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List all the things that you aren't willing to give up for the dreams that you have.
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List all the things that you aren't willing to give up for the dreams that you have.
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And that is what the person who will beat you is willing to give up.
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If you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen.
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And losers define themselves by what happened to them.
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When your friends start to say you've changed, it's because they don't know how to say you've grown.
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And because they see so few people who have, so it makes sense that they don't have that.
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So I see that as a lack of skill not malice
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Like it's not that they're bad people They just don't even know it because so few people do change.
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I love this question, which is what would you do if you weren't afraid?
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It's an interesting paradox that the energy requires to start doing something is way more than the energy
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Required to continue doing the thing It won't get harder
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Like this is the hardest part and And so if you can just make it through this Everything else is downhill.
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It's not that the things
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that you're the dragons are gonna slam gonna get bigger They are
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but you become so much more equipped to slay them back
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and you have
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so many more allies You have people in the stands cheering
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for you have the audience you have all of these other things that are behind you but in the beginning, it's just you with a stick against a bear and
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Arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon
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when you have a nuclear bomb and six nations behind you.
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And so it's not even like the size of the hardship, it's just also the resources and how few of them you have
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and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you have, which is time, because you have no leverage.
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You don't have the money to pay other people to help you.
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You don't have the resources to go.
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No one can learn it for you.
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It's like there's a lot of the things that we care about a lot, like no one can work out for you.
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It doesn't matter how much money you have, no one can learn skills for you.
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And so in the early days, like it feels so painful
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because you're like you look around to see who can help you and then you're like It's me again
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Those early days that little trench winning in the weeds
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Oftentimes gives you these huge advantages later on
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because you've more context than anyone else and so rather than lament them
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and Hate the fact that you're going through it
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Remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver
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that you're going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons and so
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Expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is.
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Every single difficult thing that you do is kind of like a massive wall that you need to get over.
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And you go, wow, I'm so glad that I've got over that wall.
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And, you know, think about how many other people are going to fall that wall there.
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Trying to assume that I need perfect conditions in order to start.
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Because, I mean, starting is the perfect condition.
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Like, whatever condition that you're in that you start was the perfect condition.
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What's wild about the fear that people have when they're starting out is that they say things like, I have nothing going for me.
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I have no advantages.
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I have nothing to my name.
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I have no money.
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I have no network.
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I have no resources.
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But it also means that you have nothing to lose, which makes you incredibly dangerous.
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And I think people wildly underestimate how many shots on goal you can take when you have nothing to lose.
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Whereas when someone has something to lose, they have to be more and more selective about the shots they take.
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And so you have the perfect conditions for taking risk because the worst case scenario is baseline is where you're currently at.
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Correct.
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Your downside is this.
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Which means that it's like going to the casino and playing craps, but they say that you can just keep playing until you win.
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But people are afraid to roll.
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But I love this question, which is, what would you do if you weren't afraid?
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And I just, I love thinking about that when I'm thinking about big life decisions.
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Like, what would I do if I weren't afraid?
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And what would I do if I knew I couldn't fail?
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And fear is a mile wide and an inch deep.
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And so it looks like this ocean that you're gonna step into and drown.
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But as soon as you step into it, you realize it was not that deep at all and you can keep walking through it.
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And I just love that visual because a lot of times
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when it's like we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to make, if you actually take the step and realize that it's not death, you're not gonna drown immediately.
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There's plenty of other steps you can take from there, even if you get a little wet.
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So there's a lot of people say like do the work and in gym launch and it's continued into our stuff today, but do the boring work is what we call it.
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And boring is what makes you rich.
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boring, the boring activities.
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It's the, it's the double checking the emails.
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It's writing the follow-up sequence that you really don't feel like writing.
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And honestly, just getting it done will make you significantly more money than not getting it done.
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And so it's like, it's, it's, Michael Phelps talks about this too with, uh, with swimming, like just laps after laps after,
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like he doesn't even have the variety of like different moves or different, like it's just lapse, just sheer volume of work.
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And I call it the rocky cutscene and almost every successful person
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that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month
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or a year but many years of doing work without reward where they have to do things
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that other people find boring and they have to sacrifice things
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that everyone finds interesting that most people want to do during
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that entire season of their life and they basically sacrifice a season of other things
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that they would prefer to do to do stuff
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that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most and
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That's the rocky cutscene and instead of lasting five minutes, it just usually lasts five or ten years
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Even now it's it's still something that I struggle with realizing
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that now isn't forever The thing that you're doing right now doesn't need to be forever.
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It's not forever.
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Yeah.
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There's this huge time delay between when we start behaving in a way that a winner behaves and when we start winning.
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And the problem is that the bigger the mountain you're trying to climb, the bigger the W you're trying to get, typically the more delayed it is.
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The longer the lag.
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Yeah, between when you start behaving like a winner and when you start being a winner.
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and most people don't get the fast enough feedback loop to know
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that they're on the right path
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when they are taking these first steps in the right direction
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because they have this really big goal but they forget
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that with that really big goal comes the even longer delay
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that it takes to get there
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while still continuing to act with no feedback from society positive reinforcement whatsoever
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and I think that's like
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if I actually had to put a real like what's what's been what has worked
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so well for me and why the input over the output focus has been
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so powerful is that I can extend the time rise
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and basically indefinitely because the goal is me
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and then the external goals occur something a lot of us have the the battle of the other self
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that were the lesser version of ourself that we're trying to kill every single day.
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And so a lot of times we have this desire to point the blame finger externally,
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but wherever you point the finger of blame, power follows.
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And so whoever I blame for the life I have is the person who I give all the power over my existence, over my circumstances.
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And so it hurts, but if you turn the finger inwards and you start saying, huh, I don't like my life.
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The person that I need to punish or get back at is the real person who got me here, which is me.
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And so you may be right that other people did certain things or you got dealt a bad hand.
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It also doesn't matter because the only thing that you can't control is obviously the actions that you take.
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and the only person who's in control of that is you.
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The revenge porn is thinking about what the version of you who got you here did
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and then acting in the exact opposite of
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that as many times as you possibly can and the pain
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that you feel by rejecting the thing that you used to do that got you into this bad circumstance, that's the real revenge.
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We don't rise to the standards we have when others are watching.
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We fall to the standards we have when no one is watching.
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The only work that really matters is the work that no one sees.
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It shows you who you really are rather than who you say you are.
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There's this line that I heard David Goggins say on Rogan, and I can't remember who he was saying it to or what he said in response to,
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but he just said, I'm David Goggins, bitch.
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And I remember him saying it and I thought to myself like,
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You want to be able to say that in the mirror to yourself and not laugh at yourself.
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And the only way that I can do that is know that when no one's watching, I work harder than when they're watching.
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And thinking about it like that has given me this persistent and ever-present scorecard or third party that's like,
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no one's watching, which means now you have to work because otherwise you're full of .
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And so it's this continuous reinforcing cycle of the me
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and other me holding the whip behind me to see how much I can take.
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But with each lash of the whip that I take, learning that I can take it and continue to trudge on.
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And so as long as you keep going, you bear witness to yourself of what you are capable of.
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And I find that incredibly satisfying in the trenches of misery when you have to go through it.
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Because you're like, I'm still here.
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It means that you're not full of .
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So I think what we're teasing at is authenticity.
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And so a lot of people feel like imposters because what they think, what they say, and what they do are completely different.
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But from an operational perspective, because that's how I like to define a lot of words, which is what do I have to do to be that?
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What do I have to do to be authentic?
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And you can describe someone as authentic by saying, how would you behave if there was no possibility of punishment?
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And so if you could not be punished at all, that behavior is who you are authentically.
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And so, in my opinion, our degrees of freedom are predicated on how much, to what extent, we act as though we could not be punished.
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And so if what we want to do, and what we do, have no possibility of punishment.
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That is what we are when we are our true selves.
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You, like, most of the pain that people experience is purely in their own minds.
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And so, to your point, I think there's an interesting one between, like, burnout versus hard.
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And so, like, for me, burnout is when my, I would define it as my output per unit of time decreases.
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So I can see that.
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That's measurable, right?
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Now, like I can say like number of pages that I edit or the quality of the content that I create, like my output per time, like the team knows when I like, when I'm like six hours, seven hours into recording something,
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they're like, I literally start like slumping.
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You're like, like physically, I just start like slumping and I like my, my cadence isn't as like, I'm just not as sharp, right?
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There's that versus emotional burnout, which I think people mislabel as burnout when really it's just like,
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they don't know how to reframe reality.
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And so what it really is, is they got a comment on a post that bugged them.
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And like, again, It's like pulling it from the shadows.
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It's like no this stuff doesn't work.
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It's like hold on What's the one voice that actually is coming through?
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What is the real thing?
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Well, there is this comet.
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Okay, great It's embarrassing to even have to say that but
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when you say it Then you admit it
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and all of a sudden you put it in the light
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and the shame kind of starts to evaporate
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Because then you can name it
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and be like is this comet better than my bigger than my future is this comet bigger than me and
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one of the things that I
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That has helped me was saying like what's true about this and
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And the next one is like what if we confront it and say like what if they're right?
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now what?
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Because a lot of I think a lot of effort gets put into trying to deny Reality, right?
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Like there's this clip that I shared from Tom Bilyeu
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and he was talking about how he gets made fun of for his ears being big, right?
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And I think it's a really good clip because his point
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that he was making he's like is that it's true I do have big ears and
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So that's if they're like you have no right to be making content.
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Are they right?
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okay, and
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I'm still gonna do it anyways
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because the thing is like I can still do the things
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that Create success and not deserve it and still get it
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and that actually felt very powerful for me because it was like I don't have to deserve to success.
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I can still just do the stuff that gets it It's like you don't have to you don't deserve the girl, but you can still do the things that get her and And do you deserve when you have her?
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I don't know who knows I hate the word deserve to begin with right yes
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But like that has been super powerful for me, which is like what if they're right and
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Because a lot of people just trying to they spend
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so much effort trying to fight the fact that the comments might be right This might have been a terrible thumbnail.
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Yeah, you know what this might have been a boring video
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This this post might have been regurgitated content this post might have been inspired too closely by someone else's post Right?
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What if they're right?
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And does it make me a piece of sh-?
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What if it does? And?
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Being an asshole is a weak person's idea of strength.
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Complaining is their connection.
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Never let yourself be held back by other people's fears.
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People criticize what they were afraid to do themselves because bold action reminds them of their own inaction.
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If you're afraid to be criticized, why do you care about the opinions of those who are too timid to do it themselves? themselves.
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If you are the criticizer, does tearing down someone who has the courage you lack make you better?
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People criticize because it helps them justify the risks they chose not to take.
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In the hopes that it will dissuade you from doing it
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so that you can be in the exact same position as them, which then justifies that they made the right call.
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And so when I think about how hard I want to work, the interesting thing about that is
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that the only person who can judge you on your success is you
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because you're the only one who knows knows how much left in the tank you really had.
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And the better you get, and you can resonate with this, you start winning exteriorly.
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And that's when people are like, it felt so empty.
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It's because they didn't actually work as hard as they could have.
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They just worked hard enough to beat everyone else.
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But that discrepancy between how hard you could have worked to work your hardest versus what was required in order to win,
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to me, that's the opportunity that's shifting towards the work being the goal unlocks for you.
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And I work harder now than I did when I was poor.
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And I think it's because I've learned to enjoy it.
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Context & Background
The motivational speech by Alex Hormozi emphasizes the importance of self-focus and personal growth. Hormozi challenges listeners to reflect on their ambitions and the sacrifices required to achieve their dreams. He contrasts the mindsets of winners and losers, underscoring that winners take responsibility for their actions, while losers blame external circumstances. Notably, he highlights the significance of overcoming initial fears and difficulties, as these challenges can serve as essential learning experiences that enable personal and professional development in the long run.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- “What would you do if you weren't afraid?” - A powerful question to encourage fearless thinking.
- “Starting is the perfect condition.” - Reminds you that action can begin at any point.
- “You have nothing to lose.” - A phrase that empowers individuals to take risks without fear of failure.
- “Every difficult thing you do is a wall to overcome.” - Recognizes the value of facing challenges head-on.
- “Accept pain as part of the process.” - Acknowledges that growth often comes with discomfort.
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