Shadowing Practice: Andrew Tate | How To Win ~ 20 Minutes Motivation - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I don't think most of you realize that you do not have time.
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Everything is time.
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Time can be converted into anything.
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We all know time can be converted into money.
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People say often, time is money.
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This is true.
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Money is also time.
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You spend money to save time.
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Time is the enemy of the rich man, so he takes a private jet to save time.
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Money is the enemy of a poor man, so he waits in the bus to save money.
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But they're the same thing, money and time.
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So when I say you don't have time, this is something you need to remember because it's extremely important, and you can apply it to most things.
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You do not have time to have a headache.
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Do you understand?
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I'm not saying you don't have a headache.
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I'm not saying your head doesn't hurt.
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But you don't have time for it to affect your life.
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You do not have the waking hours.
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You are being out -competed and crushed by people who are more powerful, more connected than you'll possibly ever be.
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By people who know things you do not know.
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You do not have time to have a headache.
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It's simply not acceptable.
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How do you perform when you have headaches is a stupid question.
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The fact you've even framed it in that way shows that you don't understand the world.
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I'll give you another example.
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You don't have time to argue with your woman.
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Your woman started an argument today or yesterday, whatever, and you've been texting back and forth.
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You don't have time.
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You have things to do.
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There's unlimited work in the universe.
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You don't have time to have a headache or message girls or scroll Instagram.
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You don't have time for any of these things.
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Time is your lifeblood.
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It's all you've got.
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You can turn time into reputation.
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You could turn time into global fame.
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You could turn time into respect.
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You could turn time into a fantastic body.
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You could do anything with your time.
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You could choose a random embassy.
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You could choose a random country that you have beef with.
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Chile.
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And you could go stand outside the Chilean embassy with a sign saying down with Chile.
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For no reason.
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But if you stood there every single day, after about two years people would be like, who is this guy and why does he hate chili
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so much you can turn your time into anything you want
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so how are you going to waste it sitting around saying
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i have a headache boo boo i have a headache
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but the question is framed incorrectly if i have a headache i don't care
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and one of the main reasons i don't care is
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because my enemy doesn't care you know when i got injured
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when i was training for fights my coach would often say
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to me is your enemy going to hit you less or show you mercy because of this injury.
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If you say, okay, we're about to fight, but halfway through the training camp, I hurt my foot, so take it easy.
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No, he's going to try and destroy me anyway.
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So if he doesn't care, why do I care?
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And why does my coach care?
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Nobody cares.
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The people who are trying to steal your woman, and trust me, everyone is, the people who are trying to take the money
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that you want to earn and put it in their pocket before you can, the people who want to have large
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and gorgeous feathers on their peacock to show the world all the amazing things they've done.
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They don't care that you have a headache.
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So why do you care?
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You need to reprogram your mind.
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You don't have time to have a headache.
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You don't have time to be doing the majority of things you do.
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And there's always been and always will be.
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And we can talk about that again.
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We were talking earlier about competence, right?
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Do you think a woman sees you as competent if you complain about having a headache?
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Let's say you have a headache.
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It's fine.
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You have a headache.
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I'm not disputing that.
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Maybe it really hurts.
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That's terrible.
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If you go, oh, I've got such a bad headache.
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Do you think a woman looks at you and goes, yes.
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Oh, I found the guy for me.
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She may not say anything.
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She may say, oh, do you want a pill?
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But really, deep down, this guy's a dickhead.
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I mean, if you got hit in the head with a hammer or shot in the face, fine.
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But why do you have a headache? From what?
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Scrolling TikTok.
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A lot of you deserve the failure you endure.
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The universe is very giving.
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I often believe people say the world's not fair.
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I'd argue that Karmic retributions and in the long run all in all is pretty fair
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Karmic retributions are real in the end God gives you exactly what you deserve So if you're not happy with your life, you have to ask yourself.
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Do you really deserve more?
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Have you really tried 100 % of the time?
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Did you ignore that headache?
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Are you as competent as you could possibly be?
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Have you given a hundred percent every time you've done anything?
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No, you deserve what you have.
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You deserve your mediocrity because you're an average person.
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You want a Lambo and these women and a boat and whatever else you want because you see it on Instagram.
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But wanting something and deserving something are very different things.
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If you truly deserved it, you'd be working for it in a way that ensures it would be given to you by the universe.
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Every single thing I've ever wanted, I have got.
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Maybe not instantly, maybe not easily.
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In fact, certainly not both.
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It was always difficult and it always took time, but I really wanted them so I always got them
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And I put in enough work to show God
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and show the universe I deserve them
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so he gave them to me I cannot remember a single time
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and I state this as a matter of fact This is not hyperbole.
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I cannot remember a single time I have ever decided not to do something
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that must be done because I had headache ever ever
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It is easier if you enjoy it because you do not struggle with lack of motivation or lack of interest.
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For me to say you could honestly be world champion at something you hate is a lie.
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You can however be competent at things you don't like.
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You can be very good at something you don't like doing.
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To be the best in the world you probably have to fall in love with it.
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But the way you do anything is the way you do everything
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and you can fall in love with the idea of being good in general.
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So anything I do I don't want to be bad at.
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I either don't do it or I try my very best all the time to become extremely good at it.
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I don't see the point in doing anything and being mediocre or being bad at it.
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What's the point?
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If I'm going to speak on podcasts, I want to be good at it.
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Anything I'm going to do, I want to be good at it.
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Now, you should have enough respect for yourself
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that you're prepared to always put in the effort to give your best 100 % because it is a habit.
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You should always give your best at anything you do.
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When you pick up a video game, you should give your best.
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When you drive a car, you should attempt to drive as efficiently as possible using the brake as little as possible to not waste fuel,
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to make sure there's no close calls, no sudden braking.
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Most of you are just getting in your car and driving like a jackass from point A to point B, not trying to actually go, you know what, let me drive and pretend I have the queen in the back seat and I can't even brake suddenly.
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And I only have a fraction of fuel.
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How far can I go if I very smoothly, very calmly anticipate the traffic in advance, move my car in and out of the cars that I barely have to brake,
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keep moving slowly and smoothly?
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Let me try and get good at this.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything and it is a habit to be good at things
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There's nothing wrong with just being good at things to be the best in the world.
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You have to love it That's true, but you're not gonna love the majority of things you do.
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That's not
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Realistic the world's not gonna afford you a life where everything you do you're in love with in fact
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You're gonna end up doing a whole bunch of things You don't want to do
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and the life hack is
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if you enjoy getting better at things Then you can be
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doing something you don't want to do better than you previously done it
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and now you enjoy doing it because you were more competent and more capable at said task.
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You are now better at said task.
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Every single thing I approach, I approach with vigor because I like being good at things.
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And that's not because I'm arrogant.
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That's because I have enough respect for myself and more importantly, I have enough respect for the people I love to know that I need to be good at things.
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When my children or when my women or my family or my people who rely on me, my brothers, anybody comes to me expecting me to do something for them,
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I need to have enough respect for them to know that I'm good at what they asked me to do
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And if I don't know what they want me to do
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or I'm not particularly good at it I'm at least good at learning you can become good at learning
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so that you learn things faster Good at concentrating good at taking a scenario seriously
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These are all basic life skills to go along with bravery
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That's gonna put you in a competitive bracket amongst the masculine realm which exists today because most people can't even focus.
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Most people can't even focus or try hard at anything.
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So to answer the question, can you become world champion without loving boxing?
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No, you can't become the best in the world.
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However, you can become very good at it
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because you can have enough discipline to ensure that you go to training
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and you can make sure that you're the kind of person who, if you're going to go to training, you're going to try your best.
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Guys, you're going to go to training for an hour.
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Whether you try hard or don't try hard, you're going to spend an hour in the boxing gym.
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There is no reason to not try.
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That is a learned habit
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and what you often find with people who need to be motivated into things
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because they're not disciplined enough to do things
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and not disciplined enough to do things properly they'll go
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and say I went to boxing training as if that's all
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that it's about it's not about going to the training it's
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about trying hard in the trainings about giving it your all
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it's about dedicating yourself you're gonna give an hour up anyway
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there's no reason to not try most people go through their
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entire adult life without trying a hundred percent hardly ever think about it even
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when you go to the gym you don't try a hundred 100 % to try 60%, 7%.
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You don't try 100 % at home.
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What do you try 100 % with?
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Do you really try 100 % with work?
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Are you really moving that mouse as quickly as you possibly can?
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No, you're not trying.
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So you have people who have gone through life
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and are going through life without even giving 100 % of what they've got ever, ever.
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And it's interesting because we're entering the most competitive period of human history.
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So you need to begin very good at everything you do all of the time.
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You'll learn a lot of lessons about psychology in the boxing ring.
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Now they're not related, technically.
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One's exercise.
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One's the psychology of people.
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But you'll learn in the fight ring, you'll learn that you're not tired when you're winning.
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You're tired when you're losing.
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That once you start to win, you get to find unlimited energy from the universe from somewhere, and you just continue to push forward, no matter how hard it is.
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Winning is easy.
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It's trying to turn it around when you're losing that is difficult.
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You take this lesson from boxing and you apply it to everything else in life
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if you apply it to money and say, once I start to make money, I know I will have endless motivation to keep making money.
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It's just hard to make money in the first place.
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It's hard to get over that hurdle.
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But once I get going, it's easy.
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It's a positive reinforcement loop.
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It's a spiral upwards into infinity.
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It's a tornado that takes you to the promised land.
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So to have that unique psychological conclusion, that unique psychological input, you had to become good at boxing.
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So it's very important that you're good at everything you do all of the time.
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Don't do it if you're not going to try.
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But you don't want people to learn bad habits.
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But it's a bad habit to coast.
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It's a bad habit to spend time and waste it.
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It's a bad habit to go, ah, I tried, I went, I didn't give it my all, but at least I went.
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You see this kind of cope online all the time.
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Yeah, at least I went.
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It's going that matters.
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That's not true.
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It's trying that matters.
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So you see this kind of cope.
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Ah, yeah, well, you know, I didn't feel like going to the gym, but I went and just had a light session.
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Why?
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You went anyway.
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So why did you have a light session?
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If you're going to go, do it.
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If you're going to do it, do it right.
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There's no point in half doing anything.
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You may as well have not done it at all.
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So this idea you can coast through things, this idea you can lazily try or pretend to try or just showing up counts.
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I dispute all of that absolutely.
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You give a hundred percent of your heart, soul and vigor to anything you do and it becomes a habit so that it's all you know how to do.
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Before you know it you're driving a car trying to do it as well as possible
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and you're having a conversation trying to be as clear
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and compendious and concise as possible
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and you're trying to make money as much as possible as efficiently as possible
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and you're trying to educate your children as well as possible.
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You're trying to protect your family as much as possible.
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You're trying to get as strong as possible because all you know is maximum limits.
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That's all you've ever done.
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You've never done any of this.
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Ah, you know, that garbage can go out the window.
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So you need to get good at getting good at things
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and you need to get good at trying 100 % at all things, whether you like them or not.
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And this will give you a base level of competency in all realms, even if you're not in love with said task.
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Success is like being pregnant.
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Everyone says congratulations, but nobody knows how many times you get fucked.
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Absolutely.
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But that's the beauty of success, right?
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Because all the times you get fucked teach you the lessons you need to be successful in the first place.
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You would never be successful without getting screwed over.
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And also, you wouldn't be happy with your success without getting screwed over.
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The reason you appreciate that woman who's so good to you, who you trust with all your heart, who's loyal to you, is because that other woman cheated on you.
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If you had never seen a terrible, narcissistic, cheating woman, you wouldn't Appreciate a good kind heart there is no light without dark
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So it's very important that you go through these bad things one to learn lessons
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But to to learn gratitude
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and appreciation for things once you have them is extremely important Every time something bad happens to you, you need to say thank you to God Thank you God
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for giving me this tip of this difficult time for me to learn lessons
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and for me to have more appreciation for my fantastic life in the future That's how you should approach life
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and especially success is exactly the same way The lessons you'll learn failing along the way will ensure that
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when you get to the top you can keep it It's
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difficult to think of a scenario where being brave would be a negative mindset for you to be able to tap into.
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Because bravery affords new options you haven't previously considered.
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If you're a coward, you don't have certain options on the chessboard.
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Because you simply don't have the bravery to make X moves.
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But if you are brave, you can analyze these moves.
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So you have a whole bunch of moves that most people don't have.
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Most people do not have the bravery to consider alternate paths.
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You need to be able to look at the chess moves
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that most people will not be prepared to make
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and most people live very afraid
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So bravery is an extremely important skill to hone something you should practice You should often sit
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and think what would be the bravest decision I could make
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in this scenario What would be the bravest one I could possibly make and consider it?
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I'm not saying do it, but you should get in the mental model of considering it
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Because quite often when you're a coward brave decisions don't even cross your mind ever They don't even cross your psyche.
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They're not even something that's interesting to you.
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You haven't trained your mind to consider them.
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So you need to train your mind to consider bravery
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because bravery is something that is going to universally apply throughout your life.
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It doesn't matter if you're rich.
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It doesn't matter if you're poor.
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It doesn't matter if you're in Thailand.
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It doesn't matter if you're in Peru.
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Having the option to be extremely brave and consider the options
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which are afforded only to a brave person is going to be something which is always going to benefit you.
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So it's very important that you consider and think about bravery as a whole.
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Something I want you to hone.
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Life is sales.
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Convincing a woman to love you is sales.
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Work is sales.
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Life is sales.
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So fantastic thing to learn.
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Boxing, once again, fantastic thing to learn.
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It's very good.
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Your body and mind are connected.
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You do not have a strong mind without having a strong body.
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Fantastic.
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Who should you be before you become rich?
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Well, money is an amplifier.
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Money is not going to change who you are.
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It's going to amplify who you are.
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If you're a good person, it will make you a very good person.
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If you're a bad person, it'll make you a very bad person.
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If you're a weak person, it'll make you very weak and cowardly and scared.
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If you're a strong person, it'll make you very brave.
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Money amplifies.
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So, you actually kind of have to hope
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that you don't get rich too early before you've struggled enough because men are built on the back of struggle.
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You have to go through pain and terrible things as a man and struggle constantly to be a good man.
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No man who has not struggled is a good man or good at being a man.
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But don't worry, I think God has a plan for you.
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You should be trying your absolute best to get rich all the time.
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You should be struggling and working as hard as possible.
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And all those lessons that will come with all the suffering
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and the difficulty will be amplified by the time you're a multimillionaire and you'll become the best version of yourself.
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That's how you become a top G.
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Wake up every day and be prepared to give 100 % focus all the things you do.
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That's all you have to worry about.
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It's kind of like
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if you worry about the work the results the results come the results are easy guys money is easy
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Money is easy women are easy the life you want is
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easy All you have to do is fall in love with the work
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If you fall in love with the work fall in love
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with being good at doing your work getting it done Never missing a day
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because the easiest way to make sure you never miss a
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lucky day is to try every single day Lucky days exist
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and you're never gonna know if you have a lucky day
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or not unless you try every single day Then you're never gonna miss any lucky days
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and you're going to pull it off and you're going to realize it wasn't actually that difficult.
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All it took was consistency.
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Consistency and constant effort.
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Never being lazy and doing everything I'm supposed to do properly.
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When you tolerate something, you're admitting you deserve it.
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You're going to get exactly what you deserve in life.
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From women, from masculine friendship, financially, respect on the street, luck.
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You get the luck you deserve.
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If you try your very best in all things and you pray
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and you're really thankful to God and you say thank you all the time, you start to become very lucky.
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Lucky things start to happen.
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You get the luck you deserve when you try.
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It's truly remarkable.
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When a woman looks at you and goes, he can do anything he says he's going to do, that's when you become instantly attractive.
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Competence is extremely important.
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That's the masculine world.
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And Peacocking built this world.
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Don't let losers and brokies sit and say to you, all our graves are the same, it doesn't matter.
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No, it does matter.
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You were not born to suffer and die without being remembered or leaving a mark on this planet.
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You weren't born for them.
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You were born to do something great and to be remembered.
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You were born to leave offspring, which are so fantastic, raised in your image, that you by proxy are discussed into eternity.
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Your bloodline becomes synonymous with competence and capability.
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That's why you were born.
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The reason the male peacock shows its feathers is to say, look what I have.
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There is nothing wrong with that.
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That's what built the modern world.
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All of the explorers who risked their lives on the seven
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seas did it to say Look what I did The most beautiful buildings around you the cathedrals all these things
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that were built were built by men saying look what we have done We have done something other people cannot do
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Flexing in and of itself It's not a stupid idea.
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It's actually a biological norm amongst men.
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Don't be confused You don't want to flex in assinities.
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You want to flex capabilities You want to flex competence.
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You want to flex, look what I can do which others cannot do.
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And respect often lies on the other side of fear.
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If there's a decision that everybody's afraid to do, but you do it, that is what's going to get you respected by your peers.
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But masculine brotherhood has been the basis of keeping you accountable.
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It's very easy for you to become the best version of
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yourself of all the men around you are pushing you all of the time.
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And they're ensuring that they are being their best selves, which is constantly pushing and striving towards successes.
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This is what you're supposed to do.
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You always have.
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This is why even boxers, although they fight alone, they train as part of a camp with other boxers.
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You're always pushing yourself all of the time.
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That's the primary objective of masculinity is to leave your mark on the world.
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It's easiest to do that if you have brothers behind you who are pushing you to be your best self.
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I don't know how to keep that fire going.
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What should I do?
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This is a really interesting question actually because it amazes me that so many people in the world still today, even though we have instant access via social media to the truly successful.
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Believe anything they've done matters.
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So you've made a hundred grand, you're still poor.
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That's nothing.
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That is nothing.
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A hundred grand is nothing.
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It is my cigar bill for a month.
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It's nothing.
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You've changed nothing.
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You've achieved nothing.
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You need to compare yourself always and constantly to somebody who is outperforming you.
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You need to stop being so happy with yourself for these tiny little successes.
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This is what they teach inside of common pop psychology classes.
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Yeah, and take the small success and be happy with it
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and put little milestones and reward yourself for achieving the little milestone No, no, that's not what you should do The point is the fact you could have a little tiny success
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and quit shows that there's something wrong with your mentality and your Firmware in the first place.
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You don't know what success is.
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I don't consider myself successful So how can you consider yourself successful enough to not work?
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All I do is work I work seven days a week
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18 hours a day every single day never missed a day headache or not ever
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So I don't understand this mindset and you see a lot of people do it right?
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They'll say oh yeah I had a really great week and I made some money and now I'm in Costa Rica
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You're never gonna win
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that way people often say to the extremely wealthy people Why do why do you work all the time?
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All you do is work about as rich as you I just go on holidays not Understanding
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that the kind of person who goes on holidays
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when they have money is not the kind of person who
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becomes truly rich The kind of people who become truly rich are the people who work every day no matter what.
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Which is why all of the people who are truly rich are workaholics.
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Because it's the only way to really get there.
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You can get to a certain point once you're a trillionaire, you're Jeff Bezos or whatever, that you can take some days off.
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I'm not saying that.
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But the point I'm making is you need to fall in
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love with being happy with yourself for how hard you've dedicated yourself to a task.
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That needs to be more satisfying to you than relaxing.
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Relaxing is probably the most boring thing you can possibly say for me to do.
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Say, Andrew, do you want to go relax?
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I say, what do I do?
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Stare at a wall?
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That sounds terrible.
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Nothing is worse than relaxing.
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I don't want to relax.
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I want to work.
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All I want to do is work.
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Because if I work and I achieve things, I feel good inside.
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I got something done.
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I feel good.
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I feel happy.
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If I just relax, nothing's been achieved, so I don't see the point of it.
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It doesn't even relax me.
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In fact, it makes me very anxious.
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So then I feel more stressed than if I was just doing the work in the first place, which is why relaxing is impossible for me.
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And he said, well, it sounds like you have an anxiety disorder.
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If that disorder, if it's a disorder
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that allows me to constantly work all of the time and never be happy unless all of my work is complete, thank God I have it.
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Because if I didn't have this disorder, I'd be a normal jackass like you.
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Guys, time is running out for a chance to win.
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It truly is.
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You guys are truly running out of time.
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It's very important that you get your act together quickly.
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So if you want to call it anxiety disorder, then get one.
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Don't be talking about headaches.
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Don't be talking about working.
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Don't be arguing with women.
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You have things to do, right?
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It doesn't matter if you have a headache or not.
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You must work.
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Anxiety sounds like free energy.
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Could give me more.
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Absolutely.
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Anxiety is exactly that.
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It's free energy.
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Nervousness is free energy.
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The inability to rest or relax or sleep is free energy.
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You just have to have the discipline to direct it in the correct directions.
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You need to sit at home and feel this fire inside of you
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because you do not have all of the money you want, all of the respect you want, and your name has not been echoed into eternity.
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You're not etched into the halls of history.
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You need to take all of that fire inside of you and all of that anger and direct it at One task, I need to try your absolute best to ensure you succeed in that task.
452
It's down to you.
453
I can't drag you across the finish line.
454
I can only show you where the race is and try and hype you up before you run.
455
I can take you to the start line.
456
I can tell you you can do it.
457
I can tell you how fantastic it is when the race is over.
458
I can tell you it is worth it, but you have to be the one to run the race.
459
I can't carry you.
460
If you're going to ask me stupid questions about headaches, you're never going to make it.
461
There's going to be a huge contingent of the populace that never make it.
462
But when you do, it is worth it.
463
Because you're remembered.
464
And that's the whole point of being alive as a man.
465
The first place is to go down in history.
466
It's not to go through life comfortably.
467
It's not to go through life without struggle, without pain.
468
The point of being a man in the first place is so that you suffer enough for people to remember you.
469
To die for something.
470
To live for something.
471
That's the whole point in all of this.
472
There's nothing else to do.
473
And make your name synonymous with something fantastic which has affected humanity and culture.
474
That's all it's about.
475
And it's very difficult to do that if you're insignificant and broke and lazy and stupid with a fucking headache

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 475 sentences and 5204 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:57. The speaker talks fast, about 227 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
headache noun/ˈhɛdeɪk/A pain or ache in the head.
bravery noun/ˈbɹeɪ.və.ɹi/Being brave, courageousness.
competence noun/ˈkɑm.pə.təns/The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
masculine adjective/ˈmæskjələn/Of or pertaining to the male gender.
flex verb/flɛks/To bend something.
competent adjective/ˈkɒmpətənt/Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
amplify verb/ˈæm.plə.faɪ/To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
scenario noun/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
hone verb/hoʊn/To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
jackass noun/ˈd͡ʒækæs/A male donkey.
peacock noun/ˈpikɑk/A male peafowl, especially Pavo cristatus, notable for its brilliant iridescently ocellated tail.
retribution noun/ˌɹɛt.ɹɪˈbju.ʃən/Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
synonymous adjective/sɪˈnɑnɪməs/Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)
vigour noun/ˈvɪɡɚ/Active strength or force of body or mind; a capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
coward noun/ˈkaʊɚd/A person who lacks courage.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
go through verbTo travel from one end of something to the other.
end up verbTo bring to a conclusion.
get over verbTo overcome.
go along with verbTo acquiesce to or comply with a proposal, despite lacking a desire or value for it.
go out verbTo leave, especially a building.
pick up verbTo lift; to grasp and raise.
push forward verbTo continue to act or do something, especially with a lot of effort
show up verbTo appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • She may say, oh, do you want a pill?
  • Do you really deserve more?
  • Did you ignore that headache?
  • Are you as competent as you could possibly be?
  • Have you given a hundred percent every time you've done anything?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its resultIf you truly deserved it, you'd be · If you're a good person, it will make · If you're a bad person, it'll make
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowyou've even framed · they've done · there's always been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itcan be converted · is framed · would be given
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thingpeople who are · people who know · people who want

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 189 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/, feather /ˈfɛðə/, brotherhood /ˈbɹʌðɚˌhʊd/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: retribution /ˌɹɛt.ɹɪˈbju.ʃən/, appreciation /əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, fraction /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
  • Long words — get the stress right: retribution /ˌɹɛt.ɹɪˈbju.ʃən/, synonymous /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/, eternity /əˈtɜɹnəti/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, capability /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like headache, bravery, competence.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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