We wake up on the morning,
it's cold
it's wet
it's dark.
you've got no cartilage in your knee.
Got shitty shorts.
Whatever it is.
That's the issue today.
It's warm on the couch.
Your missus says stay in bed.
It's comfy.
It's cozy
I know every motherf*cker
that have the ability and just
refuse to get off that couch.
Refuse to go deeper, to go further,
and that's where I gained the advantage.
Ain't gonna do what I'm gonna do.
So this is how you level up.
That's how you level up.
The men who set a standard
are always the ones who are champions.
What's your standards?
I don't care what it is
but what is your standard?
I got some standards and I ain't smart,
but I set a standard as a speaker from the bottom up.
I set a standards, I'm telling you, set a standards.
Set a standard.
You can't be no champion if you don't have a standard.
Mediocrity is everywhere right now.
We surround ourselves around people that make us feel great.
They tell us what we want to hear.
We like that person who says, hey,
you know, man, I don't feel good today, man.
And they say, oh, it's okay, brother.
We'll take a day off, man.
We get a pizza
game.
We like that.
We don't want that person who's
constantly challenging our weaknesses.
We want that person constantly,
you know, making us feel nice
and good and secure in ourselves.
That's the mediocrity of life.
We wanna be the best amongst the average people.
To have a special life, you have to do special things,
and that usually means putting in the work and loving it.
No one is going to create the future that you want for you.
We get one opportunity to come this way.
We get one shot, we got one life to live.
Life is too short to make excuses.
I want you to close your eyes and visualize your dream.
I need you to get out of your comfort zone.
A turtle can only move forward when it sticks its head
and its feet out
and when it sticks its head and its feet out.
It's most vulnerable, right.
Biggest risk.
You know what I mean?
Everybody in this room can relate to that.
I think it is simple.
Can everybody in this room do it?
No,
because everybody in this room's
not willing to make the sacrifices.
Most of you have not attained material wealth.
Because you stayed in your comfort zone.
what are you willing to risk today?
Are you gonna play safe for the rest of your life?
Chances make champions.
What is winning?
Winning is not about the trophy and the accolades.
It's about the grind.
It's about the obstacles, it's about the challenges.
It's about the pain
that you endure along the way
for that 30 seconds of being able to either
Stand on the platform,
be acknowledged by individuals that are close to you,
but when that happens,
your mind has to immediately shift back because now
you felt and tasted something
that you can only get through winning
are you willing to do it again?
Over and over and over
You've trained some of the greatest of the great, Michael Jordan,
Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley, Dwyane Wade.
I mean, just the, the Hall of Fame is
my wife would say, with people that you have trained.
so you know something about winning,
you know, something about sustained winning over time.
Why do you call it the unforgiving race to greatness?
Well, it's interesting that you said that I know about winning.
The reason I know so much about winning is
because I've had to deal with so much losing.
That's interesting.
What do you mean by that?
Everybody wants to win, but in order to know how to win,
you gotta know how to lose because
you're gonna lose more than you're gonna win.
But every time you lose, what do you gain from it?
So every time I've lost
people say, you gotta jump right back up.
You know, get back right on your feet again.
And I, I disagree with that.
After you lose or when you get knocked down,
stay down there for a minute.
Understand why you lost.
What were the reasons?
Why are you down here?
Why did you lose, why did you get knocked down?
Because if you just jump right back up.
You're gonna lose again and again
and you continue, you're gonna lose the same way.
So every time I lost,
I stayed down for a second, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
But when I stood up, I was different.
I was smarter.
And when I lost again, I stayed down.
I stood back up.
I was stronger.
When I lost again,
I stayed down.
How did I stand up again?
I was more confident.
Lost again, stood up.
I was more resilient.
Now you start putting the pieces that are
necessary to win over and over and over again.
So if you lose and you jump right back up and you
haven't really changed, I mean, really, really changed
from that loss,
you're never gonna learn from it.
And you're never going to really truly know the
unforgiving race to greatness, because that's the,
that's part of the unforgiving part is the losing part.
That part is unforgiving.
So what we are calling as life here
is just a certain combination of time and energy.
We must understand the nature of what we are handling.
Time by its own nature is such, you do something, it rolls.
If you don't do something, it rolls.
You don't have to push it, I'm saying,
but without having mastery over time.
Nobody can determine the nature of their destiny in their lives.
How to grab time?
People are talking about time management.
Have you ever managed time?
Time, how to manage?
It's too big a thing to manage.
Not in your hands, but you like it or not.
It's sticking away, isn't it?
So the only way you can take charge of time is
by mastering your energies, how they function.
If you are functioning like a steam engine,
it's a long time.
If you're functioning like a jet engine, boom.
If what somebody does in 10 years,
if you can do it in one year,
if both of you lived for a hundred years
in terms of impact and exp profoundness of experience,
you lived for a thousand years.
That is the only way you can take charge of time
and one who's taken charge of time for him.
The entire universe is a sweetness of compassion.
That is will be his experience of life
once he's taken charge of time.
People who sleep late and wake up late, they're of a different quality.
Have you noticed this?
So waking up early in the morning,
you will see you will have a better sense of usage of time then sleeping late night
Well, at a certain time on a certain day, if it happens, it's fine. That's not the point.
But as a lifestyle, if you sleep late and wake up early, also, that's wonderful.
But if you cut down your sleep, are you able to be active and alive through the day?
That's a question mark.
That will only happen if you enhance your energy quality.
If you raise your energies in a certain way,
then you will see your sleep quota will shrink.
Not because you are trying to avoid sleep,
simply because you need less maintenance.
Less maintenance means in some way the system is going in a more efficient way that it needs less maintenance.
See, whichever way you do it, there are only 24 hours in a day.
Most human beings
There is not enough time to unfold their own genius, to explore their possibilities
simply because 12 hours of maintenance,
let's say you want to run on the field.
Let's say you want to run a race,
you want to run a hundred meters.
It is not running that you have to work on right now.
You have to work on your legs and lungs and muscle and everything.
Isn't it?
So if you want to become a great engineer, yes, definitely
an institute like this is crucial on one level
but any number of people might have come here and gone.
Not all of them became great engineers,
though they might have produced hundreds of great engineers.
Still not all of them will become simply because of their
own individual attitudes and competence and whatever else.
So whatever the institute can do for you,
it is doing one foremost thing that you need to do is to enhance
your own physical and mental capabilities
because if you want to be a good engineer,
you need a working brain
Just having a degree of engineering
maybe a passport to a job
but it is not a passport to success, isn't it?
As an individual, your most important thing is you as a human being.
You are functioning at the fullest level.
If that has to happen,
there are other dimensions which one needs to explore.