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That's the fear the fear is never reaching your potential.

That's it.

That always falling short always quitting before you're done always

Procrastinating always not doing the right thing and then one day you're an old man Yep, and you look back.

Oh god.

I could have been great.

Yep.

It could have been great There's people out there

that are just working harder than everybody else and they'll they're gonna keep doing it Yeah, and that's their grind mm-hmm,

you know and those people are super valuable

Those people are

so valuable the Marvin Haglers of the world the Rocky Marcianos of the world like those are very very Valuable people yeah,

because they change everybody's perspective of like what what's possible what to strive for and what it takes

Like do you really want to be a champion?

Why because you just want to be cool?

You want to be the coolest guy on the block like that?

You're not gonna win you're gonna find some fucking psychopath who just lives it.

It's it's their whole life This is just a thing where you got it not slide off

because the slide off is the hardest part Like the discipline is very hard, but the slide off It's so hard to avoid the slide off

when you're used to eating bad food and fucking around Staying up late and drinking like all these guys do.

Yeah It's really hard to be disciplined

and just to say no matter what even

if I travel on the road I got to get workouts

in fuck Your motivation fuck your motivation you need discipline

because motivation is not there every day motivate I'm missing motivation most days.

Wow some days.

Yeah, sometimes I got motivation So I'm just like fuck yeah today.

I felt good I can't wait to get to the gym

a lot of days like gotta get to the gym and then once I get going then I feel great Yeah, I feel great when it's over, but it's that beginning part.

That's hard because your body wants to stay comfortable

It's just hard when you're growing when you're

when you're not where you want to be in life And

if you're listening to this

and you just not satisfied with your position in life It's hard to think

that way you all you want is that thing, but you got a somewhere along the line

Figure out how to enjoy yourself somewhere along the line figure

out how to just go as hard as you can but also enjoy it try to enjoy it because

That changes the whole tone of the experience and I think that makes you more successful I really do.

But you have to make mistakes.

You've been there, you feel it, you understand what it is, and then you have that time to adjust.

That's why losing in life is so important.

Whether it's getting dumped, getting fired, losing a game, loss.

Those feelings where things didn't work out your way, that's important.

Because it lets you know this is the bad feeling that comes when it goes wrong, and you improve, and then it makes the good feelings of of victory, all the better.

And I mean that, you know, in a relative sense.

Like, even getting good at something.

Forget about victory.

Like, making a terrible book that gets rejected by every publisher, and then writing a really good one, and people accept it, and you're like, Fuck, I got better.

Yes!

It's so important, because everybody just wants to be comfortable.

Everybody wants to sit on the couch, I don't want to go outside, it's cold.

I don't want to do this, it's hot.

Like, you've got to do things that you don't want to do, because you show your body that your mind is the boss.

Your mind is telling your body what to do and then you have control.

This conversation is such a blanket conversation.

And when you're talking about people's personal experiences, their personal depression and trauma, people are always very quick to sort of...

Accentuate the negative aspects of whatever they've gone through.

No, no, you're talking about, but mine was worse.

Right.

But mine was this.

Mine was unbearable.

Mine was that and I think that's something

that our society for whatever reason encourages That's really difficult for young people I think more

so today than ever at any time in history because the distractions are so many and they're so engrossing

You know if you get out of high school You don't know what to do

and then you start playing video games

and you're on social media a day can slip by like that A day becomes a week, becomes a month, becomes a year, and before you know it, you're 30.

Yeah, right, that's for sure.

And you haven't done shit.

Yeah.

And that's really common.

That's really common today.

And I don't think we can ignore those factors.

The factors of just engrossing distractions.

Look, there's a lot of ways you could look at bad events.

You could say a bad event is just who you are, and you just have bad events, and you're a fucking loser, and life hates you, and God hates you, and look at that.

Happening to Mike again.

Can't fucking believe it.

There's a lot of guys who go through life like that.

And, you know, they could say that they seek comfort in lowering the standards that they expect out of things.

So when things go bad, and they say, look, I fucking knew it.

For them, it alleviates some concern about what's gonna happen in the future, because the future is always dog shit.

So by doing that they've taken away the fear of succeeding, the fear of overcoming, the fear of improving, the fear of getting better as a human being.

Yeah.

If you just exhibit the same patterns, you fall into those patterns, whether it's alcoholism or gambling addiction or sex addiction.

People fall into those because they're accustomed to it.

It becomes a normal part of your life.

I think that's a scary thing for people is to recognize that they're on a bad pattern and to say, okay, I have to stop drinking.

How do I do this?

Right, right.

What steps do I make?

As much as I like to use the term, that was perfect, there really is nothing perfect in human beings.

There's always room for improvement.

There's always a shorter path, there's always a quicker victory, there's always new things to learn.

And as soon as you start thinking that you've mastered something to the point of an end,

you've kind of missed out what it's all about in the first place.

You're constantly uncomfortable.

You're supposed to be constantly uncomfortable.

Bro, you gotta fucking stop.

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You gotta stop with all this I can't catch a break bullshit.

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All the time you're complaining, you could be instead hustling.

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You could be instead chasing your dream.

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You could be instead figuring out what you're doing wrong, trying to prove certain aspects of your life, getting your shit together, reading a book, meditating, something.

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Fucking something.

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But this I can't catch a break shit is not helping anybody, and it pushes everybody away from you.

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But some people, they get caught in that pattern, and it might be their parents, it might be how they were raised, Somebody might have told them they were useless real early on, it stuck, and they just,

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they always, they never feel like they get enough reassurance.

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They never feel like they get enough motivation.

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And they feel like other people get more.

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They look at all these other people, how come he gets that?

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How come she gets this?

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How come he's got that going on?

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You're not even motivated yourself.

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Like, I want to say, I want to wake you up at 3 o'clock in the morning and go, come on man, we're going running.

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Like, I want to see, I want to see what you do when you're tired.

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Let me see how you push yourself.

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Come on man, get up.

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Get up again tomorrow.

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Get up again tomorrow.

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Get up again tomorrow.

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Again tomorrow, the next day.

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Get up, get up, get up, get up, keep going.

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How long can you maintain a positive attitude?

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One of the things that people always look for in life, they look for a point where they can rest.

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They love the idea of a struggle as long as it ends, and then when it ends, they're gonna have a nice comfortable spot.

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It must end.

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The suffering must end.

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Yeah, you should relax, man.

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You've done so much.

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That's right.

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You've really done so much, but the idea of reaching this golden year

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Is it's a very flawed idea because it's an idea

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that you're gonna you're gonna work hard But then you're gonna reach the finish line, but there's no finish line.

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No doesn't exist

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The what people don't understand you they or they misunderstand you or they purposely Misinterpret the way you're living your life

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You're trying to understand your mind in a way

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that very few human beings ever get to understand their mind

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because you're taking your mind into these terrible dark places all the time

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And you're trying to pull things out of

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that You're trying to learn things about yourself and about your potential from

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that when you're young and you don't have any responsibility That's when you have your options.

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Well your options are severely limited the more you gather

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responsibilities like if I had a As a 51 year old father of three

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Married man pays taxes has a house and a mortgage and a business and all that jazz

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If I had to quit everything now

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and struggle the way I struggled as a stand-up comedian It would never work

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But the only way I could be this person now is

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if I took that chance when I was 21

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When I was dead broke and had my cars repossessed

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and all that stuff That's the only way you ever get where you want to go.

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You have to take a path that's dangerous.

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And most people want to take the safe path.

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And the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet desperation almost every time.

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It's hell.

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Your attitude has a giant effect not just on your life, but on other people's lives around you.

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That's the other thing about it.

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Those I can't catch a break guys, get them the fuck away from me.

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I can't be around those guys.

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I don't want to hear that shit.

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I don't want to hear that shit.

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I don't buy it.

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Because everybody has bad breaks.

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I've had a shit ton of bad breaks.

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But you know what I did?

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I stayed up.

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And I thought through it.

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And I figured out what the fuck I did wrong, and then I went back.

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It's like I fucked up everything I've ever done a hundred times.

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There's no way to other There's no other way to do it

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and I've had a bunch of shitty breaks Everybody has

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but you got to realize when you have those shitty breaks what

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that is It's an opportunity for you to reassess reboot get better figure out another way find another way through

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It's just little challenges.

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It's not determinism that makes David Goggins run harder than anybody else.

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It's will yeah It's a hundred percent will his knees are destroyed.

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Yeah, it's only will that just gets you up off the couch

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If your knees are destroyed and you run a tidy 30 miles that day.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not that's not Determinism.

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Yeah, that's bullshit.

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It was determinism.

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There'd be tons of those guys out there.

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Yeah, a small

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Cameron Haynes small little fucking handful of these like psychotic people who have incredible will world champion fighters You know,

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Gordon Ryan and Jiu Jitsu.

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Like, there's a f- Like, Gordon Ryan works out every fucking day of the week.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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365 days a year.

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And the people that look at those challenges and go, Why do I always have these challenges?

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They're cancer.

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Those people are dangerous to be around.

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They will rob you of your enthusiasm.

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They don't give you any fuel.

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They're the opposite of fuel.

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Yeah.

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Like, the fuel people- They're the whole in the tank.

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The people that are kicking ass.

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The people that are out there just fucking hustling.

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Always, always getting things done.

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People make those excuses.

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It just drives me crazy.

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Yeah.

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Because I've seen examples.

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I've been very fortunate that I have good health.

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Yep.

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But I've seen many examples.

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And I've also been very fortunate that I never got out of shape.

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I just kept working out my whole life.

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But I've seen people that are fat as fuck, 350 pounds, just barely can get around.

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And then they decide, I'm going to take control of my fucking health.

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And then they just do it.

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Yep.

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They just do it.

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And even if you just got to walk around the block, even if you walk up flights of stairs, Even if you just do a push-up, even if you do a sit-up, just do something, man.

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Do some bodyweight squats, do something.

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It can be done.

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You want to be really great at something, you kind of have to be out of your fucking mind, but you also have to have an iron will.

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Yeah.

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You don't want to work out every day.

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There's gonna be days you just want to eat cake and sleep.

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Yeah.

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But if you want to get past the guy who eats cake and sleeps, you don't eat cake and you don't sleep.

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Yeah.

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You just have to know when you're getting sucked in to the point where it's becoming detrimental.

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And I think that's where people struggle.

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People really struggle with that.

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Like figuring out what's, how much, like, you can eat a cookie.

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Nothing wrong with eating a cookie, but you shouldn't eat a whole bag of cookies.

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You know, you shouldn't eat cookies every day.

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That's not good.

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But if you have dinner and you want to get dessert, yeah, I'll get a piece of tiramisu.

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Okay, you're going to be fine.

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You're going to be fine.

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You eat tiramisu every day, you're going to die.

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You know, and that's what social media is.

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It's dessert.

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It's candy.

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It's things that are kind of fun up to a point.

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But you just got to know what that point is and how to manage your own attention span.

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It's a luxury that's provided to you by a life that's fairly safe.

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You know, people that live in war-torn countries and have very difficult lives, They don't have that luxury of just sitting around all day and doing nothing and oh,

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I go outside and run errands That's gonna make me feel better.

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You're dealing with like real stress.

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That's right.

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And I think that

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There's an expression that someone told me once

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and I say it all the time The worst thing that's

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ever happened to you is the worst thing that's ever happened to you

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If it's you got a dent in your car

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or it's your parents get killed in a car accident either

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one of those things is the worst thing depending upon the level of whatever stress

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or anxiety or horrible things you've experienced in your life

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that sort of measure that's your watermark for what you can

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and can't tolerate well oftentimes people just need momentum they need

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one good day you need one good day that's why I said to

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that one guy just come to the gym one day yeah

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if you have one good day where you eat clean you drink a lot of and you like you did, you got that day, you woke up you put your shoes on you went for

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a run you worked out your driveway you got a good day yep that's sometimes all you need to do

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and decide this is what i do from now on i

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have good days yeah tomorrow's gonna be another good day

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and then i'm gonna force myself into another good day

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and the next thing you know i've got some momentum right

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you got some momentum you could change everything yep i've i've

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felt many times in my life i've felt like i could slip the wrong way

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And I just I see it I see the dark hole

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and I go fuck that and just go the other go the other way

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The problem is when people fall into that dark hole they think that that defines them, but it's it doesn't right?

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It doesn't define you.

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It's just you right now.

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You could be totally different tomorrow

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You're a human being you can think you can adjust have sovereignty over your mind You have to control your mind.

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You have to be able to like if your mind starts getting anxious, okay?

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I know we're getting weird.

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It's time to work out.

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Okay.

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I know maybe we should meditate.

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Maybe we should do this Maybe we should do that.

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Don't just keep scrolling

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You got to know when and when but most people don't have

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that kind of self-control

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and discipline They don't have to way you can change is

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you have to put aside enough money to give yourself a window

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and then you have to have a Plan

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and you have to spend all your waking hours outside of whatever shit job you do Planning your escape

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and you have to come to the realization very clearly that you fucked up you got yourself stuck

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so whatever you're doing you have to

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Do it like your life depends on it

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and whether it is You're trying to be an author and you're gonna you're gonna if you're gonna

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Try to be an author

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and you're working eight hours a day plus commuting plus family responsibilities or whatever else you have

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Whatever time that you have you have to attack like you're trying to save the world You're trying to save your life.

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You don't want to drown that one and a half hours a day that you have to write

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God damn you better be caffeinated and motivated.

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You got to go you got to get after it, and you got to have discipline

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That's most people don't have those things most people don't understand what it's like to to really go for something

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And to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific

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All most people have to do is when the alarm goes off get up, wash yourself, brush your teeth, eat something, go to work,

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do whatever minimal amount you have to do to keep

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that job and then and the bathroom breaks and whenever no one's looking, look through your phone, be distracted,

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come home, watch Netflix, go to sleep, repeat.

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That's most people.

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So they don't have to do anything because they haven't set up their life in a way that requires

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serious attention and an objective sense of your perspective

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and your your your interaction with humans

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and the way the world is working they don't have the

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time they don't they have family problems job problems their cars

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fucked something's wrong with their house they got a fix they

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have bills everything's piling up they need a thing to get

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them going right they need a thing right I They need a goal, they need a...

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Like it's...

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Sometimes the first step is the hardest.

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Like it's hard to take that one million step too, but sometimes the first step is the most...

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There's something about the...

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What do I do?

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They start going over their phone, they start calling people, they don't get out of the house.

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Right.

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And there's something about...

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Procrastination.

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It's like you know it's painful.

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You know you should be doing things, but you just keep doing it.

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You keep itching that scav People are immensely distracted.

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So what social media does for them is it gives them a brief

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rest from their own problems to just look at some

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Fucking drag queen reading stories to kids and get outraged or some new thing that's going on with some girl

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That made some crazy video and now everybody's talking about it like

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it's just most people don't have much discipline and they don't have to

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and they've gotten through life being overweight and eating processed foods

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and drinking too much smoking too much

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and taking all kinds of pills to mitigate all these problems

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that they have because they've not taken care of themselves

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so they're on anti-anxiety medication and anti-depression medication and anti this

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and that and they're trying to lose weight so they're on ozempic in.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Joe Rogan Motivation- Difficulty’s and laziness”. This video has 332 sentences and 3525 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:01. The speaker talks fast, about 196 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
cookie noun	/ˈkʊki/	A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
determinism noun	/dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/	The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
motivate verb	/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/	To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.
momentum noun	/ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/	Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its…
engross verb	/ɪnˈɡɹəʊs/	To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
meditate verb	/ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/	To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
tiramisu noun	/ˌtɪɹəˈmisu/	An Italian semifreddo dessert, originally from Veneto, made from ladyfinger biscuits, cocoa, mascarpone cheese, Marsala wine, eggs (or sometimes cream), sugar…
hustle verb	/ˈhʌsəl/	To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
distract verb	/dɪˈstɹækt/	To divert the attention of.
distraction noun	/dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/	Something that distracts.
dessert noun	/dɪˈzɝt/	The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
fortunate adjective	/ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/	Auspicious.
adjust verb	/əˈd͡ʒʌst/	To modify.
addiction noun	/əˈdɪkˌʃən/	A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
medication noun	/mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/	A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
stay up verb		To remain awake; to not go to bed.
get around verb		To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
get past verb		To continue around a blockage; to get around (something); to surpass something that is in the way.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Why because you just want to be cool?
You want to be the coolest guy on the block like that?
How do I do this?
What steps do I make?
How long can you maintain a positive attitude?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	You've been · they've gone · haven't done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be disciplined · were raised · are destroyed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	guys who go · people who have · guy who eats

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 147 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: psychopath /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: determinism /dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/, tiramisu /ˌtɪɹəˈmisu/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/

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 cookie, determinism, motivate.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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