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List all the things
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that you aren't willing to give up for the dreams
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that you have.
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And that is what the person who will beat you is willing to give
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up.
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If you think about the difference between winners and losers,
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winners define themselves by what they made happen
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and losers define themselves by what happened to them.
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>> When your friends start to say you've changed,
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it's because they don't know how to say you've grown >>
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and because they see
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so few people who have.
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So, it makes sense that they don't have that.
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So, I see that as a lack of skill, not not malice.
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Like, it's not that they're bad people,
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they just don't even know it because so few people do change.
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I love this question, which is, "What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
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It's an interesting paradox
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that the energy it requires to start doing something is way more than the
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energy required to continue doing the thing.
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It won't get harder.
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Like, this is the hardest part.
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And so if you can just make it through this, everything else is downhill.
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It's not that the things
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that you're the dragons you're going to slay aren't going to get bigger.
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They are, but you become so much more equipped to slay them back.
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And you have so many more allies.
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You have people in the stands cheering for you.
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You have the audience.
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You have all of these other things that are behind you.
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But in the beginning, it's just you with a stick against a bear.
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And arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon
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when you have a nuclear bomb
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and six nations behind you.
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And so it's not even like the the size of the hardship.
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It's just also the resources
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and how few of them you have
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and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you
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have which is time
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because you have no leverage.
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You don't have the money to pay other people to help you.
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You don't have the resources to go you no one can learn it for
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you.
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It's like there's a lot of the things
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that that we care about a lot like no one can work out for
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you.
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It doesn't matter how much money you have.
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No one can learn skills for you.
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And so in the early days like it feels
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so painful cuz you're like you look around to see who can help you
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and then you're like it's me again.
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Those early days that little trench winning in the weeds often times gives you
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these huge advantages later on
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because you have more context than anyone else.
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And so rather than lament them
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and hate the fact
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that you're going through it,
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remembering that these will be arrows
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that you put in the quiver
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that you're going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons.
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And so expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than
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it ever is.
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Every single difficult thing
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that you do is kind of like a massive wall
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that you need to get over
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and you go,
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"Wow, I'm so glad that I've got over that wall."
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And you know, think about how many other people are going to fall at
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that wall there.
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Trying to assume that I need perfect conditions in order to start
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because I mean starting is the perfect condition.
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Like whatever condition that you're in that you start was the perfect condition.
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What's wild about the fear
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that people have when they're starting out is
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that they say things like,
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"I have nothing going for me.
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I have no advantages.
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I have nothing to my name.
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I have no money.
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I have no network.
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I have no resources."
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But it also means that you have nothing to lose,
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which makes you incredibly dangerous.
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And I think people wildly underestimate how many shots on goal you can take
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when you have nothing to lose.
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Whereas when someone has something to lose,
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they have to be more and more selective about the the shots they take.
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And so you have the perfect conditions for taking risk
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because the worst case scenario is baseline is where you're currently at.
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>> Correct.
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>> The downside is this.
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>> Which means that it's like going to the casino and playing craps.
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But they say that you can just keep playing until you win.
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But people are afraid to roll.
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But I love this question
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which is what would you do
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if you weren't afraid?
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And I just I love thinking about
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that when I'm thinking about big life decisions like what would I do
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if I weren't afraid?
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And what would I do if I knew I couldn't fail?
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And fear is a mile wide and an inch deep.
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And so it looks like this ocean
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that you're going to step into
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and drown.
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But as soon as you step into it,
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you realize it was not
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that deep at all
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and you can keep walking through it.
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And um I just love
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that visual because a lot of times
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when it's like we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to
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make if you actually take the step
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and realize that it's not death.
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You're not going to drown immediately.
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There's plenty of other steps you can take from there even
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if you get a little wet.
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So there's a lot of people say like do the work.
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Um and in gym launch and it's continued into our stuff today,
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but do the boring work is what we call it.
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And uh boring is what make you rich.
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Boring the boring activities.
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It's the it's the double-checking the emails.
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It's writing the follow-up sequence that you really don't feel like writing.
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And honestly, just getting it done will make you significantly more money than not
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getting it done.
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And so, it's like it's it's Michael Phelps talks about this too with uh
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with swim like just laps after laps after like he doesn't even have the
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variety of like different moves
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or different like it's just laps just sheer volume of work.
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And um I call it the rocky cut scene.
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And almost every successful person
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that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month
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or a year but many years of doing work without reward where they have
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to do things that other people find boring
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and they have to sacrifice things
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that everyone finds interesting
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that most people want to do during
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that entire season of their life.
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and they basically sacrifice a season of other things
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that they would prefer to do to do stuff
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that they would not prefer to do
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because of the one thing they want most.
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And that's the rocky cut scene.
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And instead of lasting 5 minutes, it just usually lasts 5 or 10 years.
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Even now, it's it's still something
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that I struggle with realizing
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that now isn't forever.
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>> The thing that you're doing right now doesn't need to be forever.
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It's not forever.
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>> Yeah.
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There's this huge time delay between
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when we start behaving in a way
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that a winner behaves
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and when we start winning.
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>> And the problem is that the bigger the mountain you're trying to climb,
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the bigger the W you're trying to get,
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typically the more delayed it is the lag.
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>> Yeah.
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Between when you start behaving like a winner
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and when you start being a winner.
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And most people don't get the fast enough feedback loop to know
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that they're on the right path
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when they are taking these first steps in the right direction
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because they have this really big goal,
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but they forget that with
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that really big goal comes the even longer delay
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that it takes to get there
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while still continuing to act with no feedback from society.
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>> No positive reinforcement >> whatsoever.
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And I think that's like
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if I actually had to put a real like what's what's been what has
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worked so well for me
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and why the input over the output focus has been
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so powerful is that I can extend the time horizon basically indefinitely
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because the goal is me
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and then the external goals occur.
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So I think a lot of us have the the battle of the other
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self that we're the the lesser version of oursel
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that we're trying to kill every single day.
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And so a lot of times we have this desire to point the blame
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finger externally.
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But wherever you point the finger of blame, power follows.
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And so whoever I blame for the life I have is the person who
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I give all the power over my existence,
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over my circumstances.
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And so it hurts.
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But if you turn the finger inwards and you start saying, "Huh,
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I don't like my life. the person
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that I need to punish
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or get back at is the real person who got me here,
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which is me.
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And so, you may be right
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that other people did certain things
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or you got dealt a bad hand.
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It also doesn't matter
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because the only thing
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that you can control is obviously the actions
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that you take.
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And the only person who's in control of that is you.
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The revenge porn is thinking about what the version of you who got you
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here did and then acting in the exact opposite of
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that as many times
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as you possibly can
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and the pain that you feel by rejecting the thing
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that you used to do
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that got you into this bad circumstance.
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That's the real revenge.
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We don't rise to the standards we have when others are watching.
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We fall to the standards we have when no one is watching.
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The only work that really matters is the work that no one sees.
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It shows you who you really are rather than who you say you are.
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>> There's this line
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that I heard David Gogggins say on Rogan
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and I can't remember who he's saying it to
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or what he said in response to,
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but he just said, "I'm David Gogggins bitch."
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And I remember him saying it
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and I thought to myself like you want to be able to say
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that in the mirror to yourself
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and not laugh at yourself.
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>> And the only way
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that I can do
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that is know that
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when no one's watching,
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I work harder than when they're watching.
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And thinking about it like
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that has given me this persistent
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and everpresent scorecard or third party that's like no one's watching
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which means now you have to work cuz otherwise you're full of
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And so it's this continuous reinforcing cycle of the me
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and other me holding the whip behind me to see how much I can
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take.
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But with each lash of the whip that I take,
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learning that I can take it and continue to trudge on.
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And so as long as you keep going,
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you bear witness to yourself of what you are capable of.
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And I find that incredibly satisfying in the trenches of misery
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when you have to go through it
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because you're like,
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>> you're not full of >> I'm still here. it means that you're not following.
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>> So I think what we're teasing at is authenticity.
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And so a lot of people feel like imposters because what they think,
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what they say, and what they do are completely different.
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But from an operational perspective,
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because that's how I like to define a lot of words,
10:35
which is what do I have to do to be that, right?
10:37
What do I have to do to be authentic?
10:39
And you can describe someone as authentic by saying,
10:43
how would you behave if there was no possibility of punishment?
10:47
And so if you could not be punished at all,
10:50
that behavior is who you are authentically.
10:53
And so in my opinion,
10:55
our degrees of freedom are predicated on how much to what extent we act
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as though we could not be punished.
11:02
And so if what we want to do
11:04
and what we do have no possibility of punishment,
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that is what we are
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when we are our true selves. you like most of the pain
11:17
that people experience is purely in their own minds.
11:20
And so to your point,
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I think there's an interesting one between like burnout versus hard.
11:25
And so like for me,
11:26
burnout is when my I would define it
11:28
as my output per unit of time decreases.
11:32
So I can see that that's measurable, right?
11:35
Now like I can say like number of pages
11:37
that I edit or the quality of the content
11:39
that I create. my output per time.
11:40
Like the team knows when I like when I'm like 6 hours,
11:43
7 hours into recording something.
11:44
They're like I literally start like slumping.
11:46
You're like like physically I just start like slumping
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and I like my cadence isn't
11:50
as like I'm just not
11:50
as sharp.
11:51
Right.
11:52
There's that versus emotional burnout
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which I think people mislabel
11:59
as burnout when really it's just like they don't know how to reframe reality.
12:03
And so what it really is is they got a comment on a post
12:06
that bugged them.
12:08
And like again, it's like pulling it from the shadows.
12:11
It's like, "No, this stuff doesn't work."
12:13
It's like, "Hold on.
12:14
What's the one voice that actually is coming through?
12:16
What is the real thing?"
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Well, there is this comment.
12:19
Okay, great.
12:19
It's embarrassing to even have to say that, but when you say it,
12:22
then you admit it
12:22
and all of a sudden you put it in the light
12:24
and the shame kind of starts to evaporate
12:26
because then you can name it
12:26
and be like,
12:27
is this comet better than my bigger than my future?
12:30
Is this comet bigger than me?
12:32
And one of the things
12:33
that I um that has helped me was saying like what's true about this?
12:39
And the next one is like what
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if we confront it
12:41
and say like what
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if they're right now what cuz a lot of I think a lot of
12:46
effort gets put into trying to deny reality,
12:49
right?
12:49
Like there's this clip
12:50
that I shared uh from Tom Billy
12:51
and he was talking about how he gets made fun of for his ears
12:54
being big,
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right?
12:56
And I think it's a really good clip cuz his point
12:58
that he was making he's like is
13:00
that it's true I do have big ears
13:04
and and so that's
13:07
if they're like you have no right to be making content.
13:11
Are they right?
13:12
Okay.
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And I'm still going to do it anyways
13:16
because the thing is like I can still do the things
13:19
that create success and not deserve it
13:21
and still get it.
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And that actually felt very powerful for me
13:25
because it was like I don't have to deserve to success.
13:27
I can still just do the stuff that gets it.
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It's like you don't have to you don't have to deserve the girl,
13:31
but you can still do the things that get her.
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And do you deserve it when you have her?
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I don't know.
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Who knows?
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I hate the word deserve to begin with, right?
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>> Yes.
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>> But like that has been super powerful for me,
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which is like what if they're right?
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And because a lot of people just trying to they spend
13:47
so much effort trying to fight the fact
13:50
that the comments might be right.
13:52
This might have been aing terrible thumbnail.
13:54
You know what?
13:54
This might have been a boring video.
13:56
This this post might have been regurgitated content.
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This post might have been inspired too closely by someone else's post, right?
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What if they're right?
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And yeah, >> does it make me a piece of what if it does?
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And being an is a weak person's idea of strength.
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Complaining is their connection.
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Never let yourself be held back by other people's fears.
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People criticize what they were afraid to do themselves
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because bold action reminds them of their own inaction.
14:25
If you're afraid to be criticized,
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why do you care about the opinions of those who are too timid to
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do it themselves?
14:32
If you are the criticizer,
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does tearing down someone who has the courage you lack make you better?
14:38
People criticize because it helps them justify the risks they chose not to take
14:45
in the hopes that it'll dissuade you from doing it
14:47
so that you can be in the exact same position
14:49
as them,
14:49
which then justifies that they made the right call.
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And so when I think about how hard I want to work,
14:55
the interesting thing about
14:56
that is that the only person who can judge you on your success is
14:58
you because you're the only one who knows how much left in the tank
15:02
you really had.
15:03
And the better you get and you can resonate with this,
15:06
you start winning exteriorly.
15:09
And that's when people are like, it felt so empty.
15:11
It's because they didn't actually work as hard as they could have.
15:13
They just worked hard enough to beat everyone else.
15:16
But that discrepancy between how hard you could have worked to to work your
15:21
hardest versus what was required in order to win,
15:24
to me, that's the opportunity
15:25
that shifting towards the work being the goal unlocks for you.
15:29
And I work harder now than I did when I was poor.
15:32
And I think it's because I've learned to enjoy it.
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