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Tony Stark's nine rules for success.
You see, since I'm a little kid,
I'm always very fascinated by superheroes.
As a young child I would watch like Batman with my dad,
and I didn't know anything about the Avengers,
or Iron Man or Tony Stark.
I remember the first time when I watch the Iron Man.
Oh my goodness.
Love at first sight.
I fell in love with the character.
Tony Stark, smart, intelligent, witty.
His super power, not because like Superman, he could fly,
or anything like that, but because he is smart.
He's got brain.
I love the character.
So, today we're gonna talk about
what are some of his rules for success.
(intense music)
You damn well why, back off.
Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me.
Yeah, big man in a suit of armor.
Take that off, what are you?
Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
Now, if you watch any of the Iron Man movies,
or the Avengers movies,
you'll see Tony's always very sure of himself, right?
Even when Captain America is challenging him.
He knows he doesn't have super power or super-strength,
or anything like that, but he knows
what he is good at.
See, very often, in life that we don't do
what we know we're supposed to do,
because of lack of confidence, or lack of self-esteem.
We don't believe, we don't know if it's gonna work
or it's not gonna work, and what if it doesn't work,
what if it fails?
That lack of self-esteem, that lack certainty.
But self-esteem is the foundation of all success.
Just imagine if you just do what you know
you're supposed to do, if you believe in yourself,
truly believe in yourself and be your own biggest fan.
How much further you'll be in life.
How much more successful you will be.
(intense music)
(Obadiah) Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave
with a bunch of scraps.
Well, I'm sorry, I'm not Tony Stark.
Confidence comes from competence.
One of the reasons why Tony is so confident about himself
is because he's got the goods,
he's got the skillsets, he's got the mindset.
He knows what he's capable of.
Not because of fancy equipment or in the lab,
or anything like that, just like what you saw in the clip.
He built that from the cave,
because of his ability, because of his mind.
So, very often, if you want to be more confident,
or in certain areas, if you lack confidence,
ask yourself, how much time have you spent on
developing that skillsets?
Honing your craft, getting good.
When you are good at something,
naturally, you'll be more confident.
So ask yourself in certain areas in your life,
which area that you need to work on.
Which area you want to develop more confidence.
Which area you want to hone your craft, get good.
When you're good at something,
naturally, you'll be more confident.
When you're more confident,
you'll be more determined, as well.
(intense music)
I'm not saying that the world is enjoying
its longest period of interrupted peace
in years because of me.
(audience cheers)
I'm not saying
that from the ashes of captivity,
never has a greater phoenix metaphor
been personified in human history.
I'm not saying that Uncle Sam
can kick back on a lawn chair, sipping on a iced tea,
because I haven't come across anyone
who's man enough to go toe-to-toe with me on my best day.
You see, I truly believe what holds most people back,
sometimes, yes, lack of confidence,
but also lack of communication skill.
You see, Tony is a phenomenal communicator.
Tony Stark, very charismatic, very confident,
not only he feels confidence,
but he knows how to communicate confidently.
I think nowadays, because of social media,
because now we're working
from the computer, from the laptop, from a phone that
very often, even young people, they don't know
how to talk to people anymore, all right?
They don't know communicate, it's through text.
But how do you express yourself
Confidently, one-on-one, on the phone,
or to a camera, right?
See, that would have more impact in your career,
in your life, in your income, way more than you think.
So you want to be more confident in life,
in whatever you do, work on also your communication skill.
(intense music)
The only reason I haven't cracked up,
is probably because you moved in,
which is great, I love you, I'm lucky.
But honey, I can't sleep.
You go to bed, I come down here.
I do what I know.
I tinker but
threat is immanent,
and I have to protect the one thing
that I can't live without.
That's you.
And my suits, they're--
Machines.
They're part of me.
A distraction.
Maybe.
Very often, you see people that they say,
I want this and I want that, I will have these goals,
and I want to be more successful,
but they're not willing to sacrifice.
You see, I sacrifice a lot for what I do.
There's always a pay price to action.
If you want something, you have to give something.
What are you willing to give?
What are you willing to sacrifice
to get what you want, right?
If you want to make $40,000 a year,
spend time with your family, have that work-life balance,
that's perfectly fine.
That's a good life.
But if you wanna make six-figure,
you wanna make a million dollars a year,
well, let me tell you this,
there's no such thing as work-life balance.
All right?
You have to be willing to sacrifice.
Now, I'm not saying that you have to be a workaholic.
What I am saying is in order to build your career,
to build your business, to take it to the next level,
to take your life to that next level,
there's a trade-off, right?
You cannot spend three-four hours a day playing video games,
and say oh now I want to by more successful.
It doesn't work that way, unless you're a gamer.
But, you need to make sacrifices.
You need to say, this is the price
that I am willing to pay for success,
for the things I want, to be able to provide for my family.
So, ask yourself what you are willing to give up?
What are you willing to sacrifice to get what you want?
(intense music)
[Jarvis] Test complete.
Preparing to power-down and begin diagnostics.
Uh, yeah, tell you what,
do a weather and ATC check,
start listening in on ground control.
[Jarvis] Sir, there are terabytes of calculations
needed before an actual flight is a--
Jarvis, sometime you gotta run before you can walk.
Ready, and three, two, one.
(engine powering up)
I love this quote, run before you walk.
Conventional wisdom says, walk before you run, right?
You always take that step-by-step process.
You kinda climb that ladder, right?
You have to do it in a very sequential manner.
But what I notice sometimes success is messy.
Sometimes you don't necessary do things sequentially.
You might have to do things simultaneously.
You're working on many things at the same time.
You're putting out fire, you're solving problems.
You're doing a lot of different things
and sometimes to get what you want, you have to act
as if there's no limit to your abilities.
You have to act as if there's no ceiling,
there's not restriction.
There is not so much, oh, once I know how to do that
then I'll do it.
Let me ask you a question, because most people,
what holds them back is what I don't know do something.
And when I hear that, I always ask them,
does that mean you don't know how to do it
or you don't want to do it?
Because you all have the ability to do it, right,
it's just a question of, do you want it bad enough?
Are you willing to learn it?
Are you willing to do what it takes to get it?
And sometimes, you may not be ready.
I always say you don't have to get it right,
you just have to get it going.
(intense music)
No, no, no, please.
Let's have it.
You don't understand.
This is all I have, I'm nothing without this suit.
If you're nothing without this suit,
then you shouldn't have it, okay.
God, I sound like my dad.
There's a saying, it's the man that makes the suit,
the suit doesn't make the man, right?
You have to be the man first,
then you wear that suit.
Just like this conversation, Tony Stark with Spider-man.
It's not the suit, the suit enhances your ability, right?
Same thing in life, it's not just environment,
and it's not just the things you have,
at the end of the day, it's you depending on yourself.
It's not money that makes me successful,
I'm successful because of my skillsets and my mindset.
Money is a byproduct of value creation.
How much value you deliver to the marketplace,
and how many problems you solve for people,
how much impact that you make to the world
in exchange of value, in exchange of money,
it's all that is.
It's not so much, once I have the money,
then I will be successful, it's the other way around.
Once you have this, then you'll be successful.
(intense music)
Tony, we're a weapons manufacturer.
Obie, I don't want a body count to be our only legacy.
That's it. That's what we do.
We're ironmongers, we make weapons.
It's my name on the side of the building.
And what we do keeps the world from falling into chaos.
Not based on what I saw.
We're not doing a good enough job.
We can do better, we're gonna do something else.
Oh, like what?
You want us to make baby bottles?
You know how sometimes you're very, very busy
and you try to do a lot of different things
and you're not so sure
what exactly are you trying to accomplish?
'Cause busyness is also a form of laziness.
That sometimes people get busy and busy
for no reasons at all but exactly
what are you trying to create?
What is the outcome that you want?
What is the end goal?
It's always very helpful to know that first
and then you reverse engineer and ask yourself, why.
It's not just, oh what I need to do?
That long to-do list, but you can ask yourself,
why am I even doing this at all?
Does this produce results?
Does this fit into my overall vision?
(intense music)
Truth is,
(cameras clicking)
I am Iron Man.
(audience clamoring)
Embrace your true self.
When you're on social media,
when you're trying to build personal brand,
I truly believe one of the most important things
that you have to do is be your authentic self.
Maybe you're a little quirky,
maybe you're a little bit weird, a little bit strange,
maybe you speak with an accent,
but your message, your story, will resonate with people
when you are truly authentic, right?
I always say, I'd rather be hated for who I am,
than to be loved that who I am not.
(intense music)
(tapping)
There's no decision-making process here.
We need to be put in check.
Whatever form that takes, I'm game.
If we can't accept limitations, we're boundary-less,
we're no better than the bad guys.
Tony, someone dies on your watch, you don't give up.
Who said we're giving up?
We are if we're not taking responsibility for our actions.
This document just shifts the blame.
I'm sorry, Steve, that is dangerously arrogant.
This is the United Nations we're talking about
it's not the World Security Counsel,
it's not S.H.I.E.L.D, it's not Hydra.
No, but it's run by people
with agendas and agendas change.
That's good, that's why I'm here.
When I realized what my weapons were capable of
in the wrong hands, I shut it down, stopped manufacturing.
I think you're intuition, your gut instinct,
is one of the most powerful tools
that we have as human beings,
but through time that, because of wrong decisions
and sometimes that because of experience
that we don't trust our own gut instinct anymore.
You know what I'm talking about,
sometimes when you meet someone and you're like,
hm, everything else sounds okay, but
you're gut instinct is telling you,
I don't know if I can trust this person,
or I don't know if I want to work with this person.
Or very often, I notice in my at least business career,
when I ignore my gut instinct, it never turns out very well.
Like, I think I always say, my intuition,
most of the time, 90% accurate, my wife, Jennie,
her intuition is probably 99% of the time she's accurate.
So there you go, Tony Stark's top nine rules for success.
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Nine rules of success, all sounds the same.