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I feel like as a man you should always live for something bigger than yourself.
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I feel like that the true masculine imperative is to find a battle worth fighting for.
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It's why men have always gone to war and some men died.
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It's how it's always been for men.
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As a man your life shouldn't be about quantity.
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It should be about quality.
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And trying to live as long as possible but being that porridge goo in the middle
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is not as important as living a shorter amount of time and getting to be the team on stage.
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The world is hyper -competitive.
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If you're going to be a man who's going to sit and say, I'm just sad, you are always going to lose in competition to men like me.
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And there has to be losers for there to be winners.
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I am tired of sympathy.
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Sympathy doesn't work for anybody.
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I'm not going to sit here
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and be sympathetic for people who say they're too sad to try hard and be their best.
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Guess what?
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Perhaps I was sad every time I did exactly what I was supposed to do and trained anyway.
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Perhaps I was afraid when I fought anyway.
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Perhaps I was tired when I worked anyway.
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This is how you get ahead in life I don't have
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a fucking ounce of sympathy for these people who sit here
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and say well I feel this way
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so I can't then don't do it stay down there The winners are at the top
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and the winners at the top don't give a shit about how they feel We wake up
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and we perform regardless of how we feel day after day So
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if I'm going to ignore my own feelings I'm certainly not
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gonna take into consideration anybody else's Why am I gonna ignore how I feel
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and make sure I'm constantly performing regardless flawlessly and then sit and go oh, but he doesn't feel good, so he's allowed to fuck up.
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No, you are not.
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You're not allowed to fuck up to your ancestors or to God or to yourself.
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You have to perform.
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This is what being a man is about.
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The baseline of masculinity is doing things you don't feel like doing.
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I can't comment on being a woman because I'm not one.
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But the baseline of masculinity as a whole is the thing
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that makes a good man a man is that he does what he doesn't want to do.
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He doesn't want to work, and he works anyway.
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He doesn't want to go to war, and he fights anyway.
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He doesn't want to get up.
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He gets up anyway.
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That's the whole point of it.
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We didn't want to die in the Titanic.
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Guess what happened?
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We died in the Titanic.
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You can't sit there as a man and say you don't feel like it.
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You're not allowed to not feel like it.
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You're supposed to do it anyway regardless.
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So when a man sits there and says, oh, but you don't understand.
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I'm struggling with motivation.
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If you are struggling with the motivation to be a winner, then stay a loser.
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No problem.
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Stay a loser.
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Don't care.
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Because in my circle, there's no losers around me.
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Your energy is disgusting.
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I find it revolting.
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I don't like weakness around me, even near me.
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Even people coming up saying hello to me
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if you're depressed don't even shake my hand I do not have time for losers on any regard winners only
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so men live in a world Which is extremely competitive for men?
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It's far more competitive in many other ways
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because we have to compete not only on how we look But it's also competing on things we came in hell right?
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Well, we're trying to compete all think of all the things
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you just asked for you want a guy who's intelligent a
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guy who can hold a conversation a guy Who's wise
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and I was dominant a guy from by the safety you
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the guy who's brave a guy who's capable to provide safety right?
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So men are competing in many different realms.
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It's extremely difficult to be a man So we're constantly competing
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and what we're looking for is status men love status This
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is the reason why men do the things they do Why do men join the army
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and go out there and risk having their legs blown off?
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It's because they get to say they're a soldier Why did I enter the cage
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and enter the ring 87 times get to say I'm a world champ?
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I risked my life.
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Well, that doesn't make any logical sense Why would I risk my life to go fight some psycho from Russia
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because I get to say I'm the champ, right?
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Status.
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Men want status and this is the thing about the market now It's getting to the world where it's getting more polarizing.
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It's getting easier for women It's getting extremely difficult for men
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and if you still want to be a player in the world today You have to up your game as a man.
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You have to most people at home don't realize how Fragile they are
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and you're very fragile if you're broke But you're also very fragile
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if you're rich and you're not prepared for the matrix attack because it's gonna come It's going to come for you.
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Yeah, and if you're not prepared for it They're gonna take everything you own and they're gonna be tested to
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If you're a man and you don't view the world as war, I can't imagine how you view the world.
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My entire worldview is war I was actually having this conversation the other day about why I avoid extreme sports
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There's this girl, she's like, would you ever jump out of a plane with me?
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No, why do you avoid extreme sports?
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Well, because my life is extreme, but my life is hard.
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I'm at war.
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If your life is extreme
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when you're already at war The last thing you want to do is jump out of a plane.
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You want it safety, calm I want to be left alone.
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Well, you're hot.
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Every man wanted you.
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I got you.
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I won.
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That was a war.
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My Ferrari, everyone wanted it.
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I bought it.
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I won.
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That was war.
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Along with all the residential properties I own, along with the commercial properties, along with all the domains I own, along with fighting the matrix and the legal system, that's all war.
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When you see something beautiful, it is war.
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When you see a big tree, people go, wow, a big beautiful tree, and they don't realize that that was a war amongst saplings.
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As you said last time.
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30 little trees and he just tried to destroy all the trees around him so he could grow bigger and everything else.
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It's war.
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Life has always been war.
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So why would I want to go start jumping out of planes?
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No, I want security team and a big gate and safety.
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I said to her, she goes, oh, but what do you mean you're life's extreme?
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When we leave this establishment...
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We are going to walk to my car.
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There are two professional armed guards with me.
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And I am still with my head on a slid.
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You're just gonna walk to the car, because you're a chick.
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I think leaving the establishment and going to the car is a battle I must win.
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Because I have to get out, I have to look, I have to make sure I'm not gonna get in.
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I have to get in the car.
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There's so much going on.
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You want to jump out of the plane because you don't understand that.
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You think nothing's going on.
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Yeah.
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For me, my whole life, it's all problems.
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It's stress.
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Leave me alone.
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I'm not jumping out of any planes.
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I'm not climbing any rocks.
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I'm not swimming with sharks.
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That's all for people who don't have enough stress in their life.
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If you wake up and decide you want to swim with sharks, you are lacking stress.
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Which means you are not trying very hard.
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Because if you were trying your absolute best, and you were important, and the Matrix wanted you in jail, and your enemies wanted you dead,
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The last thing you would want to do is go swimming with sharks must be out your mind This is insane
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It's crazy A lot of people approach things in life with absolute tenacity
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and if you if you approach anything in your life
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and you Destroy the idea that you could possibly fail which is which sounds easy, right?
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But you could do well
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If a man told you he could rip your head off this little finger
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and you could tell he really really believed it Would you want him to try no?
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You'd be like, no, maybe.
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I don't know.
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This guy is way too convinced.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So if I had to fight Jon Jones, I don't care if I had to fight a lion or an alien, whatever.
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If it's on, it's on.
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If it's on, then it's on.
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So I'm coming to win.
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I ain't coming to lose.
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Exactly.
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So that's how it goes.
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It's a fighter spirit right there.
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I really do believe.
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I am still old school.
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And I believe I am a man of my word.
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And I don't say that like other people say that.
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I mean I'm genuinely a man of my word.
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When my father raised me, because I grew up in a poor family.
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My father's a chess grandmaster, but there's not much money in chess and my dad loved booze gambling and women, right?
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So the money was out the door.
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So I grew up poor and he said listen son Only thing I need to give you is your last name.
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You ain't getting no inheritance.
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My dad died with $11 in his pocket Done.
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You're not getting no inheritance.
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I'm not giving you no money.
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I'm giving you your last name and that's all you need You're a tape, right?
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When I was in school I remember at the SATs.
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I think it's the SATs.
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What did you do in sixth grade or something?
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I did the SATs in sixth grade
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and they wanted to move me up two grades because I did so fantastically I came up to dad and said, hey dad I got 99 .9 % right and I'm moving up two grades and he goes, you're a Tate, of course It's like whatever,
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like the achievement to the average man is nothing, we're Tates, right?
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So I'm a man of my word, I'm a man of my name If I'm gonna sit
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and tell you and all you people out here I don't know you If I tell you something it's the truth
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And I stand by that So anyone who's gonna come to me and say, oh Tate he's full of it, the the Your name isn't worth anything My name's worth something,
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I've worked for my name I've risked my life in the cage for my name.
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Your name isn't worth a thing.
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So don't talk to me about what what what honesty is.
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I think the good times are old over.
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I think it's gonna go back to the feudal system of kings and serfs and peasants.
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And I think if you're a normal average person now, you should feel deep fear and panic and understand
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that you have a certain amount of time to get into
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the higher bracket of the social class before before these hard times come.
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And the most scary thing about these hard times is, I feel like the gap is gonna permanently close.
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In olden times, the chance of turning into anything more than a peasant when you were born a peasant was effectively zero,
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unless there was chaos, unless there was a war or some great catastrophe, which allowed social mobility for you to go to war,
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win, get a knighthood for bravery, get some land and change your social mobility class but there had to be war and chaos for you to escape.
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Because without the chaos, it's kind of like a prison break.
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When all the rules are being adhered to and the prison is operating as it should, you're stuck in your cell.
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But if there's a prison riot, you have a chance to escape.
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Which means uncertainty and chaos are required for the difference in social mobility.
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And that's always been the case.
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But now I feel like with AI and certain other things, although there's going to be instability in the world, although they're going to continue to lie to us,
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I feel like the matrix is going to gain enough control to keep us all in our pods
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or in our 15 minute cities or Our electric cars will be turned off
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or we need to get our bug rations for the week
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so that there can't ever be enough true Chaos for you to escape there won't be true social mobility
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and I feel like there's gonna be a close The people
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who are rich now their bloodlines will be rich for a very long time
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and people who are poor now They don't get rich soon in the next 10 years or so
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It's now or never it's almost impossible right now Why are you not panicking?
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The Titanic just hit the iceberg.
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You may not be in the water yet, but it's certainty.
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There's nowhere else to go.
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It's going to sink.
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It's gonna happen.
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Panic now!
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Don't panic at the end with everyone else as they go into the icy depths.
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No. The gap is closing.
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The elites hate you.
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You no longer have sexual consent.
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You're a permanent criminal in the eyes of the law.
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They're here to decimate you and your entire bloodline.
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You're 22 at the height of your capabilities, the height of your energy.
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You heal like Wolverine.
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It is Friday! Are you making money?
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What are you doing?
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Oh, there's this band.
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I really want to see this band.
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I guess you just deserve to lose, right?
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I guess you just need to.
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I don't feel sorry.
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I guess you're just dumb.
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That's how I feel.
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Imagine how the elites feel.
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We're stummed to these people.
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We are.
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I'm not a rich man, I'm just a poor man who loves money.
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I'm from a looting council, I wear diamond watches though.
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You understand?
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I'm just a poor man with billions of dollars.
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But it's scary when you start to understand how all these things really work.
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And I don't think the average man at home understands these.
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And if you start to understand it all, the last thing you will lack is motivation.
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How can you lack motivation?
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How can an angelo in the jaws of a tiger say I lack motivation?
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I'm tired.
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I'm horny.
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I want to f* off.
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Bro, they're ripping out your throat in real time.
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You're bleeding out.
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Fight.
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Fight back.
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Oh no. And then the tigers like me are like, oh bro, you're going to get eaten.
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I'm gonna eat you.
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That's what we're gonna do.
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There's so much work for you to do as a man.
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I don't know how people even...
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I barely sleep and I never not work and I never lay in.
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I'm never lazy.
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And I don't understand how people don't work all of the time.
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And when I say that, people say, but work on what?
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I don't know what to work on.
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Bro, you need 10 passports, you need 25 bank accounts, you need shell companies, you need a trust fund, You need to make some money.
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You then need to move that money away.
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You need multiple places to live You need a place for your children to live.
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They need a trust fund But you have stuff to do.
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And people are just sitting around doing nothing.
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It's mind -boggling to me And I guess if you sit around and do nothing, maybe you won't be successful, but if you're
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lucky enough to pull something off and make a little bit of money
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and you get too large But you haven't done the groundwork, then you get wrecked the other way.
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They want people inside of their slave of containers.
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They want everyone in the middle.
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So why do I hop and go?
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Let me do the math.
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If I never worked again, I could spend $420 ,000 a day for this nightmare.
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I have all the cards.
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Do I need anything?
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No. No, you may love the coffee.
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Let me try and chill out today.
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And within 22 minutes of math, I'll do nothing else to do.
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There's nothing else to do.
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And I can't stop myself working as a person who doesn't need money.
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And then there's people with no money who don't work.
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It blows my mind, which is why the winners are winners and the losers are losers.
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Losers do a little bit of work and rest.
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Winners work as hard as possible and worry they're not working hard enough.
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It's just a separation of personality types.
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And it's almost like you can't save these people.
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There's a huge percentage of the populace which they're beyond saving because they're the worst thing you can possibly be, which is a quitter.
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Being a quitter is the worst thing you can possibly be.
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God himself can't make a quitter important
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because the only reason the place you're trying to get to has value is because it was difficult to reach.
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If everybody could reach it, there'd be no value.
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Value is linked to scarcity the whole point goal is valuables
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because it's not everywhere It was everywhere wouldn't have any value
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the reason the place you're trying to reach is valuables
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because people can't get there So if you're the kind of person who quit you're never gonna get there
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Quitters are the worst you could give a quitter a map a treasure map and a hot air balloon
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Say it's gonna take you right to the treasure.
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It's gonna be a seven -day journey Here's a sandwich halfway through the black on cold.
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Yeah, you just said that they are seven days now.
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Yeah, they quit quitters will never make it And there's a huge subset of the populace who are basically simply quitters.
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I've never in my life seen anyone who's determined to get something not get it.
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I've never seen somebody who is determined in their heart to get something not get it.
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The universe and God is so giving and providing.
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People think it's difficult out here.
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I disagree.
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I've never seen someone wake up and say, nah, this is all I care about, this is all I want.
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Not get it.
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Everyone who thought that way in fighting was a world champion.
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Everyone who thought that way about money was rich.
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I've never seen anyone fail.
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Bro, I've seen people with no credit score and no job, determined to get an R8, manage to get one on finance somehow.
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I've seen it!
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If it's all you want, you're gonna get it!
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You're gonna find a way to get it.
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You're gonna find a way!
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People go, oh, I want this, if you want it.
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Literally, I spoke to a man who had done a podcast recently, he was saying, if someone had a gun to your children's head and said to you, the only way I'm gonna move this gun...
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If by you making a million dollars, you are gonna make a million.
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A hundred percent.
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Yeah.
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You're gonna be motivated for the first time in your life.
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People often say, if you try your best, it's okay to fail.
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But what they don't understand, the true secret to the universe, is that if you try your best, you'll never fail.
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Yeah.
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Anybody with a brain...
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...is capable of having a million dollars.
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I believe the universe is very good.
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And perhaps you will know that I've never met anyone who genuinely tried their hardest...
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...for anything.
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I've never seen somebody dedicate themselves properly.
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I've never seen it.
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I've never seen somebody try their best and not get it.
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I've seen people pretend to try things.
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I've seen people say they want it.
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I've seen people make excuses for why they'll never have it and not get it.
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But I've never seen anybody who just wakes up, shuts up, works and not get it.
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Ever.
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You can have anything you want and that's how you disrupt the matrix.
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Because most people are lazy and stupid.
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Sit there, follow instructions, you'll have everything you've ever desired.
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The car you want, the woman you want, the house you want, the holidays you want, all you do is do the work.
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You can disrupt the matrix or you can stay lazy.
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Stay inside the slave program and there'll be people who always do that and we need them.
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Because, uh, you don't wash your own cars, do you?
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I don't.
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So, someone's gonna do it.
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And that's how society functions.
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There's always going to be winners and there's always going to be losers.
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One of the things I try very hard not to do is become elitist.
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Because when you've come from the absolute bottom to the absolute top, and you've done it all off of your own back, and hard work and dedication, and never missing a day,
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the only shortcut to life is to never miss a day.
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One, because of compounding interest, and two, because sometimes you get lucky.
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And you'll never miss a lucky day if you try every day.
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If you don't try every day, you might miss your lucky day.
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And that's what people don't understand.
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If you never miss a day, and you never don't try, and you're always on time.
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Was I late today?
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No. On time.
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And you try and improve every aspect of your life, and you're a professional, and you try and make sure that you analyze your decisions,
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you give yourself feedback, you don't make mistakes, you're not lazy.
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If you try and you make it to the top, you end up elitist.
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Because you look at the people down below and you're like, Well, why didn't you try?
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I did.
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Oh, I did too.
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No, you didn't.
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That's a lie.
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Now you're lying to me and that annoys me.
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And you catch yourself being very elitist, and this is what's scary about it, because I'm from a Luton council, and now I have all this money.
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But if I meet somebody who's truly broke, truly broke, I'm not talking about you knock hundreds of millions, but if I meet somebody who's broke, I think they're an idiot.
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And I catch myself going, Is that bad?
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Am I elitist?
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Or do I sit down now and I just say no. I started lower than you and beat you.
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How are you bored?
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You're lazy.
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I believe that money loves speed.
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And everybody agrees with me when they say this, but absolutely nobody understands what speed is.
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When me and my team work together, when I say speed, I say we have an idea at 9am.
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By 4pm we're making money.
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Same day.
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Speed.
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So I was talking to some dude and he was like oh yeah, I've been working on my music
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that I was like bro I saw you a month ago you were working on your music.
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What do you got?
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So I'm working on this song a month?
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A month?
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I'll climb Mount Everest in a month.
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You know what I do in a month.
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Why are you poor?
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You're poor because you're all tight.
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A month I could train for anything on the planet.
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I'll learn classical piano in a month.
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Talk to me about making one song out of it.
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Uh oh to me.
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So I made a song in a day to prove a point that this dude
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And I got more views on my song than his shit song.
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Love speed money.
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Love speed you don't forget the people who aren't about money
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around you It's all be all you think about what you
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talk about you go start producing You go start attracting attention one way
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or another and if you do all those things you will start to make some money
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But next time you're sitting with your friends This is a
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challenge for every single person watching this next time you sit with your friends are prompted come in sit down
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And just join in the conversation just join in whatever they're talking about
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and after about 20 seconds sit
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and think this is bullshit This is not gonna make any of us rich They're talking about this,
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that, this football game, this guy This is not going to make any of us rich Eureka Eureka,
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I am wasting my life The time to get rich is
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running out The time to get rich is running out Slavery is coming
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and you're not going to be able to escape The rich are literally getting richer
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and the poor are literally getting poorer in real time You can see it happening
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and it's about to be have -nots
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and have yonks up in his m - and
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if you're on the wrong team what the f - if you're on the wrong team you're never gonna escape
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these are some of the last years where a broke person can genuinely escape the matrix you are running out of time, forget that patience crap, right?
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You gonna get rich now you gonna get rich now And as a man you need to prepare yourself for that.
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And if you're sitting there and you understand what I'm saying to you, because some people are going to listen to this right now and go, some people are going to listen and go, whatever.
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Some people are going to listen and go, yeah, he's right, but then in ten minutes after this podcast finishes, go back and go, and there's going to be a small percentage of people who go, you know what?
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This tape guy knows exactly what he's talking about.
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I need to prepare for the new world.
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And if you do understand, that's why, that's when you join the new world.
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Because that's what you do.
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This video has 416 sentences and 4440 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:19. The speaker talks fast, about 218 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| loser noun | /luzɚ/ | A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. |
| matrix noun | /ˈmeɪ.tɹɪks/ | The cavity or mold in which anything is formed. |
| compete verb | /kəmˈpiːt/ | To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend. |
| chaos noun | /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ | The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony. |
| lazy adjective | /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/ | Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion. |
| motivation noun | /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/ | Willingness of action especially in behavior. |
| panic noun | /ˈpænɪk/ | Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare. |
| mobility noun | /mə(ʊ)ˈbɪlɪti/ | The ability to move; capacity for movement. |
| regardless adverb | /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/ | Without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| genuinely adverb | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly. |
| sympathy noun | /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/ | A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. |
| fragile adjective | /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/ | Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material. |
| ignore verb | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| run out verb | To use up or consume all | |
| sit around verb | To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important. | |
| sit down verb | To assume a sitting position from a standing position. | |
| blow off verb | To vent, usually, to reduce pressure in a container. | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| come up to verb | To approach. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 231 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, sixth /sɪksθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, shell /ʃɛl/, residential /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, mobility /mə(ʊ)ˈbɪlɪti/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like loser, matrix, compete.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If everybody could reach it, there'd be · if you try your best, you'll never |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have always gone · it's always been · has always been |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who say · people who sit · world Which is |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be tested · be left · were born |
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.