32 The Motivation Industry

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Speaker1: Have you gotten your daily hit of motivation? (00:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Have you read enough inspirational quotes? Did you watch enough David Goggins videos today? (00:31):
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Kevin Tejada: Probably not because you're a fucking addict. I'm sorry for coming off so aggressive. (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: I just, what I'm talking about today is what I call the motivation industry. And I don't like it. (00:43):
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Kevin Tejada: And what this is, companies, people online, (00:49):
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Kevin Tejada: influencers, There's in the fitness, weight loss, wellness space that offer (00:54):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of, let's say, motivation and inspiration rather than something that's actually helpful, (00:59):
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Kevin Tejada: like systems, real advice. (01:07):
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Kevin Tejada: They prey on people that I call motivation addicts and just keep feeding them (01:11):
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Kevin Tejada: these kind of good feelings. (01:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Oh, yeah, you're totally going to lose weight. Yes, we're doing it. (01:20):
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Kevin Tejada: We're losing weight, all this stuff. (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: They just keep on hyping up the addicts, essentially, without actually saying (01:24):
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Kevin Tejada: anything of substance, as in what to do, how to do it, any kind of habits you (01:30):
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Kevin Tejada: should adopt, any kind of time frames that are reasonable for any of this stuff. (01:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Whether it's losing fat. (01:39):
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Speaker1: Building muscle, building up your stamina, anything like that. (01:42):
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Kevin Tejada: This is such a huge problem, especially online. (01:47):
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Speaker1: There's a lot of people, (01:50):
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Kevin Tejada: They love these short-term fixes. They want things now, even if it means just (01:52):
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Kevin Tejada: having the feeling right now. (01:56):
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Kevin Tejada: This is something that the motivation industry is taking advantage of. (01:59):
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Kevin Tejada: What they've done is created a bunch of products and online posts and videos (02:03):
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Kevin Tejada: that they make money from. (02:10):
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Kevin Tejada: They're basically not actually helpful. (02:11):
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Kevin Tejada: Perfect example is all these channels who just spam quotes from philosophers, (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: from David Goggins. I have no problem with these philosophers or David Goggins themselves. (02:21):
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Kevin Tejada: They've done a lot of shit. (02:27):
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Kevin Tejada: They're good. My beef is not with them. My issues with people who take. (02:30):
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Speaker1: They essentially steal the authority from those people. Make it pretty (02:35):
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Kevin Tejada: But not actually telling you what you can do to reach that. (02:48):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, a lot of people They want to lose weight, get fit It's a very common (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: goal So the motivation addicts Will go to David Goggins Quotes, (02:56):
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Kevin Tejada: all this stuff All these other people saying the same shit. (03:00):
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Kevin Tejada: If you want the goal, you have to put in the work. It doesn't matter if you (03:05):
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Kevin Tejada: don't want to do it. You have to put in the work. Now, listen, that's true. (03:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Do not get me wrong. That shit is true. What I'm saying is these people, (03:12):
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Kevin Tejada: these channels, these companies are going to say the same fucking thing. (03:16):
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Kevin Tejada: If you don't do this, you're weak. You have to do it. You have to put in the (03:20):
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Kevin Tejada: work. But if you want it, you have to go for it. (03:23):
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Kevin Tejada: They're going to say that, but they will never say, hey, if you want to build (03:26):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle, you should be lifting weights about maybe two to four times a week, (03:30):
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Kevin Tejada: three to four repetitions, sorry, three to four sets of maybe eight to 12 repetitions. (03:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Make sure you're hitting all your muscle groups two to three times a week. (03:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Something like that. Something concrete that would actually be helpful for people. (03:46):
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Kevin Tejada: They're not going to do that. You're never going to hear that shit from these (03:51):
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Kevin Tejada: people in the motivation industry, these motivation dealers. (03:54):
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Kevin Tejada: You're only going to hear, oh I was a fat lazy piece of shit but (03:59):
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Kevin Tejada: then I got badass and I got fit if you don't get fit you're a fat fucking loser (04:01):
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Kevin Tejada: you're only going to hear that you're not going to hear hey so if you want to (04:06):
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Kevin Tejada: lose weight you actually got to find out how many calories your body needs eat (04:09):
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Kevin Tejada: at about 300 700 calories under that every day go for a while you lose maybe (04:12):
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Kevin Tejada: a pound a week or something like that go for some months you lose. (04:17):
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Speaker1: Weight you're not going to hear that shit (04:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Because that's not as sexy as saying hey you got to do this shit I'm badass (04:21):
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Kevin Tejada: you got to copy me you got to do this shit I'm selling you this motivation. (04:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I want you to feel good so you can keep coming back to my channel. (04:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Keep coming back for me saying, you got to be badass every day. (04:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Because people love that shit. They think these addicts, they're watching these videos. (04:38):
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Kevin Tejada: They think, oh man, I'm in a better mindset than most people, (04:41):
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Kevin Tejada: which is true. Fair enough. (04:45):
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Kevin Tejada: But that's all it is. I'm in a better mindset, motivated to do this shit. (04:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, then it comes time to actually do the thing that will get you to the goal you want to get to. (04:51):
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Kevin Tejada: And it doesn't happen Because motivation doesn't last And motivation is not (04:55):
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Kevin Tejada: enough for achieving goals What does help you with your goals Are habits, (05:03):
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Kevin Tejada: systems, discipline. (05:10):
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Speaker1: And I'm not saying motivation is not helpful or important. It can definitely (05:13):
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Speaker1: be the spark that gets you going. (05:16):
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Kevin Tejada: You can definitely see something on the internet that was like, (05:19):
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Kevin Tejada: oh man, that's so badass. I want to do that too. (05:22):
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Kevin Tejada: And then it kicks off your journey. That can happen 100%. (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: But not everyone's like that. A lot of people are just addicts to motivational content. (05:28):
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Kevin Tejada: They just consume that for hours instead of actually doing whatever it is that (05:32):
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Kevin Tejada: they want to accomplish. (05:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And because the motivational content is delivered in such a way that makes them (05:38):
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Kevin Tejada: feel hyped or it comes from a person who's actually done some stuff they feel (05:44):
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Kevin Tejada: oh man i'm connected to this person or this idea or this feeling this intent (05:47):
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Kevin Tejada: i'm basically there i'm basically 50 there as. (05:51):
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Speaker2: Soon as i stand (05:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Up i'm already better than most people i'm almost there i just gotta do it but (05:56):
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Kevin Tejada: yeah man i'm totally there that's not enough and most people who suffer from this are people who (06:00):
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Kevin Tejada: want to lose weight been suffering for quite a long time and they think oh man (06:06):
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Kevin Tejada: if i just take on this mindset i'm just gonna magically lose weight because i'm just super badass, (06:10):
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Kevin Tejada: doesn't work like that same for people who are into fitness they just i'm motivated (06:16):
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Kevin Tejada: i'm gonna go to the fucking gym i'm gonna do push-ups all this shit awesome (06:19):
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Kevin Tejada: yes then they never do it or they just stop after one day because the motivation ran out it's, (06:22):
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Kevin Tejada: know. They don't know what it actually takes to do this stuff. (06:34):
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Kevin Tejada: They don't know how long it takes to actually develop a fit body or develop (06:37):
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Kevin Tejada: a habit that will keep you sustainably losing weight. (06:42):
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Kevin Tejada: They don't know. So they're just going to take all these people at their word, all these posts. (06:45):
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Kevin Tejada: And this is especially bad because most people want these fixes immediately. (07:02):
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Kevin Tejada: So it's going to hit them extra hard very quickly. (07:05):
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Kevin Tejada: And of course, people with low self-esteem suffer quite a bit too. (07:09):
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Kevin Tejada: They think, oh, I'm not as badass as what this post is implying. So I'm a piece of shit. (07:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Now that may be true. They may be a lazy piece (07:18):
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Kevin Tejada: of shit but it's not because they don't embody (07:21):
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Kevin Tejada: this post and this person's influence (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: or this company it's because they're not taking actual (07:27):
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Kevin Tejada: steps to get towards their goal they're just oh man (07:30):
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Kevin Tejada: yeah give me that motivation injection yeah get that hype (07:33):
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Kevin Tejada: hit oh yeah i feel great instead of (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: actually seeking out what to do and the thing is this the people in the motivation (07:40):
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Kevin Tejada: industry they deal to motivation addicts in many different ways in a previous (07:45):
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Kevin Tejada: episode I talked about fad diets and that's part of it for example I'm gonna (07:50):
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Kevin Tejada: as I like to do a shit on the carnivore diet. (07:56):
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Kevin Tejada: People online men on steroids mostly they're thinking man i'm badass i used (08:00):
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Kevin Tejada: to be a pussy ass vegan they started eating four steaks every fucking day now (08:05):
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Kevin Tejada: i'm badass i'm manly shit you need to get on carnivore because they'll make (08:11):
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Kevin Tejada: you lose weight all this shit blah blah blah, (08:15):
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Kevin Tejada: now people are like yeah man manly shit caveman (08:17):
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Kevin Tejada: shit yeah i'm motivated let me eat some steak let me (08:20):
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Kevin Tejada: eat all that fucking extra saturated fat because this (08:23):
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Kevin Tejada: guy in roid said so this applies to many (08:26):
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Kevin Tejada: things oh yeah we get on once i got on paleo the paleo (08:29):
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Kevin Tejada: died my life changed blah blah now some of sometimes some of this stuff actually (08:32):
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Kevin Tejada: can help in a way but more like finding out what was in their previous diet (08:35):
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Kevin Tejada: that was fucking them up so doing kind of an elimination process can be helpful (08:40):
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Kevin Tejada: some situations i'm not shitting necessarily on every single diet that exists what i'm saying is, (08:45):
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Kevin Tejada: if someone is pushing a label diet really hard be skeptical because what they (08:51):
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Kevin Tejada: want you to do is use that label as a rallying flag to be hyped for them and (08:58):
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Kevin Tejada: their content or their products or whatever it is. (09:04):
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Kevin Tejada: You don't have to necessarily hop on ketogenic diets or anything like that. (09:07):
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Kevin Tejada: Just understand that if people who are pushing a certain diet don't go into (09:12):
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Kevin Tejada: actual detail on how they're getting these results, (09:17):
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Kevin Tejada: they're probably bullshitting you and just trying to hype you up so you can (09:20):
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Kevin Tejada: get on their side and in their pocket now let's say there's some carnivore guys. (09:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Hey so my goal is extreme muscle gain and eating a lot of meat gives me a shit ton of protein. (09:30):
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Kevin Tejada: And i'm doing a healthy bulk of about 300 extra calories (09:37):
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Kevin Tejada: per day getting in a couple of (09:40):
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Kevin Tejada: vegetables fruits every now and then supplement that but (09:43):
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Kevin Tejada: i'm going really hardcore i'm going to stop later when to get to the (09:46):
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Kevin Tejada: certain muscle size because i'm trying (09:49):
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Kevin Tejada: to chill out on the fucking saturated fats later on is temporary and (09:52):
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Kevin Tejada: be seeing great results with it i'd be like okay that's (09:56):
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Kevin Tejada: reasonable man as long as you don't stay on that for the rest of your life that sounds like a (09:59):
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Kevin Tejada: real cool for your goal but someone (10:01):
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Kevin Tejada: starts leaving out a lot of details just getting you hype be (10:05):
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Kevin Tejada: wary so i'm saying and i gotta say (10:09):
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Kevin Tejada: in terms of the motivation industry i cannot think of a bigger (10:11):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking culprit than just new (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: year's resolutions horrible the last (10:18):
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Kevin Tejada: the second half of december is fucking horrible (10:21):
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Kevin Tejada: and so fucking insidious in my opinion because they prey on people's guilt from (10:25):
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Kevin Tejada: eating a lot during thanksgiving eating a lot during christmas so that last (10:31):
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Kevin Tejada: week of december is just completely fucked saying hey man you're fat as shit (10:35):
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Kevin Tejada: you saw your family that was a bad thing because you were a fat piece of shit. (10:39):
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Kevin Tejada: I want you to get into the gym. We're going to change our lives in January. (10:44):
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Kevin Tejada: Just get into the gym, change your life. That's it. No other details, (10:48):
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Kevin Tejada: of course, just starting the gym on January 1st. (10:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Motivation takes a lot of people, takes a lot of their time away too. (10:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, again, there are some people who this initial motivation, (11:01):
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Kevin Tejada: this initial spark is really helpful. (11:04):
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Kevin Tejada: They're like, oh, I'm getting in. Okay. I understand this is going to be tough. (11:07):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm pushing through building these habits at the beginning till they become (11:10):
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Kevin Tejada: easier, blah, blah, blah. (11:13):
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Speaker1: But that's not what these motivation dealers want necessarily. (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: They just want to get you hyped to do something that's not very specific. (11:19):
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Kevin Tejada: So you can just run with that hype feeling feel. (11:24):
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Speaker1: Good the moment attribute (11:27):
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Kevin Tejada: That good feeling to them and when you fail it's (11:29):
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Kevin Tejada: your fault of course it is your fault but what (11:31):
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Kevin Tejada: i'm saying is they could have helped you as they were (11:34):
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Kevin Tejada: motivating you but they didn't and they want you (11:37):
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Kevin Tejada: to fail so you can come they can come back (11:40):
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Kevin Tejada: and help you out with whatever they're (11:43):
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Kevin Tejada: selling that's how the cycle is it's really fucked (11:46):
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Kevin Tejada: imagine this st patrick's day (11:49):
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Kevin Tejada: everyone gets drunk as shit let's say (11:52):
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Kevin Tejada: april fool's day was also just like (11:55):
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Kevin Tejada: new year's day is the mark of a new year it's also (11:58):
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Kevin Tejada: people changing their lives with fitness usually let's say april fool's day (12:01):
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Kevin Tejada: was also the start of getting sober so imagine like the last week of march i (12:04):
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Kevin Tejada: saw all these advertisements about getting sober in april yeah You feel like (12:10):
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Kevin Tejada: a piece of shit for drinking on St. (12:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Patrick's Day, right? (12:18):
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Kevin Tejada: You drunk fuck. Get ready to get sober on fucking April. Let's go. (12:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, drinking is retarded, but utilizing guilt in advertising is suspicious. (12:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Sometimes I'll say that. Unless it's tough love in a way, but this isn't what (12:33):
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Kevin Tejada: it would be in this scenario. (12:37):
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Kevin Tejada: This is just saying, hey, I know what you did because I know what the calendar (12:39):
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Kevin Tejada: is like. And on this day, I'm going to say, hey, I want to get you motivated (12:42):
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Kevin Tejada: to get sober without giving you any information about that whatsoever. (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Just get sober, bro. We're all going to get sober. I'm motivating you. (12:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Buy my get sober for April shirt. (12:54):
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Kevin Tejada: But what would be helpful is saying, hey, so with these types of addictions, (12:56):
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Kevin Tejada: these are the kinds of mental changes that you need to be seeing. (13:00):
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Kevin Tejada: These are the kind of habits that can cement these changes. (13:02):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to change how you view yourself as a person. You need to change this action. (13:05):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to change why you even want to do this action to begin with, (13:08):
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Kevin Tejada: blah, blah, all this like psychological stuff that would actually be helpful (13:11):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit would not be mentioned for one single second, (13:14):
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Kevin Tejada: motivation industry they just want you to be excited for it but to actually (13:19):
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Kevin Tejada: accomplish it that's not their fucking problem who cares figure that shit out (13:23):
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Kevin Tejada: yourself even better if you don't figure it out you fail you'll come. (13:27):
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Speaker1: Back to them it's fine (13:29):
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Kevin Tejada: I really fucking hope no one steals my idea of getting sober for april and doing (13:30):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit that'd be fucking horrible i do hope people they do get sober but (13:36):
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Kevin Tejada: i don't want the marketing to be that way it's just gonna be a yearly just it's like. (13:41):
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Speaker1: The new year's thing like it's like everyone (13:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Getting fat then everyone trying to get fit and failing it'd be the same thing (13:47):
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Kevin Tejada: everyone getting drunk as shit and getting sober for two days and then failing (13:50):
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Kevin Tejada: it's just let's not do that let's just work on things the way they're supposed to go because. (13:55):
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Speaker1: Here's the thing according to a study (14:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Participants who were self-motivated were more likely to lose weight than those (14:04):
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Kevin Tejada: who were motivated by external factors that means if it comes from within, (14:09):
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Kevin Tejada: from discipline, from actual reasoning, you're more likely to lose weight and (14:13):
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Kevin Tejada: keep it off than being blasted with hype, (14:17):
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Kevin Tejada: getting pumped up by someone else, something else. That's temporary. (14:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Here's the really fucking interesting thing. (14:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Motivation has a shelf life. And you know what it is? (14:28):
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Kevin Tejada: It's about four weeks, at least for weight loss, at least according to this study. (14:33):
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Kevin Tejada: After four weeks, the positive motivation just starts to decline rapidly, (14:38):
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Kevin Tejada: which means if you just stick with it for five weeks, you have a way better (14:44):
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Kevin Tejada: chance of actually building the discipline in those habits. (14:48):
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Speaker2: If you're running purely on motivation, (14:51):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to go that way necessarily. And behind New Year's resolutions, (14:52):
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Kevin Tejada: probably the biggest way to exploit the motivation addicts is to take advantage (14:58):
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Kevin Tejada: of their FOMO, their fear of missing out. (15:04):
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Kevin Tejada: They're thinking, hey, all these people are getting cool and taking up this (15:07):
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Kevin Tejada: mindset that you're not taking up because you're a loser. (15:11):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to be like them. Join on in. Join on the hype, on the motivation. (15:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Let's go get motivated together. (15:17):
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Kevin Tejada: It'd be cool if we could get disciplined together so you're (15:19):
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Kevin Tejada: missing out you're not when you're scared of missing out you oftentimes (15:22):
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Kevin Tejada: don't need or want whatever it (15:26):
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Kevin Tejada: is you're missing out on just worried about being left out it's more of a fear (15:29):
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Kevin Tejada: of loneliness to be honest i would advise most people to get over that and remember (15:34):
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Kevin Tejada: that the goal is for you it's always for you so you have to put in that effort to build those habits, (15:38):
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Kevin Tejada: build the discipline. You have to do this stuff. (15:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Here's the thing. Motivation is when you feel like doing something helpful and cool. (15:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Discipline is when you do something helpful and cool when you don't feel like (15:56):
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Kevin Tejada: it, when the feeling is gone, long gone. That's when you still have to do it. (15:59):
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Kevin Tejada: There's a great example of the difference between motivation and discipline (16:04):
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Kevin Tejada: ironically gotten inspired from david goggins's book, (16:08):
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Kevin Tejada: i think i'm pretty sure it's from there but anyway (16:13):
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Kevin Tejada: david goggins is a huge runner so this fits anyway basically (16:16):
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Kevin Tejada: with motivation let's say someone wants to start (16:20):
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Kevin Tejada: running outside they want to start jogging whatever someone who's running on (16:23):
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Kevin Tejada: motivation they'll get their shoes on they'll get ready to run they open the (16:27):
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Kevin Tejada: door and it's snowing it's really cold a bit frosty out there they're like my (16:32):
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Kevin Tejada: motivation's gone maybe. (16:38):
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Speaker2: Tomorrow when it's not snowing i don't know (16:41):
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Kevin Tejada: This is not counting the fact that running slippery (16:42):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff is not great obviously if it's like shoveled away then run away of course (16:46):
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Kevin Tejada: but with motivation that person the person's desire to actually do it drops (16:51):
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Kevin Tejada: significantly now let's take the same person and give them discipline instead they. (16:56):
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Speaker1: Put on their shoes they get ready to run (17:03):
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Kevin Tejada: They open the door they see it's a bit frosty it's snowing a bit it's really (17:04):
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Kevin Tejada: cold now in their head instead of motivation being in there being a cheerleader (17:07):
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Kevin Tejada: and then losing their energy because it's snowing in their head they just hear (17:12):
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Kevin Tejada: another voice that says we're going. (17:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Do it because they said they had to do it. That is the difference between motivation and discipline. (17:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Motivation is a feeling. Discipline is a habit. It's a mindset that you have (17:26):
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Kevin Tejada: to build. If you run on motivation, you run on fumes. (17:31):
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Kevin Tejada: So a couple of things to help with building motivation is to be realistic with your goals. (17:35):
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Kevin Tejada: If you start off with the dumbest shit possible, you're not going to make it (17:40):
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Kevin Tejada: because it's going to result in you being as disappointed as these people running on just motivation. (17:46):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're thinking, I'm going to lose 10 pounds in two days, (17:53):
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Kevin Tejada: that's not going to work. I don't care how much you want it. (17:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Unless you get lipo, it's not going to happen. (17:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Not in a healthy way anyway. So you got to set these goals to be much smaller, much more doable. (18:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Because here's the thing, once you reach this small achievable goal, you can set a new one. (18:09):
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Kevin Tejada: And that new one can be a bit harder. (18:14):
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Kevin Tejada: So just build your way. Eventually, you will get to that big goal that you really (18:17):
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Kevin Tejada: want, but just set smaller ones now. (18:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Just take that first fucking step now. (18:23):
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Kevin Tejada: And that applies with the habits that you build to get to that goal. (18:27):
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Kevin Tejada: You can't just adopt a wild habit overnight or multiple. (18:32):
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Kevin Tejada: You can't just say, I'm going to wake up at 5 a.m. every day, (18:37):
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Kevin Tejada: throwing out every single food I've ever liked. (18:40):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm going to the gym five times a week. I'm starting tomorrow. You're going to, (18:44):
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Kevin Tejada: if you can survive that, you are built different in a way that it's surprising (18:48):
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Kevin Tejada: you haven't done this before, but for the vast majority of people, (18:54):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit's not going to last more than 20 minutes. (18:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Start with the smaller sustainable things. Cause if you slowly work it into (19:01):
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Kevin Tejada: your life, it'll be easy. (19:05):
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Kevin Tejada: It'll just be a part of your life, not a gigantic shift. (19:07):
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Kevin Tejada: Instead of throwing out all that food, replace some. (19:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Instead of going to the gym five times a week go once instead of waking up at (19:14):
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Kevin Tejada: five try half an hour beforehand and. (19:19):
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Speaker1: Dog in the morning or something with that time. (19:24):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know. But just take it slow. If you make these smaller changes, (19:26):
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Kevin Tejada: they won't disrupt your life so much. (19:32):
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Kevin Tejada: And then it's easier to adapt them into your daily habits. (19:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Then over time, you'll look back and you'll notice there's a humongous shift. (19:39):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you make that humongous shift right away, you're not that person yet. (19:43):
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Kevin Tejada: You have to grow into being that person first. (19:46):
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Kevin Tejada: And that's going to take time. So do that. Take your time. (19:49):
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Kevin Tejada: Also, big with these people in the motivation industry, I mentioned many times (19:53):
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Kevin Tejada: that they don't provide many details on how to become this super cool, (19:57):
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Kevin Tejada: muscular, stoic caveman who's godlike. (20:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Look for steps. Look for literally what is the first fucking step that you, (20:07):
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Kevin Tejada: ass. telling you how badass you are, how badass you can be. That's nice of them, (20:23):
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Kevin Tejada: but it's not going to be helpful. (20:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Figure out what to actually fucking do so that you know what you have to start (20:30):
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Kevin Tejada: with. But yeah, fuck the motivation industry. (20:36):
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Speaker2: Fuck all these YouTube channels posting 50,000 (20:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Videos of David Goggins talking. Fuck them posting these quotes from philosophers, (20:42):
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Kevin Tejada: from books they have not read. (20:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Fuck them posting all these extremely condescending speeches to no one from businessmen. (20:48):
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Kevin Tejada: Just stop just just stop if it sparks you to start cool but you need to move (20:53):
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Kevin Tejada: on to an actual game plan after that (21:00):
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Kevin Tejada: otherwise you're not going anywhere otherwise you're not gonna make it, (21:03):
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Kevin Tejada: leave your favorite leave your favorite david goggins quote as a comment mine is fuck you, (21:08):
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Kevin Tejada: he probably said that sometime right anyway i'll see you next time. (21:17):
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