The thing that I would do for you if I could is I would teach you how to think correctly.
You see the largest gap between successful people and unsuccessful people in life is
the thinking gap. I’m not talking about being smart. I’m not talking about an IQ.
I’m talking about how you think, how I think. Successful people think differently than unsuccessful
people. Wise thinking leads to right living, stupid thinking leads to wrong living. How
true that is. You’re not just a product of your environment, you’re a product of
all that surrounds you and your environment. That includes the people, your beliefs, the
TV you watch, the newspapers you read, the friends you have, the movies you watch, your
hobbies, your interests, your family. Everything else that you’re involved with influences
your environment. And to the degree your environment is either healthy or unhealthy is gonna have
something to do with the products you’re able to get out and the quantity at which
you can put those products out. Self esteem is the bedrock of high performance. It’s
the bedrock of everything and it’s the least thing that is taught in schools. You are who
you hang round with. Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future. Show me your
friends and I’ll show you your future. The first, self esteem is built the first 7 or
8 years of life. Who are you around the first 7 or 8 years of life? Mom. Maybe Dad. An older
brother. An uncle. A grandmother. Right? What the do they know about building self esteem?
They don’t know anything. And now, show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
Who do you go hang with? Who do you chill with? Bill Gates doesn’t hang. Steve Jobs,
who I knew, didn’t chill. Warren buffet doesn’t hang. Elon Musk doesn’t hang.
And I can go down the list of people that don’t hang. So the people that you’re
now associating with, would you want your children to be like your 2 best buddies or
2 best gal friends, whatever you call it. Would you? Probably not. Would you even want
your children to be like you? Probably not. So why is there so little being done about
it? Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. Remember just because
you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Don’t confuse movement
with progress. It’s that level above where your comfort zone is. That’s where I want
you to shoot for. Don’t go through life burning at 10 watts or 50, be a 100 watt person
and burn bright. Don’t settle for average. Don’t go through life and just say you know
what? I’m okay being average. Average sucks. It does. I promise you this. Sometimes it
doesn’t matter how much you want something or how hard you’re willing to work to get
something. If you don’t possess the the actual skillset that’s required to do it,
it’s delusion. And most people don’t get that. They’ll try to go into a business
that’s sales based but not master the art of sales and persuasion. They’ll try to
go into another type of business and not master whatever it might be. They don’t master
their craft. Don’t settle for just being average at what you do. You gotta become amazing
at it. Become a force of nature. So seriously there’s nothing you can’t learn. There’s
no skill you can’t internalise through hard work and effort. But it’s hard work and
it takes effort. Don’t miss this step. The problem with most people they don’t set
their goals too high and miss them. That’s not the problem. The problem with 99 percent
of the world, is they set their goals too low and they hit them. Average sucks. The
enemy of great is good. Don’t set your goals low. Set your goals high. And understand that
to achieve these goals you must apply discipline and consistency. You’re either gonna go
get it or somebody else is gonna go get it. This is how this thing plays out okay. It
will have nothing to do with your grades. It’s gonna have something to do with whether
you decide to stay focused on what you want in your life. Okay? Everybody’s gonna have
a choice to get it. There’s 2 types of people, folks. People that get the life they want,
and everybody else. Okay. What group you wanna be in? Everything you wanna learn in life
is in a book somewhere. You can resist it. The average American reads 1 book a year.
Average is an epidemic. Average people, average athletes. Two hundred and fifty thousand kids
every year come out of high schools playing basketball. Two hundred and fifty thousand
kids every year are playing basketball, scholastic basketball, in order to try to play in the
NBA. Do you know how many out of two hundred and fifty thousand play in the NBA? Five.
Out of two hundred and fifty thousand. Life ain’t fair. Life is bad for a bunch of people,
good for a lot of people, and great for a few. You guys gotta decide where it’s gonna
be. Okay? Like your potential is where you’ll determine your greatness. See most people
think success is a straight line. I’m gonna get out of high school, I’m gonna get a
job, and everything’s gonna be fine. That’s not how it plays out, folks. Okay? This is
how it plays out. Guy decides he wants something, and the line gets all squiggly. Cause if you
don’t have your own goals, this is what you’re gonna do. You’re gonna spend your
whole life making somebody else’s dreams come true. The question is will you take enough
action? Cause if you don’t take enough action, if you don’t take enough focused action
that is positive to your potential, consistent with who you are, and where you wanna go,
if you don’t do that, you’re gonna end up being everybody else. It says I’m obsessed.
I’m not like others. I do what others refuse to do. I must control my destiny. I’m never
satisfied. I cannot settle. I rise while others sleep. I refuse to quit. I’m driven to succeed,
and I’m a role model for others. Okay? I want you to go into an idea and don’t give
yourself a way out. Make success a must. Make the consequences of failure in your life so
dire and unthinkable that you won’t allow it to happen. What stops most people from
achieving success is the story they tell themselves why they can’t achieve it. And never give
up. Most people give up too soon. Good things take time, you’re gonna have failures before
your success. That’s why failing elegantly is so important. Don’t give up, stick to
your dream, don’t settle for anything less than excellence in your life. Extraordinary
standards guys. Extraordinary. You’re here. So just imagine if you have this champagne
vision - I wanna have yachts and movie stars, and beer standards. That’s not congruent.
That leads to unhappiness. If you ask me what does it take to be happy I’ll give you one
word. Progress. Progress equals happiness. When you’re making progress in your body,
even if you’re not there yet, you feel good. You achieve your goal and you just sit around,
you’re not happy. We gotta grow. We gotta make progress. It’s easier to make progress
in the beginning of something. In the beginning of a relationship, who doesn’t have a good
time? Right? In the beginning of starting a business, if you love what you’re doing,
of course you’re gonna have a great time. In the beginning, anything, it’s easy. A
job, is fun in the beginning. It’s novelty. It’s new. When most people hit that plateau,
they go wrong job. Wrong relationship. Wrong business. Because it’s not instantly fulfilling
them. But the people that go “I’m gonna fight through and go deep. I’m gonna find
a way to breakthrough. I’m gonna find a way to learn and know more about this than
any human alive so that I can help as many human beings as possible and it won’t be
because I’ve lived it. There is a power in mastery. And how many people you know are
really committed to mastery today? Most people dabble in a million things, they master nothing
and they wonder why they’re unfulfilled. Because they’re running for the sugar, the
next thing that feels good, instead of getting past what doesn’t feel good and getting
to where you own something. There’s only a maybe half a dozen, 7, 8 categories that
really matter. Most people, you know, they major in minor things. And the most important
real estate in life is six inches between the ears. How we think. And anything you want,
good, you can have. So claim it. Work hard to get it. Don’t just aspire to make a living,
aspire to make a difference. And here’s my best advice. Welcome all experiences. You
never know which one is gonna turn everything on. Don’t put up the walls. The same walls
that keeps out disappointment keeps out happiness. Take down the walls. Go for the experience.
Let it teach you. And here’s the last one. Resolve. Resolve says I will - two of the
most powerful words in the language. Benjamin Disraeli said “nothing can resist a human
will that will stake it’s existence on it’s purpose.” Shortly put, I’ll do it or die.
I asked the kids how long should a baby try to learn how to walk. How long would you give
your average baby? Before you say “enough is enough. No.” Any mother in the world
would say you’re crazy. My baby is gonna keep trying, what? Until What a magic word.
I want you to write it down. Until. Promise yourself you’ll read the books until your
skills change. You’ll go to seminars until you get a handle on it. You’ll listen to
it until it makes sense. You’ll go for it until you understand it. You’ll practice
it until you develop the skill. Never give up until. However long that is. Step by step.
Piece by piece. Book by book. Word by word. Apple by apple. Walk around the block walk
around the block. Go for it. Don’t miss the chance to grow and resolve that you’ll
pay the price until you learn, change, grow, become. Then you’ll discover some of life’s
best treasures when you pay that price.