August 21, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, people get up every day they do the
same thing, tell themself they're going to change their life
one day, and they never do.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm going to change my mind. What would you do
if you weren't afraid?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's like that's what I should do, Like what would
I do if I weren't afraid? And what would I
do if I knew I couldn't fail?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
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
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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 will be
much more miserable, and you'll be a lot older.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
If you play it safe, you're going to exist. You
only get to live when you take risk. Ain't no
living in safety. You can't be the man if you
don't jump. You can't be top dog unless you and
unless you fight the other dog. Ain't nobody finna give
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you the championship. You don't win the title without coming
to the fight. You don't win a fight without train.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Following your dreams is a lonely, solitary, scary, dangerous pursuit.
You can't wait for somebody to think you can do it.
And you gotta be willing to risk everything to become
that seed of what you believe you feel in there.
You gotta be fearless, you gotta be relentless.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Risk is 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?
Speaker 8 (02:09):
And on top of that, if this was to happen,
look at the fix I'd be and I'd better not
try then I'll tell you what changed my whole life
when I finally discovered it's all risky.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
The minute you were born, it got risky.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
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.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
See, it's all risky. Getting married is risky. Having children
is risky. Going into business is risky. Investing your money
is risky.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
It's all risky.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
I'll tell you how risky life is. You're not gonna
get out alive.
Speaker 9 (02:47):
You need to put yourself in uncomfortable situations, in uncomfortable scenarios. Okay,
if you do easy things, you.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Will have a hard life. If you do hard things,
you will have an easy life.
Speaker 9 (02:59):
Let me say again, if you do easy things, you
will have a hard life. If you do hard things,
you will have an easy life. As a man, you
have to understand that we as men, we do better
in environments where we are uncomfortable. Okay, you put pressure
on a rock, it turns into a diamond.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
You gotta let go of that stuff from the past
because it just doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The only thing that.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Matters is what you choose to be now.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
The comfort zone is dangerous. When you're comfortable, you are
most dangerous. The comfort zone is somewhere you need to
You should never feel comfortable. You should be happy and dissatisfied.
Anybody ever tell you, hey, hey, look, you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Just be satisfied with what you got. Don't believe get.
Speaker 11 (03:45):
Them away from you.
Speaker 10 (03:46):
You should never be satisfied with what you got because
the attempt to get more makes you into something better.
Don't let anybody tell you, hey, man, you know you
should just be a happy way.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
No nobody knows but you. You can't get advice on
what you should do with your life right.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Nobody knows what you are.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Even sometimes you don't really even know what you are.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You gotta take your shot.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You gotta do.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
It alone, and people will help you. And when you
get the ball, roll and people will jump on. But
if you don't believe, nobody else is gonna believe.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I want to be bulletproof in these ways.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
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
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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
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the man that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I want to be.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And so when I'm going through there was 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.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
See.
Speaker 12 (05:42):
The one thing I want you to promise me is
that no matter how long it takes, keep going, no
matter how much it hurts, keep going.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So you was placed on his r for a reason.
Speaker 11 (05:50):
You weren't meant to be out of it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You were mental exail.
Speaker 12 (05:53):
Not understand is grind is meant to make you who
he's supposed to be, a dull little grin. I never
hurt nobody. It's not being a sawt LIS's embrace it.
If you go through that fire, you're gonna come out
real cold. That's what we won't.
Speaker 13 (06:05):
So I wanted to project myself forward to age eighty,
and it's okay. Now I'm looking back on my life.
I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.
And you know, I knew that when I was eighty,
I was not going to regret having tried this. I
was not going to regret having wanted, you know, trying
to participate in this thing called the Internet that I
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thought was going to 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. When I thought about it that way,
it was an incredibly easy decision.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And I get old think about things.
Speaker 14 (06:48):
Myshtimate historically eighty percent of the time it ends up
in the can, like Johnny Shack.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
As no reward. Did I take enough risk? Did I
put myself off O?
Speaker 15 (07:00):
You definitely didn't. So you definitely did not. And here's
how I know it, at least again one man's point
of view. I'm not sure anybody is taking enough risk
from twenty to thirty. 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 twenty two
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to thirty. 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.
Speaker 16 (07:32):
And that's when I realized 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.
Speaker 17 (07:44):
This next five year window is when you don't go
practical and safe. This is not the time to get
the job mom wanted you to. This is the time
to realize 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.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Don't have to let somebody tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Can't do something, not even me.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You got a.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves.
They want to tell you can't do it. You want something,
go get it. Period.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
This is why I'm a big, big believer in this
is that 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 ten out of ten motivation pain, And so like
I think people should use their pain one.
Speaker 18 (08:45):
It wouldn't kill you to try. You know, spending a
long time getting a life you would actually want is
about a million times better than getting a quick turnaround
time on a life that you'll forever be disappointed with.
You know, playing it safe seems to fine. Until you
get to the last moments of your life and realize
all the potential that you threw away you can never
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get back, and I will never know.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I fro an experience what.
Speaker 18 (09:12):
That feels like, but the thought of that realization is haunting.
Speaker 19 (09:18):
What matters is at some point you have to identify
what you want to do, and you've got to become
the best in the world at that period. Not really good,
you've got to be the best in the world. So
your thing in life at something, you've got.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
To become the best in the world at it.
Speaker 19 (09:32):
And if you're not prepared to go in with that
mentality never going to get anywhere. I'm speaking to all
of you out there that want to do something unbelievable.
Speaker 20 (09:41):
So many of us come from these small places in
our mind that we're not willing to think outside only
what we've seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And one thing I was.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
Able to do was to dream.
Speaker 20 (09:58):
And two you're able to really put yourself into that dream.
But don't make dreams your master. That's where you truly
become which you're destined to become.
Speaker 21 (10:10):
So you're always trying to come up with reasons that
you don't have to do it today. But if you build,
you're building the muscle. Either way, you're either building the
muscle that says I do what I say, I keep
the commitments that I make, or you're building the muscle
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that says I make excuses, I don't do what I say.
I can't be counted on right. And so when we
think about discipline, it's really about what promises are you.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Going to keep?
Speaker 21 (10:42):
And the tricky thing is you're keeping promises to yourself
and nobody even knows that you made right. It's not
it's not like, hey, you made this comment, I don't
write this book by this time, like, uh, you know
I have to do this embarrassing the thing, or you
know that all retire. You know they're not even You're
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not really putting your ass on the line in that sense,
but you've said to yourself you're gonna do this thing,
and building that muscle is really important.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You have to take chances in life.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
If you don't take chances in life, you'll never have
the life God has for you.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Life is about risk.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
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 takes courage to pursue your dreams. I just did it.
It costs me everything. But eventually, God is very good man.
When he sees you take a leap of faith, he
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supplies you everything you need.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now, it's gonna cost you something, but most.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
People are not willing to pay what it costs to
go after your dream because you're gonna have to hurt
a little bit.
Speaker 22 (11:57):
So at those times where you're questioning if you've anything left, No,
a day from then, a week from them, a month
from then, a year from them, you will never remember.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Discomfort, the pain.
Speaker 22 (12:08):
You will always remember the pride, the accomplishment that lives on.
That's why pain is temporary, pride forever. Guys, you give it,
you're all, You get it all tenfold.
Speaker 23 (12:20):
What do you think all success starts with? Well, the
fast answer is mindset, going back to the only belief
that matters. You said it. It's the way you act
is ultimately all the matters, and the way you act
follows what you allow yourself to believe, or maybe a
better way to say it is what you choose to believe.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So if you choose to.
Speaker 23 (12:39):
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 pick. And if you don't think that putting
time and energy into it will yield anything, and you
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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, then 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, so they don't
put the time and energy. And so that's like where
everything starts. Is are you putting the time and energy
into getting better?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes or no? Everyone thinks you're crazy until it works.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And so I mean, 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 think of an appropriate saying, I say, say balls
deep certain that no matter what you will die or
you will get there, Then the likelihood that all of
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the things that you've done up to that point will
then be justified in retrospect is super high.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And I actually see that as super.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Compelling as a thing to latch onto in her times.
Speaker 22 (14:01):
Second ago pain, as it's almost like excruciating seconds later
it like flows out of you, like you just pull
the plug on your sake, and all the water and
all the pressure just goes It is a greater feeling
than what the pain was.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I mean the pain you felt doing that. Man, it's
overridden with pride.
Speaker 22 (14:19):
And when you feel and you pull that plug and
all the water goes out, and all gain leaders look
left there as all the war leads.
Speaker 24 (14:25):
It won't more, you won't sheat you.
Speaker 25 (14:28):
So don't let the pain rob you of your pretention.
Speaker 26 (14:31):
Guys, don't let in the what you can't do in
the moments interfere what you know you can do.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I mean, you don't the pain you can rob you
of your belief or what you can be, because.
Speaker 25 (14:44):
Your body gives everything in your mind says, and anytime
you had any kind of.
Speaker 22 (14:49):
Disforce or or you can be subject to the discomforts
of the situation, your body remembers that.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And your body's just a message. A security right here
just delivers whatever this is. Hif you start.
Speaker 25 (15:03):
Thinking can't do and that pain's like, oh it pels,
I get the pain. You think that body's gonna tell
your pain that the boss of the world.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Hey man, we can do it.
Speaker 18 (15:11):
Oh shit, it's like a little bit to your body
is it's.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Like, okay, who done? Then good?
Speaker 25 (15:16):
Body's just everything your mind says.
Speaker 22 (15:20):
Don't even give it a chance to think that kind
of shit.
Speaker 27 (15:24):
My father could have been a great comedian, but he
didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so
he made a conservative choice.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Instead.
Speaker 27 (15:31):
He got a safe job as an accountant, and when
I was twelve years old, he was let go from
that safe job, and our family had to do whatever
we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from
my father, not the least of which was that you
can fail at what you don't want, so you might
as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Speaker 18 (15:52):
The reason I'm gonna get what I want out of
life is because i'mlike most I'm willing to have nothing.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
In the moment.
Speaker 18 (16:00):
Of course, it feels a world's better to have something
right now, But unfortunately, what most people really want is
not what's available right now.
Speaker 28 (16:09):
Those people with the best relationships, the best health, the
best careers, it's because they were completely unwilling to settle
for anything less than that. And you might think I'm
overly optimistic because most people don't get those great outcomes,
But I'm not most people, and you don't have to
be either.
Speaker 29 (16:31):
Most of us we live in a box and we
don't want to go outside that box at all.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Ever. Outside that box.
Speaker 29 (16:40):
Is all these possibilities of life. But we do to
we shackle our mind. We are a prisoner in our
own mind that this is all I can do, is
all I'm good at. The people are there is that
they live for themselves, not knowing that you have the
power within yourself to change millions of lives by face
of life, by facing yourself.
Speaker 30 (17:03):
What if it's a mistake, it's a mistake, rest assured.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
What do you know?
Speaker 30 (17:08):
You're gonna stumble around, right, And what's gonna happen is this.
You're gonna move, You're gonna not stay in stasis, You're
not gonna wander around in circles. And I see people
like that, They said, well, I never knew what to do,
and now I'm forty. It's like, that's not so good.
That's not so good, and you might say, well, And
there is a literature too that suggests that people are
a lot more unhappy when they look back in their
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lives about the things they didn't do than they are
about the mistakes they made while they were doing things.
Speaker 20 (17:39):
We are training kids and people to be soft in
a world that continuously gets harder, and it doesn't. It
doesn't correlate like that guy talking about the tear gas
with the seals. Is that necessary?
Speaker 12 (17:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 20 (17:56):
But what is necessary is you have to weild a
person that can withstand the pressures of whatever they're going
to be dealing with in life.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And we don't do that.
Speaker 20 (18:09):
I'm not trying to send a message of run two
hundred miles, be the best mother the world, but be tough.
You better have a part about you that's tough, a
part about you that can break down situations and get better.
Speaker 14 (18:23):
We actually have to re embrace risk on a personal
level and on a societal level.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We have to take the.
Speaker 14 (18:29):
Risk of freely exchanging ideas because that's where innovation happens.
We have to take the risk of being able to
invest and reap the benefits of that risk. In a
personal relationship, getting married is a risk. It is foregoing
a current benefits for a future gain. Every decision you
make is a risk. The biggest risk of all, of course,
is the decision to be free and to take responsibility
for your own choices.
Speaker 18 (18:48):
That's a major risk.
Speaker 14 (18:49):
But if you take that risk, you become a better
and a stronger human being, a more contributing human being,
a more valuable human being. You feel better about yourself.
When we discard risk, we discard meaning. When we are coddled,
we discard our own ability to be a fully adult
human being. And here's the dirty little secret. No matter
how much we try to discard the risk, you can't
actually discard risk. It's inevitable because reality entails risk. We
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can choose to live free rather than coddled. It will
make us better people, more open people, more understanding people.
And when we do that, I think that not only
will we be saving the country and saving the civilization,
we'll be saving ourselves.
Speaker 31 (19:22):
But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you
may encounter along the way, you will find true success
and happiness. If you have only one goal. There really
is only one, and that is this to fulfill the highest,
most truthful expression of yourself. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best.
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He said, don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask
yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that,
because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Speaker 20 (20:00):
There's no hacks, bro, it's you against you, you against you.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And if you misunderstand that you've a real problem, you
real problem.
Speaker 20 (20:11):
I can understand you misunderstand you run on a street
short off, but this no, yeah, I can get it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I get it.
Speaker 20 (20:17):
If you misunderstand saying right now today, the problem is
you and you.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Don't want to fix it.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Take charge of your life, Take charge of your time,
take charge of your resources, or take charge of your health.
You're the one that's responsible for it. It's not a
requirement of society that you not have a heart attack
and take care of your family. That's not a requirement
of society, but you must make it a requirement of yourself.
Society doesn't require that you build a financial wall around
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your family. Nothing can get through. That's not a requirement
of society. It's a requirement you impose on yourself.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Do things worth doing.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
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. 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
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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.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And so I think if.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
People flip that a lot more people would take action
because they actually realize the advantage of their position.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Don't be scared to fail, and.
Speaker 22 (21:44):
Know wherever you are right now is not who you are,
just where you are, you know, and if you fall
man fall forward, he'll fall in your ass.
Speaker 25 (21:53):
You know, when they say it can't be done, you know,
tell them you haven't tried yet. You know, can't be
done by someone else. But I can't say that, do
I haven't tried it, and then you go try it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Those who can do, those who can't, talk about those
who can't.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Come say it again.
Speaker 12 (22:11):
Those who can do, those who can't, talk about those
who can't.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Now, can you or can you not know?
Speaker 20 (22:19):
You just want to sit on the sideline to talk
about other people?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Or can you step up?
Speaker 12 (22:23):
How do you want to live?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Stop just waking up like an accident.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
And then once you find out what you want, spend
the rest of your natural life waking up and going
after it.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I think most people feel really lonely when you want
something that doesn't currently exist. And so some people call
that dreams, some people call that goals. Whatever it is,
you're trying to pull something from your mind into reality,
and you want it done a certain way, and if
it's not done that way, it's not what you imagined.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And so people on the.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Outside will throw stones and call you names that they
think will change your behavior and get you to stop.
And the more I have been the person trying to
pull things into reality, the more I've tried to weather
and build kind of defenses against those things so that
when those stones get hurled at you, by being called
a control freak or by saying you micro manage things
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or that you have incredibly high standards.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
The answer is yes, because.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I want it done right the first time, because either
way we're going to if you have enough will, it's
going to get done the way that I want it
to get done, regardless, and it will be less painful
if we just do it right the first time, because
we will still have to do it, and you may
have to do it three or four more times, but
eventually you'll just succumb to the fact that we're going
to do it this way. And I think all of
the great things that have happened for humanity have been
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from one man or woman who had an idea and
just wouldn't let people shake it from them.
Speaker 24 (23:45):
In a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk
you can take is not taking any risk. And I
really think that that's true, right. I mean a lot
of people, I think think that. You know, whenever it
comes to whenever you get yourself into a position where
you have to make some big shift and direction or
do something, you know, there are always people are going
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to point to the downside risks of that decision and locally,
they're may be right, right. I mean, for any given
decision that you're gonna make, there's upside and downside, but
an aggregate. If you are stagnant and you don't make
those changes, then then I think you're countee to fail.
Speaker 20 (24:26):
So many people do this.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
They're talking to you.
Speaker 20 (24:31):
On who they want to be, They're lying to you,
and they walk away after so many times, walk away
like God, man, why could tell the truth? Why the
hell can I just tell him the truth?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
No good it feels for me. Now look at you
in your eye, a.
Speaker 20 (24:48):
Man, I see because women won't get this. Women will
not get this. Man a man, that man. You're looking
at a man eye and you know that everything you're
saying is real and it comes from a real working place,
something that you earned.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's the best feeling in the world. You can say
that actually happened.
Speaker 23 (25:08):
Yes, I know with certainty what I'm saying actually actually happened.
Speaker 20 (25:12):
Who I am and who I say I am? I
am no more lies, no more skirt in the truth,
no more busted. And that is worth every dime I've
ever made in my life.
Speaker 26 (25:23):
Because if you live in the future, you're anxious.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
If you live in the past, you're depressed. If you
live in the now, you're happy.
Speaker 24 (25:33):
That's how you do it, guys.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You admit to.
Speaker 22 (25:36):
Something, you tell one about it, and no matter what
they hank and cheer for you, they get behind you.
Instead of being one of those the subjective nature loses
in life that picks you down because you're doing better
than them and you're reminding them.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Of their failures.
Speaker 22 (25:52):
And year it starts her mind rate.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
The body will follow.
Speaker 26 (25:57):
Tell the world in a gold and she will go.
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. You don't have
the attendity.
Speaker 32 (26:16):
Don't mean when I was like seventeen years old and
I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life,
as you guys know, I created I created my Twitch
account in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I had one viewer for an entire year. That one
viewer was my dad.
Speaker 33 (26:36):
Imagine when you're older and your grandkids say to you,
grand Dad, tell me about what it was like when
you were young, and you say, I didn't really do
much to be honest, because I was worried about what
other people would think of me. I never took my
shirt off because I hate the way I looked. I
didn't start that business because I was scared it might fail.
Just think about how silly that would sound. You only
get one go around at this thing. Blink can You'll
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miss it, crack of the whip, and then you're gone,
So make it worth it.
Speaker 12 (27:01):
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but
that doesn't make you who you are.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
It is the rest of your story who you choose
to be.
Speaker 34 (27:17):
And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time
you try.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's okay.
Speaker 34 (27:25):
Some of the most successful people in the world are
the ones who've had the most failures. Jk Rawlings, who
wrote Harry Potter. Her first Harry Potter book, was rejected
twelve times before it was finally published.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Michael Jordan was cut from.
Speaker 34 (27:44):
His high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games
and misses 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
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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.
Speaker 35 (28:14):
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.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
You know, somebody called me yesterday and asked me a
very simple question. You said, Pat, you know, what do
I do when I just don't feel like showing up
to work today?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
What do I do?
Speaker 11 (28:39):
And I said, look, we've heard this saying before. You know,
you got to show up whether you feel like.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
It or not. But I don't think that's enough. I
don't think that's what the great ones do.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
I think it's even past that you got to raise
your standards to hold different level.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And I'll say what I think it is.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
You not only have to show up, you have to
show up when you don't feel like it, and you
have to want to perform and psych yourself out to
be in the zone and be confident and excited in
the mood, and figure out a way to psych yourself out,
fool yourself into being positive, fool yourself into becoming such
a high vibration type of an energy where all of
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a sudden you're starting to perform and then you start
believing you're excited, then you completely forgot you were not
in the mood. And entrepreneurs who do that are the
ones who eventually win their own championships of business. They
win their own academies, Oscars World Series, super Bowl, whatever
you want to call it. But you not only have
to show up, you got to show up at the
highest possible level and gain value as well as bring
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value to everybody around you. Show up today and show
up with the most incredible energy
You know, people get up every day they do the
same thing, tell themself they're going to change their life
one day, and they never do.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm going to change my mind. What would you do
if you weren't afraid?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's like that's what I should do, Like what would
I do if I weren't afraid? And what would I
do if I knew I couldn't fail?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
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
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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 will be
much more miserable, and you'll be a lot older.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
If you play it safe, you're going to exist. You
only get to live when you take risk. Ain't no
living in safety. You can't be the man if you
don't jump. You can't be top dog unless you and
unless you fight the other dog. Ain't nobody finna give
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you the championship. You don't win the title without coming
to the fight. You don't win a fight without train.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Following your dreams is a lonely, solitary, scary, dangerous pursuit.
You can't wait for somebody to think you can do it.
And you gotta be willing to risk everything to become
that seed of what you believe you feel in there.
You gotta be fearless, you gotta be relentless.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Risk is 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?
Speaker 8 (02:09):
And on top of that, if this was to happen,
look at the fix I'd be and I'd better not
try then I'll tell you what changed my whole life
when I finally discovered it's all risky.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
The minute you were born, it got risky.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
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.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
See, it's all risky. Getting married is risky. Having children
is risky. Going into business is risky. Investing your money
is risky.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
It's all risky.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
I'll tell you how risky life is. You're not gonna
get out alive.
Speaker 9 (02:47):
You need to put yourself in uncomfortable situations, in uncomfortable scenarios. Okay,
if you do easy things, you.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Will have a hard life. If you do hard things,
you will have an easy life.
Speaker 9 (02:59):
Let me say again, if you do easy things, you
will have a hard life. If you do hard things,
you will have an easy life. As a man, you
have to understand that we as men, we do better
in environments where we are uncomfortable. Okay, you put pressure
on a rock, it turns into a diamond.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
You gotta let go of that stuff from the past
because it just doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The only thing that.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Matters is what you choose to be now.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
The comfort zone is dangerous. When you're comfortable, you are
most dangerous. The comfort zone is somewhere you need to
You should never feel comfortable. You should be happy and dissatisfied.
Anybody ever tell you, hey, hey, look, you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Just be satisfied with what you got. Don't believe get.
Speaker 11 (03:45):
Them away from you.
Speaker 10 (03:46):
You should never be satisfied with what you got because
the attempt to get more makes you into something better.
Don't let anybody tell you, hey, man, you know you
should just be a happy way.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
No nobody knows but you. You can't get advice on
what you should do with your life right.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Nobody knows what you are.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Even sometimes you don't really even know what you are.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You gotta take your shot.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You gotta do.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
It alone, and people will help you. And when you
get the ball, roll and people will jump on. But
if you don't believe, nobody else is gonna believe.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
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.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I want to be bulletproof in these ways.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
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
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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
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the man that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I want to be.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And so when I'm going through there was 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.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
See.
Speaker 12 (05:42):
The one thing I want you to promise me is
that no matter how long it takes, keep going, no
matter how much it hurts, keep going.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So you was placed on his r for a reason.
Speaker 11 (05:50):
You weren't meant to be out of it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You were mental exail.
Speaker 12 (05:53):
Not understand is grind is meant to make you who
he's supposed to be, a dull little grin. I never
hurt nobody. It's not being a sawt LIS's embrace it.
If you go through that fire, you're gonna come out
real cold. That's what we won't.
Speaker 13 (06:05):
So I wanted to project myself forward to age eighty,
and it's okay. Now I'm looking back on my life.
I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.
And you know, I knew that when I was eighty,
I was not going to regret having tried this. I
was not going to regret having wanted, you know, trying
to participate in this thing called the Internet that I
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thought was going to 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. When I thought about it that way,
it was an incredibly easy decision.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And I get old think about things.
Speaker 14 (06:48):
Myshtimate historically eighty percent of the time it ends up
in the can, like Johnny Shack.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
As no reward. Did I take enough risk? Did I
put myself off O?
Speaker 15 (07:00):
You definitely didn't. So you definitely did not. And here's
how I know it, at least again one man's point
of view. I'm not sure anybody is taking enough risk
from twenty to thirty. 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 twenty two
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to thirty. 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.
Speaker 16 (07:32):
And that's when I realized 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.
Speaker 17 (07:44):
This next five year window is when you don't go
practical and safe. This is not the time to get
the job mom wanted you to. This is the time
to realize 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.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Don't have to let somebody tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Can't do something, not even me.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You got a.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves.
They want to tell you can't do it. You want something,
go get it. Period.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
This is why I'm a big, big believer in this
is that 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 ten out of ten motivation pain, And so like
I think people should use their pain one.
Speaker 18 (08:45):
It wouldn't kill you to try. You know, spending a
long time getting a life you would actually want is
about a million times better than getting a quick turnaround
time on a life that you'll forever be disappointed with.
You know, playing it safe seems to fine. Until you
get to the last moments of your life and realize
all the potential that you threw away you can never
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get back, and I will never know.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I fro an experience what.
Speaker 18 (09:12):
That feels like, but the thought of that realization is haunting.
Speaker 19 (09:18):
What matters is at some point you have to identify
what you want to do, and you've got to become
the best in the world at that period. Not really good,
you've got to be the best in the world. So
your thing in life at something, you've got.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
To become the best in the world at it.
Speaker 19 (09:32):
And if you're not prepared to go in with that
mentality never going to get anywhere. I'm speaking to all
of you out there that want to do something unbelievable.
Speaker 20 (09:41):
So many of us come from these small places in
our mind that we're not willing to think outside only
what we've seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And one thing I was.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
Able to do was to dream.
Speaker 20 (09:58):
And two you're able to really put yourself into that dream.
But don't make dreams your master. That's where you truly
become which you're destined to become.
Speaker 21 (10:10):
So you're always trying to come up with reasons that
you don't have to do it today. But if you build,
you're building the muscle. Either way, you're either building the
muscle that says I do what I say, I keep
the commitments that I make, or you're building the muscle
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that says I make excuses, I don't do what I say.
I can't be counted on right. And so when we
think about discipline, it's really about what promises are you.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Going to keep?
Speaker 21 (10:42):
And the tricky thing is you're keeping promises to yourself
and nobody even knows that you made right. It's not
it's not like, hey, you made this comment, I don't
write this book by this time, like, uh, you know
I have to do this embarrassing the thing, or you
know that all retire. You know they're not even You're
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not really putting your ass on the line in that sense,
but you've said to yourself you're gonna do this thing,
and building that muscle is really important.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You have to take chances in life.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
If you don't take chances in life, you'll never have
the life God has for you.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Life is about risk.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
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 takes courage to pursue your dreams. I just did it.
It costs me everything. But eventually, God is very good man.
When he sees you take a leap of faith, he
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supplies you everything you need.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now, it's gonna cost you something, but most.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
People are not willing to pay what it costs to
go after your dream because you're gonna have to hurt
a little bit.
Speaker 22 (11:57):
So at those times where you're questioning if you've anything left, No,
a day from then, a week from them, a month
from then, a year from them, you will never remember.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Discomfort, the pain.
Speaker 22 (12:08):
You will always remember the pride, the accomplishment that lives on.
That's why pain is temporary, pride forever. Guys, you give it,
you're all, You get it all tenfold.
Speaker 23 (12:20):
What do you think all success starts with? Well, the
fast answer is mindset, going back to the only belief
that matters. You said it. It's the way you act
is ultimately all the matters, and the way you act
follows what you allow yourself to believe, or maybe a
better way to say it is what you choose to believe.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So if you choose to.
Speaker 23 (12:39):
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 pick. And if you don't think that putting
time and energy into it will yield anything, and you
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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, then 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, so they don't
put the time and energy. And so that's like where
everything starts. Is are you putting the time and energy
into getting better?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes or no? Everyone thinks you're crazy until it works.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And so I mean, 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 think of an appropriate saying, I say, say balls
deep certain that no matter what you will die or
you will get there, Then the likelihood that all of
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the things that you've done up to that point will
then be justified in retrospect is super high.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And I actually see that as super.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Compelling as a thing to latch onto in her times.
Speaker 22 (14:01):
Second ago pain, as it's almost like excruciating seconds later
it like flows out of you, like you just pull
the plug on your sake, and all the water and
all the pressure just goes It is a greater feeling
than what the pain was.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I mean the pain you felt doing that. Man, it's
overridden with pride.
Speaker 22 (14:19):
And when you feel and you pull that plug and
all the water goes out, and all gain leaders look
left there as all the war leads.
Speaker 24 (14:25):
It won't more, you won't sheat you.
Speaker 25 (14:28):
So don't let the pain rob you of your pretention.
Speaker 26 (14:31):
Guys, don't let in the what you can't do in
the moments interfere what you know you can do.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I mean, you don't the pain you can rob you
of your belief or what you can be, because.
Speaker 25 (14:44):
Your body gives everything in your mind says, and anytime
you had any kind of.
Speaker 22 (14:49):
Disforce or or you can be subject to the discomforts
of the situation, your body remembers that.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And your body's just a message. A security right here
just delivers whatever this is. Hif you start.
Speaker 25 (15:03):
Thinking can't do and that pain's like, oh it pels,
I get the pain. You think that body's gonna tell
your pain that the boss of the world.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Hey man, we can do it.
Speaker 18 (15:11):
Oh shit, it's like a little bit to your body
is it's.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Like, okay, who done? Then good?
Speaker 25 (15:16):
Body's just everything your mind says.
Speaker 22 (15:20):
Don't even give it a chance to think that kind
of shit.
Speaker 27 (15:24):
My father could have been a great comedian, but he
didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so
he made a conservative choice.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Instead.
Speaker 27 (15:31):
He got a safe job as an accountant, and when
I was twelve years old, he was let go from
that safe job, and our family had to do whatever
we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from
my father, not the least of which was that you
can fail at what you don't want, so you might
as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Speaker 18 (15:52):
The reason I'm gonna get what I want out of
life is because i'mlike most I'm willing to have nothing.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
In the moment.
Speaker 18 (16:00):
Of course, it feels a world's better to have something
right now, But unfortunately, what most people really want is
not what's available right now.
Speaker 28 (16:09):
Those people with the best relationships, the best health, the
best careers, it's because they were completely unwilling to settle
for anything less than that. And you might think I'm
overly optimistic because most people don't get those great outcomes,
But I'm not most people, and you don't have to
be either.
Speaker 29 (16:31):
Most of us we live in a box and we
don't want to go outside that box at all.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Ever. Outside that box.
Speaker 29 (16:40):
Is all these possibilities of life. But we do to
we shackle our mind. We are a prisoner in our
own mind that this is all I can do, is
all I'm good at. The people are there is that
they live for themselves, not knowing that you have the
power within yourself to change millions of lives by face
of life, by facing yourself.
Speaker 30 (17:03):
What if it's a mistake, it's a mistake, rest assured.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
What do you know?
Speaker 30 (17:08):
You're gonna stumble around, right, And what's gonna happen is this.
You're gonna move, You're gonna not stay in stasis, You're
not gonna wander around in circles. And I see people
like that, They said, well, I never knew what to do,
and now I'm forty. It's like, that's not so good.
That's not so good, and you might say, well, And
there is a literature too that suggests that people are
a lot more unhappy when they look back in their
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lives about the things they didn't do than they are
about the mistakes they made while they were doing things.
Speaker 20 (17:39):
We are training kids and people to be soft in
a world that continuously gets harder, and it doesn't. It
doesn't correlate like that guy talking about the tear gas
with the seals. Is that necessary?
Speaker 12 (17:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 20 (17:56):
But what is necessary is you have to weild a
person that can withstand the pressures of whatever they're going
to be dealing with in life.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And we don't do that.
Speaker 20 (18:09):
I'm not trying to send a message of run two
hundred miles, be the best mother the world, but be tough.
You better have a part about you that's tough, a
part about you that can break down situations and get better.
Speaker 14 (18:23):
We actually have to re embrace risk on a personal
level and on a societal level.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We have to take the.
Speaker 14 (18:29):
Risk of freely exchanging ideas because that's where innovation happens.
We have to take the risk of being able to
invest and reap the benefits of that risk. In a
personal relationship, getting married is a risk. It is foregoing
a current benefits for a future gain. Every decision you
make is a risk. The biggest risk of all, of course,
is the decision to be free and to take responsibility
for your own choices.
Speaker 18 (18:48):
That's a major risk.
Speaker 14 (18:49):
But if you take that risk, you become a better
and a stronger human being, a more contributing human being,
a more valuable human being. You feel better about yourself.
When we discard risk, we discard meaning. When we are coddled,
we discard our own ability to be a fully adult
human being. And here's the dirty little secret. No matter
how much we try to discard the risk, you can't
actually discard risk. It's inevitable because reality entails risk. We
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can choose to live free rather than coddled. It will
make us better people, more open people, more understanding people.
And when we do that, I think that not only
will we be saving the country and saving the civilization,
we'll be saving ourselves.
Speaker 31 (19:22):
But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you
may encounter along the way, you will find true success
and happiness. If you have only one goal. There really
is only one, and that is this to fulfill the highest,
most truthful expression of yourself. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best.
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He said, don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask
yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that,
because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Speaker 20 (20:00):
There's no hacks, bro, it's you against you, you against you.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And if you misunderstand that you've a real problem, you
real problem.
Speaker 20 (20:11):
I can understand you misunderstand you run on a street
short off, but this no, yeah, I can get it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I get it.
Speaker 20 (20:17):
If you misunderstand saying right now today, the problem is
you and you.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Don't want to fix it.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Take charge of your life, Take charge of your time,
take charge of your resources, or take charge of your health.
You're the one that's responsible for it. It's not a
requirement of society that you not have a heart attack
and take care of your family. That's not a requirement
of society, but you must make it a requirement of yourself.
Society doesn't require that you build a financial wall around
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your family. Nothing can get through. That's not a requirement
of society. It's a requirement you impose on yourself.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Do things worth doing.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
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. 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
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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.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And so I think if.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
People flip that a lot more people would take action
because they actually realize the advantage of their position.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Don't be scared to fail, and.
Speaker 22 (21:44):
Know wherever you are right now is not who you are,
just where you are, you know, and if you fall
man fall forward, he'll fall in your ass.
Speaker 25 (21:53):
You know, when they say it can't be done, you know,
tell them you haven't tried yet. You know, can't be
done by someone else. But I can't say that, do
I haven't tried it, and then you go try it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Those who can do, those who can't, talk about those
who can't.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Come say it again.
Speaker 12 (22:11):
Those who can do, those who can't, talk about those
who can't.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Now, can you or can you not know?
Speaker 20 (22:19):
You just want to sit on the sideline to talk
about other people?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Or can you step up?
Speaker 12 (22:23):
How do you want to live?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Stop just waking up like an accident.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
And then once you find out what you want, spend
the rest of your natural life waking up and going
after it.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I think most people feel really lonely when you want
something that doesn't currently exist. And so some people call
that dreams, some people call that goals. Whatever it is,
you're trying to pull something from your mind into reality,
and you want it done a certain way, and if
it's not done that way, it's not what you imagined.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And so people on the.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Outside will throw stones and call you names that they
think will change your behavior and get you to stop.
And the more I have been the person trying to
pull things into reality, the more I've tried to weather
and build kind of defenses against those things so that
when those stones get hurled at you, by being called
a control freak or by saying you micro manage things
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or that you have incredibly high standards.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
The answer is yes, because.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I want it done right the first time, because either
way we're going to if you have enough will, it's
going to get done the way that I want it
to get done, regardless, and it will be less painful
if we just do it right the first time, because
we will still have to do it, and you may
have to do it three or four more times, but
eventually you'll just succumb to the fact that we're going
to do it this way. And I think all of
the great things that have happened for humanity have been
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from one man or woman who had an idea and
just wouldn't let people shake it from them.
Speaker 24 (23:45):
In a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk
you can take is not taking any risk. And I
really think that that's true, right. I mean a lot
of people, I think think that. You know, whenever it
comes to whenever you get yourself into a position where
you have to make some big shift and direction or
do something, you know, there are always people are going
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to point to the downside risks of that decision and locally,
they're may be right, right. I mean, for any given
decision that you're gonna make, there's upside and downside, but
an aggregate. If you are stagnant and you don't make
those changes, then then I think you're countee to fail.
Speaker 20 (24:26):
So many people do this.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
They're talking to you.
Speaker 20 (24:31):
On who they want to be, They're lying to you,
and they walk away after so many times, walk away
like God, man, why could tell the truth? Why the
hell can I just tell him the truth?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
No good it feels for me. Now look at you
in your eye, a.
Speaker 20 (24:48):
Man, I see because women won't get this. Women will
not get this. Man a man, that man. You're looking
at a man eye and you know that everything you're
saying is real and it comes from a real working place,
something that you earned.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's the best feeling in the world. You can say
that actually happened.
Speaker 23 (25:08):
Yes, I know with certainty what I'm saying actually actually happened.
Speaker 20 (25:12):
Who I am and who I say I am? I
am no more lies, no more skirt in the truth,
no more busted. And that is worth every dime I've
ever made in my life.
Speaker 26 (25:23):
Because if you live in the future, you're anxious.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
If you live in the past, you're depressed. If you
live in the now, you're happy.
Speaker 24 (25:33):
That's how you do it, guys.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You admit to.
Speaker 22 (25:36):
Something, you tell one about it, and no matter what
they hank and cheer for you, they get behind you.
Instead of being one of those the subjective nature loses
in life that picks you down because you're doing better
than them and you're reminding them.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Of their failures.
Speaker 22 (25:52):
And year it starts her mind rate.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
The body will follow.
Speaker 26 (25:57):
Tell the world in a gold and she will go.
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. You don't have
the attendity.
Speaker 32 (26:16):
Don't mean when I was like seventeen years old and
I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life,
as you guys know, I created I created my Twitch
account in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I had one viewer for an entire year. That one
viewer was my dad.
Speaker 33 (26:36):
Imagine when you're older and your grandkids say to you,
grand Dad, tell me about what it was like when
you were young, and you say, I didn't really do
much to be honest, because I was worried about what
other people would think of me. I never took my
shirt off because I hate the way I looked. I
didn't start that business because I was scared it might fail.
Just think about how silly that would sound. You only
get one go around at this thing. Blink can You'll
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miss it, crack of the whip, and then you're gone,
So make it worth it.
Speaker 12 (27:01):
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but
that doesn't make you who you are.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
It is the rest of your story who you choose
to be.
Speaker 34 (27:17):
And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time
you try.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That's okay.
Speaker 34 (27:25):
Some of the most successful people in the world are
the ones who've had the most failures. Jk Rawlings, who
wrote Harry Potter. Her first Harry Potter book, was rejected
twelve times before it was finally published.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Michael Jordan was cut from.
Speaker 34 (27:44):
His high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games
and misses 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
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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.
Speaker 35 (28:14):
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.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
You know, somebody called me yesterday and asked me a
very simple question. You said, Pat, you know, what do
I do when I just don't feel like showing up
to work today?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
What do I do?
Speaker 11 (28:39):
And I said, look, we've heard this saying before. You know,
you got to show up whether you feel like.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
It or not. But I don't think that's enough. I
don't think that's what the great ones do.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
I think it's even past that you got to raise
your standards to hold different level.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And I'll say what I think it is.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
You not only have to show up, you have to
show up when you don't feel like it, and you
have to want to perform and psych yourself out to
be in the zone and be confident and excited in
the mood, and figure out a way to psych yourself out,
fool yourself into being positive, fool yourself into becoming such
a high vibration type of an energy where all of
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a sudden you're starting to perform and then you start
believing you're excited, then you completely forgot you were not
in the mood. And entrepreneurs who do that are the
ones who eventually win their own championships of business. They
win their own academies, Oscars World Series, super Bowl, whatever
you want to call it. But you not only have
to show up, you got to show up at the
highest possible level and gain value as well as bring
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value to everybody around you. Show up today and show
up with the most incredible energy
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