I think so many people are keyboard
activists right everybody's good at
sending a tweet about how the world
should be and nobody's doing anything
about it and that just that is just very
much human nature we've gotten soft as a
culture yes you know I mean of course
we've gotten soft as a culture in the
u.s. because the US has had an
incredible two hundred year run right
like this is just what happens you know
so as a culture you know I can't speak
for you know people that live in the
Amazon River and I can't speak for you
know people that still live in Belarus
but the American culture is soft and
that's a great thing that means there's
been enormous amounts of prosperity but
let's not be naive
I mean people literally complain when
somebody gives them the wrong amount of
like extra cream in a Starbucks $6
coffee
you
my lack of interest in complaining is so
high and when I watch what people
complain about it breaks my heart
because they completely lack perspective
and i genuinely believe my happiness and
optimism comes from my perspective even
in political unrest times like right now
a lot of people very bent out of shape
but the reality is is that it just never
been better to be a human being it's
that's just the truth
that's just data that's that's reality
and yeah I mean it's just a very fun
time to be alive
and I think the way people look at the
world right now because it's such an
incredible time is actually the quickest
tell to who they are if you think it
sucks but it's bad
you have losing pessimistic DNA and if
you think it's awesome and phenomenal
you have optimistic winning DNA and I
believe that to be true and so that's
where we're at we're beating ourselves
up like everybody sucks that's something
right like we all have shortcomings and
we all have strengths and for me it's
like why don't we just audit that like
why don't we just look at it that way
and be like alright well I'm good at
this but I'm not gonna dad like and then
and then and then I only focus what I'm
good at right like I don't dwell that I
can't fix [ __ ] around the house I call
somebody to fix him like I'm not like
I'm not a man I don't give a [ __ ] like
you know like like you know like I don't
I don't get it like we all like I also
think it's awesome that I'm so
emotionally stable and I'm the emotional
backbone of everybody is that what a
dude's supposed to do like like these
cliches these stereotypes they're so
silly I'm fully in love with myself but
I'm also fully in love with everybody
else too right it's not like like it
goes both ways like I tell people to buy
in to be that work for me it's cuz I buy
into them first like I don't need
anybody to gain trust with me I it's
they're like I believe that the human
race is so grossly underrated we are
good of course we have some bad there's
[ __ ] 7 billion of us but like when
you look at our net score it's bonkers
[ __ ] like you know what you damage we
can be doing to each other on a hourly
basis and we don't like we're still here
like we won were the Alpha being and
we've figured out how to stay together
this is insane when you think about it
and yet everybody wants to dwell on like
somebody said something mean
if you want to be an anomaly you have to
act like one like people want all these
special things to happen but then
they're acting like everybody else and
that gets into this Saturdays on in your
20s like or or just like taking risks or
things of that nature like there's
anything they take away it's like look
like you're gonna only be so pretty
you're only gonna be so smart like you
like there's there's things that are
gonna be natural and there's things that
you can actually control I do believe
and I don't know if I'm right or wrong I
don't but I do believe that work ethic
is a taught behavior it's something you
do have more control over and you know
what really sealed a deal for me getting
healthier I was 38 years old and didn't
come natural to me like it didn't come
natural to me at all I hate the gym I
hate him out I hate it I don't like it I
don't want to do it but I but I knew it
was important and somewhere around
midway through being 38 years old I got
serious I figured out my system I made
the financial commitment and I've won
right and I'll never lose again because
the system was I needed to be
accountable to another human being so it
was about Mike and now Jordan and
whoever else is my trainer I'm doing it
almost weirdly more to not let them down
I feel like there's a shift that can
make people work harder the big one that
I push is you're gonna die like like if
your complaint like to me life is broken
down into complaining and not so if
you're not complaining well then I've
never I have no advice for you I'm
pumped like you did it like like I've
friends who make $42,000 a year work
9:00 to 4:00
with an hour to have lunch and 45
minutes of YouTube and ten minutes of
bullshitting and an hour of complete
waste of time in a meeting so the kind
of working like 6:00 you know hours a
week right
but they're pumped and-and-and they text
me these are highschool friends and
they'll text me like how happy they are
to be the coach of their kids baseball
team and you know like that's amazing
like that that seems very obvious to me
like that's like that's right you know
which is super weird I'm actually nearly
any yes you know like I it sounds cool
like in theory right grass is always
greener right like far less pressure you
know like like all that time with my
kids
booth that would be cool like there's
just like all these things that I can
justify so to me but I have friends who
have a hundred million dollars in the
bank because of Facebook's IPO who
complain who are still hungry who want
to do even more
who will complain to me because they
know I work a lot about no work-life
balance and they don't get to spend
enough time with their family and I'm
like you have a hundred million dollars
like you could stay home like you're in
control like you don't complain about it
you've made that choice don't [ __ ]
me
like you want to spend more time with
your family spend more time with your
family
I'm trying to be very careful about what
I'm saying versus what I'm doing because
that's how you get exposed and I don't
mean like people calling you out and
being like you suck I mean to yourself I
don't want to be exposed by myself it's
it's it's looking at yourself in the
mirror and saying like am I doing this
right so to me there's so many people
they're talking [ __ ] about how big of an
entrepreneur they're gonna be and how
much they're gonna achieve and they
don't work on weekends you know I worked
every Saturday of my 20s like and I talk
to 20 year old entrepreneurs every
single day lately I've been saying to
them this Saturday you're gonna have
more time off than I've had in my entire
20s on a Saturday so like before you
tell me how you're gonna be bigger than
me start thinking about what you're
actually doing
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I'm careful to not give advice that I
know is uniquely something that I was
gifted with like I'd how do I tell you
that
oh here's how it actually works and it
almost started happening it didn't
happen like I actually get goosebumps
like actually like real heavy goosebumps
when I hear something that I know feels
right what's the advice there hey Johnny
start getting goosebumps like I can't
there's certain things that I can't talk
about because I know they're not
practical they're intuitive to me
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I plan to instill kindness until Achatz
I plan on instilling perspective into my
kids I plan in instilling just being a
good human being
I plan on making sure they don't use
their parents wealth and micro fame and
leverage to impose them on any other
person I was petrified of that if my
kids try to Punk their friends on my
[ __ ] I'm gonna get the [ __ ] out of them
like that just loser DNA you didn't do
that we right like so like I'm not
obsessed with tactics I'm obsessed with
religion so I have a lot of wealthy
friends at this point who think it's
smart for them to sit first class but
the kids in coach it's a tactic they
send their kids to Africa to build a
school for a week it's a tactic it's
like my friends that love the
environment the number two sector in the
world that is hurting the environment is
the fashion industry when you run the
math of what's doing bad to the earth
it's the number two industry behind Gaza
i I don't even want to say it cuz I'm
not sure if it's gas in oil the number
two industry the sign of the fact is the
fashion industry so all my fancy friends
who love the environment are they
willing to give up their [ __ ] Louie
bags let's say right so like I think
people talk [ __ ] so you let them sit
coach and you went first class but you
went to you know Hawaii and eat it all
the best pluck you can't pick and choose
to me it's binary so I don't wanna be a
hypocrite so my big thing is like look
you need to be kind like mean mean is
just non-negotiable in our family right
and then you just need to not be full of
[ __ ] if you want to look at daddy's
mountain and you want to say what I did
to my dad's and that was a big mountain
for an immigrant like wow dad did it
right if you want to say I'm gonna climb
that and I'm gonna climb bigger awesome
like I'm pumped I'm weirdly not cheering
for you cuz I'm I'm just a weirdly
competitive dude this is actually
something I'm not proud of I'm
comfortable saying this and I believe
this is a flaw but I don't want my kids
to beat me I don't like I don't I
saying it I know this is where I get in
trouble people will take one little clip
from one video interview and they're
like you're a bad eye it's just my truth
I don't want to [ __ ] you guys like
I'm that competitive
I just want them to be all in on them
right like I don't need them to be an
entrepreneur I don't need them to make
me proud they don't need to go to
Harvard they don't need to give [ __ ]
they need to be themselves all in and
they need to be kind and I'm good
like everybody thinks their stuff is so
good like everyday Gary my instagrams so
on fire soda awesome
why is nobody like why am I not gaining
followers cuz it's not awesome
think we all think our stuff is the best
and like I get that but yeah that would
be my advice only because that also is
liberating me everything's about
breathing right like to me everything is
about like take full ownership for
everything and then everything gets easy
cuz then you're in control and then
learn how to love to lose I think that's
how that's how entrepreneurship that's
how life is we all have losses and so I
like losses I love adversity
I like the climb I like the chip on my
shoulder I like when people like all I
knew and he's not that good that is like
like I'm even weirdly scared as I
continue to ascend and I'm getting
popular and wouldn't you say the
marketing leaning like if people start
putting these words in front of my name
I'm like am I gonna sabotage myself to
like recorrect this like I like
adversity so yeah all on me you know I
enjoy losses now all of a sudden like
what you become completely invincible I
feel invincible I really genuinely
outside of the health of myself and 20
people feel 100% invincible as a person
I know what my intent is I want to do
good at nobody else's expense I'm far
from perfect we all are
and so just easy it feels very light to
live life I'm just in a good mood
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them home and I think modern-day parents
and most parents do not do that
I think they focus on dumb [ __ ] like
grades because they are insecure and
they want to put the bumper sticker that
their kid went to you know Stanford like
it's real [ __ ] up when you really
think about what's actually happening so
much of it is misery loves company or
people reflecting of what's inside of
them
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is the impact that you want to have on
the world same thing that attracts so
many of millions of people to people
that are selling [ __ ] those same
people are attracted to me and what I
want to do is suffocate out all those
other people and become the Alpha of
that entire world of people that are are
hoping and are desperate to look at me
and what I want to do is inspire two 14
year old girls in Kansas City right now
to build a billion dollar company on
having a bunch of employees hugging each
other in a house I think that Steve Jobs
came along became an icon but the sad
part of that narrative was he did not
treat his employees well he became an
icon and the narrative became and he got
the most out of people by being a jerk
and that became romanticized and a lot
of people in Silicon Valley today run
companies worth their mean because they
think that's the right thing to do
because they put Steve Jobs on a
pedestal
I want my pedestal moment I want to
become that big and what I want to come
from that is that kids that aren't even
born
think that they can build a five billion
dollar company and be a great guy or
great gal I want to build the biggest
building in town ever by just building
the biggest building in town while I
think most people try to tear down
everybody else's building so I think
positivity and good is practical advice
to building an empire and I want to be
the poster child of the person that
don't biggest baddest empire and did it
by being a good dude along the way and
not everybody's gonna be happy about
everything I did but if it's 97% of
people talking good behind your back
that's a real legacy and I want to do it
in a pop culture way I'm gonna do it
anyway people have done that before just
so you know there's plenty of people
Warren Buffett's a really good dude like
there's plenty of people that have done
that there's a difference I want to do
it and I want to be a rock star right
like and that's where you influence
people like you know like I want to do
it but I also want to be the most
popular and so then that person's like
oh I want to be him so I guess I'll be
nice like I want to literally take
people who have DNA that's kind of nice
and make them more nice because they
think that's how I became big so I
basically want to trick the business
world into becoming kinder
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