- Very early on, there was only one voice in my game.
My own.
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- And this is my biggest point to everybody.
This is why I don't allow complaining or dwelling
for people that wanna fuck with me.
Because no matter what,
I'm gonna point to somebody who had the same exact
Oh what?
You had a crackhead father
and your mom fuckin' sexually abused you,
and you got stabbed?
Cool, let me show you this kid,
who actually had that exact same thing
and he won.
What we're talking about right now
is the reason I win.
I'm not worried about the little details.
This is all macro.
Blueprint, strategy, mental strategy.
No matter what we say right now, Pete,
I'm gonna show you somebody who grew up
with the same exact situation,
and had different outcomes.
And so for me, everybody who's dwelling
on their shortcoming,
the bottom line is no matter where you start,
everybody has paths to winning and losing.
For me, the best move is to take control of your shit.
No matter how fucked up you are right now,
get rid of loser friends and family.
Introduce yourself to positivity and winners,
and watch how it plays out.
By the way, that's the punchline.
This is a mental game.
There's just nothing else.
If you're not feeling it,
find new friends.
I'm being dead serious about this.
This one is real big for me.
Who you hang out with is a huge deal
and again, these are all tried and true things.
We've heard the,
you're the whatever of the five friends you spend
like, that's real.
That's, that one?
Put in the bank.
Please understand that mindset is controllable,
in the same way that all our opinions are controllable.
The key is to add more people with optimism,
and cut people with negativity.
It's very, very simple.
And I'm trying to figure out how to get this
for everybody, 'cause I think it's the ultimate.
I lived in my own head, nobody had say.
When I tell you nobody fuckin' had say,
still to this day, nobody has say.
Nobody has say!
Very early on, there was only one voice in my game.
My own.
It's so scary to me how singular my own voice is.
It doesn't mean that I don't listen to feedback,
it doesn't mean that I'm delusional
and I think I can get away with bad shit
and it's all okay.
I can say something right now in this podcast.
Everybody on Earth says I'm a piece of shit,
and in my own mind I'm like, we'll see.
It's very strange how I live life.
It's way more extreme than you think.
It's way more extreme than I think.
I'm just kind of, like,
going through it right now
I'm like, what the fuck?
This is crazy.
It just means that I am incapable
of valuing anybody else's opinion,
including my mom's,
my wife's and my children's
opinion about me over my own.
If you realized how much of the actions you do
is to show your mom or your dad
or your sibling or your spouse
or somebody,
show somebody else that you made it,
or you did it, it is remarkably scary
how many people are dictated by somebody else's opinion.
The whole game's broken
because everybody's too tied up into
other people's opinions.
I only care about my opinion of myself.
I think most people do shit for other people.
I think most people buy the car and the house
for other people.
Do some people love the leather of a car
or the horsepower?
Yes.
Do some people love having a home
that has nine rooms they never use?
Sure.
But you understand?
When you're building something,
you fuckin' invest in the right things
as soon as fuckin' possible.
The problem is most people don't get to that
because they're,
as when something starts getting successful,
they're taking the money out and buying dumb shit.
I've never met anybody who's been able to
penetrate my mindset.
And that includes my own parents.
What's even crazier, where I'm at now,
I feel like I'm this manifestation
I feel like they made me,
but then I mutated into something else.
I don't value anybody's opinion about me
more than I have about my own self,
and it's a very big deal.
There's nothing like it, man, there's nothing like it.
I don't know what else to say.
It is the ultimate drug, it is the ultimate leverage.
This is exactly what you're talking about,
that's exactly what I'm doing.
People don't get it.
Life's basic and we make it complicated,
and it starts with being right in your own mind.
It's such an inside game,
it's an inside game.
Add more people with positivity and optimism,
and cut people with pessimism and cynicism.
Who you surround yourself matters.
What content you consume matters.
I basically suffocate myself for a long period of my time
and created an environment
that was based on offense on optimism,
and now I know no different.
I just don't give a fuck what anybody thinks!
Now, I equally care so much
of how they view me and what they think of me.
It's pulling from opposite directions.
But you gotta start with yourself
because when you're actually
allowing other people to get in,
you're vulnerable.
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