best shot. It’s the basis of self-assessment.

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and you’ve called life a battle for territory.

What do you mean by that?

That the things that you get in life, you know,

Frederick Douglass said,

we might not get everything that we fight for, but everything we get,

it will be a fight.

So, and I love the quote that life is a fight for territory.

Once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.

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Think I’m bringing value and I take people’s attention very seriously And I will never take it for granted. and it manifests in me being a kind guy. It also manifests in me engaging with things that hurt my feelings I’m super pumped that my fourth grade friends and my sixth grade teachers and people are coming out of the woodworks I am NOT that thoughtful about it. I am tripling down on who I am. I was super charismatic and nice as shit to everybody long before I ever thought That anybody would even know who I was, because that’s my DNA and how I was raised.

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Lonely I was believing, betrayed I was.

If you lose a job, keep the faith. If you lose a spouse, keep the faith. If you bury your child, keep the faith. If you have to downsize,

keep the faith. If you have to move in with your mama, keep the faith. If you’re at your wit’s end, keep the faith. If you have to catch the bus, keep the faith. If you have to thumb, keep the faith. If you get sick, keep the faith. If you lose your kidneys, keep the faith. If you got heart trouble, keep the faith. You might not get a new heart, but you gotta keep your faith.

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You have to get to a point that you have a set of principles that guide you that you don’t guide. That you don’t get to switch up when you want to.

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This idea and this notion that you could be anything you want and you can accomplish anything you want. The thing that has worked for me is to remember the hard times. So, and I’m sure you guys all have your processes. And again, I’m gonna tell you what’s worked for me. So before a big movie comes out, before back in the days when I was wrestling with WWE, a WrestleMania match, anything big that would happen, I would always take a moment and I just remind myself, all right. I was evicted when I was 14. We were kicked off the island. We couldn’t live in Hawaii. Had no place to live.

A lot of shit happened then when I moved to Nashville. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16 years old. I would remember that. And it allows me then to be present in the moment and understand, holy, the stuff I have around me right now. This is the shit that I dreamed of when I was a kid. I am here.

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I want you to learn that the only way you grow is how to look at yourself and say, okay, like I did. Table longer than this. What the fuck I have to do to get somewhere? I’m this, I’m this, I’m this, I’m this, I’m this. Well, basically, I’m not this, I’m not this, I’m not this. I can’t do this, I can’t do this. I’m all these insecurities. Your life finally started. When you sit in an ugly mirror and say, I’m this, I’m this, I’m this, I’m this, you finally started your life. But most of all, your biggest fears, the biggest things that put you in the fucked up place you are today are in there.

That’s why we all like to keep them shut. Even like to lock them up. Act like they never happened. That’s why you never grow. You never improve. You never have real conversations like we’re having right now. Never, never. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let’s not, no, no, no, let’s not go there. You got to relive it. Every fucking detail of it.

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You got to be grateful when you making 50,000. then you got to be grateful when you get to 75,000. you got to be grateful at 80,000. a lot of people stay pissed off because they ain’t a millionaire. But I got news for you if you pissed off where you are right now, you’ll never be a millionaire You want me to tell you why? Because there is a principle of success that god requires our gratitude: The more you’re grateful for, the more god will give you to be grateful for, Instead of complaining about what’s going on, man. I got to go to work today. man, I got these kids see.

you asked for all this, though. Remember when you wanted a job? Remember when you wanted a baby? You know what? I learned: you can’t cry about what’s on your plate, when your whole goal was to eat. It’s the number one reason I have what I have, and that’s the number one reason why I’m going to get more, Because I just stay grateful for what I have.

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What do you think is the key to achieving our goals, our success?

Some people suggest things like hard work, focus, persistence.

But research shows these are all byproducts of something else,

something much more powerful that we can all develop.

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability,

we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

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and step back and say, let me see if you remember your mother now. Only thing I’m asking you to do is, if you’ve got to step back, regroup, wipe your eyes, wipe your face, shake it off, say a prayer, step back, then step back up and say, I’ll never forget why I do what I do.

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And you wonder why you’re not successful because you don’t have an anchor. You want all that success without an anchor? You want to be in the deep? You want a phenomenal life with no anchor? You can’t survive without an anchor? I got an anchor. Young dudes be like, yo E, I want to be like you. E, I said, bro, you don’t want this life. You don’t want these responsibilities, bro. It’s a lot of responsibilities, bro. Like I’m a leader, bro. It’s a lot of responsibilities. There are people who are in a position of hurt, whatever, that could be manipulated.

Like, bro, you don’t want these responsibilities, bro. Like one day I’m going to have to stand before my creator and give an account of how I made every move I made. You don’t want this life, bro. You don’t want to be the leader. Go ahead and be the armor bearer. I promise you, armor bearer, you in the same arena that I’m in without the responsibilities that I have. You don’t want this life? But if you do want this life, if you do want a phenomenal life, you must have an anchor.

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Success is not measured on the days when the sun shines. Success is measured on the dark, stormy, cloudy days. And if you can’t absorb failure, you’re never gonna meet success. There’s gonna be bad days, there’s gonna be dark days, but you gotta embrace it, because that pain is what makes you stronger.

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Everybody say that with me, find difficult. Come on, come on, come on, Mike told me this was a crowd. Find difficult. Listen to me, the way you’re going to separate yourself from everybody else is not to do what everybody else is doing. You have to find difficult and you have to master difficult because when you master difficult, you separate yourself from everybody else. I’m telling you today that if you want to take your business to the next level, you have to stop doing what everybody else is doing. You have to stop doing what’s comfortable.

You have to stop doing what’s convenient and you got to find difficult and you got to wake up every day and do difficult until you master it. And once you master difficult, you separate yourself from everybody else.

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If you’re going to mess around with very complicated and dangerous matters,

you should really put your life together We also know that the higher your conscientiousness the lower your neuroticism Conscientiousness does seem to keep neuroticism in check.

And so I would say- and have said this to many people:

clean your room,

Organize your life, get a routine.

get up every day at the same time, go to bed at the same time.

Establish disciplined habits.

that will help a lot.

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I don’t think anyone has natural discipline. They build structures around them. They build systems around them. They schedule them and they eliminate the things that take from it. And over time they build this identity where they seem like they’re incredibly disciplined people.

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You know what you should do and you know what you shouldn’t do to be more successful, healthy, happy, and wealthy. The problem is you aren’t doing it. What’s the gap then? Self-control, self-management, emotional maturity. When you order the nachos even though you’re on a diet, when you say yes to the extra drink even though you know you shouldn’t, when you respond in sarcasm, anger, or defensiveness instead of compassion and patience, when you excuse yourself from going to the gym because you got too busy, when you excuse making those prospecting calls because you got too busy,

when you allowed minor distractions to pull you off your important priorities, all these instances are a result of emotional immaturity. When temptation arose, you buckled, you submitted, you failed. It was the lack of maturity in doing what you know you should but still don’t.

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The challenge of life, my friends, is to become better human beings. The human philosophy of becoming better never diminishes. It is an upward spiral of perpetual personal development. And that development process starts with adopting a never quit mindset. You cannot make it as a human being alone. To become better, you need to be constantly fed by the experience, the learning, and the knowledge of others who have succeeded before you. That’s why you are here today, to drink deeply from the well of wisdom about the power of perseverance. Now here’s the reality. Life is difficult.

Adversity is guaranteed. As you go after your dreams and reach for the stars, you will face obstacles, setbacks, and failures along the way. That’s just the nature of the human journey. As has been said, if you don’t want to face difficulties, then don’t do anything worthwhile in life.

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The most successful people in the world keep this stuff a secret. All the wealthy people, they don’t go out there and start writing books on how to become successful. If they do, they write it with misinformation on purpose. Henry Ford said, if people learn the way I create money, then who’s going to work in my factories?

Think about that.

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I promise you, every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you’re going through. And it’s the lonely chapter. It’s the chapter where you don’t fit in with your own friends, but you don’t have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends. And you’re doing this thing, you’re consuming content on the internet, you’re doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and where do I host this thing. And then you’re going through this and you’re like,

is this even worth it? Because you have no signs of success. But if there’s anything that you can take away from what we’re saying right now, is that the sign of success is the hate that you get along the way. And what you can’t do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the conformity because it’s comfortable and it’s warm. Because like in the matrix, when Trinity opens the door, when Neo’s about to go take the red pill and he wants to get out of the car, she says, you know that road and you know exactly where it leads. And I know that’s not where you want to be.

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Failure is a bullshit code for you quit. Don’t be a quitter, bitch.

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You know so often,

The best way to contend with with problems, with issues, with adversity, is Action, is by taking action. The more you sit and the more you wait and the more time you spend with that adversity With the upper hand inside your head The the worst it’s gonna get and it’s in your personal life, too You know something doesn’t go the way you wanted it to go. You didn’t get the job you wanted You didn’t get the hire. You didn’t get the promotion. You can go home and sit there and dwell on it. That’s not getting you any progress. or you say, okay, you know what we do.

a quick analysis: Why didn’t I get that promotion? Oh, it’s because I didn’t get this qualification or I hadn’t Jumped through this gate Okay, cool. What do I need? Let me look into how do what how do I get to jump through that gate? So next time I will get the promotion and you start taking action. So action for me is a cure for a lot of problems that we have in life.

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Average skill, phenomenal will. Average skill, phenomenal will.

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Average skill, phenomenal will. Average skill, phenomenal will.

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You want to reach your goal?

How to reach the goal the quickest?

Be focused with your energy. Meaning, be focused with the mind.

Don’t lose the goal from the mind.

Whatever you do from the moment of waking up until the evening,

whatever you do,

keep the goal in the mind.

This is the quickest way of making this goal become real.

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Here’s number one major lesson in life: to learn. learn how to handle the winters.

Now, there’s all kinds of winters:

The winter when you can’t figure it out, the winter when it all goes wrong,

Economic winter social winters political winters and personal winters when your heart is smashed in a thousand pieces The nights are unusually long Now the question is what do you do about the winters get wiser and stronger and better?

Can you get stronger in handling life situations, of course,

but you got to go to work on yourself You can’t blame out there wishing it was easier.

Wish you were stronger.

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Here’s number one major lesson in life: to learn. learn how to handle the winters.

Now, there’s all kinds of winters:

The winter when you can’t figure it out, the winter when it all goes wrong,

Can you get stronger in handling life situations, of course,

but you got to go to work on yourself You can’t blame out there wishing it was easier.

Wish you were stronger.

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Never complain, never explain. Don’t complain about life. Don’t explain what you’re doing or why you’re doing it. Just do it. By whining and complaining, all you’re doing is making people think bad things about you, looking weak, you know? And when you complain a lot, you have a mindset where everything is kind of a potential complaint. Stop whining and stop explaining yourself and just do things in the world and let your actions speak for themselves.

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Young people ask questions they ask the wrong questions. What career pays the most money? Bad question. The question should be what am I born to do that will fulfill me? Because in your purpose is your prosperity. Find your passion, you’ll find your prosperity. And the key to life is pursuing God’s purpose. Three things God says. Many are the plans in your heart. My purpose is will prevail. Three things. One, purpose to God is more important than plans. Two, purpose is more powerful than plans. And three, purpose precedes plans. That means before you was born to even make plans,

God already had a purpose for your life. And you will never be fulfilled and happy until you’re doing what God gave you birth to do.

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What we do in life, it goes in eternity.

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My big thing is that people’s fears are predicated on other people. You’re allowing other people’s opinions to dictate your life. Letting somebody else dictate your life is immediate unhappiness. You’re not in control. There is nothing, nothing more difficult than navigating your life based on somebody else’s opinion.

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Success is not about being the smartest person in the room. It’s not about having the most talent or the best opportunities. No, success is about outworking everybody else. It’s about being willing to do what others won’t. It’s about killing that lazy voice in your head that says, I will do it tomorrow. Now, I can already hear some of you thinking, but I’m not lazy. I’m just unmotivated. Well, let me tell you something. Motivation is a myth. You don’t need motivation. You need discipline. Motivation is fleeting. It comes and goes like the wind. But discipline?

Discipline is what gets you out of bed at 5am when every fiber of your being is screaming to hit the snooze button.

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Discipline is what gets you out of bed at 5am when every fiber of your being is screaming to hit the snooze button.

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I’m always saying it’s all package. You know, first of all, it’s the talent helps a lot, of course. But of course, the ethic of work. You have to put in your mind ethic of work when you are professional. So since day one, when I start with a professional, let’s say with 16, 17, 18, I’m always having ethic to be the best, to train hard, to listen to all the players, experienced players. And of course, my dream is coming true. I was professional. I played in the best clubs in the world. I won the most important trophies. So I’m glad to be in this position.

But of course, this is not coming from the sky. I dedicate myself and I’m working hard. And this is why the goals and all the achievements that I get are coming from dedication and hard work.

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But of course, this is not coming from the sky. I dedicate myself and I’m working hard. And this is why the goals and all the achievements that I get are coming from dedication and hard work.

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Do you think successful people always feel motivated? Do you think they wake up every morning bursting with energy and excitement? Of course not. They have the same doubts, the same fears, the same lazy urges as everyone else. The difference is they’ve trained themselves to act despite those feelings. You see action precedes motivation, not the other way around. You don’t wait until you feel motivated to start working. You start working and then the motivation follows. It’s like jumping into a cold pool. The hardest part is taking that first plunge.

But once you’re in you adjust and before you know it you are swimming laps.

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But once you’re in you adjust and before you know it you are swimming laps.

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If I was broke today, if I had nothing, what would I do? Yeah. What’s the step-by-step process? There are four things that we need to do and do very well in order to manifest a miracle. What is that? In order to manifest the miracle of abundance, wealth, love, whatever it is that you’re looking for. What are the four quadrants? Spiritual work, which I’ll define. There’s physical work, certainty, and prayer. Often, the reason why people are working so hard but not seeing the miracle is they might only be focused on one of those four quadrants and investing all their energy in that one,

but ignoring the other three, or maybe just three out of the four. It’s when you hit all four that the gates open.

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That you’ve got to take personal responsibility to know that in order to become successful, you’ve got to make it your personal business to do it. But the next thing, ladies and gentlemen, I want to share with you that some of you already know that it’s hard.

It’s not easy.

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If you persist until you succeed at achieving a goal that is important to you, and you complete it like a degree in school, or you wrap up a sale, or you make a career successful, you plug into your subconscious mind a success pattern. And then the subconscious mind, running on the basis of inertia, attempts to adjust your words, actions, and feelings to duplicate that success pattern. And that’s why they say nothing succeeds like success. That once you’ve been successful, you have a pattern set down,

which will enable you to apply that pattern to another part of your work to be successful in that. And the more you succeed, the more this pattern of success is reinforced. And you’ll finally reach the point where it’s impossible for you to fail if you succeed enough times. Because you will have within you a self-adjusting mechanism that will guarantee your success. Dorothea Brand wrote in 1935 in her wonderful book, Wake Up and Live, she said the key to success is this, go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

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The problem with the pursuit of happiness is that when life storms come along, happiness disappears, and then you’re left with nothing. And so you need to pursue something that’s deeper than happiness. And if happiness comes along, well then, hooray for you. You don’t want to despise it because it’s fleeting, but it’s much better to pursue things that are meaningful than things that make you happy. It’s deeper, and it orients you more appropriately, and it keeps you centered in your own life, and makes you more useful for your family and your community.

And it’s a relief to young people to know that the baseline conditions of life are difficult, but that you can still prevail.

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Nothing hard lasts forever. There’s only three things that can happen. You either quit, it gets easier, or you get better. So no matter what, it always ends. You only lose when you quit before you see it all the way through.

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Excuses. Oh, we all love our excuses, don’t we? I’m too tired. I don’t have enough time. I’m not talented enough. The conditions aren’t right. Let me tell you something. Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. Every time you make an excuse, you are essentially giving yourself permission to fail. You are telling yourself it’s okay to be mediocre. And let me tell you, mediocrity is a dangerous place to be. It’s comfortable, sure, but it’s also where dreams go to die. So from this moment on, I want you to make a pact with yourself. No more excuses. None. Zero. Zil.

When you feel an excuse bubbling up, I want you to squash it like a bug. Replace it with this phrase. I can do better. Because you can. You absolutely can.

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When you feel an excuse bubbling up, I want you to squash it like a bug. Replace it with this phrase. I can do better. Because you can. You absolutely can.

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Most fucked up things that I’ve learned over time is that almost all like truly exceptional and mentally strong people have been through hell. It’s very few that put themselves through hell when life is great. It’s just not usually the case.

I was more miserable trying to make everyone else happy than I am now with everyone else unhappy with me. I would rather be hated by everyone than like myself.

Reminder that if you want to be exceptional, you’re going to be different from everyone else. That’s what makes you exceptional. You can’t fit in and also be exceptional. Both have discomfort. When you fit in, you have internal conflict because you’re not being 100% you. When you’re exceptional, you have external conflict because everyone sees you as different. Pick one. When your friends start to say you’ve changed, remember it’s because they don’t know how to say you’ve grown.

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I was more miserable trying to make everyone else happy than I am now with everyone else unhappy with me. I would rather be hated by everyone than like myself.

Reminder that if you want to be exceptional, you’re going to be different from everyone else. That’s what makes you exceptional. You can’t fit in and also be exceptional. Both have discomfort. When you fit in, you have internal conflict because you’re not being 100% you. When you’re exceptional, you have external conflict because everyone sees you as different. Pick one. When your friends start to say you’ve changed, remember it’s because they don’t know how to say you’ve grown.

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Everybody has a turn back moment. You have a moment where you could go forward or you can give up. But the thing you have to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up, the guarantee is it will never happen. That’s the guarantee of quitting. That it will never happen no way under the sun. The only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you never give up no matter what.

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Goals are the antidote to laziness. They give you direction, purpose, something to strive for. Your goals need to scare you a little bit. If your goals don’t make you a bit uncomfortable, they are not big enough. Comfort is the enemy of growth. When you are comfortable, you are not pushing yourself. You are not expanding your limits. You are just existing and existing is not enough. You were born to thrive, to achieve, to leave your mark on this world. So, I want you to set some audacious goals. Goals that make your palms sweat when you think about them,

Goals that make you think, can I really do that? And then I want you to work towards those goals with everything you have got. But here’s the important part. Don’t just set the goal and forget about it. Break it down into smaller, actionable steps. What can you do today, right now, to move closer to that goal? Remember, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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Just say I can. Come on, come on, I can. I can. Come on, one more time. I will. I must. I ain’t going nowhere. Are you hearing what I’m telling you? And what we said to each other is I can get through this. I will get through this. I must get through this.

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Negative people latch onto positive people and try to seclude them from the world because that’s their energy. In work, I see it every day. In life, I see it every day. It’s just what it is. I hate how many people judge other people without having all the context. Every time you fucking judge, you make yourself vulnerable. 99.9% of people that you judge or have opinions on, you have no idea what the fuck is actually happening in their lives. Like you don’t fucking know what’s going on in somebody’s fucking home. Everybody sucks at something, right? Like we all have shortcomings.

And for me, it’s like, why don’t we just audit that? Like, why don’t we just look at it that way and be like, all right, well, I’m good at this, but I’m not good at that. Like everybody’s so absolute.

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You’re so smart. Why can’t you come up with a quick solution? Why can’t you realize that overthinking is actually causing the problem harm? It’s not moving the problem forward.

so Quit thinking so much and take action.

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Imagine that you’re in a movie, and imagine the movie begins now, and you’re the hero of the movie. Yeah. What would that guy do? Yeah. What would that guy do right now? Yeah. Because you are.

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I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that. Don’t do that, just get up, move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. Move towards that challenge and go attack it. And you may be successful and you may not be successful, but you will be better. And the next challenge, you’re gonna be more prepared for. And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

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We have the ability to go in such a space, if you’re willing to suffer, and I mean suffer, your brain and your body, once connected together, can do anything. And this 30 miles was the life-changing moment. I was out of it. I was in the worst pain in my entire life. I was, to me, on the brink of death. And I was able to chunk this 30 damn miles into small pieces. I was so driven. And I’m not gonna say motivated, because motivation’s crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever’s in front of you will get destroyed.

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I want everything to be perfect before something happens. That’s how I am. I Want everything to be look as soon as everything gets all lined up I’m not really giving the Lord a chance to tickle me. You know, I’m not really given and stay with me I’m not rip by by by by saying okay. I’m not. when. as soon as this, then this and then this. You know, as soon as I get my slippers on, My feet will be warm. I’m gonna go to daddy’s. I’m gonna make a pot pie, You know it’s, but only I’m. I ain’t having no pot pie till I do the other thing, till I do my.

you know, When I have my own plans, stay with me.

What I’m saying is: I’m always, I’m always- waiting for everything to be perfect before I live my life.

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Everyone does a few reps when the burn starts and they stop. No one goes the extra mile and keeps going. Like no one’s in here right now. Why? Because it’s Saturday evening, everyone’s going to a party, no one’s in here, just me. There are no traffic jams in the last mile of the race. It’s just you and your shadow. In the beginning, everybody’s there. All the pretenders and the contenders, they’re all there. But the last yard of life, the last mile of the journey, ain’t nobody but you and your shadow. Traffic jams don’t exist that far because everyone else has already given up.

That’s what I like too, the mental concept. I’m going that far. I love the physical high of the burn being released. I love the mental high that I just improved myself. I love the mentality.

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This is why most people never get anywhere. Most people are incapable of picking a direction and going. They observe the possibilities, they get paralyzed by all the possibilities, they refuse to move forward on all the possibilities, and then time passes them by. So it’s very important that you make a decision and you go down that path. You commit to that path with the mentality of having zero options. I don’t have a choice but to see this through, okay? If I don’t see this through, I’m going to be digging ditches. That’s what I tell myself.

When I don’t want to come here and I don’t want to do this and I get tired of, you know, doing what I do, which happens to everybody, you go through ups and downs, I pretend like I have zero options. I say, well, if I don’t f***ing do this, bro, I’m going to be digging ditches, so I better show the f*** up and get it done. And that might sound ridiculous to you because that’s not the truth anymore, but I still tell myself that and that’s how I operate.

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No matter where you came from, no matter what part of the world, no matter who your parents were, no matter what your poverty Level may have been, may not have been, No matter what you had, what you didn’t have, no matter what people had told you Didn’t tell you All of that, If you made yourself and took advantage of that opportunity and got yourself ready and you were ready to behave like a champion, You could get in that ring on one given night and make the world fair and have your hand lifted And be called champion of the world.

That makes boxing special and that’s what these judges don’t get. That kids are waiting to hear that and they give everything.

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And a year from now, it’s gonna happen like that. And who is your future self? One year from now, who is it? Just like everyone’s out of here, go party Saturday night. They’re not willing to sacrifice. I’m like the lone survivor in here. You know, tonight will be over with two, tomorrow I’ll be stronger for it. Another day will go by, 365 of them. Happens so f***ing fast. Who are you gonna be in a year from now? And in a year from now, does that future person hold regret or pride? We know that day is coming. We can’t go backwards, we can only go forward. We know that day is coming.

What we do right now, we’ll ensure it goes our way. We’ll ensure that there is no regret. That’s something you can’t ever f***ing fix. It’s a debate inside your head that never stops.

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And where it has the most water, the thing I was scared of the most, I had to go back. So a lot of us run away from our fears. And we box ourself in to a lifestyle of this is all we can do. Because I’m afraid of everything outside this box. So I’m comfortable inside this box. I jumped the box for the first time in my life. Mentally, I jumped the box and said, hey, I got to come out here and play.

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The purpose is you We forget that every fucking day. I wake up. I don’t want to do some fucking shit. I’m like, okay, man Do you want to be a bitch today? Do you want to feel like a little bitch? Do you won’t walk around all day knowing that you could but you didn’t so I it’s performed without purpose You have to learn how to get up and do when you ain’t got no fucking 5k. No 10k nothing Nothing exists your life fucking sucks. You’re in the fucking dungeon. But guess what motherfucker? I’m still going to get it,

Because when that time comes because the time is gonna come When that purpose is there? You’ll be ready. But most of us can, aren’t ready because we don’t know how to do without having the golden carrot in front of us.

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So you never wanted a regular type life?

The fuck is that? Barbecues and ball games?

Yeah.

This regular type life, that your life?

My life?

No, my life… My life’s a disaster,

so… I got a stepdaughter so fucked up… because her real father’s this large type asshole.

I got a wife.

We’re passing each other on the down slope of a marriage.

My third.

Because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block.

That’s my life.

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Get it David. Come on.

Yeah, there you go. There you go Energy,

let it out seven eight nine Ten a machine here. There you go. Nobody works like David in this house 13. Come on, 14. Come on 15 shut that muscle down 16 come on Get it 17.

They don’t know me son.

Get it 18.

Get it 19, son.

Yeah, one of you got some more. 21: yeah, get again. Come on we want to see it good 22 who’s gonna carry the boats in the logs That’s you buddy. Come on 23 Come on, 24 one more day man.

Who’s one more carry the boats?

You’re gonna do it. You’re gonna do it. You’re gonna do it. You did it. Yeah You.

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Patience. Patience is a skill we must master. Patience is one of the most valuable skills a human being must master. And I’m working hard to master it and I feel I’m getting there so time will show all. That’s it. Right now I’m focused on the belt. Focused. Positivity, good thoughts. And I’ll say a prayer for those who try and curse me or try and bring harm to me with these type of things. And that’s it.

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We can learn from past regrets to ensure we don’t re-regret them. To ensure we don’t go out tonight. If we stay in here, even if no one else is here, and they push you a little bit further, there’s still work to be done. The party I might smile at tonight, the laughter I might be had tonight, is a huge distant second to the f***ing pride one feels of accomplishing their goals. And here, even though it’s painful, it’s joyful.

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the only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you and then you’ll forget they exist. And that’s when he said, he said, success is the only revenge. He’s like, it’s not the best revenge. He’s like, it’s the only one. There’s no other revenge because everything else is petty. Everything else does show that you were thinking about these people all day long, which means they win by default. He’s like: all you can do is think about your goal and winning. He’s like, and when you win, that’s when you become so big that they shrink into irrelevance.

You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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How many times do you have to hear, if nothing changes, nothing changes? Right? We all have heard this. I don’t even know where it comes from. I probably heard that first when I was 10 years old. If nothing changes, nothing changes. And yet, somehow we expect things to change. We expect things to change. You think you’re gonna get in better shape. You think you’re gonna get more money. You think your relationship is gonna improve. You think you’re gonna get promoted. You think you’re gonna get a raise. You think the world is going to get better without you doing anything. But it isn’t.

Nothing is going to change unless you change what you’re doing. Change the junk food that you’re eating. Change the time that you wake up. Change what you do when you get out of bed. Change what you do with your time.

That’s what you need to do.

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Like if I was talking to you back then, I was 300 pounds. I could be talking to you in this voice at the same time, like, what are you doing? What are you doing, man? You’re a loser. Where you going, man? This is what you could do your whole life. So it’d be talking to me as I’m talking to everybody. It was almost like I had two people. And I’m like, good God, just shut up. Just, I want to be comfortable. I want to be left alone. Like I don’t want to face all these things that life gave me. So you got to a point where you were sick and tired of hearing that voice.

I was sick and tired of not facing the fact that I have, I’ve allowed life to make me feel like a loser. And a lot of us allow life to do that. And we accept it. And a lot of us talk about how we believe in God. We believe in something higher than us. If that is truth, you won’t allow yourself to feel that way.

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I asked the cameraman up there, I’m like, hey, I said, how did Goggins look? And he’s like, well, he had his shirt off and it was cold rain, he’s had his shirt off and he was saying, they don’t fucking know me. I’m like, who is he? He’s like, they don’t know me, son, and doing, saying all this stuff. I said, who is he saying that to? And he’s like, there’s nobody up here. But that’s real. And so he did and he got better and he freaking just crushed the second half of that race. And same thing happened lifting. He like, the more reps we did, the better he got.

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I just asked Bud the exact same question, but I’m curious for you. Do you view this season as a failure?

Do you get do you get a promotion every year on your job? No, right? So every year you work is a failure. Yes or no? No, every every year you work you work towards something towards a goal, right? Which is to get a promotion to be able to take care of your family to be able I don’t know Provide the house for them or take care of your parents you work towards a goal. It’s not a failure It’s steps to success, you know, and if you’ve never I don’t know. I don’t want to, I don’t make it personal, So there’s always steps to it.

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It’s 44 degrees and it’s nice and rainy outside, but no one cares about that. It’s not about the rain. It’s what the rain represents. Life is always giving you a test, trying to give you a way out, trying to give you an excuse not to show up. This is my excuse today. But guess what?

You got to have the mentality to show up every fucking day of your life. No matter what life throws at you. It’s our responsibility to show up to the Coliseum of Life prepared for fucking battle. I don’t care what you’re going through, what life’s throwing at you. It’s your responsibility to find your new 100%. Take it upon yourself to do that. Stay hard.

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We sat down and we played several other games and finally, after the 11th game, John Leslie won and he got up and he yawned and he said, I’m ready to go to sleep now. And I’m saying to you, what if all of us took that attitude after we face a rejection and a no or we have a meeting and no one shows up or somebody say, you can count on me and they don’t come through. What if we have that kind of attitude, the cause repossessed, nobody believes in you, you’ve lost again and again and again, the lights are cut off,

but you’re still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and say to yourself, it’s not over until I win.

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You have to change some things or nothing will change.

That’s what you need to do.

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You can be upset in the moments after the game. If we win, it’s always better. But if you win, if I score, I will be a little bit more happy. I have to be honest. I’m not going to be like that. It’s not true. No. Or if you lost in the game, you have to show during this period that you are pissed. It’s part of… But next day, I’m very capable and I learn that, listen, Cristiano, let’s go. Life continues. Past is past. It never comes again. The present, it’s the best gift that we have in our life. The present. Because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. You don’t know. I don’t know.

He don’t know. So live the present.

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What people don’t understand is that they live for themselves, not knowing that you have the power within yourself to change millions of lives by facing life, by facing yourself. And through that, I would die never knowing that I had the power to change millions of lives. And what haunts me the most, people ask me, what haunts you the most? What haunts me the most is that if I would have died at 300 pounds, let’s say I was 75 years old, I got to heaven and God has a chart like that on everybody’s life. God knows all, let’s say that. I don’t care what you believe in, it doesn’t matter.

I’m not judging anybody. Let’s say my thing is God.

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You are one decision away from changing your life. And you have to accept that. You’re one new meeting, one new relationship, one new contact, one new action, one new decision, away from shifting your life from where it is right now to a totally different place. So what’s the decision? You already know, I could go backstage now. There’s something you’ve been hesitating on. There’s a contact you need to make, isn’t there? There’s a job you need to quit. There’s a relationship you need to engage in. Maybe there’s a relationship you need to leave. I don’t know what it is,

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Hating on the obstacles in the way of you doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Fantasizing about all of the adoration you’ll receive once you do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading this essay isn’t doing the thing. The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing. That you can dress it up however you want, the work just needs doing.

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You do what you are.

You’re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you’re good at, you don’t take for granted. You don’t betray it. Then you betray yourself. That’s a sad thing.

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You make those little changes,

those little habits that you have, you have to change them, those bad habits,

and you’ll be surprised.

You’ll be surprised the little things,

the little changes,

they add up and they become big things.

Change the little things and over time you can change your life.

But if you don’t change, if you don’t change what you’re doing and how you do it,

nothing else will change.

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But now you know what giving it your all is, and you will not succeed in business or any endeavor in life Until that fight you just went through is applied to the same endeavor. It’s too fucking hard world out there And Billy if you’re trying to lose weight for the girls on the beach like you just said Buddy, you don’t have enough fight. You’re gonna drown right there. It’s never gonna be successful. Think of that, guys. you guys are saying you’re doing everything right and you’re giving it your all.

Come on, come on. Your all’s a lot more than you know. you got more inside of you to give. Stop selling yourself so short.

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you can never get so far beyond scratch. What that means is when you accomplish something in life, if you want to go back to scratch and go back to that $7 a month place where I once lived and visit that place for a long period of time, if you were here when you went back to scratch, you would now be here. Scratch is what makes you better. Scratch, friction, obstacles create growth. There’s no friction when you’re this far up in the game anymore. You think there is. That’s right. When you achieve so much, the friction is minor. Because why? I’m sore. I’m going to get a massage today.

I’m hungry. I’m going to eat today. The refrigerator is always full. So your discomfort is now very minuscule to your discomfort back here in the $7 a month place. So you have to go back to the total discomfort to then raise your level of where you’re at now.

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If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying. I’ll say it again. If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying. My wife told me this great expression. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

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some games and some moments you’re getting a little bit more upset. For example, after they were still eliminate penalties against France, take two days because it’s a special moment, pressure. But that’s it. Listen, third day, go back to the gym, work because you have more to show. You understand? Life continue. You cannot live in the past. I’m really good on that. You understand? I learned by the years that, listen, Cristiano, let’s go. Because pain, you’re going to have all the time uncertainty and constant work, constant work, constant work.

Doesn’t matter what’s going to happen in your life. You have to continue. This is the way I see the life and football, especially.

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So two guys asked me to help them train for a marathon. Oh, when they picked a shitty day to train, it’s 40 degrees. Rainy, windy, nasty. Those cats are inside a treadmill. You can’t let conditions dictate your outcome. They believe that if it rains or snows or it’s too windy, they may cancel the marathon. They ain’t canceling shit. You better train with every condition they give you. The person that usually fucking fills me, she’s taking a day off in the car right now. Because it’s too nasty. Don’t do the same. Stay hard.

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There’s no failure in sports. You know, there’s good days, bad days. Some days, some days you are able to be successful. Some days you’re not. Some days it’s your turn. Some days it’s not your turn. And that’s what sports is about. You don’t always win. Some other people are going to win. And this year, somebody else is going to win. Similar as that. We’re going to come back next year, try to be better, try to build good habits, try to play better, not have a 10-day stretch with playing bad basketball. You know, and hopefully we can win a championship.

So 50 years from 1971 to 2021 that we didn’t win a championship, it was 50 years of failures? No, it was not. It was steps to it, you know? And we were able to win one. Hopefully we can win another one.

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Stay focused. Don’t listen to nobody. Don’t listen to nobody, homie. What’s on your mind, just do it. Because what’s destined for you, you’re gonna get it.

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Yeah, you’re transforming your life and you’re going through hell to do it, but because you’re doing it, it’s a guaranteed success is going to come. You should be happy about that. You should be excited. You have the abs, guys. We all have them. Underneath here, everyone’s got the abs. Got a little bit of fat on top of them. Guys, don’t give in yet. No, keep doing your diet. Keep doing your cardio while doing these abs. You’re dropping the fat and building the muscle. So the problem with that body fat hits single digits, guys. It’s going to give birth to like a new you.

And then everything else comes with it. And I hope you’re ready for it. All the girls, all the fame, everyone’s going to be asking how you do it and everything else. And I hope you’re ready for that, guys. So hopefully it doesn’t come overnight. There might be too much for you, but when it does come and you do it the right way, you’ll be ready and you’ll be damn proud of it. And once you have them, you would never, ever let them go. You have them for life.

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The minds of medieval mother. It’s constantly fighting against you It’s the only thing in the history of the world that shows up on time every time It has the tactical advantage over you. It knows your fears. It knows your insecurities It knows everything about you. Maybe the only thing in that world that knows all about you. You got to know about it. It’s gonna show up when you don’t want to show up It’s gonna show up at the worst time possible when you want to be successful. It’s gonna say: take the easy road, Take the easy way out.

You got to learn Your brain like your brain has learned you.

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And finally, finally develop that sense of urgency. Do it fast. Do it now. Fast tempo is essential to success. Fast tempo goes hand in hand with energy, with happiness, with enthusiasm, with self-esteem. So make crystal clear what you want to do. Make crystal clear the steps and start working on those steps and do something every day to move you toward the most important goals of your life. And if you do that, you will be an excellent time manager, an excellent personal manager, an excellent life manager. You will have a great, great life.

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You’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and then you’re gonna win,

and That’s life.

life without those challenges,

It’s just existence. Don’t just exist, Go live.

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You want to know if you’re talking about young men that might not have any direction right now? Go do something that’s hard. Go try and accomplish something that’s hard. You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what, you’ll be better. If you avoid those things that are hard, if you don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water, and you sit on your couch and eat Doritos,

I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Just get up. Move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. Move towards that challenge and go attack it. And you may be successful and you may not be successful, but you will be better. And the next challenge, you’re going to be more prepared for. And the next challenge after that, you’re going to be even more prepared for.

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Think about that. Writers write, actors act, directors direct. I know that sounds redundant, but it’s true. If you want to be an actor, get out there and act. Nobody’s going to knock on the door because they saw you in something. They have to see you do something. Director, make friends with writers, actors. Network, network, network. Get your stuff out there so people could see. The biggest advice I could give you right now, the biggest advice that anybody could give you, and this is not my words, Woody Allen told me this. I said, Woody, what’s the secret to success?

He said, 85% to 90% of life is just showing up. Show up. If you show up, there’s a chance something could happen.

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It says patience,

the thing that goes beyond hustle and hard work,

the discipline of patience,

the thing that goes beyond hustle and hard work.

Right, because we all talk about hustle, we talk about working hard,

we talk about grinding, this, that,

and the third, but nobody talks to you about patience.

Nobody speaks about that patience,

because in the patience,

that’s where you’re going to make it or you’re going to break.

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When life was unfair, boxing was around to make it fair. And I’ll tell you how. On one given night, if you worked hard enough, if you dreamed big enough, if you were tough enough and you made yourself tough enough, you sacrificed enough,

you became polished and savvy enough and technically equipped to do things that you had, then you learned those things and you just worked yourself to the bone.

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I feel like as people, we’re often arrogant. We feel as if life has promised us something. The way we live, the way we speak about life, the way we approach things, the way we treat people, we’re often arrogant to where one of the reasons I’m grateful for my injury is because it showed me the fragility of life. It showed me how quickly things can change. Very early on too. Very early, 20 years old. It showed me how quickly… I’m talking about you got the world in front of you, so-called world, in front of you. And then you go to sleep and you wake up and your life is totally different.

I look in the mirror, my appearance was totally different. From that point moving forward, everything was totally different.

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I look in the mirror, my appearance was totally different. From that point moving forward, everything was totally different.

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You want them to give in to their mind. You want them to say, oh, it’s too hard, I can’t do it. But you wanna be the one that says, fuck it, I’m gonna do it anyway. I know I don’t feel good today, but I’m gonna go out there and I’m gonna prove to myself that even on days that it doesn’t feel right, I push myself. The only way to gain confidence in yourself is to build something. It’s not to wait for it to happen. Hey, Vic, your life just happened in front of you. I just show up today and make it happen with Tom. No,

you had to do a lot of shit today to get to this day that no one really knows except you. So that’s why you appreciate it.

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I think the wake-up call is important, but it’s not the key. I think you have to take care a little bit of your body, but without obsession. If you start today, you’re going to have benefits in the future. It doesn’t matter the time. What is important is what you want to achieve. Yeah. What you want. You want to live a good life. Yes. I like to drink. I like to eat a burger. Okay. You’re going to pay the bill in the future.

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Because you don’t know how many hours I work. You don’t know what it’s like to be thinking about wanting to win. You don’t know what it was like every night going to sleep, you know, thinking Tesla’s about to go out of business. When people say, hey, you think Tesla’s stock’s going to go down, it’s going to go up, it’s going to go down, it’s going to go up. But as long as Musk is behind it, he is so flippin’ hungry, which is urgent. He’s so urgent about executing things now that, no matter what he touches, it’s going to grow because today he’s hungry. This may change 10 years from now.

This may change 20 years from now. But he’s so hungry today. He’s so hungry.

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It’s done in between a highway and a road. People coming home from work late at night Doing the same module every day, Nine to five, nine to five living for the weekends. nine to five- make a little bit of coin. Little bit of coin so they can do what they love with who they love, But a majority of their life is spent a cubicle doing what they hate next to the motherfucker They hate to. it doesn’t make any sense. as time goes on, The windows of opportunities closed and they look around like man. Man, I just had some bad breaks in your life. You know things didn’t work out my way bullshit.

Take some ownership. Your life is exactly what you wanted, because every day you’ve had choices to make. you’re responsible- incredible- for every single choice.

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Take some ownership. Your life is exactly what you wanted, because every day you’ve had choices to make. you’re responsible- incredible- for every single choice.

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They became more urgent because hungry people who are truly hungry, they’re just more urgent than everybody else in the game. Period. If I need to learn a skill set today, I’m going to go buy the course today. I’m going to get better at it today. Not tomorrow, not this afternoon, not later on tonight. Today.

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I think the most important is to find the balance. Sometimes I can eat a burger or chips, it doesn’t matter. And it’s important too, for your mind too. Sometimes I sleep two o’clock in the morning because last night I was in UFC here in Saudi and they might invent it’s two o’clock. Yes, it’s quality of life too. But the most important thing is the consistency. If you have consistency, you’re gonna be good in the future or you’re gonna be better than the other ones in the future. This is my opinion.

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If you want something bad enough, you can’t let anybody tell you you can’t do something, not even yourself. A lot of days I’m like, oh, you can’t do this, Tom. You can’t be as quick as a 30-year-old on the computer. Bullshit! Let me show you, I mean, I would have arguments with myself. I could do it. People doubted me. I doubted myself sometimes, too. But you know what? I watched Arnold fall down. Nobody remembers when he fell down. When he was, you know, Arnold wasn’t the glorified winner as he was in the first 70 through 75. He got up. I may become a famous film star. He became governor.

He kept getting up and getting up. I saw Trump do the same thing. I saw a lot of these guys I admired in business do it. And that’s what it takes.

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Because you had to go through a lot of stuff to get to this day. Not only you know what it took to get here and that’s why you value it. So other people on the outside in they say, oh Vic, you’re so lucky, you get to do this and you get to be. You know, you have all these followers, you, these people that pay attention to you. you get to do these cool things. Well, yeah, but in your mind you’re probably still the same kid, You know, with your brother and your other brother and your sister and your dad and your mom. You’re like, no, no, you guys don’t know.

remember, I came from and this is why I value this, because I have perspective. Yeah, I knew where I came from. I knew where I started. now I appreciate it where I’m at, and that’s the beauty of life: to continue to appreciate where you’re at.

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Most people who have won big have failed big. Okay? You know, see, even you know. And what I promised myself as a little boy, I said, I can never leave the gym knowing I have 5% left. That 5% is magic. That’s the magic place where very few people go. You can go there. I’m giving you permission to go there. We’ll have people behind you. If you fall down and drop the weight on the floor, who cares? Who cares? But if you make it, I care. I want that. I want you to fail, and I want you to get up and do it again. The same thing in life is the same thing here.

If you can do this, you can do anything. Anything. Right now, you’re 5% away. 5% away from being a champion.

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Some do have ownership of them. The little tiny nuggets of life. The harder paths. The little tiny seeds that bear the fucking great oak in the forest. They all get planted one day. The little saplings before they turn to the monster. On your account, every single day, you’ve made the choices. You’ve connected the dots where all the pain’s over with. Or you can stop being the fucking wavelength. Because the only thing that changes a wavelength, and the equation of what a wavelength is, isn’t quite the shape, but the frequency of which is divided by.

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Be selfish. Be selfish for the next three years. Go get yourself strong. Go put your own oxygen mask on. Put some money in the bank. Crush your company. Be selfish with your time. Be selfish with your income. Be greedy on the amount of money you want to make. I’m telling you, be greedy, be selfish. You know why? Because if you go all in, if you stop thinking, I wish I could do more, be more. Go all in and make the money. Get secure and put your oxygen mask on. And what you can do in five years from now, what you can do in seven years from now,

what you could do in 12 years from now is unbelievable. But we need this moment of us. We need this moment of getting ourselves. So many of us, so many of you I see right now are the most giving people you’ve ever, anyone knows. You’re the person that gives the most. You know what you’re doing? You’re putting oxygen masks on everybody else and you can barely breathe.

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what life should look like and how a winner should always be a winner.

And then they tell us what winning looks like.

And for a vast majority out there,

that’s not what winning looks like. And it just brings us more down.

And it brings men more down.

But life is hard, and that’s the way it’s always been. It’s our lot. Now, if you don’t want to accept that, that’s up to you.

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but who instilled in me this work ethic to fight for what I believe in,

chase after my dreams. Nothing’s ever going to be given to you. Everything’s going to be earned. If you don’t go out there and put in the work, you don’t go out and put in the effort, one, you’re not going to get the results, but two, more importantly, you don’t deserve it. You didn’t earn it.

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to do anything successfully in life,

you’ve got to want it as bad as you want to breathe.

And if you want it that bad,

if you’re willing to give it that much,

you get a big piece of what you want.

In life, dreams do come true.

Anything you want can happen and become a reality.

I believe that sincerely, and I’ll die on that thought, okay?

And I say that not from something I read. That’s from something I lived.

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If you are not consistent more than other ones, if you don’t do it at something more than other ones, you’re never going to be number one like me. I’m joking. So you’re never going to be a high level so many years. It can be one, two years, okay. 20 years, 13 years is impossible. Forget it. If someone tells you the opposite, in my opinion, they lie.

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So, if you’re watching this yourself, and you’re saying, you know what? I think I’m pretty hungry. Show it with your urgency. And if you want to find out the mindset of somebody that’s hungry and urgent, even if you’ve already watched the interview, go watch it again, especially since this anniversary’s coming up. Go watch the interview with Kobe Bryant. And see what his mentality was like, as an urgent, hungry guy that wanted to get better constantly, faster and more efficient than his peers. No wonder he won five championships, played with one team for 20 years,

and God knows how many records he broke. Having said that, I hope you’re hungry, and I hope you show it by being urgent this week. Take care, everybody.

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It takes time, it takes effort, it takes work, it takes overcoming your fear, it takes being brave, it takes being courageous. And at the end of the day, I’ve had an ulcer before as a kid, I’ve stressed, I’ve gone broke, I’ve been ridiculed, I felt bad about myself, I felt insecure, and at the end of the day, I would do it a million times over. I get to be with you amazing people. And here’s the thing I know. If I would have stayed and just went into a job and worked for someone else, even though I knew I had more to give the world, and I’m not saying a job is bad, I’m saying the wrong job.

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Just sitting around in this world that’s been created for you, that everything is instant.

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It’s 1am, I’m going for my third workout.

Do I want to go to the gym?

Absolutely not.

I’d rather, you know, lay in my house and sit in the movie theater and watch movies.

But, you know, to be the best you got to work overtime. To be the best you got to work overtime.

Let’s go in here and get this workout in.

Lights out, party’s over.

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There are two type of champions for me.

Like there are champions who prepare themselves to win and there are the other ones who prepare themselves to dominate.

I prepare myself not to win because I know that I’m gonna win.

I wanna win in fashion. I wanna dominate.

I wanna more people. I want people to be entertained.

I want people to be like, wow,

I’m happy that I spend the money this Saturday night going watch this guy.

This is what I want.

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Life’s hard. And sometimes we don’t need men’s mental awareness, men’s mental health awareness month, is that what they call it? We need men’s grow a set month. We need men’s stop whining month. Now I know things are hard for some of you. I know things are extremely difficult for some of you. Things have been hard for me around here. I don’t get on here and post it, not going to now. But we all go through it. And that’s the reason I’m talking to you tonight.

Sometimes you look at people on the screen and you think that’s distant and they’re separated and they’re not going through what you’re going through. Listen, man, we all go through it.

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Saying good, that should fix your attitude, But that alone, That will, that alone will not fix your problems.

If you’re having problems, sure, Say good That’s perfect. But then Don’t ask yourself. Why me?

Instead ask yourself now. What am I going to do about it? What are you going to do about it? ask yourself that question and

then Figure it out. Figure out what you’re going to do say to yourself. I am going to detach. I am going to Assess the situation. I am going to come up with a plan and I am going to execute.

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What is life? What the fuck is your life? Are you happy with it? And if so, it’s just the intake and outtake of breath that makes you put a smile on your face. That’s something your fucking mother gave you. You even earned that. What have you done with your life to make it something else besides the normality of everybody else? The intake and the outtake of what you call life is nothing more than time. And unless done something with, it’s forgotten about. There’s no footprint of your existence left for anyone else to follow. Life is time.

And a life that’s remembered, where a footprint is followed behind, and footsteps of inspiration and motivation, is when time is met with opportunity and action. They collide to be a life of remembrance. The problem is, most people don’t have a plan. And without a plan of your own life, you become the plan of someone else’s life.

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Sacrifice is to get anything of value, you have to sacrifice. Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. Easy doesn’t enter into grown-up life.

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You got to get told no. You’re gonna ask somebody for some money. He gonna tell you no. But at least then, when I see somebody trying and I tell them no, I try to at least give them something else.

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every day, every single day. And as I told you before, it’s a good tool to help your health. And congratulations for your company for that, because it helps me even more. But the society as well, who want to enjoy in this world, love to take care of his health, I think it’s a great tool to start it, the wake up call.

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So all I thought about when I was growing up is, man, I can’t wait to one day get to the point where I no longer have to do this stuff. But what happens, I got older, it became a way of living. So how I do every day is how I do every day. It’s a discipline, it’s a regimen. It was a choice I made. And the choice I made was, what are you willing to sacrifice? And what are you willing to give up to find every bit of who you are as a human being? And I was willing to give up everything to do that. So studying is no joke.

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I firmly believe when you give everything you got to something, right? I’m talking about blood, sweat, and tears, everything you got to something, right? The peace in that is not the result or the reward. The peace is the fact that I gave everything I had to it because this is who I am. So now even if it doesn’t turn out the way I want it to, I didn’t go to the NFL. That was a dream I had since I was seven. It didn’t happen, but it was a certain level of peace that resided inside of me because I knew September 9th, 2006, my last tackle, I can honestly say with every fiber of my being,

I gave everything I had to it. And so if God said, ain’t this your time? We done with it. All right, cool. What’s next? But the pain and regret would be, if I went to make that tackle, didn’t give everything I had to it, I get injured. life has changed and now I got to carry a burden of man. what if I gave everything I had to it?

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You just hang around?

Just turn the world out? Just zombie about it? You fry yourself with marijuana about it? Say, Dwayne, I’m sad.

Dude, that’s a part of life. You think you’re the only man on this planet that’s sad? Say, Dwayne, I’m going through depression. Well, welcome to the world. Welcome to the rest of us. You think I don’t go through depression sometimes? You think I don’t get sad sometimes? You think I don’t just feel depressed? You think I don’t feel worn out and burnt plum down to the bottom of my soul? We all do. We all do. We all do. That’s what sets us apart. That’s what sets us apart. That’s what makes us different.

That’s what makes us men.

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If you give up on your dreams, if you give up on your dreams, what do you have left?

Nothing. I can’t live that way. I can’t live that way. I have to live on the edge. You know, if it wasn’t bodybuilding, I’d probably be a motorcycle or cross-country jumping cars or something. I don’t know, something crazy. But that’s why I’m in this business. It’s never been about the money. It’s always been about the love of the game and the energy I gain from it. And that’s really, you know, when it’s about the money, you get in trouble. Money should be a side effect to what you love to do. And that’s what I bring to the gym every single day.

And that’s what I work when I work with Sergio Oliva Jr. and other body top guys and guys you don’t even know and David Hoffman. That’s what I try to bring to the table. That energy and that thirst of where it’s not just about, oh, I hope I do well. It’s like you have to want the success in the gym as much as you want to breathe.

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This whole thing, we look at life like it’s about what you can get from life. And I think, I read something, I was like, that’s not what it is. You’re gonna always be unfulfilled if you look at life like that. It’s about knowing you’re gonna leave one day. And when you leave, the only way you’re gonna be fulfilled is if you know you gave everything you had. Really though, yeah. And you emptied yourself here. And you left it all here, cuz it’s temporary and you got a moment.

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I cannot get away from who the fuck I am Who I am is Who I’m proud of I’m very proud of the hard-working calloused hands calloused mind human being That I literally made this person with a lot of help from above a lot of guidance From saying you’re gonna go left and you should go right that horrible voice that wouldn’t let me get away from myself and hide forever I Listen to it. I Listen to it in the only way you can set the example is you have to always be willing to work I don’t follow people who talk about what they used to do in life Give up what you used to do.

I don’t care that you know used to be the bass man. I don’t care What are you doing today? You may not be that person now, but what are you still doing to try to excel in life?

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You don’t have to live anybody else’s story. Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t. It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, what you have too much of, but all you need to have is is faith in God and undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful and whatever you put your mind to.

Make sure you live in the moment and work your butt off every single day and I hope I inspire people all around the world to just be themselves, be humble and be grateful for all the blessings in your life and I’m truly honored to be your MVP this year.

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What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to forgo? Because a lot of people, like this guy came to me one time, I was a trainer. He goes, man, I can stop doing anything but my Frappuccinos. I go, leave. Because I’m looking for that person like me. People, it’s hard for people to understand how I lost 106 pounds in less than three months. I sat down at a table and I said to myself, what are you willing to give up? Everything. And when people come to me with that kind of mindset, I can work with you.

When you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything, that’s who I want to work with. Because now I can mold you into exactly who you want to be. When you put these restrictions up, that’s why my first question is, how bad do you want this?

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I want to be bulletproof. I want to be bulletproof in these ways. I want to be bulletproof in my marriage. I want to be bulletproof in my business, et cetera. And I think about that man, whoever I want him to be. Like we said, hell is when you look at who you could have been and realize that you’re not that person. And then I think, if I were to make that man, what would I put that man through to make him who he is? Like it wouldn’t be easy times. It wouldn’t be quick wins. It wouldn’t even be easy wins. It would be the toil and the struggle of achieving and reaching for things

that are right out of grasp, that are right above my threshold. And continuing to do that to like lift the weight, to build the muscle, to break it down and do it over and over again, because like that’s what creates the character traits that are the man that I want to be. And so when I’m going through those like really harder times I like to think of like looking in my mental mirror of like I’m making you, I’m not there yet, but I’m making you.

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What will you do?

Rebuild it. Just the way it was, brick for brick.

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Why are some people lazy? Because their life is boring. They don’t have a target. They don’t have something they’re going after, right? So laziness stems from boredom, right? If you look at bitter people, why are some people bitter? Why are they so bitter? Because they’re not creating anything. They’re not building something new. They get bitter and upset and agitated about everybody else that’s trying to create something, right? Element of bitterness is they’re not creating. They’re in a state where they’re no longer building anything. Well, how do you measure somebody that’s the hungriest?

You know what’s the number one way you measure somebody that’s hungry? Very simple. Their sense of urgency. That simple. Let me explain to you why. So people say, you have no idea how hungry I am. Really? Yeah. What’d you do about it today? Oh, not today, but tomorrow I’m going to. You ain’t hungry, man. You just think you’re hungry. You are not hungry. You may be hungry to go eat lunch. You may be hungry to go have dinner. Fine, I’ll give that to you. You ain’t hungry to compete in the marketplace. Because a person who’s hungry, this is how they work.

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God is very good, man, when he sees you take a leap of faith. He supplies you everything you need. Now, it’s gonna cost you something, but most people are not willing to pay what it costs to go after your dream, because you’re gonna have to hurt a little bit. And most people don’t like being uncomfortable. If you don’t wanna be uncomfortable, , please do not pursue success, because success is a very uncomfortable feeling. And I just learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable. If you can get that in your head,

this too shall pass. Every moment of everything you’ve ever gone through, God got you through it. You didn’t even realize it. He just got you through it. You can’t name one thing he didn’t pull you through. Well, I lost my mother. I’m still grieving over that. I lost my mama 21 years ago. I still grieve over it, but I’m here. I got through it.

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A challenge for entrepreneurs is to say, well, what’s the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them versus pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn’t actually have merit? That is a really difficult thing to tell. Can you tell the difference between those two things? You need to be very rigorous in your self-analysis. I think certainly extremely tenacious and then just work like hell. You just have to put in 80-100 hour weeks every week.

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If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100-hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that in one year you will achieve what they achieve. You will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.

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I hear so much talk. I don’t hear a lot of work. I hear a lot of people telling you what you should be doing, how you should be doing it, how you should be fucking living. And I look at them and you’re fat, you’re out of shape, you look like shit, but you’re telling a motherfucker how to live. No, man. I won’t listen to you. There’s so many people speaking this shit, and that’s what bothered me a lot in the military. There’s a lot of people talking shit. I don’t see the real suffering behind it, behind what you’re saying.

That’s why I said, man, you talk with so much passion, because it’s a real fucking place. It sucks to get up in the morning, and it was raining like cats and dogs. I don’t want to get my shoes on and go run, but guess what? I got my shit on and ran.

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And when you don’t have another smile, you just keep standing in that doorway and you keep taking the blows and you keep fighting back until that one ends. And then sit down with some dignity, sit down with some self-respect, rest, recover and face the next one with the quiet dignity and the earned pride that only the warrior who keeps fighting has any right to. And know, you’re not the only one, alright? All of us are going through it. All of us fight the fight. Okay? Alright?

Just want to encourage you tonight. It’s, this is just life. It’s just life. And so we keep living life with perseverance and dignity.

And eventually you’ll win. If for no other reason because you outlasted the adversary on the other side.

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It’s. it’s not gonna be a perfect plan, but take action, action that moves you in a positive direction,

And if it ends up being the wrong direction, that’s fine. At least you’ve learned where not to go.

now Where this gets tough is? if it is something that seems like it’s completely out of your control, and And you know what. some things are completely out of your control, and that’s fine.

And when that happens you ask yourself, what can I control? What can I control that will make this situation a little bit better, and

Then you go.

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You’re not running the day, the day’s running you. the differential between those people is belief. one person with belief overrides a hundred people with just intent. Intent is thought process, thinking we’re gaming it, never putting a foot forward, never put in there their face or their name to the fire. Belief is going after and figure it out along the way. This workout is gonna bring that belief back in your life. It’s a back workout and At this workout, not only we have a stronger back, you have belief and confidence put into action. life No longer is your life filled with stop signs,

yield signs and halts in this and and fucking unauthorized mother, fucking fines. life begins now and If it doesn’t begin now, your life is fucking over.

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Fear is a mile wide and an inch deep. And so it looks like this ocean that you’re going to step into and drown. But as soon as you step into it, you realize it was not that deep at all. And you can keep walking through it. And I just love that visual because a lot of times when it’s like we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to make, if you actually take the step and realize that it’s not death, you’re not going to drown immediately. There’s plenty of other steps you can take from there, even if you get a little wet.

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oh my gosh, this makes so much sense, Pat. You know what? That one guy in my life, he freaks like this. All the time. And he is so flippin’ urgent about things. Exactly.

That’s how you determine who’s the hungriest.

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Sometimes you don’t want to go to the gym. Of course. No Sometimes I don’t go to do like but I go because I have a compromise With myself, but I’m not though happy every day. You think I’m wake up off the bed every day Happy or with my wife or with my kids sometimes I’m not but it’s part of the overtime We are both the same. We feel this every time to mention again. The most important thing is to have a routine Consistency not obsession Good don’t be like Cristiano because Cristiano is is crazy. Okay, but 20% 25% it’s too much. Yeah be more consistent. Yeah, it’s a little bit.

Come on, Make effort in your health. It’s, it’s, it’s make sense.

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You try to fit in and you try to do what other people want. You try to not stand out so people make fun of you. But then you get to a point where you’re like, fuck them. I don’t want to be a people pleaser. I tried to be a people pleaser in college, early part of my pro career. And then I realized I couldn’t be all things to all people all the time. And I had to learn some tough lessons through that and create some healthy boundaries. And then with those healthy boundaries, I said, okay, this is how I’m going to approach this part of my life. Not everyone gets to come inside the ropes with me.

I got to build some ropes for myself and make sure that I have enough time for myself that I could be centered in certain ways. Even though sometimes I feel like I get outside of those boundaries myself and I have to recalibrate too. I try to be all things to all people and I go, okay, God, that didn’t work. I’m exhausted. How do I find some peace and quiet in my own home to get to a better place where I can approach the world with less volatility?

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Something was missing. Something was missing in my life big time. I knew it. I started running and I was, you know, I had to learn how to run. I had to follow people taught me how to run. And I could run 5K, ran a marathon once. You know, I’ll never do it again. Okay. I wasn’t built for that. I really wasn’t. I could get better and better and better at it, but I wasn’t a runner. I wasn’t that kind of a muscle fiber type, but I could do it. I could finish the races. I can get better and better and better at running.

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I still would have failed. I still would have felt like an imposter.

I still would have been ridiculed.

All those things still would have happened,

but I would have had someone else with their foot on my head.

So if somebody says to me, man,

doing your own thing, going for that next level is scary.

Yes, it’s even scarier to think that I have to live by someone else’s rules for the rest of my life.

Think about what’s scarier,

trying and failing,

or living by someone else’s rules for the rest of your life.

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Just relax and enjoy it. You know my father used to say, Whatever you do, do it 100%. When you work, work. When you laugh, laugh. When you eat, eat like it’s your last meal.

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Y’all stay encouraged and understand, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re doing the best you can But stop playing with your life and stop thinking and believing that because you was born in this That you are this stop convincing yourself that I made for my mama from here my daddy from here I was a I was a broke heir turn coin heir Toy dollar nair turn millionaire. I got one more spot to go: You under dig me? I Seen death.

I had every reason in the world to not be here. Love who you love, Support who you support. I may not be your favorite.

I’m God’s favorite. Oh, And I’m not going nowhere. You.

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I had every reason in the world to not be here. Love who you love, Support who you support. I may not be your favorite.

I’m God’s favorite. Oh, And I’m not going nowhere. You.

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You know, very often people tell me, Pap, you have no idea how hungry I am. I’m the hungriest I’ve ever been. Oh my gosh, I’m the hungriest person you’ll ever meet. Last week we have a conference call, Zoom. And just two days ago or yesterday, I had a meeting over here in Gaylord with 500 of our guys that flew in from all across the country. And I asked the question, I said, how do you measure hunger? And people said you know somebody who’s focused, Somebody who ‘s clear, . Somebody who’s this. Somebody who’s that. I said, you have no idea how much for me.

It’s so important to identify exactly what’s the number one thing to measure the hungriest person in the room. Number one thing to measure the hungriest in the room. Not number two thing. Not number three thing. For example, I was lazy as a kid growing up. My dad would say, why are you so lazy? Why are you so lazy? Why are you so lazy? So I studied the topic of laziness.

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If he could do it… This isn’t a movie. He believed in himself. And you can too. Oh man, you’re gonna put it on me like that?

You can do anything that you want. You can get singing lessons, get a better job, make more money. You could be even, like, rich. You could live in the White House someday. You could be president. Do what you want to do. It’s not up to other people. It’s true. It’s up to you.

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You should be a monster. He said you should be a monster. You should be ruthlessly ambitious and then Learn how to control it and it’s that old expression. It’s better to be a warrior in a garden, a gardener in a war.

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I look in the fucking audience and these people sign up, sign up, sign up fucking every year to go to convention, thinking they’re gonna learn something fucking different. No, you’re lazy, you know exactly what to do, exactly what to do. Because even me in my state of, I can’t read and write, I knew exactly what to do. It just sucks doing it. It sucks to do it. It sucks to wake up every morning of your life and say, God, man, I’m not smart. So guess what I gotta do? I gotta study the same shit that I got one of the highest scores in the nation on and do it again, do it again, do it again.

It’s not just there. It’s not just there permanently for me. So yeah, it’s all stick. It’s all stick.

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the concept of what we’re describing, you’ve all gotta start to understand or you’re not gonna be as great as you could be. You’re not gonna be the goat at what you do. There’s a moment when every boy realizes no one’s coming to save him. And that’s when he becomes a man. And some boys never get there and stay children forever. That guy was you that said that. And it’s important when we step out of this. Like this stuff matters because no one’s effing coming to save you. No one’s going to make you better at your business.

No one is going to get you to be a better persuader of people or framer of people other than you. And I just feel like that’s one of the more profound philosophical comments. There’s a lot of grown men and women that are still boys and girls because they think someone else is coming to change their life.

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Like the amount of times when I was on my lonely path where I was too different from the friends that I had, but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with. That’s when you want people to root for you. That’s when you want people to support you. Once you’ve already won, people are like, he’s amazing. He’s so good. But like, that’s the time when you need it the least. And so.

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Everybody’s story does either harm or good to them. You have to go back in there in that muck, face that muck, fix that. Because what happens is when I was in Navy SEAL training, one of my jobs was to train guys to get through Navy SEAL training. And I started realizing that I was training these guys, they were getting bigger, stronger, faster, all this other stuff, but they would still quit. All I was doing was building bigger, stronger, faster quitters. And I started dialing, I was like, what the hell am I doing wrong, man? I was changing all the external crap.

I wasn’t going into the internal and changing what really matters. So that’s what the first step is, and I talk about it a lot in my book about how, like the steps about doing that, man. But the first step you have to do is face yourself and be accountable for what you’re not. So then you can be what you want to be.

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But if I don’t like me, if I don’t like me, if I’m not comfortable being with me, well, that’s a different story. All right. So it doesn’t provide all the answers. Probably doesn’t provide any answers. I don’t know, but maybe there’s a little bit of encouragement there. Maybe somebody there’s a little seed, a little step, a little something that you can say, Hey, you know what? I think that helped me. And listen, just be strong. Stay strong. Ladies. I’m not bashing women, but I am bashing this, this, this godless,

hateful movement that is destroying this country and destroying the men in this country.

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You can’t be strong if you’re weak. Yeah, if you’re weak, you’re fucked. And there’s a lot of weak people in this country right now that are trying to take control And they’re gathering up all the other weak people and they say, yeah, let’s all be weak together. Yeah, and they’re willing to embrace all sorts of ideas that have been disproven- Not just disproven- that have caused the deaths of untold millions of people and maoist china and stalinist russia,

and It’s crazy and they’re short-sighted and they’re short-sighted because in the short term They want their tribe to win and there’s so many weak people that will join along with them. There’s so many just simple-minded Dullards that just want to promote their tribe.

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I know we started out slow. I know we got pads on the first day coming back. I know we looking at Coach Craze, but we got to believe in him. You know what I mean? He going to put us in the right position. We just got to come out here and be dogs. We got to come out here and know we got to be champions. If today, y’all think this is it, this ain’t it. We got to keep going.

Do not give up.

Do not feel like you tired. Were you tired? Think of last year and think of that f***ing record.

Every time I get tired or I think I can’t go no more, I’m thinking of that f***ing record. That ain’t us. We can make it. We got to believe. We got to be mentally strong. When we tired, that’s when we got to put our fundamentals together. That’s when we got to be more focused. When we tired, look across the field and see how tired they are. That’s going to give you more effort. Be like, I’m going to beat his ass. I’m going to get fundamentally strong.

Everybody’s great when they’re not tired.

The champions is when they tired, that’s when the real champions come out. That’s when a real dog come out. Because if you go f*** like a puppy, stay on the porch.

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When you come back in and you raise your hand and you don’t even need to raise your hand because dudes already read it. Your baggage already showed up at the hotel before you got there. People know about you. There’s nothing sexy about what I’m dealing with. And that’s what makes me useful. It’s also why I go to strictly men’s meetings. Because you don’t hear about dudes talk about what we’re talking about at a mixed meeting. Because very quickly, once women are involved, I probably wouldn’t be able to talk like this with you if there was a woman here.

Because right away the little boy in me would start curating again. You know what I mean? And when I’m here with you, I can forget about that also and all this. It takes a certain kind of dude to be able to open a person up like this and be receptive of it. And also show up and look the dragon in the eye knowing that there’s purpose. Like I’m purpose driven here.

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Most of the people who really ain’t got it, they go out of their way to try and show people that they have it. The more you go out of your way to show me that you have it, you’re confirming to me that you really don’t got it. Because it’s perception versus reality. It’s perception versus reality. Because you pulling up to the club in the nicest car don’t mean you actually got gas money. While everybody else is caught up in, oh shit, look what he pulling up in. I know the truth, homie.

I see the look on your face when you order all them bottles in the corner with like 15 to 20 bad ones around you. As soon as that lady walk up to you with the little flashlight, you up in the corner looking miserable as a motherfucker. Because you ain’t got it.

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But Goggins gave me a really good reminder, just, John, you should want this fight to be miserable. You should want this to hurt. Be the guy who thrives in that. And I felt like I was that guy tonight. I had to earn this position. I think about the first person to climb Everest. I’m sure people died. Lots of people died. I respectfully say that. The first man who ran a four-minute mile, I’m sure he was hurting bad. To be the first person to do anything, you should look like this.

So that makes the victory even sweeter.

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I had to stop thinking normal. I had to stop thinking normal. I can no longer be a common man walking around doing common things. But no one taught me this stuff. It wasn’t like I paid a trainer to come train me. Jenny Craig didn’t come down and miracle my ass. None of this happened. It was on me. And that’s what you have to realize. Everything you do, you may have some support, you may not, but it’s on you. You have to make the decision whether you wanna be a badass or whether you just wanna be mediocre and everything’s okay. But being a badass hurts real bad.

And that’s why I didn’t wanna do it.

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This ain’t you, bro. This ain’t you. You weren’t born like this. This ain’t you. The real you, bro. Study all you want to, but the second that fucking computer comes on with 150 questions, this ain’t you, man. And somehow, it comes back, I passed. I passed again. Passed again. But that real me back here every fucking time is saying, that ain’t you, bro. That ain’t you. And I have to outwork that voice. When I’m taking that test and I get to a question I don’t fucking know the answer, I’m like, fuck, man. And then, say, I told you, man. That ain’t you. You’re 300 pounds, man.

You sit at home, you figure out how to do your hair. That’s what you do. How to come to school with the reverse baldness when you’re 16. That’s you.

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you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. It’s usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap that’s just you rooting for you. That visual, I think, is one that you can take because it is…

People struggle to do things alone.

The path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. Rather than fighting that or bemoaning it, see it as an indicator that you’re on the right path. Because if everyone else were cheering you on, then it means you’re not in the right place because it means you’re just like everyone else and that’s not where you want to be.

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It is human nature when a pendulum swings too far one way, when a pendulum swings too far one way, we react and swing that pendulum too far the other way. All right. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. All right.

Don’t do that. Do not, do not react to this

with the opposite all the way over here. Don’t be hateful and mean and derogatory to women.

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I get emotional about this, I’m about to cry, because I care about y’all. Last year wasn’t it. Last year, you got me angry. For this year, I’m trying to be better for y’all. When you say I’m tired, I’m going to keep going. Remember your why. Remember why you play football. Them kids over there got cancer. Do you think they give up? They over there fighting. They came out here to see us. They fight like every day. Look at everybody else. Look at your perspectives around you. Look at the people around you. They got problems too. Keep going.

Tomorrow, let’s go. Don’t give a f*** we got pads or not. I don’t give a f***. I want y’all to give everything you got. Everything.

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And the commanding officer says, we live in a world where mediocrity is often rewarded. These men detest mediocrity. And I sat there and I had time to reflect back on my life. Being bullied, coming from nothing, learning disability, messed up foundation. Life isn’t fair at all, at all. So what are you gonna do about it? I knew that no one was coming back to help me. No one’s gonna miracle me to be somebody special. Everybody that called me nigger, my dad, my mom, all my situations were on me now. It’s solely on me. So I had to start developing an indestructible mental toolbox.

So I sat there on that couch and I realized, man, I am a piece of shit. And even though the world helped me get here, my false reality helped me even more.

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It’s time to stay focused. It’s time to decide, fuck clubs, fuck partying, fuck trying to fit in and socialize, rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird. Why are you so anti-social? Because I’m trying to get it. Why are you staying on the basketball court so much? Because I’m trying to get it. Why are you out there practicing in the hot sun when ain’t nobody else out there? Because I’m trying to get it. Why are you not clubbing like every time I text you and invite you to go do something fun and cool, you always studying? Because I’m trying to get it.

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I’m willing to eviscerate myself and emasculate myself and like, because I know that there’s this grander purpose than like me trying to- 100%. Yeah, so the reason I go to strictly men’s meetings is because you get, people do, dudes get vulnerable about the ugly shit, the shit that dudes don’t want to talk about. And the reason the show is important is because you kind of serve the same purpose that those things on a bigger scale, in a less specified sense, for a lot of dudes that don’t have a masculinity ceremony. There’s no puberty ceremony in culture.

When do you come in as an American man, when do you become a man? When you get a driver’s license? Like what do we do? You’re 16, we give you a driver’s license. Okay, well, like you get a job? Like when do you become a man? You become a man when you become responsible for other people.

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If you see there basically being no shortcuts toward getting the thing that you want, there are ways to be more and less efficient. And there are ways to do things with more and less of a positive disposition, which can actually make the journey feel an awful lot easier. But ultimately, if you assume that largely everyone needs to go through the same challenges that you’re going through, every single difficult thing that you do is kind of like a massive wall that you need to get over. And you go, wow, fuck, I’m so glad that I’ve got over that wall.

And think about how many people are going to be selected out. It’s like the Hunger Games.

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failing to understand entirely that there’s a massive infrastructure of unbelievably hard-working, solidly laboring, working-class men breaking themselves in half on a regular basis, making sure that everything that always breaks works. And so a little gratitude for that is in order. And it’s very useful to tell everyone, not just men, that they have an important role to play, a necessary role, and that if they act properly and honestly and forthrightly, that they can put their lives together and they can help their families and they can make their communities better.

And that that’s not toxic masculinity, that appalling phrase. It’s what keeps the world going round.

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Greetings from my closet.

Um I wanna introduce y’all to this very simple concept that if you want it, you gotta go get it. Some of y’all got this concept of what you want, what you wanna accomplish. You know, some of y’all are motivated by broke. I’m broke. I’m stuck. I’m **** up. I can’t do nothing. Some of y’all are motivated by just wanting to accomplish the things that you wanna accomplish. Other folks are motivated by materialistic things.

It’s a very simple concept.

If you want it, you gotta go get it.

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Be a dangerous man. Now being dangerous is not being a threat. There are two different things. All right? And it’s not about going out and lifting weights and getting a bunch of tattoos and wearing leather jackets and walking around with your chest and shoulders up, hulking around saying, I’m dangerous. Often the most dangerous man in the room is the quietest man in the room. When we were in Wyoming,

this last trip, I was talking to the neighbor behind me. The manager of all this grazing land, ranch land. And across the road, he and his wife had just a few head of sheep. Not very many, 10 or 12. And we were talking about, and he was talking about, this is here and this is over here. And he said, now I don’t recommend you go over and check out the sheep. He has one of those great Pyrenees dogs over there. He said, that dog doesn’t know you and he might eat you up. Protecting those sheep.

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I’m not saying it’s easy man. The results you get you’re gonna love them man. It’s gonna make all the sweat equity, all this pain right now all worthwhile. The thing about pain is like you feel it right now it’s temporary man, but later in life you don’t remember the pain. You just remember like the glory and the good times. I also went through West Point you know or Ranger School. Man, there was some really dark hours, dark days and dark years in my life man. But looking back on it, I mean I just remember the good people and the good times.

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Muhammad the best defense in the heavyweight, the best move in the heavyweight.

But shorty man did boxing he beat him one time. Everything is possible in your life when you believe.

When you believe everything is possible.

You have two hands.

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What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to forgo? Because a lot of people, like this guy came in one time, I was a trainer, and he goes, man, I can stop doing anything but my Frappuccinos. I go, f***ing leave. Because I’m looking for that person like me. People, it’s hard for people to understand how I lost 106 pounds in less than three months. I sat down at a table and I said to myself, what are you willing to give up? Everything. And when people come to me with that kind of mindset, I can work with you.

When you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything, that’s who I want to work with.

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So his ability to get things done is exceptional. He’s an exceptional person. And so his understanding of that fact, that you can’t just wait for things to get perfect. You gotta just go out and do stuff. I always tell people that about working out. Fuck your motivation. Fuck your motivation. You need discipline. Because motivation’s not there every day. I’m missing motivation most days. Some days, yeah, sometimes I got motivation. Sometimes I’m like, fuck yeah, today I felt good. I can’t wait to get to the gym. But a lot of days, like, gotta get to the gym.

And then once I get going, then I feel great. And I feel great when it’s over. But it’s that beginning part that’s hard because your body wants to stay comfortable. Your body will trick you. Like, man, today you should take the day off, Theo. You don’t feel good. Theo, what did you get, like six hours sleep last night? That’s not enough.

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your humanity, that is your glory.

That is your glory.

Your failure and then your getting back up.

The man who never fail, the man who never fail has no glory.

The man who fail and got back up,

that’s where his glory is.

The man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times,

that man has even greater glory.

Wow.

That man has more courage, way more courage than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never fail.

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and almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year, but many years of doing work without reward where they have to do things that other people find boring and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting that most people want to do during that entire season of their life. They basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most. And that’s the rocky cut scene.

And instead of lasting five minutes, it just usually lasts five or 10 years.

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And so like, I’m very new to this being a man thing and I’m still not there and I’m on a path. But I didn’t have no like, I grew up in a culture that told me going to war made you a man, going to prison, coming back, makes you a man.

Making a million dollars makes you a man, you know? And it doesn’t. And you don’t know it till you’ve done all these things and realize, damn, I’m still a little fucking boy. Or been around people who’ve been there a bunch of times. You know, I don’t know nothing about being at war like Kevin, but I know a bunch of soldiers that come back and are still fucking little boys. Can’t wait to get back out. I know so many dudes can’t wait to get back out. Guys that we know, you know, warriors. But even warriors don’t make you a man. Sure. Also my definition of warrior has changed. Me too.

You know, I didn’t really know what that meant. And really it’s about bringing others back.

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So I hated the water. Hated the water. And that was about being in that box. If I didn’t give up my fear of being, you know, of being in the water, I’d never be a SEAL. I wouldn’t be up here right now. I have no story to share. By me saying, OK, ma’am, I’m afraid of the water. And that’s kind of shackling my mind. It’s by facing those things. That’s how you open up different doors of your life because all these things that that we’re afraid of, they’re doors that can possibly lead you to a whole other world. But we keep them shut for fear, for insecurities.

And that’s the thing about tripling down on your weaknesses. So then those weaknesses end up becoming your strengths.

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You’re a man. You are a man. Stand up and be a man. Make the hard decisions. Make the sacrifices. Make the unpopular decisions and become comfortable in your own skin. And if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with, that is the one person in this universe that you have full power, full right, and full responsibility to change. Okay? I don’t have the right, I don’t have the desire to, and I do not have the right to try to change my wife’s personality and who she is. I don’t have the right to change anybody except myself. .

Now there’s people out there I don’t like, and if I don’t like them, I just walk away. I’m 55 years old. I’ve done without that person my whole dang life. I don’t need them now. And I don’t have the right or the desire to try to change them.

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But we have inside of us,

we have a courage and we have a determination and we can have a strength and a gentleness at the same time.

Uh, and that’s our glory.

Our glory comes from our faults.

Accomplishing what we accomplish in spite of our faults. And without the faults,

there is no glory because there’s no victory.

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You’re too old or you’re too young. Of course you’re too old or too young, lie. And there’s you’re too busy. Sure you are. That’s a lie. And you’re too tired or you’re too sore or you’re just plain not feeling it. Lies, lies, lies. And the list goes on and on and on.

And it doesn’t stop if you don’t make it stop. So recognize, recognize the excuses are not valid. They aren’t. They’re trumped up. They’re conjured up. They’re fabricated. They’re lies.

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The life that I live, I deserve this life because I worked my ass off to get it. Y’all out here running around creating these, this, this smoke on the brink of destruction, and it’s all self-inflicted. You did it to yourself. Trying to live up to the hype and create the smoke that you doing it. You ain’t doing it. You still got work to do. Stay on that basketball court. Stay on that football field. Fuck all the homies texting and calling and trying to make you feel bad about being so focused. It’s grind season, homie. It’s not about today. It’s about the future. You do the work now.

Do the work now. And all of the shit that you could ever want to do for your family, your kids, your loved ones, it’s all going to be on a whole nother stratosphere.

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Pain is temporary, pride is forever. That’s what they’re talking about. Because if you push through the pain to achieve the pride, you forget about the pain was ever even there. But if you can’t push through the pain and the pain stops you and breaks you down, then that pain is forever. Because you never got the pride to out-balance it. Go through this man, you start feeling the pain, it’s all good man, welcome it. Welcome it man, go right past pain, and it’s forever pride man. We all love that, don’t we?

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But that dog did not sit on the hillside up with his head up and his hair flowing in the wind, like some kind of lion telling the whole world I’m dangerous. He wasn’t down at the road down there barking at everything come by. He says, I’m dangerous.

He was just with the sheep and he was not a danger to the sheep. The lambs and the ewes and everything come around and go in around amongst him and everything, and they were perfectly a hundred percent safe. And when they were all down in there and in the, down in the middle of the day and kind of gathered up and resting, he’s not under a shade tree out there somewhere he’s resting too. He’s not telling everybody how dangerous he is. In fact, from a distance, if you look down there, he looked like the sheep about same size, big old white woolly. You couldn’t tell him from the sheep,

but you go down there and he thinks you’re trying to harm one of the sheep. Uh, it’s a different story. He’s dangerous.

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Anybody who’s ever worked for a functional organization knows perfectly well that the organization isn’t predicated on power. You have a boss whose whose fundamental motivation is power. First of all, the probability that he’s going to be successful is very low because everyone will be working against him behind the scenes. The people who are successful are good mentors, and they’re hard workers, and they’re productive, and they’re competent. And they do their job properly, and they do everything they can.

My observation has been that they do everything they can to find junior colleagues who have potential and possibility and work diligently to further their careers and find that a major, if not the major, source of satisfaction in their life.

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How bad do you want this? If it’s as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep, whatever the hell it may be, I can work with you. But a lot of people, most people don’t want it that badly. Which is why they always ask the question, man, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don’t want to do it. So I can’t make you do it, nor do I have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it. There’s no luck in this game. It may be a little bit of luck,

but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn’t happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might f***ing happen. And that’s what people don’t know. But to get there, luck ain’t gonna happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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all the what ifs and the scenarios that you create inside your own mind that are way worse than anything that is actually going to happen, they all disappear when you go. So just, just take action and start moving forward. If we were driving to a target and you’re, you know, so you’re going to go hit a target somewhere and driving to the target, the closer you get, you’re thinking about all the things that go wrong, all the bad things that are going to happen, all this stuff. When one of my guys gets wounded, what if they have IDs in the yard?

Like there’s a bunch of things going through your mind. Once you like, stop, get out of the vehicle, all those things go away. Yep. And you’re doing the thing and you’re not worried about it anymore. And so. Let’s just go. That’s that’s the, that’s the answer.

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Hard men create soft times. Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times. We’re in the time of toxic masculinity, right? Where you can be toxically male. And then if you’re suppressing masculinity, you’re going to bring on hard times. Masculinity doesn’t mean you’re mean. It doesn’t mean you’re angry. It means strength. It means discipline. It means the ability, like you need a military. And if you don’t think you need a military,

you need to go and pay attention to the rest of the world because there’s militaries all over the world that are doing horrific things. If you don’t have a military in this country that can combat that and at least act as a deterrent to them doing things, you’re going to get taken over.

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You were scared you’re gonna fail. you’re scared. if you started, you never finish it. You didn’t want to tell anyone about. you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it. until something can hit, You get fired or somebody else gets success, remind you what you could have been, and then the spark is born And, no matter what happens, I’m never gonna be in this boat again. And you get up and you go, even against knock down. you keep going, keep going. you a wild man, and life has never been So sweet.

that can happen in early age, it can happen at a later age, It’s gonna happen to somebody. everything, no, no matter what’s gonna happen to you. And when it does happen to you think you’re lucky stars that finally you’re alive. It’s time to unwrap the potential you can be.

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The reason that people get confused about your motivation and your workload is that they don’t realize that the thing you do for work is the thing that you do for fun. That’s the fundamental misunderstanding that people have. And because of that, you’re prepared to work hard. And working hard doesn’t feel like wasted time. Lots of people associate working hard with not making progress. Therefore, working feels like wasting.

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Be that quiet man in the corner. All right? You got something to say that’s good, beneficial, helpful, or properly corrective at the proper mind, proper time, then say it. Otherwise, be wise. All right? Talking all the time about everything to everybody. That’s not an indication of the wise. All right? So now these are just some things just to think about and to help. And it’s a journey. It’s a journey. All right? You start where you are today and you say, I wish I was that man right there, but I’m not. And I don’t mean that particular person. I mean, that kind of man.

I wish that is the kind of man that I was. Well, it might be a long journey to get to that man, but start. Work at it all the time. Make sacrifices.

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So my whole thing was, I’m kind of far out in my thinking. I’m a real deep thinker, because I use my mind to get over so many obstacles. And as I was writing my book, I started writing it a long time ago. And my whole thing is, let’s say you’re in the hospital bed, and you’re getting ready to die, and somebody walks in the room. And you don’t know them. They don’t know you. And you have one copy of your book. And it’s sitting right there on the table. And you’re taking your last breath, and you’re talking to this person. And you say to them, I want you to read this book.

As you’re dying, think about this. That book that you just wrote, that woman, man, whatever, reading that book, would it change their life forever? And if it’s not changing their life forever, you have to rewrite your book. And you have to rewrite your book.

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reality Probably stares them in stark contrast to what they want, So they’re like it’s. I use the blame finger a lot, which is that power, power follows blame. And so if you blame the government, who you think is supposed to save you, or you blame Politicians, who you think is supposed to save you, or blame your company that you work for, who you think is supposed to save you, Or you blame the market- doesn’t really matter- or your parents.

the whoever you blame is the person you ultimately give power to and I find that really interesting because when I was That my moment of figuring this out was when I was 19 and I was really resentful of my parents specifically This instance was my mother and I blamed her for the way I was acting I was like, well, she parented me differently. I wouldn’t be this egotistical and arrogant and whatever, and I realized that I actually was giving the person that at the time, I disliked the most in the world- Hmm, all the power over my behavior.

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When you broke and you f***ed up the way I was, as soon as you start making money, everybody makes you feel bad about being so blessed. So then you’re trying to pay everybody’s bills and save everybody, trying to pull everybody up because in your mind, damn, I got more than everybody else. So you’re trying to save everybody, pay everybody’s bills because you actually feel guilty. Don’t feel guilty when you worked your ass off to have the things that you have. But at the same time,

don’t feel like because you’re on and you’re making money that you can just kick your feet up and f***ing party and wild out all day. It’s time to get back in there and stay focused, man. I need you to graduate. You got in college. I need you to finish. I need you to graduate from high school. I need that. I need it badly.

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I am referring obliquely to a former kickboxer who now resides in Europe somewhere, who has been all the rage. There’s some things he says that he’s right and he’s spot on, but his pendulum has swung too far the other way.

And some impressionable young men have taken him that way. We’re not at war, fellas. Regardless of how this side wants to frame this picture, we are not at war with women. You be that warrior in that garden, all right? And you stand strong. You be a strong man. You be a good man. And you just let the world rage around you.

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How do you stop the lies you stop the lies with the truth?

The truth. the truth will set you free. the truth will stand and the truth will deliver you from Procrastination and laziness and the downward spiral that comes with a lack of discipline.

So don’t believe the lies, believe the truth, and the truth is: you have time, you have the skill, You have the knowledge and the support and the willpower and the discipline to get it done. Cast out the lies, burn them down

And listen to the truth. Then live the truth and go out and get it done.

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It’s that person when all hell breaks loose and everything falls apart that says, I still got to get it in. And how you get to that point in life, what I figured out, it’s so noisy right now. This world is so noisy. We all walk around with these phones, computers. The world is so fast. We’re not able to think. The most powerful weapon in the world, we walk around with it. It’s our mind. It’s our brain. You have to be able to go into a very dark place in your mind and figure who you are. Go back to what you want to do. What’s your purpose?

We can’t figure our purpose out or why we’re here or why we were born or whatever because it’s so loud in our mind. We don’t have any quiet time with ourselves to sit back and say, what do I really want? There’s so many different dialogues in our head that we can’t think. So my biggest thing is you have to be alone in a very dark place in your mind to think about what is important to you.

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But to the same degree, you have the opportunity that Chris nor I have, which is that you can be an inspiration to people who just, who went through the same thing and succeeded comma despite those circumstances, because I can promise that there is somebody who has had it worse and has done it better. And I think that that one single point of proof and like there’s a global point of proof that you can look for, for sure. But like you can be that very local point of proof in your community or sub community. I think as soon as we shed that, that’s like, I just,

I’m a big fan of a power follows the blame finger. So like wherever you point the blame fingers where the power follows. And so it’s like, if you point it, if you point it to the government, government has the power. If you point it at your, your spouse and say like, it’s their fault that I’m not in shape, it’s their fault. They never let me do anything. It’s like, well, you’re giving them all the power.

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We all live in this world where our brains are keeping us in this box. Outside that box on the other edge of suffering, which is all the others of that 40%, is a world that’s endless of opportunity. But we are afraid to go outside that box because in that box it’s comfortable. That’s where all of our nice stuff, you know, that’s where the nice four-lane highway’s at. I know where the restrooms are at. I know where the gas stations are at. Outside that box, man, God gives you a shovel and says, man, start digging. That’s not fun.

But when you dig, you dig your own path to all kind of stuff that’s unknown. And that’s why I started realizing, man, like on the other end of this is some beautiful stuff. So I got outside my box and realized, man, 300 pounds, now look at me, I’m 185 pounds and on the other side of the box was all this stuff. And I didn’t know it was over there until I climbed the wall and saw it.

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If you don’t have a destination, how do you know when you’ve arrived? And how do you know how to get there? If you don’t know where you’re going, sit down and figure out what kind of man do I want to be and then begin the journey. But just this country and the people around you need good men, good, effective men,

we have enough neutrals. We have enough people running around out there that, let’s be completely honest. Let’s, let’s be completely honest. If you were to leave this world tomorrow, would you leave a hole? If you were to leave this world tomorrow, would you leave a hole?

Become the man that leaves a big hole when you leave this world.

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Of course it’s gonna get hard,

of course there’s all kind of stuff outside of school that can fuck with your focus.

But you gotta stick that shit out, man.

Ladies, fellas, come on!

It’s another level to this shit, man.

It’s not lonely at the top if you help somebody else get there.

I should not care. I should not care.

I should just focus on my music and my movies and doing my thing and focus on Tyrese.

I should not care about you.

I should not.

But guess what? I do.

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There is no get out of jail free card. This is why I say stay hard. Because when you weren’t given the gifts, the only thing you can do in life is stay hard. And I know people cannot stand me. They can’t stand this talk. This is all you can do. There’s no magic pill or a magic potion. All you can do is outwork the man that God created or woman in you. And what that looks like is unfun. That’s why I said do not do a documentary on me. Because people will not see the truth. They will see what they want to see. I don’t want to live like that. Good. Good.

And you will live exactly the way you live now. Questioning who you are. Wondering what is possible. Wondering what you are capable of doing. That’s how that looks.

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dudes who’ve been where I’ve been or something similar, just know it gets better. It does, like, it don’t make no sense. It doesn’t make no sense. It’s irrational. It doesn’t make any sense on paper that I could have joy in abundance in my life, that I could feel any kind of joy in my life after being what I’ve been. It doesn’t make- The path isn’t clear. It’s not lit up. No, no. You gotta find it. Yeah, and also you gotta get the fuck out of the way. And that’s where the work really, really is. It’s like getting out the way and allowing this bigger thing to work in your life.

And there’s nothing you can do about it.

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It’s a selection effect. I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this, then it flips from being this thing that you’re like, oh, poor me, to oh, poor everyone else who’s going to have to fucking try. I think that is so much more motivating as a frame for the exact same circumstance.

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Don’t want to be the only one out here getting it. I don’t want to be the only one out here living this life and lifestyle. Come on, man. Come on. Somebody else join me Somebody else. I’m I’m giving you my hand and I’m saying take my hand and let’s fly Do the work though, man. You got to do the work. I’m on my way to the studio right now and I’m not leaving the studio till probably about 930 tomorrow morning. So when you see me living the life and lifestyle that I live, don’t question my shit, homie. I earn this.

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Do I have talent, Dad? Of course you have talent. You got all the talent in the world. Can I be a baseball player? You can be anything you want to be. Remember, the saddest thing in life is wasted talent. You could have all the talent in the world, but if you don’t do the right thing, then nothing happens. But when you do right, guess what? Good things happen. You hear me? You’re right.

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David Goggins, he wrote me last night and I can’t repeat what he said verbatim, but the basis of his message was be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don’t be afraid of being hurt. Don’t be afraid of sacrificing some blood. You know, the whole week I was thinking I want to finish this fight. I want to finish this fight before the championship rounds. I should be able to smash this guy.

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I don’t know man. Yeah, yeah, Lennox Lewis, Lennox, I’m coming for you. Mike, is it frustrating to train like you did and then have this 7 or 8 seconds? No, I didn’t train for this fight. I only trained probably 2 weeks or 3 weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend and I dedicated this fight. I wasn’t going to fight. I dedicated this fight to him. I was going to rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there’s ever been. There’s no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror. No, I’m Alexander. He’s no Alexander. I’m the best ever.

There’s never been anybody as ruthless. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s no one like me. I’m from Nairclaw. There’s no one that can match me. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah.

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You trying to convince me or anybody else that you want to get it when you party in all week as soon as you get any kind of money you buy in a bunch of shit that you really can’t afford. What you got the latest iPhone for?

What’s the difference in iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 other than the fact that it’s new? Can you technically afford that? See everything about what you’re doing in the movie moves that you making is getting in the way of the big picture. Everything you still clubbing you still partying you still popping bottles with models you doing the most already. And you ain’t even on you trying to convince everybody around you that you are but you not on you know, the truth and I know the truth you ain’t on.

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So you never wanted a regular type life?

The fuck is that? Barbecues and ball games?

Yeah. This regular type life,

that your life?

My life? No, my life…

No, my life’s a disaster zone.

I got a stepdaughter so fucked up,

because her real father’s this large type asshole.

I got a wife.

We’re passing each other on the down slope of a marriage, my third.

Because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block. That’s my life.

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I know I need to change something. What I do is I change it. That’s what I do. I change it,

and I’ve had people that listen to the podcast and they’ve reached out to me over the past few years and One of the main messages that they took and Put into action was actually putting things into action Whatever that was they they stopped eating sugar They stopped sleeping in they they started waking up early They they quit playing video games for 10 or 12 or 14 hours a day. They sold that Xbox thing.

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I know I need to change something. What I do is I change it. That’s what I do. I change it,

and I’ve had people that listen to the podcast and they’ve reached out to me over the past few years and One of the main messages that they took and Put into action was actually putting things into action Whatever that was they they stopped eating sugar They stopped sleeping in they they started waking up early They they quit playing video games for 10 or 12 or 14 hours a day. They sold that Xbox thing.

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Like why can he live his life normal and look like that? And I live my life normal. I look like this, but then I watch what he does. Then I’ve watched what he eats. I watch how he moves and those things, because he was willing to put in enough time being uncomfortable are now comfortable for him. So it’s not a struggle. And so he gets to walk around looking like GI Joe because he put the time in to be comfortable with some habits that I didn’t have. you see what I’m saying, and people don’t look at it like that, they get bitter about it.

They look at people who are winning and they say, fuck that guy. Well, bro, if you would just remove your emotions and your self pity for a minute and actually look at the motherfucker winning, you would find out how to win too, and it’s real simple. Change a couple little things, bro. You could change your whole life by changing what you put in your brain and what you put in your mouth. You could change your whole life.

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When I was in Ranger school, my squad got spot checked. The Ranger instructor was looking for three items. One of my guys didn’t have the items, so the whole squad got smoked. The R.I. was sitting there smoking us, and the more he smoked us, the more my squad looked around looking for someone to motivate him. The Ranger instructor shouted out, I’m gonna bury you mother f*****s. So I saw that my squad needed some extra motivation. So I said, ain’t no grave that can hold us down, mother f*****. Ain’t no grave that can hold us down.

Right now in life, your family’s looking for that one guy right now. They’re looking for that one guy who’s strong, who’s that pillar for the family in hard times. Make sure they look around, they look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard.

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When I was in Ranger school, my squad got spot checked. The Ranger instructor was looking for three items. One of my guys didn’t have the items, so the whole squad got smoked. The R.I. was sitting there smoking us, and the more he smoked us, the more my squad looked around looking for someone to motivate him. The Ranger instructor shouted out, I’m gonna bury you mother f*****s. So I saw that my squad needed some extra motivation. So I said, ain’t no grave that can hold us down, mother f*****. Ain’t no grave that can hold us down.

Right now in life, your family’s looking for that one guy right now. They’re looking for that one guy who’s strong, who’s that pillar for the family in hard times. Make sure they look around, they look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard.

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If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today? Forget everything else. Forget everything else. Forget that there was any sunlight left. What would you spend today thinking about?

Yourself or the man that’s beside you? Or the man that you know you’ll give everything in your heart for? We get one opportunity in life, one chance in life to do whatever you’re gonna do. To lay your foundation and to make whatever mark you’re gonna make. Whatever legacy you’re gonna leave, leave your legacy. And it’s found through effort.

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If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today? Forget everything else. Forget everything else. Forget that there was any sunlight left. What would you spend today thinking about?

Yourself or the man that’s beside you? Or the man that you know you’ll give everything in your heart for? We get one opportunity in life, one chance in life to do whatever you’re gonna do. To lay your foundation and to make whatever mark you’re gonna make. Whatever legacy you’re gonna leave, leave your legacy. And it’s found through effort.

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Go from three to 350 to 400 to 450 to 500 because you don’t want it. And that’s the harsh reality. I can’t give you shit. You can’t give them shit. I can give you ideas. But in the day when I was losing the weight, I had to miserably wake up every morning in the cold because it was Indiana, November is when it started. I was miserable.

This is your new life. Take it or leave it. There’s no happiness about it. There’s no peace behind it. It sucks. It just fucking sucks. And that’s the one thing, if I could teach anybody anything, it just fucking sucks. And it’s gonna continue to suck. And then one day you get to a special part in your life that it might get a little bit better.

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What’s stopping people from achieving their highest purpose and potential in life? And I said, the story. The story that they just tell themselves. And that story really is written by mom and dad, right? When we’re born, you don’t have the pen, someone else has the pen. They decide that Bedros, well, he’s chunky, he’s clumsy, he’s slow at math, his favorite color is gonna be this, and we’re gonna dress him up in this. Like, people write your narrative because you’re a child, you’re helpless. And even through elementary school and high school, you realize that you kind of believe that story.

And so you create this upper limiting, this glass ceiling. You begin to create this upper limiting belief system about yourself.

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if there is someone right now feeling lost,

there is the chance in this lifetime to still bring out the very best version of that person.

yeah, there is the possibility, but,

like i also said,

kung fu is not mastered in one lifetime.

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It’s a campaign of hard work and dedication. It’s waking up early and going to bed late and grinding out every second in between, every single day.

So you want to get better? You want to self-improve? Stop looking for a shortcut and go find your alarm clock and find your discipline and find your guts and your passion and your drive and find your will.

And then, and then, you will find your freedom.

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It’s a campaign of hard work and dedication. It’s waking up early and going to bed late and grinding out every second in between, every single day.

And then, and then, you will find your freedom.

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I can only give the pain to others that I have received already. My bones can only be as hard as I have hit whatever was hard like that.

And so that means take it as a challenge. Everything that hurts you, find a way to overcome it.

Everything that you feel is difficult for you, find a way to still do it.

As long as you can do the things, stop listening to the mind.

It’s like also in the morning. At least for me it is similar like this.

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There was a guy that bit his nails for his whole life. He’s in his like 30s. Hey, well, whatever no big deals, right? You know, he bit his nails Oh, you know what? His nails are all chewed up and they’re bloody and they’re gross looking and he’s Self-conscious when he’s meeting people and shaking hands and he can’t keep his hands away from his mouth while he’s in meetings or in interacting with people. But he couldn’t stop and then he stopped. He just stopped, and the list goes on. There’s people that are quit drinking and quit doing drugs and quit losing their temper,

and I’ve heard From so many different people that have implemented change in their lives.

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You gotta have somebody, whether it’s yourself or a friend, or somebody that’s gonna say, look, did you do what you said you were gonna do by this time? And if you don’t, hold your feet to the fire. Because, I mean, just sitting around dreaming, someday, you know, someday I’m gonna get a different job. Someday I’m gonna change this. Well, someday ain’t a day of the week. You know, there’s Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Look on your calendar, someday’s not on there. So, you gotta say, okay, I’m gonna take this small step by here, this small step by there,

this small step by there, and then pretty soon, you know, we don’t leap tall buildings in a single bound. We take it a floor at a time.

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this small step by there, and then pretty soon, you know, we don’t leap tall buildings in a single bound. We take it a floor at a time.

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You don’t have the right to be sad. You never even had the guts to tell Margaret how you feel. Listen, if you leave things the way they are now, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life. Telling her might not change anything, but at least you’ll have closure.

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Ain’t no man in here okay with being just basic. So let’s do what we do tonight.

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Ain’t no man in here okay with being just basic. So let’s do what we do tonight.

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The weight you have to lose, my friend. Sorry. It’s gonna suck every f***ing day. Because then when you’re 300 pounds, you’re gonna go out to lose weight, you’ll probably get injured. So then you gotta work on the injury, and then you get even more depressed. This is what I went through. And then you’re hungry because now you’re depressed. It’s just a vicious cycle. And if you’re not strong mentally, and you have no willpower, you’re gonna continue falling back in this hole versus a man that sits back and goes, all right, motherf***er. This is why I cuss, because this is what is in me.

This is what it took for me to be me. Sorry. It didn’t take, hey, okay, we’re gonna do this today. No, this f***ing really sucks. This is real, dude. This is real.

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The first part of the game is income. Without income, you don’t have the cash to do the other things, to invest or to look for opportunities. So first thing is income. But even that’s changing in how we earn incomes these days. It used to be you go and work for a big firm, you get paid, you get the benefit. That’s all going and nobody wants to do it. So you kind of end up having to be an entrepreneur, work two or three different things. The point being, if you’re in your 20s, do all of that. Work day and night. Do as many things, learn as much as you can, fail as often as possible.

Your work-life balance actually comes out later. I’m a big believer in yes, if you’re straight out of university, go traveling for a year or two. You know, that A, gets rid of the pent-up need, but also gives you a much broader perspective on the world than any other single thing that you can do in your life. After that, you get your head down and you get your head down probably till your mid-30s.

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How many times do you have to hear, if nothing changes, nothing changes? Right? We all have heard this. I don’t even know where it comes from. I probably heard that first when I was 10 years old. If nothing changes, nothing changes. And yet somehow we expect things to change. We expect things to change. You think you’re gonna get in better shape. You think you’re gonna get more money. You think your relationship is gonna improve. You think you’re gonna get promoted. You think you’re gonna get a raise. You think the world is going to get better without you doing anything, but it isn’t.

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There is no blaming your life on anybody else. Contrary to what victim culture says, contrary to what’s popular on the internet, contrary to what everybody cries about and blames everything on, it’s just not true. You control most, not a little bit, most of the things that are going to make the difference in your life. You control what you eat. You control what you consume. You control what information you put in your brain. You control how much you move. You control who you associate with. You control what decisions you make.

And all of those things create a much more real reality than anything else that you could blame on anybody else. So when you wonder why it is, you are where you are. You have to take responsibility for that and say it was me so that you can now take responsibility for changing it.

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I’m telling you, man, don’t ever drop your head when it comes to a loss, though. Cuz there’s too much pain outside of this that people really going through. This right here makes us strong. Let’s understand who we are as a team. Let’s understand who we are as men. And let’s make somebody smile when we walk out of here.

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And every day I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back. So, this is what I would tell your boy. This is exactly what I tell him. Every day you wake up, you’re going to probably be set back for the first four weeks before you lose to significant weight because the mind is going to be f***** with you the whole time. There’s no dopamine. There’s no dopamine in there at 300 pounds, you got nothing. Your hormones are shot. You have to envision something that is more powerful than you.

Something has to get you out of bed and you have to create it. It has to be false because you’re not it. You’re a fat piece of s**t and that’s the reality of it. So you have to create a false reality to live in that just to get to work on yourself. That’s the reality.

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A friendly reminder that in three generations, everyone who knew us will be dead, including the people whose opinions stopped you from doing what you wanted all along. Imagine that someone you know achieves every dream and hits every goal they have. Years later, they get old and die. Two years after that, how much do you care? About as much as everyone else will if you accomplish your goals and dreams. Do it for you.

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So you told me to go in this direction. There. Today I’m asking you the same question, but you are telling me I should go in that direction. And I say, yes, true.

And three weeks after, Shifu, now you tell me three different things. This direction, that direction, and then once again you are telling me in this direction.

And then people say, now, what type of teaching method is that? It is for you to figure out yourself after you have wandered between the different extremes that are existing. First I push you in that direction. Then you walk. Then I tell you other direction. Then you walk there. Then maybe we change again. Then you walk back there. Until you realize it’s not here and it’s not here.

It’s all of that. That’s possible.

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Yep. I said it before and I’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.

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Yep. I said it before and I’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.

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You have to change some things or nothing will change.

So make changes and start little. Get up a little bit earlier, get a workout done. Doesn’t have to be epic. Doesn’t have to be epic. You don’t have to do a three hour leg day, but get up and get something done. And how about you plan your day? How about you plan what you’re gonna do in the day? How about you bring your lunch to work with you so you don’t have to eat a slice of pizza or a damn burger and fries? How about you change what time you get to work by showing up 10 minutes earlier? And you square your gear away, or you dial in your tools, or your desk, or your workspace.

That’s what you need to do.

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Do you know that some people’s problem with you is that others don’t have one? He got upset. I wish I could have been there, because if I was there and I had have been Jesus that day, I would have said, Judas, I didn’t ask for this oil.

I didn’t ask for her to think I was worth her entire year’s savings.

Obviously, she saw something in me that you missed. In the next season of your life, that the person who walked away from you know what they’re missing. You better do something with your life. Did you, look at me, you better do something so strong and so big with your life that they have to sit on the couch and say, that’s the one that got by, man.

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man, I want to do this thing. And then I hear all these other voices of reasons why I shouldn’t do it or why somebody else will say, that’s bad or you’re bad or that’s wrong, whatever. And so I think I’ve had to come up with a lot of these devices to get around my own insecurities to take action despite those insecurities. And the biggest one that I think about is that it doesn’t matter whether I achieve all of my goals or I don’t achieve all of the goals, in three generations, I’ll be forgotten. And the only people who were naysaying against me will also be dead.

And so then it’s like, just do it for me. And then when I wake up every day, there’s only one voice I have to listen to.

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I don’t say much to those people.

Maybe you’re a piece of shit. Maybe you want to be nobody. Maybe you’re happy exactly where you are in life, because obviously you are. Maybe you don’t have the determination to be somebody better than who you are. And if you want to live with that, I’ll support you in that. If you’re good with being who you are, that every day you wake up and every day you smell like shit because you can’t wash your body well, and your skin’s messed up because your health’s so bad, and you can’t put your clothes on right, you need help with that.

You need help like when I was doing my part, I need help wiping my ass. That makes you feel good? Nothing I can say to you.

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A lot of times I’ll be in a 200-mile run or something like that, and I’m all jacked up. Body’s broken, mind’s broken, spirit’s broken. I started to say, what if I can pull this off? When I first walked into the Navy SEAL recruiter’s office, he looked at me and said, there’s only been 35 African-Americans in 70 years make it through. You know what I said to myself? What if I can be the 36th? It’s the what if I can pull off a fucking miracle. What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? And just me talking about that, I have hair going up on my arms because it makes me just like,

what if I can be that guy that people who call nigger and this and that, and now I’m speaking at Tom Ferry’s fucking event.

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Today, I’m going to do something different because I’m going to change the pattern. I’m going to change the pattern. I’m going to make it work for me because this life is worth living. So I give myself permission to be great. And I think what happens is by giving yourself permission, other people see that and they get frustrated because they’re like, how did he figure it out? Because all I did was answer the call to my own greatness. Your ass is still wondering where the call is coming from. It’s already there. Just pick up the phone and say, I accept.

When we don’t accept that calling, it then goes to somebody else. Someone else, someone else got, hey, who’s going to pick up that phone? So I’m going to get that. Well, it’s for you, Phil. Not that, oh, shit, it’s for me. If I don’t pick it up in time, the way this works, it’s going to go to somebody else.

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This 30 seconds is your life passing you by, an opportunity to change. It’s your prerogative. Do you want to go down the path you have right now of your life and where it’s going? Or do you see an alternate path that’s not flatline, but climbing up an echelon of remembrance, a possibility where dreams exist, legacy exists, the possibility of change. It’s within the grasp of these hands, within the grasp of 30 seconds. It’s within you. You had the will. You’re here. I know you had the will. You had the intestinal fortitude. You had the want of change. I’m going to be with you.

I’m going to support that want. I’m going to make your dream into reality. Stay with me.

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And so what happens is people are in this small position where they’re more nimble, they can give more personalized attention to people, etc. And they see it as a pure disadvantage. And so you can flip the fact that you have nothing going for you with you have nothing to lose. And that means that you can take lots of risks very quickly and end up in the exact same position you are, which is nothing. And so if you eliminate downside, it should decrease your action threshold, meaning you should be able to do more things faster,

rather than do fewer things because you don’t have a great life or things going for you. And so I think if people flip that, a lot more people would take action because they actually realize the advantage of their position.

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Hell yeah, we lost the game, but so what? So what? I kept something inside of me so bad last night, a 17 year old child. You know about the child, coach. He passed 10 a.m. yesterday morning, a bone cancer. His mama called me balling. So sometimes you gotta ask yourself, how great is your pain? If he give you enough of an opportunity to come back and do it again. We got an opportunity to keep going, man. Let’s be strong as a team, man. Let’s be who we are.

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So you know, if you’ve ever gone to the mall, there’s this store called Build-A-Bear. And all these little kids are in that store trying to build the bear, the perfect bear that they want. Take it home, be happy. Yeah, I’m talking about build a f***ing bear right now. So we have the same tools to do that with their own personal lives. But what happens is the quitting mind comes in. We have to find our new norm. Our new norm is something like this. When I was going through SEAL training, it’s only supposed to be six months.

I was there for 18 f***ing months, kept on getting set back and set back and set back. You got to change your mindset to know my whole job now is at four o’clock in the morning. I get the s*** kicked out of me for 18 months. You got to create that new norm. That has to be your lifestyle. You are the master of your own mind. Create that masterpiece. Be proud of yourself at the very end of it all.

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The important thing to realize as well is the next year is going to go by whether you’re doing something about your life or not. I mean, we’re sitting here right now. The next 10 months are going to go by whether somebody is working to make change or whether they’re not. And they may think, you know, oh, my God, I’m so far overweight. I’ll never get it under control, or I’m so behind in my bills, or I’m so, you know, just depressed. Or everything is so out of control. Well, you know what? You make those incremental changes, and then, you know, pretty soon in December you go,

hey, I’m way better off than I was at the end of February. So you made little changes, and they all added up. And if you don’t, by the end of the year, you’re just in deeper. So every little bit matters.

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If I’m trying to convince myself, come there’s five more minutes, that’s a bad idea. Yeah, so that’s why I really got used to it rings and then it’s really like in a way I try to get out of bed as quick as possible. Then it’s done. But in the moment where I start to get comfortable again, it becomes just more difficult. Yes, because that mind always wants to trick you and test you and challenge you if there is not something that he can still like readjust you. No, but discipline in a way really means it rings wake up.

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You have to forego something. Yes. Ice baths, saunas, sleep, nutrition, all this is so fucking important, dude. I don’t have time for some of it to get to extract what I had to extract something had to give. Like you talk about you when you were younger, you would, you would give these speeches and stuff. The same age you were giving speeches. I was trying to figure out how to say the without stuttering. And I realized as I got older, that all these things are important, but for me to stop stuttering, I get built in confidence and speech therapy didn’t help that. Nothing helped that.

I have to forego a lot of shit to be as fucked up as I am to build confidence.

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Build momentum, build confidence and momentum with each good decision that you make from here on out. You can do it. Anyone can do it. We live in unique times. We live in one of the rarest times in human history where you can choose almost all the input that comes your way, whether it’s the movies that you watch, the books you read, the podcasts you listen to, you can choose to be inspired. Do that. Do that and be the hero of your own movie.

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But until you free yourself from the understanding that your current environment is somehow somebody else’s fault, you cannot be free. The only way for you to be free is to take responsibility and say, man, you know what? This is my fault. I did create this. And you want to talk about what real freedom is? That’s real freedom. Because now you can make any decision you want to produce the outcome that you’re seeking to have. So stop thinking this is someone else’s fault and stop talking about freedom and stop talking about someone else coming to save the day or somebody has to do something.

That somebody is and always has been and always will be you.

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whatever I wrote and their mom wrote in their book of life, they’ve got all these different pages left. But most of us are always reading through those pages that other people wrote, not realizing that at some point the pen was handed back to us and we have all these blank pages left and we can write how the story goes from this day forward. And that story is what’s limiting most people from achieving their higher purpose and potential.

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This workout right here is right here in your home.

You’re confident, secure.

You’re gonna build that confidence up.

So we can embark on the third-party subjective natures of the world and beat them down and rise superior above them.

It all starts with 30 seconds, believe it or not.

Everything starts with the first step.

You guys came here. You guys had that in you.

I’m gonna enhance it.

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But they’re normal people that knew they needed to make a change and they decided they were going to make a change and then they made it, and That is what I do, and That is what you can do too. If you have something to change, if you want to change something, Change it. change it now.

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And along the way, the stutter went away and I gained confidence. And now my life is a little bit more, there is no balance. There’s no balance. It’s a little bit more what it should be for a lot of people, but there’ll never be balance because confidence is something that you constantly, confidence and belief, you’re building every day. And so something’s got to give. And I’m willing to forgo a lot of things to have that, because I know that is,

if you want to give somebody kryptonite, take that shit away from them. So yeah, I don’t sleep sometimes and sometimes I don’t eat the right way. Sometimes I don’t do this and do that and whatever, man. But you put me in a room with 10,000 10,000 people any time of the day, and I walk in there thinking I’m with bass motherfucker in here, because I know what it took to be on this stage. And a lot of people will not do that. So that’s what it takes.

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empty the cup and start from the beginning.

It’s not easy to do but at the moment it’s the only way that I see how something that is blocked can be brought back to movement.

You must spill the old tea and pour in new one.

Then things look different.

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You make those little changes, those little habits that you have, you have to change them, those bad habits, and you’ll be surprised.

You’ll be surprised the little things, the little changes, they add up and they become big things.

Change the little things and over time you can change your life.

But if you don’t change, if you don’t change what you’re doing and how you do it, nothing else will change.

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The biggest mistake a person can do right now, no matter in which situation you are, is to give up.

At least prepare yourself slowly, step by step, to get out of that hole right now.

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worked on getting in the gym, improving, your whole life could change.

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Locked in on the game. That’s how you really got to be, bro. I liked seeing that visibly. You know, an athlete, I like that nigga. Not swaying him, bro. He’s locked in what he’s doing. That’s how you really got to be. You know, so when you see the comments and stuff online, people saying whatever, you know, people hating, people loving, it don’t matter, bro. Don’t let it, don’t consume it too much, bro. Stay locked in.

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What I love about this guys, so the mill is set. It’s like the journey of your life. Like you’re born, you lift the weight up. Feels light at first. As you keep going, it gets harder and harder and harder. So what happens is, your physical strength has left the dodeum. The only thing left to override the differential of continuing the journey or stopping the journey is the mental strength. And so to develop that, and mentally you have a number in your head you’re going for, even though your body’s physically hit failure, you keep pushing past mentally three more.

Then when you finish it, you’re like, God damn man, I’m so glad I believed in myself. I’m so glad I didn’t sell myself short because at the end of the day, if you don’t believe in yourself, and you ever expect to, you guys must be, be the now of what you want to be later. But start right now.

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Not everybody is gonna be particularly supportive of shit that you want to do, and you’ve got to Kind of be able to have the balls to do what you want to do regardless of that, Right don’t know, You don’t need everybody’s I can Authorization. you don’t need everybody’s approval to do some. you know, and odds are You’re kind of anybody that does anything cool gets I can crazy amount of backlash. you know. name one notable person in any field, in anything, in anything Where they’re literally a top dog. name one person who gets like zero random backlash, especially online, you know.

so That’s where you got to be a little bit more fucking tough.

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Number one is that you will have more energy than they do, period. And so your ability to work long hours, sleep less, and maintain high levels of focus while maintaining peak fluid intelligence is at its peak. Use it. The second thing is that you have nothing to lose. And so the thing is, is people always fear being the new, the new entrant, but when you have nothing to lose or you have nothing going for you, it also means you have nothing to lose. And that means that every position on the board always has an advantage,

because anybody who has achieved this big thing that you have was also once a 22 year old who had nothing going for them. And you’re at zero. Right. You can’t get worse than this. You have unlimited shots on goal. And so not taking the shot is like saying, life, I don’t want to scratch off this lottery ticket, but the lottery ticket’s free. Why would you not scratch it off and try it? And so the first advantage is you’ve got, you’ve got energy. Next advantage is you have nothing to lose. Third is you also have time and you have very low responsibilities.

And so you have not only the ability to uh, to put all of your yourself into something, you also have no circumstantial things that are preventing you.

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just, just take action and start moving forward. And it, that is the, that is the moment that can last a million years is waiting to go. And I found I’m pretty good at it now where, Oh, I’m like, Oh yeah, I know what that is. And I’m going and then that’s it. And once you go, you know driving it, even you know speaking of in being in combat, if we were driving to a target and you’re you know. so you’re going to go hit a target somewhere and driving to the target, the closer you get, you’re thinking about all the things that go wrong, all the bad things that are gonna happen, all this stuff.

When one of my guys gets wounded, what if they have IEDs in the yard? Like there’s a bunch of things going through your mind. Once you like stop, get out of the vehicle, all those things go away. Yep. And you’re doing the thing and you’re not worried about it anymore.

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If you’ve got a clear view, if you have a clear image of something that you want to achieve and you know that it’s going to be cool in, in what world do you need to listen to anybody else? Tell you like, nah, I don’t do that. That’s stupid. Now, why are you doing that, man? Right. And, uh, this is a little bit, a little bit dicey, a little bit divisive to say, but dude, a classic fucking example. So I can drink and dog, if you’ve got a crew of dudes every weekend on the regular Friday, Saturday, Sunday, they’re out, they’re out there slamming. I’m talking blackout drunk.

No, I’m not saying everybody does that. Of course. But for the guys that do, or, you know, for the friend group or right, for, I would say for like the clicks that go and do that.

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And hey, this might come across as some people are sitting there saying, wait a second, Jocko, weren’t you in the military for 20 years? You’re damn right I was.

And there was a definitely, I was a rebellious kid and when I was in the military, I was always, I questioned everything that we did and why we did it. So, and I think that’s one of the things that helped me get to a leadership position and become a decent leader, was the fact that I didn’t just take everyone’s word for it and say, oh yeah, that’s what we’re gonna do, okay. No, you know what? We’re actually gonna change the strategy. We’re gonna change the tactics. What I was taught isn’t working right now. We’re gonna do it differently. We did that all the time. But this is a broader scale.

This is a broader scale. This is life.

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And the longer you can stick with something without that positive feedback loop in terms of the big external thing, the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them.

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Good times, bad times, they pass equally at the same rate. I mean, time doesn’t stop. It slows down so you can celebrate a little longer. Time also doesn’t slow down so you feel a little more pain longer. They move unconditionally. You know, no prejudgment. Time continues to move. And a year from now, it’s going to happen like that. And who is your future self? One year from now, who is it? Just like everyone’s out of here, go party Saturday night. They’re not willing to sacrifice. I’m like the lone survivor in here. You know, tonight will be over with, too. Tomorrow I’ll be stronger for it.

Another day will go by. 365 of them happen so fucking fast. Who are you going to be in a year from now? And in a year from now, does that future person hold regret or pride? We know that day is coming. We know that day is coming.

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What is your wake-up call?

What is enslaving you?

What is controlling your thoughts?

Is it the television set? Feeding your mind images of what life should be?

Is it the internet drawing you in and controlling your time?

Is it drugs or alcohol numbing your brain and diminishing your desires?

Or is it weakness?

A lack of discipline that prevents you from accomplishing what you want to accomplish.

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The question is what can you do with what you’ve got? What can you do? And I’d much rather, I love to hear people overshooting. But don’t trap yourself in a box where you’re like, well, I’ll be happy if I can do this. And there’s whole, the other part of this is, it’s sort of like North Korea. There’s people that are trapped in a paradigm in their head of the world. They think that the world is this thing that they live in. They think that the world is this small place, the people that they know, and the atmosphere that they live inside. And it’s really, really small.

And I think to myself, man, you gots to get out.

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How many times do you want to really be around an environment while your buddies are telling that to you? Now, I’m not saying everybody’s like that, but for the most part You know, let’s say you’re a badass lifter or just even just like an athlete. You know if your actual physical performance is something you’re trying to maximize, be it for, like you know, Athleticism, lifting or even just general, and you know kind of a kind of health in a way. you know I’m no health in that, but I know that Taxing my internal organs with,

can you know, nights out is not gonna be cohesive with any fucking gains whatsoever. Really the actual fucking opposite. How often are you gonna be able to hear like, dude, come on, just have one.

You know, you know. so that’s my thoughts there. right, that’s where you gotta Potentially make an executive decision, Maybe, maybe pull yourself away from, from somebody like that, and it’s, it’s hard. you know that’s pretty hard for sure.

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you look around to see who can help you and then you’re like, fuck, it’s me again. And I think getting comfortable with the idea that each of these things, kind of like Slumdog Millionaire if you’ve seen that movie where he, I’ll give you the TLDR, he goes through his entire life of randomness and he gets on the who wants to be a millionaire version in India and has 12 questions to make a million dollars. And from only 12 random experiences in his life that seemed meaningless at the time, was he able to answer all of the questions and then ultimately win?

The skills that you develop along the way, like Steve Jobs learning calligraphy that then became Apple fonts that transformed how we type, those early days, that little trench winning in the weeds oftentimes gives you these huge advantages later on because you have more context than anyone else. And so rather than lament them and hate the fact that you’re going through it, remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver that you’re going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons. And so expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is.

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And if you’re not doing the now, don’t ever expect the later to be the person you want to look in the mirror.

Everyone’s like, oh, later in life I want to do this. Later in life I want to do that. Later in life is turning around and looking in the mirror right now. That’s the later in life. Unless that turnaround is something in progression, later in life ain’t going to be anything different.

Belief. When you turn around, you’re going to see something that will put a smile on your face. It’s going to make you turn around the next day for action.

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Then, in every situation, you act and talk as you feel that person would you make the kind of decisions you think that person would? This is the way to constantly grow into a better, more effective person. You immediately begin to act with more confidence, and confidence is the first step to accomplishment. As your accomplishments begin to grow, which they most certainly will, Real confidence slowly takes the place of the part you’ve been playing. Now. your life will not be transformed overnight. There’ll be no sudden miracles, perhaps, but steadily, day by day,

you’ll grow into the image you hold in your mind. if you doubt this, Try it for 30 days and watch what happens. You’ve got nothing to lose the the time is going to pass anyway Why not put it to work? Becoming the person you most want to become? it’s the trick of the experts in every field.

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I haven’t had to, uh, I’m not particularly prone to peer pressure too much, but you know, if all your friends are dogging you, it’s so easy to completely ease that tension by saying, I mean, you could go into it like, dude, I’m not drinking. I’m not drinking, bro. I got to lift in the morning. It’s going to be absolutely so easy to say, you know, and completely ease that tension and just go, yeah. All right. Give me one. Give me, uh, give me a couple. Give me a few more. Wake up in the morning.

Not ideal. You know, not ideal. So that’s my stance there. That’s my stance there.

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We surround ourselves around people that make us feel great. They tell us what we want to hear. The second we put ourselves amongst the uncommon people, we don’t like that feeling, that challenging feeling of that person who’s waking up at 3 30 in the morning and saying, hey, put your shit on. We’re going for a run. We don’t like that challenge. We like that person who says, hey, you know what, man? I don’t feel good today, man. And they say, oh, it’s OK, brother. We’ll take a day off. Maybe we’ll get a pizza and shit and watch the game. We like that. We love that feeling. Why?

Because you understand, man, we’re good, bro. We don’t want that motherfuckers like this. Hey, man, no, bro. Get your fucking shit on, man. Stop being a punk. We don’t want that in our lives. We don’t want that person who’s constantly challenging our weaknesses. We want that person who’s constantly making us feel nice and good and secure in ourselves. That’s the mediocrity of life.

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We can’t go backwards, we can only go forward. We know that day is coming. What we do right now, we’ll ensure it goes our way. We’ll ensure that there is no regret. That’s something you can’t ever fucking fix. It’s a debate inside your head that never stops. We’re going to learn from past regrets. We’re going to ensure we don’t re-regret them. We’re going to ensure we don’t go out tonight. We stay in here, even if no one else is here. And it’ll push you a little bit further. There’s still work to be done. The party I might smile at tonight, the laughter I might be had tonight,

is a huge distant second. To the fucking pride one feels of accomplishing their goals. In here, even though it’s painful, it’s joyful, because I can taste it, I see it clear, I’m closer to it. A year will come with great honor, not great regrets.

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and they’d say, well I’m afraid to make a change, and I’d say, that’s okay. That’s understandable. How afraid are you not, of not making a change? Let’s make a little vision of that. You’re 35, you hate your job, what’s the consequence? You’re not motivated, you don’t want to get out of bed in the morning, you’re starting to get depressed, you’re getting bitter, you’re getting resentful, you’re getting cynical, you’re amotivated at work, you’re not doing a very good job, and you’re starting to shrink. Now play that out for 10 years. You don’t change it, you don’t fix it, and what happens?

It’s not like it’s going to get better of its own accord. What’s going to happen to you? Well for sure, at minimum, what’s going to happen to you is, you’re going to be in the same situation, but 10 years older. And if you can’t get out of that situation now, what the hell makes you think you’re going to get out of it in 10 years?

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it won’t get harder. Like this is the hardest part. And so if you can just make it through this, everything else is downhill. It’s not that the things that the dragons are gonna slay aren’t gonna get bigger, they are. But you become so much more equipped to slay them back. And you have so many more allies. You have people in the stands cheering for you. You have the audience. You have all of these other things that are behind you. But in the beginning, it’s just you with a stick against a bear.

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So another year has come and gone and a lot of us are in the same fucking place we were last year. What the fuck are you waiting on? We sleep one third of our fucking lives and we think we can take fucking days off. We think we have the right to sit back and give ourselves fucking options on which way we’re going to go in life. Am I going to run today? Am I going to work out today while it’s Christmas? It’s New Year’s. It’s my birthday. Do you think time gives a fuck that it’s Christmas, that it’s New Year’s, that it’s your birthday? You give yourself too many fucking options.

Let me tell you one thing, time is running out. You keep on sitting around wondering what the fuck you want to do, you’re just going to run out of time. So make sure you do one thing, stop following the fucking crowd. They may take time off, but you can’t afford to. Stay hard.

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Now, I can give you recommendations on things to start. Start fucking documenting yourself in this process. Because if you do that, you’ll be able to literally have documented proof of you changing your life. Which later down the line will fucking help you tremendously and you will be able to do the exact same as what I’m doing right now and help somebody else tremendously. It literally just comes down to why are you doing this? How bad do you want it? What factors are driving you into making this change? As cringy as it sounds, bro, how bad do you want it?

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And if you stay comfortable in your world, you can get used to, you can get comfortable starving in North Korea. That’s what the scary thing is. That’s the point that I think I’m trying to make is don’t be comfortable because what you think is awesome right now, there could be so much more. If you can envision and pay attention to what’s going on in the rest of the world and break out of that paradigm that you’re in and see that you can fly.

You can fly around the world. You can do it. Yeah, just don’t get trapped and free your mind.

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The point is that there’s some games you don’t get to play unless you’re all in. And the other thing that’s so interesting about being alive is that you’re all in.

No matter what you do, you’re all in. This is gonna kill you. So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while you’re waiting. Because do you have anything better to do? Really? Why not pick the best thing possible that you could do? Why not do that? Maybe you could justify your wretched existence to yourself that way. I think you could. That’s what it looks like.

If you will change, everything will change for you. You don’t have to change what’s outside. All you’ve got to change is what’s inside.

To have more, you simply have to become more.

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And so all of a sudden you’re sitting there and you’re thinking, man, I thought my life was together. Now it’s in shambles at my feet. No, it’s not. No, it’s not. It’s not. It’s all right. It’s all right. You’re not supposed to have it together. All right. Those who go to college, get out of college, get a job and stay in that job until they retire, then retire and buy property down in Florida. That’s an anomaly. That’s not normal. It happens, but it’s an anomaly.

And most of those people, you know, they might be really good people,

but they ain’t got cool stories to tell. And you don’t get wisdom. You don’t get wisdom past a certain point by living that life.

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There’s a saying, when the devil ignores you, then you know you’re doing something wrong. Wait a minute, I’m not done now. You know, the devil goes, oh no, leave him alone. He’s my favorite. Right, right. Don’t you bother him. Yeah.

Conversely, when the devil comes at you, maybe it’s because you’re trying to do something right.

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I would say: ask her out,

no matter who she is, whether she’s a job or a new city or

or a actual person, you know whether, whether she’s

An opportunity or a Fear. You know, if you’re afraid of heights, ask her out. Hey Heights, What you doing tonight? Even though I recommend doing Heights during the daytime, when you can see what’s going on. But you know, like, whatever she is man, ask her out.

You know the saddest things in my life. I remember almost touching a girl’s body one time and she wanted me to so I wasn’t. you know, everybody was awake and but uh, but I didn’t try to.

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What is that thing that we wanted to accomplish? That thing you wanted to accomplish? That thing that has been gnawing at your gut? That thing that you think you have some passion about? That you want to take a crack at? That thing that’s been in your crosshairs? That thing I’m thinking about, I want to accomplish it, I think I’m going to be good at it, or who knows, I think I could make something of this particular thing. Ah, you know what? One day.

I’ll do it one day. Okay, that’s up to you.

Or, and I like this one better,

day one.

This is day one. This is day one of that thing I have had in my crosshairs, that thing that I believe gets me out of bed, that thing that I run towards, that thing that I want to be passionate about, that thing I want to accomplish, today is the first day. Today is day one.

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How you gonna feel man when you accomplish this goal coming from that shit? Coming from the fucking hell you came from a lot of people start from a good starting point. They have a good foundation What if you can surpass all these motherfuckers? With everybody who was fucking way up here Started up here and you had you started with no legs You had to grow fucking legs to even start walking and then crawling then running and then you start passing people at all That’s given to them. I Had to use all this negative shit that was making me weak and horrible as a person.

I had to use this as the power that now few of me had to flip it on his head and say: hold up, This might be exactly what I need. The darkness is exactly what I need is how you look at your situation.

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It can be pretty easy to focus on the battle that’s right in front of your face. And when you’re doing that, sometimes you can lose track of the long term goal. But I want to have that long term goal so embedded in my mind that I never lose sight of it. Ever. And those little tasks and projects and short term goals that you tackle, they need to lead toward that strategic victory. Winning the long war.

And we get very caught up in instant gratification. We want results now. We want the shortcut to the winner’s podium.

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I’m not mature, I’m not grown, I’m not the man I’m supposed to be. And I started working on it. And the man that I am today, the father that I would be today, if children were to come along today, that’s not the man I was before. And that’s not the father I could have been before. Okay? A blade, a blade does not become strong. It does not become tempered until it’s been through the fire. Until it’s been through the fire several times. And this is just your first or second time through the fire. And there’s a lot of hammer work that has to take place.

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be so much easier to lock in. If you’re a little bit more diligent and you’re a little bit more kind of controlled, of like just even the things that you’re thinking about on a day by day basis. this is a little bit more um, of an active approach, but part of it is also going to be, if I can maybe take in a little bit of a more objective look at even just who you’re hanging around, you know, I’ve never, um, I’ve never really had to do that very much. I kind of just keep the grind up, but if you’re in a, if you’re always hanging out with like five dudes and none of them are grinding,

none of them are locked in. What are the odds that you suddenly will be, you know, you’re kind of going to match the, uh, you’re kind of going to match the environment, the, that you’re around, you know, not to just dog and somebody for not, uh, you know, for not being jacked, but you know.

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So for me if I lost five pounds in a week, I Got a feeling I allowed myself to feel proud of that. I didn’t look I got lose a hundred and six pounds I’m like man. I went from 297 now 292 in one week man. I’m killing it. We don’t. we’re not proud of ourselves for the small accomplishments. What we need is we need this monstrosity of the thing to happen say I did it nah There’s a process that you have to go through and patience is the process and if we don’t have patience after a week I haven’t lost 30 pounds, but I’m done. I’m over it. So that’s why I found out with people: man,

They’re not patient enough to realize and to enjoy the moment not live in it. Just enjoy it There’s no finish line in life, but enjoy that moment Roger that man. I lost five. Let me go ten next week. So that’s the whole thing about it. That’s how people lose it. You.

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Today is that day where we are taking action. We are taking that first step. And the first step of action is in the mental declaration. The moment we say it, today is that day, and the universe meets us halfway, and we go. So join me now on that day one, whatever it is. It could be something to improve your health and fitness, your wellness, your balance, your training. It could be something if you wanted to accomplish in school, it could be something personal, it could be your relationships to make them better. It could be if you have entrepreneurial blood in your DNA like I do.

What is that idea, that venture, that business thing, and you’re ready to do it? Let’s go do it. Let’s go do it. It is day one.

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And sometimes, you know, when we don’t get that short-term glory that we want, we lose track of those long-term goals. And you look up in six weeks or in six months or in six years and you’ve made no progress. None.

You never moved.

You might even be further from your goal than you were.

Why?

Why did you let that happen?

It’s because you lost sight of that long-term goal.

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And then life is going to pull you out and it’s going to put you on anvil and it’s going to hammer on you some more. And you’re going to say, what am I done yet? Am I a sword for the ages? No, no, you’re not. You’re not done yet. All right. So just chill. Just chill. Continue to have fun. Now, by fun, I’m not recommending you go out, drink your brains out at the bar and do something stupid. But my goodness, go hunting, go fishing, get a mountain bike, go hiking, go to the gym. Go hang out around a barbecue fire with friends and just act silly and act goofy and be your age.

Be your age and and just embrace the process.

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I applaud you for watching this, encouraging you to incorporate this in your workout. You’ll see the gains like I did, and you’ll fall in love with it. Even though it’s tiring and exhausting, and you’re sweating your ass off, and your tires can be, small down payment that you’re willing to pay every day for the large investment of a greater life. You only got one life, guys. Again, if you work it right, you only need one. Barry Plitt, thanks for watching.

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It fucking ached so bad Going to this bullshit job every day, seeing my parents work their ass off cleaning after people like there’s so much More to why people end up as successful as they do than you currently understand. But I promise you, bro, You have so much fucking potential. if you literally just took it and put it in one place, You could literally change your life. In that process you’ll figure out where you want to go, what you want to do, because you probably have no idea what you Want to do right now.

if you do fucking great, The only thing you need to have Is the fact that you know, you can achieve better, you know, you have the potential Because let me tell you the man that thinks he can and the man that thinks he can’t Are both right. So as long as you can change your fucking mentality, bro, you can achieve anything You.

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So if you’re like me, and many of you are, we’re gonna take that first step. Today is day one. Let’s get after it. Let’s get some. 2022 is in the rear view. By the way, thank you. I say this with great humility and gratitude. 2022, thank you for the blessings. Thank you for the lessons. Thank you for the wins. Thank you for the losses. Thank you for the ass kickings. Thank you, 2022. You’re in the rear view. Now 2023 is ahead of us. It’s gonna be a big year for us. I wish you all nothing but success on your epic journey. This is day one.

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And at some point, after you lose sight of that goal and years have gone by, you think to yourself: Maybe I can’t, Maybe I can’t do it, and so you give up, You let it fade

and you Settle.

you settle for mediocrity, you settle for average, you settle for oh well,

But no, No, Don’t do that.

Embed that long-term goal in your mind, burn it into your soul, Think about it and write about it and talk about it and hang it up on your wall. but, most important, do something about it.

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People wonder how do you stay hungry all the time? Because after I accomplish something, I don’t sit back like a lot of guys who graduate buzz, graduate this, graduate that. They get comfortable. They wonder why I’m getting weak, man. I don’t know, I lost my edge. What’s going on? Because once you hit the top of the mountain, guess what happened? I’m good. I’m good, so you wonder why you’re falling down now. Because once you hit the top of the mountain, you got to build a fucking other one. That’s mediocrity.

There’s a lot of people in mediocrity who have a nice resume, but they’re one-timers, man. They hit a one-time deal, they busted it open, got a lot of money, but they’re good. You’re mediocre now, man. What are you fucking doing today, tomorrow, the next fucking day? I don’t know.

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The funny thing is when you learn to embrace them, they’re way more fleeting than you realize. To sit on something in your mind for a while, to stress about it and not wanna feel it, it lingers for a long period of time. But to just embrace it and to feel it, to cry, to express it to whatever, however it needs to express itself out of you, it happens a lot quicker than you think and you’re able to move through it. And then when you look back at it, you’re like, that was kind of beautiful. Like people love watching sad movies and crying sometimes and you’re sad in the movie,

like that was really sad. But you go back and you watch another sad movie. You know, we like feeling things. We enjoy emotion. It’s the human experience is highs and lows. There is no high without lows. And I think just being able to accept that, that there’s inevitably going to be shit times in your life and the more you can lean into them and feel them, the more you can lean into feeling to the high ones as well. And it’s just part of the journey.

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But now you know what giving it your all is. And you will not succeed in business or any endeavor in life until that fight you just went through is applied to the same endeavor. It’s too fucking hard of a world out there. And Billy, if you’re trying to lose weight for the girls on the beach like you just said, buddy you don’t have enough fight. You’re going to drown right there. It’s never going to be successful. Think of that guys. You guys are saying you’re doing everything right and you’re giving it your all.

Come on. Come on. Your all is a lot more than you know. You got more inside of you to give. Stop selling yourself so short.

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And don’t look for what you are supposed to be fully, completely polished, sharpened, edged, tempered at 26 or 36, at 46. You’ve got a lot more forge time left. You’ve got a lot more hammer blows left and it takes time. But if you will patiently embrace the process, then by the time you get up in years, you can be a man that you’re proud of. Okay? So, this is just an encouragement to just chill out. Just chill out. Embrace the process. You see, Duane won’t process life. Life. Embrace the journey and the process of life. You only get stronger hiking by going uphill.

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The less you can do anything that’s going to interfere with your gains, the better. And you got to be able to kind of be a little bit responsible with the people that you’re hanging around because it’s not a myth. You know, this isn’t just speculation. You’re going to kind of match the environment that you put yourself in. So if you kind of ease up on it, odds are, or if you kind of, you know, shrink it down, make it a little bit tighter. Odds are you’re going to have a better time, man. You know, sure. Right. The circle gets smaller, but the players get better.

As the circle gets smaller, the players get better.

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we should not criticize ourselves. We should not say the things that we could have done better. But I believe that that voice isn’t an insecurity. I think it’s a version that wants you to chase your potential. And so I think not judging the criticism, but accepting the criticism, I think those are the two separate things. And I think that’s what unlocks the potential while making it somewhat palatable along the way.

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Everyday. do something that moves you toward that goal, that keeps the goal alive and in sight and in focus.

however, however small or Insignificant that step might seem, take it, do it. do that little piece, Make it happen,

because that goal Isn’t going to achieve itself.

It’s all on you.

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you’re going to have some trades. Now, I take things to the logical extreme and say, okay, well, Bezos has kids, Bill Gates has kids, Warren Buffett has kids. This is just if you wanted to be, you know, business successful. It’s like, okay, well, then that can’t be a reason that I can’t be successful. And so, whatever reasons that we usually give ourselves in the beginning for why we can achieve something, you can almost always find not only just someone, but someone who’s achieved world class levels of success with worse conditions than you currently have,

which then means it’s absolutely possible. And then the only thing that it takes to get there is work. And so, um, I, I just want it to be very clear that if you are, you know, if you’re 22 years old, like the world does not hate you. You’re just not good at anything yet.

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What I’ve learned very deeply over the years is that confidence is just truth. You know, it’s just being honest. And there’s people who put on this false bravado of arrogance of being like, you know, they were fifth place at the Olympia last year. Don’t pick out whoever was fifth and pick on them. But someone not winning, like, I’m gonna show up and I’m gonna win this Olympia. I know it in my heart. It’s like, you don’t know that, you’re lying. That’s not confidence, that’s just a lie. Whereas when I’ve speak to myself truthfully and I’m like, I don’t really know if I can do this.

Like, I have doubt, I have fear, I just wanna X, Y, and Z. And I’m like, being honest to me, that exemplifies real true confidence. And you’re being realistic with yourself. You know, if you tell yourself you’re gonna do something you don’t think you really can do, you’re creating this gap between your beliefs and your reality and it just creates more stress in yourself and an inability to perform in my opinion.

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Now am I gonna say you’re gonna become a millionaire in the next three months bro? Probably not you’ll probably even lose money You’ll probably fail more in these three months than you have in your entire life because now you’re actually going and trying these things And in you doing that you’re gonna fucking fail You’re gonna fall and in that process of you falling and getting back up. That’s where you’re gonna learn, That’s where you’re gonna build the character and that’s what will eventually lead to you becoming the type of person in order to make everything succeed.

Okay, I’m not here to sell you a fucking dream. I’m here to tell you: if you just fucking locked in for the next three months, bro, You could change your life, and I know it because it changed my life.

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And don’t believe everything that you’re told, and don’t follow the path just because it’s there.

Don’t get in line just because other people are.

Get up and wake up and be conscious of what is creeping into your mind. What’s getting in there? What are you letting in there? What is forcing itself in there?

And what does it want you to do you have? Only one life,

So don’t waste it being controlled

by someone else.

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Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. don’t be afraid of being hurt, don’t be afraid of a sacrifice of some blood. you know, and You know, the whole week I was thinking I want to finish this fight, I’m gonna finish this fight before the championship rounds. And this is you know, that should be able to smash this guy. you know Gaga’s message. It was for a reason. you know his reason and Greg’s Jackson’s been saying it for years: be comfortable being uncomfortable.

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You ain’t gonna believe this, but you used to fit right here. I’d hold you up and say to your mother, this kid’s gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid’s gonna be somebody better than anybody ever knew. And you grew up good and wonderful. It was great just watching you. Every day was like a privilege. Then the time come for you to be your own man and take on the world, and you did. But somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you’re no good.

And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.

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But like, man, it’s just the air smells a little bit better right now. You know, when you say you’re going to do something and then you follow through and you do it, not at the end when you cross the marathon, you finish it or your hands raise. I’m talking about right now. The small steps in between the big successes everyone sees. No one sees this. Right now, I’m saying like, there’s a confidence to it, man. There’s a bad motherfucker that’s right here, you know, that’s getting ahead of the competition. There’s an overwhelming sense of fulfillment and pride and satisfaction with that.

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So I tell them, you give 200%. If it’s a good or bad training, can happen. But you do it for yourself and you give 200% because I have other things to do. And I push them so hard that they do their best and more than that, they cannot do. Then if they become professional or not, people think it’s easy. It’s not easy. Because everybody think, oh, I train, I go do individual skills, I don’t go do that, I get an agent, I get this coach and I’ll become a pro. Doesn’t work like that. It has to be about luck, hard work. Where you come, it’s meant that you should be where you are.

And it’s easy to say, I could have been a pro, I would be the best in the world. No, it’s not like that. It’s all this combined and then we see what happens. They have to be happy, healthy, but with discipline, they have to do the things.

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I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend and I dedicated this fight. I wasn’t going to fight. I dedicated this fight to him. I was going to rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there’s ever been. There’s no one can stop me. Links is a conqueror. No, I’m Alexander. He’s no Alexander. I’m the best ever. There’s never been anybody as ruthless. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s no one like me. I’m from the Airclaw. There’s no one that can match me. My style is impetuous.

My defense is impregnable and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah.

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say you ain’t where you want to be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that, and that ain’t you. You’re better than that.

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Keep going, don’t quit on, keep going. Keep driving it, keep driving, keep your knees off the ground. That’s it, you’re very best. Don’t quit on me, you’re very best. Keep driving, keep driving. There you go, there you go. That’s it, you keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground, keep driving it. Don’t quit until you got nothing left. Keep moving Brock, that’s it, that’s it, that’s it. Keep going, I want everything you got. Come on, keep going. It hurts. Don’t quit on me, you’re very best. Keep driving, keep driving. There you go, there you go. He’s heavy. I know he’s heavy.

I’m by our strength. Then you negotiate with your body to find more strength, but don’t you give up on me Brock. You keep going, you hear me? You keep going, you’re doing good. You keep going, do not quit on me. You keep going. It hurts. I know it hurts, you keep going. You keep going, it’s all heart from here. 30 more steps, you keep going Brock. Come on, keep going.

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only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you, and then you’ll forget they exist.” And that’s when he said, he said, success is the only revenge. He’s like, it’s not the best revenge. He’s like, it’s the only one. There’s no other revenge because everything else is petty. Everything else does show that you were thinking about these people all day long, which means they win by default. He’s like: all you can do is think about your goal and winning. He’s like, and when you win, that’s when you become so big that they shrink into irrelevance.

You cast a shadow that no one even can see them behind you.

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The reason why you’re a loser, and the reason why you’re not fucking making it, and the reason why you’re trying to go to all these, I go to all these fucking conventions, speak all the fucking time. I look in the fucking audience, and these people sign up, sign up, sign up, and every year go to convention, thinking they’re gonna learn something fucking different. No, you’re lazy, you know exactly what to do, exactly what to do, because even me, in my state of, I can’t read and write, I knew exactly what to do. It just sucks doing it. It sucks to do it.

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But sooner or later, it’s something that’s inside of you just has to want it. You have to need it. You got to go at it like it’s that next breath that you got to take, that nobody can stop you. And the closer you get to it, you’re going to have naysayers. You’re going to have doubters. You’re going to have people that’s close to you, even in the crib, which are laying beside of you that don’t believe in you. I know I stepped on somebody’s toes right then. But it’s OK. That’s what I came here to do. But it’s up to you to wipe the tears out your eyes and go get it.

Because my motto when I was seven years old is, I believe. I got to Jackson State, and I started saying, I believe. And they thought it was something new. I’ve been believing for a long time, and I’m not going to ever stop. Now it’s about time for you to look at that person next to you and say, I believe.

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It’s not that simple.

Why not?

No, that’s the biggest lie I was ever told.

It’s not that simple.

And it’s a lie they tell you over and over again.

What’s not simple?

Any of it. All of it.

It’s how they get you to give up.

They say it’s not that simple, Vinnie.

So what’s the truth?

That it is.

That if you just do the thing that they tell you, you can’t, then it’s done.

And you realize it is that simple.

That it always was.

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and kept going, because what else is the alternative? To be average again. That sucks, man. And it really sucks when you’ve tasted success at one point in your life. When you have sex with a woman, and it’s the best sex ever, you want to have sex with her again. When you eat a fucking great juicy steak, man, you want to have that again. When you go out and you train hard to play baseball, and you connect, and you hit the winning home run, you want to feel that way again. When you taste these finer things of life, all the pain, all the work, all the sacrifice to get them, is well worth it.

If anything, it’s a small down payment for the price and the reward you got, and that feeling. I once felt, how do you ever turn your back on it? Stop running from the potential of what you can be, guys. It’s inside of you. It’s always been there. Grab a buddy of yours. Say, man, me and you are gonna fucking do this together.

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The only care that you have is like, maybe, maybe. Because whenever I take these tests that are real hard,

in the back of my brain, it’s like,

the good chance you’re not going to make it, Goggins.

This ain’t you, bro. This ain’t you. You weren’t born like this. This ain’t you, the real you, bro.

Study all you want to, but the second that fucking computer comes on with 150 questions,

this ain’t you, man.

And somehow, it comes back, I passed.

I passed again, passed again.

But that real me back here every fucking time is saying,

that ain’t you, bro.

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Inside baby! Side to side, move your head! Watch him now, watch him. Remember he’s got two hands, right? Hmph! Hmph! Hmph! Hmph! Hmph!

Damn man, what the hell are you doing? This guy will knock you on your ass!

Come on, Rock, it’s not a game. You want to lay up in the hospital for five weeks this time? You thought I was tough? This jump will kill you! Alright. Come on, come on, get your head on your shoulders, man. Think about the fight, think about the fight! Cover Langs in here, he’s trying to hurt you, Rock! He’s trying to hurt you, okay, here he comes! Damn, Rock, come on! What’s the matter with you? Tomorrow. Let’s do it tomorrow. There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!

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if you begin to hate the thing that you do, you negatively change your trajectory. And that means that at the time when you can benefit the most by every single unit of work, which is the later that you go, presuming that you continue to hit that upper trajectory, if you’ve completely killed any passion or desire to do the work in the early stages, because you’ve not protected it appropriately, that can be by focusing on the wrong things, by not rewarding yourself, by not building it with people that care about you, by just not celebrating when you hit milestones,

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I thought everybody cares about me. Nobody cares about you. Nobody cares. Only a small percentage of population, nobody gives a damn. And even if they do, what? You make a mistake, you zig when you should have zagged, and you get clipped, so what? Everybody make mistake. You have to take fight like it is. You know, it’s a sporting event. That’s why I don’t take it personally. Like, when I have the problem with the Diaz, no problem, man. It’s a fight, it’s not personal for me. You’re in my life now, you won’t be there in 10 years, maybe. Maybe you will, who knows?

It’s only like a chunk of life that we share together, and then after it’s gone, no problem with that.

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That’s all that will ever find peace in. if you guys do not do that, I promise you your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. If there’s potential inside of you which you know it’s there But you’re too scared to tell anyone else about it, and you go on and on, get older and older, and older and older, And the windows are twins at the close and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it. I promise you it will haunt you. It’ll be more. it’s a living nightmare, dude.

That fact that you had the ability to do something and you’re too weak to fucking turn the key and start the engine on it is a greater disappointment and a greater burden to carry Than any this physical sweat equity or pain in the gym or sewer or sacrifice- all that is just nothing.

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My philosophy is, why be normal when you can be the best? I don’t want to be normal. I want to make the difference. So everything I do, I want to make the difference because when I make the difference, I’m the best. And that is not arrogance, that is confidence.

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And with that success come a lot of people that are going to applaud you, but the majority will hate you, man. They really will. They’re going to hate you because your success is a spotlight shining down their misfortune. They fucking hate you for what you’re doing is reminding them of their missed opportunities and stuff.

So, you know, it’s lonely, man. It’s like being this only car out in the parking lot. But if you’re cool with that, man. If you’re cool with walking in the shadows of yourself and, you know, the only person you got is the man right there in the shadow, man. How you doing? Pretty good. How you doing? All right, man. Cool, cool. It’s kind of weird having a conversation with you, but ain’t no one else around because everyone else has faded way back then. Way back there. You know, if you’re cool with that kind of walk of life, I’ll tell you, man.

The world is your playground.

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Rock, you are the most influential player on this team. If you walk around defeated, so will they. Don’t tell me you can’t give me more than what I’ve been seeing. You just carried a 140-pound man across this whole field on your arms. God’s gifted you with the ability of leadership. Don’t waste it.

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So you think that I’m done, that my career will soon be over.

You don’t know me. All my life I had to fight. No one believed in me. So I had to believe in myself.

Some people wanted to break me, but they only made me stronger.

Others wanted to exploit me. They only made me smarter. And now you think I’m done? To all of you, I only have one thing to say.

I’m not like you, because I’m not you.

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Going into combat, going into war. out of the hundred men that go into war, tensioning, fucking be there. 80 of them are just targets. 10 Do most or nine do most of fighting? One is a warrior, And it’s a true quote to life I saw it going through training. I saw it everywhere. I went. there’s so many people who just show up To life that shouldn’t even fucking be around, And there’s a few people who do all the work. I wanted to be part of that nine and i’m working towards being that one, And that’s just how I live my life.

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You know better, but you’re not doing better. And to know better and not be willing to do better, your career isn’t gonna get any better. Your love life isn’t gonna get any better. To all of you married women and men,

for you to decide that you’re not gonna do something for your husband and your wife that can make the dynamics of your relationship better because in your mind, they don’t deserve it.

You ever heard of unconditional love? You ever heard of doing something for somebody that they don’t deserve? The problem is, the problem is, you want somebody to make you feel appreciated for what you’re doing. You want somebody to put on some pom poms and jump up and down and celebrate you and make you feel like they recognize what you’re doing.

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The only way you’re ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow. To grow, you must suffer.

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Try to find a thing that you really enjoy. Try to find a thing that you’re passionate about. Like an activity. Yes. For me, early on, it was drawing. It was illustrations. It was comic books. I wanted to be a comic book illustrator. And then it went from comic book drawing and illustrations to martial arts. So, but it was just another thing that I was very, very passionate about.

And that was my vehicle out of my dilemma. That was my vehicle out of my own anxiety and trauma and my own issues and insecurities. And find something. Find a thing that you genuinely enjoy. Because getting good at things you genuinely enjoy is extremely beneficial.

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You have to tap into suffering every day of your life because we have so much scarring that we have to clean up. You have to look at suffering as almost like I look at failure. To succeed, you must fail. In failure and in suffering, all the answers are in there. All the answers to all the test questions, the test is your life. All the answers are in there. You have to live in suffering and pain and failure all the time. You have to learn, I need to visit it. Like people hate working out. You’re only going to visit working out maybe an hour a day. 23 other hours of the day, you’re not in it.

But how you become in shape is you must visit suffering, visit working out, one hour a day. Visit suffering, one hour a day. Visit your past failures, one hour a day. The relationship with it is the answers are in there.

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You want to know. if you’re a, you’re talking about young men that might not have any direction right now. go. go do something That’s hard. Go try and accomplish something. That’s hard. You may win, you may lose. you may succeed, you may fail. I’ll tell you what you’ll be better if You avoid those things that are hard, If you don’t accept that challenge, if you don’t step up and step into that cold water And you sit on your couch and eat Doritos I?

I can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that Don’t do that. Just get up, move towards that challenge. whatever that challenge is, move towards that challenge and go attack it and you may be successful. and you may not be successful, but you will be better. and the next challenge You can be more prepared for.

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Get very morning. I run I go to the gym and then at nighttime. I stretch out I am Just trying to develop a business costing me a lot of money trying to do that. I’m just getting out I’m a I’m an introvert so I never want to get on social media. I’m not big on that. I’m big on being With yourself. I believe all these Fucking cameras and phones and it takes you away from the most powerful thing in the world, which is your fucking mind. So I try hard to continue to grow that I’m trying to break a record again, I’m trying to cross Death Valley as fast as possible top of Mount Whitney,

and I’m constantly trying to put goals in front of me. But the biggest thing is I’m trying to find more of myself, And all I can find more is to silence the world out as much as I can, because it’s getting busier. every day It’s getting faster, and the faster it gets, the more you are Missing. who the fuck you are.

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And this is my favorite rule from James Clear, which is a habit missed once is a mistake. A habit missed twice is the start of a new habit. Never miss two days in a row. So ideally go for a month, build it up. But after that, if you ever miss one day, go, okay, that’s, mistakes are gonna happen. Tomorrow I double down. Tomorrow I go on time, absolutely perfect. I’m straight up out of bed. Or I go to the gym or I walk the dog or I do my meditation or whatever. And that’s a good heuristic.

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All I had to do was just go work out and now what’s going to happen is a residual effect of that Not only does my body grow from my belief and whatever my current endeavors are they? They’re just. they seem closer. They seem like you know I can reach out and grab them now. and You don’t get that sense of confidence By going through society’s rhyme the reasons now you do your own thing, you know Especially when everyone else isn’t doing and they call you crazy or whatever else Oh, you’re in here and people driving by me in life. What the fuck is that guy doing up so late?

well What’s up so late mean? I don’t know. It’s the moments in life, the decisions you make on a moment to moment basis, that add up to be the guy Or not the guy. Tonight I did something. you know That I feel more of a guy for me, who I am, my guy, you know. repeat that over and over and over again you.

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That most men live lives of quiet desperation. because it’s true, and I’ve been that guy- You just, you’re just in this world where you just can’t wait to just run away. If I had to quit everything now and struggle the way I struggled as a stand-up comedian, it would never work. but The only way I could be this person now is if I took that chance when I was 21 when I was dead broke and Had my cars repossessed and all that stuff. That’s the only way You you ever get where you want to go. you have to, you have to take a path. It’s dangerous And most people want to take the safe path,

and the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet desperation. Almost every time it’s hell.

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I’ll tell you what when once you get it come on over this side of the fence You don’t see fucking problems anymore, man Uh-huh, you see situations you see possibilities and you can’t wait to get them started man You’re like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn’t matter about the past. It’s today. What we doing today? Are we gonna engage now and once we engage we commit there’s no half commitment. There’s no quarter commitment. There’s no three-quarter It’s full commitment. Once we engage it’s every fucking day.

We engage Because that’s the better life and the people you will surround yourself are like-minded and they’re better friends Friends and family for life man. They have your back They’re solid individuals doing solid tasks leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That’s a fucking solid life, man. It’s your option, though.

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So I trap my own mind a lot and say look man. I put my phone away, I put it away and I go dark. I go dark a lot And it’s because I have to find out. I’m on a journey of life And we all have a different journey And I want to be in my fucking pine box and I believe your spirit lives forever. has to. it’s too fucking powerful. No way in hell. that thing just dies when you die. I want to be able to look back on my life and I’m all dead and be so fucking proud of myself Forever this is all temporary shit to me. I want to be forever proud of who I was as a man and Change who I used to be: The liar,

the insecure guy, the guy who can, whatever. I want to be proud when I, if I died, now if I died, If I died 90, 100, I want to look at myself and say proud of myself.

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Everybody thinks they’re a loser. Every young person thinks they’re a loser. At least a young person in the situation I was at. I didn’t know I wasn’t a loser until I started winning, until I started doing martial arts. Martial arts taught me that like, I could get better at stuff. That it wasn’t, I wasn’t really a loser. I just was someone who was like in a fucked up situation, but you could channel all that energy that you have as a young person into something and get better at it, and then all of a sudden people admired me. I was like, this is crazy.

So I went from being someone who was incredibly insecure and basically a failure to someone who was really successful at this one thing that was very dangerous that other people were scared of, and that gave me immense confidence and also a real understanding of the direct correlation between hard work and success.

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if you had to create a human, what would you put them through to make them tough? It probably wouldn’t be a really chill life. What would you put them through to make them patient? We probably wouldn’t give them things immediately. And so it’s like, we want these traits, but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it. And it’s just like, do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing? And so I think if people reframe the period of life that they’re going through as the price that they’re paying out of their wallet,

but the wallet is their time, it’s the seconds of life that they’re trading for it, then I think more people would be willing to make the trade. Because at least when I look at myself, like when I’m 80 something years old, I’m looking back on my life, I want to have these traits. But in order to have those traits, I know I have to go through these things. And I think for me, that’s given me a lot of comfort in hard times.

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You lose every time you bite with that nigga and I’m the one that pays for it.

And you gonna get off his corners?

You gonna leave his people be? Or you the one that’s gonna find yourself a new plug?

You don’t mean that shit.

The fuck I don’t.

I built this shit. Me. Brick by brick.

And I’ll be damned if I let you tear it down just cause you don’t like the way another nigga talk.

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I’m honest, I’m direct, and I push them high. But they choose if they want to do it. It’s not like I tell you, I oblige you to do it. Like I would bring them to training. Let’s say we were living in LA, which you are familiar about the traffic there. It’s not a normal traffic. You go and I drive one and a half hour to bring them to training. And I said to them, you do 200% in training because me bringing you to training, I do it for you, not for me. I could do something else, but you give 200% or else I’m not doing this. But in the end, you’re doing it for yourself.

Because every time you step on the field, when players get angry at coaches, teammates, or whoever surrounding, or media, they forget every training they do is not for the surrounding. You do the training for yourself. You do it to become better and make a better version of yourself and test yourself.

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What did I say to you? What were my words to you? Maybe it was your time to lose. You didn’t think so. Lose? I don’t lose! I win! I win! I’m a lawyer! That’s my job! That’s what I do!

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But Goggins gave me a really good reminder, just, John, you should want this fight to be miserable. You should want this to hurt. Be the guy who thrives in that. And I felt like I was that guy tonight. I had to earn this position. I think about the first person to climb Everest. I’m sure people died. Lots of people died, and I respectfully say that the first man who ran a four-minute mile, I’m sure he was hurting bad. To be the first person to do anything, you should look like this.

So that makes the victory even sweeter.

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My squad got spot-checked. The Ranger instructor was looking for three items. One of my guys didn’t have the items, so the whole squad got smoked. The R.I. was sitting there smoking us, and the more he smoked us, the more my squad looked around looking for someone to motivate him. The Ranger instructor shouted out, I’m gonna bury you motherfuckers. So I saw that my squad needed some extra motivation. So I said, ain’t no grave that can hold us down, motherfucker. Ain’t no grave that can hold us down. Right now in life, your family is looking for that one guy right now.

They’re looking for that one guy who’s strong. Who’s that pillar for the family in hard times. Make sure they look around, they look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard. Stay hard.

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But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.

Which is? A legend, Mr. Wayne.

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I don’t know man. Yeah, yeah, Lennox Lewis, Lennox, I’m coming for you. Mike, is it frustrating to train like you did and then have this in seven or eight seconds? I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight. I had to bury my best friend and I dedicated this fight. I wasn’t going to fight. I dedicated this fight to him. I was going to rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there’s ever been. There’s no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror. No, I’m Alexander. He’s Alexander. I’m the best ever.

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You ain’t gonna believe this, But you used to fit right here. I Had hold you up to say to your mother. This kid’s gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid’s gonna be somebody better than anybody ever knew. and you grew up good and wonderful. It was great. just watching every day was like a privilege. Then the time come for you to be your own man and take on the world- and you did. but somewhere along the line You changed. You stop being you. you let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you’re no good,

And when things got hard you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.

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Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don’t be afraid of being hurt. Don’t be afraid of sacrificing some blood.

The whole week I was thinking, I wanna finish this fight. I’m gonna finish this fight before the championship rounds. This is, I should be able to smash this guy. Goggin’s message, it was for a reason. And Greg Jackson’s been saying it for years, be comfortable being uncomfortable. But Goggin’s gave me a really good reminder.

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Man up just simply means to me to human up, as in human up to your highest potential. I think as humans, we’re not all created equally. In other words, many of us, 95% of us, maybe even greater, operate as human animals, impulsive, instinctive, reactive, selfish, necessary for survival. However, consciousness dictates that we evolve to our highest self, that we become selfless, that we become servants, and that there is no user’s manual that teaches Chris how to go from human animal to human being, being, consciousness, radiance, connected to source.

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So, there is no get out of jail free card. This is why I say stay hard. Because when you weren’t given the gifts, the only thing you can do in life is stay hard. And I know people cannot stand me. They can’t stand this talk. This is all you can do. There’s no magic pill or a magic potion. All you can do is outwork the man that God created or woman in you. And what that looks like is unfun. That’s why I said do not do a documentary on me. Because people will not see the truth. They will see what they want to see. Is I don’t want to live like that. Good, good.

And you will live exactly the way you live now.

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You need to work on being a good man. Now, before you throw your hands up, there are a lot of people out there that don’t know what it means to be a good man. Especially, I’m gonna kick over a hornet’s nest here, especially in the deeply religious world. They don’t know what it means to be a good person. Listen to me, the absence of evil is not an automatic indication of the presence of good. All right? I’m gonna say that again. The absence of evil is not an automatic indication of the presence of good.

You’ve got negative, you have positive, and you have neutral. Neutral is there’s no negative, but there’s no positive either, which means it’s a big zero.

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We all know when we’re relaxed, exactly the person we want to become. The question is, do we believe we can become it? Without that belief, every journey will run into a debate. That debate is when pain starts to fill the body. You weighed the temporary pain for a set lifetime of pride.

What are you going to do? How bad do you want it? There’s two options. To continue forward, pushing upward. And if you do, that dream is given birth. And forever you will live in the reality of it. If you stop, quit, throw in the towel, I promise you there’s no distance you can travel far enough to find that dream again. For it is dead. And in its death, it’s replaced by regret. Right now, it’s your choice.

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And that’s the reason why they can’t do it. There you go. That’s the only reason they have already put their cap on their success in life. And that’s why most people aren’t sitting where you’re sitting, you’re sitting where I’m sitting. You never capped yourself. You might have. And if you did, you took it off. People cap themselves. They look at somebody and because their mind can’t imagine it, they then start talking shit. This, he has to be doing this or has to be doing that. There has to be some trick. It has to be some potion. This is bullshit. No,

it’s because you cannot allow your mind to open up for the possibility of it can be done. Which is why you, you being people are where they are today.

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And you don’t know it till you done all these things and realize, damn, I’m still a little fucking boy. Or been around people who’ve been there a bunch of times. I don’t know nothing about being in a war like Kevin, but I know a bunch of soldiers that come back and are still fucking little boys. Can’t wait to get back out. I know so many dudes can’t wait to get back out. Guys that we know, warriors. But even warriors don’t make you a man.

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Every day, because I have a vision, I have my confidence, and I believe in myself. People call it arrogant, I call it confidence. Ignorant people call it arrogant, intelligent people call it confidence. But have you ever had one where you said something, and then you did not be quite that confident? Never. Since day one, but not only when I came to MLS. Since I started to play football, because I believe so much in myself, and I have a bulletproof mind, and when I go out there, I know what I’m able to do, and I do it good. Please, do not offend me. I don’t need to prove nothing.

Even if I don’t score the goals today, and I have a lot of respect for Vela. He’s a good player, but you did one mistake, you compare him with me. That was your biggest mistake.

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Reminder that if you want to be exceptional, you’re going to be different from everyone else. That’s what makes you exceptional You can’t fit in and also be exceptional. Both have discomfort. When you fit in, you have internal conflict Because you’re not being 100% you. When you’re exceptional, you have external conflict because everyone sees you as different Pick one. When your friends start to say you’ve changed, Remember it’s because they don’t know how to say you’ve grown.

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Everyone else probably getting home from some party right now because bars are closed right now too. You know the pie going to sleep and the pie got to wake up and apologize to somebody for however way they acted, because that’s Not who they really are. They’re chemically induced to be a certain way. it had the social lubricants or be able to talk to me like and say that take Something in order to be that guy. just like people. I do steroids, whatever else. I have to take this to be all that You know. but who I am as an individual isn’t quite good enough.

That’s why I need to take something and become somebody else. you know it’s a sad reality, Coming here at night and you know, I don’t know what it is about it, man, but like Man, it’s just the air smells a little bit better right now. You know, when you say you’re gonna do something and then you follow through and you do it, Not, not, not at the end, when you you know you cross the marathon, you finish it, or or your hands raised. I’m talking about right now.

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because you have not, you’ve shackled your mind to have limits. And everybody has a limit, but find it first. You got a limit? Haven’t found it yet. I don’t think you have. I haven’t found it yet. It’s pretty crazy. It’s crazy. I haven’t found it yet. I find it at times, but what happens is I then figure out how to get around it, through it, above it, climb over it. So those limits, I’m always, that’s what I said, I taught myself how to fail. I’m always skirting on that like limit of like, okay, I’m there, I’m there, I’m there, I’m there. Okay, I failed, but I was right there. What did I miss?

What the fuck did I miss? Oh, that’s what I fucking missed. And then it happens.

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He realizes the value of discipline because he’s saying that he wants it right he knows that it’s gonna make his life better Yeah, and and that’s why I think he’s gotten jammed up in whatever way We don’t know cuz I don’t know maybe he’s gotten unhealthy. Maybe he’s you know who knows maybe he’s gotten his finances jammed up Whatever the case may be he knows that discipline is better for them him. He knows that he does know. This isn’t a guy that doesn’t know yet, cuz sure there’s people that don’t. you know, when you’re 16 years old,

You don’t know the value of discipline You don’t know that the what you’re the way you’re acting right now. It’s gonna affect you in five years You don’t know that you can set yourself your whole life up to be pretty awesome. Yeah, you don’t know that yet You’re just like worried about where you’re going on a Friday night. Yeah, right. Yeah. so this guy knows and he wants it and He’s looking for where he can find it, and where he can find it is in the mirror.

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Right now in life, your family’s looking for that one guy right now. They’re looking for that one guy who’s strong, who’s that pillar for the family in hard times. Make sure they look around, they look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard.

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And with that success come a lot of people that are going to applaud you, but the majority will hate you, man. They really will. They’re going to hate you because your success is a spotlight shining down their misfortune. They fucking hate you for what you’re doing is reminding them of their missed opportunities and stuff.

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What will you do?

Rebuild it. Just the way it was, brick for brick.

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If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.

Which is? A legend, Mr. Lane.

Tomorrow you will be released. If you are bored of brawling with petty thieves and want to achieve something, there is a rare blue flower that grows on the eastern slopes. Pick one of these flowers. If you can carry it to the top of the mountain, you may find what you were looking for in the first place. And what was I looking for?

Only you can know that.

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When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too. When you look at me, what do you see?

The answer’s nothing.

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And what I didn’t understand. by being determined to chase something, by being committed to it- and what commitment is? Commitment is staying true to what you said you were going to do, long after the mood that you have said it in has left. You see, people think commitment is saying, yes, I’ll do it on the days when it feel good. But I have been committed to everything that I ever started in my life and I never stopped and I never quit it. and so By being committed to everything that I started, I finished it. it built a certain type of spirit, It built a certain type of mentality.

it built a certain type of individual. And so now I couldn’t quit, even if I wanted to. I couldn’t lay in the bed, Even if I wanted to. I couldn’t stop, even if I wanted to. I had too much sweat equity in my life and everything That I was doing. I Understood the process is more important than the product. it wasn’t about the outcome for me, whether I made it to the NFL or not, That was inconsequential in God’s plan for my life. But I was going to fall in love with that process because I understood, by falling in love with that process, It was going to turn me into a machine.

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This might not even be your last time getting left.

Pull yourself together and quit tripping cause you in the process.

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Remember that in order to be successful, you have to fail a lot. Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, was once asked by a young man, how could I be successful faster? And he said simply, double your rate of failure. If you want to be successful faster, fail more often. You see, there’s a law of probabilities that says the more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed. The less you fail, the less likely you are to succeed. Peter Drucker says you would never hire a person who has not had some major failures in life because they haven’t learned anything.

So the key is, if you want to be successful, don’t be afraid of failure. Has anybody here ever failed, by the way? You ever failed? Yes, did failure hurt you? No, failure makes you strong. There’s an old saying that what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. Failure has made you strong. Failure has developed your character. There’s an old saying that the north wind made the Vikings. The cold of the north wind coming out of the north that they had to row against made them the most formidable fighting force in the world. It’s failure that makes us strong, but it’s the fear of failure that kills us.

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Take it or leave it. There’s no happiness about it. There’s no peace behind it. It sucks. It just fucking sucks. And that’s the one thing, if I could teach anybody anything, it just fucking sucks. And it’s gonna continue to suck. And then one day you’ll get to a special part in your life that it might get a little bit better. It’s gonna get a little bit better.

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Boy, I can tell bad times are right around the corner again. I can tell by the emails I’m getting talking about, I can’t get a break in life. I hate that damn mentality about I can’t get a break. You aren’t giving any breaks in life. You make them for yourself. We are all being tested in life. While my test is different than yours, you will be tested. And how you face that test and how you overcome that test determines the rest of your life. The one mentality that you must have in life is that regardless of what’s in front of you, you still must grind. I’ll never be in the Olympics.

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Keep moving, Brock. That’s it. You keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground. Keep driving it. You’re very best. You’re very best. You’re very best. Keep moving, Brock. That’s it. That’s it. That’s it. Keep going. Don’t quit on me. Keep going. Keep driving it. Keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground. That’s it. You’re very best. Don’t quit on me. You’re very best. Keep driving. Keep driving. There you go. There you go. That’s it. You keep driving. Keep your knees off the ground. Keep driving it. Don’t quit till you got nothing left. Keep moving Brock. That’s it. That’s it. That’s it.

Keep going. I want everything you got. Come on. Keep going. It hurts. Don’t quit on me. You’re very best. Keep driving. Keep driving. There you go. There you go. He’s heavy. I know he’s heavy. I’m by our strength. Then you negotiate with your body to find more strength. But don’t you give up on me Brock. You keep going. You hear me? You keep going. You’re doing good. You keep going. Do not quit on me. You keep going. It hurts. I know it hurts. You keep going. You keep going.

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And the next challenge, you’re gonna be more prepared for. And the next challenge after that, you’re gonna be even more prepared for.

And you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and you’re gonna fail, and then you’re gonna win.

And that’s life.

Life without those challenges,

it’s just existence.

Don’t just exist. Go live.

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It’s so hard from here. 30 more steps. You keep going, Brock. Come on. Keep going. Burn. And let it burn. I’m burning. It’s so hard. You keep going, Brock. Come on. Come on. Keep going. You promised me your best. Your best. Don’t stop. Keep going. Too hard. It’s not too hard. You keep going. Come on, Brock. Give me more. Give me more. Keep going. 20 more steps. 20 more. Keep going, Brock. Give me your best. Don’t quit. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Don’t quit. Don’t quit. Brock Kelly, you don’t quit. Keep going. Go, Brock Kelly. You don’t quit on me. Now. You keep going. You keep going.

Go, Brock. 10 more se Athens. 10 more. 10 more. 10 more. Keep going. Don’t quit. Give me your hardest. You can. You can. 5 more. Five more! Come on, Brock! Come on! Soak wet!

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Go, Brock. 10 more se Athens. 10 more. 10 more. 10 more. Keep going. Don’t quit. Give me your hardest. You can. You can. 5 more. Five more! Come on, Brock! Come on! Soak wet!

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hey, okay, we’re going to do this today.

No, this fucking really sucks.

This is real, dude. This is real. And every day I’m set back,

I’m set back, I’m set back, I’m set back.

So, this is what I would tell your boy. This is exactly what I tell him.

Every day you wake up, you’re going to probably be set back for the first four weeks before you lose to significant weight because the mind is going to be fucking with you the whole time.

There’s no dopamine. There’s no dopamine in there at 300 pounds. You got nothing. Your hormones are shot.

You have to envision something that is more powerful than you.

Something has to get you out of bed and you have to create it. It has to be false because you’re not it.

You’re a fat piece of shit and that’s the reality of it.

So you have to create a false reality to live in that just to get to work on yourself.

That’s the reality.

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So people always ask me, when they saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days, they said, why is it that you’re working out so hard? Five hours a day, six hours a day, and you have always a smile on your face.

The others are working out just as hard as you do, and they look sour in the face. Why is that? And I told people all the time, I said, because to me, I’m shooting for a goal. In front of me is the Mr. Universe title. So every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal, to make this goal, this vision turn into reality. Every single set that I do, every repetition, every weight that I lift, will get me a step closer to turn this goal into reality.

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God is processing you. He ain’t through with you. If he was through with you, you would not wake up in the morning. He gonna fix it. Everything is wrong. First of all, let me tell you this right here. Why are you tripping? I look back on my life and all that I’ve been through. So the stuff I’m currently going through, I have built up enough reservoir. That living in the car taught me that this ain’t it. So the things I’m going through now, I know this ain’t it. That he gonna come get me in a minute. People think when you get famous or rich that your problems is over.

They got a whole new set of them for you. They got some stuff you ain’t seen. Biggie wrote a song saying one time, more money, more problems. I gotta tell you something, that boy would never lie. But I’ll tell you the truth right now. The problems I got right now, I take them. Because the problems I had when I was homeless, I don’t want them no more.

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I fell in love with an essay by Strangest Loop, and it is a list of things that are not doing the thing. So here is a list of things that are not doing the thing. Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing. Telling people you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Writing a banger tweet about how you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. hating on other people who have done the thing isn’t doing the thing, hating on the obstacles in the way of you doing the thing isn’t doing the thing, fantasizing about all of the adoration you’ll receive once you do the thing isn’t doing the thing, reading about how to do the thing isn’t doing the thing, reading about how other people did the thing isn’t doing the thing, reading this essay isn’t doing the thing. The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.

And I love this insight that you can dress it up however you want, the work just needs doing.

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It’s 44 degrees and it’s nice and rainy outside, But no one cares about that It’s not about the rain. It’s what the rain represents. Life is always giving you a test, Trying to give you a way out, Trying to give you an excuse not to show up. This is my excuse today. But guess what?

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If your job is to try to be the best basketball player you can be, to do that you have to practice, you have to train. You want to train as much as you can as often as you can. If you get up at 10 in the morning, train at 11, 12, say 12, train at 12, train for two hours, 12 to 2. You have to let your body recover, so you eat, recover, whatever. You get back out, you train, start training again at 6. Train from 6 to 8. And now you go home, you shower, you eat dinner, you go to bed, you wake up, you do it again. Those are two sessions. Now imagine you wake up at 3, you train at 4.

You go 4 to 6, come home, breakfast, relax, so-so, la-la-la. Now you’re back at it again, 9 to 11. You relax and now all of a sudden you’re back at it again, 2 to 4. And now you’re back at it again, 7 to 9. Look how much more training I have done by simply starting at 4.

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Get it done. Even if I’m just going through the motions. I Go through the motions. I Don’t really want to work out. I work out I Really don’t want to hammer on a project. I Hammer on the project. Don’t really want to get up and get out of bed. Yeah, I get up and get out of bed Now. these Could be signals that you need some time off, and those signals might be right. They could be correct. but Don’t take today off, not today. wait until tomorrow.

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Can tell you this is not a good move. This is not a good move. Don’t do that Don’t do that. Just get up, move towards that challenge. whatever that challenge is, Move towards that challenge and go attack it and you may be successful. and you may not be successful, but you will be better.

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Those I can’t catch a break guys. Yeah, get them the fuck away from me. I can’t I can’t be around those guys I don’t want to hear that shit. I don’t want to hear that shit. I don’t buy it because everybody has bad breaks. Yeah, I’ve had a shit ton of bad breaks, but you know what I did? I stayed up, Yeah, and I thought through it and I figured out what the fuck I did wrong. and then I went back. It’s like I fucked up everything I’ve ever done a hundred times. There’s no way. there’s no other way to do it, and I’ve had a bunch of shitty breaks. Everybody has.

but you got to realize, when you have those shitty breaks, what that is. It’s an opportunity for you to reassess reboot get better figure out another way find another way through It’s just little challenges and the people that look at those challenges go. Why do I always have these challenges? They’re cancer. Those people are dangerous to be around. They will rob you of your enthusiasm. They don’t give you any fuel. They’re the opposite of fuel. Yeah, Like the fuel people. they’re the whole. the people that are kicking ass,

the people that are out there just fucking hustling always, Always, getting things done.

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the people that are out there just fucking hustling always, Always, getting things done.

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It’s warm on the couch, your missus says stay in bed. It’s comfy, it’s cozy. You’ve got work later on. You had an argument last night. You’re slightly hung over.

God, I know every motherfucker ain’t gonna do what I’m gonna do. So this is how you level up. That’s how you level up. I know there’s a whole bunch of people with that right there. That fires me up. That makes me fucking happy what you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there’s so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours. Refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that’s where I gain the advantage. It’s so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak.

Most people don’t want to go to that extra mile. Most people don’t want to find that extra because it sucks. It’s miserable. It’s lonely. It’s lonely.

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I would have none. I would have no success as a YouTuber that I’ve had being a podcaster because I work well when I have someone else in front of me. Like, I would clean my room at home if mum came and sat and like just watched or talked to me, right? Because I just didn’t want to f***ing do something that sucked on my own. Being a YouTuber and staring down the lens, Hi guys, welcome back to the channel, today we’re gonna f***ing do whatever we’re gonna do. I really, really struggle with that. Sitting down with someone else in front of me, that makes it easy.

So there are ways that doing the thing can become more easy, but ultimately, the work just needs doing.

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What am I training for? I have no race in the docket. Why am I having such a structured life? Why? And I’m like, you know what? I’m good. I’m done. I retire every day. I’m done with this shit. And I sit around and I say, okay. And then this is my thought process. So you want to be normal. So you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world, not knowing the power that’s in them. Being fine with being mediocre. You want to go back to who you were, huh, David? I’m like, fuck that, man. I have- And you have that conversation with yourself every day. Not every day. It’s those bad days.

It’s those bad days. I see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. And I’m talking about talent, like some God-given ability. Talent that sometimes you have to hone and you have to work on and you have to harness yourself. And they just walk around on their phones, just clueless to how powerful they are.

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Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

But if you are going to rest, that is one thing that you should procrastinate on. That’s the one thing I want you to put off until tomorrow. And if, when tomorrow comes, you still feel like you need to rest or you need to take a break, then okay, take it.

But the chances are you won’t.

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Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice. Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint the hill. Work on the project. Get out of bed.

Now, as an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done.

But the chances are you won’t.

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Because the list that I had to live by was the very list that was to get me at this table with you, to talk to you, to the normal human beings which I once was, about how you can get somewhere and how it looks. It looks very ugly. There’s no fucking passion. There’s no fucking motivation. There’s no, oh my God, man, I fucking, this is, no. It’s every day of your life just doing.

No passion, no discipline, no motivation. All these words, I hate people, I hate that so many people fucking use these words now because it’s watered. Someone’s sitting in a room by themselves and they figure themselves out and say, God, this is going to fucking suck. Where’s passion when you’re 300 pounds? Where’s the motivation when you can’t read and write? Where is it? So how did this happen? I just fucking did. I just did.

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And so now you do that, and as the years go on,

the separation that you have with your competitors and your peers just grows larger and larger and larger and larger and larger.

And by year five or six,

it doesn’t matter what kind of work they do in the summer, they’re never going to catch up because they’re five years behind.

So it makes sense to get up and start your day early because you can get more work in.

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And so now you do that, and as the years go on,

the separation that you have with your competitors and your peers just grows larger and larger and larger and larger and larger.

And by year five or six,

it doesn’t matter what kind of work they do in the summer, they’re never going to catch up because they’re five years behind.

So it makes sense to get up and start your day early because you can get more work in.

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My friend Jocko, every morning I’ll check his Instagram page, 4.30, shows a picture of his watch, get after it. He’s out there working out 4.30 in the morning. He does it every fucking morning. Why? Because he doesn’t want to. And that’s how you do it. You go and get after it, you don’t make any excuses. And those kind of guys are fuel. But those I-can’t-catch-a-break guys, they’re the opposite of fuel. They’re just pissing on your fire. They’re no fun. And then the people that surround them are all idiots. Because only idiots want to be around I-can’t-catch-a-break guys.

Only the dummies stick around. After a while, even if they’re your good friend, you gotta be like, bro, you gotta fucking stop. You gotta stop with all this I-can’t-catch-a-break bullshit. All the time you’re complaining, you could be instead hustling. You could be instead chasing your dream. You could be instead figuring out what you’re doing wrong, trying to prove certain aspects of your life, getting your shit together, reading a book, meditating, something. Fucking something. But this I-can’t-catch-a-break shit is not helping anybody, and it pushes everybody away from you.

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So if you are dreaming big dreams and you have clear goals and you accept total responsibility and you’re doing what you love to do and you’re getting better and better at it, remember, excellence is a journey, not a destination. It’s not a goal at which we arrive any time in life. We just keep working and keep working and keep working. There’s a story about Ted Williams when he was the top baseball player in America, one of the highest paid, best batting averages, and so on. At the end of a double header, everyone had gone home, the park was empty,

and the park maintenance man was out cleaning up, and way out there with an automatic ball machine, there was a batter just slugging away at the balls. And he came out and he looked at him and he said, geez, you’re Ted Williams. He said, yes, he said, pleased to meet you. He said, what are you doing here? All the other ball players are back at the hotel and having parties and everything else. He said, well, I’m practicing. He said, but you’re the best baseball player, you’re the best hitter in all of America. He said, you don’t need to be out here. And he said,

why do you think that is? Why do you think that is? Because he’s always concentrating on getting better, and of course it pays off.

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When I was in Ranger school, my squad got spot checked. The Ranger instructor was looking for three items. One of my guys didn’t have the items. So the whole squad got smoked. The R.I. was sitting there smoking us. And the more he smoked us, the more my squad looked around looking for someone to motivate him. The Ranger instructor shouted out, I’m gonna bury you motherfuckers. So I saw that my squad needed some extra motivation. So I said, ain’t no grave that can hold us down, motherfucker. Ain’t no grave that can hold us down.

Right now in life, your family’s looking for that one guy right now. They’re looking for that one guy who’s strong. Who’s that pillar for the family in hard times. Make sure they look around. They look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard.

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you could keep going back and keep spending money and spending money and spending money with no results. You can wonder, wow, maybe let me go try out David Goggins. He ain’t gonna fucking help you. You have to explore, examine the insides of yourself and what do you really want out of life? Your friend, a lot of people out here just don’t fucking want it.

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Now if you know what you’re worth,

now go out and get what you’re worth.

But you gotta be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody.

Cowards do that and that ain’t you.

You’re better than that.

I’m always gonna love you no matter what. No matter what happens.

You’re my son, you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life.

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Look up Brock. You’re in the end zone.

Brock, I need you. God’s gifted you with the ability of leadership. Don’t waste it.

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playing out the fear, Leila says this and I love it, but that fear is a mile wide and an inch deep. And so it looks like this ocean that you’re gonna step into and drown. But as soon as you step into it, you realize it was not that deep at all and you can keep walking through it. And I just love that visual because a lot of times when it’s like we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to make, if you actually take the step and realize that it’s not death, you’re not gonna drown immediately. There’s plenty of other steps you can take from there, even if you get a little wet.

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And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.

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In this Bible verse, I think about sometimes, many times, it goes,

then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us?

And I said, here am I.

Send me.

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It’s necessary if you’re going to compete today that you look for ways to amaze your customers by being one of those individuals that keep your commitments, that keep your word, that’s relentless. It’s necessary as you work with the people that you bring into your organization that they see that you are a good example of a person to work with because you model integrity and determination and ambition and truth and honesty and the way in which you conduct business. The next step is that is you, that is you, that no one can do it for you but you and even though you face disappointments,

even though you will experience some setbacks, it goes with the territory. You must understand that.

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You wouldn’t have suffered enough. I’ve been suffering all my life! I’m sorry, it’s not enough.

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I just cured a patient. How about you? You can’t just give up on Wilson. You know he needs you. You know he’s making an impossible choice. He just doesn’t want to live in pain.

Life is pain! I wake up every morning I’m in pain. I go to work in pain. You know how many times I wanted to just give up? How many times I’ve thought about ending it?

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You read a bunch of fucking books and you think that you know how the fucking mind works. I had gone through hell just a kid and then all the way up until now, right, so I know. So that theory is bullshit. Yeah, there’s a lot of good stuff out there You can read from people, but I had lived hell and when you put yourself in hell, That’s the only time you can figure out how to fuck to get through that motherfucker. You can’t. you can’t read somebody else’s book about some theory on how to do.

some guy who set up in there a nice warm Office and read and wrote some book with a nice cup of coffee in the fucking hand. Oh, I want to see that guy who immersed himself in fucking hell And he thought about quitting and leaving and his wife and his kids and why am I here is this is it worth it all? this crazy shit is still said and Found out a way to get through it. So basically, that’s, that’s the bottom line of it all.

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It’s about taking away everything that is in front of a person’s eye that has covered up the clear view upon how this world, how your internal nature, how your emotions, your mindset is all connected with each other. So the reason why I talk, which seems like I’m giving out something- no, I’m not giving out, I’m just saying something in order for you yourself to let something fall, to realize for yourself that there was something in the mind, there was a concept, a belief system, a way of thinking inside of you, all the time already that maybe now you realize that one has no fundament anymore.

Actually it is blocking me more than it actually does help me.

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If they’re at the top of the mountain. they know how they got there because they had to have effort. It took energy. It took time. Everything worthwhile, everything worthwhile is uphill.

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You put extra on top of extraordinary and you come up with extraordinary. It’s no other way. I’m sorry, but here’s the fact.

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my whole job is to outwork the chart. Whatever the f**king chart says about me, the all-knowing power up there, I want to get up there and say, him look at me and say, I know everything. I didn’t f**king see this. And however I’m being judged, whoever’s judging me to look at me and say, I did not f**king know. I had you at 185, I had you at this, but all this other s**t I was writing as you were living it. I want to, I want to find more. All I can. And in that f**king sack of s**t, you have to dive in that to find more. Because if you’re not willing to go in there and face yourself,

you’re not gonna find anything. You’re gonna live right here on surface, man, right here on surface.

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The only way I could be this person now is if I took that chance when I was 21,

when I was dead broke and Had my cars repossessed and all that stuff.

That’s the only way You you ever get where you want to go.

You have to. you have to take a path.

It’s dangerous And most people want to take the safe path,

and the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet desperation.

Almost every time it’s hell.

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But some of the greatest successes definitely came from failures and definitely came from pain. I do believe we have to put suffering to work. So whatever you suffered through whether it’s building a great product you suffered through personal circumstances that were incredibly difficult Or you suffered through? Working too hard and the circumstances were too unfair, But somehow you still got up the next day and kept going. you have to be able to get energy from pain and- And I really mean that- it’s like even people that have been fired or let down,

or The economy didn’t work out the way they thought it would and that company was a rising star on Friday But by next Tuesday wasn’t anymore. Get back up, get up, get out and get on with it and that’s that’s it. It’s gotta come from inside you.

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And that’s why the highest levels of virtue and goal are in some sense transcendent. You want them to be above everything you’re doing so you can continually move towards something that’s more sublime and better. That’s what you are. You’re here to live, not to sleep. And the problem with the vision of Mai Tai’s on the beach is that, well, first of all, that’s a vision of drug-induced unconsciousness. Second, it’s only going to work for about a week. Third, you’re going to be a laughingstock in a month and depressed and aimless and goalless. No, that’s not…

You want a horizon of ever-expanding possibility. And so it does happen to people as they… because they’ve staked their soul on the attainment of an instrumental goal.

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When you hit rock bottom and you feel like the walls and monkeys on your back and Murphy’s hitting you down every single step, you’re going to use that inspiration to take that one more step forward that makes all the f***ing difference.

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We all live in this bubble. what you got to do to get the life that God wants you to have? You got to put more air in your bubble. You got to blow your bubble up, Expand yourself, Take yourself out your comfort zone. do not live in your bubble. put some more air in your bubble. If you stay in your comfort zone, that’s where you will fail. You will fail in your comfort zone. success is not a comfortable procedure. It is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt, so you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable If you ever want to be successful.

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I got up about five o’clock, I woke up and saw you chilling out, saw the dog all hung over from treats and shit. I thought to myself, that fucking dog is lucky we feed it. About myself, I gotta feed myself and every foot strike that hits the pavement, that’s how I feed myself. Motherfuckers look for inspiration. Inspiration is found in every first step you take, every grasp of that fucking iron bar, all that shit, all the miles in the pool. Inspiration is found in suffering. So right now, this is my greatest recovery. As I recover, I find inspiration. Stay hard.

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of the things that you cherish, the things that you value, the things that you want to possess.

They’re all uphill. It’s okay. Once I know that’s where they are, I’ll begin to put forth the effort, the energy, the time to get there. I’m just going to sign off today by, one more time, letting you look at my arm.

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There’s something about talking to a guy like you that a lot of people hope that you’re gonna say some magic thing That’s gonna click in their brain. Everybody gets change who they are. Like what is it? What is the thing? That’s why people go to these self-help conferences And they take these classes and they hope that someone’s gonna say something that changes the way their mind works It’s hilarious to me. It is. it’s kind of hilarious to me too. But what is also hilarious is that what you’re saying is that you have to? Do those things you have to suffer you have to live in it.

You have to be comfortable in it, and then Maybe some of that it will help you a little bit along the way.

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if you see this version of the world where you go, I can impact my outcomes. I can learn a thing, apply a thing, and then I change as a by-product of doing that. As soon as you take those steps, you realize almost all of the people around you who have parts of their life that they’re not happy about are kind of making a choice for it to be that way.

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The truth is you must keep going. I repeat, keep going. Why? Because you deserve to see what happens when all your hard work pays off. Keep going because you’re stronger than you think. Keep going because each step forward brings you one step closer to your goals. Keep going because the best is yet to come. You need to understand you can’t win all the time and unless you lose, you haven’t even tried and if you fail at least you’ll fail falling forwards. For you know life is full of unexpected twists and turns. Things happen that you don’t expect, that you could never have expected.

So don’t get too confident, even arrogant, when you succeed, when you win and you’re on a high. Equally important you mustn’t allow yourself to get down when you lose or fail.

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you can’t have an easy life and a great character. Show me a trust fund kid that inherited a bunch of money, and I’ll show you someone mentally tortured. It’s true, right? Everyone’s like, your struggle, where you’ve come from in Plymouth, you know, living in poverty, to now, having stuff isn’t fun, getting stuff is fun, right? It’s not the pursuit of happiness, it’s the happiness of the pursuit, right? It’s just, it’s that thing, and it’s not like, you know, the self-help is not the journey, it’s the destination.

It’s not either the journey or the destination, it’s who you become on the journey. And here’s the terrible thing about life, it’s self-assignment. Like, you know, there’s school and college, and then you get dropped into the real world at some point, and you go, well, you have to decide what you’re gonna do, and you can take an easy path, and it’s ultimately less fun, it’s short money. Or you take a hard path and you give yourself a challenge, and it’s great.

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Feelings has nothing to do with it. This is my dream. This is what I’m going to do. And I’m going to do the things that I don’t feel like doing. I’m going to do the things I don’t want to do. I’m going to do the things that don’t come easy to me, that do not come natural to me. I’m going to get up and do it. You can’t live your life on feelings. You’re going to have feelings, okay? But you cannot let your feelings dictate what you are or are not going to do today.

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And then you have to have a plan and you have to spend all your waking hours, outside of whatever shit job you do, Planning your escape, and you have to come to the realization very clearly that you fucked up and you got yourself stuck. so, whatever you’re doing, you have to Do it like your life depends on it, and whether it is you’re trying to be an author, and you’re gonna, you’re gonna. if you’re gonna Try to be an author and you’re working eight hours a day, plus commuting, plus family responsibilities or whatever else you have,

Whatever time that you have you have to attack like you’re trying to save the world. You’re trying to save your life You don’t want to drown that one and a half hours a day that you have to write God damn, you better be caffeinated and motivated. You got to go, you got to get after it and you got to have discipline. That’s most people don’t have those things. Most people don’t understand what it’s like to to really go for something And to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific.

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No one felt sorry for me. No one looked at me and said, like this day and age, they’ll take you in and they’ll tell you, by the way, stop picking on this person. Back then, they didn’t care. The KKK marched in our Fourth of July parades. They had to stay 100 yards back, but they marched in it. Wow. That’s how this town was. And my mom cared about me, but my dad took our soul. And she did the best she could. I had to figure out, I wasn’t gonna be a punk kid all my life. So the only way I could turn around was to suffer.

I had to build calluses in my brain the same way I built calluses on my hands. So I broke the Ginsburg and Rawls record for pull-ups a long time ago, but I failed at it twice. And I did 67,000 pull-ups in trying to break this record. So to do 4,030 pull-ups, I had to do 67,000 for training for that.

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This kid couldn’t speak. Everyone else in his peer group was speaking all good. He couldn’t speak. At age seven, everyone’s reading and talking, and he can’t read. He was slowing down so much, the teacher brought his parents in. The man said, dude, the kid’s got to go, man. He’s just slow. He’s not creative. He’s slowing down the betterment of the entire class. Got to go. Parents brought him home. He’s like, man, what are we going to do with this? He’s a child of ours. Too bad. They put him to work. He got fired from every single job he ever tried.

All this guy knows up until 21 years old is failure. He’s never tasted success. He just gets up and keeps trying, fails, gets up, keeps trying, until one day he found out what he wanted, what inspired him, and he gave it everything he had, day in, day out, man. He burned the midnight oil so he didn’t have to stay awake in the midnight hours wondering what if. This guy tried something 1,093 times before it was successful.

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married man pays taxes, has a house and a mortgage and a business and all that jazz. if I had to quit everything now and struggle the way I struggled as a stand-up comedian, it would never work.

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Yeah, if you can be in a bad mood for no reason, then you can be in a good mood for no reason,

which means that if you can do something that’s amazing and still have a day,

it means you can do something that sucks and have a good day,

which means the entire excuse around, I don’t want to do all these hard things because as a proxy,

it makes my mood sad is ridiculous because it means that we are ultimately in control of how we want to perceive the work that we do.

And so I think that is ultimately the most freeing thing that you can do in terms of how you can equip yourself to get through those harder periods.

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All of you have extraordinary capabilities, all of you. You have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category. Rich people don’t sleep eight hours a day. That’s a third of your life. It ain’t been 24 hours in a day. You cannot be sleep eight hours a day. You can’t live in LA and wake up at eight o’clock in the morning. It’s 11 o’clock on the East Coast. The stock market been open two hours. They already making decisions about your life and your ass will sleep.

The Bible says, he who loves to sleep and the folding of hands, poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night.

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So I get an email from Bill. Bill’s a 30 year old who used to be real motivated. And somehow he lost his motivation. He wants to hide and get it back. Well, Bill, you suffer from what a lot of guys suffer from nowadays. It’s called chestnut syndrome. As a boy, you’re fucking nuts, fall. But what happens in life is that we think they stay down there. If you don’t handle self-doubt, insecurities, imperfections, jealousy, all these things, allow people to bully you, you around, you’re not start to retract back up. Insecurities end up here, self-doubt, all this, you know, up in your chest,

end up with chestnut syndrome. How you fix chestnut syndrome is you gotta man the fuck up. Hit your fucking chest, send a signal to your mind that you’re gonna man the fuck up. And then fall back in your fucking sack. Once they fall back in your sack, you sack it the fuck up, stay hard.

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We know the stories how it is in the past if you make contracts, if you give a commitment even just by word and afterwards you break it. You break your promise, somebody breaks you, finished. Why? Because a man that you can’t trust his words, something’s wrong.

Something, initially, as being

a man is wrong.

So and this is where I think things are going hand in hand. So once you really commit and also commit to a certain type of practice, that means you need to bring out that discipline. It is that discipline that is fueling up this drive. Because we know that it’s not easy. But no pain, no gain.

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all of the things I don’t like about me and I don’t like about my life are my responsibility, because I can change it.

But given that you’ve got generalized cynicism everywhere as opposed to thinking, I’m despondent. this sucks. I wish that the world was more hopeful. you can still think that and also go. that means that my competition has never been weaker, more vulnerable, more fragile, the ability to set myself out from the pack has never been easier.

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I can’t do this, Pete. I’m not like you. I’m nothing. Just let me be nothing.

What are you talking about?

I can’t make a track team. I don’t even know why you want me to- Yes, you can.

You can do this, Lou. Just gotta believe you can.

I don’t believe.

I do.

Come on.

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We all want to read about how we can quickly get somewhere. That’s why the six minute abs and all that stuff are so powerful. You may get some results from it, but they’re not permanent. The permanent result comes from you. Fucking, I say it all the time, you have to suffer. You have to make that a tattoo on your fucking brain so when that hard time comes again, you don’t forget it. You may forget it for a second, but you can go back in the cookie jar, I call it. It’s something that we’ve all endured. I call it the cookie jar and we often forget how hard we are, but you gotta reflect back.

Take a couple seconds, reflect. I’ve been through this, I’ve been through that. And then remind yourself, I’m a bad motherfucker. And then you can get through that, but if you don’t believe it, you haven’t endured shit, you’re just blowing smoke, man.

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Just remember, no matter how poorly you have performed, you’re never hopeless. Keep going, because the one thing you can be absolutely certain of is that the tables will turn. That’s absolutely guaranteed. So, in other words, if you’re on a high, be humble, and if everything has gone wrong, be hopeful and keep going. Just remember: nothing ever stays the same. So, the truth is, I repeat, you must keep going. The rewards will be there for you. Keep going.

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The only way you learn in this world, everybody who’s listening out there, is through suffering. You have to suffer to learn. I don’t care what anybody says, okay? If you’re not suffering, if you’re not afraid, you’re not really learning. That means you’re doing something that you did before, and it’s okay, but you’re not learning. I would guarantee you that if you go back to your neighborhood right now, or your place where you grew up, there are people that are your age now, that you grew up with, that are still there. They’re still on the same corner or still working in the same store.

And don’t get me wrong, that’s okay for them. If they’re happy, that’s okay.

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And I think that marrying short-term pain with long-term progress is one of the first connections that most people who are on that path have to make.

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So, if there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go and there’s a judgment, you’re going to get there and you might see a chart and that chart may tell you who the f**k you should have been. And now you get the rest of your life to think about that. Man, I could have lived a much better life if I just would have just suffered a little bit more. If I just would have went in that s**t and realized I had so much more. But fear and the 40% and living here versus living here being afraid. Stop me. So that’s I’m a big guy in visualizing. I’m a big guy in making a world.

It may not exist to me. It does to me. It does and I’m overpowering myself every day and you got to find tools to do that. That’s the tool that I use. So that’s what it’s all about.

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Lot of us out here pushing real hard, But we’re afraid to go to that dark side in your mind. When you push real hard, you have this door in your mind and A lot of us don’t want to open that door. Why should open that door? You’re in a tunnel It’s a dark ass tunnel and you can’t see it. There’s one thing about being in dark places: If you have the courage to stay in there long enough, Your eyes will start to adjust to the darkness. Your body and mind will always adjust to more suffering, to more pain. if you want to push harder, know this: Your mind quits way before your body does,

so you have to be willing to go away into that darkness and find more yourself. Stay hard.

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You know, recently we reviewed that US Army field manual on here from like World War two Era and it says in that manual: it says: other than death, All failure is psychological,

Other than death, all failure is psychological. think about that, Just just just think about that. this failure, this upset, this, this catastrophe. If you aren’t dead, Then it’s just psychological, It’s in your head.

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We all fall down in life, guys. The question is, who gets back up? Again, it’s not the potential of the individual. It’s not the genetics. It’s the perseverance, the never say die attitude. If you constantly keep throwing against the wall, eventually something will stick, guys. Never give in to what you want. When you find out what you want, and you combine that with a sound mental diet, a visual nutrition, a physical diet of good food coming in with good exercise, you build the body, the belief, the confidence, you put that together with a want and a drive, dude, you’re unstoppable.

Your name will forever be in history. If you do it though, because it’s hard, it’s an uphill battle. It’s the path less taken, not the beaten path everyone else takes. It’s the path that leads a character. You gotta earn that.

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you know, a lot of the times it’s that thing of like, it’s hard to do. That’s it. Life is really, really tough. Those are tough things to hear. And it’s easy for us because we’re sort of on that road. But then, you know, the thing I love about this podcast is you’re sort of trying to, there’s so much kind of wisdom in it. So many stories that you’re sort of, you’re giving people this kind of roadmap for, okay, well, make your life a little bit harder in the short term and get somewhere. I mean, it’s really, I didn’t really get what religion was until comparatively late in life.

Like the idea that God is a proxy for the future, right? So God represents the future. So work hard now for a better life in heaven, right? So that’s, it’s kind of, it’s the same as all self-help. Like, okay, so sacrifice the present for the future. Work is kind of the same. It’s a sacrifice of the present for something better in the future.

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For me to become the man I wanted to become, I saw myself as the weakest person God ever created. But I never blamed God for anything he did to me. So I wanted to change that to be the hardest man ever created. Am I that? I don’t know, but you had to have a goal. And my goal when I was sitting there, not going to school, being bullied, having no self-esteem, my goal was the only person that’s gonna turn this person around is me. And the only way I can turn it around is put myself through the worst things possible a human being can ever endure.

And that’d be the only way that I can build this brain to handle anything that comes in front of it, callusing my mind through pain and suffering.

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Say what you can do, do what you say. If you can’t do it, don’t say you can do it. Don’t over-leverage yourself. Don’t over-leverage a decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe. I think I’ll try it out. No, think if you’re gonna try it out beforehand, but when it’s time to go, dive. Finish it, find out. Come out the other side. Don’t leave it and go, if I just scored it, uh-uh. That keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night. When you half-ass something and you just don’t know whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn’t get what you want,

finding out and looking in the mirror and going, I didn’t half-ass it. I went all the way. I found out and that ain’t for me. Or I found out and you damn right that is for me. That’s a great place to get to.

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I can only give the pain to others that I have received already. My bones can only be as hard as I have hit whatever was hard like that.

And so that means take it as a challenge. Everything that hurts you, find a way to overcome it.

Everything that you feel is difficult for you, find a way to still do it.

As long as you can do the things, stop listening to the mind.

It’s like also in the morning,

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Look, man, when you beat me, I hurt all over and I didn’t want to know from nothing or nobody, not even my kids. But hell, every fighter knows that hurt, and we get sick inside trying to live with it, so don’t back off now. Make it right for yourself, or you’ll be sorry you didn’t. We held the greatest title in the whole world, babe. You lost that fight, Rock, for all the wrong reasons. You lost your edge. All right, I know your manager dying had you all messed up inside, but the truth is, you didn’t look hungry. Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man, the edge.

And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean? Ha ha, maybe we could win it back together.

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Well, my biggest advice to him is that, first of all, he won’t like what I say to him. Because I’m going to say the exact opposite of what the world, today’s world is saying. So we read a bunch of books nowadays. As humans, we want to find out how to be someone else. What we don’t do is we don’t go inside. So literally, turn yourself inside out. Read the book that says, like we’re writing a book every day of our lives. But we never read that book. So what I would challenge this young man or young woman to do is you have to look inside of yourself to see what you really want.

What are you passionate about? We use these words and these little phrases of only the strong survive and all this other crap. They’re all just words.

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And so like you always miss the short term losses, but you lose the big long term gain. And so it’s meant again, this is a continuum to be managed more than a problem to be solved. But cynicism is short term. When you go home, right, and you want to start a new business, or you have a girl that you’re bringing back, and your friends and your family are like, she’s not going to last or like this isn’t going to this isn’t going to be forever. They are right. Literally, every single time, except for the one time you bring your wife home. And in that time, they’re all wrong.

And it’s the one time that matters.

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It takes more effort to start in the beginning and more people are right about the fact, they’re like, hey, you’re not gonna hit it big. And guess what? A month in, you’re not, but they’re only measuring on months. And at six months, you’re also not gonna have hit it big yet and they’re gonna be like, I’m still right. And at a year, you’re still not gonna have hit it big and they’ll still be right. And every day that you haven’t hit it, they’re gonna feel like they were right, but they’re wrong because they’re measuring in days and you’re measuring in decades.

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Sometimes four years of college and a degree is part of your path to get where you’re going, if for no other reason to teach you discipline. I have to study, I have to do finals. I can’t go to that party, I can’t go there, I can’t do that because I’m having a hard time in chemistry, it doesn’t come easy. And so I’ve got to discipline myself and I have to sit down and I have to spend this evening studying so I can pass that test tomorrow while all my friends are out partying and having fun. You gotta have some personal discipline. You gotta have personal discipline in work.

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What do you want to be? A giant infant with a gold bottle? You never have to do anything but lay in your back and suck? It’s like… Well, you see the problem with that as a conceptualization. It’s no, you want to be like an active warrior moving uphill with your sword in hand. And that’s dynamic, that’s exciting. And that’s why so many young men disappear into video games. That’s all acted out in the video game. So, they have to act that out in their own life. Not that I despise video games, because I don’t, but they’re not a substitute for life.

They might be good training under some conditions for life.

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But the thing is, is because of the false positives or the true positives, they might’ve been right literally 19 out of 20 times. And if they were right the first time and the second time and the third time and the fourth time, why would they bet against no on the fifth time or the 50th time? But you only need one yes or one positive to change your entire life. And so there’s this habit and that’s where cynicism comes from, where we get so many positive reinforcers for saying no and being right. But it’s only short-term being right, because you have to make big bets to win big.

And that also means that you’re wrong plenty of times and people aren’t willing to look stupid for being wrong. This school bet could go wrong. I’m betting it’s not, but everything has risk. And I’ve been public about it, right? And so like, if anything, but like I’ve played this out. So like, I’ll tell you how I played this out. I was like, if it goes wrong, I’ll document the things that I learned and then I’ll apply next time. And I’ll do what I’ve always done, state the facts and tell the truth.

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Long as you don’t surrender, as long as you don’t give up, as long as you don’t quit, then you haven’t failed.

just means you’ve made a Temporary tactical retreat, means you’ve made a brief withdraw so that you can regroup and re-attack. so, As far as I’m concerned, if you get beat, unless you’re dead, you are not defeated And you have not failed. what you’ve done is: you’ve learned, You’ve, you’ve gained experience

And you’re still alive

and you have memories to make.

So get up And go, get after it.

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The only way you’re ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow. To grow, you must suffer. And some people will get it and some people won’t. But they have to see what their journey is to start their journey. Several people live to be 100 years old and they have great lives and they have great kids. Their kids go to college and all sorts of stuff. But somewhere in their life, there was a point where they had a decision to make. They can go left or right on this path. Left was the easy route. Right was the hard route.

A lot of people take the easy route and they had a good life that way. But the better life was going to the right side. And you may have 20 years of pain and suffering to get past it. But a lot of us die never truly starting our journey. And I would tell this young person, you got to start your journey. It may suck, but it will. It will come out the other side where you’re coasting.

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You know what it’s like to be poor, and you know what it’s like to work hard. Now you’re gonna learn what it’s like to sweep floors and bust your ass, and accomplish twice as much as all the kids around you. And it won’t mean anything because they will still look down on you. And you will want so much for them to like you, and they just won’t. And it’ll break your heart, and that’ll make your heart bigger and open your eyes, and finally you will realize that there’s more to life than proving you’re the smartest person in the world. I’m sorry, Malcolm, but you don’t get the easy path.

You don’t get to just have fun and be rich and live the life of luxury.

Unbelievable. You actually expect me to be president. No, no, I’m sorry. You expect me to be one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States.

You look me in the eye, and you tell me you can’t do it.

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It’s like, I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else professionally other than what I’m doing right now. I love this. And this is what, you know, I feel fulfills me. And I feel excited every single day to do it. And I feel sorry, you know, for people that, especially people in leadership jobs that are checked out or they’re not energetic about it. They don’t have the passion in it because they shouldn’t be in it if they don’t have the passion and the will. Because then the people look up at the top and they’re like, I don’t want to be like that. Or this isn’t making me happy.

This culture isn’t lifting me to be the best version of myself.

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And when you set a dream and you say, this is what I’m going to do, I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that, and you make a plan, and the plans are good. But if you come to a certain point where there’s a tree across the road or the bridge is out, you can’t say, well, there goes my dream. You’ve got to be flexible. Well, what am I going to do? What adjustments am I going to make to be able to still get to where I’m going, to be what I want to be? You need some flexibility. You need discipline. You need personal discipline.

There’s times when you don’t feel like doing what needs to be done to get this done.

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And you focus on the speed bumps of the daily activities, losing sight of their true purpose. When you lose sight of the purpose, you give too much value of what the pain is today. We always invest today, sacrifice today for tomorrow’s betterment. But if we don’t know what that betterment is, the want factor, what we’re really doing it for, we can’t win this war, guys.

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You see this guy here staring back at you? Yeah. That’s your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that’s who you’re going against. I believe that in boxing, and I do believe that in life. OK? I’m going to throw a jab in the jaw. All right, one to the gut. Now, every time you punch this guy, what’s he doing? Staring him back at me. That’s right. So either you block it, slip it, or get out of the way.

So… I’ll leave you two alone for a while.

Good luck.

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Then there’s a small percentage that had a medical problem, and then there’s a small percentage that got performance dropped. Meaning they couldn’t perform the runs, the swims, the technical aspects of the job, and they failed, and they get dropped. But the vast majority of people, they quit, but they don’t usually say that. And even in their mind, they probably don’t believe it. They probably believe, well, it was my leg, and once my leg was hurting, I knew I was going to have a hard time on the runs, and since I wasn’t going to be able to make the runs, that’s why I quit.

But it wasn’t really quitting, it was because of my leg.

So it’s, like I said, it’s a very strange and really kind of a mystical thing.

Excuses. You’re talking there about people making excuses. What have you come to learn about the nature of excuses, and if they are our friends, our enemies, if they’re ever useful?

Your excuses will destroy you and take everything that you ever wanted from you, if you let them. Thank you.

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Listen, getting successful, whatever you consider successful, if it’s rich, whatever, it’s not a magic trick. It’s not God picks certain people he’ll make rich and certain people he don’t. He gives all of us as his children the power of choice. You have a say-so in that. You can decide to be rich, and with God’s help, it’s highly doable. But you first have to think it. The difference between successful people and non-successful people is here. I’m no better than none of y’all. I’m not a better person than you. I’m not a better Christian than you. God don’t love me more than you. None of that.

If you want to be successful, you have to change this. This has to change.

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Give up that war. You know the war that you have to really fight? It’s the war against yourself. You have to fight the war against yourself. Now it’s not easy to look in the mirror and to change your own life. It’s hard as hell. You have to take responsibility. You have to learn new things. You have to feel uncomfortable. Good, because discomfort is how we grow. That’s how we become strong. If you run away from discomfort and resistance your whole life, you will always be weak. Just think about the gym for instance. That’s where I learned most of my lessons, right?

The muscles only grow from resistance. You have to struggle. You have to build strength. The more I force my hands against that steel bar, the bigger the biceps get and the stronger they get.

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But the brave person is simply the person who moves forward and keeps taking the chance. And you cannot imagine a successful person without courage. You cannot imagine a successful person without the courage to face and confront their fears and to move forward. In my experience, the fear of failure is the greatest single reason for failure in adult life. The fear of failure, the fear of making a mistake, of losing our money, our time, our effort is what paralyzes us and holds us back. But the fear of failure is a habit which can be counteracted by the habit of courage.

And if we don’t overcome that fear of failure, then we’ll just be like the 80, 90% that do not fulfill their potential. See, the wonderful thing is only a few percentage of people fulfill their potential in any generation. And we can join those people simply by deciding to do so and doing what the other people do. It’s as simple as that. If we decide to become an engineer, what do you study? You study engineering. If you want to become a better cook, what do you do? You study cooking. Do you try to do it all by yourself? No, you get cookbooks, you take classes, and so on and so forth.

If you want to be successful, if you want to fulfill your potential, study the men and women who are fulfilling their potential and just do what they do.

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You had nobody anyway, mother fucker. Look around you. There was no fucking team. It was you. There was no weight loss program or mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it. You can be better. Trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. You did that. So as times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as fuck. It’s real. It’s tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I’m reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. That is what people don’t get.

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Too many of you guys waste way too much time worried about what’s going on with other people. And yeah, I understand it can make you jealous. And yeah, I understand it can piss you off. And yeah, I can understand that it ain’t fair, but guess what? Life is not fucking fair. And you all worry about this like it is. You’re expecting something that will never be. It will never be fair. It will never, ever, ever, ever, ever be fair, ever. Now what? Are you gonna sit on the sideline and cry about how it’s not fair?

Are you gonna write emails into the show and say, Andy, this isn’t fair, what should I do? Or are you going to say, well, it’s not fair. It’s my job to be undeniably great at what I do because if I’m undeniably great at what I do, then it doesn’t really matter if they recognize me here because they’ll recognize me in other places if that’s what I need to do as well.

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I’ve lost in kickboxing, I’ve lost in boxing, I’ve lost in life, I’ve lost in love, I’ve lost in family. Like life is, you know, you don’t just win all the time, it’s wins and losses. So you just, you roll with the punches, pun. But you know, it is what it is. I didn’t really, I don’t think about these things like, this was an option. In another parallel universe, I’m the double champ and it all went, you know, the way I expected it to. But in this one, I didn’t come, I came up short tonight, but you know, I’m still here. When I go home, my team is still there, they love me.

They don’t, nothing changes, you know, my family, my loved ones, they, I just called all of them the ones that I give a about and they all love me. When I go home and I see Toothless and Millie, they’re gonna see me and lick me and they’ll still love me. So that’s all that matters. And at the end of the day, I leave here with a few mil and I’m happy about that.

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I was struggling, I was crying out loud in pain. You know something? Your mind and your character are no different than your body and your muscles. If you want to grow as a person, you really have to make friends with pain. Embrace the discomfort, enjoy the struggle. You have two paths in front of you right now. One of them is going to be the harder one today. It’s going to be downright painful. You will have to force your brain to think in new ways. You might lose some friends who want to hold on to their weak beliefs. But as you pull yourself away from that anger and that hate,

eventually you will start to feel empowered. You will realize that you have the greatest power of all, the power to change your own life. You will be stronger than you’ve ever known.

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I don’t want you to be a loser. I don’t want you to be weak. See, I’ve spent most of my life helping people find their strength. This is where the action is strength. And despite all of the things that we may disagree about and all my friends who might say, Arnold, don’t talk to those people. It’s not worth it. I don’t care what they say. I care about you. I think you’re worth it. I know that nobody is perfect. I can tell this first hand. And I can understand how people can fall into a trap of prejudice and hate.

Whether you grow up surrounded by hate or get sucked into by some of big tech’s algorithms that push you to the extreme, I can see how it can happen. I think all of us hold some prejudice. There’s no two ways about that. And we have to fight it our whole lives.

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We are leaving a lot on the table. My book is called Can’t Hurt Me. Why is it called Can’t Hurt Me? Life isn’t fair. We have to understand that. It shouldn’t be fair. It’s a trial ground, it’s a testing ground. It’s built to make us harder. It’s built to make us as strong as we can, to test us, to drive us. So, mentality is the only thing that gets us through life. I was an underdog. We are all underdogs in life. Even the baddest person in the world should think that way. So you should always have I’ve never arrived mentality. And the can’t hurt me mentality, is no matter where you come from,

the sewer or wherever you think you’re from, when I got out of the sewer, I got to the road and looked around and said, can’t hurt me. Nothing should be able to hurt you. If you believe that, it starts to become true.

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It’s not, what makes it hard is your lack of belief that it can happen for you. The fact of it is though, it’s very doable. See, but you gotta change though. If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’re gonna keep getting what you’ve been getting. So if you’re at a place in your life and you ain’t happy with it, you have to change some things. But you have to make a conscientious decision that you’re going to change. And it’s not dependent on anybody else. It don’t matter what your mama think, it don’t matter what your coworkers think,

it don’t matter what your siblings think, it don’t matter what your children think, it don’t matter.

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Because repetition is what taught me everything. So you can honestly outwork anything.

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When somebody would start talking about why something was gonna be hard or why it wouldn’t work or how complicated it was or what was going to make something so difficult, what we’d say is, we don’t care about any of that.

We don’t care about any of that. Which is an awesome saying. People get so focused on why things won’t work and what might go wrong. And if you’re not careful, those things can really, they can really trip you up. And you can start to wonder if your plan is even feasible. Or you might get overly concerned with some possible contingencies or you can start to overthink and overcomplicate things.

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Great expression of courage is to persist in the face of adversity, to persist when things really get rough, to be able to pick yourself up and pick yourself up over and over again. And believe me, if you decide to go for the goal in your life, you’re going to get knocked down over and over and over and over again. Every single week, you’re going to have heartaches and disappointments and frustrations and setbacks and obstacles, but without those obstacles, no success is possible. You see, the only way we can be successful is if we develop momentum.

and we cannot develop the momentum unless we are struggling with obstacles, and struggle with adversity goes hand in hand with all great success.

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I know I’m going to do it. That’s the haunting part is that it’s going to happen. It has to happen. And that’s a fact. Like, there’s no get out of jail free card, bro. None. Like, that is a life that I don’t know. I don’t have that ability or I have the ability, I don’t have the… I’m not good enough, smart enough. I’m not talented enough to do that. Some people are. Some people can start at one. Some people don’t have to start at all. If you lack talent, you can’t sit back and say, I’ll start in half an hour. I can’t do that. I got to start now.

And then after I get back from starting, I got to start again.

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You can be upset in the moments after the game. If we win, it’s always better. But if you win, if I score, I will be a little bit more happy. I have to be honest. I’m not going to be like that. It’s not true. No. Or if you lost in the game, you have to show during this period that you are pissed. It’s part of… But next day, I’m very capable and I learn that, listen, Cristiano, let’s go. Life continues. Past is past. It never comes again. The present, it’s the best gift that we have in our life. The present. Because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. You don’t know. I don’t know.

He don’t know. So live the present.

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A lot of self-work can be summarized into thoughts aren’t true, feelings don’t require actions, things aren’t good or bad, they just are, our greatest enemy is ignorance, to change your life, change your surroundings, our actions, not our pasts, define who we are. I think that’s pretty much, probably 95% of self-work. I stand by my statement. Thoughts aren’t true, feelings don’t require action, things aren’t good or bad, they just are, our greatest enemy is ignorance, to change your life, change your surroundings, our actions, not our pasts, define who we are.

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And so many people spend so much time worried about what other people are doing that they never become great at what they do. And so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And the nepotism and the brother or the son or whoever’s ahead of you, stays ahead of you because you’re so worried about what that person’s doing and not worried at all about developing your own skillset. And this is what holds so many people back. So if I were you, I would have come to Jesus myself and say this, well, it’s not fair. So how do I make it as fair as possible for me?

Well, you make it as fair as possible for you by being great at what you do. And that takes you not looking at them, but looking at what it is that you do, how good you actually are, and making the adjustments to be great from the position that you are currently in. And if everybody did this, your career and your life and everything else will go much better.

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If you don’t believe it, this body can’t do it. If you believe it, this body has unlimited potential of what it can do. We’ve seen throughout history, the Olympics right now, the average man trained, pushed beyond his capabilities to something that no one’s ever thought possible. And he’s standing there at the testament that yes, it can be done. And yes, you can do it too. If you stop getting everything confused inside, allowing all these excuses to come in saying, oh I can’t do this, I can’t do that. You can do it. Why would you ever say you can’t until you go out there and try it?

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What is the thing that you don’t need to focus on volume today? The goal is not to try and fit 10 podcasts into one set. It’s to make this one as good as possible. But if it’s shorts or reels or tweets or something, it’s lower leverage, it’s lower input. Just get it out there. All right, next one. Here’s how to get older without getting better. Keep relearning the same lesson. If you keep making the same mistake over and over, the mistake isn’t the problem. You are.

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But I am saying that sometimes, especially with like little things, little low-risk things, that people are sweating the details on, like what workout of the day will produce optimum results? Or what heart rate is best for my cardio development? Or when will you be able to get the best deal on that piece of gear that you need? Or where should we go for dinner tonight? Or when’s the most favorable time to get started? Or what’s the most advantageous way to do whatever?

Lots of questions you can ask yourself, and sometimes it’s a good option just to say, I don’t care about any of that, and go execute.

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Wait when things go completely to pieces when things are the worst when your very best deal falls apart and your rent is late and You’re tired and you’re sick and everybody is mad at you and your car doesn’t work Then it’s the person that picks themself up and says nothing is going to stop me You know, you know the best quality in the world that you can develop and I give it to you because I made it my Life’s habit to develop this call. I hope I’ve got it. I don’t know for sure, but the quality is to develop the quality of being unstoppable.

Develop the quality of being unstoppable say in yourself that no matter what life throws at me It’ll never stop me no matter how rough it gets I will never quit and nothing will ever stop me make the decision that you can be tired You can be worn out, but nothing is ever going to stop you That’s a wonderful decision because then no matter what life throws at you you pick yourself up and you say, okay Give it, you know, do give it your best shot as Fonzie says nothing is going to stop you. It’s a wonderful feeling It’s a wonderful feeling. It’s a, it’s the basis of self-esteem You

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some games and some moments you’re getting a little bit more upset. For example, after the Euros to eliminate penalties against France, it takes two days because it’s a special moment, pressure. But that’s it. Listen, third day, go back to the gym, work, because you have more to show. You understand? Life continues. You cannot live in the past. I’m really good on that. You understand? I learned by the years that, listen, Cristiano, let’s go. Because of pain, you’re going to have all the time uncertainty and constant work. Constant work. Constant work.

It doesn’t matter what’s going to happen in your life. You have to continue. This is the way I see the life and football, especially.

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It doesn’t matter what’s going to happen in your life. You have to continue. This is the way I see the life and football, especially.

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You know that when you get done doing the hard thing, it’s gonna feel better. Waking up, working out, taking care of some tedious task. You know you will feel better when it is done. You know that. You also know that if you don’t do the hard thing, the thing that you don’t wanna do, that you don’t feel like doing, you know if you don’t do it, you’re going to feel inferior. You know you’re gonna feel weak.

And that feeling, that horrible feeling, you know that feeling too. You know it. You know it’s true.

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Well, think about when you build willpower and think about how much I’ve built. Now that you know about this, I didn’t know about this, but think about how much I’ve built. Everything I’ve ever done in my life, I didn’t want to do. Everything, every day. I’m a lazy piece of shit. And I’m one of the hardest working people to ever step foot on this planet Earth. And I’m saying that very proudly because I know what I do. It’s not cocky. I’ll tell you I’m stupid. And I’ll also tell you the exact opposite of what I’ve done. It’s the truth. It is the truth.

So imagine how much I’ve developed in that time frame.

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There’s no losing, only learning. There’s no failure, only opportunities. And there’s no problems, only solutions. So to me, what failure is, failure is the mother of all success. If it wasn’t for Michael Jordan getting cut from his ninth grade basketball team, he wouldn’t have became Michael Jordan.

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Who’s the person that you care about the most in this world?

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Who’s the person that you care about the most in this world?

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I can do whatever I want to do. And we kind of have a younger generation now that doesn’t always get told no. They don’t always get told this is exactly how you need to do it. So they have this illusion that they have all these choices. But the fact of the matter is, is if you want to be good, you really don’t have a lot of choices because it takes what it takes. You have to do what you have to do to be successful. So you have to make the choices and decisions to have the discipline and the focus to the process of what you need to do to accomplish your goals.

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I’m out running at 2 o’clock in the morning, 1 o’clock in the morning, in the gym, long sessions by myself. That’s real. How I’m able to just extract dopamine, the good dopamine whenever I want, man, I’ve trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on the back. I did all of the work alone. And while I’m still hard on myself, I know what I did. So whenever times get bad for me, people, all this, who’s going to carry the boats and all, that’s real. I hate that people know me for that guy because that guy is not every fucking day. Like when they see me, they want that energy.

That’s not me every day. I can extract it immediately when I need to because when you train alone, and I lived alone for so many years in this misery and you’re able to get out by yourself, I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion.

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the more I’ve tried to create space between how I feel and what I do, the more consistent my outcomes have been. So if I need to create content and I’m not feeling it or I’m feeling tired or things like that, the more times I give into that excuse or that feeling, then the more superstitious I become about doing it in the future. Whereas a lot of times if I can just start when I am tired or when something is painful, and then still execute about the same as before, I look at game tape or I look at video or I look at the content from those sessions,

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Once you change one thing- your mindset- You can attack everything and I find it fascinating. I’m fascinated Because I’ll be in these moments. I put these guys on some pedestal. Yeah, which people do with you? They do with me and they shouldn’t. and I was this guy who was patient look at these like God How are you guys? It’s amazing. But once I worked my way up there. That’s it. My god man, We can all compete. mother, let’s go. So do I like suffering? I like suffering in the way that is Competitive. Yep, that brings out the absolute best in me and in everybody else.

So like I want to see a man be defeated. I want to see a man get broken and say: fuck you. I love these men, These men I love, but there’s very few of them.

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When you feel that pressure inside of you and it’s very heavy, like weather that’s very heavy and thick, you’re motivated, you feel it, I’ve got to get up in the morning, I’ve got to do this, I’ve got to accomplish this. When that pressure goes away and you don’t feel any pressure in your life, you can do anything and there’s no consequences for it. You’ll just waste time, you’ll waste years, you’ll waste months, you’ll never accomplish anything. You give somebody a deadline, they’ll accomplish in two months what it would take somebody two years to do without a deadline.

It’s that necessity, it’s that sense of there’s a sword at my back, I’ve got to get it done. It makes you get things done, it gives you the energy.

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I like to see people do well. I’ve been around a while, I know what it takes to do what you do. And I know that things don’t just happen. It’s not just luck. You have to create that luck. You have to will it into existence. And I want you to know that I am always rooting for you. I’m rooting for all of you. The better you do in life and in your work, the better every studio does, the better every film does, the better we all do, the better it is for everyone. So I look forward to seeing what you create in the future.

And I will continue to do all that I can to contribute and help this industry and this art form that I love.

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I failed I go back to scratch. I use some positive motivation. I have like one day where I’m like can defeat it But I started realizing this is part of the process. This is part of the journey I had to realize this is part of my process versus just saying like I used to I’m it’s not good enough If I’m not good enough, we always say that I’m it’s not good enough and then we try something else I’m gonna make myself good enough and that became my mentality. I’m gonna make myself good enough. And so I’m misunderstood a lot,

But that’s that’s all it came down to I made myself good enough and the days I couldn’t run that far the next week I would do two days So on the running if I ran a quarter of a mile, I wait a couple hours. It haunt me, bother me. I try to run a half mile next time same day. You can do more than this. if I had to walk, had to walk, it just became just a process of Grinding and grinding, and grinding is not even a good word for it.

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if I could work that hard every day,

with being blessed with the physical tools that I have, what would my career be? And I made a promise to myself from that day that I was gonna work that hard every single day so that when I do retire, I have no regrets. And that was the most important thing for me, is to leave no stone unturned, get better every single day. And if I live that way, then over time, I’d have something that was beautiful. But that was my philosophy. It seems like a pretty simple one. but if you live your life to just get better every single day, and do that for 20 years, I mean, what do you have?

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And a year from now, it’s going to happen like that. And who is your future self? One year from now, who is it? Just like everyone’s out of here, go party Saturday night. They’re not willing to sacrifice. I’m like the lone survivor in here. You know, tonight will be over with two. Tomorrow I’ll be stronger for it. Another day will go by. 365 of them happen so f***ing fast. Who are you going to be in a year from now? And in a year from now, does that future person hold regret or pride? We know that day is coming. We can’t go backwards. We can only go forward.

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Why most people don’t want to do that, build that willpower, is because this Gary. It unlocks a whole bunch of things about who you are and who you’re not. A lot of people don’t want to go down that journey to discover who they are and who they’re not because it’s not a pretty journey. I mean, I’ve gone down it. It’s not like I went down it once. I go down it all the time. When you unlock that, and you can’t just turn it off. People say, hey, how come you haven’t retired yet? I built all this willpower.

Do you think it’s going to let me just retire because my knees hurt? It’s telling me every morning, I wake up, I’m like, man, my knees hurt, my legs hurt, my body hurts, but you can still run. So why aren’t you running? If you can still run, there’ll be a time when you can’t lace them up anymore, but you can still run. So I still run.

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that all they can do is learn and come back bigger, better, stronger. Because all it’s going to do is lead you in the right direction. See, if you’re always winning, then you don’t really understand what it is to win.

You got to take those losses. You got to take those hits. There’s got to be the valleys, the peaks, the ups,

the downs in order for you to, when it does happen, you go, wow, conigo, que rico. This is what it’s all about. And not only that, it’s never about making it, guys. It’s always about maintaining it. That’s the toughest part. So to anybody here that feels that they left losing something, no, all you did was gain. And not only did you gain, understand, they say that to be wise is to know what you don’t know. So therefore, coming here and not knowing certain things that maybe didn’t lead you to the prize, but in the grand scheme of things, 10 years from now,

God knows what the grand prize may be, three to five years from now.

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But it’s like, do you want to do this or not? Which is what I think a lot of it boils down to. Do you actually want to do this or not? Do you actually want to do this or not? Because if you actually want to do it, what’s going to stop you? Nothing. And if you don’t really want to do it, what’s going to stop you? Just about anything that comes up. Just about any obstacle that gets in your way becomes an excuse. It becomes a reason. It comes a rationale for not proceeding down that path. And this is interesting too. When you talk to people that went to SEAL training, that didn’t make it,

most of the time it’s some reason. There’s a medical reason. There’s a family problem. There’s very few people that look at you and say, oh, I quit because it sucked. Which is what, by the way, which is what happens to the vast majority of people. The vast majority of people that don’t make it through SEAL training, and by this I mean 80, 90% of the people that don’t make it through SEAL training, they didn’t make it through because they quit.

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Those are the two outcomes.

One will cause you some short-term gratification.

You’ll get to sleep a little bit more. You won’t have to put out during a workout. You don’t have to do this tedious task.

You’ll get some short-term gratification, but the long-term regret will be strong,

and it will inflict pain on you.

The other outcome is the positive outcome,

is when you do what you’re supposed to do.

You do what you know you need to do to move forward. And when you do that thing,

you know you’re going to feel strong, and you’re going to feel gratified, and you’re going to feel worthy of this life.

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I’m going to put the work in. I’m going to become great. I’m going to worry about myself. I’m going to take more reps. I’m going to spend more time in film. I’m going to spend more time in the weight room. I’m going to get better. And you know what happened? He becomes the greatest of all time because he’s not looking over here and he’s not looking over there. He’s looking right in front of him. So what he could control to improve his situation. And guess what? That works for everybody. but we spend so much time looking over here and looking over there and what if and what if I do that?

And you know, these are, this is a different circumstance. We make all these excuses instead of just buckling down and saying, I am going to become great at this and whatever happens as a result of that is what happens. And I can tell you that the result of becoming great at anything is always good. It’s never, you don’t go backwards.

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is that your true beliefs are only and always expressed in your actions. It is not what you say or what you intend that tells what you believe, but only what you do. Your actions are always the true measure. And the interesting thing that we’ve learned in behavioral psychology is this, that if you do not feel self-confident, courageous, consistent, like concentrating, clear, and so on, if you don’t feel like it, and most of us start off not feeling like it, if you will act the part, if you will pretend as though you have the quality already,

the feelings will generate the actions, and the actions will generate the feelings. That if you will act, walk, talk, and live by the same principles and do the same things that successful men and women do, even if you doubt yourself in the initial stages, eventually you will come to the point where you actually feel to the bottom of your soul like a successful, positive, confident, cheerful, optimistic, unstoppable human being.

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you create your own self. Most people are missing something because there’s so much trapped in there. I don’t even wanna say potential. I think that’s word used out too much too. There’s so much in you that God or wherever the hell you believe in, or if you’re an atheist, in you, that you have not unlocked, that you walk around with this gorgeous wife or great husband and all this money, and you’re like, God, I feel like I’m missing something. Yeah, because it’s about 75% of you is still in there, still chained up because you just didn’t wanna find your willpower,

didn’t wanna find your soul, your will, your heart, your determination, your guts, your courage. And what that looks like, it looks scary. Like your little scary lab I went in, scary. To wake up every day and say: I’m stupid, but I wanna figure out a way to be smarter, versus saying, man, I just can’t do that. So you limit this box. So your box becomes so small of things you can do.

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You couldn’t tell if they were down 17 or up 20 or a tie game. It never changed. And I was wondering why the hell that is. And that’s when I started doing more research. And when Phil came, I immediately gravitated to it. And then found myself accepting the challenge of finding what that space is. And so my mind was really trying to go to a place where I don’t feel that pain.

And the game started. And because of that, I was just in a different space. I wasn’t worried about what was to come. I wasn’t worried about what just happened. I was just here. And when you’re just there in the moment, playing plays right in front of you, your focus is heightened because nothing else matters. And that’s the space I’ve tried to get to.

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We know that day is coming. What we do right now, we’ll ensure it goes our way. We’ll ensure that there is no regret. That’s something you can’t ever fucking fix. It’s a debate inside your head that never stops. We’re gonna learn from past regrets. We’ll ensure we don’t re-regret them. We’ll ensure we don’t go out tonight. We stay in here, even if no one else is here, and then it’ll push you a little bit further. There’s still work to be done. The party I might smile at tonight, the laughter I might be had tonight,

is a huge distant second to the fucking pride one feels of accomplishing their goals. And here, even though it’s painful, it’s joyful, because I can taste it, I see it clear, I’m closer to it. A year will come with great honor, not great regret.

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Remember that the pain right now will absolutely pay off in the future.

And the capitulation and the conceding defeat to weakness, that will absolutely result in the pain of regret and remorse later. You know this to be true, so don’t allow it.

Remember the feeling of victory that comes from doing the right thing, the hard thing. Remember that feeling and then go get it done.

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People say you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. False. He said, if I dehydrate the horse, I salt its mouth, I put it in the heat, and I put its face one inch away from water, I can veritably guarantee that it will drink. And I think about that visual all the time when I think about myself as the horse. And I think to myself, what is the behavior that I want, drinking water? And what is the salt in my mouth? And what is the dehydration, the motivation for this behavior that I can create? And so I am not a believer in free will.

I believe that we respond to the conditions that we’ve had, and then we learn behaviors as a result of those things. And so, for example, I could get everyone in here, the entire crew to get naked, guarantee you I could do it. All I would do is I’d just crank up the temperature and I’d wait. And eventually everyone would get naked. It would happen.

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If you wanna see Sports Center, Sports Center channel 46, and you press four six and okay or select, what do you expect to come on your TV? Sports Center, and guess what show up? Sports Center. They got the concept of creating a remote from the Bible. See God is tied to all of this. You better understand what I’m trying to tell you now. The Bible says a man is as he thinketh. God created us in his image. God thought of this world. He thought of it, so he created it. So he made you just like him, that your thoughts can create things.

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The other path is easy, much easier. You don’t have to change anything. Everything in your life that you aren’t happy about can be someone else’s fault. You can keep fueling yourself on the sugar high of hate. But the end of that road isn’t pretty. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. You will end up broken, searching for ways to numb your pain and your misery. See, I don’t want you to go through all of that. It’s unnecessary. So, the bottom line is I don’t care how many hateful things you may have written online.

I don’t care how often you have marched with carrying that hateful flag. Or what hateful things you may have said in anger. There is still hope for you. There is still time for you.

Choose strength. Choose life. Conquer your mind. You can do it.

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It’s easier to make excuses that the Jewish people conspired to hold you back than it is to admit that you just needed to work harder. It’s easier to hate than it is to learn. It’s easier when someone challenges you to get hurty feelings and to go and find some echo chamber that will tell you that you are right and they are wrong. But remember, easier isn’t better. It isn’t. When you spend your life looking for scapegoats, you take away your own responsibility. You remove your own power. You steal your own strength.

Nobody who has chosen the easy path of hate has gotten to the end of that road and said oh, what a life. No. They die as miserably as they lived. No matter how far you’ve gone, I want you to know that you still have the chance to choose a life of strength. But you have to give up your war against everyone that you hate.

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best way to work out how the human memory system works is repeated recall, not repeated exposure. You have to drag it out of memory and use it, not just see it a million times. And this is kind of the same thing with The Lesson. You can listen to any of the podcasts that exist on the internet, or the ones that we’ve done, or the ones that you love, or whatever, and if you don’t apply anything, it’s a waste of time. And the best solution for this is Tim Ferriss’s The Good Sh** Sticks. Look, what’s the thing from the podcast, or the book, or the audiobook,

or the whatever that you read or listen to that you can’t stop thinking about? That you go to bed and you think about it? That you took a screenshot or a screen recording and sent it in the group chat? That you like texted your mum about it at three in the morning? Oh, this really explains the way that I felt in school, or the way that I felt when such and such broke up with me, or whatever. That’s the thing. That’s the thing to focus on.

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When the time comes I can’t run, the body will say, you just can’t run. But if I can still do something, that willpower that I have created, it makes me do it every fucking day. And that’s what they don’t get. What builds a human being is you start with the small building blocks. And before you know it, man, you become something that you, it doesn’t even make sense to most people because it’s just who you are now. That’s why I can still run at 50, at 49, with broke down knees and broke down body. Because my body knows you still can, therefore I do. Second you stop, the willpower is gone.

And that’s beautiful. I’m so glad you brought that to me because I always wonder, what’s this separation thing now? At 24 years old, I started building something that I didn’t even know was going to be what it is now at 49. And that’s all it was, was just that.

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You know what I’m sick and tired of, Harry?

I’m sick and tired of having to eke my way through life.

Sick and tired of being a nobody.

But most of all,

I’m sick and tired of having nobody.

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He said, if you think someone’s ruined your life, you’re right. It’s you.

Like, that’s a mic drop, isn’t it? That’s such a great line. And, you know, gratitude is the cure for that. There’s a great definition of entitlement,

which is where you are now and where you want to be. If you want to do something about it, that’s ambition.

Where you are now, where you want to be, if you think that’s someone else’s problem, that’s entitlement.

And I think if we’re honest, there’s always a little bit of that going on. Like, there’s a lot of people in my industry that would, you know, their career isn’t where they think it should be. And, oh, I need to get a new agent.

Really? You think that might be the problem?

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You know why it’s Jim’s energy right now? It’s not because it’s hot out, summer time, and it’s like 90 some degrees in here. No, that’s not the reason why. It’s because they’ve already quit mentally. They quit before they got the weather report. The weather report just encouraged them to stay quitted. If that’s even a word. People quit, guys, because their focus is off, mental focus is off. Meaning they’ve started a journey, right? And all they focus on is how far they have to still go. Instead of looking at how far they’ve already come.

If you look at how far you gotta go, it’s like, oh my god, another mile? Then you look back and say, I’ve already gone 18 miles? Another mile, no problem. But if you never focus on the past and realize all those things you’ve overcome to get where you are, that this is ahead always seems like a forever journey. It’s the reality of mental perception that dictates the physical attributes of action.

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I don’t need anyone. That’s why people come to me to motivate them. No one can motivate me. I have a resume full of motivation that whenever I’m down, like, oh, hang on, mother. Oh, you know, you know the truth. You know the truth, you know the darkness of the fucking dungeons and the demons that fly. You know, and then from there, it’s like, okay, you were there, you know this. There was no one there to pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat, to pick up the log, it was you, it was you. There was no patting the back at 300, at 275, at 250, at 220. No, that was you.

So those things that come out of me, that extract from me in the darkness, people are looking for that pat on the back. Where is it? Oh, I don’t need it. Because what I’ve done is in the fucking unseen work, I’ve built Frankenstein. So whenever it gets nasty, David Goggins goes, you had no body anyway, motherfucker.

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Hey, don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something not even me.

All right,

You got a dream, You got to protect it people can’t do something themselves. They want to tell you you can’t do it.

You want something, go get it, period.

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there is no fundamental like secret here. It’s called hard work and sweat. If you have that and you’re willing to provide that in exchange for a better life, well everyone will make that deal with you. If you’re willing to give up that for

pride, accomplishment, feeling of self-worth, if you’re willing to make that transaction, Miami Fitness is your bank and it’s open every single day for your transactions. Make your deposits every fucking day. Do your dues. Become the person you want to be. It’s the easiest fucking equation in the world.

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I think certainly being focused on something that you’re confident will have high value to someone else and just being really rigorous in making that assessment because people tend to, natural human tendency is wishful thinking. So a challenge for entrepreneurs is to say, well what’s the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them versus pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn’t actually have merit. That is a really difficult thing to tell. Can you tell the difference between those two things? So you need to be very rigorous in your self-analysis.

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You can hesitate for one second to get started on something. A workout, a project, a task, something that you know you should do. You can hesitate for one second. That one second of hesitation, all of a sudden it turns into five seconds. And then 10 seconds. And then 10 minutes. And then just like that, you drifted into the eternity zone. One second became an eternity because something that was gonna happen is now never gonna happen, ever. Why is that? Because you hesitated. You hesitated. So don’t take that chance. Instead, take action. Take action. A body in motion tends to stay in motion.

A body at rest tends to stay at rest. You’ve had enough damn rest. Go take action.

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Every time you wanted to quit, every time life tried to break you, you chose to stand tall. That’s what makes you great. Today ain’t just about a piece of paper. It’s about the grind, the sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whispered when nobody was watching. It’s all about those moments when you could have folded but you didn’t. You see, the underdog story is the realest story there is because when you come from nothing, you appreciate everything. You hustle different, you love different, and you lead different.

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But I’m amazed at what a human being can actually do so when I start talking to myself in the third person It’s strictly because I know that I literally made this human being out of Out of just like a whole bunch of scraps And I wasn’t you know, I wasn’t a mechanic. I wasn’t a carpenter. So I know how to do any this shit You know, I wasn’t trained and how to build a human being from nothing You know, like my mom didn’t train me. My dad didn’t train me life didn’t train me. Well, life, Life did train me correction and I started putting this scrap metal together Like I want what’s gonna happen,

you know The first year I try to do is all fucked up And after a while I started learning more and more and more through pain and suffering start learning norm just learning so much about stuff Before I knew it man. I built this beautiful car I’m like, how the fuck did I do that? And I knew how I know how to do it because I have all the tools Through all the failure. I went through trying to build this person who’s Nick Goggins. Mm-hmm.

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Even if the thing that you’re working on right now doesn’t amount to the outcome that you expected that it would, it doesn’t mean that you don’t become better through doing it.

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I thought, what kind of purpose do I have to live? I mean, are you just here to live to die? I mean, is there not a purpose for me? Is there not a purpose in life? And I had questions and no answers. And I asked my mom and dad, why did this happen? I asked doctors, why did this happen? They don’t know. There are some things in life that are out of your control that you can’t change and you got to live with. The choice that we have though is either to give up or keep on going. I want to ask you, what are you going to believe? Are you going to believe in yourself?

Are you going to believe everybody else’s judgment on you? Are you going to believe people when they say that you’re a failure? No one really likes you, no one really cares about you. And it’s not really to say that, hey, you need someone to come up and say, hey, really, I like you, I care about you. No, it’s not that, but it’s the fact that people put you down.

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And you’re too tired or you’re too sore, or you’re just plain not feeling. it lies, lies, lies, And the list goes on and on and on,

And it doesn’t stop if you don’t make it stop. so recognize,

recognize The excuses are not valid They aren’t they’re trumped up They’re conjured up. They’re fabricated. They’re lies. And how do you stop the lies you stop the lies with the truth?

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I think that’s how you can look at any of the athletes in the world. I mean, Tiger, that guy has a busted knee and still comes and destroys the rest of the field. That’s the thing. It’s like people don’t make excuses.

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the more risk you take, the luckier you get. So people need to learn to take one big risk a day, and that could be walking up to someone and saying, would you like to go out on a date? You know, like practice that risk muscle, knock on a door and try and sell something, you know, like whatever the feeling of risk is to you, put a video up that might be embarrassing. Take a risk, you know, every day, take a risk and build up that risk muscle because risk is where success comes.

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It takes more effort to start in the beginning and more people are right about the fact, they’re like, hey, you’re not gonna hit it big. And guess what? A month in, you’re not, but they’re only measuring on months. And at six months, you’re also not gonna have hit it big yet and they’re gonna be like, I’m still fucking right. And at a year, you’re still not gonna have hit it big and they’ll still be fucking right. And every day that you haven’t hit it, they’re gonna feel like they were right, but they’re wrong because they’re measuring in days and you’re measuring in decades.

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Biting is efficient in close quarters, but don’t make a plan of biting. That is a very good way to lose your teeth. There’s so much to remember. If you try to remember, you will lose. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup. It becomes the cup. Put it into a teapot. It becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water, my friend.

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I always equated working out to struggle. And I struggled my whole life, but I ran from it. So I started realizing, man, I gotta start facing the struggle, and I gotta be mentally strong for the struggle. So that’s where I started coming up with, I’m training for life. Mentally, I’m training for life. I’m not training for, like, to lift 400 pounds. And I found out on my own, pretty much, is that through this, through discipline, through self-discipline, through repetition, through tons of repetition, the same thing that you don’t wanna do, and that’s the key thing,

through repetition of things you don’t wanna do, you develop mental, like, like an armor for your mind. Start to armor your mind, because your mind’s like, okay, we suffer, we suffer every day. It’s what we do. We do stuff that sucks every day. So then when the suck stuff comes, you’re ready for it. And that’s how I started coming up. You know, I just started being very uncomfortable. Now, it’s like a, just a way of life.

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Sun don’t stop, for nobody man. Sun don’t stop. Sun gonna be up in the morning, regardless That Sun is gonna be up in the morning. regard, regardless of how I can feel and how depressed I am, the Sun Is gonna fucking shine in the morning and a nighttime the moon won’t be there and you won’t look up. these days gonna keep going by. So do you let the days go by and look up and you don’t waste it a year doing what? What do you just pick it up? All right? Got to figure it out made some mistakes that life goes on let me figure out life from this point. I’m a life goes on type of guy.

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The thing that was the outcome of those five years was me and the skills and the experiences that I possessed through going through it. And so whatever the next mountain that you’re trying to climb is, of course it’s going to be higher, but it’s going to require you to go through the smaller mountains to get to that point. Because the more able you are, the more able you realize you can become. And you will get way bigger outcomes from the things that you have, like the path that led you here, then you think you can.

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And it’s easy for that to happen. It’s actually easy to find yourself with your life on some kind of a cruise control, super cruise control, autopilot scenario.

You do something, whatever, you take some action. You do something in a day. And the next day, it kind of worked yesterday, so you do it today. You repeat that action. And then you repeat it again. And that little repetition forms a pattern. And the pattern becomes a routine. And the routine becomes a rut.

And it’s hard to get out of a rut.

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I think certainly extremely tenacious and then just work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. Gosh, that’s a lot of work. All those things improve the odds of success. Okay. Great. I mean if other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that in one year you will achieve what they achieve. You will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.

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The one thing that made me who I am today is being vulnerable, is breaking myself down to the absolute rock bottom and being able to tell people who I am. And that’s how I fixed it. Literally, you know, I look somebody in the eye and say, you know what, man, I have a whole bunch of character problems, character flaws. I’ve lied about this. I’ve cheated here. I’m insecure here. This isn’t the real me. I lied to you about that. I wanted your acceptance in life. All those things happen, but the thing about it is that we get judged so quickly by who we are. We don’t know.

We don’t go to where it happened. You know, life created this person, me. Life created me to be this fucked up person that I was back in the day. And I had to realize, man, that’s okay, man. It’s not my fault. Now I gotta go back and fix this shit though. So a lot of this isn’t your fault, why you do some things you do, why you feel the way you feel. But no one’s coming back to save your ass. You have to go back to where this started, wherever that place is for everybody, and have the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you.

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The hard work is getting to the point where you have the evidence that people are willing to feel safe agreeing with you. And the only way for them to feel safe agreeing with you is for you to disagree with them for a very long period of time until you prove that you’re right.

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All right guys, just finished up that workout man. You know, it’s kind of Saturday afternoon. Too many people there man, I’ll tell you that much. Aren’t too many winners out here in the world. That workout in there, no weights involved. Just our body weight and our ego. How bad do we want it? We made something happen right there that’s gonna transform the rest of our work in the gym. Meaning we broke the monotony up, made our body guess and shocked in new situations. Take that kind of rubble back into our normal workouts. Exponential growth comes.

When you do the same thing over and over again, you get the same results. When you shock it up like we just did, get ready for a little bit of a tsunami coming in of success.

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The work you know you should be doing but aren’t is the opportunity because that is the work that your competitors also aren’t doing. And I’m telling you from the bottom of my soul, it is so easy to beat people today. They are so soft. They have no work ethic. No one can stick with anything. Everyone’s distracted. They’re on social media. They’re counting their f***ing notifications because they can’t stick with s***. They can’t say no. And so sometimes you’ve got to say, hey guys, we’re going to stay at this revenue level until we get referrals over 30%.

We’re going to stay at this revenue level. We’re going to stay at this level of advertising because I don’t want anyone else to know how mediocre our sandwiches are. Why would I tell anyone else? I don’t want anyone to know. If I could test this with no one knowing, I would do it. But we have to advertise a little bit so we can fix our thing. But the point of that first phase of growing the business because you start making sales is to get better, not to get rich. The point in the first phase is to learn, not to earn.

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So to everyone out there who dreams are scaring you, who dreams make you want to quit, just don’t quit. It’s good. Your dreams should be big. They should be scary. Just keep pushing through. I have this thing I say, champion mentality. It’s not about winning. It’s not about a trophy. It’s about having no quit. It’s about giving everything you have so that when you show up on game day before the results are over, you’re proud of yourself, know the work you put in.

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just keep stacking days. Just keep stacking days. As long as you keep stacking days, I promise you, I promise you, you will see the change. But my coach used to always say, everything that you want is on the other side of hard. Right? He had another, I think I said in the book, he said, reps were moved out. Right? Reps were moved out. My biggest frustration with my son used to be, we would go outside at the house and he would shoot a shot and he’d be mad. He’d be like, dang. I’d be like, what you mad for? You don’t get up enough reps. You know? So.

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I have money. It’s trust and character I need around me. Who you choose to be around you, lets you know who you are.

One car in exchange for knowing what a man’s made of, that’s a price I can live with. Look at all those people down there.

They follow the rules for what?

They’re letting fear lead them. What happens if I don’t? Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.

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Everything I need is in my mental lab. Everything. Because I’m in constant study of myself. And I know what needs to be conquered because I’m constantly going through what I don’t like, what I’m not comfortable with. Like, I know and only I can fix these problems because I have to face these problems. So I have a rolling log on what needs to happen. So I’m really good at being accountable about, OK, you need to be better here. You need to be better here. You need to overcome this, overcome that. And I do a good job of doing that.

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Guys, I’m fine with being an open book. I’m fine with the good, the bad, the ugly. I’m fine being flawed. I’m fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed. I’m fine with it all. I don’t hide from it. I don’t run from it. I don’t avoid any of it. I’m fine. It’s all right. It’s a bed that I made for myself. I happily lay in it. I’ll be fine figuring it out moving forward.

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When you come from a small, small town and you come from a place that a lot of people don’t want to come out of it and get out of it and all you want to do is become somebody, when you have… small town mentality is a real mentality. You’ve got to be able to get out and let your mind see open-mindedness. Because a small town, what it does to you is it closes your mind. Completely closes your mind. Not everybody. This isn’t everybody, a lot of people. You have to be able to go out there and create open-mindedness. You need space. You need space to see the world.

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Don’t be on like autopilot. All right, it’s real easy to slide into autopilot mode, right, or whatever they got now, these super cruise controls where the car’s driving itself.

Well, don’t do that with your life. Don’t get on the road and just kind of let the car drive itself. Don’t do that.

Because when that’s happening, you’re not directing what’s going on. You’re not in control anymore. You’re just drifting. You aren’t steering the car or the plane or whatever. It’s not going where you want it to go. It’s just going wherever it’s going.

Just random, just unintentional,

inadvertently moving forward with no actual direction. Don’t let that happen with your life.

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But when it feels scary to jump, Ian, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

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Just get started. Just get started. The longest time in the world is the hesitation between thought and action. Well, at least it has the potential to be the longest time. It can actually be forever.

Forever.

Einstein, his theory was that time is flexible, time is pliable. And to prove that, beyond what Einstein said, one second can actually become an eternity. That’s how much it can flex.

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So I had to take a step out of my life because I you know, once you’re in that hell That’s all you see is what’s in front of you when I stepped out of it. I saw Brazil very differently. There were a lot of great people in Brazil. some of the best people I knew were from Brazil, But when you’re in hell All you see is a little patch in front of you of the kids that are calling you nigger Or the people that spray-painted nigger were gonna kill you on your car People put that shit in your locker people put it on your on your notebook in Spanish class. That’s all you see. You didn’t see that.

my god, a lot of people fucking like me here. So once you take a step back and see the reality of the true ignorance that you’re dealing with From a small group of people, that’s when you get growth.

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The truth will set you free. The truth will stand and the truth will deliver you from procrastination and laziness and the downward spiral that comes with a lack of discipline.

So don’t believe the lies, believe the truth. And the truth is you have time. You have the skill. You have the knowledge and the support and the willpower and the discipline to get it done.

So cast out the lies, burn them down and listen to the truth and live the truth and go out and get it done.

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So the idea that working hard doesn’t make progress is one of the biggest farces that exists in humanity because at the end of the day, whatever you amount to isn’t going to matter anyways, right? And so if there is anything that’s eternal for us, at least as individuals, it’s going to be who we become in the process. The work works on you more than you work on it. And so if you want to be the best in the world at something, you do the work to become the best in the world and the work works on you.

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we had to end this drill.

We had to end with this drill that I do where you shoot a three in this corner,

and then you run to the other end of the court,

shoot a three in this corner,

run to this corner,

come to this corner, right? So that’s four shots.

Then you go to this wing, five, that wing, six, this wing, seven, this wing, eight,

top of the key, nine, this top, 10.

Yeah. Non- stop. .

So sprint, sprint, sprint, 10 shots.

Got to make seven out of 10, and we done with the workout for the day.

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You know, people need to have purpose to get up. They need purpose to perform. You need to get to a point in your life where there’s nothing on the docket. There is no 5K. There’s no, there’s no, I’m going to get into school to be this or that and still perform to the highest level. Because what people don’t get is one day that thing’s going to come up and if you’re not constantly performing without purpose, you’re not going to be ready when the time comes. It’s this magical thing, purpose, that we’re all looking for.

But what’s funny about it all is that we need these things to perform but we don’t take a second to realize the purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us because the very purpose is you.

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You don’t have the equipment or the gear lies.

You don’t. you don’t know the best way, Who cares?

that’s a lie.

or you’re too old or you’re too young.

Of course you’re too old or too young, lie. and there’s.

you’re too busy?

Sure you are.

That’s a lie.

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Your 1.0 version is gonna try and negotiate with your 2.0 version and say, no, no, no, don’t evolve, don’t grow, don’t change, become, go back to the loser that you were, just have another drink, watch TV for another hour, eat that fucking ding dong, and then chase it down with a Twinkie, sick motherfucker. So I’m here to tell you that it will take longer. It will be more difficult. It will require more effort on your part. But you know what I can tell you about that? When you do the hard things, you will have a happy and easy life.

There’s lots of people who work really, really hard for a long time and never make it. And that’s because working hard is just part of the puzzle. The other part of the puzzle is how high your skillset is, how developed your skillset is. And so we have these people that say these things like, work smart, not hard, all right? Well, you’re a fucking moron, all right? I’m gonna tell you that right now, because it takes both. It takes hard work and it takes smart work. So while you have to be putting in the work and you have to be showing up and you have to be giving it all you have,

you have to consistently be aware and conscious of the intentional skillset that you are building along the way. If you do not have the skillset and you just work hard, you’re gonna get paid a fraction of what you could get paid if you actually intentionally built skills to go along with it.

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but who instilled in me this work ethic to fight for what I believe in,

chase after my dreams.

Nothing’s ever going to be given to you.

Everything’s going to be earned.

If you don’t go out there and put in the work, you don’t go out and put in the effort, one,

you’re not going to get the results, but two, more importantly,

you don’t deserve it. You didn’t earn it.

And so that defined my upbringing,

that defined my career,

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He said, you know the difference between champions and everyone else? And I was like, what? He said, everyone always looks at them and says, what do champions have that I don’t have? And he said, they have it backwards. He said, it’s what do champions not have that I have? It’s what do they lack? And it’s an off button. They just don’t stop. And so in dealing with the gold medal, he’s like, they just never stop. They just can’t stop. Everything in their life is geared towards one goal. And so finding that thing, and they approach everything in their life that way.

And I think that that level of obsession around like everything that you touch on a daily basis is required for really getting to where you want to go.

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I think it’s important to do things you don’t like. And I was very ashamed in my life story for a long time. I didn’t want to go out and tell anybody about me. So that’s why I had two people. I created one David Goggins and one Goggins. Right. And I didn’t want people to know that I had all these issues. But after a while, people start to give you these different taglines. You know, like, you’re superhuman. You’re amazing. They start, like, you don’t know anything about me, man. I’m this insecure kid.

I started realizing there’s a lot of people out here who are going through a lot of problems that I once tapped into. You know, I had a whole bunch of issues growing up. And, you know, I felt compelled to this. You know what? You got to start sharing this stuff, man, because people see where you’re at today. They see where you’re at today. They see the man you are today, this hard rock, hard human being. Show these people where you come from. Right. Show these people it’s possible.

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Every day that you don’t do work, you’re going backwards. And it definitely will hurt you, and it’ll show up. You can’t get away with what you got away with when you were 23. It doesn’t work. You have to stay ahead of it.

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Because when I wake up, I know the journey that it takes for me to find my greatness. And it’s hard. Nothing is easy. Nothing just like, oh, I wake up and I just do this or I do that or it’s just, no, I watch people every day go through life and it’s so easy. For me to be where I’m at today, it takes every bit of me. So when I speak about it, and as I get going here, you’ll start seeing me, the temple will rise, the passion will come out, because I’m back there. I’m doing what I do every day to become a human being. And so nothing is easy.

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It’s 1am, I’m going for my third workout.

Do I want to go to the gym?

Absolutely not.

I’d rather, you know, lay in my house and sit in the movie theater and watch movies.

But, you know, to be the best you got to work overtime. To be the best you got to work overtime.

Let’s go in here and get this workout in.

Lights out, party’s over.

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Since when were you so smart? Come on, faster!

Why? No one’s chasing me!

I’m chasing you!

I’m not like you. I’m nothing. Just let me be nothing.

What are you talking about?

I can’t make a track team.

I don’t even know why you want me to- Yes you can. If you can take it, you can make it. What? If you can take it, you can make it.

Alright? You train, you fight way harder than those other guys, and you win. You get out from under them.

Or, you keep going the way you’re going and you end up as a bum in the streets.

You can do this, Lou. Just gotta believe you can.

I don’t believe.

I do.

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What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to forgo? Because a lot of people, like this guy came in one time, I was a trainer, and he goes, man, I can stop doing anything but my Frappuccinos. I go, f***ing leave. Because I’m looking for that person like me. People, people, it’s hard for people to understand how I lost 106 pounds in less than three months. I sat down at a table and I said to myself, what are you willing to give up? Everything. And when people come to me with that kind of mindset, I can work with you.

When you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything, that’s who I want to work with. Because now, I can mold you into exactly who you want to be.

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Smile wide hold your head high and when they ask you how you made it you tell them I believed in myself when nobody else did Keep pushing keep winning and remember. It’s always the underdogs who end up running the game Trust me. That’s why I’m running the game.

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because only idiots want to be around I can’t catch a break guys. Only the dummies stick around. After a while, even if they’re your good friend, you gotta be like, bro, you gotta f**king stop. You gotta stop with all this I can’t catch a break bulls**t. All the time you’re complaining, you could be instead hustling. You could be instead chasing your dream. You could be instead figuring out what you’re doing wrong, trying to prove certain aspects of your life, getting your s**t together, reading a book, meditating, something. F**king something. But this I can’t catch a break.

bulls**t is not helping anybody and it pushes everybody away from you. . But some people, they get caught in that pattern. And it might be their parents, it might be how they were raised, somebody might have told them they were useless real early on, it’s stuck, and they just, they always, they never feel like they get enough reassurance. They never feel like they get enough motivation. And they feel like other people get more. And they look at all these other people, how come he gets that? How come she gets this? How come he’s got that going on? And that, all that’s bad for you too.

And that’s bad for you too.

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When I think about how hard I want to work, the interesting thing about that is that the only person who can judge you on your success is you because you’re the only one who knows how much left in the tank you really had. And the better you get, and you can resonate with this, you start winning exteriorly. And that’s when people are like, it felt so empty. It’s because they didn’t actually work as hard as they could have. They just worked hard enough to beat everyone else. But that discrepancy between how hard you could have worked to work your hardest versus what was required in order to win,

to me, that’s the opportunity that shifting towards the work being the goal unlocks for you. And I work harder now than I did when I was poor. And I think it’s because I’ve learned to enjoy it.

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Running is running. It sucks, but you have a choice to make. Do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were? No. So this is what it takes. It takes that misunderstanding of people, and they’ll never get it because they were never David Goggins. So that is what it takes for me to do what I do. It may take you something differently. So for me, everything has to be in the studying. Everything has to be into this. Everything has to be in everywhere I am has to be there, me, focused where I am. That’s why you’re my second podcast I’ve done since Rogan since the book came out.

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But this is the thing,

it should be impossible for me to get back up,

but it’s not.

You see, I will try 100 times to get up, and if I fail 100 times, if I fail and I give up, do you think that I’m ever going to get up? No.

But if I fail, I try again, and again, and again. For as long as I try, there’s always that chance of getting up. Does that make sense? And it’s not the end until you’ve given up. And just the fact that you’re here should persuade you that you have another chance to get back up.

There’s still hope.

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I’ve always figured that why go to a tournament if you’re not going there to try and win?

There’s really no point in even going.

That’s the attitude I’ve had my entire life and that’s the attitude I will always have.

I would explain to my dad,

second sucks and third’s even worse. That’s just a feeling I have.

But on tour that’s not too bad sometimes though.

That’s not too bad but I want to win.

That’s just my nature.

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We need a lot more success than what we think we need, and I think it’s very, very dangerous as a man- Considering that it’s our job to build and provide and inspire and show the way- For us to think that we have it made at any point in our lives, because you don’t, you never know what’s gonna happen And, at the end of the day, if you keep going, You’ll be in a position where you can do all kinds of really good stuff for people. So to sum this up you have to expand your vision. You have to say. All right.

I’m here, and Where I really want to be is here, and I’m a gazillion miles away from that. And so I have to work hard- just like you had to work very hard on the real day one- To get where you are now.

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You are always the purpose. There may be another purpose, like being a SEAL or going to college or whatever, but the main purpose in life is you. So, if you wake up in the morning and you don’t want to do something, you don’t care enough about yourself. And that’s what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself? Because that is the number one purpose in life, is to better oneself. So, that’s the only purpose I f***ing need. So, the reason I get up every day, even though there’s no races, there’s no school,

there’s nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself.

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The habits that you don’t intentionally form, you gotta watch out for those.

They don’t take you anywhere positive.

They drift down the path of least resistance. And you know what? They’re not obvious. You might not even notice these little patterns that you’ve developed. Because they come on gradually and they feel comfortable. Right, they put your mind at ease. We’re always more comfortable doing something that we’ve already done before. So they lure you in. But they’re not helping you. They’re not helping you at all. They’re hurting you. So snap out of that. Get out of that rut. Turn off that autopilot.

And grab the wheel and steer your habits and your routines and steer your life in the direction you actually wanna go. Take control and drive.

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People don’t even look you in the eye. People ask you how you are and you say fine, but you’re not fine and they’ll never know that. I tell you, life is interesting. Life’s a journey.

See this phone here? Let’s say that I want to go to the phone, right? And I start from over here. So I have to take one step at a time, one step at a time, one step at a time. You can only take one step at a time. I don’t care how big your step is, it’s only one step at a time. You can’t do two steps in one. You understand? So it’s like one step at a time. You take steps in this direction, you take steps in that direction, you sort of get lost along the way and sometimes you fall down.

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You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage, just literally 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.

I realized that no work is wasted because I am the output of the work, not the outcome. And that was one of the biggest frame shifts for me in never thinking that work is wasted, because the more I work, the bigger my work ethic, the more my work capacity increases. And to give an exercise example, because I think it’s cool and interesting, is that a lot of people talk about this concept of overtraining. Don’t worry, I’ll bring it back.

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to get more, to obtain more. But I personally don’t want to lose all that I’ve been able to get. So I need to make sure that I do everything to keep it. So I can’t be content.

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How bad do you want this? If it’s as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep, whatever the hell it may be, I can work with you. But a lot of people, most people don’t want it that badly. Which is why they always ask the question, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don’t want to do it. So I can’t make you do it, nor do I have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it. There’s no luck in this game. It may be a little bit of luck,

but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn’t happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might fucking happen. And that’s what people don’t know. But to get there, luck ain’t gonna happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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Some of the best athletes, the greatest athletes in the world do things when they’re uncomfortable. You know, everybody can compete when they’re feeling good, happy, excited, rested, but it’s the best people who can overcome when they’re tired, sore, not in the best mindset. I think mental power that the greatest athletes have can push all the pain aside. You know, when I was doing that Navy SEALS thing, was it easy for me to do it? No. Was it easy for me to climb over a 45 foot wall and look down? Not at all, and I’m afraid of heights.

But, you know, I said to myself, I’m going to do this and no one’s going to stop me. I think that’s the biggest thing, is how strong you can be mentally. I think that really shows who the person is. So I think that’s one thing that separates the good from the greatest.

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And that feeling, that horrible feeling, you know that feeling too. You know it. You know it’s true. Will cause you some short-term gratification. You’ll get to sleep a little bit more. You won’t have to put out during a workout. You don’t have to do this tedious task. You’ll get some short-term gratification, but the long-term regret will be strong.

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You have to accept that all your excuses are lies. They are lies, all of them.

Think about the things that you tell yourself, the lies you use to rationalize taking the easy road.

Taking the easy road and leaving discipline behind. Think about them.

You don’t have time. That’s a lie. You don’t have support.

That’s a lie.

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I’m a funny motherfucker Big time, but guess what right now? It’s easy to be happy It’s easy to smile. Those are the good times. the good times, Those times don’t need to be trained. you know, I had to train myself for good times. Those times for most people don’t need to be trained what i’m trying to give you all Is the misery of sometimes we go through in life? Those are the times we don’t want to fucking talk about. we want to skip forward to peace. Let’s just fucking fuck all this let’s skip all this pain and suffering and misery of real life.

Let’s Let’s cover it over nice big blanket and let’s find peace. No, Sorry, It’s not possible. Yeah, go into that fucking hellhole of life that you have That fucked you up and fix it, and that’s what i’m here to do.

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So today, I want you to do three things. Stay humble. Never forget where you came from. Stay hungry. Keep that fire in your soul. And stay true. Always be real with yourself and the world. Because the world don’t need no more copies. It need originals. And trust me, ain’t nobody else who can do what you do like you do.

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I’m not here today to tell you that I understand your pain. I don’t know how it feels to be abused. I don’t know how it feels to feel, quote, fat and you’ve got an eating disorder. I don’t know how it feels to have a broken home. I don’t know how it feels.

But I know how it feels to have a broken heart and I know how it feels to be alone. And I want you to know that I found my strength in Jesus Christ and you’re going to find your strength in whatever you find it in. But I just want you to know that it’s not the end. It matters how you’re going to finish.

Are you going to finish strong?

And you will find that strength to get back up.

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when you do what you’re supposed to do. Remember that. Remember that the pain right now will absolutely pay off in the future.

And the capitulation and the conceding defeat to weakness, that will absolutely result in the pain of regret and remorse later. You know this to be true.

So don’t allow it.

Remember the feeling of victory that comes from doing the right thing, the hard thing. Remember that feeling and then go get it done.

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when you do what you’re supposed to do. Remember that. Remember that the pain right now will absolutely pay off in the future.

And the capitulation and the conceding defeat to weakness, that will absolutely result in the pain of regret and remorse later. You know this to be true.

So don’t allow it.

Remember the feeling of victory that comes from doing the right thing, the hard thing. Remember that feeling and then go get it done.

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When you push yourself that hard, you sleep easy at night. That’s not because you’re physically tired. It’s not because physically you’re worn out that you sleep easy. It’s that by going, the physical exhaustion, your brain can finally rest, knowing you gave it your all. So when you physically push yourself that hard, you sleep easy. Because your mind’s at rest, and you did everything you could to be a champion that day.

That’s the difference.

That’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground and do it again.

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If you want to be great, you want to be the best motherfucker ever at what you do, you could be misunderstood by everybody because you’re going to be so fucking obsessed and so driven to get there. That’s what it takes. That’s the truth. It takes every second of your fucking life. Anybody says balance? Yeah, balance is important for a lot of fucking people. It is. But if you want to fucking go to that edge where people do not like you, don’t understand you, question everything you fucking do, you’ve arrived.

I don’t want to talk to you, man, because you’re not going to get it.

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I don’t want to talk to you, man, because you’re not going to get it.

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If you’re so focused on getting absolute deep stretch with a four second negative, proper, perfect execution, all these things 100% or mentally, that’s fatiguing. and to do that for, let’s say, optimized periodization, you’re gonna do a four week program of 18 to 20 reps and then you’re gonna bring it down to six to 10 once your volume’s high and you’re building your strength- , X, Y, and Z. If you can’t get there mentally, because mentally you’re too fatigued to go to failure on that set, and you’re like thinking too much, like you just stop,

versus just turning your brain off and just going full tilt to failure, you’re not getting as much benefit. Are you failing because your muscles are failing, or because mentally you can’t keep thinking about the four second negative for long enough? So it seems obvious, but if you’re holding yourself back by thinking too much, then you’re not doing good enough. And I think you try and reinvent the wheel a million times, and it just doesn’t work, so you gotta find the balance within it.

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What if I told you you’re only six months away from the life you’ve always dreamed of? The money, the body, the mindset are only on one condition. You have to show up every f***ing day from here on out. Up until now, that’s not a price you’ve been willing to pay. But the reality is, there are graveyards full of men that wish they could be in your spot. Six months to become the man you always knew you could be. Don’t wait 10 years. Don’t wait 10 minutes. Don’t even wait 10 seconds. The time to start is now. Six months away. I’ll see you at the top, dog.

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I’m gonna say something to you. You’re smart, you’re talented, you know a few things, but talent means nothing in this game if you don’t make the right choices. There’s plenty of talented people out there who never see the light of day anymore. Last thing, takes discipline. Because this whole game is one big long shot, and if you don’t have the discipline to stay away from the flyers, or from the gambles, or whatever else you want to call a stupid move, then my friend, I’m afraid to say, one day, you will go down. It’s inevitable. You want my advice?

Make a list of everything you want now, and then plan on spending the next 25 years of your life getting it, slowly, piece by piece.

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We all have this voice. It’s the right or wrong voice and a lot of times that voice guides us into comfort, and My voice guided me into comfort a lot, but I have this other voice. I heard my whole life saying hey motherfucker What are you doing? No, man, we gotta go over here We have go over here to that rock pile over in the fucking corner where nobody’s at That’s that’s where victory’s at we’re over there that corner. So this voice was giving me all these answers. now I wasn’t real smart kid growing up, But I had this crazy voice in my head saying over there is where the fucking answers are,

And I won’t listen to it because over there was pain. Over there was me looking in the mirror. over there was me being accountable for all these things I went through my life. you know, people put them on me. It’s now mine to own and I didn’t want to go over there by myself, But I had to and this voice was guiding me there out. It’s God would everyone call it? But that’s what. that’s what it was in me.

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And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.

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I’ve been protected. I’ve been directed. I’ve been corrected. Fail big. That’s right. Fail big. You only live once. So do what you feel passionate about. Take chances professionally. Don’t be afraid to fail. There’s an old IQ test was nine dots, and you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots without lifting the pencil. The only way to do it was to go outside the box. So don’t be afraid to go outside the box. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box. Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big. But remember, dreams without goals are just dreams,

and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

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But what is most important is that you have to dig deep down, dig deep down and ask yourselves, who do you want to be? Not what, but who. And I’m talking about not what your parents and teachers want you to be, but you. I’m talking about figuring out for yourselves what makes you happy, no matter how crazy it may sound to the people.

So rule number one is, of course, trust yourself, no matter how and what anyone else thinks. And of course, rule number two is break the rules. We have so many rules in life about everything. I say break the rules, not the law, but break the rules.

It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you’re too well behaved and not want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That’s what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble? The only way that ever got any place was by breaking some of the rules.

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Do you want a second opportunity? Do you want to forgive yourself? Do you want to be forgiven? Do you want your success to be your legacy and not your failure? Because I’m going to tell you this as I leave, if you stop as a quitter, if you stop in your mess, if you stop in your failure, that’s going to be what they know you for forever. Do you want that to be your legacy or do you want your greatness to be your legacy? And if you want your greatness to be your legacy, I need you to get up. I need you to get up, get out, and go get something. That’s right.

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Listen to me, Emmitt Smith said this at the end of the commercial. Emmitt Smith said, all men are created equal, some work harder in preseason. I’m going to say it again because you might have missed it. All men are created equal, some work harder in preseason. So that means that there are some people who are going to see the professor, going to see the TA, and even when the professor says, I don’t meet with you, my TA meets with you, you say I don’t want to talk to your TA. I don’t pay the TA. I pay you to teach me. So you’re going to have to find some time to meet me.

If I got to meet you at the mall, if I got to meet you at your house, you are going to see me. Listen to me, all men are created equal, some work harder in preseason. When I went to college, guys were way smarter than me. 4.0s, 3.0s, they went to the Ivy League high schools, came to Oakwood from these great high schools. Most of them are not doing what I’m doing. Why? Because it’s not about where you come from. It’s about heart.

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Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. Hell yeah. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch.

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Which of course brings me to rule number three, don’t be afraid to fail. Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail.

You can’t always win, but don’t be afraid of making decisions. You can’t be paralyzed by fear of failure, or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision, and you know that it’s the right thing to do and success will come. Don’t be afraid to fail. Which brings me to rule number four, which is don’t listen to the naysayers. How many times have you heard that you can’t do this, and you can’t do that, and it has never been done before? As a matter of fact, I love it when someone says that no one has ever done this before,

because then when I do it, that means that I’m the first one that has done it. So pay no attention to the people that say it can’t be done.

I always listen to myself and say, yes, you can.

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So have dreams, but have goals, life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day. And understand that to achieve these goals, you must apply discipline and consistency. You have to work at it every day. You have to plan every day. You’ve heard the saying, we don’t plan to fail. We fail to plan. Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. And in this text, tweet, twerk world that you’ve grown up in, remember: just because you’re doing a lot more

doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Remember that Just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done.

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We are forgiven. Oh, hallelujah, that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. We thank you that Jesus paid it all and all to him I owe. I don’t owe the person that I messed up with. I don’t owe the person that’s judging me. I don’t owe the person that fired me. They weren’t the ones that gave me this gift. Jesus gave it to me and ain’t the one that’s gonna give me a second chance, but Jesus gonna give me a second chance. Hallelujah, for God so loved the world that he gave. And so, father, we just ask, in the name of Jesus Christ, that we will forgive ourselves,

that we will get back up and we will go in a direction that you’d have us to go. There is no condemnation.

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So if you want to make six figures, you can’t just be talking about you want to make six figures. You hear what I’m saying to you tonight? If you do the three things I tell you to do tonight, I guarantee you whatever it is you want to do in life, you’ll be able to do. You will be able to accomplish whatever you want to: academically, financially, relationally, whatever. So three things. All right, now I’m going to tell you this story. I got to get out of here. And the story is about, you guys have probably heard about this before. It was a young man who, you know,

he wanted to make a lot of money and so he went to this guru, right? And he told the guru, you know, I want to be on the same level you are. And so the guru said, if you want to be on the same level I’m on, I’ll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4 a.m. He liked the beach. I said, I want to make money. I don’t want to swim. Guru said, if you want to make money, I’ll meet you tomorrow, 4 a.m.

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Most of you won’t be successful because when you’re studying and you get tired, you quit. And I’m here to tell you today, if you got a, somebody came to my office the other day crying. I said, look, don’t cry to give up. Cry to keep going. Don’t cry to quit. You already in pain. You already hurt. Get a reward from it. Don’t go to sleep until you succeed. Listen to me. I’m here to tell you today that you can come here. You can jump up. You can do flips. You can be excited when we give away money. But listen to me,

you will never be successful until I don’t have to give you a dime to do what you do.

You won’t be successful until you say, I don’t need that money. Because I got it in here.

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what if I can be that guy that people who call nigger and this and that. And now I’m speaking at Tom Ferry’s fucking event.

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It’s high, the way I look at it within myself, why not? Why can’t I be the MVP of the league? Why can’t I be the best player in the league? I don’t see why, why, why can’t I do that?

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Following your dreams is a lonely, solitary, scary, dangerous pursuit. You can’t wait for somebody to think you can do it. And it’s like, they, they, because they don’t think you can do nothing they can’t do. Exactly. You know what I mean? It’s like, it’s a lonely, scary, dangerous pursuit. And you got to be willing to risk everything to become that seed of what you believe is in there. You got to be fearless. You got to be relentless.

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who knocks out everybody and no one can whoop him. That’s when that little Cassius Clay from Louisville, Kentucky came up and stopped Sonny Liston, the man who annihilated Floyd Patterson twice. He was going to kill me, but he hit harder than George. His reach was longer than George’s, he was a better boxer than George, and I’m better now than I was when you saw that 22-year-old undeveloped kid running from Sonny Liston. I’m experienced now, professional. Jaw’s been broke, been knocked down a couple times. Bad, been chopping trees. I done something new for this fight.

I done roused with an alligator. That’s right, I have roused with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, throwed thunder in jail. That’s bad. Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick. Bad dude. Bad. Fast, fast, fast. Last night, I cut the light off my bedroom, hit the switch, was in the bed before the room was dark. Incredible. Fast. Incredible. And you, George Fulman, all of you chumps are gonna bow when I whoop him. All of you, I know you got him.

I know you got him picked, but the man’s in trouble. I’m gonna show you how great I am.

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In the 17th chapter of St. Luke it is written, the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men, in you, you the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill that promise. They never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite.

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You come to a place where you know being smart ain’t enough. You got to have hearts. That’s number one What’s number two number two catch number two? I wrote it down. I want to make sure you got it. It says to be: watch this, watch this. We’re talking about sacrifice. now, the important thing is this: you’re writing why. I’m saying it because I only have about three more minutes. Listen to me. The most important thing is this: To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are for what you will become.

That’s the number two thing. you got to catch that one to be able to listen to me at any moment. Some of you, you can make sacrifices. when Monday night football is not on, you can make a sacrifice, But when the game come on, for some reason, you just attach to it. For some of you, when your favorite show come on, you you can be. you can make sacrifices on Sunday when ain’t nothing going on, But when your favorite show comes on Monday BAM, some of you, you focus into the phone ring And then you like I gotta answer if I don’t answer the phone. I’m gonna die.

I’m saying to you today that there are some of you. if you give up your cell phone, you would be successful.

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Don’t confuse movement with progress. My mother told me, she said, yeah, cause you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. So continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress. And anything you want good, you can have. So claim it, work hard to get it. When you get it, reach back, pull someone else up. Each one, teach one. Don’t just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

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He told the guy, he said, when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

I don’t know how many of y’all got asthma in here today, but if you ever had an asthma attack before, you short of breath, S-O-B, shortness of breath, you wheezing, the only thing you trying to do is get some air. You don’t care about no basketball game, you don’t care what’s on TV, you don’t care about nobody calling you, you don’t care about a party, the only thing you care about when you’re trying to breathe is to get some fresh air. That’s it. And when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful, as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

And I’m here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad, you just kind of want it. You don’t want it badder than you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep. Some of you love sleep more than you love success. And I’m here to tell you today, if you’re going to be successful, you’ve got to be willing to give up sleep.

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And that brings me to rule number five, which is the most important rule of all, work your butt off. Now, if I always believe, leaving no stone unturned. Muhammad Ali, one of my great heroes, had a great line in the 70s when he was asked, how many sit-ups do you do? He said, I don’t count my sit-ups, I only start counting when it starts hurting, when I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts. That’s what makes you a champion. That’s the way it is with everything. No pain, no gain.

And let me tell you, it is important to have fun in life, of course, but when you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning, just remember that. But if you want to win, there’s absolutely no way around hard, hard work. None of my rules, by the way, of success will work unless you do.

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But I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible. Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there’s room for everyone, and the good earth is rich, and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate,

has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.

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What have I done, Alfred? Everything my family, my father built.

The main legacy is more than bricks and mortar, sir.

I wanted to save Gotham.

I failed.

Why do we fall, sir?

So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.

You still haven’t given up on me?

Never.

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Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures.

J.K. Rawlings, who wrote Harry Potter, her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, I have failed over and over and over again in my life, and that’s why I succeed.

These people succeeded because they understood that you can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker. It means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It just means you need to spend more time studying. Learn English for free wwwengvidcom.

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You gotta be willing to work off of three hours of sleep, two hours. If you really wanna be successful, some days you’re gonna have to stay up three days in a row. Because if you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful. That’s how bad you gotta want it. You gotta go days without, listen to me, you gotta wanna be successful so bad that you forget to eat.

Beyonce said once she was on the set doing her thing, three days had gone by, she forgot she didn’t eat. Because she was engaged. I’ll never forget when 50 Cent was doing his movie, I did a little research on 50. And 50 said that when he wasn’t doing the movie, he was doing the soundtrack. And they said, when do you sleep, 50? Sleep, he said, sleep, sleep is for those people who are broke.

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More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent, and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now, my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say,

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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No one’s born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work. You’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don’t hit every note the first time you sing a song. You’ve got to practice. The same principle applies to your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. You might have to read something a few times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of strength. Because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust, a parent, a grandparent, or a teacher, a coach, or a counselor, and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.

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I actually always found something that to be very true which is some most people don’t get those experiences cuz they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t wanna help me if i asked him for help i was calling my call that. This will date me but i called bill hewlett when i was twelve years old and he lived in palo alto is number was still the phone book. Can you answer the phone himself yes i am steve jobs twelve years old i’m a student in high school and i wanna build a frequency counter and i was wondering if you had any spare parts i could have.

And he laughed and he gave me the spare parts to build a frequency can any game you job that summer and he would packard working on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters you got me a job in the place that built them.

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People’s lives aren’t what they would like them to be. And so then you ask, why? Well, forget about tragedy and catastrophe, because that’s self-evident, and we’re not going to discuss that. Although the degree to which you bring about your own tragedy is always indeterminate. But I would never say that every terrible thing that is visited on a person is something they deserved. I think that that’s a very dangerous presupposition. Especially because everyone gets sick and everyone dies.

But one of the main reasons that people don’t get what they want is because they don’t actually figure out what it is. And the probability that you’re going to get what would be good for you, let’s say, which would even be better than what you want, right? Because, you know, you might be wrong about what you want, easily. But maybe you could get what would really be good for you.

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And I think today, a lot of times, our youth is so into kind of, oh, let’s make him feel good. Oh, no, let’s be more sensitive. Well, I totally agree with you to be sensitive about things, but, I mean, there’s also a sweet spot. Can we go too far? You know, it’s like when someone says, well, today I just need to sleep in. It’s that bullshit. You don’t need to sleep in. This country was not built on sleeping in. So let’s get up in the morning, and let’s get on that bike, and let’s do some exercise, and don’t even think about it. Don’t look at your email or anything like this.

Let’s just get going, . Boom, boom, boom. Let’s get going, and let’s start building.

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I’ve never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when i called i just asked. And when people ask me i try to be as responsive you know to pay that that debt of gratitude back.

Most people never pick up the phone call most people never ask and that’s what separates sometimes the people to do things from the people that just dream about them got it you got it act and you gotta be willing to. I’m fail you gotta be willing to crash and burn you know with people on the phone was starting a company with whatever if you’re afraid of failing you won’t get very far.

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So today, although we’re slaves, we’re gonna act like we free, and one day our children will be free. If the slaves would have just said, we quit, we give up, we would have died in the middle passage. But some slaves said, I don’t care what we go through, we’re gonna survive this. 400 years of slavery, we’re gonna get through this. And you can’t get through an 1825? You can’t get through a writing class, and you got tutor after tutor, resource after resource? The problem is, you ain’t never felt no pain before. You’re soft. It’s a soft generation. You quit on everything.

Our people did not quit. Harriet Tubman not only made it, she went back and got some more.

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Imagine that you were taking care of yourself like you were someone you actually cared for. And then you thought, okay, I’m caring for this person, I would like things to go as well for them as possible. What would their life have to be like in order for that to be the case? Well, people don’t do that. They don’t sit down and think, alright, you know, let’s figure it out. You’ve got a life, it’s hard, obviously. It’s like, three years from now, you can have what you need. You gotta be careful about it. You can’t have everything.

You can have what would be good for you, but you have to figure out what it is. And then you have to aim at it. Well, my experience with people has been is, if they figure out what it is that would be good for them, and then they aim at it, then they get it. And it’s strange because they don’t necessarily… It’s a strange thing. It’s not quite that simple because, you know, you may formulate an idea about what would be good for you, and then you take ten steps towards that, and you find out that your formulation was a bit off. And so you have to reformulate your goal.

You know, so you’re kind of going like this as you move towards the goal.

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You were in position. You had the title. You had the responsibility and you messed up. Listen to me, I’m talking to you. Failure does not disqualify you. I don’t know who I’m talking to. I’m talking to somebody. You’re a leader. You were born to lead. Since you were a child, they told you to lead. You were chosen. You just got some ways about you or some vices about you, right? That have made you mess up. It does not disqualify you. Huh? It doesn’t disqualify you. God got you. Nah, I gotta read this to you. I gotta read this. All right, right, right. So let me tell you what this means.

It means God isn’t looking for perfect. He’s looking for purposeful. You okay. Watch this. Your failure didn’t cancel your calling. It revealed where God wants you to grow. I’m talking to somebody. I don’t know who I’m talking to. Don’t tell a friend. Watch this, watch this. Every stumble was preparing you for the next step.

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I think that in general, I think what the book is trying to do is to say to people, you need to work on yourself. If you just try to be pampered, and if you’re trying to be soft, and if you’re trying to be the victim of those, you’re not going to go anywhere. We need to get stronger. We need to get bossier. We need to get tougher. We need to not be afraid of failure. We got to go and do the work. We got to face adversity. Adversity breeds character. The strength and fighting and resistance, it does not only make the muscle grow, but it makes also your head grow, makes you a stronger person.

We have to be willing to go through hardship, through suffering, through pain, through crying periods, all of that stuff. Don’t shy away from any of that because it just makes you stronger.

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If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.

They say, we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say. And now we have to go to the grave together.

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You quit and you ain’t even tried yet. Last one, I’m sorry. Last one. Listen to me. Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever. Listen to me, I’m telling you as I leave. Telling you as I leave. I was homeless for two and a half years. And the problem with most of you, you never felt no pain before. Y’all spoiled. Y’all spoiled. Some of y’all spoiled. Just bottom line. Your parents have done everything for you.

You never had to do nothing for yourself. You’re spoiled. We’re gonna keep it real tonight. Some of you are spoiled brats. Every time you ever got in trouble, somebody in your house got you out of it. Every time you’ve done something you’re not supposed to do, people say, Eric, your mother’s a tyrant. You’re right. She kicked me out. You’re right. She’s mean, but she developed a man because she put me out there and said, you’re gonna have to grow up. And some of you have never learned to grow up.

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every person has to be approached also differently. It’s like the mind is just like the body. I cannot give you exactly the same training routine that I had because your body is different. You’re a much leaner person, you need kind of to do maybe lesser reps and what this, you have to have a different diet if you want to bulk up and all this. So I have to be aware of that, that even within my family, one of my daughters had to be approached differently than my other daughter. One son had to be approached differently than the other son. So you have to be sensitive about those kinds of things.

But overall, it was discipline in the house. You don’t turn out that light, I will unscrew those light bulbs and you will be going into a dark room with the age of three and you will be scared. So you better start learning to turn off those lights. You have someone else make you bed, okay, I’m gonna take the mattress and throw it down the balcony. And then you carry it upstairs and you make your own bed again. So this is the way that my kids grew up.

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But a huge part of the reason that people fail is because they don’t ever set up the criteria for success. And so, since success is a very narrow line and very unlikely, the probability that you’re going to stumble on it randomly is zero. And so there’s a proposition here, and the proposition is: if you actually want something, You can have it now the question then would be well, what do you mean by actually want and And the answer is that you reorient your life in every possible way To make the probability that that will occur as certain as possible and that’s a sacrificial idea, right?

It’s like you don’t get everything. obviously you, Obviously, but maybe you can have what you need, and maybe all you have to do to get it is ask:

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I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing. Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that’s less than the one you’re capable of living. Now I’m sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life, I’m sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on. Make sure you got something to fall back on, honey. But I never understood that concept, having something to fall back on.

If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything except my faith. I want to fall forward. I figure at least this way I’ll see what I’m going to hit.

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You’re supposed to use it to design the days that you would like to have if you were taking care of yourself. And so some of that is you know you wake up in the morning and you think: Here’s five things I have to do that if I don’t do, my life will be worse. It’s like paying bills, for example, or or or taking out the garbage. It’s like you have to do those because otherwise things degenerate. So you got to put some of those in the schedule because otherwise tomorrow is worse than today, and that’s a bad trajectory. But you also want to build in things,

you know You’ve got to act in some sense like you’re dealing with a relatively recalcitrant nine-year-old. It’s like so well Here’s some things you have to do But here’s some things that if you do you could reward yourself with and if you get the balance there between Obligation and reward right then you’ll find that you’re motivated to do the things and and that’s what you want to do You want to do that? So it’s sustainable across days and weeks and months. You

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Clearly there’s a dichotomy here. I know it’s my favorite word. Apparently according to Dean Lister. Yes, there is a dichotomy here, because Fear is something good that you should take advantage of. so it’s kind of good to be afraid because it keeps you on edge. Edge, it keeps you from slacking, It keeps you preparing as much as you possibly can, and all that stuff is good. But at the same time, yes, if you go too far to the other end of spectrum fear gets ahold of you You can’t overcome it. So you freeze or you cower or you run away, and none of those are good reactions.

So what I obviously failed to communicate well in the book discipline equals freedom field manual, is the dichotomy between these Spectrum the spectrum of fear that you can have So if you have no fear whatsoever, no fear. Well, guess what? you get cocky, you can get arrogant. If you have too much fear, you can’t even get out of the gate, you just freeze, you hesitate.

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That’s the tolerance I’m talking about that’s ruining the entire fucking world Yeah, like why are we so tolerant of these people doing all of this shit? Why do we just sit and take it? Why do why do why do we do nothing? You know I’m saying there is not one person that can ride along on their horse and fix everything You guys have to fix it in your own neighborhoods. You have to fix it in your own lives, You have to fix it in your own communities And you think that someone, anyone, Trump, anybody- is gonna come in and fix your in your community? you are a fucking moron.

It’s never gonna happen. It has to start at the bottom and work its way to the top, not go from the top down to the bottom.

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I send him a photo, I type up something in my memo pad, I type up the caption on my memo pad and I send it to him. That’s only if I want to, when I want to post something. But it’s crazy, I think about it like this, I say, OK, you got 24 hours in a day, eight hours you sleep, right? And most people work at nine to five. So, eight hours you’re working. 16 hours. OK, so we have 16 hours. We got breakfast, lunch and dinner. So, when we at night, that’s 19. It take you an hour to get ready. So, we have 20 hours. So, I cannot spend, you guys cannot spend four hours going on, they lying, oh,

I like this photo. Oh, they faking, sending photos to other people. Y’all got to get focused. I’m where I’m at because I’m focused. Tunnel vision, I’m focused on what I got to do.

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three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today.

Either we heal as a team or we’re going to crumble. Inch by inch, play by play, until we’re finished. We’re in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch at a time.

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When people say, we don’t have the time, we have 24 hours a day. We sleep six hours a day, so that gives you still 18 hours. Now there’s someone shaking their head out here in front to say probably, I don’t sleep six hours, I sleep eight hours, right? Or just sleep faster. So we have 18 hours a day, the average person works around eight to 10 hours. So let’s assume it’s 10 hours, so we have eight hours left. Then you travel around an hour a day, maybe two hours a day. So now you have still six hours left. So what do you do with these six hours? What do you do with these six hours?

Then we eat a little bit, then we schmooze a little bit, talk a little bit to people and all that stuff. But you can see how much time is available if you organize your day.

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I don’t want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. You know, I want to represent an idea. I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you’re in a universe and two plus two equals four, two plus two only equals four. If you accept that two plus two equals four, two plus two is going to be what I want it to be. You know, and there’s a there’s a like there’s a there’s a redemptive power that making a choice has, you know, rather than feeling like you’re at a effect to all the things that are happening.

Make a choice like you just decide what is going to be who you’re going to be, how you’re going to do it. Just decide. And then from that point, the universe is going to get out your way.

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If you don’t use it, you’re going to lose it. Every day that you don’t do work, you’re going backwards. And it definitely will hurt you, and it’ll show up. You can’t get away with what you got away with when you were 23. It doesn’t work. You have to stay ahead of it.

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So I’m here minding my fucking business trying to relax The driver has a fucking his playlist on mute so he can’t hear any music Me and my girl are here talking. She glances over at the fucking playlist What pops up? Can go in the distance. it brings me back when I was 300 pounds trying to lose fucking weight To get a Navy Seals. My goal was to go I had a plan my plans go out there run for two miles, but guess what? Everybody’s got a plan so they can hit the mouth.

That’s for Mike Tyson So when your plan fails We’re those boats of the laws get too heavy when you get knocked down the fucking canvas when everything falls apart in your life And your plan is fucked up. What the fuck are you gonna do? There’s only one motherfucking option: Stay, fucking hard.

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I want to represent Possibilities. I want to represent the idea that You really can make what you want. One of my favorite books is the the alchemist, Paulo Coelho, and That’s just. I just believe that. I believe that I Can create whatever I want to create if I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns. and You know, I just I. it’s hard to put into words some real metaphysical, Esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.

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I am weak. In all those ways that I listed, I am weak,

Some days I win.

Some days I don’t.

But each and every day, I get back up and I move forward.

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The one thing they all have in common, I think, is they’re hungry. And I know that sounds simplistic, but I believe that’s the single most important element that separates the quality of people’s lives. It’s not just the ability to have hunger, but to sustain it. Hunger means that you want more. You want more of yourself. You want to make a bigger difference. You want to be a better parent. You want to do something more than there is today and that you don’t get satisfied. Most people start out with hunger at an early stage of life and they lose it.

But the people that come to me are hungry either because something’s happened, they’ve had a birthday with a zero on it, they’ve gone through a divorce, they’re starting a business and they know I’ve got to have a different level, or they’re the best in the world and they’re always looking for that edge that makes the difference.

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And so you got to treat yourself like a good boss would treat a valued employee and not like a tyrant would treat a slave. Because the slave will rebel. And you know, people say, well I don’t follow through on my plans. It’s like, well, A. they’re probably not very well formulated. And maybe you’re doing them because of an external moral obligation or something. They’re not really your plans, right? And B. you’re acting like a tyrant and a slave. And that’s a bad relationship to have with yourself. So you want to treat yourself with some, well, the same way, that’s the golden rule, right?

Treat yourself as you would treat other people as you would have them, sorry, treat other people as you would like to be treated. It works both ways. You also treat yourself like you treat other people properly.

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But here’s the thing.

I didn’t quit.

I didn’t fall back. I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition.

I prayed.

I prayed. And I prayed.

But I continued to fail and fail and fail.

But it didn’t matter because you know what?

There’s an old saying,

you hang around the barbershop long enough,

sooner or later you’re going to get a haircut.

So you will catch a break. And I did catch a break.

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Because every day is an opportunity of change. And so I want them to look at this book and just say, maybe there’s something in that that will motivate me to change and to get better, to improve myself. I don’t have to get stuck in this. I can shoot for big gores. I want people to be aware of it, that you don’t have to shoot for little gores, but you can shoot for big gores. That it is just as difficult to shoot for a little gore than to shoot for a big gore. And I want them to know that they shouldn’t be afraid of failure, , that this comes naturally in life.

There will be failure and there will be successes. The important thing is that we learn from that, but not to be frozen and to be the fear that. I want them to know that they have to create a vision of where they want to go. Without a vision, there is just nowhere to go. You use it, it’s just the way it is in life. You would just wander around without a mission, without the joy of chasing something, how much fun it is to chase something. So I want them to learn those basic lessons that makes you just more successful and better.

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Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. Not even me.

All right? All right. You got a dream, but you got to protect it.

People can’t do something themselves. They want to tell you you can’t do it.

You want something, go get it. Period.

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He didn’t try to force a solution selfishly. He asked, I’m going to manifest myself in the best possible manner in the world. I would like to do that. What would that be? Well, you’re perfectly capable of thinking. God only knows how. You’re perfectly capable of immense feats of imagination and dream and fantasies. God only knows how you do all of that. What would happen if you consulted yourself about the best possible outcome for you? You might get an answer. Well, that’s what this proposition is.

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And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country. The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough, it’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best. It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this nation. Young people.

Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a depression and won a world war. Who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago, who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook, and changed the way we communicate with each other.

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And so every time something get hard you quit you call mama. I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you I dare you not to go home Somebody said I don’t go home. I feel bad. go through it. You ain’t gonna die at the end of pain and success. You’re not gonna die because you feeling a little pain.

I’m not eating like I eat at home That’s why you about to go to the next level because if you keep eating like you ate at home You will keep being a boy or girl. It’s time to become a woman.

So don’t don’t worry about a little pain My greatest asset is I was homeless so I can’t feel a whole lot of pain. I’ve already been alone It’s not a whole lot. It’s not a whole lot of hurt I can feel on a little paper on a little test so I leave you I leave you listen to me We have gotten to a point where it’s midterms and we moving forward the days of you getting money I’m not saying we quitting but I’m saying a day has got to go from external to internal You have to give it everything you got no more TV. No more parties, No more plan.

if you don’t have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying.

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Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate, only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

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Now, your families, your teachers and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down. Don’t let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud.

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The reason I play the way that I play.

Just everything.

Just knowing that days that I don’t feel like going into practice. When I’m having a hard time, think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work, and just making sure that I’m all right and making sure the family is all right. Those are hard days. My days shouldn’t be hard because I love doing what I’m doing, and that’s playing basketball. So you keep me going every day, and I love you, and I appreciate you being in my life.

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I’ve always figured out that there’s 24 hours a day. You sleep six hours, and you have 18 hours left. Now, I know there’s some of you out there now that says, well, wait a minute, I sleep eight hours or nine hours. Well, then just sleep faster, I would recommend.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in the pocket. And that takes me to rule number six, which is a very important rule. It’s about giving back. Whatever path that you take in your life, you must always find time to give something back, something back to your community, give something back to your state or to your country. Let me tell you something, reaching out and helping people will bring you more satisfaction than anything else you have ever done. Remember those six rules. Trust yourself, break some rules, don’t be afraid to fail, ignore the naysayers,

work like hell, and give something back.

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Oh, feel that all in your shana now. There is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus. Man cannot judge you. God is your judge. And God says, go and sin no more. Go and do you. Go and do what I birthed you to do. Go and do what I call you to do. And so it is in the name of Jesus Christ that we accept the calling. We accept the choice, the second chance to be and do what you call us to do. Again, we love you. We praise you. We worship you. We honor you and adore you. In Jesus name, amen. All right, you already know the deal. Don’t overdo it. Don’t overdo it. You’ll kill yourself.

Small steps lead to great distances. Now you know. Let’s go.

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Will the real Eric Thomas please stand up? Stop being this high school dropout. Stop giving up, stop sleeping on the streets, stop walking up and down Finkle Avenue like you ain’t got nothing and get your GED. Stop being afraid to take a test. Stop being afraid to go to college because your daddy didn’t go and your mama didn’t go. Stop being afraid and be the best Eric Thomas you can be. But listen to me, it’s gonna be hard. It took me 12 years to get a four year degree, but I got it. And guess what, on a degree, it don’t have dates.

So if it took you four and it took me 12, it don’t show up nowhere.

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Now if you know what you’re worth, now go out and get what you’re worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that.

I’m always gonna love you no matter what. No matter what happens. You’re my son, you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you gotta have a life.

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But your cell phone is more important to you than your success.

I’m gonna say it again, I’m gonna hurt somebody. I’m gonna hurt somebody. Some of you need to give up your cell phone because the time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success. The time you could be using to be successful, you’re using it on the cell. And the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill. And somebody has told you, you couldn’t live without it. I’m talking about going deep now, giving up stuff. Watch what it says. To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be. I don’t do well in math, you’re right. You ain’t never studied.

I’m not good in writing because you have never written before. But I dare you to fail in writing for a whole year to see if you can get to the end. I dare you to fail. I dare you to take that same class over and over again. I dare you to stop dropping classes like you soft.

Always wanna give up. I’m dropping. Why you dropping? I’m so grateful that the slaves didn’t drop and quit. Say, I’m just gonna stop. I’m a slave. I’m just gonna be a slave. I’m gonna quit. Listen to me, the slaves said, we will live because one day we will become.

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Do you feel like a failure? No, no, no, I want you to ask yourself that. Do you feel like a failure? Do you feel like you’re disqualified because of what you did wrong? Do you feel like that? Come on, number two, do you know that Jesus paid, oh, I’m sorry, this is turning into a sermon. I do want to apologize.

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I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make.

I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me. And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in a mirror. You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from. I mean, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s just a game of inches.

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In all of the difficult moments, I always remember myself how lucky I am to be in that position and leading of what I love most, which is driving. I love what I do, but I want to be the best.

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Maybe I’m in the wrong line of work. Maybe I should take on something less challenging.

You do what you are, Jessie.

You mean you are what you do.

No, I mean you do what you are.

You’re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you’re good at, you don’t take for granted. You don’t betray it.

What if you do betray your gift?

You betray yourself. That’s a sad thing.

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Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.

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What if all of us took that attitude? After we face a rejection and a no, or we have a meeting and no one shows up, or somebody say, you can count on me, and they don’t come through. What if we have that kind of attitude? The cards repossessed, nobody believes in you. You’ve lost again and again and again. The lights are cut off, but you’re still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and say to yourself, it’s not over until I win.

It’s very important. As you hold on to that dream, there are moments when you’re going to doubt yourself. There are rough times that are gonna come, but they have not come to stay. They have come to pass. It’s very important for you to know that.

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Negative thinking is a major problem because you’ve got to get control of this. You actually can control what this does. No one else is in charge. If you want to be successful, you have to get control of this. You can eradicate negative thinking from your life. Now, it’s not going to say you’re not going to ever have a negative thought. That’s not human. I have them, but I don’t have them nowhere near as frequent as I used to because I learned what they are, how they work. I get rid of them. I don’t have time for you. I’m on a positive track. I got things I’m trying to accomplish.

I’m trying to be successful, and I’m trying to be happy. If you’re trying to be successful or happy, you have no room for negativity.

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I’m motivated by fear.

Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. It’s very simple. This is what I believe, and I’m willing to die for it. Yeah. Period. You can’t be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that’s ever going to be constant. And you can’t fear what might happen to you if you were to tell the truth. Because what happens to you if you don’t tell the truth is worse than telling the truth will ever be.

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I’m motivated by fear.

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I will never quit. Because if you quit, you’re done. You may still be alive walking around on this earth. You’re done. I will never quit. I will persevere and I will thrive on adversity. My team expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than our opponents. I hold myself to that standard. I will be physically harder and mentally stronger than anything that comes against me, my family, my business, my brothers, my sisters, my team. I will be the one that is physically harder and mentally stronger. And I will work to maintain that position. You won’t beat me.

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If you are a one,

you cannot expect to lead twos, threes, fours, fives.

If you are a one, you can only lead zeros.

It doesn’t make you a bad person, you just need to focus on zeros.

The problem is you are one trying to lead threes.

But when you become the right person and you become a ten,

you become a leader. Why?

Because nine, eight, seven, six, five, they follow you.

So listen to me, when we leave, I’m going to walk you through some stuff,

but before we leave, I just need you to be the right person.

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Most people, half of what they thought today is the same things they thought yesterday. About themselves, about their life, about their business. That’s why most people’s lives don’t change very much. But if you wake up and you start realizing, I’m living in a home, an emotional home I don’t want, you can change it. See, because everybody’s got, if you got a billion dollars, check this out. If you had a billion dollars, but the habitual emotions you go back to are frustrated and pissed off, then your life is called frustrated and pissed off. It doesn’t matter how much money you have.

Write this down, please. The quality of my life is the quality of my habitual emotions.

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People always ask me on the street, they say, Chaz, is it better to be loved or feared? And my answer is always, if you’re Chaz Palminteri, it’s better to be loved. If you’re Sonny, it’s better to be feared. I always say, if you’re in that life and you’re the boss, it’s better to be feared. If you’re not in that life and you’re a regular person like you are now and I am, it’s better to be loved.

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What do you do when life knocks you down? When everything you’ve worked for seems to crumble and you’re left staring at the pieces. The difference between those who rise and those who stay defeated isn’t talent or luck. It’s the will to get back up over and over again, no matter how hard the fall. Imagine this, you’ve been working towards a goal, pouring your heart and soul into it, but just when you think you’re close to achieving it, something unexpected happens. You’re hit hard, knocked down by life in a way you never saw coming. It’s painful and the disappointment feels almost unbearable.

You look around and it feels like the world is moving on without you. Like you’re stuck in a moment of defeat while everything else keeps spinning.

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You look around and it feels like the world is moving on without you. Like you’re stuck in a moment of defeat while everything else keeps spinning.

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The thing I learned in life, you can never bring somebody up if they don’t wanna go up. You can’t, no matter how good you think you are, no matter how much you wanna tell them, you can help them. If they don’t wanna go up, there’s nothing you can do. But, the reverse is not true. Somebody bad can bring a good person down. Because the negativity in the world is much more stronger than the positive sometimes. And the negative people can bring you down. So I stay away from negative people. I just walk away from them.

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This is where most people give up. They let the fear of another failure keep them down. They start to believe that maybe, just maybe, they weren’t meant to succeed in the first place. But here’s the thing falling down isn’t the end of your story. In fact, it’s just the beginning of a new chapter. When you’re lying there on the ground, feeling the sting of failure, you have a choice to make. You can either stay there, lamenting over what could have been, or you can summon the courage to get back up and try again. It’s not easy. Nobody said it would be.

But the strength to rise comes from the very depths of those difficult moments. It’s forged in the fires of your hardest battles in the times when you feel like you have nothing left to give.

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But the strength to rise comes from the very depths of those difficult moments. It’s forged in the fires of your hardest battles in the times when you feel like you have nothing left to give.

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Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

Zuko, you must let go of your feelings of shame if you want your anger to go away.

But I don’t feel any shame at all. I’m as proud as ever.

Prince Zuko, pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

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you.

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Be careful what you wish for, Admiral. History is not always kind to its subject. I’m tired. Then you should rest. A man needs his rest. You sound like my nephew. Always thinking you need to do things on your own, without anyone’s support.

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Until you win, effort always goes unnoticed. Get used to it. No one roots for you until everyone roots for you. That’s just how it works.

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Looks like the winds are changing.

Ah, change is good.

Yeah, but it’s not easy.

I know what I have to do, but going back means I’ll have to face my past.

I’ve been running from it for so long.

Ow! Jesus, what was that for?

It doesn’t matter. It’s in the past.

Yeah, but it still hurts.

Oh, yes, the past can hurt.

But the way I see it, you can either run from it.

Or learn from it.

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You gotta put your past behind you. Look, kid, bad things happen, and you can’t do anything about it, right? Right. Wrong! When da world turns its back on you, you turn ya back on da world.

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When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? I don’t wanna know what you gotta do. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.

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Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

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You cannot wish for a strong character and an easy life. Each is the price of the other. What if what you’re going through isn’t hard? What if you’re just sensitive? The only insults that hurt are the ones we believe. Next time someone insults you, remember they’re going to die, everyone will forget about them, and if no one will remember them, then you might as well forget about them now. They are irrelevant. Your dream, your actions, your outcomes.

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While it is always best to believe in oneself, a little help from others can be a great blessing. There’s nothing wrong with a life of peace and prosperity. I suggest you think about what it is that you want from your life, and why. I want my destiny.

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When I had my accident,

I found out at that moment nothing in life is promised except death.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life,

you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate their moment until it’s past.

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When I had my accident,

I found out at that moment nothing in life is promised except death.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life,

you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate their moment until it’s past.

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If you can be in a bad mood for no reason, you might as well be in a good mood for no reason. If it’s not going to change your life, it shouldn’t change your mood. If the cost is peace of mind, don’t buy it.

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Me do you ever been in the airport and when you don’t get your fight on time you get delayed and you could be standing By some people and they get mad and they almost make you mad You’re like man. I wasn’t even trying to get mad, but they making me mad.

Never even realizing life may be protecting you from something.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

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You know what your problem is? You’re smart. Too smart. You overthink, because your mind moves at a million miles a minute. You’re sad, because you’re not fooled by the world like everyone else. You don’t get along with most people, because they just don’t look at things the way you do. You think you’re dumb, because you’re smart enough to know you don’t know everything. Your problem is, you’re too smart, and happiness in intelligent people is one of the rarest things I know.

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Tell you the truth, I don’t know if it’s special. Only you’re gonna know that when the time is right.

And it ain’t gonna come overnight. You’re gonna take a beat, you’re gonna take this, you’re gonna get knocked out, you’re gonna get up, and you’re gonna see if you got the right thing. But you gotta work hard. I swear to God, if you’re not gonna do it, I’m out.

Fuck every punch I ever thrown has been on my own. Nobody showed me how to do this.

I’m ready.

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The two things to keep in mind is you do not look away when challenges come and number two is don’t blame yourself if at that moment in time you’re not able to face it. The only thing you’re going to do is you step back, you take time for yourself, you invest the work and prepare yourself to return. Just because sometimes people relate to us as being like masters, it only means we understood something. We are not superhuman, we are not perfect but I know that every time I face something and I feel okay I’m not good enough at the moment at least I know what what needs to be done.

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Winners win and losers lose. I can’t explain it any better than that. I don’t know how it happens, But winners win and if you create a culture of losing, if you keep being a victim, if you keep letting Losing happen to you, if you keep letting people do you and treat you any kind of way, it’s gonna become a culture.

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when things are going bad, there’s gonna be some good that’s gonna come from it. Didn’t get the new high-speed gear we wanted? Good. Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better. Oh, mission got canceled? Good, we can focus on another one. Didn’t get funded? Didn’t get the job you wanted? Got injured? Sprained my ankle? Got tapped out? Good. Got beat? Good, you learned.

Unexpected problems? Good, we have the opportunity to figure out a solution.

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fundamentally people find a problem with being human. I think a lot of that is because of the social norm that we should be never hungry, never sad, never angry, never frustrated, never feel like we’re misunderstood. Those are the troughs and peaks of humanity. We can’t only wish for sunny days because otherwise we’d have droughts and no one would die. It’s wishing for something that isn’t true and will never happen. It’s wanting a lie.

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When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated.

If you can say the word good, guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing. And if you’re still breathing, well then hell, you still got some fight left in you. So get up, dust off, reload, recalibrate, re-engage, and go out on the attack.

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It’s normal to not know what you’re doing. If you did, it wouldn’t be called growth. High-five your fear, uncertainty and doubt, and carry on.

Do you get tired, stressed, sad, hungry, frustrated, unfocused? Do you feel misunderstood? Great.

You’re human. You don’t need medication.

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We need to be reminded more than we need to be taught.

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We need to be reminded more than we need to be taught.

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You are amazing. That’s right, you are amazing. But you gotta do me a favor. Look, I don’t care how much I tell you, you are amazing. I’ve told you before, you are a royal priesthood. Look, I told you before, you are a chosen generation. But look, it does not matter how I tell you, how often I tell you how much passion I have when I tell you, listen to me until you embrace it, until you believe that you are amazing.

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So when I was growing up for like three years, so from the time I was eight to the time I was like 12, we lived in a seven dollar a month place. And what I call it is I’m always paying rent in that seven dollar a month home. Every day of my life. I go back and revisit that place, because that place made me this Geronimo. That place made me this hard man. And then from that place, that place is hard work. That place is going back to the fundamentals of life. The fundamentals what made David Goggins, David Goggins.

Going back in there, going back to the, going back to the library of David Goggins. Studying even more than what I know, taking that out, going back to where I’m at now, and then moving forward.

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It’s hard to be comfortable with yourself. So it’s very hard to be comfortable with other people. That’s why I always stress with people, like you’ve gotta accept yourself for what you’ve done wrong. Do your best and also find some difficult shit to do because that gets away a lot of the anxiety that you carry around in your body. A lot of like difficult things make regular life less difficult. And that sounds so simplistic, but particularly physically difficult things, because when you do things that are physically difficult, the strain of making yourself do those things, it’s very valuable.

It’s not just valuable like exercise and fitness and martial arts and running and whatever you’re doing that’s really difficult. It’s not just valuable in terms of like health and the way you look, but it’s also valuable for your mind, maybe even more so. Because regular life can be confusing and little things that go wrong and little problems that arise are exacerbated by the fact that you’re not accustomed to dealing with hardship.

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He was still a kid with a dream and a belief in himself. And for many times I was laughed at and not believed in, but you know what? Nothing external can defeat the internal. The only thing that can take someone down or break you down is internal. Nothing external is strong enough. It’s just about making sure your internal dialogue and your internal belief in yourself is strong enough that it can withstand the external. The external is there. You’ve got to accept it. You’ve got to embrace it. You’ve got to understand it and be aware of it, but don’t let it seep into your internal dialogue.

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Yeah, people don’t know how to manage their emotions. I think the more, at least for me, the more I’ve tried to create space between how I feel and what I do, the more consistent my outcomes have been.

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I know why you hate me. You hate me because you’re probably in the bed right now, you’re probably an underachiever, you’re probably somebody who doesn’t want to do anything with your life. So I make you question everything about yourself. So I’m going to continue making you question yourself by coming out here and being even more successful.

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It’s unbelievable how little genuine encouragement many people need and how they had none. No one ever said to them and meant it. It’s not okay for you to be a weak loser. It’s not okay. And the reason it’s not okay is because you could be way more than that. And it’s a crime, an ethical crime, for you to allow all that necessary potential to go to waste. It hurts you. It hurts your family. It hurts the world. Really, really, it does.

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Embrace the process and don’t look for what you are supposed to be fully, completely polished, sharpened, edged, tempered at 26 or 36. At 46, you’ve got a lot more forge time left. You’ve got a lot more hammer blows left and it takes time. But if you will patiently embrace the process, then by the time you get up in years, you can be a man that you’re proud of. Okay? So this is just an encouragement to just chill out.

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So creating your own bullshit, whether it’s through fucking some brutal kettlebell exercise or running up hills or something is Extremely valuable for you. Also, not not just accepting the nuanced perspectives of other people, but also being able to navigate through this world with some sort of an understanding of Just how complex it all is and how weird it all is, and and not be Overly thrown off by every little dip in the road and pothole that you encounter.

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People should stop complaining, right, people should figure out who the fuck they are good call. people should not listen to America Propaganda of fixing the shit they suck at. they should be tripling down and what they’re good at. they should be competent in certain areas. But you’re not gonna become Beyonce or you know. like your bone structure is a certain way, like you’re not gonna solve everything. You’re IQ can get a little bit better, But don’t worry about the incremental. figure out what you can put you on fire And you’re halfway decent at.

if you’re lucky enough right now to be listening and you’re good at what you like, become tunnel envision.

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You’re walking in a room with people who are envious, you’re walking in the room with people who were jealous, you’re walking in the room with people who can’t stand you, you’re walking in a room where people are only with you because of what you could do for them. You’re walking in the room with people who are literally your enemies and you wondering why you’re not blowing up. They don’t have the energy! They don’t have the love!

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the success is largely going to be determined by who has the most self-discipline. I really do. Now, it’s always been the case, but I don’t think it’s ever been the case to the extent that it is now. So this is why I’m such a fan of taking some space from all action.

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Why I hate being around negative people. Being an asshole is a weak person’s idea of strength. Complaining is their connection. Never let yourself be held back by other people’s fears. People criticize what they were afraid to do themselves because bold action reminds them of their own inaction. If you’re afraid to be criticized, why do you care about the opinions of those who are too timid to do it themselves? If you are the criticizer, does tearing down someone who has the courage you lack make you better?

If you can control your behavior, you can also control how intelligent you are. And so if you wanna be a smart cookie, then it means that you just decrease the amount of times that you do not change your behavior under the same conditions. And so when I think about this, when I teach my team, when I teach anyone, I think in these conditions. And so every time you watch or you consume a piece of content, you read a book, if you think what behavior am I going to change as a result of this, if the answer is nothing, you wasted your time and you pretended to be learning,

but you were really entertaining yourself.

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Forget what you’ve seen, you can’t unlearn what you’ve learned. You can’t unlearn it, you can learn from it and learn other things on top of it, but you’re never going to unlearn those things. You’re never going to be able to unsee the things that you’ve seen. And that’s when people just don’t understand. They can’t see and understand your level of craziness. They can’t see your level of obsession. And then once those things no longer matter for you, then you know it’s time to move on to another endeavor, which you’ve already had in your previous thing.

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whoever I blame for the life I have is the person who I give all the power over my existence, over my circumstances. And so it hurts. But if you turn the finger inwards and you start saying, huh, I don’t like my life. The person that I need to punish or get back at is the real person who got me here, which is me. And so you may be right that other people did certain things or you got dealt a bad hand. It also doesn’t matter because the only thing that you can’t control is obviously the actions that you take. And the only person who’s in control of that is you.

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What is the one spy trick you would teach everyone that they can use to improve their life instantly?

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have the conversation with the person that’s holding you back. The reason most people who are listening right now are not doing that thing, is they’re worried about the opinion of somebody, usually their mother, usually their father, and the reality is, is that your spouse may be the person holding you back and you have to have that conversation. We have to get to a place where you’re doing you, because the number one thing that scares the fuck out of me is regret, and you’re gonna sit there at 72 and you’re gonna say, I wish, I wish, I wish,

and whether that’s money or spend more time with your family there’s a million ways to do this.

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People criticize because it helps them justify the risks they chose not to take,

in the hopes that it’ll dissuade you from doing it, so that you can be in the exact same position as them, which then justifies that they made the right call.

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If you could give everyone in the world an experiment to do for 30 days, what would it be?

Oh, I would ask them to take out a piece of paper and write down every thought that they’ve been thinking that’s standing in the way between their future and where they are. Write down every habit or behavior, even how they speak, that stops them from becoming the person that is healthy, wealthy, or free. I would have them write down what the behaviors look like of a great person that they wanted to become. And I would have them practice thinking about it and practice rehearsing it. And then I would say to them,

what emotions would you feel when your future happened? Because you have to teach your body emotionally what that future feels like before it happens. And every day, if you practice that and just become conscious of who you no longer want to be and keep becoming conscious of who do you do want to be, you should begin to see evidence in your life.

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The first, the most important spy trick to change everything immediately is something called perception versus perspective. We all look at the world through our own perception, but perception is your interpretation of the world around you, but it’s unique only to you. There’s no advantage in your perception. That’s why so many people find themselves arguing all the time, trying to convince other people of their own perception. The way that you win any argument, the way that you get ahead in your career,

the way that you outsell or outrace anybody is when you move off of perception and move into perspective.

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I believe in what Charlie Chaplin said is that life is a tragedy in close-up and a comedy in long shot. If you sit back visually on a situation, it automatically becomes funnier.

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got what you want or didn’t get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going, I didn’t half-ass it. I went all the way. I found out and that ain’t for me. Or I found out and you damn right that is for me. That’s a great place to get to. But the limbo of not knowing if you half-ass something, the limbo of going, I hedged my bet.

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When you shift places and get out of your own perception and into someone else’s perspective, now you’re thinking like them, which is giving you an informational advantage. But you know what they’re all doing? Everyone else out there is trapped in their own perception, not thinking about a different perspective. So immediately, you have superior information, superior positioning. You have an advantage that they don’t have. And if you do that to your boss, it’s going to change your career. If you do that to your spouse, it’s going to change your marriage. If you do that to your kids,

it’s going to change your family legacy because nobody else out there is doing it.

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And to spend your time now thinking of what happened there is making absolute certain that the future is going to be the same as the past.

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there’s three skills that every human being needs if you’re gonna be incredibly successful. And that first skill, jot it down, is the skill of pattern recognition. When you have pattern recognition, the greatest gift you get is fear disappears. Because when you feel like things are happening you can’t control, our brains freak out. But if we recognize patterns, it gives us a lot of freedom. You’ll start to see it’s not chaos, this has happened before, or I understand what this is leading to. So what’s the second skill? Once you recognize a pattern, you really get power when you do number two,

which is pattern utilization.

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Why does a person not take a decision? Because he lacks confidence. Why does he lack confidence? Because he lacks professional knowledge and competence. When I was the army chief, I’d go around, ask my generals, what are you doing about this? And he said, Sir, I’ve been thinking, I’ve been considering. And then I produced for myself a manic showism. I used to say, if you must be a bloody fool, be one quickly. Take a decision and then accept full responsibility for it. In the country, because somebody won’t take a decision, costs escalate,

papers lie in somebody’s place for days, for months, for years. And when they finally take a decision, the cost of a project, the cost of something has gone up tenfold. Who suffers? We, the people of India, suffer.

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If you really know somebody is good at something, they don’t just recognize the patterns, they know how to use it. People freak out because the problem is overwhelming. No, it’s a pattern and I know how to do this pattern. I know how to change this pattern. Once you know what patterns are, you’re no longer fearful. When you know how to use them, you start having power. And then there’s a third level you can get to, which is called pattern creation. If you want to learn to play the piano, how do you do it? Initially, you learn to play someone else’s music,

someone else’s pattern that’s beautiful. But after you’ve played enough of other people’s music, there’s a point in which your brain makes a set of connections and you start to become a creator. You stand on the shoulders of the people you’ve learned and you’re able to do unique things yourself.

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How to get whatever you want. That’s the title of the next set of notes. How to get whatever you want. Here’s what it says if you’re ready. It says, ask.

That’s it. End of notes. Ask. If there’s one art in life to learn extremely well, that’s got to be one of them. The art of asking.

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Wow, so your brain doesn’t really know the difference between,

say that again? Between something that happened in real life or something that you strongly visualize.

I love the way you put that.

Wow.

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What do you want?

And the formula is staggering. It says ask and what? See, you’ve got to be better than a good worker. You’ve got to be a good asker. Now, let me give you three key points on asking and receiving. This can do it. Number one, asking is the beginning of receiving.

Asking starts a unique process, mental and emotional. I don’t even know how it works. All I know is it works. It’s like pushing a button and all this machinery starts working. I don’t know how. It just works. There’s a lot of things you don’t need to know how. Just work them.

Some people are always studying the roots. Others are picking the fruit. I mean, it depends on what end of it you want in on.

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you will get 100x, 1000x your returns,

placing your efforts to try and change those things on you,

as opposed to on the world.

Like, I think basically the best way to move through the world is to see your entire surroundings as immutable,

and you as mutable.

You’re the only mutable thing in the entire world. You’re the only thing that can change.

Everybody else, people, opinions, places, economy, politicians, policies, all of that,

none of that’s going to change. You. You can change. That’s it.

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I got up last year and hit it every day, but there’s not a scrap of paper with my goals on it. Good work, poor ask. So you got to change that. Here’s number three.

Receiving is like the ocean, there’s plenty. Success is not in short supply. It isn’t rationed, and you stepped up to the window and it was all gone. No, no, no. It’s like an ocean here.

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You cannot leave! A real warrior never quits. Why didn’t you quit? You knew I was trying to get rid of you, yet you stayed!

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Do we accept the world and change ourselves? Or do we change the world and accept ourselves? And so it’s a really interesting dichotomy when you ask the question because both of those sound right. You’re like, I should accept myself and change the world. When you change yourself, you will change the world because you’ll change how you see it.

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Asking is the beginning of receiving, so start the process. Here’s number two, receiving is not the problem.

Receiving is automatic.

Now, if that’s true, receiving is not the problem, what’s the problem? Failure to ask might be one of your major problems. I don’t know, check it out.

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Go into the silence. Go and sit down quietly by yourself for 30 to 60 minutes. 30 to 60 minutes. Most people in our society have never sat quietly for 30 to 60 minutes in their entire lives. Yet I will tell you this, this method works 100% of the time. That any problem that you have, any difficulty, any challenge, any goal that you want to accomplish, if you’ll go into the silence and sit quietly and then listen to the still small voice within. The still small voice within. This is the key. You will find that at a certain point, probably at about 25 to 30 minutes,

your mind will go completely clear and then a flow of ideas will start to flow into your mind. You’ll feel energy welling up inside you and at a precise moment as you sit there in complete silence, your mind will go clear and wham! Exactly the answer you need will come at exactly the right time.

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I think as well when it comes to accepting yourself, do you want to accept you… Do you want to accept a version of you that you shouldn’t accept? One that you ‘re not proud of? One that doesn’t live up to their word? One whose thoughts, actions and intentions aren’t aligned fully? You go, well I mean I can, but I don’t particularly feel good about that. That feels like the higher version of me, the potential version of me that I want to live up to is… I’m sort of derogating them, that this isn’t really the tribute to them that it should be.

And yeah, that’s why the self-acceptance movement… That’s why people feel icky about it. People feel icky about the self-acceptance movement because they know that people are accepting a version of themselves which is falling short from what it could be.

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Don’t base your life satisfaction on circumstances where you have no influence on. If you have, well then change them in a way that serve you. But there are many things we don’t have. And to already right now, like realizing I cannot as a small citizen, I do have no influence on whatever the politicians are going to throw out there. No way. And then it starts that you are realizing your life is in your hands. Your responsibility is make sure that inside you’re always full or that you’re feeling full no matter what happens on the outside.

Nobody can take something away from you because the gift that has been given to you is the existence is this lifetime in the first place. We already have been given the greatest gift of everything, existence. Now don’t let anybody interfere trying to take that away from you.

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Advice I wish I had known in my 20s and 30s. If you lack confidence, build evidence. The fewer people you try to impress, the more impressive you become. And you can learn anything you want as long as you’re willing to look dumb in front of other people for an extended period of time. Find people who are more ambitious than you and then stop letting them be more ambitious than you. And then no matter how behind you start, it’s hard to beat a man who never stops learning.

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. That is where your power is. No matter how unfair life may seem, no matter how cruel or overwhelming the situation may be, you have the power because you can change yourself. You are free to choose your attitude in any given set of circumstances, and you are also free to choose what you do or don’t do in response.

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motivation is the equal opposite of deprivation. So we are most motivated when we are deprived of something. I’m most motivated to sleep when I’m sleep deprived. I’m most motivated to eat when I’m deprived of food.

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Because the gift that has been given to you is the existence, is this lifetime in the first place? . We already have been given the greatest gift of everything, existence. Now don’t let anybody interfere trying to take that away from you.

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Because you had the talent to become a good fighter. And instead of that, you became a leg breaker to some cheap, second-rate loan shark. It’s a living? It’s a waste of life.

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Is there a version of yourself that’s better than you are right now?

And most people hopefully would say yes.

It’s like, great, accept that person.

And I think that to me, when we talk about the authenticity,

accepting yourself is accepting the ideal that we can live up to.

And that is what we accept,

not the shitty version of that that we are today. And I think that marries both sides of the argument.

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Ask with intelligence.

It didn’t say ask intelligently, but I’m sure it meant that. Don’t mumble. You don’t get anything by mumbling. Be clear, be specific. Intelligent asking means how wide, how high, how soon? When, what size, what color, how much? Define what you want and describe what you want. That’s powerful. Goals become like a magnet. They pull you that direction. And the better you describe them, the more they pull.

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Believe you can get what you want like a child, not an adult. Adults are too skeptical.

So the formula really reads, make plans like an adult and believe in them like a child.

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People see the trophies, but not the training ground.

Everybody wants the view, but no one wants the climb.

Everyone is jealous of what you’ve got. No one is jealous of how you got it.

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Now you’re gonna have to go through hell. Worse than any nightmare that you ever dreamed. But in the end, I know you’ll be the one standing.

That’s right.

You know what you gotta do. Do it.

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It’s up to the individual to allow the dreariness to set inside. Do we worry about external factors or do we worry about what’s inside of ourselves? Those two different things are the two measures of confidence, positive and negative confidence. Negative confidence is the egocentric person. Basis is all their performance trying to achieve third party’s agreeability, their likeness, their thumbs up because we value their opinion. Those kind of people allow this mood and the weather and everything that’s set in to dictate their performance of the day.

There’s also another side, the positive side of confidence starts from within. That’s called pride. That doesn’t value rain, sun, you know, if there’s someone in the corner looking at them, if it’s five in the morning, five in the afternoon, that pride is always awake, always turning, always burning for the ideology of greatness to be matured into reality. That’s internal pride. No one can alter that.

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When a lion walks up and sees an elephant, he thinks lunch. An elephant thinks run.

And it’s all mentality.

Because when a male lion walks up, he may be outnumbered by a pack of hyenas, but I’m king of my jungle.

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When a lion walks up and sees an elephant, he thinks lunch. An elephant thinks run.

And it’s all mentality.

Because when a male lion walks up, he may be outnumbered by a pack of hyenas, but I’m king of my jungle.

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Saying good, that should fix your attitude, But that alone That will, that alone will not fix your problems.

If you’re having problems, sure Say good That’s perfect. But then Don’t ask yourself. Why me?

Instead ask yourself now, what am I going to do about it? What are you going to do about? ask yourself that question and then Figure it out. Figure out what you’re going to do say to yourself. I am going to detach. I am going to Assess the situation. I am going to come up with a plan and I am going to execute.

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Saying good, that should fix your attitude, But that alone That will, that alone will not fix your problems.

If you’re having problems, sure Say good That’s perfect. But then Don’t ask yourself. Why me?

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The greatest achievement of somebody comes right after their worst defeat. When they’ve hit rock bottom, hit the bottom of their barrel, they got nothing left. Everyone’s given up on them. They’ve lost all their worldly possessions. They’re dead broke on their back. It’s at that point, guys, when everything’s lost, that everything can be gained. There’s no more ego there, is there? They let go of, you know, what if I fail? What if it doesn’t work? What if I don’t like, what if this person rejects me? The animosity, the pressures of society, they let it all go because they’ve lost it all.

They’re just now left with the intestinal fortitude, the pride within, do I want to stay on the bottom of this barrel or do I want to climb the f*** out of this hole? And that is a spark of what turns out to be their greatest moment, their greatest hour. We can live that way, guys.

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The first secret of self-made millionaires is simple. Dream big dreams. Allow yourself to dream. Allow yourself to imagine and fantasize about all your career goals and the kind of life you would really like to live. Think about the amount of money you would like to earn and have in your bank account. All self-made millionaires begin with a dream of something wonderful and different from what they have today. You know the song that says: you have to have a dream if you want to make a dream come true. It’s true for you and for everyone else as well.

So imagine that you have no limitations on what you can be or have or do in life. Just for the moment, imagine that you have all the time and all the money and all the education and all the experience and all the friends and all the contacts and all the resources and everything else you need to achieve anything you want in life. You have no limits.

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Early in the morning, most people sleeping right now cuz it’s dreary. You know, if you look at 365 days of the year a good third of them are dreary One third of the opportunity to become something this year you’re gonna let pass by You can get the fuck out of bed make it happen. You might think that beds warm Feels all comfortable you come here. You kill it. Give it everything you have, leave it all here. The warmth you feel after that- Second to none man second to none. No,

she can provide that comfort for you When you give it all here guys and you leave it all here you are your weakest state bottom of the barrel What’s about to happen your greatest triumph? You kill yourself on pride in here. Leave nothing to spare. What’s gonna come the growth of opportunity? There’s gonna be Sun out here real soon. I guarantee it.

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And how about you plan your day?

How about you plan what you’re going to do in the day?

How about you bring your lunch to work with you so you don’t have to eat a slice of pizza or a damn burger and fries?

How about you change what time you get to work by showing up 10 minutes earlier and you square your gear away or you dial in your tools or your desk or your workspace?

That’s what you need to do.

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Anything in life that you put your mind to, you can do. So use that ability to maybe change the world. The world is your oyster.

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Imagine the life you can live when you let go of the thought of failure. When the fear doesn’t resonate inside of you to paralyze yourself in a self-paralysed state. When that’s gone, the freedom. When you judge yourself on your own measure, you’re not worried about other people’s opinions. Because when you don’t worry about anyone else and you just worry about what’s in here saying the pride of confidence. Funny, all this is taken care of too. With one comes the other in a positive way.

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Change the little things and over time you can change your life.

But if you don’t change, if you don’t change what you’re doing and how you do it, nothing else will change.

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Part of that is having the will to succeed, You know, knowing that you put the work in and have the confidence to let it show. What I tell people is: just be the best version of yourself and anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story. Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world, But the truth is you really don’t. it doesn’t matter where you come from, What you have or don’t have, What you lack, what you have too much of,

but all you need to have is faith in God and undying passion for what you do And what you choose to do in this life, And a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful and whatever you put your mind to.

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Win the day. That’s right, win the day. Too many of y’all are focused. Yup, you gotta have a vision. Yup, you gotta begin with the end in mind. But you gotta come back to the front. Are you hearing me? You gotta come back. Listen to me, I told you before. You go in the future and you see your future, baby. You look at it. You see where you wanna be in 20 years, in 30 years, in 40 years, and then you come back to the present, to this particular day, to this particular spot. Get in the spot and you master today and you don’t worry about tomorrow and you ain’t tripping on your past. Why?

Because your past don’t count no more and your future is so far ahead that you don’t even need to be worried about that. You master the present. You master the present. You master Monday and then you take on Tuesday. And once you lick Tuesday, then you say Wednesday, come on. And then you take Thursday and then you master Friday. And then you tell the weekend, bring it on. And when you get to the point where you start winning the day, then you start winning the week. And then you start winning the month. And then you start winning the year. Are you hearing what I’m saying?

It’s your boy ET saying go fast, go hard, finish and win the day.

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And you know, when you can see change, that’s when you like really go into it. You start getting obsessed when you see whether it’s success or like your fitness levels go up or just the way you energy levels are every day. And just figuring out that like these little indicators are changing the way I am. And then at the same time, we were really working on the business. So the business was starting to see a bit more success. And that whole thing, the cadence of that just kept rolling and rolling and rolling. And I guess whether it’s obsession or addiction, I got addicted to it.

And like there couldn’t be a day go by where I wouldn’t work out or I wouldn’t eat the exact calories that I needed to eat or I wouldn’t sleep the exact like I needed to get the exact amount of sleep that I wanted. And it just completely changed like the way I looked and like my levels of fitness and cardiovascular and strength and everything like that just went through the roof.

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When you create a clear mental picture of where you are going in life and you set clear career goals, you become more positive and more motivated and more determined to make it a reality. You trigger your natural creativity and you come up with idea after idea to help make your vision come true. You see, you always tend to move in the direction of your dominant career goals and dreams and images and visions. The very act of allowing yourself to dream big dreams actually raises your self-esteem and causes you to like and respect yourself more.

Dreaming big dreams improves your self-concept and increases your level of self-confidence. It increases your personal level of self-respect and happiness.

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How many times do you have to hear, if nothing changes, nothing changes? Right? We all have heard this. I don’t even know where it comes from. I probably heard that first when I was 10 years old. If nothing changes, nothing changes. And yet somehow we expect things to change. We expect things to change. You think you’re gonna get in better shape. You think you’re gonna get more money. You think your relationship is gonna improve. You think you’re gonna get promoted. You think you’re gonna get a raise. You think the world is going to get better without you doing anything, but it isn’t.

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The biggest mistake a person can do right now, no matter in which situation you are, is to give up.

At least prepare yourself, slowly, step by step, to get out of that hole right now.

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Some people can sit around and wait for the opportunity to change, like this, and then they get the fuck up. Some people strike when that iron is hot All the people just keep on striking until the blade so hot it slices through anything Some people get up in the middle of a snowstorm or a rainstorm Pushes through listen to their pride not their ego and what happens the Sun comes out birth of a new day new opportunities. We’re living.

We’re not waiting for it to pass by I Said it a thousand times in this workout guys Your greatest moment your greatest hour Will be right after your worst hour despair because in that worst hour despair, who are you? Who are you? You’re no one.

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Some people can sit around and wait for the opportunity to change, like this, and then they get the fuck up. Some people strike when that iron is hot All the people just keep on striking until the blade so hot it slices through anything Some people get up in the middle of a snowstorm or a rainstorm Pushes through listen to their pride not their ego and what happens the Sun comes out birth of a new day new opportunities. We’re living.

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Seriously, you pull out these other drinks and you just look at the ingredients and it’s just wrong. We are legitimately going to help people be better, be healthier, by just giving them the right stuff to put in their bodies, man. But if they don’t know, if they’re not educated, if we don’t do a good job, if I don’t do a better job of educating people as to what they’re putting in their bodies… That’s on me. You know, you hear something like, oh, people spend millions of dollars to advertise. They spend millions of dollars to brainwash you. They spend millions of dollars to lie to you.

It’s not even millions. It’s tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to get you to put their crap into your body. It’s just disturbing. We’re doing the right thing for the right reasons, and when that’s happening, you win in the end.

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That are the hardest of the hard. Mm-hmm. and I want to be with these men And I want to see them suffer because I’m suffering right along with you, but I want to see me get through it I want to see what you’re made of. I want to see like almost like the Coliseum In Rome. Mm-hmm. Let’s go to the fucking Coliseum And the only way to see who the baddest motherfucker is is to suffer. You can’t do it by writing a paper, So let’s go, Because why? what I found out through my life was I thought of myself as some weak little bitch kid.

and when I found out in, the only message I want to get across to people is: Once you change one thing- your mindset, you can attack everything.

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Take the opportunity. It doesn’t say receive the opportunity. It doesn’t say have the opportunity granted to you. It doesn’t say get lucky with the opportunity. It says take the opportunity. You know what that means? That means you have to seize it. That means you have to take it. No one’s going to give it to you. No one’s going to come and say, here, I got this path. You can make a million bucks a year or 10 million bucks a year. No one, that’s not how it works, bro. True high achievers, they look for the lane and then they take the opportunity by taking initiative. They take the opportunity.

They take the opportunity. They take the opportunity.

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you won’t wake up. But if you keep waking up, don’t you understand that there’s a higher purpose?

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you won’t wake up. But if you keep waking up, don’t you understand that there’s a higher purpose?

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And if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with, that is the one person in this universe that you have full power, full right and full responsibility to change. Okay? I don’t have the right, I don’t have the desire to, and I do not have the right to try to change my wife’s personality and who she is. I don’t have the right to change anybody, except myself. Now, there’s people out there I don’t like, and if I don’t like them, I just walk away. I’m 55 years old. I’ve done without that person my whole dang life. I don’t need them now.

And I don’t have the right or the desire to try to change them.

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And I don’t have the right or the desire to try to change them.

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There are so many different approaches also out there. I can only tell you the one that is working for us over here. But you have other people that you have also talked to in the past. I think if there is something in common when it comes to people that are not living in these holes, there’s a reason why you are not in that hole. Because you have figured out another way of how dealing with this world. Your view has become already a little bit more clear about how things are functioning here.

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If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything except my faith. I want to fall forward. I figure at least this way I’ll see what I’m going to hit.

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A lot of times we have this desire to point the blame finger externally, but wherever you point the finger of blame, power follows. And so whoever I blame for the life I have is the person who I give all the power over my existence, over my circumstances. And so it hurts. but if you turn the finger inwards and you start saying, huh, I don’t like my life, the person that I need to punish or get back at is the real person who got me here, which is me. And so you may be right that other people did certain things or you got dealt a bad hand.

It also doesn’t matter because the only thing that you can’t control is obviously the actions that you take. And the only person who’s in control of that is you.

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when I was overweight and unhealthy, and I’d look at people on Instagram and be like, yeah, genetics, whatever. Yeah, he’s on steroids. I can’t look like that, I’ve got business to run. Like you would dismiss everything, but it’s not. And once you start doing it yourself and you see those little gains and you get into it, you can really change. What is the starting point? One step at a time, whether it’s 10,000 steps or doing even a 20 minute workout. That’s all people need to do to change. Because you’ll start seeing results regardless of what position you’re in right now.

If you can just keep increasing incrementally what you’re doing in terms of fitness or your business, or however you like your sleep, whatever it is that you feel is not right, you’ll see the change over time. It comes and it takes a long time. It takes a really long time, but it happens.

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Take action, action that moves you in a positive direction,

And if it ends up being the wrong direction, that’s fine. At least you’ve learned where not to go.

now Where this gets tough? is if It is something that seems like it’s completely out of your control. And you know what. some things are completely out of your control, and that’s fine,

And when that happens you ask yourself, what can I control?

What can I control? that will make this situation a little bit better.

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And a lot of people don’t like to do that because they do this. Well, what if I do all this shit and they don’t recognize me? I’m not going to put in all this work and, you know, fucking have them not pay me for my blah, blah, blah. Let me tell you something, bro, that’s loser talk. Because here’s the reality. If you took the opportunity, you learn the skills, you learn how to solve the problems, and you were actually valuable and your fucking place of business doesn’t recognize it, you just learned a whole new set of skills that you could take elsewhere and make more money.

You see what I’m saying? So it’s fucking take the opportunity. And these people have a misunderstanding of that. They believe that if I show up every day, because they do, they all got parents that think like this. That’s what it always comes down to.

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You have no control over rain, no control over the snow, no control over the temperature. What I’m asking you to do to blow up this year, I’m asking you to control what you can control. You can control going to bed, you can control getting up, you can control being on time, you can control going to class, you can control showing up, you can control doing your homework, you can control your attitude, you can control being nice, you can control doing what you say you’re going to do when you say you’re going to do it. It’s your boy ET saying you want to be a winner and you want to stop losing?

Then minimize the errors. Minimize the errors and make the rest of your life the best of your life.

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But when you begin to dream big dreams about financial success, you begin to change the way you see yourself and your life. You begin to do different things, bit by bit, gradually, until the whole direction of your life changes for the better. Dreaming big dreams is the starting point of financial success and of becoming a self-made millionaire. So here’s an action exercise for you. Make a list of everything you would do or attempt if you are absolutely guaranteed of success. Then, decide upon one specific action and take it immediately.

Remember, all self-made millionaires dare to dream big, and then, they take action.

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One doesn’t expect to get from life what one has already learned it cannot give. Rather, one begins to see that life is a kind of sowing time,

and the harvest is not yet here.

He was just a humble preacher’s son. And yes, he had his demons, but they never stopped him from searching for beauty.

Because when you find beauty, you find inspiration.

If, that is, you stay as determined as Vincent. Never stop, no matter how many failures. When you know you’re doing what you’re meant to do, you have to try.

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That’s what you need to do. You have to change some things or nothing will change.

So, make changes. And start little. Get up a little bit earlier. Get a workout done. It doesn’t have to be epic. It doesn’t have to be epic. You don’t have to do a three-hour leg day. But get up and get something done.

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That’s what you need to do. You have to change some things or nothing will change.

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Thinking about what the version of you who got you here did and then acting in the exact opposite of that as many times as you possibly can and the pain that you feel by rejecting the thing that you used to do that got you into this bad circumstance, that’s the real revenge.

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If you in good shape, you in good shape. We don’t need to drink no piss. We ready, baby.

All I say, for any fighter, he can say what they want to say. You put him in front of me, I’m gonna beat him. You better believe that. Yeah, I got a big mouth. Y’all want me to have somebody shut me up? If he shut me up, then that’s what it is. Until then, I’m the king.

Dedication. Hard work. Dedication. Hard work. I’m a one-man army. One-man army. The world can go against me, but I’m still coming out on top. I got God on my side.

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I think the more at least for me the more I’ve tried to create space between how I feel and what I do The more consistent my outcomes have been What do you mean? so if I need to create content and I’m not feeling it or I’m feeling tired or things like that The more times I give into that excuse or that feeling then the more superstitious I become about Doing it in the future whereas a lot of times if I can just start when I am tired or when something is painful and then still Execute about the same as before.

I Look at game tape where I look at video, or look at the content from those sessions, For example, and I see that I remember feeling terrible during the session but you can’t really see anything. and I think the more times you get that loop going, the more you can separate how you feel and what is required. and The more times you do what is required to get what you want, the more times you get you what you want.

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We flew back to LA that night and I got home. It’s probably like three in the morning. And I went down to the high school, which is down the street from our house. And the janitor let me in the gym and I shot all day. All day. I mean all day. And this was right after that playoff game. And I didn’t leave the gym. I just kept shooting and shooting and shooting and practicing and practicing. And I got a chance to let out the steam of disappointing my teammates and millions of fans.

I got a chance to let all that out instead of bottling it up and envision that moment over and over and over and over and over. That was a huge something for me because I felt like everybody had written me off after those air balls. I was really excited when the schedule came out and I saw we had Utah.

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work while you wait. Yup, I said it. For real, for real. You don’t know how long it’s going to take, right? But if you stop now, if you quit now, the one thing I can tell you is for certain it’s never going to happen. So, the first thing I need you to do is like you cannot stop. Like you, you, you, you, you, okay, all right. Rest if you must. But you cannot stop and question life. Like you cannot stop and question your circumstance and situation so much so that while you could be working, while you could be further along the road, less travel, you’re sitting there contemplating.

Like you’re sitting there moaning about it. You’re sitting there complaining about it. And I get it. I’m not minimizing your struggle. I get it. I understand. But you got to, you got to work. You got to work because what happens? What happens if you wake up 30 days later and you’re there? What happens if you wake up 60 days later and the change is coming? You know what’s going to happen? You’re going to wake up 60 days later, 90 days later, and everything is going to change but you. And you’re going to get the same results you got before it happened because you’re the exact same person.

So, work, work while you wait.

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a lot of entrepreneurship and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard. Because in the early days, hard was, ooh, stop. This isn’t good. This is a warning sign. This is a red flag. I should slow down or I should pivot. The more I think about it as a competitive landscape, as I’m clear on what this path is supposed to look like, and these rocks and these dragons are things that I’m going to have to slay along the way to get the princess or get the treasure, I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow. It’s a selection effect.

And I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this, then it flips from being this thing that you’re like, oh, poor me to, oh, poor everyone else who’s going to have to fucking try. And I think that is so much more motivating as a frame for the exact same circumstance.

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The message I try to deliver to people is play to win. Don’t play to avoid loss because the things you fear, the things that’s going to happen to you, set that target on something positive. Work for it. Expect it. Bob Inayat at Indiana University says, the will to win is nothing without the will to prepare to win. See, everybody wants to win, but are you willing to prepare to win? Again, one of the major points I often make is what you do off the job determines how far you go on the job. Every athlete, every actor, every singer, every entertainer knows that.

Most doctors and attorneys and professionals know that.

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I’d rather you hate me and get better than like me and stay the same. A lot of us are full of shit. I was one of those people back in the fucking day. And sometimes I’m still full of shit. We think that we’re working our ass off, working hard. You know, we’ve been working out hard in the gym for a month, but we haven’t seen any results. So we get all fucking down and poopy pants and shit. You study for 30 minutes for a fucking test and you didn’t do as well as you thought. What the fuck did you expect? You’re not putting in the work. You have to do more.

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Work on your focus. Perspective is everything. Let me tell you something, the problem with most of you is that you see difficult as something negative. For real, for real. And I want you to see difficult differently. Are you hearing me? I need you to see difficult differently. Now, that weightlifter, when my man looking at those weights, when he got that iron, that iron is heavy. But he’s not looking at that iron like, look how heavy the iron is. And he knows what it’s going to do. It’s going to tear his muscles to pieces. He gets it. But what he understands is that if he tears them down,

they’re going to rebuild themselves. And when they rebuild themselves, they’re that much stronger. Listen to me, the more you go through, the more difficult it is, the more challenging it is. Listen to me, the harder it is. Are you hearing me? The more challenging it is, all you’re doing, baby, is building muscle.

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a lot of people have a hard time doing is being okay with saying no and saying, okay, I will allow myself to just not get fatter rather than get fitter during this period. And what’s interesting about most skills is that the amount of effort that it takes to maintain a skill versus the amount of effort it takes to grow a skill is like one-tenth amount of effort. And so this is where the effort arbitrage is so important in terms of allocation. And so if you do a four out of 10 on 10 things, you will make progress on none.

You will make the same amount of progress that you could have made if you just did one out of 10, which is none. You just don’t regress. But the extra three points that you save on the nine, you could put on one other item and have a 10 out of 10 or a 13 out of 10 in effort. And then, after every periodized chunk of time, have a big W or win that you can look back on and say, I did that. And therefore I am.

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You know, trained hard. Because it’s what I do, it’s what I enjoy, I love it. You take that away from me, you may as well just handicap me completely. Do you have to do it as well? No, I don’t have to, but I love it. I don’t understand why any man would not want to go to the gym and train. I don’t get that. To feel better? You feel good, yeah. You feel fantastic. Best feeling in the world is when you’ve done a good training session and you’ve finished, and you’re going for a shower and a breakfast. Best. Best time of the day as well, early in the morning for me.

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Did you think I’d forgotten you? Perhaps you hoped I had. Don’t waste a breath mourning Miss Barnes. Every kitten grows up to be a cat.

They seem so harmless at first.

Small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk. But once their claws get long enough,

they draw blood.

Sometimes from the hand that feeds them.

For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain,

there can be no mercy.

There is but one rule. Hunt or be hunted.

Welcome back.

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I don’t know. I just don’t see the point anymore.

So you didn’t make the dress list. There are greater tragedies in the world.

I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad. To prove to everyone that I was… Prove what?

That I was somebody.

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It’s kind of Saturday afternoon. Too many people there, man. I’ll tell you that much. Aren’t too many winners out here in the world. That workout in there, no weights involved. Just our body weight and our ego. How bad do we want it? We made something happen right there that’s going to transform the rest of our work in the gym. Meaning we broke the monotony up, made our body guess, and shocked to new situations. Take that kind of rubble back into our normal workouts. Exponential growth comes. When you do the same thing over and over again, you get the same results.

We can shock it up like we just did. Get ready for a little bit of a tsunami coming in at success.

I don’t know what to say, guys. In all honesty, if you want to, there is no fundamental secret here. It’s called hard work and sweat. If you had that and you’re willing to provide that in exchange for a better life, well, everyone will make that deal with you. If you’re willing to give up that for pride, accomplishment, feeling of self-worth, if you’re willing to make that transaction, Miami Fitness is your bank. And it’s open every single day for your transactions. Make your deposits every fucking day. Do your dues. Become the person you want to be.

It’s the easiest fucking equation in the world.

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I used to define power by the distance between thoughts and reality, meaning if you think about somebody who’s omnipotent, so if God or the God figure would be omnipotent as he thinks things are, so there’s zero space between thoughts and reality. And so if we want to be more God-like in our lives, the distance that we can shrink between wanting to do something or thinking something should be done and it being done is a direct indication of our personal power in our lives. And so that has helped me basically think, don’t be a powerless bitch.

Like, just shrink the gap. And I think that’s why a lot of my little like personal hacks of waking up and then trying to shrink the time between when I wake up and when I start working and shrinking the time between one task and the next task. Like you don’t need to take 30 minutes of getting ready to start working, . Like, you can just start working because as soon as you get into it, start pulling the thread and you’re like, oh, here it is. And all of the time that I was getting ready to work, I was just using up my best brain power time on things that truly don’t move the needle at all.

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Don’t stare at them. You listen to me. You don’t get both by staring at weights You don’t get both by but look you don’t get healthier by staring at it You get healthier by running up to it and grabbing it and pushing it look push through that stuff Push do it you can get through it. He said he won’t put on you more than you can bear You can’t get through it. So I need you to work while you wait. I need you to work with work on your focus Perspective I need you to see difficult differently. Are you hearing what I’m telling you?

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You got the second wind? Well, the problem is most people when they go on a run They never exhaust their first win They never go to the extreme to the level of fatigue where the first win expires when they realize even a second win to begin with They sit there and make excuses here and excuses there. There is no excuse not being the hardest worker. Yeah, someone might be bigger, stronger, faster or quicker, younger, whatever else, but there is no excuse to not be the hardest fucking worker there.

And when you believe that you had the ability to do something That the life that you’re living right now is going down this direction you fucking hate where it is There is nothing else to do but to change direction. I believe that I cannot go that way anymore. I gotta go this way. And what do you have to lose? You know the outcome if you continue the same shit Why not just just just commit one time in your life to something see what happens. There are no losers.

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which is that most people who claim to be perfectionists are not perfectionists. They’re actually procrastinating because they’re not doing anything. And so it just is a socially acceptable label because the real perfectionists feel this sickness where they like wanna itch their skin off until the thing’s done, but they are trying to get it done. Whereas the perfectionist or the procrastinator uses that to say like, I’m not sure, I’m just getting it right. But like the person who’s an actual perfectionist,

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When you push yourself that hard, you sleep easy at night. That’s not because you’re physically tired. It’s not because physically you’re worn out that you sleep easy. It’s that by going, the physical exhaustion, your brain can finally rest, knowing you gave it your all. So when you physically push yourself that hard, you sleep easy because your mind’s at rest and you did everything you could to be a champion that day.

That’s the difference.

That’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground and do it again.

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I always knew the answer to everything is raw action. Yeah. The answer to everything has always been raw action. My dad had a tweet about this. He said that raw action solves all and he used to say this. I give you an example. If you’re a farmer and you need rain for your crop and there’s no rain, you can sit there and say, there’s no rain. We’re all going to starve or you can stand up and do a rain dance. Now, will your rain dance work? Perhaps not. Perhaps the rain won’t come, but I would argue that you’re better off standing up doing that rain dance than just sitting there waiting to die.

You have to do something raw action solves. So when I was broke, I was never like, I’m poor. I’m poor. What do I do? It was I’m poor. What must I have to do something? I’ll just if I was broke, I’d go for a run. That’s why I was such a great fire. If I was broke, I’d sit there and go, I’m actually poor. How do I make money? Don’t know. How can I make? Can we work? Can I get some cash? Don’t know. What work can I do? Don’t know. I’ll just go for a run then, and I just go for three mile run.

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The gang will test you. You know what I mean? The gang, everything gonna test you if it’s worthwhile. Right. And you’re gonna make decisions based on what you care about more. And without even being conscious that you’re getting tested, you’re gonna be getting tested. And so you’re gonna have decisions to make. Should I, you know, continue this lifestyle? Whether it’s shopping clothes, whatever your lifestyle is. Or do I gotta sacrifice a little bit because I really, really care about this music and it really is important to me. So whatever I gotta do, I’m gonna do it.

And that’s gonna be them distinguishing decisions. You know what I’m saying? That separate the ones that end up getting it from the ones that don’t. And I’ll be telling my people, like young niggas that ask me for advice and whatnot. Like, you know, I had to take two steps back to take 10 forward. But them two back hurt. That’s painful. That moment right there is gonna be a defining moment. You know what I mean? Where you used to getting treated a certain way, you used to getting received a certain way. And then you step back because of your sacrifice. And that’s gonna be a defining moment.

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You should be feeling a burn, man. You should be coming to life right now. This should be like your mojo. This is your… This is the juice that’s going to oil your machine and conquer every endeavor you want in life. The principles you’re learning right here. Let’s split equity of it all. Going through the trials and tribulations and coming out on top or even better yet getting knocked down and finding the intestinal fluid to stand back up and go at it again, man. This is honest work. Things that come too easy in life, leave easy too. This you build forever.

It’s your foundation, your bedrock. Doesn’t… doesn’t… doesn’t quench you. If you give it the time it needs, it pays it back to you tenfold. And then life’s fine.

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If you ask most people what their number one fear is,

what do you think it is?

Most people’s number one fear is public humiliation.

Okay.

I don’t give a fuck anymore.

I’m not afraid of it.

Because I’ve had plenty.

And now it’s just time for me to say I’m tough.

Because what does not kill you makes you stronger.

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I’ve always been a maximizer. So I’ve actually not really been an optimizer in my life. It’s just like, as soon as I have an input output equation where it’s like, N equals X, and it’s like, and if I want 10 X, I do 10 N, I’m like, great, then can we do a thousand N? Like, I just want to do as much of that as a humanly possible. But when we, like, I love competitors who like optimizing because I always see it as a weakness because it’s so easy to exploit. It’s like, oh, you need your eight hours of sleep or you need your morning routine.

If you don’t have your supplements, you’re just totally fucked. Or like, I didn’t have my coffee this morning, so I can’t function. Like, I love to compete against people like that because they’re so easy to break. It’s fragile. Yeah, and so what happens is the optimizations become superstition.

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There’s a gift and a curse to it. The gift is that it gives you an opportunity to talk to your fan base, generate a fan base. It gives you an opportunity to create material, push that material, and you can do it in a way to where it’s all you. If people grow and gravitate towards it, great, you’re building something. The curse is, if you read those comments, and you believe those comments, then you become the comments. If you don’t give a f*** about it, you’re fine. You’re fine. 500 comments or 1,000 1,000 comments or 2,000

2,000 comments has nothing to do with when you walk outside and you go about your day. Nobody that you bump across is going to go, hey man, I’m the one that said this on your page. It never happens, because it’s not real. My process of it, and the way that I receive it, is very grounded. I have a grounded sense of reality, and I’m very thankful for that. If that moved, changed, I’m in trouble.

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Once you get over that, it’s over. It’s over. All that is gonna come. That’s one thing I learned. That shit is always gonna be there. So the grind is really what’s gonna be hard though, because everybody get comfortable, everybody be doing this, everybody be doing that. And the way I be thinking is that if I’m taking any breaks, there’s somebody out there right now that’s literally grinding his ass off and is gonna blow up anytime now. And he or she is dead ass working her or his ass off. And I always think like that, or I always think of like, okay, how’s my grind coming up?

Like you can’t get comfortable with shit. Unless like shit really lit. Like after the Sabaton in March, oh, I’m taking a nice break. I’m taking a, bro, I’m gonna be happy. Like that’s the only break I’m gonna have and I’m gonna come right back.

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We’re going to be stronger and more capable also. Leg up the society. Get the edge. Own it. Work for it. Fight for it. Caress it. Give birth to it. With that, comes whatever dream you want. It begins today, it continues tomorrow, and it never fucking dies.

This, this is second place. If that. It’s not you. Don’t ever sell yourself so short to think that this is something that you can live with.

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There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little. And that’s the lack of correlation between inputs and outcomes.

Yeah, I think the vast majority of business owners, obviously I come from the business perspective, the vast majority of business owners work a fair amount. They just work on the wrong stuff and they do it the wrong way. And so they get so little for their effort that they wonder when they’re at home, empty-handed in bed, why isn’t this working when I am working? But if you define work, at least the way I do, which is output. So I define work by output. And in order to get output, it’s volume times leverage. So how many times you do the thing times how much you get for each time you do it.

And so that is the, do you work smart or do you work hard? It’s you do both. You do as many reps as you possibly can and you do it with the most leverage possible. So if I make a hundred phone calls, the leverage that I can have there would be how skilled I am. So if I make a hundred calls, I might get 10 times more. And so I worked more, I had more output than somebody who has less skill. But the only way you get skilled is by doing more inputs, by working more.

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But one thing I would say is that, if I’m being completely real,

not everybody’s gonna be able to make it, you feel me? Because I think it takes a little luck. I don’t know, I feel like it takes just a little, the right time and the right place. Timing, but dedication for sure. Dedication and at the right time, consistency. But people don’t understand that slow motion is better than no motion. Like slow progress is way better than just not having nothing. And I feel like today’s, like right now, people aren’t patient. Like I swear to God, I just feel like people are not patient with the blow up.

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Talent and skill set might betray you along the journey if they don’t have a consistency of mindset And they don’t have a certain level of fortitude in every fiber of their being at a certain point you can have a cat that’s Talented or you can have a cat that has character, and you know what he bring it to the table every single day, right? You got cats that’s talented that tap out. like anybody can go one or two downs. Right, anybody can go three downs. But it’s very seldom that you find a cat. when he’s standing in that tunnel till his four zeros on that clock,

He’s gonna give you everything that’s a man to me right most cats little boys, right? They get what they want. I tell my son all the time I’m like ink, it’s a big difference between a hard worker and somebody that works hard, Right, most cats are somebody that works hard. if the situation, in the circumstances, what they wanted to be, they gonna come out And they gonna act accordingly and they gonna give you everything they got. but a hard worker, Regardless of situation regardless of circumstance regardless of what happened.

I’m gonna show up and I’m gonna give everything I got to it because I’m working for something. That’s totally different.

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Being humble playing the game. Hey, I’ll do the menial paperwork. I’ll I’ll work these extra hours I’ll do these things that don’t really help me. He’s playing he’s playing the game and he’s being humble, right? But he’s also- it sounds like- being passive, meaning he needs to up his assertiveness to say, hey, listen, hey, hey, boss, I just want to let you know, when I put together this spreadsheet of what I’ve actually get a get accomplished and Here’s the things that I want to get done- and I know I’m trying to knock out all the stuff and I’m here to support,

But I also need to get these things done. Can you help me get these things scheduled so that I can be more value to you and the team? So yeah, you build the relationship Through playing the game. you build the relationship by giving support wherever you can, But at the same time that doesn’t mean that you just roll over and never stand up for yourself.

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No matter how hard you work, there is somebody on the inside of you that works even harder. He said, no matter how dedicated you are, there is somebody on the inside of you that’s more dedicated. No matter how committed you are, there is somebody on the inside of you that’s more committed. And you don’t even know what commitment is yet. You think commitment is just saying, yes, I’ll do it. But what commitment is, commitment is staying true to what you said you were going to do. Long after the mood that you have set it in has left.

Meaning on the days when you don’t feel like doing what you said you would do, you get up and you do it anyway. That’s what builds character. And he said, I need you to understand the concept that there is another person on the inside of you. Because one day in your life, you will face something that’s a lot tougher than you. And your strength and your drive and your commitment and your work ethic won’t do it. You have to realize that it’s something on the inside of you that’s greater than anything that life can throw at you. And immediately I got it.

And so when my life changed, not only did my football career end, I got a paralyzed right arm and hand behind. Life changed overnight. But I was extremely grateful for it because the whole time I understood that you have to tap into in order to get through one of the darkest, toughest, roughest moments of your life. There’s another person on the inside of you.

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How hard should you work? Well, that’s a really difficult question. If you’re going to die tomorrow, and then you probably shouldn’t work very hard today at all. So, one thing you might say is that the degree to which you should work hard is dependent on your assumptions about the stability of the future. We actually know this to be true because if you put people in wildly uncertain circumstances, they discount the future. Which is exactly what you should do, right?

It only makes sense to store up goods for future consumption if the future is likely to be very similar to the past and the present. You need a stable society for that. And conscientiousness only works in a stable society. Because all you do otherwise, if you’re piling up goods, which is kind of what conscientious people do, is leaving them there for the criminals to take, or waiting for the next chaotic upheaval to wipe out everything that you’ve stored. So, it’s not a good idea.

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but the wallet is their time, it’s the seconds of life that they’re trading for it, then I think more people will be willing to make the trade. Because at least when I look at myself, like when I’m 80 something years old, I’m looking back on my life, I want to have these traits. But in order to have those traits, I know I have to go through these things. And I think for me, that’s given me a lot of comfort in hard times.

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It’s too hard. It’s not a study. You know what? Don’t eat healthy because you don’t have to. So guess what? When you fail, don’t blame your mom. Don’t blame your dad. Don’t blame teachers. The only person you have to blame is yourself.

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You’re gonna sit around and wait for your own bolt of lightning of luck to hit you Is that what you’re gonna do I? Don’t recommend that instead. I recommend that you step up and, yes, you do work harder and you do the best possible Job that you can do and you take some pride in what you’re doing And how you’re doing it. and you do it better than they could, not to rub their nose into it, not to prove that you can do it better, but out of Professionalism. that’s why you do it now. one outcome that can come from that is they get credit for your work, And that makes y’all mad.

No, that’s actually good, because if they get credit for your work, guess what? works going well, they’re gonna get promoted and They get the recognition. Okay, that’s fine. But but they know where the actual credit goes, even if they don’t give it to you.

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If you don’t know what you’re doing, aim at something. Is it the right thing? No, but it’s better than just shooting randomly. So you aim at something and then as you aim and you move towards it, you’re gonna find out why you’re wrong. And then you might recalibrate your aim. And that’s gonna happen over and over because as you move towards a goal, it recedes or it broadens or it recedes and broadens and otherwise you’d run out of things to do.

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That’s not what we’re talking about here. The difference is you’re not building a relationship just so you can take care of yourself, right? That’s different. That means I’m just looking out for me. You’re building a relationship so that you can move down the right path, which by the way is gonna make you more, a bigger asset to the team. So it’s a win-win situation. Make sure you build that relationship and then talk to them about what it is you’re trying to get done, why you’re trying to get it done, and that way we move forward down the path.

And by the way, if they’re like, shut up and just do this paperwork, or shut up, we’re not gonna help you, cool. Maybe we need to find a place that has a little bit better opportunity for me and I’ll start to float that out there.

Humble, not passive. No, we wanna take the hard road. We wanna do things that don’t make any sense. We wanna do things inefficiently. No, yes, efficiency is important. Not only in Jiu-Jitsu. Not only in Judo.

But in business and in life.

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In the most national out way straightforward to get to where you want to be at is not gonna be easy at all, bro, And none of this go, none of this is easy. Like they only see the when somebody like they gotta see the whole. come up, bro, if I was so, people think my bloat was fast. people think like I went fast. but, bro, like this took a Streaming. I’ve been shooting for two years before that to get to streaming alone. Bruh, people don’t want, people just wanna. nowadays people don’t even want to work, no more. But I I don’t met people that literally don’t want to put in the pain.

They just want. oh yo, shout me out, bro, Or or or yeah, I’m gonna put my tick tock or anything, But like people don’t want to generally genuinely work. That’s just gonna separate you from everybody else.

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there was a two-year period where I did turnarounds for gyms. I flew around the nation every month I would do a new gym. I ate out of gas stations and I ate gas station food, and I gained weight during that period of time. And it was for then and not forever, and I’m in shape now, and so whatever, who cares? And so I used to tell this when I was selling weight loss to people, I’d say, who cares if you get in shape for six weeks out of 80 years? And right as they’re about to sign up for a membership, I was like,

you want to sign… this is how I would sell longer memberships, but it’s also true. It’s like, you want to sign up for the six weeks, but Susan, who cares if you lose 20 pounds and you’re still overweight six weeks from now, and then you gain it back the next six weeks and you’re still the exact same weight for the rest of your life? And so I think the absolute dedication to maximization so that it becomes a part of your identity and your character has been one of the outsized returns that I’ve gotten in my life.

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Like, I don’t care what a cat do when everything goes right. I don’t, because everybody knows the smile. Everybody gonna celebrate when you win a game. Everybody gonna be in your corner and talking about how great you are.

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The evidence of things not seen, even though you can’t see, if it’s 30 days, Even if you can’t see, if it’s 60 days, Even if you can’t see is 90 days, even if it seems like you’re gonna go through this for the rest of your life. I need you to have faith. faith, I told you, is believing in the dark what you were told in the light. and if you were told you was gonna get that Degree, just keep working. if you were told you were gonna get that promotion, just keep working. if you were told you was gonna win That championship, just keep working.

Nobody said it would be easy again if it was easy everybody would do it. So I need you to work on your faith I need you to work on your faith I need you to wake up every day and say today ain’t today But my day coming and I will not give up and I will not give in and try to get you that day I will not stop. I will not give up. I will not give in until my day comes.

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because if you sacrifice everything, there’s nothing left than to do the one thing that matters. And I think Jerry Seinfeld talks about this from a writing perspective. He says that every day, no matter what, he sits down and he writes for two hours. Now, he doesn’t have to write, but he’s not allowed to do anything else. And so he can sit there, but there’s nothing else to do except for write jokes. And so I think a lot about that from the climb perspective, which is like most of everyone who’s listening to this who isn’t achieving what they want is fucked with their time.

They think that they’re spending all their time working, but your output, like you don’t even know how to work. I’m being really real with you. Like you think you know how to work, you don’t know how to work. Like the amount of output, and I’ll measure this by like, what is your output? It’s probably not as high as you think. And so rather than trying to learn all these productivity hacks, the ultimate productivity hack is no, N-O, is you stop doing shit. And then when you create space, then you can fill it with the thing that matters.

But trying to add on more to your schedule of all the things that you’re not willing to sacrifice is the very reason that you’re not doing what you need to do.

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You know the stuff. the stuff that I say is in the bible, the stuff that I say is in stoicism and, and Jordan peterson’s, you know, says the stuff that I say, or I say the stuff that he says. again, I’m not trying to compete with jordan peterson on any level, especially some kind of an intellectual level, but we have Similar thoughts about things and that predated either one of us knowing who each other were. so I think that’s pretty cool, You.

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When I showed up to Laird’s the first time, I couldn’t do one pushup. Come on, swear to you, could not do one pushup. And with his support, I worked up to being able to do 100 consecutive pushups, which was mind-blowing.

So what changed between the weight loss and meeting Laird was I now see anything is possible and that you could train for anything. There’s nothing you can’t do. You can’t be the best in the world at something, but you can be a lot better than you are at anything you wanna put the time into learning, whatever it is, you could do anything. And that’s a great, inspiring feeling. And I feel like I bring that into the art where I already had great confidence, but even more so, I now know anything is possible at any time, just if you have to do the work.

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Why do I think people are drawn to advice telling them to do hard things?

Because I think any person,

any human realizes that if you want some kind of a good outcome you’re going to have to work hard for it.

And if you don’t work hard for something, you’re not going to get an outcome that’s really worth much.

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There’s lots of people that work really hard digging ditches every day and that are digging ditches when they’re 70 years old. There’s lots of people who work really, really hard for a long time and never make it. And that’s because working hard is just part of the puzzle. The other part of the puzzle is how high your skill set is, how developed your skill set is. And so we have these people that say these things like, work smart, not hard. All right. Well, you’re a fucking moron. All right. I’m going to tell you that right now because it takes both. It takes hard work and it takes smart work.

So while you have to be putting in the work and you have to be showing up and you have to be giving it all you have, you have to consistently be aware and conscious of the intentional skill set that you are building along the way. If you do not have the skill set and you just work hard, you’re going to get paid a fraction of what you could get paid if you actually intentionally built skills to go along with it.

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So I’m here to tell you that it will take longer. It will be more difficult. It will require more effort on your part. But you know what I can tell you about that? When you do the hard things, you will have a happy and easy life. But if you constantly choose to take the path of easy and negotiate and compromise, you will have a hard life. A hard life that ends with regret. So I’m here to tell you that if you live a no compromise life, if you become unreasonable in your expectations, find a group of fighter jets to belong to and no more fucking crop dusters,

you will become the 2.0 that you deserve to become and that your family deserves to have as a leader.

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My message needs to be in a way where I can hit all 25 people. It needs to be broad enough to where all 25 people may not like the message but they’re getting something from it and that is evolution. You must continue to evolve and you don’t evolve for me in my job unless I cap myself somewhere and say okay you made this much money get back to fucking work. It’s time to get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk. Get off the podcast. Don’t be on social media too much. Cut out all the fucking noise. Get back to the fucking mental lab because that’s where the knowledge came from.

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All week you work hard. End of the week if you don’t tire it, this is good question. You have to worry about yourself. This is Saturday. Your sixth day you work so hard, of course you’re gonna tire it. Tomorrow rest and Monday we’re gonna begin one more training. If you don’t want, go back to Dagestan and stay with your mom. She gonna give you every day good breakfast. You don’t do nothing. Stay there. But if you come here, don’t complain. You wanna become champion. Now you wanna say you’re tired. Who cares? You’re tired or not. Nobody care about you.

Even you, if you’re gonna watch fight, you just watch fight. They walk out inside the cage, they fight and they leave. You don’t know what happen behind the scenes. This is not your business. Nobody care about this.

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So we said if you don’t want me to worry about your SATs just get good grades Okay, so I said cool for the next two years. All I’m gonna do is get good grades. I didn’t date I didn’t party. I didn’t drink. I literally didn’t leave my dorm room. I worked. I put my head down for two years and I just worked and I got. if it wasn’t a 4.0, It was like a 3.95 or something. So it’s never that clean like I want my story to be. hey, I learned that if I just put my head down and work my ass off, I can get whatever I want.

That is unfortunately not what I learned because I believed at the time you’re either talented or you’re not So I wasn’t in film school to become a filmmaker. I was in film school to learn the technical side How do you turn on a camera? Where do you put a light things like that? But I thought you either have the ability to tell a story or you don’t. So I believed myself to be a natural filmmaker. I just believed I had talent.

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Hang on a second, man. You can fucking achieve the absolute impossible. You don’t need great parents. You don’t need a private school. You don’t need to have this humongous GPA and all this other shit. What you need is the one thing I talk about in my book, which is straight up brutal work ethic. You have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world. And that’s the hard part. That’s the hard part. This isn’t like some five step process where you can do these five fucking steps. You’re going to end up with this magical world.

No, I’m basically teaching you how to callous over your victims mentality.

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he was tired, he have personal problem, family… Nobody cares. You don’t know, like, you just see how he fight and he go. And for this one you have to train so hard. If you don’t want, go back to Dagestan, nobody gonna ask about yourself. Without you or with you, there is always gonna be champions. With your name, this is your choice. You wanna put your name there? Okay, work hard. No? Bye-bye. It’s like very simple, nothing special.

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So when you show people something that can change their lives, and it could be a home business, it could be a weight loss program, it could be a way to find a soulmate, it could be a lot of different things. It could be a way to stabilize their finances, anything that involves a change in the way you think and a change in the way you feel and a change in the way you experience the world.

If you’re willing to make that change, if you’re willing to do the hard work of thinking differently, and if you’re willing to do the hard work of stopping whatever patterns you got that you took on over time that got you to the point where you need to make a change,

the cool thing is you get led to a path, you’re put on a path, and always, always, always in that path there is work. And in some cases there’s a lot of work, but it doesn’t necessarily feel like work, it feels like fun.

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I just kept on with it. I just kept the faith. I kept believing. I kept asking him. I kept wanting. God got great life for you, man. But you gonna have to ask for it. And when you ask for it, you gonna have to believe it. After you believe it, you gotta put your work in. Now if you don’t wanna do the work that it take to be successful, this man with his success, if you knew how hard he worked, if you knew the hours he put in, the hours his daddy put in, if you knew what it really took, it’s daunting. It’s days, man, where you go, whoa, what is this I’m trying to do?

But you got to hang in there. See, getting what you want is up to you. How you get there, that’s up to God. See, the problem with you is you trying to figure out how to do something, listen to this, the how-to ain’t none of your business. The Bible don’t tell you to figure nothing out. It say ask, believe, and receive.

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this drive and passion and it may come from nothing. Like for me, there was no passion, no drive, no nothing. But I had this fire that I’m gonna be somebody. And it has to be there because on all those bad days, on all those days you don’t wanna do shit, you have to be your own motivator, your own coach, your own trainer, your own everything. So to do that, you have to come into work and work is whatever your work may be, ready to go. And what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday, but you come to work, like, people are like, man, you just lost everything.

How the hell are you just fucking damn motivated? Because this is what it takes. And you gotta get it from wherever you can. Whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated, whatever gets you motivated, it’s gotta be here at the tip of your brain at all times. Because in those dark moments, you gotta pull it out. So that’s the big thing for me, man. I was always fired up at all times.

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Because when you do hard things, you then are fortified and reinforced for the inevitable hardship that life is. Because all of life is hardship with brief moments of bliss, my friend. And if you have created a zone of comfort in a world of hardship, you become unstoppable. You become the fucking virus against the virus.

I was like, hey, we are not gonna wait for some PPP program, for some SBA loan. We are gonna start attacking this virus. We’re no longer going to be reactive. We’re gonna attack. We’re gonna attack. So myself, my leadership team, and my entire team here at the building, we decided that we are going to be the pandemic against the pandemic. And it is then when we started to turn the ship. It is then when we started to add more locations. It is then that we started to rebuild our brand. And it is bigger, stronger, more resilient today than ever before. You must adopt that mindset.

You will not be the victim in life.

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You’re like oh wow I did all that work, and he’s taking all the credit for they don’t even know that I made this happen or he doesn’t even know that he that I made this happen. They know, They know. So, as long as you can keep your a ego and check and you can let them have the credit, Eventually they get promoted the team’s doing well. You’ll look good. You’ll get promoted. your life is easy. You’re gaining experience.

You’ve got a good reputation like everything is going in your direction and And and by the way when that incompetent person does get promoted who do they usually recommend that fills their spot you because you’re the One that got them promoted. They’re stoked on that you become a superstar. That’s great. eventually They’re gonna get found out. by the way, Like someone, the incompetency can’t be hidden forever. and eventually someone says: wait a second, You don’t even know how to do this. that was, that was echo Charles that was doing this this whole time.

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So we end up listening to our family and our in our immediate circle our immediate network of people About what it actually takes and what usually comes out of those conversations from the old people is oh, man You know you can work as hard as you want But the system’s still going to be the system and you’re not going to get ahead. They don’t care about you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. and the reality is is those people will probably gave it their all for a little bit- Five ten years maybe but they didn’t work on developing their skill set.

They weren’t intentional about becoming better They believe that if they just show up and they give it their effort that eventually things will materialize and when those things don’t materialize They get bitter and they get pissed off and they start blaming other people. They blame their job. They blame their situation. They blame capitalism. They make up all these excuses as to why they’re not getting where they want to get, when in reality They’re just missing part of the equation. and the reason that they don’t know about the part of the equation about gaining skill,

as you Put, in the hard work is because nobody around them ever did that.

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Hard work is the goal. And so it’s not like work hard, so that X, because as soon as you have a so that, then the X is the thing. But if the goal is to work as hard as you possibly can, then the only real output we have is who we become along the way. And so in reframing that, then it’s something that I can win or measure myself against every day in real time throughout the day, which is how hard am I working? Because that is the goal. And then even, I say this just for audio, but everything else takes care of itself, still puts the everything else as the goal still. It’s just being vaguer.

But if you just say, the only point is working hard because I know that whatever I’m going to get is stuff that I will become accustomed to. And the, I guess, opposite of the hedonic treadmill is the resilience piece, is that my ability to work hard itself is growable.

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We have to like reframe our thinking about these statements. It’s not just hard work and it’s not just smart work. It’s both. And if you lack both, you’re going to be paid very little. And if you have both, you’re eventually going to be able to write your own check in life of where you want to go.

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maybe it’s just the team continues to do well and your job is stress-free and you continue to perform and and the the the Division that you’re in grows and you get a chance to promote because everyone’s getting promoted. It’s like all good, all good stuff. Or you can be angry and you can be frustrated and you can blame your own bad luck and you can not work hard and You can not do a good job and you can be recognized as a slacker.

You can get blamed by the incompetent boss when things do fall short because that’s what the incompetent boss does He doesn’t step up and take ownership of it He says no, you know what? I would have done a better job, but echo was slacking. That’s the problem. now echo gets fired and-

And guess what someone we hire someone else to come in and they start doing a good job The boss is still gonna look good and still get promoted It’s just that you lost your job. And, by the way, you lost your job with a bad reputation. Now you can’t even get a recommendation for a new job, So you lose.

That’s what’s gonna happen. Yeah, so step up, do your best. It’ll pay off in the long run.

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You can’t change what you can’t change stop trying to change the situation. It’s not yours to change Stop trying to change your wife. Stop trying to change your husband. Stop trying to change your kids Stop trying to change your boss. Stop trying to change the program. if you could change it, it would be changed. There’s only one person you can change baby.

And that person’s hard and that person is you work on yourself Cuz watch what’s gonna happen one day et gonna wake up. Yep. He ain’t gonna be homeless- no more. Yep. one day et gonna wake up and he ain’t gonna be no high school dropout- no more. Yep. One day I’m gonna wake up and be exactly where I want to be.

But the question is when you are you so focused on you so focused on change You so focused on change that what you don’t get is that once things change for you if you don’t change you gonna take it Back to what it was. Anyway, are you hearing me? So you better, what you can work on is you, and so you better get you together. You better work on you and get you right.

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The best days of my life were ones when I had nothing left in the tank. and so then the goal becomes to empty the Tank, not what where I drive, but just to drive the car as hard as I possibly can. and That means that in the beginning it’s just straightaways and just seeing how high I can rev the engine. But as I become more advanced it’s like, alright, Well, now we’ve got turns, and then it’s turns in elevation, and then it’s turns in elevation without guardrails, because we have risk. And so when I think about how hard I want to work,

The interesting thing about that is that the only person who can judge you on your success is you, because you’re the only one who knows how much left in the tank you really had, and The better you get- and you can resonate with this- you start winning Exteriorly, and that’s when people are, like it felt so empty. It’s because they didn’t actually work as hard as they could have, they just worked hard enough to beat everyone else. but that Discrepancy between how hard you could have worked to work your hardest- Versus what was required in order to win to me?

that’s the opportunity that shifting towards the work being the goal unlocks for you, and

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Yeah, so this has been something I’ve been thinking about a lot, which is basically the shittiness of stuff, which is when you’re growing in a business, it’s very painful. When you’re stagnating in a business and you’re plateaued and you don’t know what to do, it’s very painful. When you’re declining and you also don’t know what to do, it’s very painful. And so that means that all conditions of reality are painful. And so if pain is a prerequisite for reality, then it means it’s just a signal that we are alive. And so in thinking about that, rather than pain as a problem,

it is a signal that I’m breathing and then becomes irrelevant.

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It’s okay to be unbalanced for a while. It’s okay. Don’t be all this stuff people say, you got to be balanced. To be the best in the world at what you do. It’s not about being a Navy SEAL, people. The best at what you do, you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of fucking energy and strength that you have to pull it off. Then you get balanced once you become great. And then you help other people become better from you being the best in the world. So if your family doesn’t understand, why are you so dad gone crazy? Because I’m trying to be the best I can to give you the best that I am.

And it takes being fucking obsessed to where people think you’re crazy. People look at me, say, my God, you’re a masochist. You’re this and that. I’m not going to get into how bad I was in all these races and SEAL training. I had 21 stress fractures going through hell week. 21 stress fractures. You know what I did? I taped my ankles up. Roger that. I want to be a SEAL. So I did it. Become obsessed with being great.

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Once you have the passion, the thing that you’re passionate about now, you can look at other people or other entities or other things or works of art and you can draw things from that to help you be better at what you do by looking for those common denominators. Johnny wanted to know how do I prepare? How do I prepare? How do I study? How do I view the game? How do you build your game? And my response is much like the way he builds products. You think sequentially. Yeah, you look at this the end result of what you want to create,

but in order to create that there’s so many other little things that go into this massive entity or device. It’s no different than building my basketball game. You start with what do you want your game to be? What would make your game most unstoppable or hard to deal with and now you work backwards from there and you start building in one piece at a time, one move at a time, one counter at a time. So there’s a lot of similarities there.

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You heard? It’s like we’ve forgotten who we are, Tom.

Explorers, pioneers, no