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It's pushing the water

and there's a jogger actually look at this wow the florida man right there for you blake jogging in the hurricane

something in you has to wake up

And usually the only person

that can wake it up is you be the hero of your own movie if your life was a movie

And it started now forget about whatever financial disasters you've had personal failures relationship failures

What would the hero of your life's movie do right now? do

that no passion no motivation there's no oh my god man

i this is no

it's every day of your life just doing no passion no discipline no motivation yeah all these words

i hate people i hate that so many people lose these words now

because it's watered where's passion when you're 300 pounds

where's the motivation when you can't read and write where is it so how did this happen i just I did.

I just did.

It was life and death.

Either you live or you die.

Which one do you want, Tom?

That was the decision.

In the corporate life and in the gym.

But if you want something bad enough, if you want something bad enough, you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something.

I'll repeat that.

If you want something bad enough, you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something, not even yourself.

A lot of days I'm like, oh, you can't do this, Tom.

You can't be as quick as a 30 -year -old on the computer.

Let me show you, I would have arguments with myself.

I could do it.

We define ourselves far too often by our past failures.

We look at our past and we say, well, that's me.

That's not you.

You are this person right now.

You're the person who's learned from those failures.

And you can choose to be the hero of your own movie right now.

Write down your goals.

Write down things you want to improve.

Write down things you won't tolerate from yourself.

Write down things that you've done in the past that you never want to see yourself do again.

And go forth.

Everyone is jealous of what you've got.

No one is jealous of how you got it.

Everybody wants the view, but no one wants the climb.

We're up here because of 4am.

We're up here because of 2 -a -days.

We're 5 -a -days.

We're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way.

People see the trophies, but not the training ground.

I have failed far more times than I've succeeded.

Far more.

You will never succeed more than you fail.

That's not how it works.

You know why?

Because failure is a wonderful teaching.

It's the only way to learn.

You have to fail.

Failure is a part of the process to become successful.

So when you fail, it's a part of the process.

Shit, who you know that gets it right all the time?

That's impossible.

You have to fail.

Matter of fact, when you fail, be glad about it.

Every time you fail, you're one step closer.

The only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey

is you have got to suffer to grow.

To grow, you must suffer.

Some people will get it and some people won't.

Louie, a moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.

Remember that.

Do you think Michael Jordan was just interested in winning championships?

You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in basketball?

Those individuals are obsessed.

Are you interested or are you obsessed?

I became obsessed.

I became obsessed with being the baddest mother God ever created.

Am I that?

I don't care.

I believe it.

And I was trying to tell them, once you become obsessed with something, obsessed, it's okay to be unbalanced for a while.

The best at what you do, you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of energy and strength that you have to pull it off.

Then you get balanced once you become great.

Interested people watch obsessed people change the world.

Everything counts.

Everything that you do counts.

The biggest mistake that people make is they think that only what they want to count counts.

No. When you read a book, when you listen to an audio program, when you go to a course,

when you go to bed early and get up early and you work, it all counts.

And it's all going on the plus side of your ledger.

But when you watch television, waste time, hang out, fool around and so on, all of that counts as well.

And it's going on the negative side of your ledger.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's probably moving you away from your goals.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented.

Where I excel is ridiculous.

sickening work ethic.

You know, while the other guy's sleeping, I'm working.

While the other guy's eating, I'm working.

You're willing to shoulder more than your responsibility of life because you expect and demand something more of life.

Champions mentality, man.

Hoping for a good result.

You're demanding a mother.

You're going above and beyond what's expected in the gym, what normal people do.

You do more than what's normal because you want more than normal return of life as investment.

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Les Brown's a motivational speaker.

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He made an analogy about this.

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He says, imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential.

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The ghost of the ideas you never acted on.

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The ghost of the talents you didn't use.

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And they're standing around your bed angry, disappointed and upset.

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They say we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say

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And now we have to go to the grave together.

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So I ask you today

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How many ghosts are gonna be around your bed when your time comes?

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You think when you're young that you have all this time

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You have no time.

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There's dirt.

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There's no time every day when you get out of bed

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Life stand right there to kick you in the fuck this man life is gonna throw all kinds of crazy you, right?

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You have to be ready for it and you got to fuck with it.

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You can't curl up into a ball.

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You can't run away from it.

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You can't hide.

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You have to take all this head on.

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Great things happen and really bad things happen.

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And you got to take it all in stride and you got to pick yourself up the next day,

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strap your shoes back on and get out there and go to war again.

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And you're going to fail and you're going to fail and you're going to fail and you're going to fail.

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and then you're gonna win and that's life life without those challenges

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it's just existence don't just exist go live bro you gotta stop

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you gotta stop with all this i can't catch a break all the time

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you're complaining you could be instead hustling you could be instead chasing your dream

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

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Nobody cares, you know?

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At the end of the day, nobody cares.

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What we're going through, how your body feels, nobody cares.

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We gotta do our job.

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And we emphasize that to each other again today, you know?

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Hey, I got your back, you got mine.

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Nobody cares, man.

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We gotta go.

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The winners always show up.

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They're willing to lose in order to gain.

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Big mental thing there, guys.

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This body, as great as you are, as sharp as you make the arsenal, It can't do anything if you don't have confidence in yourself.

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We all fall down in life

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The question is who gets back up you go after

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and you give it all you have if you lose at least you try

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What would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week?

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with pride Okay Maybe stop breaking promises to yourself when you say I'm going to Wake up tomorrow at 7 a .m.

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And when the option comes to hit the snooze button don't do it

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There's one win that you've got for the day.

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That's action.

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Then the next day comes and you're back playing again and you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it's,

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you know, what you do on Monday, it's fantastic, but then Tuesday is a bad day.

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But guess what?

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There's Wednesday.

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So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time?

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You know, versus just staying like this and understanding that it's really just a journey of evolution every day.

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It's just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better the results don't really matter uh it's the figuring out

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that matters yeah

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and we all get obsessed about the results yeah like we

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get obsessed about like the output yeah not the input of not figuring it out

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and not like changing things what you said trial

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and error like the experimenting yeah we forget to do

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that i was not always this strong guy you see um

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i went through a of hard times in my life to get here today.

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All I wanted to be was an uncommon man.

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In my whole life I was not that much worse than that.

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So I came home one day from working at a job called Ecolab where I sprayed for cockroaches.

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Made a thousand dollars a month weighing 300 pounds.

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And I got home and I watched the show on Discovery Channel of guys carrying boats and logs, Navy SEAL training.

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And I decided to make a change in my life.

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And I called the recruiter up.

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And he asked me these questions.

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He had to meet a certain height and weight limit.

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I was 6 '1 and 300 pounds.

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He laughed at me.

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Seven other recruiters laughed at me.

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One recruiter finally said, Come on in.

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I'm too busy to talk to you on the phone.

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He didn't know how much I weighed.

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I walked in the recruiter's office and he looked at me and he said, you're fat and you're black.

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Got someone to be a Navy SEAL.

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I didn't know there'd only been 35 African American Navy SEALs at that time in over 70 years.

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He said, I basically had to lose 106 pounds in less than three months.

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Because of my age, I was getting too old.

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I came back three months later, 106 pounds lighter.

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I'm proud of you.

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I'm proud of you because I know how hard it is to take care of ourselves.

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That's how I get a picture of one of the next greats.

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I'm proud of you, my boy.

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You're not supposed to have it all together.

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You're not expected to have it all together.

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Anybody looks at you at 26, 27, 28 years old and says, hey man, what's wrong with you?

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How come you don't have everything figured out?

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They're a fool.

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Knowledge and experience and wisdom takes time.

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Wisdom comes from experience and experience takes time.

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The more experience you have, the more you learn from that experience, the wiser you can get.

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If you haven't lived long enough to have a broad enough portfolio of experience,

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then you can't expect to have knowledge and wisdom.

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The question is, do we believe we can become it?

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Without that belief, every journey, how bad do you want it?

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There's two options.

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To continue forward, pushing upward.

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And if you do, that dream is giving birth.

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And forever you will live in the reality of it.

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If you stop, quit, throw in the towel, I promise you there's no distance you can travel far enough I'm going to find that dream again.

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For it is dead.

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And it is death.

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It's replaced by regret.

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Right now, it's your choice.

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Yeah, nothing changes and nothing changes, man.

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In order for something to change, there needs to be change.

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The unfulfilled potential is the story of most people's lives.

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It is.

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It is.

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And it could have been the story of mine.

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And I tell a lot of people, people go, what's your biggest fear in life?

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and my biggest fear honestly was let's say this let's say uh i don't care

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if you believe in god or not i don't care

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so this let's just play a game with me let's say let's say you're god

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and we have a big long line of people

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and i made to heaven i'm 75 years old i'm 300 pounds

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i made to heaven i worked for equal lab my entire life praying for cockroaches that's what i did

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but i'm dead i'm in heaven now

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and you are at you're you're judging us all now

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so we're in line we're all sitting there in line you have adam brown he has a big board up

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and you're talking to adam brown about his life

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and you rip it down i'm next in line david goggins

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i see my name i see all the god goes hey you say read this man

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and i'm reading this list and i'm seeing 182 pounds

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Navy SEAL, Ranger School Motivational speaker

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Changing lives Okay man, pull up record

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All this shit

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And I'm like, that's not me man

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And God looks at me and says

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That's who you were supposed to be Well life took me somewhere unexpected I'm unprepared, it's about 6 degrees out here

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And I'm underdressed

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But guess what, no one gives a shit

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Gotta get the motherfuckers

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Sometimes life can really hijack your fucking mind

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When that happens to you, you're off fing window

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In life we all go through different things

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Sometimes your girlfriend or boyfriend breaks up with you, guess what?

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Get the f* over it, they no longer want you

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Maybe you fell a test in school, you worked your ass off, guess what?

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You failed a f*ing test, get over it, move past it

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Learn to not let life hijack your brain

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At work, you've been working your ass off for that new promotion

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You don't f* what someone else does

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Maybe they kiss better ass than you do, guess what?

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Get over it.

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Life will hijack your mind if you let it.

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Don't allow all these things to make you a lesser person.

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You must own your mind.

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Don't let life own yours.

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I failed.

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It's ten times more of a man than someone said what if.

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Because what if never went to the arena.

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When you guys find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you.

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I love fear.

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The reason why, behind every fear is a person you want to be.

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Fear is self -imposed, meaning it doesn't exist.

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You create it, you can destroy it too.

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It's an intangible.

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If you face your fears guys, you will realize it's not that big.

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And once you face it, you go, my God, man, I spent all this time running from it.

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It was so small.

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If I just faced it, my God, not only did I face it, I beat it back.

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Energy's never lost, transferred.

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That negative energy, that fear is destroyed.

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It comes back in its confidence.

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You're like, what else am I capable of?

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What else am I holding my back from that I'm capable of more?

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Where am I running from?

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I don't need to.

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What else can I overcome?

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You face your fears, you become the person you want to be.

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You run from your fears, you're not living.

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You're alive, but you're not digging into freedom.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “OUTWORK EVERYONE”. This video has 277 sentences and 2659 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:12. The speaker talks at a natural 175 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
pound noun	/ˈpaʊ̯nd/	A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
ghost noun	/ɡoʊst/	A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
passion noun	/ˈpæʃən/	A true desire sustained or prolonged.
wisdom noun	/ˈwɪzdəm/	An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
motivation noun	/ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/	Willingness of action especially in behavior.
suffer verb	/ˈsʌfɚ/	To undergo hardship.
succeed verb	/səkˈsiːd/	To follow something in sequence or time.
jealous adjective	/ˈd͡ʒɛl.əs/	Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
weigh verb	/weɪ/	To determine the weight of an object.
recruit verb	/ɹɪˈkɹut/	To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
sharp adjective	/ʃɑɹp/	Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
audio adjective	/ˈɔ.di.oʊ/	Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
belief noun	/bɪˈliːf/	Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
ridiculous adjective	/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/	Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd.
chase verb	/t͡ʃeɪs/	To follow at speed.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
write down verb		To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
get over verb		To overcome.
stand around verb		To stand without doing anything; to do nothing productive; to waste time.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
come back verb		To return to a place.
come on in verb		Synonym of come in (“to enter”).

Sentences worth repeating

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

What would the hero of your life's movie do right now?
Are you interested or are you obsessed?
How come you don't have everything figured out?
You're like, what else am I capable of?
Where am I running from?

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 had · you've done · have failed
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be unbalanced · was let · is destroyed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 109 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: ethic /ˈɛθ.ɪk/, deathbed /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: passion /ˈpæʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, sharp /ʃɑɹp/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, promotion /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/
Long words — get the stress right: motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/

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 pound, ghost, passion.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

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

What is the Shadowing Technique?