You got to be the hardest workers in the room and don't fuck the opportunity up.
The Rock is one of my biggest inspirations. He is regarded as one of the best professional
wrestlers of all time as well as one of the highest-paid actors in the world.
This level of success requires great ambition and tremendous discipline.
Nothing was handed to him. He was evicted when he was 14. Later on, at 23 he had his
dreams shattered when he didn’t make it to the NFL and all he had was 7 bucks.
And now, he is one of the most successful people EVER.
But do you think that situation makes him comfortable or lazy?
No! Even though he has everything one could possibly
wish for, he keeps working to achieve more. To make an impact on the world.
I believe everyone should listen to this man and learn from his philosophy. If you apply
his mindset and his way of life, I am SURE you will get anything you want.
Here’s what I learned from the Rock. One!
Work hard and play angry The Rock knows the value of hard work. He
knows that your goals in life are built every single day, with every single action. You
have to earn the authority and the respect you need to succeed at every single moment
of your life.
Regardless of what you do in life and where you go respect is gonna be given when it's
earned and you have to go out and earn it every single day.
The Rock knows how to direct his anger into his objectivities. How to get out of his comfort
zone and do every single thing he can to be on top of his field. To beat anyone else.
His ambition is limitless. His will is unrelenting.
At some point, you got to be tired of not being number one. You have to be and you got
to play angry and I play angry. Now, I'm cool and calm with my approach and when I step
out on my field, which is a set or you know like there's something, you're always gonna
have haters and haters like we'll be “damn man how many movies you're gonna make? or
“how much shit are you gonna do, like, you do a lot of shit.” I'll say yes, it's my
ambition, of course. Why not? I could do it. Yeah. I love what I do, and not only that
but in what world do we not work every day?
Success is a matter of having the vision to see an opportunity in anything. And then having
the strength and persistence to keep fighting for it. To make a way out when there’s none.
To use every fiber of your being to keep pushing forward until you get it.
I still see every opportunity that I have, is like a little crack in the wall, a little
scratch and I, it's almost as if, like, every opportunity represents, the scratch represents
every opportunity. Therefore, the success on the other side of the scratch is the light.
Scratching hard, clawing, digging it's that mentality to really take advantage of every
opportunity I have.
So, keep digging until you find the gold. Two!
Remember the hard times We all go through hard times. It is just a
part of life. You have two options regarding the pain you
went through. The first one is what most people choose. They resent. They get angry and frustrated
that something happened to them. They ask “why, why did this happen to me? I did everything
right.” What these people don’t realize is that
by doing that they are suffering double. They keep themselves in the energy of failure instead
of letting go. They have a victim mentality, as a result, they think things just happen
to them and they don’t have a way to change any of that.
The second choice is to OWN your pain. Use it as a reminder of all that you overcame.
See the fact that you are still here now as proof that everything has an end. Everything
must pass. You have the power to overcome anything if
you own your pain.
Remember the hard times.
Before a big movie comes out, before back in the days when I was wrestling with WWE
a WrestleMania match, anything big that would happen I would always take a moment and I
just remind myself all right I was evicted when I was 14, we were kicked off the island,
we couldn't live in Hawaii, I had no place to live, a lot of shit happened then when
I moved to Nashville I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16 years old, I got
remember that.
I would remember that and it allows me then to be present in the moment and understand
holy shit, that's the stuff I have around me right now this is the shit that I dreamed
of when I was a kid. I am here.
Three! Impact as many people as possible
Film has the, gives me the biggest opportunity to make the biggest impact. Global impact.
I don't want to make small movies. I love and respect our movie business but I want
to make big movies that do well and when they do well, it's not the money thing because
we have money, right? Money's good, money's good it ebbs and flows. It's the idea that
I can impact as many people as possible with a big global movie and when the global movie
is touching a billion dollars, that sounds good, right?
It's good for the bank accounts, good for everybody involved, everybody's getting their
piece of cake it's great. But what that does do, it, I know I'm impacting people around
the world by giving them some good entertainment, making them feel good, leaving the theater
floating.
Most people in life are satisfied having a small impact or no impact at all. But The
Rock is different. He realizes his potential is immense and that
if he aims for the greatest action possible, he will cause positive change to many, many
people. But you don’t need to be a famous person
to do that. Start now!
Start to see what you are doing in a small way that you could scale up into something
that will affect people around you. That will help your community.
What will be the measure of your impact?
Four! Be yourself!
If you’re honest, it is all you can do well. Share your truth. Share your ideals. Share
who you really are and see real connections happen.
People will drag you down. They will tell you how you should do this and that. They
will criticize you. And all of that because they wish they had
the courage to be themselves. Changing who you are to conform to other people’s
ideals is the worst prison. Any person who says otherwise shouldn’t be trusted.
So be yourself. Set yourself free!
That’s when everything changed, it's like a shift and click moment when we, for me when
I realized there's great power in being myself, same thing for all of us, but I do I believe
it's the most powerful thing that we could be.
Five! Appreciate the simple things
You must rely on yourself to be the best, to always improve, and to never expect others
to do what you should do yourself. But at the same time, you must cherish the
people around you. Be with them, share with them.
And be wide-eyed about the world. This magnificent world where diamonds come
from dirt and flowers grow in the concrete. Where every single thing is an opportunity
in the making. Be present.
Give love. Receive love.
And see the change happen.
Since the passing of my dad, it shifted a little bit into just a greater appreciation
for life and when I talk about these little things and like, really appreciating these
little things. I mean little things and really truly being in the moment and being present
and how important that is and so even more present. Because the other stuff, I feel you
know the fame and the accolades, and all that stuff is awesome. But that comes and goes.
This kind of connection, this and what I have with my family, my daughters, and people,
like, that means everything.
Six! Be grateful.
I'm most grateful for life, I'm most grateful for an opportunity, most grateful for my family,
I'm most. Gratitude is a big thing with me I mean, it is truly my anchor.
It's my anchor and I wake up with a heart full of gratitude and even in death and even
when things don't go right and even though I didn't make it to the NFL. Me making it
to the NFL was the best thing that never happened. Because it also gave me a great sense of gratitude
to be here.
You are a miracle. A rare and improbable occurrence. A planet, after being completely fire and
toxic gas for billions of years, was able to cool down and generate life.
The life that was confined to the oceans was able to migrate to land.
And the life in the land was able to become intelligent.
Able to evolve, create and change the world completely.
And out of all the possibilities of people that could be born, out of all people that
could meet and end up together to create life, you were born.
A wonderful possibility out of all the alternatives. How could you know that and not want to do
the greatest thing possible with your life? How could you know that and not be grateful
to exist? Grateful to have the strength to go after
you want. Grateful to be able to exist in this time of life when the answer to every
question is one click away and the possibilities are endless.
Remember that when everything seems to be falling apart.
You are a miracle and you are here. Whatever you want can’t be more improbable
than that. You just have to go for it.