that's just I just believe that I believe that I can create whatever I
want to create if I can put my head on it right study it learn the
patterns and you know I just I it's hard to put into words real metaphysical
esoteric nonsense but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be
the only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not
afraid to die on a treadmill right I will run you will not be outworked
I will not be be outworked right period you know you might have more talent than
me you might be smarter than me you might be sexier than me you might be all
of those things you got it on me in nine categories but if we get on the
treadmill together right there's two things you're getting off first yeah or
I'm gonna die it's really that simple right so let's go back to the question
about what if people block me out there's gonna be two options yeah I'm
gonna get back in or I'm going to be dead yeah right it's like you're not
going to outwork me it's a it's a very is such a simple basic concept is the
the guy who was willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets
that loose ball you know he got oh he got that oh okay he got two oh god he's
hustling grabbed that one that was gonna be out of bounds but he saved it back in
it's like the commodity that I see the majority of people who aren't getting
the places they want or aren't achieving the things that they want in this
business is strictly based on hustle it's strictly based on being outworked
it's strictly based on missing crucial opportunities
and people get this one wrong I think from college and it's that if you have a set amount of
time to dedicate to any sort of learning endeavor you are much better off
spending that time a little bit every day then you are in one batched process
there's some things in life that do better in batching learning is not one
of them because learning comes from repetition right I see people in college
they go but wait a second I crammed for my last test I did fine eight hours
straight I studied yes but how much did you remember three days later if you're
trying to build a skill you're trying to rewire your brain create new neural
pathways say you're playing the piano if you sit down for three hours and play
play play play play play play and then come back a week later you're not gonna
have it but if you sit down for a half hour a day walk away come back the next
day half hour you're getting to review what you did in a much shorter time span
that's going to help you learn faster so keep in mind when you have something
this consistency every single day with the exception of things that require
rest like weight training you want to keep that up now a couple of caveats
here first thing is this takes much more will power it's a lot easier for people
to go I'm gonna run really hard for one day than it is to do it for a year a
little bit every day so if you're working on willpower you haven't
mastered that check out our video on willpower it's gonna help you with that
and the second thing is that this is true of learning and practicing though
not necessarily of production I'm a writer and if you're learning to write I
recommend you read and write every day but if you're writing your masterpiece
some people myself included do better to have these just complete flow
experiences of six hours at a time you write write write write write walk away
for a week and then come back to it so learning and production not necessarily
the same mechanics going on here if you configure your life so that what you are
genuinely doing is aiming at the highest possible good then the things that you
need to to survive and to thrive on a day-to-day basis will deliver themselves
to you that's a hypothesis and it's not some simple hypothesis right because it
what it basically says is if you dare to do the most difficult thing that you can
conceptualize your life will work out better than it will if you do anything
else well how are you gonna find out if that's true well it's a Kierkegaardian leap of faith there's no way you're gonna find out
whether or not that's true unless you do it so no one no one can tell you either
because just because it works for someone else I mean that's interesting
and all that but it's no proof that it'll work for you you have to be all-in
in this game there is no more effective way of operating in the world than to
conceptualize the highest good that you can and then strive to attain it there's
no more practical pathway to the kind of success that you could have if you
actually knew what success was the world shifts itself around your aim because you're
a creature that has a name you have to have a name in order to do something
you're an aiming creature you look at a point and you move towards it it's built
right into you and so you have a name well let's say your aim is the highest
possible aim well then so that sets up the world around you it organizes all of
your perceptions it organizes what you see and you don't see it organizes your
emotions and your motivations so you organize yourself around that aim and
then what happens is the day manifests itself as a set of challenges and
problems and if you solve them properly then you stay on the pathway towards
that aim and you can concentrate on the day and so that way
you get to have your cake and eat it too because you can you can point into the
distance the far distance and you can live in the day and it seems to me that
that's that makes every moment of the day supercharged with meaning that
that's how because if everything that you're doing every day is related to the
highest possible aim that you can conceptualize well that's the very
definition of the meaning that would sustain you in your life really the
secret to all learning and the secret to all study it's so so simple you want to
know the secret it's really this learning equals repetition it's just
repetition that's all learning is people think that well oh I'm not as smart as
this guy I'm not as smart as that guy there's little smarts that are actually
required for learning learning is really dumb learning is just repetition brute
force repetition again and again and again and again and
again if you repeat something enough times your brain is going to learn it no
matter what even if you're the worst student this was the key thing that I
discovered early in 10th Grade I discovered this right when my results
just totally skyrocketed with my grades and my studying habits and everything
because I discovered really this one secret to all of learning it's just
repetition I literally discovered that my brain can
learn anything I can memorize anything any quantity of things any complexity of
things I can memorize just through study and now study is not something that you
just do to memorize stuff so it's not about memorization to me I don't really
care about memorizing things that's not important
but what is important is first of all you are tested a lot of memorization
skills in school so that's just part of the school system as imperfect as it is
so that will help you with getting amazing grades but also when you do
repeat stuff over and over and over again what happens is that yes you
memorize stuff but also you get these deeper interconnections your mind starts
connecting the dots and it does all this stuff mostly unconsciously you're not
consciously sitting there and coming up with really like crafty clever
techniques and ideas what's happening is that you're just immersing yourself in
the field of study and you're repeating things again and again and again and again
and again and your mind just can't help making those interconnections for you
and that process is actually really enjoyable you can be a history maker or
you can be liked by everyone around you you can't be both I mean the very nature
of living your personal greatness and doing something otherworldly in our
world of ours means you're gonna have to think differently from the majority
you're gonna have to install the habits and routines that most people don't do
you're going to have to live talk breathe walk work produce create in a
way that most people who are card-carrying members of the cult of
mediocrity just don't buy into when you look at most people out on the world
today and this is not judging this is just reporting but they're addicted to
entertainment they love gossiping they're negative they're toxic anyone
who wants to do anything great they want to bring them down they dismiss the game
changers and they're just coasting through life and so the very nature of
you stepping up your game living your greatest potential owning your craft
dominating your field and living a life that's legendary means you're gonna have
to leave the 5% and make a decision to live as very few people do and what does
that mean it means you're gonna be laughed at it means you're gonna be
ridiculed it means you're going to be misunderstood because leadership is a
lonely sport first of all I prioritize sleep and that means making that means
saying no to things you want to do it's not easy no it's hard I think it's the hardest
thing last night you know Cheryl Steinbeck interviewed me at the Summers Consinfeny Hall
and then I had to sign books and I would have loved to go and have
dinner with her but I went to bed and you know because if I hadn't got
if I had gone out dinner and hadn't got my at least seven hours sleep that I need and
had to get up and to do TV I would not be enjoying being here with
you now and I'm really enjoying it and I'm 100% present I'm not tired and
I hate being tired more than I hate anything I honestly I honestly believe
that if you're if you're focused and passionate and driven you can achieve
anything you want to achieve in life because I honestly believe that because
you'll figure it out you know what I mean
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