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We choose to go to the moon in this decade
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and do the other thing not because they are easy but because they are hard.
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I think a lot of entrepreneurship
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and even personal growth is training yourself on how you respond to hard
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because in the early days hard was oh stop this is
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a warning sign this is a red flag I should slow down
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or I should pivot but the more I think about it as a competitive landscape, as I'm clear on what this path is supposed to look like,
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I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow.
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And I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this, then it flips from being this thing that you're like, Oh, poor me to Oh,
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poor everyone else is gonna have to try.
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Find something difficult to do.
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You need that you're not built for comfort or pleasure.
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Like if that comes along, good.
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You know, if you have a day where you're comfortable and there's some things around you that give pleasure, have some sense and enjoy it.
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But don't be thinking that's what your life is aimed at.
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One of the things for people who are not where they want to be is that they have pain, like oodles of pain.
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And I remember when I was starting out, I was looking for passion.
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I was looking for purpose.
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I was like, I just want to find something that I'm motivated by, but it's the cat and the cheese.
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It's like, we're looking for cheese, but we have all these cats behind us
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and all we have to do is look and remember that they're behind us and chasing us.
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And so if you have the cat and you're staying in your current situation, you're being used by the cat, right?
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You're being used by the business owner who, you know, it doesn't treat you well and is, you know, and you're in this job that you don't really want to be in, right?
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Or you're being used by the situation or the context of the relationship that you're in with the girl that you're like, not that into right versus saying like this is terrible and
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because of this terribleness I now have something
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that I can run away from
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and then like rather than not looking at the knife
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or trying to take painkillers to not feel the pain like completely sobering up taking the knife
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and twisting it in your own heart and being like I'm gonna do something about this
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it's not avoiding pain it's choosing from the very beginning the alchemy
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which is like you You have these terrible situations
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and you have the opportunity to turn them into magic and skip
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or shortcut all the growth you're going to have in a
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really short period of time simply by twisting the knife and being like, I'm going to do something about it.
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If you do what is easy, complain about your situation, your circumstances.
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If you do what is easy, stand around and be a volunteer victim like everybody else.
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If you do what is easy, surrender and give up on your dreams, become depressed and bitter and angry.
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Anybody can do that.
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If you do what is easy, your life will be hard.
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But if you do what is hard, keep coming back again and again and again.
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If you do what is hard, approaching strangers, talking to people in shopping malls, get up dressed every day,
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going out prospecting, knowing some way, somehow, with a spirit of expectation, somebody's out here looking for an opportunity.
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And if you do that over and over and over again, somebody's going to show up.
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Somebody's going to say, I'm the one.
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You say the emotionally immature man seeks out motivation to do something hard one time.
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The emotionally mature man uses discipline to do something hard a thousand times.
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Why is emotional maturity related to motivation and discipline?
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Because when you have emotional maturity, you realize that some days you're not going to sleep well.
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Some days you're going to wake up and you've got your schedule and everything's planned out and the poop hits the fan.
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And whether things go well or not that day, the emotionally mature man will still do what he has to do to stack his wins, to focus on his purpose.
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Whereas the emotionally immature man will say, well, I didn't sleep well.
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I had nightmares, so I'll stay in bed.
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It's raining outside.
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It's cold outside.
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I don't feel good.
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You have to stay the course no matter what.
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And it takes a high level of emotional maturity because your emotions dictate your motion.
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Like what you're going to do.
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And so if you have emotional maturity, you're more likely to lean into discipline when things are suboptimal.
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If you lack emotional maturity, then how you feel determines what you do next, which is very damaging to outcome -driven humans.
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It's easy to give up.
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Hell yeah.
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It's the easiest thing in the world to do.
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All right, man, I'm done.
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I ain't going.
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I ain't going to keep going.
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I don't feel like going to work.
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I'm done.
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Yeah, man.
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It's easy.
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It's very easy
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but what's hard is going yo yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could nothing happened from
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that I'm gonna do the same thing again today
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but I'm gonna try to go harder that's the hardest thing in the world to get up every day
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and give a hundred percent and and be in the same position
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that you were each day but mentally know that you're trying
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and trying and trying that's that's a real that's a real grind.
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Freud said in retrospect the struggle will strike you as most
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beautiful like the years of struggle will strike you as most beautiful
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and it's true you think about the worst moments of your
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life from earlier now they're integrated into who you are
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and in some ways we understand that we couldn't
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and wouldn't be where we are without those things not only is
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that true in a positive way
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but it's also just true in how the mind works like
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this is what cognitive dissonance does it it works on you in a way
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that that makes this thing for the best even
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if it wasn't for the best like we're
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so worried about like will i regret it You won't regret it because you actually don't have that many regrets at all.
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The mind is is pretty good at minimizing
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That feeling of regret we convince ourselves that what happened was for the best
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So we know this is almost certainly where we're gonna end up and so why torture yourself in the interim, right?
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Why not give yourself some of that grace now?
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Go do something that's hard
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go try
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and accomplish something that's hard you may win you may lose
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you may succeed you may fail i'll tell you what you'll be better if you avoid those things that are hard
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if you don't accept that challenge if you don't step up and step into that cold water
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i i can tell you this is not a good move this is not a good move don't do
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that don't do that just get up move towards that challenge whatever
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that challenge is move towards that challenge and go attack it
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and you may be successful and you may not be successful but you will be better
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and the next challenge you're gonna be more prepared for
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and the next challenge after
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that you're gonna be even more prepared for it's supposed to
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be hard everything worth pursuing comes with a little pain the trick is not minding
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that it hurts there's this great scene in Lawrence of Arabia
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where a guy pulls out a match lights it up
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and puts it out with his fingers doesn't even wince this
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other guy watching him he's like oh let me try
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that pulls out the match lights it up puts his fingers on he goes ah it hurts what's the trick
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and Lawrence goes the trick is not minding that it hurts
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and it's like that is such such a brilliant scene and
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that applies to almost everything like there is a cost to pay for almost anything
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and a trick in almost any endeavor in life is figuring out what the cost is
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and just being willing to pay it i know it's hard
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and it's overwhelming and changing your life is not easy
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so here's what i want to challenge you to do this week pick one
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or two things that you can change and as you master them pick one or two more
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and then do one or two more and then one
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or two more it's it's easier said than done it's too hard well it's supposed to be fucking hard look
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if growing stronger if growing stronger
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and building muscle were fucking easy there would be no growth
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if there was no challenge and that's my invitation to you is to realize
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that it's supposed to be fucking hard it's supposed to be difficult.
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If it wasn't difficult, then there'd be no growth.
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There would be no resistance.
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There'd be nothing to force you to grow stronger with.
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And that's why I say the most important reason, the most important thing, the most important gift
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that you receive by taking action in the direction of your dreams is not attaining your fucking dream.
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It's you growing stronger and becoming a stronger version of yourself through the challenges,
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through the resistance and because it's hard we choose to go to the moon in this decade
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and do the other thing not because they are easy but
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because they are hard what the hell does fair have to do with it
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i got a big news flash for you tammy life isn't fair you're gonna have to scrape
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and claw for everything you want just like the rest of us
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but you haven't done one single thing to make it better you know you can't just
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and moan and expect to change you're going to lose sleep
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you'll doubt whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet
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you won't finish your to -do list you'll wonder whether you made the right call
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and have no way to know this is what hard feels like
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and that's okay everything worth doing is hard
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and the more worth doing it is the harder it is the greater the payoff, the greater the hardship.
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If it's hard, good.
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It means no one else will do it.
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More for you.
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Being bullied, coming from nothing, learning disability, messed up foundation.
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Life isn't fair. At all. At all.
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So what are you going to do about it?
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I knew that no one was coming back to help me.
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No one was going to miracle me to be somebody special.
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All my situations were on me now, and solely on me.
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Look, look, that test might not go away.
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That pain might not go away.
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That fight might not go away.
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You are a warrior.
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It's time for you not to back up, not to give up, not to give in i know it's challenging i know you've
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never gone through this much pain before i know you've never been tested like this i don't know
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if i can make it look warrior it's time to do
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what warriors do baby life isn't fair is it doesn't appear to be very fair i don't even know
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if that's what we want
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but what are we built for
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because dude the reality is his life is hard man we're going to be hit
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so many times with unexpected hardships and these unexpected hardships for most people crumble them
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And the reason they crumble them is because they lack the ability to operate during hard times.
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Man, it's a tough duty to win the fair fights.
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And there's a lot of unfair fights out there.
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And why do I want to spend my time
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if I've got 25 hours a day picking unfair fights
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when I'm going to be busting my ass to win the fair ones?
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Life can be kind of difficult.
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You don't really know sometimes where you're headed.
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Nobody kind of gives you any kind of guidance in this world.
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one of the things that makes life more difficult for us is
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that we expect it to be easy does demanding
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that it should be fair make you stronger does saying that
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that person started further ahead of you in any way benefit you no
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because your actions are entirely independent from them now it's hard life is hard
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and you could either fold
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or you could get after it some of y 'all you
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like et i'm frustrated i can't take another loss listen to
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me can you just survive today I called the rocky cutscene
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and almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month
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or a year but many years of
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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 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
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because of the one thing they want most look life is hard
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and there is suffering but you're not alone there is a way out
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and there is light out there and it is good
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but you gotta hang in there you gotta never give up
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and you gotta remember that you are never out of the fight.
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This was a hard journey.
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I will not make any excuses for my failures out here, because to do so would deprive me of my victories.
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Am I disappointed with the outcome?
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Yes.
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But am I content with myself?
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absolutely it was never designed to be easy life was given for a reason
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we exist for a reason
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we were put on this earth to do great things
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but the challenges ladies and gentlemen the challenges
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had to happen they must happen they will happen
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but we must carry on if i'm gonna hurt like this
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if i'm gonna bleed like this if i'm gonna cry like this let me cry
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because i'm in the best shape of my life let me cry
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because i'm conditioned to weather the uphill war let me cry
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because i'm building my relationship i'm building my business i'm building my legacy let me cry
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because it hurt
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but there is a reward on the other end of my pain let me cry tears
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because i passed the test
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because i gave it everything i had everything in life comes with hardship make a decision will you choose the pain
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that hurts you or the pain that changes you consider this your wake -up call
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it was on me
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and that's the thing you have to realize everything you do you may have some support you may not
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but it's on you you have to make the decision whether you want to be a badass
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or whether you just want to be mediocre and everything's okay but being a badass hurts
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real bad life isn't fair we have to understand
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that it shouldn't be fair it's a trial ground it's a
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testing ground it's built to make us harder it's built to
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make us as strong as we can to test us to drive us
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so mentality is the only thing that gets us through life but this is the thing though
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it's easier said than done right on the other end of suffering
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is a life that many people don't know even exist It's a beautiful world.
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We all live in this world where our brains are keeping us in this box.
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Outside that box, on the other edge of suffering, is a world that's endless of opportunity.
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But we are afraid to go outside that box because in that box it's comfortable.
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Outside that box, man, God gives you a shovel and says, man, start digging.
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That's not fun.
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I think part of the challenges in life is a lot of us are running around half -assing ourselves.
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half fooling ourselves not full of ourselves not studying ourselves enough
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not holding ourself to task enough not patting our own self on the back
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when we do get what we want enough not cracking our own whip on our backside
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when we do get out of line even though we knew better i wish we were more full of ourselves
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that way but understand this life is hard no matter who you are there There are bumps
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and hits and bruises along the way, and my advice is to prepare yourself.
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Success and achievement come from overcoming adversity.
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Life is hard.
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See it's hard when you are 49 years old, been working on a job for 17 years, and they come in and tell you,
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you're finished, and give you one week's severance pay, and you gotta start all over again.
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it's hard when you are married and raising children
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and your children are crawling
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and your husband dies unexpectedly it's hard handling just the tragedies of life it's hard
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when you're working on something and and you put everything you have in it
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and it doesn't work you lose your money
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and other people's money it's hard you will go through things
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and while you're going through them you can't understand why it's happening to you
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but after you go through it you get back
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and you look at it and you say oh now I understand why I needed
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that lesson at some juncture you will encounter pain and the moment
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that you get acquainted with pain you get acquainted with hardship you realize
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that no matter what you do no matter how much you
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study no matter how much you plan you will not be able to avoid a measure of pain
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if you want this thing I don't care what it is
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then you're gonna have to get acquainted with pain the pain of discipline the pain of growth The pain of learning,
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the pain of giving, the pain of forgiving, it all hurts.
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So pick your pain, choose your heart.
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But getting knocked down or getting knocked back doesn't mean you stop living.
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It doesn't mean you stop growing.
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It doesn't mean you don't carry on.
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But I dare you to go the hard way.
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I dare you to go down that path that many refuse to go.
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I dare you to show up and show the world that you have something that is special and unique about you
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I dare you to show the world something they ain't never seen before about you I dare you to stand up
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I dare you to breathe life into your purpose I dare you to do it
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There's always someone out there who's working harder than you I'm haunted by that motherfucker
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Monday get better Tuesday get better Wednesday get better I have
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to ask this guy like I have to understand like why why he works like
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that right so after games I'm like hey Kobe like why why were you in the gym for
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so long he's like because I saw you come in
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and I wanted you to know that it It doesn't matter how hard you work, that I'm willing to work harder than you.
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You got to be the hardest workers in the room.
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No one will outwork me.
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No one.
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I don't give a fuck who is in front of me.
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They're not going to stop me.
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At some point, you got to be f*ing tired of not being number one.
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You have to be, and you got to f*ing play angry.
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Dedication.
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Hard work.
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Dedication.
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Hard work.
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I'm a one -male army.
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One -male army.
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The world can go against me.
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I'm still coming home to you have to pay the price
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and not only do you have to pay the price you've
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got to pay the price well meaning the actions you take
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have to be executed at a high level like this is not
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that hard to understand you just don't want to understand it you want it to be
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that you can off half the time
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and still get where you want to go and that just doesn't Work the mentality should be like this.
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How do I get there?
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period bro you gotta stop you gotta stop with all this i can't catch a break
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all the time you're complaining you could be instead hustling you
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could be instead chasing your dream you could be instead figuring
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out what you're doing wrong trying to prove certain aspects of
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your life getting your together reading a book meditating something something
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you've got to put in the work when nobody cares there's only one person who has to care
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that's you you gave me an opportunity to reinvent myself you
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gave me an opportunity to come out of my grave
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that you put me in you left me for dead i'm
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coming out alive there's a price tag to success you don't
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just get it overnight you got to earn it the right
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way you need to work harder you have to suffer a
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little bit you have to put yourself in a state of discomfort.
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Growth shouldn't be easy.
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Stop looking for shortcuts.
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Stop looking to make things a breeze.
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You've got to learn to suffer.
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You've got to put yourself in a bit of an uncomfortable position.
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And you may not feel qualified.
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You may not feel like you are educated enough.
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You may not feel like you're connected enough.
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You may not think that enough people are aware of you, cognizant of you, because you don't have a blue chick
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and you're not a celebrity it yet
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but you gotta work hard in silence you gotta work
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when nobody's watching i will do the work
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when i'm tired i will do the work even
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if i'm sick i will do the work even
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if i didn't sleep well i will do the work even
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if i don't feel like it i will do the work
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if it's cold outside i will do the work
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if it's too hot i will do the work
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if no one else wants to do it with me
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because i am driven by purpose people want to they want
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to jump from day one to day 10 by getting some big seed money
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or big investment
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and dude i don't care how much money i've made i
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try to pretend like i'm broke every single day in the way
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that i think because it forces me to create new solutions
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and innovate in my brain it's about taking an idea it's about executing on the idea
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and it's not about having the perfect plan it's about your ability to adjust
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and create and improvise your way through this path.
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Even though you may feel stuck, even though you may feel hopeless, you're not broken.
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You have patterns of thinking and patterns of behavior
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that are broken for where you are and where you want to go in life.
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When you start to think about changing your life through the lens of just looking for patterns, breaking them and replacing them,
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it becomes less personal hard work is the goal and
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so it's not like work hard so that X
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because as soon as you have a so
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that then the X is the thing but
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if the goal is to work as hard as you possibly
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can then the only real output we have is who we
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become along the way the most important question to ask is
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what pain do you want in your life what are you
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willing to struggle for anything worthwhile is going to require some degree of pain and struggle.
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So if you're oriented toward the pain and the struggle, you're probably going to be more aligned with what you're capable of accomplishing rather than if you just orient toward the pleasures.
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No fundamental like secret here, it's called hard work and sweat.
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If you had that and you're willing to provide that in exchange for a better life, well everyone will make that deal with you.
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If you're willing to give up that for pride, accomplishment, feeling of self -worth.
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If you're willing to make that transaction, Miami Fitness is your bank, and it's open every single day for your transactions.
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Make your deposits every fucking day.
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Do your dues.
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I'm the person you want to be.
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It's the easiest fucking equation in the world.
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Success leaves clues.
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There are millions of people in the world seeing grand success and they're dropping breadcrumbs every fucking day.
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You just got to pay attention to the steps.
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They're showing you a path to a better future.
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They're showing you a path to your goals and aspirations.
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You just got to believe in you.
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You got to be willing to save one day
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and then work as hard as you fucking can every day in order to make it happen.
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Because everything you want is in your mind.
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Everything that you want to achieve, you can do.
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You just got to be willing to speak it you got
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to be willing to say it out loud you got to be willing to yell it into the fucking universe
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and then work towards it people say i must be nice for you and you go dude you
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like if you could have seen how much criticism and hard work
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and lonely nights and all of the stuff when nobody was watching
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and i was was unsure of myself chronically miserable and i criticized
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and all my friends took the piss at me
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and i did all of these things I had to go through all of that for you to now say, must be nice.
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Time is the currency we're playing with in every moment of our lives.
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It's the centre point of our influence.
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I talk about the roulette table of my life.
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It's the frame I think through where we wake up in the morning with these 24 chips.
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If you spend eight hours sleeping, you wake up with six, 16 chips left.
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And how you place those chips on this roulette table.. table
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that sits in front of us just before the wheel spins
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every day determines all of our outcomes in our lives
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so i've chosen now to put to allocate two chips to
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this little piece here called fitness the roulette table spins
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and i get my returns as i went down
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that chapter i realized that in the context of time
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and death um
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and time management the most important question to answer the fundamental
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is discipline how can i allocate more of these chips to the things
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that are in line with my values where does this thing called discipline come from
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if it underpins everything we do because i believed
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that i can be a leading man i believe
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that i could be another king of eastwood or another burt reynolds
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or another warren batty or whatever those characters were charles bronson
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and so on i believe
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that i could be those people i said there's enough room in
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that ladder that i can fit up there and i look back again and learn from what i learned in sports
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in my case in bodybuilding
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it's all about the hard work that you put in
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being the hardest worker in the room is about actually learning how to walk the walk
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when everyone else just wants to talk the talk
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it's understanding that you are going to be exhausted and alone
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and in pain and struggling for years with no support with no cheerleading squad and nobody patting you on the back
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this game isn't for everybody but if you're willing to go through
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that pain and if you're willing to do the goddamn work then you can put
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that badge on
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and call yourself the hardest worker in the room we don't rise to the standards we have
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when others are watching we fall to the standards we have
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when no one is watching the only work
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that really matters is the work
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that no one sees it shows you who you really are rather than who you say you are
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listen up i know you're tired i know you want to give up i know your mind is drained
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i know your body feels weak but you gotta understand there's so much more to you
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there's so much greatness to you there's so much realness to you Don't quit now, go get that work done,
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earn your keep on this day, and conduct your business.
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Let me tell you something, my friend, the cause of your downfall will be because of you, nobody else but you.
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You keep looking around, trying to place blame on things, people, everything else, instead of looking in the mirror at oneself
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and looking at who caused this in the first place you close the door on yourself
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because you are afraid to look within yourself
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and see who did it my friend you are the one
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but you have the key to unlock that door
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and become something more because the truth is this that one day
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that goal that dream that reality that you crave
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so badly is gonna come with a price now How are you willing to pay it?
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 425 sentences and 5007 words to shadow. The speech runs for 28:19. The speaker talks at a natural 177 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dare verb | /dɛ(ə)ɹ/ | To have enough courage (to do something). |
| discipline noun | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | A controlled behaviour; self-control. |
| chip noun | /t͡ʃɪp/ | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
| maturity noun | /məˈtjʊəɹɪti/ | The state of being mature, ready or ripe; the prime state of productibility and self expression. |
| hardship noun | /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ | Difficulty or trouble; hard times. |
| trick noun | /ˈtɹɪk/ | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| regret verb | /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ | To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. |
| emotionally adverb | /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/ | In an emotional manner; displaying emotion. |
| knife noun | /ˈnaɪ̯f/ | A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge… |
| outcome noun | /ˈaʊtkʌm/ | That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process. |
| warrior noun | /ˈwɔɹi.ɚ/ | A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| chase verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | To follow at speed. |
| worker noun | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| pull out verb | To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat. | |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. |
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 it wasn't difficult, then there'd be · if i'm sick i will do · if i didn't sleep well i will do |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is aimed · Being bullied · been tested |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't done · you've never been tested · have ever encountered |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who are · next, which is · person who has |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 176 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, transaction /tɹænˈzækʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: maturity /məˈtjʊəɹɪti/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/
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 dare, discipline, chip.
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.