DON’T WASTE YOUR LIFE IN 2026 | Powerful Motivational Speech Video

You say you are morally obligated to do remarkable things.

Mhm.

>> Why?

>> Well, I think partly

because life is so difficult

and challenging that unless you give it everything you have,

the chances are very high

that it will embitter you

and then you'll be a force for darkness

and not good.

You know, the the fact

that life is short

and can be brutal can terrify you into hiding

and avoiding,

but it it can also you can flip

that on its head

and understand that since you're all in anyways,

you might as well take take the risks that are adventurous.

And that's a very good thing to understand.

And what is also useful to understand in

that manner is that there isn't anything more adventurous than the truth.

This is something that took me a long time to figure out.

Well, you can craft your words to get what you want, you know,

and people do that all the time.

They craft their words

so they can avoid taking responsibility for things they should take responsibility for,

or they can craft their words to gain an advantage

that they really don't deserve.

That's what you do when you manipulate.

And the problem with that, you might say, well,

why not do that if I can get what I want?

And the answer to

that is you aren't necessarily the best judge of what you need.

And it's easy to be deliluded in what you want.

And that's the sort of delusions that people chase if they chase power.

If you decide instead

that you're going to just say what you believe to be true,

you have to let go of the consequences.

And you might think, well,

I don't want to let go of the consequences

because I want to control what's going on.

But what you miss

then is adventure because

if you don't control what's going on,

you don't know what the hell's going to happen.

And maybe that's exciting and actually there's no doubt about it.

And then you have the additional advantage

if you're attempting to say what you believe to be true

and attempting to act in the manner

that you think is most appropriate. that's genuinely you

and you have the force of reality behind you.

Obviously, that's what you have

if you're trying to say live in the truth is you have the force

of reality behind you.

That seems like a good deal.

Then you have the reality and the adventure.

So why is that a moral obligation?

Well, if you hide

and you don't let what's inside of you out

and you don't bring into the world what you could bring

and you become cynical

and bitter,

you will start doing very dark things.

So you'll start in in not only will you not add to the world

what you could add,

but you'll start being jealous of people who are competent

and doing well and work to destroy them.

So that's the pathway to hell.

There's no shortcut.

There's no hack.

There is no other way around it.

You must absolutely unapologetically be obsessed with the process, not the rewards,

not the recognition, the process.

Because we live in a world that worships the end result.

Social media shows you the wins, the degrees, the job offers, the celebrations.

But what it doesn't show you is the 4:00 a.m. grind.

The anxiety before an exam.

The frustration when nothing makes sense and you're questioning your entire ability.

Let me be crystal clear.

There is no easy route.

If there was, everybody would take it.

But that's not who you are.

You built different.

So from the moment your alarm clock goes off, not just Monday morning,

not just when you're in the mood, every single day,

your mindset has to be I woke up.

So come hella high water,

I am going to win this day. winning your thoughts, winning your schedule,

and bringing that winner's mentality with you into the classroom, into the library,

into every conversation, every challenge.

You were not born for mediocrity.

FAILURE IS NOT IN your DNA.

But listen, there will be bad days.

Let's not pretend it's going to be easy.

There will be days where your brain feels like it's running in circles.

There will be days when you stare at your notes and think,

"I don't get it."

But what you will never do is tap out.

Is wave the white flag and say, "Maybe this just isn't for me."

So while they scroll, you study.

While they party, you grind.

While they quit, you go harder.

This race isn't about how fast they're moving.

It's about how focused you stay.

And this race, this journey is won by those who can separate themselves from

the distractions,

the drama, the excuses.

So I need you to lock in today, right now, this moment.

LET THAT FIRE RISE.

LET THAT PURPOSE burn

and LET THE WORLD FEEL THE POWER OF SOMEONE WHO DECIDED

THAT AVERAGE is not an option.

>> >> What if after all the hard work, all the blood, all the sweat,

all the tears, you still fail?

Let me tell you something.

You did not fail.

You learned.

And that lesson is worth more than gold

because life will hit you

when you least expect it.

You'll get KNOCKED DOWN.

YOU'LL QUESTION EVERYTHING.

But you must look in the mirror and say, "Because of this setback,

I'm stronger.

Because of this pain, I'm wiser.

Because of this moment, I'm better.

Because you have something that many people will never tap into.

Potential.

Massive potential.

Unstoppable potential.

But listen, don't you get it?

Potential is just unrealized greatness.

It doesn't mean anything if you don't put it to work.

You're not the first person to feel like they don't measure up.

You're not the first person to wonder if you're smart enough.

You're not the first person to cry in frustration, to want to give up,

to feel overwhelmed.

But the people that push through, they're the ones who rise.

They're the ones who graduate AT THE TOP.

THEY'RE THE ONES WHO GO ON TO BUILD businesses and change lives.

If you settle for just passing, you're robbing yourself.

NO, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT YOU.

What you will do is walk right up to your professor, your TA,

your mentor, and say, "I want to win in this class.

I want to grow, but I need help.

I need clarity and I'm here for it.

I'm here for whatever you can teach me, but I need your help.

Because passion and persistence, that's a language that every great teacher understands.

They'll meet you halfway,

but only if you show you're serious about crossing that finish line.

That anxiety, it's not your master.

That confusion is temporary.

That pressure, IT'S NOT HERE TO CRUSH YOU.

IT'S HERE TO SHAPE YOU. is here to mold you.

You were born with everything you need to win already inside of you.

You already have what it takes not just to pass, but to excel.

You're not broken.

You're building.

You were born TO BE SPECTACULAR.

BORN FOR IMPACT.

BORN FOR LEGACY.

So leap OVER THE OBSTACLES.

CRAWL IF YOU MUST.

RUN IF YOU CAN.

But whatever you do, DO NOT STOP.

BECAUSE THAT VOLCANO of potential INSIDE OF YOU, IT'S NOT DEAD.

IT'S NOT GONE.

It's waiting for your permission to erupt.

So go be powerful, go be relentless, GO BE GREAT.

THIS IS YOUR MOMENT.

I just need you to own it.

Like life can be hard.

Life can be rough.

But there's something special

and there's something powerful about the human mind

and about the human spirit

and about the human will

when you tell yourself,

"I won't give up.

I won't surrender.

I won't quit.

I'm going to show up every single day

and do the best

that I can."

Once you enter into a situation with the right mindset,

once you enter into a situation

and understand that it's first about self-belief

and a commitment to your purpose,

if you're driven towards what you're supposed to do first

and foremost before you operate in

that environment,

you're already a success.

And a lot of y'all scared.

Just walk into it.

Stop running from it because your life ain't sweet.

WHY?

SINCE YOU'VE BEEN RUNNING, IT AIN'T LIKE YOUR LIFE SWEET FROM RUNNING.

Listen to me very closely.

Y'all running from obstacles

when in fact it's the obstacle that's going to take you to the next

level.

Give yourself the opportunity to continue on your path.

Don't see failure as a stopping point. see failure

as a part of your process.

You're still in motion.

The biggest concern I have for you >> Mhm. >> is

that you think you did something wrong

and now you're behind.

>> I That's That's how I feel.

>> I know.

Which is why you're trouble.

The answer is you're not going to find nothing

if you're still dwelling on what got you to the spot.

>> >> If you actually said, "Oh I'm 25.

I can do for five years.

I'll be a cook for 6 months.

I'll be an architect for 6 months.

I'll start a sneaker brand for six."

If you did that and realize at 30 after 5 years of that,

you're still young as >> Yeah.

>> Then you win.

If you're like, "Fuck my, you know, I grew up.

I was good at school.

I was doing this and the you lost."

>> Are you ready to take the next step?

Are you ready to start the new chapter?

Are you ready?

Are you ready?

You're not waiting for the perfect time.

You going to make it THE PERFECT TIME.

YOU DON'T NEED A PERFECT CLASS FOR YOU to do what you got to

do.

You don't need the perfect teacher for you to succeed.

YOU DON'T NEED THE PERFECT CLASSMATES for you to overcome.

YOU YOU DON'T NEED TO BE IN THE PERFECT SETTING.

NAH.

NAH.

Even when it's not perfect, you're going to make it.

Why?

cuz you've feuded on the inside.

You deserve to see what your life would look like if you gave 120%.

You you you've been living 70%, 80%, we've been talking about it.

And and you're looking at the results, the outcome, right?

You reap what you sow.

You're looking at the outcome of somebody giving 70%.

Like everything everything you have, everything you are, everything you doing,

like it's is 78.

And what I need you to do is I need you to look at

yourself in the mirror

and say,

"Come on, quit.

Stop playing.

I deserve to see what my life would look like if I gave 120%."

It's about the way in which you operate.

And when you start to try to define your purpose,

I'm not someone to say that I found it yet,

but what I'm understanding is it's a process of becoming.

You have to put yourself in situations where you fail over and over again.

They're processes that allow you to grow, develop, mature.

The next time you see failure, define failure as your teacher.

The next time you see adversity, define adversity as your advantage.

The next time you see an obstacle, define your obstacle as an opportunity.

The next time you see loss,

define your loss as a lesson. put those things together

and understand that you have the ingredients for your success.

I think often times we try to step into situations and we have doubt,

failure, and fear on our minds

and we wonder why the situation doesn't go the way in

which it was supposed to go,

right?

Like you step into a situation and you're hesitant.

You're 50/50 on why it is you're going to where you're supposed to go

and then you wonder why you don't get the result you're supposed to get.

when you stepped in with cloud.

Man, I feel like I've been pushed down in the dirt.

I feel like people have been stumping on me.

I feel like stuff has been raining on me.

But you didn't realize this, my young friends, you was just a seed.

So, you got to tell yourself, "No, no, no, no, no.

I haven't been pushed down in the dirt and I haven't been stumped on.

I've been planted.

And I've been placed in this pot for a reason.

And we are at this arena here to be able to have a conversation

to say,

what does it look like to go to that next level?

>> >> Maybe the beginning of your story was rough,

but I got good news for you.

THERE'S ANOTHER CHAPTER.

AND THE NEXT CHAPTER IS GOING TO BE YOUR BEST CHAPTER

BECAUSE the next chapter,

YOU'RE GETTING READY to write something new.

The next chapter, it will say happily ever after.

Your next chapter is going to be better than your last chapter

because it's not about how you start.

There is no destination.

When we talk about goals,

we're talking about goal setting

because you should be focused on the person you're becoming

and not the result.

The only block for you is you.

You've been looking for a word.

You've been looking for a person.

You've been looking for someone to call you.

You've been looking for someone to point you.

You've been looking for someone to actually ascend.

That is not the case.

It's on you and you alone.

And if we all operate with that type of purpose,

it doesn't matter what you do.

If we all operate with that purpose, when you step into a building,

I don't care what it is that you do.

And if you do it with the type of passion

and zeal and enthusiasm

that allows people to know

that you have a mission statement with how you move,

you leave your mark on the world.

Like I promise you,

every single person who wants to do something with their life

and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter

that you're going through.

And it's the lonely chapter.

There comes a time

when the hard work you have to do is learning

that you can't work any harder any longer

and that you have to change what got you here to what will get

you to where you want to go.

>> Why are you so antisocial?

Because I'm trying to get it.

Why are you out there practicing in the hot sun

when ain't nobody else out there?

Because I'm trying to get it.

>> I I don't want to do it alone, but I need to.

>> It's a gamble.

Yeah, I know that.

But look, if there was a time to roll the dice, this is it.

>> A lot of people problem is like they don't know how to be

by their self,

bro.

Like, you got to learn how to be by yourself.

You got to learn how to be alone, bro.

Nobody wants to disappear for 3 months, 4 months, 6 months,

and and and eliminate all distractions

and get into a place where you can focus on just you.

What if you could just shut out every distraction?

What if you could just shut up the world for just a season

and focus on you?

So if you wake up in the morning

and you don't want to do something,

you don't care enough about yourself.

And that's what you need to really research is why am I not doing

this for myself?

Because that is that is the number one purpose in life is to better

oneself.

So that's the only purpose I need.

I built this me brick by brick

and I'll be damned

if I LET YOU TEAR IT DOWN JUST CUZ YOU DON'T LIKE THE WAY

another talk.

Stop telling everybody what you're going to do.

Stop telling everybody what your next move is

and just disappear and do the work

that is required.

I was hopelessly alone and uh bullied when I was in school.

I was the most unpopular kid throughout all of school.

I was an only child, very socially awkward,

and you would not have picked me

as being anybody that would have become even slightly competent in life,

let alone being in relationships and being happy and so on and so forth.

You do not know the path

that your life is going to take you down over the longer term.

You do not know how you are going to grow up,

the way that you're going to look,

the way that you're going to become competent

or confident or any of these different things.

Yes, there are some challenges that you're going to face,

but what do you want to do?

Do you want to roll over

and just allow the world to continue to kick you in the teeth?

The pessimist is always going to be able to prove himself right?

Cuz like in the Matrix,

when Neo's about to go take the red pill

and he wants to get out of the car,

Neo, you've been down

that road and you know exactly where it leads

and I know that's not where you want to be. you could go back,

but then you'd have to remember exactly what the reason was

that you decided not to go out to begin with is

because you listen to this podcast

and you consume this content,

you're like, I can can do more than this.

And you start to see the person that you could be and you're like,

this does start to feel like hell.

So, the very fact that it's difficult is why it is worth doing.

And so, like, we can't resent the price tag of the shoes

that we want to buy.

We just have to make the decision of whether

or not we want to pay it.

Everything in my life breathes and eats this purpose that I have.

I got to make it personal.

It's it's it starts with me.

When it starts with me, it ends with me.

But there are many people out there who did make it.

And they're making it today.

And the reason that they're making it is

because they had just enough faith in who they are inside

and they did not allow anyone to come in between their faith

and their possibilities.

No man or woman can put you down unless you allow it.

So if you are alone right now,

if you're sitting in a quiet place right now, have that moment to yourself,

give your life some deep thought and process it and then attack.

And I'm not coming at y'all on any other level, but keeping it real.

The life that I live,

I deserve this life because I work my ass off to get it.

Y'all out here running around on the brink of destruction

and it's all self-inflicted trying to live up to the hype.

You still got work to do.

Stay on that basketball court.

Stay on that football field.

All the homies texting

and calling and trying to make you feel bad about being

so focused.

It's grind season, homie.

It's not about today.

It's about the future.

I know there's a whole bunch of people with

that right there that fires me up.

That brings joy to my life right there.

Like cuz I know there's

so many people that have the ability

and just refuse to get off

that couch.

Refuse to study a few more hours.

Refuse to go deeper to go further.

And that's where I gained the advantage.

What truly truly matters in life is your time is being captured

and your attention is being captured by a thought

that could have been gotten rid of had you have just done it.

Had you have just had the conversation, broken up with the relationship,

left the job, told the father, whatever it is that you needed to do.

All of that anxiety cost could have been gotten rid of had you just

gone and done it.

You can move through life at seven times the rate of other people by

simply changing when you say you're going to make a decision from end of

week to end of day.

So think about how that stacks up.

So it's like let's say

that there were four decisions

that you needed to make.

If the normal person takes a week to make the decision

and then their mind moves on to the next thing

that they have anxiety for

and start making that decision

and decide another week,

decide another week, decide another week.

It's a month to make those four decisions.

Whereas the the super the superman that takes one decision day one,

one decision day two, third decision day three, fourth decision day four,

they aren't even finished the week yet

and they're where the other person is at the end of the month.

And like that speed of decision-m like not paying the attention cost,

the opportunity cost of your time.

I think it's really profound in terms of how quickly people move through life

in terms of achieving the goals

that they set out.

If you go on an airplane,

every time you've ever got on an airplane

and they've said in case of emergency,

if the plane is about to go down,

they say put the mask on yourself first before you try

and help anyone else,

including your own kids.

That means that you can only take care of everybody else

if you make it more of a point to take care of yourself.

It is time to be more selfish.

Tell them, "Sorry, something came up.

I've made other plans.

I'm gonna go do something for me."

>> It doesn't start with them and they.

It starts with me.

It starts with me.

>> There's a a cool insight that the more you complain,

the less accurate your model of reality.

So complaining is you saying the world isn't delivering to me

that which I anticipated

or expected or desired from it.

Which is also you saying I don't understand how the world works until it

comes and meets me in reality.

There's three primary things

that everyone uh casts all their pain

and suffering to which is you have circumstances,

you have other people and you have self.

And that's it.

Those are the three those are the three big ones

that everyone puts all of their all of their blame on.

And so the first two obviously don't serve you.

The third sometimes serves you depending on what you do

as a result of it,

right?

And so um that actually those big three has just been a really easy

filter.

It's like, oh, am I blaming circumstances?

Am I blaming other people?

Am I blaming me?

And um obviously you want to skip to you cuz that's the only thing

you can do anything about.

Wouldn't do that.

There ain't no friendly faces out there.

Only a just desserts.

Who are you?

I guess the better question is what have I become?

The ultimate ideal is also the ultimate judge

because the ultimate ideal is is something against

which you fall far short

and that might be

so painful that you can barely stand it.

But then what you do is you two things I suppose is you lower

the ideal and you raise your estimation of your poss of your potential.

And what do I mean by lower the ideal?

Well, if you're comparing yourself to someone

or even to a future self

and the gap is

so painful that it paralyzes you,

then you've created a dragon that you don't have the tools to master.

And so what you have to do is you have to scale the dragon

down to size.

And you want to scale the dragon down to size until it's a size

that you are willing to move toward,

however small that is.

Now, you know, if you're here

and your ideal is here

and that gap is unbearable,

then you reduce the gap

because you're not going to move from where you are to perfect in one

fell swoop.

There's going to be incremental steps.

So you have to fill in

that that hierarchy of progression with with a high enough resolution representation

so that you can start to move forward

and and then you should be buttressed.

There's another gospel comment that's very interesting.

It has to do it's called the Matthew principle

and the Matthew principle is to those who have everything more will be given

and from those who have nothing everything will be taken.

Now it's brutal because it implies that reality works like this.

When you're moving up, you go like this, right?

And that's pretty nice.

That's a lot better than this.

But when you're going down, you go like that, right?

It's like downhill downhill cliff.

Okay?

So, you want to avoid the downhill path.

Well, if the uphill path is like this, which is like exponential, let's say,

or geometric, then what

that means is that it doesn't matter how big the first steps you take

uphill are. even if they're trivial,

even if they're shameful in their in their size

because you're so useless

that if you're if you're disciplined in

that,

you'll speed up extraordinarily rapidly.

And so that's the good news, you might say,

is that you can take very small steps,

even ones that might be shameful in their size,

and you have to admit that to yourself.

But once you get the ball rolling, it doesn't roll in a linear fashion.

It rolls in a geometric fashion.

And this is a really good thing to know

because it can take the sting out of the realization of your own stupidity.

It's like, yeah, you know, everybody has their weak sides, let's say,

things they're embarrassed about.

When I first started going to the gym, I was like,

how old was I?

1985, 23.

And I think I weighed 135 lbs

and I was f 6'1 very very thin.

I smoked like mad and I drank too much.

Like I wasn't in good shape.

The first the first attempts forward I took in the gym.

I went to this swim exercise class.

It was me and this like really fat guy, young guy,

probably not in any worse shape than me,

and like seven old women over 70, and they could outswim me.

Like, it was pretty damn humiliating.

And so I did a semester of

that and got myself in somewhat better shape.

And then I started to go to the gym to work out,

to lift weights.

And that was also rough because, you know,

I'd be underneath a bloody bench press trying to lift 75 lbs off the

off the rests.

And, you know, some muscle-headed bastard would come over

and tell me how to do it.

And it's like, yeah, thank you.

But, you know, it's embarrassing.

And lots of times people won't do things like go to the gym

because they're so embarrassed about how they look

or what sort of shape they're in.

And it's a pain to start at the bottom.

But you start at the bottom where you're weak.

And if you want to rectify what's weak,

you have to accept the fact

that you're at the bottom

and that the first steps are going to be painful.

You know, I it took me about 3 years.

But I stopped smoking

and then I stopped drinking

and I gained 40 lbs of muscle in like 3

and 1/2 years,

something like that.

I got a lot more physically confident

and a lot more coordinated cuz working out with dumbbells makes you coordinated,

right?

because it it exercises all the small ligaments

and the tendons and

so my lower body in particular got a lot more coordinated

then I could dance

so that was better

when I was going out dancing cuz I did a lot of

that in graduate school

and but the point of all this is

if you're going to rectify your weaknesses you have to admit your insufficiency to

your own shame now

if the gap between you

and your ideal is

so great that it paralyzes you shrink

that right >> one of the things I've been talking about in the live

shows is your comparison group is incorrect.

The fact that you know we have the opportunity to sit down

and listen to anybody on the planet,

right?

The best minds, the best athletes, the best thinkers,

the most articulate that are alive right now

or listen to the people

that have died that were around

when video cameras existed

and you can compare yourself to

that group.

Yeah.

But that's not your comparison group.

If you have the impetus to sit down

and listen to me

and you waffle on for 3 hours about these deep topics,

these interesting ideas, you are so already selected out of the normal group.

You're already asking yourself questions that almost nobody almost nobody else is, right?

But because your comparison group are people that are unbelievably high performing,

is that really who you're going to compare yourself to?

And it's unfair.

And the problem that I see is people who have big dreams for themselves

and want to do great things,

they like to set their sights high

and yet they feel despondent in the comparison.

So I think >> well there's a pride in that too.

Like >> I can be I want to be >> well

or that's who I should be comparing myself to.

Right?

That's the pride.

And the pride is something like I should be

that or even I could be

that.

It's like well maybe you could

but you're certainly not going to do it

as you already pointed out without the apprenticeship right

so you could say

that the dispondency is actually is is in proportion to the to the false

pride now I wrote a chapter in I think my first book

which was compare yourself to who you are today not to who someone else

is sorry I I mangled

that to some degree

but you get the point the proper comparison group for you is you yesterday

because you can make first of all,

you're their only control group that's appropriate to you

because you have a certain set of talents

and possibilities and limitations

and tragedies that are truly unique to you.

And so you might be comparing yourself to someone else on some dimension,

but it's not a reasonable comparison

because you don't know what talents they were blessed with. you also don't know

what opportunities they had

that you didn't etc.

It's just not a reasonable comparison.

It's a lot better to think about who you were

and then to think well could you be some what better in some dimension

and the the the positive thing about

that is the answer is almost always yes.

Now you can orient

that transformation towards some stellar target

and that's a reasonable thing to do

but that doesn't exactly mean

that you should compare yourself to

that target.

Aiming at something and comparing yourself to it are not exactly the same thing.

Plus your bloody comparison is also a delusion.

You know, that's another thing

that you have to understand is

that you look at the person you're jealous of

and really what you're doing is you're you're looking through a very narrow aperture

at a very thin slice of their life.

You're looking at the thin slice of their life that's turning out the best,

but you're also looking at a thin slice of their life that's marketed to

be the best.

Right?

And you have no idea what the horror of

that person's life might be in its totality.

And you have no idea

if like if the deal was say you wanted to be Russell Brand,

there's a good example.

You wanted to be Russell Brand.

You wanted to be as charismatic and as famous as he is.

Well, your real wish is that you get to have everything Russell Brand has,

but none of his problems.

Well, come on.

I mean, that's just it's just it's no wonder

that a vision like

that would make you despondent

because it's it's naive.

It's resentful.

It's jealous.

It's bitter.

And it's unreasonable.

You have to take the good with the bad.

You have to take the bad with the good.

And people ve rarely think about that when they're thinking about, you know,

the famous people they think they'd like to be.

If you could have what you wanted in this moment

and I could deliver it,

what would it be?

How much of the mess

that you see around you would vanish

if the mess that you could put straight was put straight?

The question always is why do something?

Cuz doing nothing is easy.

You just sit there and you don't do anything.

That's real easy.

The question is why would you ever do anything?

And the answer to

that has to be

because you've determined by some means

that it's worthwhile.

In many in many ways,

that's what you should be doing at university is that's exactly what you should

be doing is trying to figure out who it is

that you're trying to be,

right?

And you you aim at that.

And then you use everything you learn

as a means of building

that person that you want to be.

And and I really mean want to be.

I don't mean should be.

Even those things those things are going to overlap.

You know perfectly well

that if you put your mind to it

and you make the proper sacrifices,

there are things you can set straight.

>> What advice do you have for a young man in his 20s?

>> Make a plan.

Look at what you're interested in.

Get disciplined about something.

Allow for the possibility

that you have something important to contribute to the world

and that the world would be a lesser place without

that contribution.

Don't be afraid of taking on responsibility.

It's where you find what sustains you in your life.

You can take on too much responsibility.

You you have to be cautious in that regard,

but that's a less common problem than not taking on enough.

A lot of the things

that people regard as traps are actually the means to their life.

And then the next question might be, well,

where should you look for worthwhile things?

And one would be well you could consult your own temperament.

And the other would be well you kind of look at how look at

what it is that people acrue that's valuable across the lifespan.

But the way other way you do

that is by having a little conversation with yourself about

as if you don't really know who you are

because you know what you're like.

You won't do what you're told.

You won't do what you tell yourself to do.

You must have noticed that.

It's like you're a bad employee and a worse boss.

And and both of those work, you know, for you.

You don't know what you want to do.

And then when you tell yourself what to do, you don't do it anyways.

You should fire yourself and find someone else to be.

You have to understand that you're not your own servant, so to speak.

You're someone that you have to negotiate with.

And that's and you're someone

that you want to present the opportunity of having a good life to.

And that's hard for people because they don't like themselves very much.

So, you know, they're always like cracking the whip

and then procrastinating and cracking the whip

and then procrastinating.

It's like, God, so boring and such a pathetic way of spending your time.

And you know what that's like cuz you probably waste like 6 hours a

day.

You have to believe

that your action has some redemptive possibility cuz why would you do it otherwise?

And you might say, well, I kind of believe that's like, well,

that's not good enough.

You know, you kind of got to throw yourself all into it.

And what's the cost anyways?

It's not like you're going to get out of this alive.

So, you're pretty much all in whether you want to be or not.

And maybe if you were voluntarily allin,

things would be a lot better than they are.

If the world isn't everything that you want it to be,

maybe you're not acting the way you should.

One of the things people do to buttress themselves against failure is to never

let themselves really gain clarity about what they need

and want.

Let's say you try something

but you only do it half-heartedly

and then you fail

and you think,

well, I didn't really fail because, you know,

I held a bunch back in reserve

and so I didn't get what I wanted,

but maybe had I been allin, I would have.

And so you don't have to upgrade yourself too much for the failure.

Now, it's a catastrophic way to live to sit on the fence

and to not commit

because instead of risking the possibility of failure,

you engage in what's essentially the absolute certainty of failure.

Because if you want something worthwhile and difficult,

which you probably do if you want to have an adventure and go somewhere,

then what's the chance you're going to get it if you're halfway in?

You can't be halfway in,

but that sort of protects you against failure because you can tell yourself, "Well,

if I tried, I could have done it."

It's like, you know, you tell yourself that 200 times and your life's over.

Okay.

So once you get your goal structure set up, you think, okay,

if I could have this life,

looks like that might be worth living despite the fact

that it's going to be,

you know, anxietyprovoking and threatening

and there's going to be some suffering

and loss involved and all of

that.

Obviously, the goal is to to have a vision for your life such

that all things considered

that justifies your effort.

Okay.

So then what do you do?

Well, then then you turn down to the micro routines.

It's like, okay, well this is what I'm aiming for.

How does that instantiate itself day to day, week to week, month to month?

And that's where something like a schedule can be unbelievably useful.

Google calendar, it's like make a damn schedule and stick to it.

Okay, so what's the rule with a schedule?

It's not a bloody prison.

That's the first thing that people do wrong.

They say, well, I don't like to have follow a schedule.

It's like, well, what kind of schedule are you setting up?

Well, I I have to do this, then I have to do this,

then I have to do this, you know,

and then I just go play video games

because who wants to do all these things

that I have to do?

Set the damn schedule up so that you have the day you want.

If I was going to set it up

so it was the best possible day I could have,

what would it look like?

Mediocrity is behind you.

Success is in front of you.

>> We choose to go to the moon.

In the lonely chapter, you decide which way you want.

>> Ignition.

All engines are running.

>> We live in a world that demands more thought, more deep work.

The lonely chapter can be defined often times

as a season where you where you go to war with yourself.

There's a tranquility face.

The eagle has landed.

I'm descending the ladder.

I see the earth. the entire planet Earth.

>> You decide which way you will go

and we are immersed in whirlpools of busyiness,

noise and pleasure.

>> And the question is, >> can a man cut off temporary pleasures for longterm purposes?

The pain that you feel right now, this is the sign of success.

It is the sign of a man or a woman, a boy,

a girl who is willing to make the necessary sacrifices to achieve their target.

In order to get through the lonely chapter, he must embrace the lonely chapter.

There comes a time in every man's life,

a moment of clarity where one realizes there is more.

And in order for us to manifest more, we must become more.

And this requires us to withdraw ourselves to certain moments

and seasons and chapters at a time to find ourselves

or to rediscover ourselves

or to reinvent ourselves.

When was the last time you sat alone with your thoughts in silence?

You went for a walk, a bus ride, a train ride, a trip away,

a climb in the mountains, a hike down a trail,

to rediscover yourself to find who is the real you.

There are seasons in our lives that summon us to go deeper.

The question is, can you detach yourself from every disempowering limiting belief?

From every lid, from every label, from every limitation,

from everything you've made a crutch.

Can you resist what has been irresistible,

the false dopamine that you have so heavily relied on?

Can you delete the app?

Can you cancel the membership?

Can you end the subscription?

Can you step out of the toxic relationship?

We want proximity.

We want attention.

We want availability.

We want the presence of people who are draining us.

Ask yourself this question.

>> >> Are the people in your lives fountains or drains?

Do they give to you or do they take from you?

At this juncture, nothing else matters.

I got to disappear.

I got work to do.

There is a chapter

that is on the horizon where you withdraw yourself from every distraction,

all artificial significance and noise and you find yourself.

This is the place where every aspiration has a voice

and every dream grows wings.

Our dreams do not grow wings in the stillness of the night.

Somewhere inside of you, there is a spark,

an ember of possibilities

that you could become the man

or woman of your dreams,

the person you desire to be, the person that you desire to see.

Solitude is the corridor and the gateway to the future.

It is the trail and path most avoid.

When I get alone with myself, I get alone with my thoughts.

I realize I've made solitude a monster masquerading in my life

as a constant reminder

that I am not enough.

When the truth is solitude is a gift.

Solitude is a bridge, a gateway,

a path out of the simulation of artificial significance.

It's amazing to me how we build these lives of simulations,

these imitative representations of reality.

We construct these lives of artificial significance, busyiness, distraction, noise, emails, text messages, DMs,

and a cloud of people that call themselves our friends,

but are only with us when we are winning.

And they don't even know who we really are.

And the moment that we go through a losing season, they're gone.

They will abandon us.

When I can get alone with myself, I can step into identity.

Most people don't have what it is

that they desire because they really don't know what they want.

They don't know what they need and they don't know who they are.

When I can get alone with myself and my thoughts,

I can plan tomorrow today.

I can journal.

I can walk.

I can work out.

I can get in touch with my strengths and my weaknesses.

I can identify where I'm winning, where I'm losing, where I need to improve,

how I can step up.

I can schedule my priorities.

I can manage my energy.

I can scrupulously investigate

and evaluate where is my life

and where will it be in the next 5 years.

When people see me, what do I want them to think?

How will I be remembered?

What will I accomplish?

What will I become?

How can I get to this place that I've never been before?

It is possible to do this

when the chapter of being alone is no longer seen

as lonely,

but we see it as beauty, brilliance, wisdom.

You know, sometimes being alone is about protecting your peace.

It's about understanding that peace is like a crown jewel.

It's finding that quiet space to find myself

and begin to deconstruct

and begin to unlearn some things

and relearn some things.

You got to get serious about your peace and your future.

I've got to find what I've been called to do.

I've got to discover my purpose.

Make that difference. make the connections, create something, build something,

and then go back and help the people that were lost with me.

And so that alone time is

that time to reflect

and recharge and to imagine bold,

courageous, more intentional, more dialed in.

Some of the strongest souls, innovators, pioneers, captains of industry, CEOs, entrepreneurs, game changers,

city shifters, world changers have emerged out of suffering and solitude.

As you step into this chapter alone, my question to you is,

who will you be when you come out?

And what will you give back to the world?

Be terrified of dying until you have won some small victory for humanity.