- Conor McGregor
versus Khabib Nurmamogedov,
Nurmagomedov. (chuckles)
I've been trying for a while to say it correctly,
just to pay respect, but Nurmagomedov,
Khabib Nurmagomedov.
But before I started this video,
I literally tried saying that like 10 times,
and I'm getting there.
So, with them two and their energies,
what is the biggest difference
in their energies, their vibration,
and what can we learn from each of them,
and how they go about what and who they are,
and how they carry themselves.
We're gonna learn exactly step-by-step
how we can do what they have done
and become a killing machine, I'm just kidding. (chuckles)
But I'm gonna show you how they've become champions
in their own mindset, their own energy,
how they carry themselves,
and what we can learn from them to apply it.
Because recently Khabib Nurmamogedov,
Nurmagomedov
was on Mike Tyson's podcast called Hotboxin',
and it's incredible how much global attention he has.
And one day of that, like full podcast episode
or parts of that podcast episode (indistinct)
had like 1.2 million views.
And I was fascinated by watching it
because his mindset is incredible.
His discipline is incredible,
but there's certain things that he said
that go into why he was as incredible as he was.
Because if you don't know, these are both UFC fighters.
Conor was at one point a double champion
in two different weight classes at the same time.
And Khabib is considered one of the,
like the GOAT of pound for pound best fighter.
He will go down to the Hall of Fame.
He's an incredible fighter. Never lost.
Never really even lost a round.
He may have lost one round, that's debatable.
But other than that, he's just incredible fighter.
And he's this guy from Russia that most people,
most people, I will smash.
And he is, yeah, he's an incredible fighter.
Anyways, the mindset
and what he talked about in Mike Tyson's podcast
was that one of the things I found was interesting,
and it's something we talk a lot about, is your identity.
How do you view yourself?
Now, when Khabib was talking about his childhood,
he had a dad that put a lot of pressure on him,
and his dad recently passed away a couple of years ago,
and his dad put so much pressure on him.
And you could tell that Khabib, for a good part of his life,
wanted to make his dad proud.
What his dad would do is interesting.
He'd be out with his dad.
He, like, grew up wrestling bears is the story.
And he'd be like, always wrestling.
And he's an amazing wrestler.
He's got a grip like a bear.
And he would just, mauled people and smash, he would smash.
And one thing that his dad would do
that he said on the Mike Tyson podcast
is he'd be hanging out with,
he'd be with his dad and they'd be like a party,
a dinner party.
And he knew that once his dad found somebody else
that was about the same height and weight as Khabib,
he was gonna have to wrestle this person.
So, at any moment he would go out,
and he could have to wrestle somebody
because his dad told him to.
And what's interesting is when he, before he was champion,
he was talking about how every person he would watch
in his division on UFC,
he would be like, "That person champion, no, I'm champion."
He, his identity from the onset
was that "I am the champion and I could beat this guy.
I can beat this guy. I am champion."
So, he never really had to believe in himself.
It was almost like he took on the identity
of being a champion from the very beginning.
And these people that he watched,
he said he was watching Anthony Pettis
against somebody else in his division.
And it was for a title shot.
And he's thinking, "Why are these guys fighting?
I can, I would smash both these guys."
I just, he just knew it. He just knew it.
But what happens in UFC is there's a certain narrative
and a certain way they build up certain fighters
for their records to get more views
or to get more people and more attention on it.
So, they wouldn't necessarily give Khabib
to somebody that's like really good
knowing that Khabib would beat him
if they know that Khabib will win
because they want to build up the story of all the fighters.
So he kind of was talking about the politics of that,
but he said, it didn't matter.
The whole entire time he has the champion mindset,
very disciplined.
He said, "This whole thing is mental.
This whole thing is mental.
This whole thing is discipline. I know."
And he's like, "Right now, I've been retired for a year,
and I know that I could be anybody in the world at that,"
in his weight class, and I believe him.
I still believe, I mean, he's still training,
but without a fight camp or anything,
his mindset is at any moment,
he could fight anybody and beat them.
He's a champion.
And that's how he views himself as a champion.
So it wasn't like it...
And the other thing that I noticed
about people that are champions
is it's natural for them to win.
It is not on this big pedestal.
It's not amazing if they win.
There's not all this pressure because it's natural.
They're just the best.
Recently, also watching in UFC,
there's a guy named T.J. Dillashaw.
He was out of UFC for two years because he got in trouble
for some, like using something or steroids or some shit.
And he came back.
And even though he used the steroids or whatever,
he was like an intense fighter,
and he dominated, absolutely dominated.
Well, he's been off of everything, comes back, and wins,
and people are asking him in the interview afterwards,
just a couple of weeks ago,
was, "Are you surprised by your win?"
"Did you, you know,
are you surprised by it, how do you feel?"
He was like, "I expected to win. I knew I would win."
I didn't know if it'd be easy or hard,
but I knew I would win."
It's natural for him to win.
He wasn't surprised at all.
You see, the thing that I want you to understand
or to, is the identity piece of this.
It's how do you view yourself?
In any moment, you can give yourself permission
to view yourself (fingers snap)
a certain way,
but you also want to back that up
with your energy and also your discipline.
So, for Khabib, that was what he did.
He saw himself as that version of him.
He would work hard every day.
He would train every day and he took that identity with him.
And that is the key to this,
is understanding pressure and making it natural.
That's what really changes everything.
And then you talk about Conor and Conor's energy,
especially as of lately, his energy is all about ego.
He's tried to defend.
This is another thing that happens.
When somebody shifts their attention from being a champion
to sometimes the side effects
that comes with being a champion, like the money,
the clout, the attention, the significance, the brand,
whatever, it brings the energy away
from who you naturally are as the champion,
and it can many times bite you in the ass,
which is what happened with Conor.
Now, there's something interesting that happens
as you'll start to become more successful.
So it's important that you realize this now,
because even my journey of being on YouTube,
I've experienced this.
When you are passionate about what you are doing,
and you are in the vibration of it,
like Khabib is when he's fighting,
and he's a champion that is natural for him to win...
When you, or Conor, when he back in the day,
when he used to fight, he was passionate about fighting.
He enjoyed the process. He was having fun.
Having fun smashing other,
you know, it's an interesting idea,
but people that do MMA, generally,
they're passionate about it.
They think about it. They dream about it.
It's a part of their identity.
But when you start to become successful,
if you start to get distracted from being the champion,
and you start focusing on all these other areas,
things get more complex.
And not only that, something interesting happens.
You can sometimes move from that
of being in a growth mindset and becoming the best you
to moving to a preservation mindset.
I need to preserve what I've created.
So Conor McGregor on his buildup was growing, growing,
growing, growing.
Then he got there, and then he got complacent.
He got happy. He retired.
And he, now, he's coming back,
and he's trying to preserve this status.
But the preservation of status is a very different energy
than you being passionate about what you're doing,
and you seeing yourself as a natural champion.
So, part of his downfall of that vibration is that also,
he's also giving all the credit to the ego.
For Conor, it's like, he's trying really hard to maintain,
even though he's now lost twice to Poirier, Dustin Poirier.
So he's like trying to maintain that image.
And the interesting thing is when you look at Khabib,
Khabib is a religious guy.
And he, when he walks up to go to fight for weigh-ins,
he does something interesting.
He'll go up, he'll do the little thing like this,
and he'll go like this.
He'll go, "Me, no.
This, yes."
This, he's talking about source energy, God,
whatever name we want to give it.
That is who he's allowing to flow through him,
even though he's fighting.
I know it's a funny idea,
but you'll see it in athletes a lot.
A lot of athletes, they have this connection to source,
this connection to that.
And it's not just their ego. It's grace.
It's allowing things to happen.
It's trusting the universe, not just trusting the ego.
So Conor, on one hand, has moved completely over to ego,
and his self-preservation mechanism
where he is also putting his goal on a pedestal,
and making it very important that he wins
because his ego is dependent on it.
His status is dependent on it.
Whereas Khabib is extraordinarily humble.
This man is a very humble man.
And that's why so many people watch him.
That's why the Mike Tyson podcast
got 1.2 million views on YouTube.
And one day,
because he's such a humble guy...
At one point Henry Cejudo,
who's the guy that's keeping the conversation afloat
in that Hotboxin' interview,
he says to Khabib, he was like,
"You know, you're the best in the world."
And then you want to know what Khabib says?
"I have nothing on you" to Henry,
because Henry went to the Olympics
and was a wrestler in the Olympics.
So humble.
If you would've said that to Conor or anybody else,
they'd be like, "Yes, I am the best."
They would not take the attention off of him,
and then say, "You, what you do is fascinating,"
building Henry Cejudo up.
That's what Khabib did. That is a humble man.
So, the fascination behind both Conor McGregor and Khabib
is their energy is both fascinating in their own ways.
But the thing that really fascinates me about Khabib,
more than anything, is just how his mindset
and his discipline is so set.
For me to go daily on YouTube,
there was a certain mentality and discipline
that I had to create for myself.
I was then making videos in the beginning
to add value to other people.
Once I hit the goal of a million subscribers on YouTube
of influencing that many people,
an interesting thing happened.
I went from trying to make videos to add value
to I need to maintain what I've created.
I need to get views. I need to do this.
Am I as good as the old version of me?
Like, there's this, all this self-sabotage thoughts
that come into play,
because then it's come back to the ego
versus realizing that it's more about the energy
flowing through.
So the things we can learn about Khabib,
and the things we can learn about Conor
are both very different.
But humility is very important for Khabib's journey,
and understanding that discipline of a champion
and the identity of a champion,
viewing yourself as it already.
Even Conor, before Conor was a champion,
he would visualize himself being champion,
having his arm raised.
And he would feel it as if it happened now.
There are many artists that talk about this.
I've heard Kanye talk about this, talks about shopping,
and how he would imagine himself
already being able to go into those shopping sprees,
and all that stuff.
Now, that also sometimes, I mean, it can be powerful,
but when you're really tapped into you being passionate
about what you're doing, it's a different energy
than just the side effects of the passion,
which is the money, the clothes.
And he also, he owns a billion dollar, you know,
Kanye owns a billion dollar company with Yeezy's,
and or whatever that deal is.
And he is probably passionate about shopping, you know,
so it's fascinating.
But my question to you
is what have you learned about either Khabib's energy
or Conor's energy or somebody else?
Is there another person you'd like me to make a video on
to look at their level of consciousness or their mindset
or their energy to break down
and to show what we could learn in this process?
Comment below, let me know,
like this video, if you like this style video.
I know it's completely different
than some of the other ones.
Cause I'm actually talking about people
and like things in our pop culture.
Let me know.
Other than that, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
As always, peace, love, and namaste.