YOU NEED TO WORK HARDER

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In a world of instant gratification and easier access to everything than ever before, people have never been lazier than they are right now. That gives you an opportunity every day to outwork, out-perform, and out-think everybody you're up against, and win even more. Push yourself on a daily basis, and you will dominate.

Spoken by:

Andy Frisella
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Andy Elliot
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Jocko Willink
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Tony Robbins
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Ed Mylett
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Owen Cook
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Music:

Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream

Clint Mansell
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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
The real battleground
is in
your
mind.
You got people betting against you.
They’re like, he ain’t going to do it.
I bet there’s a person inside of you that says,
nah, you’re not going to do this.
You’re going to have to fight that.
You know who my own worst enemy is?
Freaking me.
This battle

(00:21):
has no opponent.
It is only
you
versus
you.
The only motherf*cking thing that beats you
is you.
The only thing
that can stop you
is you.
You guys got a person inside of you
and that’s the old you.
Dude, I got a person right here
that’s standing back here in this mirror
waiting for me to back-pedal

(00:42):
and go back to my old life.
I see that son of a b*tch every day.
I’m going to keep outgrowing.
I’m going to keep moving.
Ain’t no way in hell I’m going back there.
And those little things,
those little menial tasks that add up,
you have to execute them.
And when your brain tells you
that you got a great reason today not to do it,
and you want to listen to your brain,
’cause your brain doesn’t want you to be a big success.

(01:04):
Your brain just wants to keep you alive.
Your brain doesn’t give a f*ck
about your little dreams.
It’s gonna lie to you,
it’s gonna trick you.
And you know what it sounds like.
"Train smarter, not harder."
No
actually.
Keep training hard.
If you’re totally committed, what do you do?
I always tell people,
if you want to take the island,
burn the boats.
Because as long as there’s a way out,

(01:26):
our brains will take it.
I gave myself no way out
and my mind realized that.
It said, okay.
We’re going to adapt and overcome now.
Because he is not going to stop.
You need to win battles
in order to win the war.
You need to get out of bed.
You need to run.
You need to work out.
You need to read and study
and practice
and you need to do things
that you don’t necessarily want to do.

(01:49):
And I know that can be hard,
that’s why people lose the war.
Your feelings will never cooperate
with your dream.
You have to reserve your feelings
and do it anyway.
The daily fight is a challenge.
That’s right.
It’s gonna suck.
Doesn’t matter.
Work harder.

(02:09):
When something sucks,
good.
It’s going to make me tougher.
It’s going to give me a good story to tell.
It’s going to toughen my mind.
I don’t negotiate with weakness.
I’m not trying to convince myself.
I’m not trying to negotiate with myself.
I’m not debating
what I should do.
I am executing the plan.
And I recommend
that you do the same.

(02:30):
Don’t talk.
Go execute.
Easy choices
lead to a hard life.
Hard choices
lead to an easy life.
You may not want to fight that battle,
but 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,

(02:50):
get out of your damn bed,
get off your phone,
and get to work.
Hard work works.
And you know what’s great about our culture, y’all?
The world’s lazy.
It’s a good thing for you and me.
Nobody wants to do it.
Everybody will talk about it.
Everybody will post about it.
But nobody wants to roll up their sleeves
and just go get it.

(03:10):
You can change you.
You’d be surprised how good you’d be
if you just decide to win.
Be number one in your office.
Number one in your region.
It takes a want
to become a number one.
Number ones never cut corners.
Number ones never take breaks.
Number ones don’t drop the f*cking ball.
They are on it.
They have a sense of urgency,
they f*cking care,

(03:31):
and they’re going to get everything done
that they need to get done
to win.
Your success
is going to be predicated more than anything
on your hunger and desperation level
and your ability to get laser focused
and eliminate the distractions in your life.
We think if we f*cking
got up early for four days,
we’ve earned something.
You gotta drop your entire mindset.

(03:52):
It’s not acceptable.
You need to f*cking work harder.
You need to f*cking discipline your mind better.
ABD,
you always be developing.
If you’re not developing, you’re losing.
Study yourself
the way the best hedge fund managers
study stocks
and look how quickly
you’ll start changing many of your bad habits
with good ones.
Work harder on you.

(04:12):
Go invest in you.
That’s the best investment.
Develop your skills.
If you’re the best doctor or lawyer or salesperson
or whatever,
it doesn’t matter what happens to the economy,
you’re going to do well.
And it gets better with time.
Most people work the hardest
when trying to reach the top.
Once they can get to that hundred thousand dollars,
once they get to that million dollars,
they worked as hard as they can work.
The great ones work even harder

(04:33):
after they get to the hundred thousand,
harder after they get to the million,
harder after they’re famous.
Harder after they’ve got a big following.
Harder after they get that promotion.
The great ones work even harder
after they get what they want.
You already know what works.
You know what to put in your body.
You know how to treat your body.
you know what to put in your brain.
You know how you should be using
the hours that you have.
It’s just getting yourself to actually

(04:55):
f*cking do it.
That is how successful people
become successful people.
They pay the price
other people aren’t willing to pay.
They understand
what they have to do.
That they’re going to have to do sh*t
that they f*cking hate.
But what they also understand
is they’re not
willing to settle

(05:16):
for anything less
than what they want.
If you want to dictate the life
on your terms,
if you want to dictate
the success that you’re going to create,
and if you’re ambitious to the point
where you’re not satisfied
with living the status quo
bullsh*t,
you’ve got to learn
to master the sh*t
that everybody else thinks is irrelevant.

(05:37):
When you start working nonstop
and pushing yourself every single day,
your
life
is
going to get better.
There is no
question.