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Hello freak [ __ ] What do you do with your time these days? Like what's a typical day for Hicks and Gracie? Um right now I I back to teach in Cron's place because I wanted to to have him more distressed with the how the academy goes. So I pick two times a week to teach there giving self-defense classes. Uh at this point before that I was doing seminars once a month at the most once twice every couple of months to to make my living and also because I feel like the best things in life money cannot buy. And I feel like the quality of my my my meals, the way I eat, the way my relationship, my sleep, those are very very valuable assets, you know. Plus the time I have to do things I love to do. That's kind of when this is feel like when I feel like I'm every so I feel like I'm happy enough to be my best at service because I always try to be at service helping somebody with jiujitsu with knowledge with nutrition with breathing you know it's not about the price it's about the the service you know and then I put my head in the in the said yeah I have a nice day I make a good speech with Joe Hogan I have a nice talk with Ed Bravo was great day so somehow now in a purpose for the federation. So I always try to be positive do but I have no schedule fixed like I have to wake up go to no because at this point I create a lifestyle which make me feel good to engage in different elements like this federation now and having classes on crrons and be here to be full of energy you know because sometimes you don't notice but based on your your your commitment your obligation, you're becoming more like a robot and you you you lose the perspective of what you need to be at your best. And if you lose that perspective, even though you still doing your routine, sometimes you just minus, you're just 80 70% of what you should be. So you're not going to be the best husband. You're not going to be the best father, the best employer, the best employee. You just, you know, it's just so at this point I feel like I have to be at my best physically, do my, if I feel like I have to stretch, I going to stretch, breathe, joke, have fun, listen, party, whatever, you know, and then when I feel like, man, I'm so happy
I could not eat. So, and then I can go and do my service, you know, and you know, because the window of life is smaller now for me, it becomes I don't have too much time. So I don't waste time to do what people expect from me. I try to do things are really relevant to my soul like this federation. Now I is I I when I dream I don't dream small. I dream like I make like a very space for a hu the the biggest dream I can dream and I see that m you know that level of of need for the community and the level of of position I have to be the reference for that shift in the direction of our culture and our knowledge I feel like I could not be more motivated more happy to engage on this so and that's always life is about is just do your best and and and be excited to be motivated to to to the next day. There's such a refreshing attitude, your your attitude, your your philosophy on life because I think it's very easy and I've been I've trapped myself in it sometimes where you concentrate too much on making money, concentrate too much on being ambitious, and you forget the quality of life. Yes. Your focus is almost entirely on your quality of life. Yes. You know because like I said man how much cost your motivation how much cost your friends how much cost your health cost your intelligence those things is priceless I mean if you take those of your life you take your motivation of your life can be Bill Gates can be the biggest so if you if you ask me if I want to have Bill Gates life I don't know I don't know him so it's not a based on his bank account it's based on how happy he is how horny he is how you know how how how motivated he is to wake up and do his thing. You don't look too horny. I don't think he's horny at all. So, so that's is that's a very essential thing which sometimes slip through people's fingers and and the priorities and the daily, you know, and the the payments. And so I put you in a role where uh I feel like um if you tell me in the past what's the courage what's the opposite of courage I going to say cowardness because either you tough enough to to challenge and to fight or to or in you coward and you chickenen out. So that's in the past was like the the the the opposite of of of courage. It's very
hard to measure this in those days and I believe the opposite of cage today is conformity. You know, people get conformed. Oh, I I don't like my wife the way I used to like but I'm never going to divorce because I'm afraid to lose my house or the situation is so established so I going to keep so I don't like this job but I going to keep here because it's better than his. So in in in other hands if you if you get caught on that kind of compromise to to maintain because you you afraid to risk that's keep you like one step behind from you follow your heart follow your ambition. If you're 18 years old, you don't think twice. The guy say, "Hey, let's go to Australia." You think, "Okay, let's go." P. But when you're fifth, you say, "Australia. What are I gonna do there? Maybe I gonna So, it's different." You know, that's me. And and and that's kind what where we going. Yeah. So that's kind of pretty much where keep you from be at your best because if you willing to sacrifice, if you're willing to to broke new new challenges, if you're willing to you in a stage of livveness and and excitement and unpredictability who make you feel like you're in heaven, you know, every time I was engaging in a compromise or a fight was something I I thank you like I have my routines prior fight. One of them is at the day of my fight, I wake up and I thank you, God, to be alive and I acknowledge how perfect will be that day if I die today. Say, "Fuck, my was going to be a perfect day if I die because I have, you know, I accomplish my thing. I'm in my mission. I representing my family. So, I don't go there to tap. I go there to die. The guy had to kill me. He's not I'm never going to tap. So, but that's not a sport-like orientation. This is a philosophical uh honor representation, you know. It's not something I teach my No, it should not that. No, it's not like that. It's about how I feel, how I feed my kids, how I follow my tradition. So, in engagement, I'm not going to be the one who going to quit. The guy have to kill me. My brother, he can throw the towel. But for me is unacceptable. You know, I give up from my life. So based on that kind of spiritual guidance, my life is very intense. My life is very I mean directed to accomplish give up is not an option. You
know I can I can direct my my my focus I can give up from something to go somewhere else but I never will give up from something because I feel like I cannot reach there. I may say okay that's not for me. I go somewhere else but if I still focus I will take those falls. I will take those obstacles as a motivation to just set up a new strategy to try again. You know, I'm very competitive in a sense. I like the perfection of things. So, this is like a a situation where put you in a situation where you have no either you go forward or you don't. But don't stay in the middle. Don't say just waiting for people or waiting for more. Those are kind of things kind of stuck you back in in life and and just make you feel like passing through life as you not you have you know you irrelevant you know is is very weak. [Applause] [Music] [Applause]