you are unusually fearless and willing to go in the face of other people
telling you something that's crazy and I know a lot of pretty crazy people
you still stand out where does that come from or how do you think about making a
decision when everyone tells you this is a crazy idea where do you get the
internal strength to do that well first of all I'd say I actually think I feel
feel fair quite strongly so it's not as though I just have the absence of fear
I've I feel it quite strongly but there were times when something is important
enough you believe it enough that you do it in spite of fear so speaking of
important things like people shouldn't think III should think well I feel fear
about this and therefore I shouldn't do it it's normal to be to feel fear like
you'd have to do something mentally wrong you shouldn't feel fear so you
just feel it and let the importance of it drive you to do it anyway yeah you
know actually we're something that can be helpful as fatalism some degree if
you just think it's just accept the probabilities then that diminishes fear
so we're starting SpaceX I thought the odds of success were less than 10% and I
just accepted that actually probably I would just lose lose everything but that
maybe would make some progress if we could just move the ball forward even if
we died maybe some other company could pick up the baton and move and keep
moving it forward so that we're still do some good yeah same with Tesla I thought
your odds of a car company succeeding were extremely low the best thing you
can do is teach people to write because there's no difference between that and
thinking and one of the things that just blows me away about universities is that
no one ever tells students why they should write something it's like well
you have to do this assignment well why are you writing well you need the great
it's like no you need to learn to think because thinking makes you act
effectively in the world thinking makes you win the battles you undertake and
those could be battles for good things if you can think and speak and write you
are absolutely dead nothing can get in your way so that's
why you learned to write it's like when I can't believe that people aren't just
told that it's it's it's like it's the most powerful weapon you can possibly
provide someone with and I mean I know lots of people who have been
staggeringly successful and watched them throughout my life I mean those people
you don't want to have an argument with them they'll just slash you into pieces
and then not in the malevolent way it's like if you're gonna make your point and
they're gonna make their point you better have your points organized
because otherwise you're gonna look like and be an absolute idiot you are not
gonna get anywhere and if you can formulate your arguments coherently and
make a presentation if you can speak to people if you can lay out a proposal god
people give you money they give you opportunities you have influence and
what do you say to someone who LC o nobody around me beating me and that's
okay if you have that that's great if you
don't have it yeah it's okay I for years read books of people who I
didn't know but I consider them as my personal mentors I I said it Winston
Churchill who said the truth is conscious incontrovertible malice may
attack it ignorance they derided but at the end there it is I said it Earl
Nightingale who said all of us get in life what we are not what we want all of
us are self-made but only the successful will admit it so I studied these people
and they mentor to me I I feel their spirit sigh I surrounded myself in my
bid with their books and their law do in my imagination and listening to their
audio programs yes so how much does the library call Cod costs it's free in the
United States I don't know what in your country so I suggest that you spend time
working on yourself study the high achievers I did that to find out how did
they get there I study the life of Frederick Douglass who say we won't get
everything that we fight for but everything we get it will be a fight and
so as you study these people and imagine yourself in
our position and in your mind's eye say to yourself as I did if they can do it I
can do it they put their pants on one leg at a time they breathe air just as I
do then so I believe that what you would you focus on the longest becomes a
strongest what we think about we bring about when you train your mind to serve
you yes by reading a minimum of 20 to 60 pages a day listening to audio programs
writing goes down reaching reading them three times a day
you're literally creating a new mental blueprint and imagining and seeing
yourself already living from the goal you begin to do some things that would
most people look at it and see is magical through growing up what I've
discovered is that this world is a very vast a very wonderful beautiful one and
there are so many things to discover but the most important journey I think
all of us will go through is the journey in ourselves to find our truth to find
who we are and what makes us happy and in our culture we are told that if we're
beautiful if we're skinny if we're successful famous if we fit in if
everyone loves us that we'll be happy but that's not entirely true I'm gonna
start with a poem that I wrote when I wasn't very happy I actually wrote this
a year ago but again as if you know depression it comes back it's a
reoccurring thing that you can't really sort away anyway
Who am I Who am I trying to be not myself anyone but myself living in a
fantasy to bury the reality making myself the mystery a strong facade
disguising the misery empty bubbly on the point of emptiness full to the brim
of fake confidence a God that will never be broken because I broke a long time
ago I'm hurting but don't tell anyone no one needs to know don't show or
you've failed always okay always fine always on show the show must go on it
will never stop the show must not go on but I know it well I give up I give up
giving up I am lost I don't need to be saved I need to be found basically it's
kind of just the same reoccurring thing of yeah not knowing who you are there's
a lot of people that are eating food and then by the end of the day your body's
in a crisis yeah yeah body's just processing all
this bullshit yeah and people ask me that - they go you know how much you
sleep first of all I can ask all the time so I go to bed around 11:00 I woke
up wake up around 4:30 ABS that's five and a half hours sometimes I sleep more
than that sometimes I go to bed at 10:00 10:30 11 sometimes I stay up later but
when the person says to me ah you know I can't do that I feel horrible how can I
feel better and my first question is like what are you eating
what are you eating because if you're eating Cheetos and chocolate chip
cookies for lunch there's no way you're gonna feel good no I don't care if you
slept 12 hours a night before and the thing you gotta do too is when you get
done with work and it was a grinded you didn't get you get crappy food and
whatever happened happened and you got yelled at by your boss or whatever and
the real easy decision is to be like I'm not gonna go train tonight those the
nights you gotta train coz that is gonna kick you back on the track real quick
when you get in there and you see your boys and they're getting ready to tear
you up on the mats and that's gonna get you on track as opposed to going home
and watching TV which isn't gonna do anything for you yeah and if there's not
anything whenever the thing is just go and do it just force yourself to do it
and if you feel like because you ate lunch then your lunch was you know
filled with bullsh well then hey dummy don't eat lunch tomorrow tomorrow try a
nice salad yeah no try a salad with some salmon and see how you feel then you
okay I feel way better today at 6 o'clock duh yeah now your
decision-making will be better like that people don't understand how significant
it is like all these little decisions they those are like that that's the path
for the rest of your existence on earth and if you decide to go to Cheetos
chocolate chip cookie route you're you're just making a path you're carving
your path through broken rocks and glass and it's not the way to go there's no
doubt that the life change decision isn't one big decision that you're
making now these little tiny decisions it's you know
having a salad and set of Cheetos that's that's that's what it is on a daily
basis and if you think about that and then you just make the right decision on
those little things that's where that's where the change is how did it feel to
like have that overnight success I mean you went from you know people not
necessarily knowing you name every day to everyone loving you how did that feel
well everybody knows that is never an overnight success right you know as you
know there's you've been doing it for a while as just now people together it's a
bigger platform right but I think it's a labor of being focused you know I think
I think since I don't do I don't go outside and experiment with alcohol
drugs and anything I stay really focused on the goal you know I want to
rehabilitate dogs I want to train people I want to educate
the world I want to transform and I think that pays off you know I think
that and also the fact that I surround myself with people who believe in that
concept you know who you surround your yourself you know whose your pack is
also going to influence your growth and so I think a lot of the knowledge that I
that I that I learned from dogs and apply it to my business life into my you
know the way I am the way a parent in their way they relate with people if
some people have a bad energy I rather not be around because if I can't they
can't change I'm not gonna change them I can change the dog yeah but I can't
change a human unless the human is willing to do it you know sir so you
have to read all of that and feel it and and just move on yeah right away advice
that I would that I would give it's just like let yourself be so consumed in in
your art or whatever your passion is it's literally the greatest feeling in
the world it's like love like it's you know to just let yourself be just like
swallowed whole by what makes you feel alive and what connects you to you know
the universe and that inner voice it there's nothing more more beautiful than
that and it's such a it's such a selfless thing