i think that a lot of people say oh i just want to sort of they're kind of dabbling in
the idea of improving themselves and the real way to do it is you got to write down what
the [ __ ] you want and then go after it because otherwise you live in sort of a wishy-washy world
you know if you decide i'm going to get down to bang i'm gonna do this i'm gonna run a marathon in
less than five hours i'm gonna you know what the [ __ ] it is you gotta write that [ __ ] down and
go for it what i tell people is the best advice i've ever heard is it live your life like you're
the hero in your movie and right now is when the [ __ ] movie starts and your life is a [ __ ] back
disaster like every [ __ ] arnold schwarzenegger move where he wakes up and makes a blender full
of pizza and ice cream those guys were like on the brink they put the gun in their mouth and they put
it down because you see a photo of their daughter pretend that's you pretend you are of right now
you're in the part of the movie that starts and it shows you as a [ __ ] loser and just decide
not to be a loser anymore live your life like there's a documentary crew following you around
and you are analyzing your own behavior do what you would want to do so that your
kids one day would look back at it and see that documentary and look on it with pride like wow
my dad was a bad [ __ ] he really did what he had to do wow my mom really got her [ __ ] together
i'd love a success story but even more than a success story i like a dude who [ __ ] his life
up and then gets it back together against dory those are my favorite stories and the way to do
that you gotta write [ __ ] down you gotta think that you are the hero in your own [ __ ] movie
and then you get a sit down and you gotta write [ __ ] down write down what you need to do
yeah this life is [ __ ] me over man i could have had this and i should have had that and
why does this guy get that why does that guy get this and all things that are completely unrelated
to you all things that you find other people's success as a downfall in your own existence
instead of being inspired instead of choosing to be positive instead of like improving constantly
on the direction of trying to achieve whatever the [ __ ] you have written down you just sit around
spiral there's nothing more miserable than sitting around someone is [ __ ] complaining all the time
it is one of the most annoying things ever everybody hates it when someone just sits
around and they complain about their life and they don't do jack [ __ ] about it and
you tiptoe around it you don't know what to say well she gets upset when you bring that
up i don't want to bring that up and you want to go you [ __ ] crazy [ __ ] you know what's
wrong with your life stop stop announcing it to everybody else and go out and fix that [ __ ]
i think that there's a lot of people out there that think somehow or another you're going to get
to some place where you're living in silk sheets and you're getting your toes done while someone's
dropping grapes into your mouth i don't want that i've never wanted that that guy's not going to be
happy he's going to be bored hour into the grapes you can get those [ __ ] grapes away from me
stop painting my toes what am i doing in this bed i got to do something i'm not stimulated the human
organism the animal that we are needs constant stimulation because it evolved trying to find
food and escape enemies and find shelter escape nature escape the elements try to survive
and this is the great joy that you have in taking care of your children so you can protect
your children from the elements and the enemies and feed them and it's also the great sadness
that you see in losers when i see a loser i see some guy who's 43 years old lives in his parents
basement and he [ __ ] hates the world like that was a baby man this is a baby that somebody
just gave shitty nutrients to whether it's nutrients in the form of food or in the form of
thoughts and ideas and examples and this kid developed these horrible self-defeating patterns
of behavior that have led them to this point where they're this middle-aged person with no
future and no idea of how to get out of this rut and probably never will escape it and might just
wind up sucking on a gun this is the world that we live in today and i think part of that world
is because we have been fed this line of horseshit that you're supposed to seek comfort and i don't
think you are i think you're supposed to seek lessons and you're supposed to seek difficult
tasks and accomplishments and through those things and through doing things that are hard to do even
if it's just a [ __ ] 90-minute hot yoga class i do a 90-minute yoga class those last 20 minutes i
do not want to be there man and i definitely don't want to give a hundred percent and i can cheat but
if i don't and i get through it when that time is up and the lady says namaste and everybody gets up
like [ __ ] man i made it i lost 15 pounds my [ __ ] yoga mat is drenched to the point where i could
literally wring it out and fill a jug up with water but through that struggle i will
now have a better day and i better [ __ ] do it again tomorrow or do something else
because if i just think well tomorrow i'm just going to coast and eat twinkies and watch tv
oh hello sadness my old friend hello depression because when you're not doing anything you feel
like [ __ ] and that's just part of being a human being and we can pretend that we're something
other than what we really are and we could pretend nah me man i'm just cool just chilling
doing nothing [ __ ] you're a [ __ ] human you're a human being you evolved from the
hundreds of thousands of years of hunters and gatherers and people that were struggling
human reward systems are carved deeply into your dna and if you don't respect that
if you don't respect the mechanism of happiness and fulfillment and what you really need to do
in order to feel satisfied in life camaraderie love family friendship struggle testing yourself
learning all those things are imperative they're all giant part of being a person
i think the one thing that discipline definitely does help you with is it helps you get things done
and when you get things done when you actually do things you have more success and sometimes a big
part of success is just not being [ __ ] lazy and just doing it just get that's like 90 percent of
it is just showing up get there and start working like you're not going to feel perfect every day if
i only worked out when i felt good i'd be a fat [ __ ] there's a lot of days i don't want to do it
if it's pretty much the same with everybody that actually gets good at something there's got to be
those days you push through and they're probably going to be more numerous than the days you don't
and so the benefit of discipline in my eyes has always been that through discipline i get things
done i always say that i'm like the most lazy disciplined person i know because i don't want
to do it but i always do there's a great book on it stephen pressfield wrote a book called the war
of art and pressfield was essentially like a nerd do well till he was like 40 years old he was kind
of a [ __ ] up a lot of artists and comics i bet musicians as well but writers for sure
one of the big problems is sitting down and doing the work and pressfield talks about
that in the most concise and beautiful way and he labels it like an enemy calls it resistance
you know and that you have to sit down you have to overcome resistance and that the pro goes to work
and it doesn't matter if you're sick it doesn't matter if you have kids it doesn't matter what
you you're a pro and you go to work and that and that just it puts it in your head that this is
what i do this is when you have pride in that and then when you are in front of that keyboard
and you're you're you got you look down the count it says i put a thousand words in you you're doing
the work out of that work gems blossom but you might have a day where you just write nothing but
dog [ __ ] so what show up again tomorrow and tomorrow that dog [ __ ] a flower will emerge