We are most alive,
we have the most energy,
we are most intimate with our best selves
when we're progressing towards our mighty mission.
I think what's happened on the planet right now
is there's been a great seduction and a great brainwashing.
When we are kids we want,
we wanna be astronauts,
we want to do all our dreams,
and we're full of curiosity and we're loving.
And we're passionate.
We're strong.
We're not afraid to be ourselves.
But as we leave the perfection of childhood,
the hypnosis and the brainwashing begins
Be reasonable,
so that's our nature.
But our parents give us limitation based on their limited psychology.
And don't sing too loudly,
don't dream too big,
don't be too passionate.
As we've left, who we truly are,
we've contracted.
And now it's all about staying safe in the world versus going out there
and letting our brilliant, our primal genius shine.
And a lot of people just have stuffed that pain of disappointment
and they're doubt really deep inside,
and they just are addicted to distraction and escapes
because they don't want to deal with their potential that they've denied.
What's the most important key to success?
I think it's hunger.
It's, it's not getting satisfied.
A hunger that doesn't go.
A hunger to learn.
A hunger to grow.
A hunger to serve a hunger, to give a hunger, to create breakthroughs.
Most people are hungry till they make a certain amount of money
and then they get comfortable.
And there's nothing wrong with that cause it's, but it's not about the money,
it's not about the business, it's about your growth.
Cuz every one of us either grows or dies.
People ask me all the time, what does it take to be happy?
I say one word, progress.
Progress equals happiness, cuz achieving a goal.
Feels good for how long?
A week, A month, three months.
And then there needs to be something else.
And the reason for something else is cuz you gotta grow.
I want to, I want to find more
all I can.
And in thats sack of sh*t you have to dive in that to find more
because if you're not willing to go in there and face yourself,
I can find anything.
You can live right here on surface, man.
Right here on surface.
So if there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go and there's a judgment,
you gonna get there and you might see a chart
and that chart may tell you who the f*ck you should have been.
And now you get the rest of your life to think about that.
Now, I couldn't live a much better life.
I just would've just suffered a little bit more.
Success is not gonna show up at your front door
and knock on it and say, here I am.
It's not coming to look for you.
In fact, success is not thinking about you.
Success is already doing its job.
You got to be willing to do your job
each and every day that you are breathing in this world,
each and every day that you are doing something in this world,
you should be focusing on getting better,
not worse.
You should be understanding that,
hey, I can't be this same person on a day in, day out type of way.
I have got to cut.
I gotta keep focusing and going further and going harder
and going stronger and pushing myself
until there's nothing else left to push forward.
So now's the time for you to hit the gym of your life
and start exercising your self discipline muscle.
No more talk, no more excuses.
From this moment forward, it's all about massive execution.
Would there be days that you don't feel like it?
Yes.
Would there be days that you want to stop?
Yes.
Would there be days that you want to give up?
Yes.
Would there be days that you want to quit?
Yes.
Listen to me.
Quitting is never an option,
We've all bought into a lie.
We've bought into a lie.
That confidence is belief in self.
And so when you're in a situation which is normal, where you don't believe in yourself,
you're like, oh my God, I have no confidence.
The truth is, and I want you to walk outta here
with a new definition of confidence.
Confidence is the willingness to try
because when you try and you take action, what happens and what's happened for France is that
when she sees herself taking action,
What happens is she sees herself being
the kind of person that takes action, so she has evidence
that she can rely on herself, and that action is what builds confidence.
It doesn't start with belief.
The real way for most of us is not to wait to believe,
but to push ourself to act.
And through the action you will build the belief.
We're built to walk uphill.
And when you
reach the pinnacle of the hill.
You want to stop and appreciate the vision, but
the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance because
it's the uphill climb that
it's from the uphill climb that we derive our value.
And I mean this technically.
So almost all the positive emotion we feel, especially
the emotion that fills us with enthusiasm.
And that's to be filled with the spirit of God,
by the way, because that's what enthusiasm means.
That's
experienced in relationship to a goal.
And so in some sense, and this is part of the religious enterprise,
you want a goal that you can never attain.
Right, so you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards it,
you think, well, that's frustrating.
It's like Sisyphus pushing the rock uphill.
But it's not because as you pursue that goal,
you put yourself together and your life does get
better and richer and more abundant.
And that's why the highest levels of
virtue and goal are in some sense transcendent.
You want them to be above everything you're doing
so you can continually move towards something that's more sublime and better.
That's what you're here to live not to not to sleep.
I didn't study, like, you know, I didn't study a f*cking book.
I literally put myself in a fire repeatedly like a sword.
You put a sword in a fire repeatedly and repeatedly.
If you keep on doing that, you're gonna get a nice sword
and then you keep on beating it, you gotta beat the sh*t out of it.
And that's what I am.
Yeah.
I I became that mo... I said, okay, we, we, we can't quit.
We gotta figure out why you are this p*ssy.
Why are you this p*ssy man?
What is wrong with you?
What's going on here?
So I kept on putting the sword back in the daggone fire
and I just beat it harder.
And I beat it harder.
And before I knew, I started realizing, hmm.
All right, man.
The brain is starting to get hard.
I'm no longer a theorist.
I'm now a practitioner.
I put it in hell, I dissected it while it's in hell.
Cuz you can't dissect anything in a normal environment.
You can't dissect anything in 2 degree weather.
You must put it in the f*cking freezer and freeze the f*ck out of it.
And then you dissect it.
Dissect it when it's miserable, dissect the brain
when all that's thinking about is, I need to get outta here, man.
I wanna get outta the f*cking freezer.
Open the door.
And you said, nah.
Five more seconds, man.
Five more seconds in the freezer.
And they asked when you start to pick that brain apart.
And that's what all this stuff did to me.
I kept on putting myself back into the freezer or the fire
and beating the sh*t outta myself.
Mentally and physically before I knew it,
this is what happened.
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that anyone who had put their heart and soul into their work
and had done their very best, could hold their head up high.
Merely talking about it or only putting in a modicum of effort wasn't good enough in his mind,
it was all or nothing.
He believed that doing your best was an admirable quality,
and that although you might not always be successful,
knowing that you had done all you could was often all that mattered;
at least you could look yourself in the eye.
This ethos is central to many youth movements such as the Scouts and Guides,
and is a great philosophy for life in general.
Indeed, doing your absolute best in everything you do is something that we should all aspire to,
and it doesn’t matter if it’s at school, university, work or home.
If you think about it, doing your best is also central to self-reliance
because it allows you not only to test your capabilities,
but also helps you to learn and therefore extend them.
It’s only when you are at the edge of your ability that you can really test your mettle
and see just how much you can depend on yourself.
Only ever working inside your comfort zone, or doing just enough to get by,
may be easy but is rarely rewarding.
And it never allows you to develop into a fully rounded person or realize your full potential.
The following quote from Theodore Roosevelt sums up the essence of Emerson’s point:
‘It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes up short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end triumph of high achievement;
and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly;
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither defeat or victory.’
When you are working on your next task, give it your full concentration and really put the effort
in to produce the best possible end result.
Even if it doesn’t lead to glittering success, you should be proud of yourself for doing your very best.
No man fails who does his best.