Successful

Glory.

Speakers: Jocko Willink, Andrew Tate, Dana White, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Cuban, Joey Diaz, Joe Rogan Andy Frisella, Dewayne Noel, Steve Harvey, Tristan Tate, Rowan Atkinson, Inky Johnson, David Goggins, Jordan Peterson, Kevin Hart, Robert Greene, Kevin Gates, Morgan Freeman, Chris Williamson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Theo Von.

Duration:: 19m
Broadcast on:: 16 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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We're not the strongest, smartest or richest people we know. We're not the fastest or most connected. We're not the best looking or most talented. We don't have the best genetics. But what we do have is something a lot of those other people will never have. The will to work. If there's one unavoidable truth in this world, it's that there is no substitute for putting in the work. There is no shortcut or growth hack or magic pill that can get you around the hard work of doing your job well, of winning something you care about, or of making your dreams come true. People have tried to cut corners and skip steps in this process for as long as hard work has been hard. Eventually, those people either fall behind or get left in the dust, because working your ass off is the only thing that works a hundred percent of the time for a hundred percent of the things worth achieving. Work works. That is the bottom line. No matter what you do, no matter who you are, my entire life has been shaped by that single idea. Men grow kind from pain. I think that the worst men on earth are the ones who haven't had enough pain. Those are the arrogant pieces of shit people. You're supposed to suffer as a man, you're born to suffer. The whole reason God put men on this planet is to fucking suffer. And the best men are the ones who suffered the most. I wouldn't be told, "Gee, if I didn't suffer, born to anyone else." You're a better man than everyone else if your life was a fucking mess. And it was a hardship, because you're not what happens to you, you are how you react to it. And the best men on earth are men who have had their parents die, their best friends betray them, their girl betray them, thrown in jail, their money stolen, stabbed, robbed. Every time something happened to them, they sat there and they looked in the mirror and said, "What can I learn from this? How can I stop this happening?" Those are the best men. Those are the men men respect. Those are the men women want. Why do women love scars? Look, they tried to kill him and they can't. That's why I want him. The best men suffered. You find a man who's never been through suffering, and nobody gives a shit about it. Men don't like him, and women don't like him. Men don't know good without it. I laugh every time I hear people saying, "Yeah, I don't like working for other people." You know, I want to work for myself, because I want to set my own hours, and I want to… "Yeah, right. Let me tell you what. When you work for yourself, there are no days, there's no Christmas, there's no fucking Easter, there's none of that shit when you work for yourself in the early days." It's a grind. Exactly. You're working through all those holidays. Every day something bad happens, every day there's problems, every day somebody's trying to fuck you and take what you've built, and you know what I mean? It's a war every day when you get up in the early days. You need to work on yourself. If you just try to be pampered, and if you're trying to be soft, and if you're trying to be the victim of yourself, you're not going to go anywhere, we need to get stronger. We need to get bossier, we need to get tougher, we need to not be afraid of failure, we got to go into the work, we got to face adversity, adversity breeds character, the strength, and fighting and resistance, it does not only make the muscle grow, but it makes also your head grow, makes you a stronger person. We have to be willing to go through hardship, through suffering, through pain, through crying periods, all of that stuff, don't shy away from any of that because it just makes you stronger. And even if you're not where you want to be in life, and you're grinding, and you're on that hustle. And there's a lot of people like that. I get it. I get it. I get it. Keep grinding. But also appreciate it, appreciate that hustle, appreciate this thing, appreciate this fucking beautiful, chaotic, unknown existence you're in. The thing we call life. Yeah, you don't know what the fuck is going to happen, it's open ended, it's wise. It's a complete open loop experience. You don't know what the fuck is coming next, and you're just trying to enjoy the ride. Listen man, I didn't take the life seriously, I was 32. On that 32 I found myself fucking broke, I mean living from fucking garbage can to mouth pretty much. You know, I had refrigerated, only had a snapple in it and beer. Never was there food in that fucking thing. I lived in a one bedroom, pretty much studio apartment. I had a TV, I had cable, but I was living like Rocky Balboa, which there's nothing wrong like that, but they didn't put you on this planet just to give up. If you're going to try, go all the way, otherwise don't even start. If you're going to try, go all the way. This can mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. Go all the way. It can mean not eating for three or four days, it can mean freezing in a park bench, it can mean jail, it can mean derision, mockery, isolation, isolation is the gift, all the others are a test of your endurance, or how much you really want to do it, and you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds, and it'll be better than anything you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way, there's no other feeling like that, you'll be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire, do it, do it, all the way, all the way. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter, it's the only good fight there is. Intentionally putting yourself in uncomfortable and difficult situations. Why would you do that? Why would you intentionally make things harder? Why would you intentionally make things more difficult? Because when you make things more difficult intentionally, you get the opportunity to gain the skill set that is produced from the endurance through the difficult times. You be that warrior in that garden, alright, and you stand strong, you be a strong man, you be a good man, and you just let the world rage around you. Most people do a lot of talking, and most people don't put in the effort. There's nothing you can accomplish in life with the right amount of work. The challenge is, are you willing to do the work? And the reality is, most people aren't, but that's the opportunity, right? I mean, it's like people you know at school, most people are lazy, right? They barely get through it, and so that creates opportunity. Success is not a comfortable procedure, it is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt. So you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever want to be successful. If you think ordinary is cool, ain't no problem, it's some really, really wonderful ordinary people. But if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations, then you're going to have to do extra. You put extra on top of an ordinary, and you come up with extraordinary. It's no other way, rich people don't sleep eight hours a day. That's a third of your life, it ain't but 24 hours in a day. You cannot be asleep eight hours a day. You can't live in LA and wake up at eight o'clock in the morning. It's 11 o'clock on the east coast. The stock market been open two hours. They already make decisions about your life, and your ass was asleep. Since there is a distance between your psychological process and your physiological process, this is the end of suffering. Because there are only two kinds of suffering that human beings go through. Physical suffering and mental suffering. Once you create a little space between you and your mind, between you and your body, this is the end of suffering. You got to be hungry man, I mean, I wanted, I know how I felt going, I know how I felt aspiring to be something before anybody ever knew. You know, I know what it felt like to be in the gym by myself when nobody cared, you know, and I wanted to be successful so bad, I wanted to be a basketball player so bad. Every part of me, you know, was going to put everything into that. This is the form of revenge, success is the best form of revenge. I don't believe in getting revenge on anybody. No. I've had people screw me over for money, break my heart, upset me. Any concept of trying to, who is it that, I think it was Mahatma Gandhi, he said, being angry at someone is like holding a burning stone in your hand with the intention of throwing at them. Like it might do them for damage, but it'll do you more damage first. I don't hold on to these people who couldn't have me. It can be, but I didn't ever need fuel. I didn't need fuel to go and make something of myself. It's just naturally happened as a form of revenge. So the people who screwed me over in the past are now watching things like this and saying, "Oh, I wish I'd stay friends with that guy." And I just don't care. I don't really think about them. Success is a form of revenge. I think it's the only form of revenge that any man should ever care about trying to reach because it's beneficial for you and it's the best form of revenge. You physically try to hurt people, sue people, damage people, take any kind of a, it's very, it's got in the cell energy about it. If you're serious about change, just know you're going to go through some uncomfortable situations, stop trying to dodge the process because in the long run it's going to make you better. And don't forget that shit you hurt. A life is a tragedy in close-up and a comedy in long shot. If you sit back visually on a situation, it automatically becomes funnier. If you think you have room to grow, you do and you will. If you think you're as good as you can be, you're right and you won't get any better. Undisciplined boys grow up to be undisciplined men. Do you know the problem you're going to have? Undisciplined men end up in the hospital or in a prison or they end up in a grave. That's what happens to undisciplined men. Make a plan. Look at what you're interested in. Get disciplined about something. Allow for the possibility that you have something important to contribute to the world and that the world would be a lesser place without that contribution. Don't be afraid of taking on responsibility. You're so, it's where you find what sustains you in your life. You can take on too much responsibility. You have to be cautious in that regard, but that's a less common problem than not taking on enough. A lot of the things that people regard as traps are actually the means to their life. Most of us, we live in a box and we don't want to go outside that box at all, ever. Outside that box is all these possibilities of life. What we do is we shackle our mind, we are a prisoner in our own mind that this is all I can do, this is all I'm good at. We take away the possibility that you can be this, you can be that, you can be all these things. Whatever time that you have, you have to attack like you're trying to save the world. You're trying to save your life. You don't want to drown. That one and a half hours a day that you have to write, god damn, you better be caffeinated and motivated. You've got to go. You've got to get after it and you've got to have discipline. That's most people don't have those things. Most people don't understand what it's like to really go for something. Be a dangerous man. Now being dangerous is not being a threat, there are two different things, all right. It's not about going out and lifting weights and getting a bunch of tattoos and wearing leather jackets and walking around. We are chest and shoulders up, hulking around saying, "I'm dangerous." That's very rarely is that a dangerous man. Often the most dangerous man in the room is the quietest man in the room. You are your own competition. There is nobody that can judge your actions, but you, if I'm putting, like you said, if I'm putting 100% into my life, I'm going to put 100% into my play when it's time for me to play. I'm putting 110% into me and my family. I don't care what it is that we do, I'm going to give it 100% when it's time to enjoy ourselves on whatever level we want to do. That's my decision. Because see somebody that talk good to you and trick your mind. That's why I say suspect evil or no one to tell see it, one see it, forget it not, for once an enemy could never be a friend. Big Sam told me when they painted you a picture, they don't let them paint you another picture. Kevin Gates. You could talk good as a bitch and trick my mind. Yeah. Now I'm back believing in you again, but you already showed me that you wasn't my friend, so we were raw, loyal to a lawyer and we reward this lawyer to a distance. I forgive you, but I ain't about to forget and be naive as unintelligent. Man, the beauty of being someone who has to go through struggle, the beauty, because you get that, there's no, if there's no struggle, there's no, if there's no struggle, then it's nothing, there's no journey. There's no journey. You know, you get to make that magic, man. You get to be the story. When you feel that pressure inside of you, and it's very heavy, like, like, whether that's very, you know, heavy and thick, you're motivated, you feel it, I've got to get up in the morning, I've got to do this, I've got to accomplish this, when that pressure goes away and you don't feel any pressure in your life, you can do anything and there's no consequences for it. You'll just waste time, you'll waste years, you'll waste months, you'll never accomplish anything, no matter how great you are, no matter how good things have went, when you're humble, you always feel as if I can do this a little bit better, or you show up with the mentality that you're open to doing things in a better way. You don't never show up and speak in terms of, oh, we did that already, right? Already accomplished that, right? Day one mentality and energy, when I show up, I'm trying to improve every single day. That doesn't mean errors, that doesn't mean opposition at birth, that doesn't mean perfection, right? That means every single day I'm showing up and I'm trying to pursue the quest of becoming better. Act like the person you want to become, that's not fake until you make it, by the way. This is intentional, intentionally act like the person you want to become, because when you intentionally act like the person you want to become, your brain sees you taking those actions, so your brain starts to change the way it relates to you. When your brain sees you high-fiving yourself in the mirror, it starts to go, "Oh, wait a minute, Steven loves himself, Steven's cheering for himself, we don't beat Steven up." Courage is the key to life itself, there are a lot of people who are born in situations that are just, "I'll never get out of this," so they won't. I say to people who say, "Well, I would like to have done so-and-so-and-so, so you could have done it, but I couldn't get out of here. Man, the bus runs every day." You have to start with action. It needs to be okay, what would have had to have happened in a week's time for me to look back on that week and find pride in myself. We stop breaking promises to ourselves, when you say, "I'm going to wake up tomorrow at 7am," and when the option comes to hit the snooze button, don't do it. There's one win that you've got for the day. That's action. Effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough anymore. And if you don't dedicate it 100%, you're not going to reach the level that you want. For example, you arrive home, you had a lunch, you do it a quick nap, and you wake up, you play with your kids, and I have to go to the gym at least 30, 40 minutes, but this will make the difference in the end of the day, you understand? If you do not do that work, you miss one. The next day, it's two sessions that you lost, and I know in the end of the day, in a hand, they're going to make a huge difference. This is why I'm telling you. An official message from Medicare. A new law is helping me save more money on prescription drug costs. You may be able to save, too. 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