You have the vision.
You are sure
that if other people could see your vision
they would be
amazed.
But here's the issue
they aren't going to see your vision
unless you do the work.
Unless you type those words
write that code
unless you do the work
the world will never see
your vision.
And the only way
to bring it to life
is to work.
The world's gonna keep moving.
The clock is gonna keep ticking.
Everything that starts has an end.
It's just life.
If I looked at my clock
and you looked at your phone,
time never stops for no one.
Just keep pushing forward.
With enough action,
any goal can be achieved.
Take the shot,
swing the bat,
throw the stick,
I mean, just go for it over and over and over again,
until you're so
emotionless
on failure or rejection.
All these failures weren't failures, they were just attempts
that showed me the right way to do something.
You forgo
immediate
pleasure
for the exchange of
long-term self-respect.
If you want to be happy,
you have to discipline your behavior.
The road
to
sustained
happiness
is through
disciplining
your behavior.
Play the long game.
Aim for legendary.
Say, I wanna have the guts,
and the grit,
and the acumen,
and the mindset,
and the capability,
and the commitment
to
create enduring success.
Be the person who is up
reading, listening to the podcast,
writing in your journal,
setting your goals,
focusing on your intentions.
As you become more successful,
become more humble.
As you become more successful,
work even harder.
As you become more successful,
care even more about your product.
As you become more successful,
learn even more.
Don't try,
do.
Forget about trying,
forget about making an attempt,
forget about testing it out.
Although you may not end up in the profession
or in the area that you're starting out,
you don't wanna go halfway.
You don't wanna just dip your toe in,
You wanna jump in hard.
Do not try,
do.
Go hard.
It requires a tremendous amount of courage
to say,
I'm going to give this thing a chance,
I'm going to give it my all.
And if it doesn't work out, that's okay.
But I know that I tried my best.
Legends don't settle for being a winner.
They strive
to be
complete
domination.
Legendary.
If you really truly dominate,
people are gonna see it.
They're gonna be drawn to you.
They will remember your f*cking name.
Because by dominating your life,
you will make a profound impact
on all of the lives around you.
Just winning is not enough.
But dominating people who are winning?
That's something that'll leave you a f*cking legacy.
Every man in this room, you blew your 20s.
You spent all your 30s tryin' to make up for your 20s.
- Yep, that's the truth.
Dog, every dude in this room blew they 20s
and at 30 tryin' to fix what they should have did in their 20s.
And so far it's on.
You turn 40, you're trying to recover from the mistakes
you made when you 30.
Now at 40, man, it's time for you to start.
Really, at 30 you need to start bucklin' it on down.
And just realize, man, everybody make mistakes.
And the mistakes you going through
are going to help you become the person
you need to be later on.
So when you're young and you make mistakes,
don't let 'em eat you up,
'cause everybody that done made it done made 'em.
You got to fail in order to win.
Hey, look, man.
To understand how to hit the game when it's shot,
you got to miss the game when it's shot.
- Sometimes, being young and trying things,
you're so naive and you don't know any better,
all you do is learn.
And, if you fail it doesn't matter.
And so, whether I was nine, 10, 12, 16, 21,
the failures were irrelevant.
And whether you're 9, 12, 16, 21, 22, 24,
I'm sleeping on the couch.
I have a car with a hole in the floorboard.
I'm living like a bum and like a student.
And so what did I have to lose?
And so, I think that influenced me as much as anything.
So, my dad was like,
"Go for it. You know? Why not?
"What have you got to lose?
"You have to sleep on a different couch?"
So I think that was motivation.
One of the greatest pieces of advice
that my mother gave me was this,
"Son, whatever you start, you make sure you finish."
And the problem with the world today,
people get involved with things
and if they don't like a certain person,
if they don't like the process,
if it's not what they thought it was, they quit.
And what they don't understand about quitting,
quitting becomes a habit that doesn't just affect you.
Later on in life when you get a wife
and you get some kids or you get a family,
it's going to come back to haunt you
and it will one day affect them.
That is why I tell you the process
is more important than the product.
It's not even about the outcome for me.
It's about, can you take pride in what you do
as an individual?
And every night when you look in the mirror,
knowing that you gave everything you had to it.
We have to get to the point where we're willing
to impose our will on certain things,
impose your will on it.
My life totally changed.
And they gave me an opportunity to stop.
Most people when you give them an opportunity to stop
while they're chasing something,
they take advantage of it because they feel as if,
"Man, why did this have to happen to me?"
I felt as if, "Why not me?"
This is the perfect opportunity to use this
to be a blessing to somebody else.
And you know what?
It's not even about me to be truthful.
It's not even about me.
Now it's about we can, and people that invested in me
and saw something in me when I couldn't see it in myself.
At a certain point in life,
it can't just be about you.
The moment that we understand that
and everyday we wake up, we understand that life
is a blessing and life is a gift
and if you were to check out today,
how would you want to be remembered?
It's bigger than you.
- The body is very important,
but the mind is more important than the body.
You have to visualize what that body
ought to look like in order to make it win.
Because that's what creates then the will.
The will that you need to go to the gym every day.
The will that makes you go into the four steps.
The will that makes you go beyond
and you do your 500 pound reps and the squats
and you can't do another rep, and your body is shaking,
it's the will that makes you go one more time
down and struggle up one more time.
And so it's all of this is the mental aspect
that motivates you,
and that makes the difference of you being in the gym
full of joy and looking forward to doing that extra rep,
and looking forward to doing those extra hundred reps,
and the sit-ups and working past the pain periods.
That all is the mind, that's not the body.
So this is why I think the body is very important
but the mind is more important than the body.
- Attitude, it's been called the most
important word in any language in the world.
Because it's our attitude toward our world,
toward all the people in it,
that will determine the world's attitude
and all the people's attitude toward us.
It's a simple thing, most of us know it,
but we tend to forget it.
People will react to us according to our attitude.
And our attitude is the greatest gift we can be given.
You know, the little creatures of the world
were given a wonderful gift by Mother Nature
called protective coloring, in which they can blend
into the background without being seen.
But man was not given this great gift.
Because man was given an incalculably greater one.
Only man has the god-like power
to make his surroundings change to fit him.
Because his environment will change as he changes.
A man's environment is a merciless mirror
of him as a human being, and if he thinks
his environment could stand a little improvement,
all he has to do is improve and his environment
will improve to reflect the changing man.
We have to deal in things that
we're capable of understanding.
And then once we're over that filter we have to have
a business with some intrinsic characteristics
that give it a durable competitive advantage.
And then of course we would vastly prefer a management
in place with a lot of integrity and talent.
And finally no matter how wonderful it is
it's not worth an infinite price.
So we have to have a price that makes sense
and gives a margin of safety considering
the natural vicissitudes of life.
That's a very simple set of ideas
and the reason that our ideas have not spread faster
is they're too simple.
The professional classes can't
justify their existence if that's all I have to say.