Shadowing Practice: Stop Being F*cking Weak. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Where the f* are you going, bro?
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Whatever you do, runners, right now, just don't think about the 135 miles of scorching highway in front of you.
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What do you want to do with your life?
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A harmless man is not a good man.
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A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.
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You have to have no fear.
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You have to have no fear.
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You have to believe in who you are and what you do and just go f*ing get it.
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What you need is the one thing I talked in my book, which is straight up brutal work ethic.
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You have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world.
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No, I'm on.
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Somebody out there, they're working harder than you.
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No!
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No!
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No!
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Somebody work harder than you!
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Somebody work harder than you!
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No!
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No!
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Somebody work harder than you!
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Why be normal when you can be the best?
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I don't want to be normal.
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I want to make the difference everything I do, I want to make the difference.
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Because when I make the difference, I'm the best.
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And that is not arrogance, that is confidence.
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There's human beings that have different temperament and different minds
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and different mentality and a ruthless competitive drive that's almost terrifying to the ordinary person.
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You gotta work, your time is gonna happen.
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You're here for a reason, but you gotta be ready because if you're not, it's on you.
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But once I learned that the difference between him and I was just between the ears, once I was equipped with that,
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I started to believe that this guy was truly the limit for me.
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And I'm still that person today.
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Pain motivates significantly faster and stronger than pleasure does.
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Like people are like, no, passion's the right way.
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It's like point a gun at a family member, all of a sudden, 10 out of 10 motivation.
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Pain.
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It's not a bad thing to be unique.
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It's not a bad thing to be different.
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It's not a bad thing to be comfortable with yourself regardless of what everybody else around you is doing.
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Know that if you have big goals and big dreams, along the way failure is going to happen.
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So how fast do you get up from that?
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People either survive in the jungle or exist in the zoo.
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Few recognize the significance of the paradoxical reconciliation of the two.
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You know, greatness is not meant for a few chosen people.
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It's meant for those who persistently pursue their dreams every day and make that choice when they wake up.
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So, just a mentality really.
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And so nothing is easy.
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Like, running is running.
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It sucks.
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But you have a choice to make.
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Do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were?
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No. So this is what it takes.
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When your excuses make you feel a little bit better, better about the fact that you didn't execute on what you needed to execute on,
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then they can make you feel better.
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But they're not helping you.
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They're not helping you at all.
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And I'm telling you from the bottom of my soul, it is so easy to beat people today.
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They are so soft.
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They have no work ethic.
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No one can stick with anything.
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Everyone's distracted.
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There are social media.
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They're counting their f.
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They can't say no. Everybody's great when they're not tired.
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The champions is when they're tired, that's when the real champions come out.
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That's when that real dog come out.
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Because if you go piss like a puppy, stay on the porch and let the big dogs eat.
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Let them on the field.
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Have some heart.
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I never ran from anything because I didn't have nobody to go to.
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I've always had that, where I'm going?
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Home to get me?
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Ain't nobody there.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like, so I've always been in a situation where I'm forced to deal with it myself, so.
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You know, when you're going through something really challenging, how do you show up within it?
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Do you choose to become a victim of complaining and misery and sh, or do you find meaning in how you show up in the suffering, you know?
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I give you the map.
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You are willing to do that?
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Yeah.
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That's the main point, because everyone wants to be Christian, but I give you the map you think you will do it
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that it's difficult it's a discipline the discipline is the most difficult thing not only in sports
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but in the life
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if you have to ask how to get motivated to go
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to the gym you don't need to be going to the gym you don't want it enough
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when you're sick and tired of looking and feeling like sh, you'll show up.
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I'll see you there.
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Because you're gonna look in the mirror and you're gonna be like, fk that.
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You kind of want to be in the gym.
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The problems in your life are your own dang fault.
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And so the answer to fixing the problems in your life are in your own dang hands.
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The responsibility for the well-being of your family,
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your wife, your husband, your children are yours. Are yours.
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Look at all those people down there.
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They follow the rules for what?
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They're letting fear lead down.
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What happens if they don't?
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Life's simple.
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You make choices and you don't look back Why go to a tournament if you're not going there to try and win?
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There's really no point in even going
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That's the attitude I've had my entire life And that's the attitude I will always have
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As I will explain to my dad, second sucks And third's even worse
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That's just a feeling I have But on tour that's not too bad sometimes though That's not too bad, but I want to win That's just my nature
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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
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at 3 o'clock in the morning go come on man We're
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going running like I'm gonna see I'm gonna see what you do when you're tired
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Let me see how you push yourself come on man get
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up get up again tomorrow get up again tomorrow Get up
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again tomorrow the next day get up get up get up keep going How long can you maintain a positive attitude?
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Where's all this teaching you're teaching people you can't do yourself?
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They need to show people that you can do it the thing is with me is I don't give up I
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I don't give a f*.
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I don't give a s* what anybody says or what anybody thinks.
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I have this mindset.
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I know exactly who the f* I am.
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I have my circle of people that I hang around with who know me and know what I'm about and whatever.
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And anybody else who doesn't like it or doesn't want it?
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Bad.
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Okay.
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The bad days create the story that I'm one day going to tell myself about what I got through.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Without the bad days, the story would be way more lame.
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There would be no glory in overcoming anything, because what did you overcome?
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It was all just 40 to 60, you know, vanilla ice cream mush, grey existence.
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Keep cool with me, baby.
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Keep cool with me.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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Listen.
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Listen.
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People have been fooling me a thousand feet since I started training.
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I love it.
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The more you boo me, the stronger I get, baby.
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I'm used to this.
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Y'all can't stop me.
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Keep it up, baby.
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Keep it up.
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Y'all can't stop me.
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It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak.
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Most people don't want to go to that extra mile.
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Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks.
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It's miserable.
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It's lonely.
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You talk about that you were kind of lonely by yourself.
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I was the same way and that used to hurt me growing up.
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Now I'm thriving and sh.
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That's the only place to be.
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Listen, every day when you get out of bed, life's standing right there to kick you in the fking face, man.
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Could be anything.
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Could be you get up and you walk downstairs, you got a fking flat tire and you're late for work and you got this and that.
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Life is gonna throw all kinds of crazy sh at you, right?
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And you have to be ready for it and you gotta fking deal with it.
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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 you have to take all this head-on
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You have to get up every day
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when I get up from out of bed I strap up
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and I'm getting ready for
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Or well what I like about it is I'm doing something
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I don't want to do every time I start doing things I don't want to do, I grow.
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Yes!
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That is a lesson that people need to hear and learn.
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It's so important because everybody just wants to be comfortable.
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Everybody wants to sit on the couch, I don't want to go outside, it's cold.
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I don't want to do this, it's hot.
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Like you've got to do things that you don't want to do
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because you show your body that your mind is the boss.
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Your mind is telling your body what to do and then you have control.
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It's not that simple.
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Why not?
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No, that's the biggest lie I was ever told.
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And it's a lie they tell you over and over again.
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What's not simple?
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Any of it.
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All of it.
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It's how they get you to give up.
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They say it's not that simple, Vinny. So what's the truth? That it is.
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and you realize it is that simple that it always was.
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Don't half-ass it.
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Don't half-ass it.
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Boy, that never goes out of style, does it?
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I mean, think about it.
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If you're gonna do something, if you've chosen to do something, whatever, it's easy, hard.
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If you give it your all and you don't half-ass it, win, lose, draw, get what you want, don't get what you want, whatever the outcome is, If you don't half-ass it,
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at least you're not going to have to wonder, ooh, would the outcome be different?
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What if I did give away?
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And boy, wondering that is what keeps us up at night.
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I'm tired.
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I'm moving in slow motion, but I need to go to the gym and dumbbell press 150 pound dumbbells.
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Like how does that translate?
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My mind doesn't think I can do it.
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I'm severely underestimating my strength that I can't pick this can up.
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But when I get to the gym I need to overpower my mind and just do it.
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I need to understand that I still have the muscle, I still have the strength of just being a lazy little b right now
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and I need to pick up that weight and do it and overpower it.
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And sometimes when you're getting in there and you're overthinking
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and all these things come in too much of like I have to do this, this and this, I have to do a four sigma negative, oh my god that's gonna be so hard, I should drop the weight then, like no. Just get in there, know what you can do,
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bust your ass and get out of there.
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Sometimes overthinking it holds you back.
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If you don't keep your promise, then what are you really?
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Your promise, your word is your reputation and your reputation precedes you anywhere you go.
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Sadly, these days everyone's so willing, so quick to break promises and to ghost people and to say something but do the other thing.
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And I don't know, maybe I come from a generation that's different or maybe I just don't know any better.
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But I'm telling you right now, a man who can keep his promise and who can keep his word is a man of higher reputation, of higher value, and higher self-worth.
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Right?
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If you have like self-esteem, self-confidence problems, it's because you probably haven't been keeping promises to yourself.
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A man who has high confidence keeps promises that he makes to himself and to others.
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I became obsessed.
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I became obsessed with being the baddest that God ever created.
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Am I that?
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I don't care.
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I believe it.
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And I was trying to tell him, once you become obsessed with something, Obsessed.
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It's okay to be unbalanced for a while.
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It's okay.
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Don't be all this stuff.
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People say, you gotta be balanced.
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To be the best in the world at what you do.
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It's not about being a Navy SEAL, people.
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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.
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Then you get balanced once you become great.
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Remember to tell yourself the truth.
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Remember to tell yourself the truth.
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You know what that means.
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The truth is you need to do more.
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The truth is you need to be more.
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To reach your fullest, maximum capacity and capability as a human being.
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And if you tell yourself that truth, you will find discipline.
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And if you find discipline, you will find freedom.
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You'll be less than, you'll be a loser if you don't.
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I can't leave the gym.
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You won.
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You won.
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When you walk out of here today, nothing.
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You've won.
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Imagine walking out the door a loser.
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I'd rather die.
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I would rather die than be that loser guy.
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Think about that.
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Do you want to walk out that door a damn loser or do you want to walk out the door a winner?
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I'll fight to the death.
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And sometimes I actually went close to death.
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It sounds crazy, but you got to give it that much.
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If you want results, otherwise you'll be like everybody else.
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The majority of the population, they think they're training hard.
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That was hard.
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Everyone thinks you're crazy until it works.
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And so I mean if you think of the outcome as the trump card, then all of the pain and suffering that you lead up to that point, if you're just...
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I'm trying to think of an appropriate saying.
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I was going to say balls deep certain.
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That no matter what, you will die or you will get there.
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Then the likelihood that all of the things that you've done up to
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that point will then be justified in retrospect is super high And I actually see that as super
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Compelling as a thing to latch on to in harder times Those I can't catch a break guys.
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Yeah get them the away from me.
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I can't I can't be around those guys I don't want to hear that shit.
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I don't want to hear that shit I don't buy it because everybody has bad breaks.
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Yeah, I've had a ton of bad breaks, but you know what I did I I stayed up and I thought through it.
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And I figured out what the f* I did wrong and then I went back.
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It's like I f*ed up everything I've ever done a hundred times.
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There's no other way to do it.
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And I've had a bunch of s* breaks.
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Everybody has.
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But you've got to realize when you have those s* breaks what that is.
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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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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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You have to dive in that to find more.
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Because if you're not willing to go in there and face yourself, you're not going to find anything.
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You're going to live right here on the surface, man.
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Right here on the surface.
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So if there is an ending to this world, and there is somewhere to go, and there's a judgement, you're going to get there and you might see a chart.
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And that chart may tell you who the you should have been.
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And now you get the rest of your life to think about that.
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Man, I could have lived a much better life if I just would have just suffered a little bit more.
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If I just would have went in that and realized I had so much more.
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But fear and the 40% and living here versus living here, being afraid, stopped me.
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So people always ask me, when they saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days, they say, why is it that you're working out so hard,
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five hours a day, six hours a day, and you have always a smile on your face?
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The others are working out just as hard as you do, and they look sour in the face.
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Why is that?
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And I told people all the time, I said, because to me, I am shooting for a goal.
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In front of me is the Mr. Universe title.
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So every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal, to make this goal, this vision, turn into reality.
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Every single set that I do, every repetition, every weight that I lift will get me a step closer to turn this goal into reality.
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The man who never fell has no glory.
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The man who fell and got back up, that's where his glory is.
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The man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times, that man has even greater glory.
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Wow.
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That man has more courage, way more courage than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never fell.
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Unpacking the Intensity: A Motivational Dialogue for English Practice
The video features a high-energy, passionate speech focused on resilience, work ethic, and chasing greatness. Its raw, conversational tone—filled with repetition, rhetorical questions, and vivid imagery—makes it a dynamic tool for practicing real-world English. Whether you’re aiming to boost fluency or master emotional delivery, this dialogue offers rich material to sharpen your skills.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- "outwork everybody": To work harder than others (e.g., "If you want to succeed, you have to outwork everybody").
- "ruthless competitive drive": An intense, unwavering desire to win (e.g., "Her ruthless competitive drive helped her climb the ranks").
- "make a difference": To have a meaningful impact (e.g., "I want my work to make a difference in people’s lives").
- "get up from failure": To recover quickly from setbacks (e.g., "The key is to get up from failure and try again").
- "voluntary control": The ability to manage one’s actions intentionally (e.g., "A good leader has voluntary control over their emotions").
Step-by-Step Shadowing Guide for This Video
Shadowing—repeating speech immediately after the speaker—is a powerful way to improve pronunciation and rhythm. Here’s how to tackle this video:
1. Break It Down
The dialogue is fast and intense, so start with 10-second clips. Pause, then repeat using the same volume and pace. Focus on mimicking the speaker’s emphasis (e.g., "No! No! Somebody work harder than you!").
2. Use a Shadowing App or Site
Tools like a shadowing app or shadowing site can slow down the audio, making it easier to keep up. Practice "shadow speak" by recording yourself and comparing it to the original—note differences in intonation.
3. Emphasize Emotion
This video thrives on passion. Pay attention to how the speaker’s voice rises and falls with urgency. Use the shadowing technique to copy these emotional cues—this will help you sound more natural in real conversations.
4. Repeat Daily
Consistency is key. Spend 10 minutes daily with the video, gradually increasing clip length. Over time, you’ll notice your ability to "shadowspeak" with confidence and speed improve.
Remember, the goal isn’t just to mimic words—it’s to capture the energy and intent. With practice, you’ll not only boost your English skills but also adopt a mindset of perseverance. Let this video fuel your progress!
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 you find discipline, you will find · If you want results, otherwise you'll be · if I just would have |
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been fooling · haven't been keeping |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | man who has · book, which is · those who persistently |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was equipped · is not meant · was ever told |
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.