self-discipline is the center of all material success cannot win the war
against the world if you can't win the war against your own mind I love this
one fail early fail often fail forward you know it's always a little bit
frustrating to me when people have a negative relationship with failure
failure is a massive part of being able to be successful you have to get
comfortable with failure yet you have to actually seek failure failure is where
all of the lessons are you know when you go to the gym and you work out you're
actually seeking failure you want to take your muscles to the point where you
get to failure because that's where the the adaptation is that's where growth is
successful people who fail a lot they fail a whole lot more than they succeed
but they extract the lessons from the failure and they use that the the energy
and they use the wisdom to come around to the next phase of success you got to
take a shot you have to live at the edge of your capabilities you got to live
where you're almost certain you're gonna fail that's the reason for a practice
practice is controlled failure you're getting to your limit getting to your
limit getting to your limit you can't lift that you can't do that you until
you get to the point that all of a sudden your body makes the adjustment
and then you can do it failure actually helps you to recognize
the areas where you need to evolve so fail early fail often fail forward so I
do scream to me the other night a will I want to be active man I won't be active
just like you do people say stuff to me like that I'm like yeah man you know you
doing give them an encouraging word but I was just sitting here thinking and it
dawned on me 99% of people that say stuff like that are not willing to do
what it takes to make their dreams come true the Marines have a saying everybody
wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
that's just real at the center of bringing any dream into fruition is
self-discipline you know something as simple as food and eating it's not about
your body as much as it is about your mind it's getting command of your mind
to be able to choose actions that are in your own best interest every day we are
choosing shit that's not in our own best interest right so if the world is
attacking you in the world wants to fight you in the world's trying to hold
you down so you gonna kick yourself in the balls so you will stop yourself from
getting what you dream self-discipline is the center of all material success
cannot win the war against the world if you can't win the war against your own
mind the only thing that that I can see and you can never really look at
yourself 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 it would not be outworked I
will not be be outworked right period yeah 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 going to be two options yeah I'm gonna get back in or I'm gonna
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 you got the oh
he got that oh okay he got two he Oh God he's hustling drive down my dad
was going to 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 they're strictly based on being out work is strictly based on
missing crucial opportunities I say all the time if you stay ready you ain't
gotta get ready I believe that self-discipline is the
definition of self-love that when you say that you love yourself that means
that you have behavior towards yourself that is loving it's like you say to
yourself a man look I know you want to eat that pizza and it'll be really good
you know but I can't let you eat that man cuz if you eat that pizza you gonna
feel like shit you know and I I just I love you too much to let you eat that
and I think the word discipline has kind of gotten a bad name we think about it
in terms of punishment I'm not talking about discipline in that way I'm talking
about discipline in the sense that you you forego immediate pleasure for the
exchange of long term self-respect self-love is a look I know you got a a
test on Monday you know and I know you really want to go out with your friends
is Saturday night you want to go out but if you fail that test you're not gonna
feel good about yourself you know I just I love you too much to let you go out
tonight self-discipline is self-love if you wanna be happy you have to love
yourself which means you have to discipline your behavior the road to
sustained happiness is through disciplining your behavior and I learned
very young from parents from my parents absolutely that you you don't try to
build a all you don't set out to build a wall
you don't say I'm gonna bake this build the biggest baddest greatest wall that's
ever been built you don't start there you say I'm gonna lay this brick as
perfectly as a brick can be laid there will not be one brick on the face of the
earth that's gonna be laid better than this brick then I'm gonna lay in this
next ten minutes and you do that every single day until you have as soon you
have a wall and I think psychologically the advantage that that gives me over
over a lot of people that I have been in competition with in different situations
is it's difficult to take the first step when you look how big yeah the task is
the task is never huge to me it's always you know made one Brett me to greatness
is not this wonderful esoteric illusive godlike feature that only the special
among us will ever taste you know it's something that truly exists in all of us
it's very simple this is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it yeah
period it's that simple I Know Who I am I don't know what I believe I Know Who I
am I know who what else all I need to know that's how hard you know so from
there you do what you need to do you know and I think what happens is we make
this situation more complex than it has been looking for complexities it's got
to be something complex to understand it can't be that easy the separation of
talent and skill is one of the the the greatest misunderstood concepts for
people who are trying to excel who have dreams that want to do things talent you
have naturally skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating
on your craft I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented where I
excel is ridiculous sickening work ethic you know while the other guys sleeping
I'm working while other guys eat I'm working there's no easy way around
it no matter how talented you are your talent is going to fail you if you're
not skilled you know if you don't study if you don't work really hard and
dedicate yourself to being better every single day if there's if there was one
concept that I would suggest to people to take a daily confrontation with is
fear the the the problem with fear is that it lies right so fear tells you hey
you know if if you say that to that girl she's gonna know she has you you know
and she'll never really be attracted to you if she knows how much you attracted
to her don't say that know how we get her is when she walks by ignore her fear
tells you dumb shit like that you know you know for me the the daily
confrontation with with fear has become a real practice for me since about three
three years ago I went I went skydiving in Dubai right and skydiving skydiving
is a really interesting confront with fear right so everything's normal so you
fly and you go up you go up you go up you go up to 14,000 feet and you notice
there's a light it's red and it's yellow and green right so right now the lights
red so then you start thinking at some point the lights going to go green it
was you don't know what's going to happen right and you wait and it goes
yellow and the light goes green and somebody opens the door and in that
moment you realize you've never been in a freaking airplane with the door open
right terror terror terror terror right so you go and then you know if you're if
you were smart you sat in the back so you don't go first right and then people
start going out of the airplane and you go and the guy walks you up to the end
of the thing and you're standing and your toes are on the edge and you're
looking out down to death and they say on three and they say one two and he
pushes you on to because people grab one three right and you go and you fall out
of the airplane and in one second you realize that it's the most blissful
experience of your life you're flying right it doesn't feel like falling right
it's like that you actually are kind of held a little bit by the wind and then
you start and you you start falling you falling and you there's zero fear you
realize that the point of maximum danger is the point of minimum fear it's bliss
it's bliss and you're flying right and you're doing it and then 20 seconds 25
seconds 40 seconds and you have enough time to just kind of like oh shit that's
that building I sound like that oh right you start doing all that and
the the lesson for me was why were you scared in your bed the night before why
did you what do you need that fear for just don't go why are you scared in your
bed 16 hours before you jump why are you scared in a car why could you not enjoy
breakfast what would what did you need that that fear is fear of what your no
where to even near the airplane everything up to the stepping out
there's actually no reason to be scared it only just ruins your day you're you
don't have to jump and then in that moment all of a sudden where you should
be terrified is the most blissful experience of your life and God placed
the best things in life on the other side of Terror on the other side of your
maximum fear or all of the best things in life