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Don't Be Weak
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That's not always open. There's so much opportunity on the other side of being willing to persist for an extended period of time on the correct path without getting positive reinforcement from your environment. And the longer you can stick with something without that positive feedback loop in terms of the big external thing, the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them. Son, don't stop for nobody, man. Son, don't fucking stop. Son, going to be up in the morning regardless. That son is going to be up in the morning regardless of how I fucking feel and how depressed I am. The son is going to fucking shine in the morning and at nighttime the moon will be there and you're going to look up these days going to keep going by. So do you let the days go by and look up and you don't waste it a year doing what? What do you just pick it up? All right. The one companion that's always going to be with you is yourself. And I think the first thing you have to do, I think the first thing we have to do is we have to get ourselves to the point where we don't necessarily need a companion. When do you become a man? When you get a driver's license? Like, what do we do? You're 16, we give you a driver's license. OK, well, you get a job? Like, when do you become a man? You become a man when you become responsible for other people. And part of that is taking accountability. I grew up in a culture that told me going to war made you a man, going to prison, coming back, coming back, makes you a man, making a million dollars makes you a man, you know? And it doesn't. Your life was basically the perfect grounds for training for where you need to go in your life. All the beatings, all the bullying, all the, you know, you going through learning disabilities, all the struggles. It was the absolute perfect training ground for you to go to where you need to go. And that's how I started looking at my life versus, well, with me, poopy pants, kicking rock down the street mentality. It was, nah, god, this hooked you right the fuck up. The human mind can only really grow through resistance. You can only strengthen your character and become a really strong person inside. If you have resistance, if you fail, if you get up again, and if you work hard, if you work your ass off, and if you struggle, the more you struggle, the further you're going to go and the stronger you're going to get. So it's just the way the rule works. When you feel that pressure inside of you, and it's very heavy, 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. Find something, find a thing that you genuinely enjoy, because getting good at things you genuinely enjoy is extremely beneficial for young people, because it lets you know that, like, everybody thinks they're a loser, every young person thinks they're a loser, at least a young person in the situation I was at. Like, I didn't know I wasn't a loser until I started winning, until I started doing martial arts. Martial arts taught me that, like, I could get better at stuff, that it wasn't, I wasn't really a loser, I just was someone who was, like, in a fucked up situation, but you could channel all that energy that you have as a young person into something and get better at it, and then all of a sudden, people admired me. I was, like, this is crazy, so I went from being someone who was incredibly insecure, and basically a failure, to someone who was really successful at this one thing that was very dangerous, that other people were scared of. So whenever shit gets nasty, David Gognes goes, "You had nobody anyway, motherfucker." So see, I'm talking to myself for now, that's me. That shit fires me to fuck up. That shit makes me fucking nuts. You had nobody anyway, motherfucker, look around you. There was no fucking team, it was you. There was no weight loss programmer. Mom and dad waking you up saying, "You can do it, you can be better, trying to build belief." You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. You did that, so as times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as fuck. It's real, it's tangible. I feel it, it comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I'm reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. If you set your own value of what you believe about yourself, if you think that you're worthless, if you're not very good at it, other people pick that up. Anyone that tries to baby themselves and tamper themselves and trying to protect themselves or I don't want to feel bad or I don't really want to go through any discomfort, it's over. You're never going to get there. That's just the way it is. I mean, you have to be able to struggle. And if you're not able to work on that, work on that that you are learning how to accept pain, misery, and discomfort, all of the things that you don't like because the more you experience the things that you really don't like, the more you grow, and the tougher you get, and the more you can handle. What could you do to improve yourself? Well, let's step one step backwards. The first question might be, why should you even bother improving yourself? And I think the answer to that is something like, so you don't suffer any more stupidly than you have to. And maybe so others don't have to either. It's something like that. You know, like there's a real injunction at the bottom of it that it's not some casual self-help doctrine. It's that if you don't organize yourself properly, you'll pay for it, and in a big way, and so will the people around you. It's very rare that you can find someone who's in excruciating pain who would ever say, well, it would be no better if I was out of this. It's sort of pain is one of those things that brings the idea that it would be better if it didn't exist along with it. It's incontrovertible. So, when people look for that happiness factor, is your foundation and your fundamental principles are so strong that if this thing was to go away, could you still create happiness and success all over again? If your foundation and principles are extremely strong, no matter what endeavor it is, you look at the most successful people in business and everything else, they've gone to do multiple things that have allowed them to create different levels of happiness within that confined circle. You know, Michael had basketball, then he had the shoe brand. Now, he's got other endeavors he's involved in, you know, a lot of philanthropy things. The competitive nature doesn't stop, and everybody thinks you can only be happy with one certain aspect in your life. You can create happiness in multiple things in your life. And if it gets to the point where it is burning, it is burning you out, that means it's time for you for that you are no longer obsessed with that thing anymore. And it's time for you to become obsessed with something else. But you have to work off this mentality of, I have to be undeniably the best person in my role, so where it's impossible to ignore. That's what undeniable means. Impossible to ignore. When you're impossible to ignore, you're valuable. Whether you're valuable here or there or anywhere else. If you can cultivate this mindset where you are that kind of contributor, you will get paid, you will win, and your career will progress. And anything less than that, you won't. It is Ryan here, and I have a question for you. What do you do when you win? Like are you a fist-pumper? A woo hoo! A hand clap or a high-fiver. If you want to hone in on those winning moves, check out Chumba Casino. Choose from hundreds of social casino-style games for your chance to redeem serious cash prizes. There are new game releases weekly plus free daily bonuses, so don't wait. Start having the most fun ever at Chumba Casino.com. Sponsored by Chumba Casino, no purchase necessary. If you're a VGW group, avoid where prohibited by law, 18+ terms and conditions apply.