We explore a simple mindset for hard days: treat each day as a battle and your life as the war. We share how offense, simplicity, and efficiency help you rebound from bad stretches and stack wins that compound.
• defining daily battles and the life-long war
• how relationships, work, and training affect each other
• playing offense to build momentum
• simplicity and efficiency as force multipliers
• using long checklists without perfectionism
• turning bad weeks into 10x rebounds
• the daily reset and relentless accountability
• aiming for one percent better over time
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Episode Transcript
War.
You know, this one word is myfavorite word that essentially I
live by.
I feel like it's the mostimportant word.
And um, here's a reason why.
You know, every single day ofyour life, whether you get up
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and you procrastinate, if youdon't procrastinate, you really
hit the reset clock of your lifeevery single day that you get
up.
And you may have good moments,you may have bad moments, but in
the military, you might hear thephrase, we may have lost the
battle, but we we won the war.
You may have a bad day or a badweek or a bad month or a bad
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year.
Okay.
But what matters is what youmake up after that.
Okay, because your life everysingle day, every single week,
etc., these are all just smallbattles, but the war itself is
your entire life.
Okay.
And the only way to win yourlife, to be successful, to be
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happy, I mean, you have battleson all fronts.
You have your personalrelationships with your friends,
you have your romanticrelationship with your
girlfriend, husband, wife,whoever, right?
You have your job.
These are all different areas ofyour life.
Okay.
And you have to win them all.
And any one of them, any one ofthem essentially can bring you
down.
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And maybe not completely, butit'll definitely pull you down
in different directions.
If you have problems with yourwith your wife or your
girlfriend or your husband,boyfriend, whatever you got,
right?
That could make room to havepotential to pull your work
production down.
Or maybe you're thinking aboutthat.
If you're uh a professionalathlete before you get on bat,
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you got to be focused.
You know, everything toucheseverything that's in your life.
And you have many battles, andthis is every single day.
And honestly, I don't reallyknow what the answer is, but
every time I see that word and Ithink about that word, war, it
reminds me to fight.
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It reminds me to light a fusewith that rage inside me that
motivates me to get everythingdone accomplished.
Because the last thing that youwant to do is when you recap in
your mind at night what youdidn't get done is to think that
you're behind.
There's nothing wrong withwinning a race and being ahead.
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Just like there's nothing wrongwith being a professional
athlete and beating the opposingteam by multiple points.
All right, you ever seen afootball team?
Uh, maybe they're up by 10, keeppushing.
Be up by 20.
Okay?
It's better to be offensive thandefensive.
The best defense is a goodoffense, right?
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So um, I just I really justwanted to share that.
Um, and uh if you really justtap into your yourself and just
think, if you just focus on oneword, like I'm trying to make my
jujitsu a lot more simple.
I'm making my comedy a lot moresimple.
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And there's a certain beauty tosimplicity.
It's uh it's not complicated,it's at face value, and um you
can really appreciate it whensomething sometimes when people
talk too much about something,they can be very confusing,
right?
So, what I'm really trying to dowith my jujitsu and with my
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comedy um and in life is makethings as simple as possible
because that gives me more time.
Somebody told me once that ifyou want to find the easiest way
to do something, give that job,okay, give that task to the
laziest person that you know.
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It sounds crazy, but his pointwas is that by doing so, they
will find the easiest way ofdoing it.
That's the way that you shoulddo everything.
You should have the most easymeaning most efficient.
Don't be wasting time.
Okay.
Now, when you think lazy, youmight think procrastination, but
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I just mean efficient.
Try to be the most efficient andsimplistic that you can because
by doing so, you'll have moretime.
You'll have more time in yourlife to, in my circumstance, to
work on comedy, to exercise, todo jujitsu, to meditate, to
stretch.
I have this checklist that everysingle morning I do or I try to
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do.
And honestly, I don't get all ofit done every single day.
So every day I am behind and I Ihate it.
It's the worst.
But it's better than finishingmy list, it is also very long.
Um, and uh, in my opinion, it'sbetter to have things that are
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unfinished because your list istoo long compared to getting
everything done in a day and uhnot have anything else to do.
Do you know what that means?
That means that you can get ajump on tomorrow.
You can literally, essentiallylike time travel, right?
Because you're you're workingfor today, excuse me, for
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tomorrow, today.
And how do you do that?
You keep moving forward, you'realways moving forward, you're
never stopping.
You're beating that team, you'rebeating your future self, okay,
uh, by getting more done today.
You're overaccomplishing things.
All right, and that's never abad thing.
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So I just wanted to share that,like I said, because it's
something that it's what Iwanted to talk about on this
podcast.
Um and uh I feel like as Ialways mention, uh at the very
least, uh me hearing these ideasand beliefs and stuff like that
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out loud, all right, it's aphysical imprint to my memory
that instills it to make mebetter.
And the bonus is if you'relistening to this, it can make
you better too.
Because this war that you wageof your entire life, this battle
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every single day that you get upin the morning, right?
It can always be made up.
You may have a bad year, butyour next year could be 10 times
better, right?
So you didn't really loseanything.
If you have a really bad year ora bad week and your next week is
10 times better, well, you justmade 10 times more progress than
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you would if you had a good weekand a good week.
You had a bad week and then likean amazing 10 times better week.
So don't get focused.
Don't get focused on whatdoesn't get accomplished.
Focused on what you did get doneand what needs to be done.
And in between, just ride thewave, just keep be a production
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machine.
You know what I'm saying?
And you can go even harder inthe paint, you can go even
deeper in that production ifit's something that you're truly
passionate about.
Not everyone has has like adream about doing something
bigger than themselves, youknow, like joining the military
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or uh working to be aprofessional stand-up comedian
alone, letting go of their dayjob.
And you don't have to.
You don't you don't have to havea dream, okay?
But I feel like it's almostimpossible not to have
ambitions, not to have ambitionsabout losing weight, being a
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better friend, doing somethingfor somebody, for yourself.
You know, the strive ofexcellence is always something,
it's always pursued.
Nobody just doesn't wantanything.
And there's nothing wrong withthat.
But if it's something thatyou're passionate about, that's
more than just something at facevalue, okay?
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You're gonna have to fight.
You're gonna have to fight,you're gonna have to push,
you're gonna have to berelentless.
But you gotta keep yourselfaccountable.
And every single morning thatclock resets, and you gotta do
it all over again.
Because if every day is a fight,if every day is a battle, your
life is a war, and you need towin it because that's the only
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way you're gonna be happy.
And once you start to realizethat the fight, waging war, so
to speak, right?
Um of the greatest feelingsbecause that means that you are
walking the path to pursuingyour dream.
You are running towards it,you're not just walking, you're
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chasing after it.
And that's what I'm doing everysingle day.
That's why I start my morningwithout exaggeration at 3:30 in
the morning for reels, so that Ican have more hours to be ahead
of everybody, everybody tryingto get ahead of me because I
want it that much more.
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I hope everybody has a beautifulday.
You do something big, you dosomething great, and tomorrow
you're 1% better.
Because if you're 1% betterevery single day in 100 days,
you'll be a better version ofyourself.
So I look forward to hearingabout anybody 99 days from now
and how much better they arefrom taking charge of their
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life.
And for everybody elselistening, in 99 days, I will be
a better version.
Because I'm I'm getting afterit.
I hope everybody has a beautifulday.
I'm Ben's well done.
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