you know hard work pays I put in a hell of a lot of work all throughout this build up
and the fight I pumped out more content than anybody more content than Fox more
content than ESPN more content than BT sport more content than everybody on the
Maglev on my own channels I'm a workhorse, from all angles
not just in the gym but I'm building this media empire now myself and we
pumped out the content I'm very proud of how it went we consistently daily
movies I was releasing you know from from like a month ago every single day
nobody's doing that so I'm very proud of that and I'm very like
the work pays, hard work pays and we put in the work and that's why I'm
I'm sitting at the top I put it all on the line I show up I perform and I get
the results from that I think some people and maybe I used to think once
you got successful you could you're successful and it okay you now you can
kind of just relax a little bit and but that's not the case at all you have to
pedal even harder you have to work even more there are more opportunities that
need more time and dedication and in order to do them well you have to really
really hunker down and do the hard work but I've never been afraid of hard work
and I always tell people when I'm asked and it's pretty often that I'm asked
about dreams and achieving creative goals that I always believe that the
bridge between reality and a dream is work and I always in moments of despair
and doubt and dark days focus on on the work I show up and I
work and I work and I work and I work I took everything that I learned from an ethic
standpoint that my grandfather taught me and put it into that I'm saying if you
pound pounding it's hard to whatever thing in the same direction if you keep
hitting at a certain point it's going to break and then I open up so that's what
I did like it's like okay cool this let me do my focus on my thing we go either
succeed or die trying it is what it is I mean you know everybody got
the same story we just got different details but like I always say life is
10% what happens to you is 90% what you do about it
so the first step is getting completely and brutally
honest enough to say I am tired of myself when you say I'm sick and tired
of being sick and tired that's the facilitator of change that's
when you're ready to say these words no more excuses no more excuses I went to
Kent State I dropped out I why and drop out of flunked out now that through my
life into a spiral but because I didn't have a college degree I could not let
that stop me and like you're doing were you saying all my friends at this age
are settling your career you don't even know if they happy or not stop comparing
yourself to others so the first thing you do is stop focusing on other people
instead focus on being the best version of you that you can then you recognize
that you deserve to sit at the big table with everybody else after you become the
best that you could be I always believe that natural talent can can take you so far
but I think you need to have the work ethic and the drive to achieve your
potential I mean I'd say you know my natural talent you know probably brought
me 50 percent of the way but then after that it was all down to
the work that I've done and the volume of work that I've done over the the last 15
years you know when I really started to take golf seriously and thought
about making this a career and so the one thing my father gave me
which was really key was that work ethic that ability to get myself up in
the morning no matter how tired I was to push myself through those pain barriers and
again the combination of the loss of a mother at six
and then being sent out to work at ten we started work at five o'clock in the
morning through the milk round being dropped off at 8:45 at school in the
milkvan that work ethic so that combination of those two work ethic and
great insecurity was what got me to where I went to and then I joined Black Flag
and I thought I was a hard working person then you meet the guys in Black
Flag who are so driven you see Greg Ginn work 23 hour days like
Greg you're still on the phone I know Greg
when did you eat I don't know Greg well the last time you showered do we have a
shower like the guy we were not going to be stopped and I kind of go at that
intensity that kind of anything I do like you're
very calm good-looking young man look at me I'm a spaz sitting next to you like
I'm doing an interview with you I'm sweating man and so but I'd like
it going to the airport like ten miles out and so it's but it's anger that has
informed kind of my life and unflatteringly a sense of vengeance
every damn person who said I wouldn't be anything I'm crushing them every day
everybody I had to endure in any band I was in everyday into a powder in order to succeed
not just in the fashion business but just to succeed generally is it
talent or hard work it's a combination of both but I would say it's slanted
towards hard work slanted towards obsession
there are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do
but they may not have my drive they may not work as hard they may not have the
focus the desire I mean you have to have a talent because in the end you can have
all those things and if the pair of pants you make don't make someone's butt
look good they're not going to buy them so you have to have the talent to be
able to make something that people want but then you also have to have the drive
and the desire to you know sometimes people are successful because maybe they
don't have that drive but they have someone around them who takes their raw
talent and pushes them but what you often see is when that other person
steps away their career can collapse even though their talent may be immense
you need a study room try to make like literally a little enclosure somewhere
where you can go off hibernate and study so that nobody is bothering you and if
you want you can close the door shut the windows turn off the TV no distractions
total silence you want to have as much control over that space as possible
and you want to organize it well
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