There are many ways to get the things
that we want for ourselves in our lives,
but
basically
it all begins with
how we choose to think.
As you think,
so shall you be.
I wanna know why you do what you do.
What is your motive for action?
What is it that drives you in your life today,
not 10 years ago, or you running the same pattern?
or your web, the needs, the beliefs,
the emotions that are controlling you, for two reasons.
So there's more of you to give, and achieve too,
we all wanna do it, but I mean give,
'cause that's what's gonna fill you up.
And secondly, so you can appreciate,
not just understand, that's intellectual, that's the mind,
but appreciate what's driving other people.
It's the only way our world's gonna change.
Everyone's going to hit adversity.
It's how you deal with that adversity.
And the key word is "You"
not letting somebody else deal with that adversity.
You have to deal with that adversity
and how you deal with it.
Are you going to fight through it
or are you going to curl up
and just roll over into the corner?
It gonna pretty much determine
how the rest of your development
from a mental standpoint is going to carry you.
You can not win the war against the world
if you can't win the war against your own mind.
but it first starts with a sound, right?
There's this sound that I hear
and that sound moves me
All right.
That sound moves me.
So this was a sound that I heard years ago,
and there are times in my life where I just stopped
and I play the sound.
Because it does something for me internally,
it moves me. Write that down.
The very first thing that needs to happen to you
every single day
is you need to be moved.
You need to be moved,
whatever it is that you can do, literally to insight it.
Listen to me very closely.
When I say find something that moves you.
What most of you do wrong is you're waiting
for something to move you.
Instead of creating the thing every day that moves you
And the reason why I say find something that moves you,
because what separates humans
is our effort.
There's some of us, we give 70% of what we do,
some of us 80%.
Some of us 90%.
Some of us 100%
Some of us are 120%.
And so when you move and you are moved,
it allows you to operate at a whole different level.
We kind of have this idea that
while you're free as a child, and then you...
That you have a certain delightful,
wonderful, positive freedom as a child,
and then that's given up as you approach adulthood.
But the truth of the matter is, that
you have a lot of potential as a child,
but none of that is capable of manifesting itself.
As freedom before you become disciplined.
And discipline is a matter of the imposition of order.
And the order is necessary,
especially for people who are hopeless and nihilistic,
and lots of people are hopeless and nihilistic,
Way more people than you think.
And part of that is because
no one's ever really encouraged them.
And so the book is in part, a matter of encouragement,
it's like lay yourself,
lay a disciplinary structure on yourself,
get the chaos in check,
and then you can move towards a state that's free
because it's disciplined first.
Like, look, if you're going to become a concert pianist
there's going to be several thousand hours
of extraordinarily disciplined practice.
That's the imposition of order on your potential, let's say,
but what comes out of that is a much grander freedom.
And so in virtually every freedom that you have in life.
That's true freedom is purchased at the price of discipline.
At some point, you gotta start winning.
You can't always look for other people to help you.
Other people got their own problems,
they got their own sh*t they gotta deal with
they're trying to achieve their own goals.
They are willing to assist, but after a while,
if you constantly looking for assistance,
constantly looking for help.
it's on you
your failure and your success is on you.