LIVE THE LIFE YOU PROMISED YOURSELF

You know, I think anybody who's listening right now,

if you want to set yourself up for success,

ask yourself how much risk you've taken in the first 10, 15, 20, 30,

40 years of your life.

When I started talking about business on Twitter, every single comment in 2009 was,

"Shut your mouth, wine boy.

Stay in your lane."

I'm telling you right now,

you want to talk about why

so many of you aren't exactly where you want to be,

look deep inside yourself on what your expectations of others are.

Ask yourself how much you've been succumbing to peer pressure.

Like, if you've always wanted to be cool to the popular kids in your

high school,

you're in trouble.

The amount of people in here

that have a job they hate

and they buy things they don't care about to impress people they don't give

a about scares the out of me.

Most people spend money on dumb things

which then forces them to do things they don't want.

Long before I became the wine guy on YouTube and Twitter,

I was a businessman.

And I think if it's your truth,

there's a very big difference between being an entrepreneur and a successful entrepreneur.

I can say that I'm a football player.

Doesn't mean I'm going to get paid to do it.

And so I think the truth I I think it's unbelievably uh exciting for

me. feels warm in my heart

that the thing that I've seen consistently analyzing this every second of my breathing

day for the last decade has been whatever your truth may be

as long as it is actually your truth you will always overindex

and people told me to not curse on stage you know my agents who

like stop cursing on stage cuz we're losing

so much money I'm like I can't I have to be me

and wherever the chips fall

and I think for everybody a it's fun cuz it's easier

and b audiences audiences are smart.

To your point, you can smell

when that person wants to put their agenda through.

>> And so I think the truth,

which is a very exciting answer to this question, the truth is undefeated.

>> My friends, accountability, giving with no expectation in return, playing the long game.

Every single person's business

or ambition will grow exponentially tomorrow

if they spend the next 13 years giving away free content forever. seems super

non-natural.

When do you monetize?

How do you do this?

The person that holds the breath the longest wins.

Some of you are interested in this work

and you like telling people you do it.

It make you feel good, but you not you're not 120 though.

Some of you are committed, but this like your side hustle.

I'm just being real y'all.

I was fully committed.

I left everything and started doing it.

And because I was fully committed, the world responded to that commitment.

But you just interested, you're not really committed to it.

You're not putting in 50, 60 hours.

When my wife got diagnosed with MS,

I never quit doing the work because I wasn't doing it for people.

I was doing it for the kids that I was doing it for.

So even with MS, she had to quit her job.

I had to take it to another level.

Some of y'all are negotiating not because of the company.

You negotiate because you're not the best at what you do.

And I need y'all to go back

and be the best at what you do.

And then I need y'all to come together

as the best and

then take this thing to the next level.

And there are some of you, you know what you want.

You know what you want,

but you are not personally willing to do the work it takes to get

it.

What you're trying to do is do what you've done on this level

and get the next level.

You're trying to do exactly what you doing on this level.

You're like, I'm getting up every day.

I'm putting in two and a half.

I'm putting in three and I'm not getting the opportunity.

The opportunity might require three and a half.

I'm lifting weights.

I'm eating right and I'm not getting the opportunity.

It might require getting up and working out three and a half.

It might require you saying no to your friends.

It might require you changing your diet.

It might require you moving to another city.

Whatever it takes, you got to be willing to do it.

And you keep saying you're not there because of something else.

Because it's easier to blame somebody else

because now you don't got to do no work.

When you blame somebody else, guess who got to do the work?

They got to do the work.

But guess who got the power?

They got the power.

How many of you are tired of other people having the power?

Let me see your hand.

You want the power?

I'm just being real.

Hands down.

Hands down.

Think about what I just said.

How many of you want the power?

Let me see your hands.

Good.

Write down.

Write down next to your crazy idea some of the things

that you know you doing wrong that's messing up what you're doing actually being

successful or like moving out of our mom's basement

or whatever.

We put so much energy

and time into the presentation of not looking like that's the situation instead of

putting the energy and time into actually finding a solution to

that issue.

And so at that point it was like, okay,

I've been putting a lot of time

and effort trying to pretend things are good instead of actually trying to find

solutions.

And then that's when I started to do everything I needed to do to

try to make money

and just really when I say embrace,

it's not necessarily like accept it for what it is.

It's almost like, okay, this is real.

I need to figure this out.

Take in your surroundings.

You take in the people around you.

You see how they're making money.

And I just didn't like begging people for money.

And so I respected the guys that were like figuring out hustles, right?

And so, for instance, there was a ao right down the street from me.

And so, I would go there and I would wash windshields and make money,

just try to save up enough money to just be in a motel for

the night.

And I mean, like the nastiest motel, but for me,

it was just taking in my environment, seeing how other people hustled,

how I can do it better.

Um, someone taught me how to play drums on buckets and things like that.

And so, you know,

I just tried to do any type of hustle um that I could.

I just started to learn how others were moving

and kind of adapted um throughout.

For me, it's it's opening your mind and opening yourself to people.

I think a lot of people they are ignorant.

They are like rejecting change.

Travel.

Get out of your comfort zone.

Meet people from all different types of backgrounds.

If you want to build a product

or service or company

that you want to build at scale

and your friends are only the homies

that you've been hanging out with since,

you know, middle school, probably should meet some more people.

Get to know them.

Travel the world, you know,

and even if you don't have the resource to travel the internet,

learn about different cultures, learn about different people.

You're at that computer, you tell me what you want to do.

I tell you, this is how you search.

This is this is how you find those resources.

Now you got to actually go and learn.

>> You have to be able to show people that there's other options.

And that's what spreading seas is all about.

Showing people that they can actually do something different.

>> There's one thing being homeless,

but there's another thing having everything taken away from you.

I was literally living out of my car.

And so even though I was homeless,

I was still trying to uphold the appearance of everything being okay.

When that moment happened, it was like, wo,

this is rock bottom

because now all my clothes are gone. all the cool shoes,

all the things that were material um

that you know I tried to fake it until I figured things out were

gone now.

And not only that, all the the the elements.

So now rain and snow and all these things would get in the car.

So it was like mildewy and smelly and so I smelled right.

And so for me in

that moment I understood

that wow this is I thought things were bad

but things are really really bad at this point

and now I can't pretend anymore.

I just have to really embrace this.

I think a lot of times

when we're going through things we kind of try to figure out how we're

going to finesse our way into people not knowing

that things are things are wrong instead of just saying this is my life.

This is real.

Now, you have like these brief moments of kind of peace until like the

next accident happens,

right?

Um, and that's just life in general.

You know, it's never going to be complete smooth sailing.

One of the things

that I've noticed about a lot of people is

that they let the hardships

and the things that happen in their life,

failure, stop them from like Aaliyah says, you know,

dust yourself off and try again, right?

And for me, I've just never let anything

or anybody prevent me from achieving what I want to achieve.

And so, I've always had this relentless mentality.

And if you say I can't do something, if I fail, if I,

you know, mess up, it just motivates me even more.

I just become even more hungry.

And so, I've always just had this, you know, relentless mentality.

I don't take, you know, no for an answer.

I don't take failure or accept failure at all.

And it's just always been kind of in my heart to not give up.

It's the rose that grew from concrete, right?

It's like no matter how terrible a situation is,

no matter how bad it is,

there's still going to be a rose that grows from that concrete.

And I feel like I was that, right?

No matter what my situation was, I was built for this.

I was not going to let myself fail, right?

And I have that mentality.

And I understand that now that I grew from that concrete,

I'm starting to plant my seeds.

And there's more roses growing.

>> You don't have to be perfect to be remarkable.

>> You know, aim high, but manage my expectations of of success.

People see the 30%.

They don't see the 70% of not making it

or not getting what you want.

And the interesting thing is that when you are honorable to achievement,

the wealth and that kind of thing comes automatically.

My story is all about agility and being able to be flexible.

The 5year 10ear plan that most CEOs ask,

my plan has always been kind of unhinged.

It's just like I go where my passion leads me

and and I feel free.

>> Performance mattered, not fame, not money.

How well did you do at something is what mattered.

>> I've got to get through it.

I've got to take a snapshot of the really great moments

and carry those with me through the really bad ones.

And the trick is taking your blinders off

and remembering to look at those photos.

And it changes the brain, changes the wiring.

And I try to breathe.

Breathing changes the wiring.

But it's conscious.

You have to just slow down.

You have to cut out all the noise.

You have to respect yourself. young fans with a tattoo of Danny Zuko

or or Vincent Vega on their arm

and you and you say this somewhere I made a difference in their life.

Were they were was someone glad that you were alive?

Were you valuable to someone uh by being here?

And you you want to be valuable, you know,

otherwise you're kind of wasting your time uh

if if you don't find your niche to be valuable to something.

You have to be grateful for what what you can get.

Plain and simple.

Like be grateful for what you have

because that's like we're lucky to even be here.

I think it's that feeling to be just lucky to be on the stage

playing in front of people.

Lucky to be sitting with you and talking about this.

>> It's just important for people to understand that complaining has no value.

And if you complain about not having enough money, work more.

If you complain about not having work life balance,

spend more time on vacationing and your family.

It's super simple.

Let your actions dictate instead of sitting there

and feeling like you're not in control.

>> Poor people say, "I can't afford it.

I can't do that.

I don't have time."

It's an escape.

You know what I mean?

It's easy to say, "I can't afford it.

Oh, I I'm too tired.

Oh, I can't go to the gym."

You know, when you could go to the gym, but no, I can't.

Truth is, I'm just too lazy to go to the gym.

>> My first shows I was playing for five people.

Like some of them didn't even want to be there, honestly.

But I was pretending like it was like like a big deal.

When I started DJing, I was playing.

I remember when like five people would be like, "Yeah."

And there was like everyone else just doesn't give a I'm like,

"Those are my five people.

I focus on them."

And after I talked to them, hang out with them.

I used to do that at every show when I was in a band.

We would tour across the United States.

And we would drive like 10 hours

and we would we show up I remember in like uh Albuquerque

or something and there was 12 people

that showed up and after the show I like hung out with all of

them and one of them the guys let us stay in their in their

house cuz we were sleeping in our van the whole time.

Man I was excited after the whole tour I was like

when are we going to go back again

and it's like you know you have to start in

that mindset.

It's like you can't That's the problem with social media right now is

that you're comparing yourself to people

that have like this large success

and you're like I want to play there.

But you first have to go with what you have in front of you

and make that meaningful.

You can't forget that life is an art.

It's why Oprah and I connected immediately

because you know we did a whole episode one time on enlightening people

that didn't have money on how they can live art our said very easy.

I said, "Can the average fellow go to Walmart

and afford a it's like a tray?"

Yes, it might be $3.

Can you afford a cup instead of a paper cup?

Might be a dollar.

It's fine.

Now, can you put your favorite coffee in that cup?

Can you Can you go to a market

or something and get a nice blueberry muffin?

Can you make that look pretty?

Put a flower on that tray.

Now, can you go give it to your husband or your wife?

They'll think they're at the Four Seasons and you have minimal money.

It's how you approach it, you know.

It's it's the art of life.

Someone wants wealth or they want want fame.

It it's harder for

that to happen because it's not based on anything

that has a a bean exchange to it.

You know, I always say

if you want to be uh wealthy on on just money,

uh get into the money business, uh investments, uh banking, you know,

uh but if you're in the arts,

I would do it for art's sake first and then hopefully others will follow,

but not make it a prerequisite,

but just keep doing the right thing and the good thing it'll happen.

>> We all make mistakes.

We all struggle. this like unconscious feeling

that I need to prove to my dad

that I'm gonna make it

because that's like what I grew up with.

I grew up with this like I need to make it cuz he kind

of he implanted those subliminal messages towards me,

you know, like when I was a kid growing up throughout my life,

you know, let's say some parent

that doesn't want their kid to play the violin,

okay?

And they're antagonistic, you know, you've got to be an accountant.

You've got to be an accountant.

You go, "Okay, Dad, I love you, but if I become an accountant,

I'm becoming what you want me to be,

and I have a good chance at having a not so happy life.

Even if I fail at being a violinist,

at least I failed on my own terms,

and I failed doing something I loved.

So, you got to let up on me,

dad or brother or sister or what,

whoever that character is that has a counter intention to you.

You have to get with them and get real and say, "Look,

it's my life.

It's not your life.

And this is how I need to do it."

Why are you so hungry?

Like, why do you keep doing this at this level?

Because at the end of the day, you know,

that's what you you have as evidence of a a life well-lived,

a a contribution to people.

You know you you know

if if if let's say I have 70 movies

and each one delivers a a kind of joy to a certain audience the

collage or the mosaic of your career has this blanketed effect

that suddenly you can go away with pride

that you it was a job well done

and you you maybe made a difference in a lot of people's lives.

When you do something because you love it, it's being an amateur.

And if you're a professional,

you have to do it regardless of whether you love it

or whether you feel like it

that night.

The trick is to keep both.

Because if you if you don't love it, then it's empty, >> you know.

But we're getting there.

What's crazy is that we're actually the dreams I had as a kid,

they're actually happening, which is it's bizarre and wild.

I really want to showcase to all the young people

that the shy kids

that the kids are like,

"Yeah, I I will not be successful like that.

I will have to like sit in a cubicle and do, you know,

the boring stuff."

Which is actually what my dad told me to do.

He's like, "That's real life. you have other ways to look at your scenario

and you know it's it's like I'm I'm trying to speak to to to

that to that demo to those kids to those people to the young people

out there like that even to the older people

that are like maybe I need to stop my job

and like pursue something else

or maybe I need to re-evaluate what I'm what I want to do with

my life.

I'm learning now, I think, to try to go with the flow,

to enjoy things, um, not to worry so much.

>> If you always do good work from your standards,

whether you're in a project that fails or succeeds, you can live with that.

Think of I'm 40.

Do you know how young we feel?

It's When you were 26,

did you ever think that this is what 44 felt like?

>> No.

>> You thought that that was finished?

>> Yeah.

>> How old are you?

>> Like, you think a 40-year-old like when I was 25 years old,

I thought a 40-year-old was finished.

I don't even feel like I'm starting.

And so, I'm giving real advice.

And real advice looks like this.

When you're 19 and you can spend seven full years learning your craft,

meeting people that are mentors, being patient,

and you wake up and you're 26 years old,

you have your entire life in front of you,

and you've done great foundational work to go on and then be successful.

If you want to be the best at something,

you're going to find a way to push through those challenges

and make sure you do what you need to do to be successful.

It's all about work ethic.

It's all about what you choose to do in life.

What is important to you?

What is that goal that you're going to identify and go after and say,

"I'm going to go after this thing wholeheartedly.

It doesn't matter what other people say.

This is what I feel is positive.

I love it.

You know, the whole world disappears when I do it.

And I'm going to channel this thing so I can help myself,

so I can help other people.

I put the work into this, like every day, all day.

And then when I'm done with it, guess what I do?

I dream about it.

I visualize it.

I see myself being successful.

I see myself hitting those shots with no time on the clock,

with a little time on the clock.

And anytime I was successful in those situations, I mean, you know,

I would always let people know it's through dedication, through your hard work,

and through mental preparation and visualization.

If you do those things,

if you can see yourself being successful in your mind,

then it will appear in the physical reality.

If you're calm and collected when you get the opportunity,

if you want to be great, oh man,

prepare to get up off that mat.

You're going to get knocked down over and over and over.

And even when you feel like, "No,

nobody it I can't be hit this hard."

Or if you're down there thinking,

"It's no way I can get up from this."

That's when you're just starting.

That's when it it it really kind of that's

when your your survival skills have to kick in

and hopefully you've trained enough in in in your mental preparation

and really believe enough in yourself to get up

because you know everybody I think we always um said the easiest thing to

do is hold that trophy.

That's the easiest thing to do in this process

and that's only going to be for a very short amount of time. the

work,

the will, the commitment.

Like I said, getting not getting up when you're knocked down.

I mean, there's always going to be these struggles

that or or challenges

that you have to get over.

And the hardest part is in you trying to be one of the best

in the game,

there's going to be a tension with it.

You have to live it.

You have to want it

so bad to where you'll sacrifice those Saturday nights

or Friday nights with your friends.

This is what I'm going to put my time into

because this is what I want.

The most critical piece of advice

that I've ever gotten

and I won't name who was from a coach one day.

He just all he said

and and I'm going to paint the picture for you.

I was a rookie.

I'm 19 years old.

I'm playing with guys old enough to be my dad.

I'm getting thrown around.

I'm I'm just I'm I'm playing a level of basketball

that I I'm barely hanging on by a nail with,

but I'm one of our best players, so I'm playing every night.

I want to go home.

I'm not used to the cold.

I'm getting beat up, but I wouldn't quit.

And I was looking for this piece of advice from someone

and all they told me was just like they would always tell me,

"Hey man, keep going.

Just keep going all the time, every time."

And you know, I got

so mad cuz I'm looking for

that euphoric that euphoric feeling from the piece of information

that they're about to give me,

right?

That's I think we all kind of struggle sometimes looking for

that and putting too much pressure on the situation.

But as I got older, as I continued to train,

as I continued to not give up

and not let a loss define me

or my character,

I kept going.

Lose or win, I kept going.

And and then it really started to click.

What he was telling me was he didn't have anything to tell me.

I cannot, you know, I can't I can't sugarcoat this ass whooping.

It is what it is.

You're going to take your lumps, but if you keep going,

if you don't quit, you're going to get better.

And you're going to get better.

And you're going to get better.

Hey, keep going.

And then after that, you keep going.

And then after that, you keep going. because it's about what we do.

It's about how we handle the situation.

It's not it's not about what happens to us cuz things are going to

happen.

How are you going to separate yourself from everybody else?

And I always thought anytime it got really incredibly hard,

I would think about all the people quitting right now

and how they're going to feel in a few years

that they're just going to say,

"Man, what if I hadn't have given up?

What if I would have kept going?"

Don't say, "What if?"

Please, please, please, please, please don't have the whatifs down the road.

You keep going now and I'm telling you,

you'll be in a better place than you would be if you quit.

Yeah.

Back when I was playing, my edge was my intensity.

My edge was my focus and my commitment.

You know, I put everything into the game.

I prepared.

I dreamt about it.

I visualized it.

I always prepared myself mentally for whatever is coming.

And I felt that that was my edge.

I read books.

I felt that was an edge as well.

You know, I've read these different books on mental toughness

and I'm going to take nuggets from each one to may

and and maybe it'll help me

because I know I'm going into a tough situation

and it's going to be extremely hard,

but I'm not going to give up.

And it doesn't even matter if the other side knows that about me.

They're in trouble before they even lace it up.

That's how I felt every single match.

I didn't care who I was playing.

And um you know, it kind of spills over into this day.

Um you know, it's all about work ethic.

It's all about what you choose to do in life.

Uh what is important to you?

What is that goal that you're going to identify and go after?

>> Speaking about your career, greatness, two NBA championships,

and then it's cut short. take us into the emotion.

>> Oh man, it sucks.

It's heartbreaking.

Um, it's surreal.

Unbelievable.

And I don't mean in a good way.

Um, and for a while I I fought that notion, you know, not me.

It couldn't have happened to me.

This is not fair.

I haven't done anything wrong.

I came back from it.

You know, it happened twice to me.

I came back from the last time I was in the hospital laid up,

you know, fresh out of surgery

and I had to I was in the hospital for two weeks with tubes

in my chest,

you know, and and and I overcame that, man.

Not this not just in a regular appointment with some doctor telling me

that it's over.

You know, it took it took a very long time to get over that.

It was crushing.

It was heartbreaking, you know,

and I and I blew off steam at the time by, you know,

um trying to get back in the league.

I worked out vigorously, trying to stay ready.

Uh but eventually I came to the realization that it wasn't going to happen.

And um you you know, it just sucks.

You know, there's no other way to put that.

Um I thought I thought and I say it in the book as well.

I thought winning a championship was the hardest thing I'd ever do.

And we say that, you know,

that was like a mantra in the locker room. this is going to be

the hardest thing you've ever done,

this goal right here.

And it was true up until a up until a point,

but it didn't last very long.

Um, the true challenge was being able to see

that uh or or you know,

while I'm in the weeds, getting out of the weeds of saying, "Okay,

basketball doesn't define me.

I'm not a basketball player anymore.

I once was, but that's not all to me."

I didn't want to hear it at first because, you know, like you said,

I'm on the top of my game.

I have at least three

or four more years to play at a high level

and I'm not going to waste it cuz I almost died.

You know, I'm going to make sure I put everything into this game.

Was able to get I was able to get back to all-star level

and still be,

you know, not only myself, but a better version of my new self.

And, you know, that was cut short.

And you know, you have to go through the stages of grief.

Um, you know, we're all human.

There's nothing you can do about that.

But I'm just happy

that I was able to have a beautiful outlook on it at the end

and eventually work through all

that pain and get to this point.

>> You know, I found myself writing out my pain.

And after I got through all of um uh uh Pat Riley likes to

call it mental diarrhea.

Got all the mental diarrhea out writing every morning.

I then saw that I was appreciative at the end of the day.

I still had my life.

Um, you know, my thing was, hey,

if I'm going to have 13 years at at this thing,

I thought I was going to have 18 or 19,

but if I'm going to have 13, boy,

I don't think I left a stone unturned.

There's nothing else that I could have done.

I put my all into it.

I dedicated myself to it.

And, man, that's a hell of a that's a hell of a piece.

And I can look back and be proud of that.

Unbelievable is the stupidest word in the dictionary.

Should never come out of our mouth.

Think about it.

To say, "Oh, wow.

What an unbelievable play.

Uh, it was an unbelievable book, an unbelievable film,

an unbelievable act of courage." really it may be spectacular.

It may be phenomenal, most excellent or outstanding, but unbelievable.

Uh-uh.

Give others and yourself more credit.

It just happened.

You witnessed it.

You just did it.

Believe it.

Give your obstacles credit. you know,

once you do find your frequency on something is go forward

if you're a non-tyrant

and don't ask permission

and that's the not giving a damn part.

I found that the world will actually acquies and go, "Yeah,

I'll give you a green light on that."

If you actually go forward

and mean it like you're

and you're going to do it by hook

or by crook and not ask permission.

Life is not easy.

It is not.

Don't try to make it that way.

Life's not fair.

It never was.

It isn't now and it won't ever be.

Do not fall into the trap,

the entitlement trap of feeling like you're a victim.

You are not.

Get over it and get on with it.

And yes, most things are more rewarding

when you break a sweat to get them.

Sit here in that discomfort long enough to go, "Okay,

until you come out the other side to go, all right,

I'm good with me again.

I don't want to leave a place I traveled to until I get to

the point of going,

ah, I could live here. this could be my existence.

As soon as I get to that point, then I'm like, okay,

you can go now.

I can go.

That's the same thing in the personal journeys.

Stick with it till you get through the discomfortable to uncomfortable times until you

go,

you know what?

I can spend time with myself.

I could do this.

I could do this forever.

Well, then it's okay to go re-engage, pick up your phone,

go see your friends, go have a drink, what have you.

Go look for those things that are other relationships in life.

But hopefully not until there's great value in not doing that until you go,

I'm good with me and me for right now.

So to any of us, whatever those things are,

whatever it is we look up to,

whatever it is we look forward to and whoever it is we're chasing,

to that I say amen.

To that I say, all right, all right, all right.

I say just keep living, huh?

Thank you.

You see, happiness is an emotional response to an outcome.

If I win, I will be happy.

If I don't, I won't.

It's an if then cause and effect,

quidd proquo standard that we cannot sustain

because we immediately raise it every time we attain it.

You see, happiness demands a certain outcome.

It is resultant.

And I say if happiness is what you're after,

then you're going to be let down frequently

and you're going to be unhappy much of your time.

Joy though, joy is a different thing.

It's something else.

Joy is not a choice.

It's not a response to some result.

It's a constant.

Joy is the feeling

that we have from doing what we are fashioned to do.

It is just as important where we are not

as it is where we are.

Look, the first step

that leads to our identity in life is usually not I know who I

am.

I know who I am.

That's not the first step.

The first step is usually I know who I am not.

Process of elimination.

Defining ourselves by what we are not is the first step

that leads us to really knowing who we are.

South of New Orleans uh a few years ago

and I went to a voodoo shop uh

and they had this this this wooden partition against the wall with these columns

and and in these columns were all these vials of these magic potions,

right?

And the headings above each potion defining what they would give you were things

like fertility,

health, uh, family, legal health, energy, forgiveness, money.

Guess which column was empty?

Money.

Let's admit it.

Money is king today.

It's what make the world makes the world go round.

It is success.

The more we have, the more successful we are, right?

Now, I would argue that our cultural values have even been financialized.

Uh, humility is not in vogue anymore.

It's too passive.

It's a get-richqu on the internet richest 15 minutes of fame world

that we live in

and we see it every day.

But we all want to succeed, right?

So, the question that we got to ask ourselves is what success is to

us?

What success is to you?

Is it more money?

That's fine.

I got nothing against money.

I don't.

Maybe it's a healthy family.

Maybe it's a happy marriage.

Maybe it's to help others, to be famous, to be spiritually sound,

to leave the world a little bit better place than you found it.

Continue to ask yourself that question.

Now, your answer may change over time, and that's fine.

But do yourself this favor.

Whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that will jeopardize your soul.

Prioritize who you are, who you want to be,

and don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character.

Don't drink the Kool-Aid, man.

It tastes sweet, but you will get cavities tomorrow.

All right?

Life is not a popularity contest.

Be brave.

Take the hill.

But first, answer that question.

What's my hill?

there's a responsibility to freedom and that there is freedom in responsibility, you know,

and that earn your way there.

We remember the stuff we earn,

the stuff we experience more than what the teacher tells us

or what someone gives us for free.

We just do.

We broke a proverbial sweat on it,

whether it was mental or physical or whatever.

We we we we built it.

We we understand. and we felt how we got it, how we achieved it,

how we got what we wanted.

Those stick with us whether we forget them intellectually,

they were written in our lineage

and they build resilience

and they and and

and they build a healthy true optimism going forward to know

that,

oh no, I've I've I've worked for something before and achieved it.

Delayed gratification.

Oh, there are choices I can make today for myself

that will pay me back later in life.

So, there are choices we make.

If you're going to say right now, I'm going to lie, cheat,

and steal to get what I want.

And I got it.

I got an immediate green light for me.

That's a battery powered green light.

That's not a solar powered green light.

Why?

Because now everywhere I go,

I got to look over my shoulder to see

if someone's there that I lied,

cheat, and stole from.

And when I'm doing that, I'm stealing whose time?

My time.

I'm not free.

I don't have the freedom.

I didn't create freedom in my future

because I chose to be an make an irresponsible act

that I left crumbs.

I've now got reasons to look over my shoulder.

And the more things we do to create in our in our future

that we got to look over our shoulder,

the more of our most precious thing we have in our lives,

time that we're stealing from ourselves.

So, it's not puritanical.

It's just like it's actually self- serving.

It's a very selfish choice.

And and I'm a fan of the word selfish.

I've re helped redefine it.

Um, but I believe

that there are selfish choices we can make

that are the most selfless.

That there are selfless choices

that we can make

that are the most selfish choices.

Those two are not a contradiction and we see them that way.

Responsibility is is appreciation of a past.

It's building of a lineage.

It's investing in ourselves.

It's investing in something we started to build yesterday

that we want to take into tomorrow.

There's a respon that gives us freedom.

So be brave, have courage.

And when you do, you get stronger, you get more aware,

you get more respectful of yourself and that which you fear.

I want you to tell us what those lowest moments of childhood felt like

in one word. temporary.

Absolutely temporary.

There was just no way I was going to let

that person beat me again.

And there was just no way I was going to stay comfortable in this

negative place.

Just a matter of time.

Some things are just destiny.

You know, look, everybody goes through a moment in their life where everything you

thought up to that second vanishes

and you realize that there's an opportunity to change the story

that you've written in your head for the last two three decades.

And I think it's universal.

I think there are very few people who don't get to a point at

year 20,

30, 35 that don't start debating, wait a minute, is this what I want?

Is this where I'm going?

Is this how it's playing out?

And you know, to me,

that is one of the most important moments in one's life.

You know, many people look at it

as a moment to start to get upset

and say,

"Wait a minute, this is not what I signed up for. and others,

regardless of what's happened,

use it as an opportunity to write the next chapter. >> 3 2 1

full power and lift off.

>> They need to be things that excite and inspire people.

>> Yeah.

>> You have to be, you know, reasons why you get up in the morning.

It can't just be solving problems.

It's got to be, yeah,

something something great is going to happen in the future.

Well, well, first of all, I'd say I actually feel fear quite strongly.

Um, so it's not as though I just have the absence of fear.

I feel it quite strongly.

Um, but there are just times when something is important enough,

you believe in it enough that you you do it in spite of fear.

There's always a chance of failure.

So, I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing.

If you don't like it,

life is too short.

and and and also

if you if you like what you're doing,

you think about it even when you're not working.

I mean, it'll just it it's it's something that your mind is drawn to.

Um and and if you don't like it,

you just really can make it work.

I think >> when you're building something new, there's going to be mistakes.

>> Um and it's important to to recognize those mistakes, acknowledge them,

and take corrective action.

>> Okay?

U and the success of a company is very much more about how quick

are you to fix the mistakes not will you make mistakes

and if you see the difference between a startup

that is successful and one

that is not and it's

because the successful one they both made mistakes

but the successful one recognizes mistakes fix them very quickly

and the the unsuccessful one tries to deny

that the mistakes exist.

You know a lot of life in general in any job there's like you

have to do your chores.

I think to be successful at almost anything,

you can't you have to do the tough stuff

and as well as the enjoyable stuff.

You have to do the boring stuff as well as the non- boring stuff.

Um, and if you don't do your chores, then bad things will happen.

But if they don't do the things that they don't like to do,

then the company will be in trouble.

>> Like you have to you basically like it's more fun to cook the

meal than to to clean the dishes.

Okay.

But you need to clean the dishes.

>> You need to do both.

>> Yes, you need to do both.

Exactly.

Now is the time to take risk.

You don't have kids.

As you get older, your obligations increase.

And once you have a family, you start taking risk, not just for yourself,

but for your family as well.

It gets much harder to uh do things that might not work out.

Um so now is the time to do

that uh before you before you have those obligations.

So I would I would encourage you to take risks now.

Do something bold.

Um you won't regret it.

When starting SpaceX, I thought the odds of success were less than 10%.

Um, yeah, same with Tesla.

I thought the odds of a car company succeeding were extremely low.

And I just accepted that actually probably I would just lose lose everything.

Um, but that maybe we'd make some progress

if we could just move the ball forward.

Even if we died,

maybe some other company could pick up the baton

and move and keep moving it forward.

I first of all I really need to give some thought to like how

can I provide advice

that would be most helpful

and I'm not sure I've given enough thought to to to

that to give you the best possible answer

but I think um I think certainly uh being focused on something

that you're confident will have high value to someone else um

and just being really rigorous in making

that assessment A natural human tendency is wishful thinking.

Um so a challenge for entrepreneurs is to say well what's the difference between

really believing in your ideals

and sticking sticking to them versus pursuing some unrealistic dream

that doesn't actually have merit.

And it's it's that is a

that is a really difficult thing to to tell you.

Can you tell the difference between those two things you know?

So you need to be sort of very rigorous um in in your self

self analysis.

I think certainly extremely tenacious.

Uh and um and then just work like hell.

I mean you just have to put in you know 80our 100 hour weeks

every week that all those things improve the odds of success.

>> Okay.

Um, >> I mean,

if if if other people are putting in 40hour work weeks

and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks,

then even if uh you're doing the same thing,

you know that you you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them

a year to achieve.

The I one of the biggest mistakes people generally make,

and I'm guilty of it too, is wishful thinking. you know,

like you want something to be true even if it isn't true.

Um, and so you ignore the things

that uh you you ignore the real truth

because of what you want to be true.

This is a very difficult trap to avoid.

Um, and like I said,

certainly one that I find myself in having problems with,

but if you just take

that approach of you're always to some degree wrong

and your goal is to be less wrong

and and solicit critical feedback particularly from friends. like friends particular

if friends if somebody loves you they want the best for you they don't

want to tell you the bad things um

so you have to ask them care you know

and say really I really do want to know

and and then they'll tell you the way I tend to view problems is

is from a from a physics standpoint

and I think I think physics is a good analytical framework um

and one of the key things in in physics is to reason from first

principles.

Um this is contrary to the way most human reasoning takes place

which is by analogy.

Um, reasoning from first principles just means

that you you figure out what what are the fundamental what are the fundamental

truths or or things

that are pretty people are pretty sure are fundamental truths

and and can you build up to a conclusion from from

that uh you know from those principles

and um uh and

then certainly if you come up with some idea

and it appears to violate one of those fundamental truths

then you're probably wrong um

or you should get a really big prize

or something like that.

Um, so, uh, this may seem like, I don't know,

it maybe may seem sort of obvious when it's explained,

but it's actually not what people do.

Reasoning by analogies is helpful cuz it's a shortcut.

>> Um, and and it's and it's mostly correct, but but uh,

it tends to be most incorrect

when you're dealing with new things

because it's hard to analogize to something really new.

when you were in college

and developing these skills,

you wanted to do some things that were of benefit to humanity.

Why why did you think that?

Well, >> because not everyone does.

>> Yeah.

No, uh I I guess it was um I I had sort of a

existential crisis uh of like what does it all mean

and what's the meaning,

you know, what's the meaning of life

and probably goes back to to high school,

I guess.

Uh um I don't want to give a laboriously long answer,

but I I was uh yeah, I had sort of a dark childhood.

It wasn't good.

Um probably partially brought on by by by reading some of the philosophers like

don't don't ever read Schopenhau

if you're 14.

It's it's not good.

Um I was just trying to find figure out what you know what does

it all mean?

And um when I read The Hedgehog's Guide to the Galaxy,

which I think is a great work of philosophy.

Um that sort of highlighted the point

that very often the issue is understanding what questions to ask

and if you can properly frame the question

then the answer is the easy part.

Um so I thought things

that uh expand the scope

and scale of human consciousness um

and allow us to better ask questions

and you know and

and and achieve greater enlightenment,

those are good things.

And so that's sort of what what can we do that's going to um

most likely lead to

that outcome.

>> You went to IU right now.

You got a lot of people that >> uh say forget about school, you know,

drop out of school.

So you think they're idiots.

Tell me why.

>> Um if you're going to have and run a business,

if you don't understand accounting, you're already behind the eightball.

>> Can't you hire a guy that's

that knows how to >>

then they they still have to communicate to you,

right?

I mean, there's people that don't understand the the concept of, you know,

the difference between profits and cash, you know, oh,

your accountant might tell you you're profitable, but your cash is going down,

you know, not understanding um the breakdown.

And and when you don't, you think you need college to learn that?

Yeah, I think you do.

Right.

Because it it may not for some people, look,

if you're so self-motivated

that you can take an online course in accounting

and teach yourself everything,

you're way ahead of the game anyways.

But most people aren't.

And I'm not saying you have to go to Indiana.

I'm not saying go to an expensive school.

I don't care if you go to a community college

and take accounting and

and spend 99 bucks for the class.

Just, you know, spending the money forces you to be more obligated to do

it.

But accounting, finance, lesser extent, marketing, sales, if the school offers that,

these are all the that's the language of business.

And so while it's possible to teach yourself these things

and while it's possible to hire them,

when you're starting your own company,

you don't want to have to spend money hiring an accountant.

And so your cost of opening up a business drops.

But even more important than all that, that's that's the blocking and tackling.

That's the language of business.

You know, the thing I learned at Indiana

that was more important than anything else,

I learned how to learn.

And learning became far more important to me

because the one certainty in business is

that it's always going to be changing. the

if if you're not always learning,

if to this minute if if I'm not continuously learning,

if I'm not just absorbing as much as I can absorb,

someone else is going to kick my ass, right?

So, you talk about paranoia.

The the greatest source of your paranoia should be knowledge.

If someone else knows more than you do, and if you're not learning,

if you don't know the learn, if you don't know how to learn,

if you don't have a thirst for learning and acquiring information,

you're you're so you know, people like to say, you know,

the only stupid questions are the one you don't ones you don't ask.

And that's not right.

Right.

Because the questions you ask tell me,

tell whoever more about you than anything else you do

because in particular tells me about your preparation.

If you ask me questions about just basic things

that you should have known

and you should have down to a science,

that's going to disqualify you almost more than anything.

>> Do you think there needs to be a healthy level of paranoia?

Absolutely.

There needs to be >> Oh, yeah.

I mean, I always say, you know, for every one of my businesses,

I I said, "What would I do to kick my own ass?"

You right.

So, whatever business you have, there's somebody trying to put you out of business.

There's somebody trying to to take a bite out of your business.

and it's better for you to figure out how they're going to do it

rather than they do it.

Um, and so yeah, that's being paranoid.

And so you have to be paranoid.

You have to anticipate other people's next moves.

And you can't ever, you know, downplay the competition.

Um, I was at a business plan competition this morning for at a college

and they were kind of being dismissive of the competition

and you can't ever do

that. you know,

they're out there trying to take you down.

And they're not just going to sit still.

And if you're good, really, really good,

you're going to inspire them to work even harder, faster, better.

And so, you have to be, you know,

very self-aware of what you're good at

and what other people are good at.

And, you know, a healthy dose of paranoia makes a big is very helpful

if you're not always learning. to this minute,

if if I'm not continuously learning,

if I'm not just absorbing as much as I can absorb,

someone else is going to kick my ass.

The the greatest source of your paranoia should be knowledge.

If someone else knows more than you do, and if you're not learning,

if you don't know, if you don't know how to learn,

if you don't have a thirst for learning and acquiring information,

you're you're so there's certain guys

that have the genetics to jump out of the gym,

right?

There's >> certain guys, you know, that, you know, when they golf,

they have the muscle memory and and the discipline.

You know, Dirk, um,

the Visky may not be the most talented guy in the NBA,

but his discipline and his focus to do what's necessary to be successful.

He's willing to do and combine it with being 7t tall and being skilled,

you know, makes him an amazing basketball player.

So, it's it's understanding what your skill set is,

finding the right place to use those skills, and then going for it.

You know, will that make you 250 grand?

It depends if you pick the right industry.

But whatever industry you pick, if you outwork everybody,

if you try to be a little smarter than everybody,

if you try to be a better salesperson than everybody,

if you try to be better prepared than everybody,

you've got your best chance

because if you don't do it

and somebody else does,

you know, I have the saying,

work like someone's trying to take it all away from you.

You know, work actually work like someone's spending 24 hours working 24 hours to

take it all away from you.

And that's kind of the way I look at it.

What would you say is the number one reason why people fail,

not necessarily why they make it.

The complete opposite, >> right?

Lack of brains, lack of effort.

>> Lack of brains, lack of effort.

>> Yeah.

They just they don't do the work.

They don't learn.

You know, when you walk in the room,

when you start a business and you start to talk about somebody,

you're you're never in a vacuum with no competition.

And if there's going to be competition,

that means somebody else knows your business

as well as you do

when you get started.

And if you walk into a competitive environment

and they still know more about the business than you do

and more about your customers,

you're going to lose.

And but most people don't consider that.

They don't do the work.

They don't learn more about their industry.

They don't know even about their business.

I mean, and so you've got to put in the effort to know more

about your industry than anybody else.

Um, and that's that's the brains part

and that's the effort part

as well because look,

if you're competing with me,

you you better know what you're doing otherwise I'm going to kick your ass,

you know, and you're not going to outwork me.

And so, you know,

the combination is usually what kills businesses early on more than anything.

But my dad was always like, if you want something,

you have to earn it.

And to his credit, he never said, no, you can't do that.

So whether it was selling garbage bags, baseball cards, stamps, whatever it was,

he he never held me back.

And so I think that was as important as anything.

And you know, sometimes being young and trying things,

you're so naive and you don't know any better.

All you do is learn.

And if you fail, it doesn't matter.

And so whether I was 9, 10, 12, 16, 21, the failures were irrelevant.

And you know, whether you're, you know, 9, 12, 16, 21, 22, 24,

you know, I'm sleeping on the couch. you know,

I have a car with a hole in the floorboard.

You know, I'm I'm I'm living like a bum

and and like a student

and so what did I have to lose?

And so I think that influenced me as much as anything.

So it you know, my dad it was like go for it, you know,

don't why not?

What have you got to lose?

>> Go.

>> So, so do you think like let's just say

if we put 10 guys here,

you interview them.

Okay. you could within a 5- 10 minute minute minute interview say this dude's

not going to make it

as an entrepreneur.

>> Yeah.

I mean, I can I can typically tell, right?

I can tell um by um their passion.

I can tell by their focus.

I can tell by their preparation.

You know, there there's a whole realm of things in any business here.

You know, here's here's the business you're in

and here's a thousand things

that influence whether or not you're going to be successful. you know,

through my experience in businesses, I can put myself in his position and say,

"Okay, here are 900 of the thousand things he has to be aware of

and then go through

and ask and by how many of those

or her um issues they've been able to address already."

That kind of gives me a sense of how hard they're willing to work,

you know, and I can tell by the questions they ask me.

So, all I have to do is say, "Okay,

what do you want to know?"

But I'm curious.

If if you and I were buddies in high school,

say we're 14 years old, 15 years old, and we know each other,

>> would I bet on you being who you are today?

No chance.

>> Really?

>> No chance.

>> Tell me why.

>> I mean, I had my I had my good friends and, you know,

we we hung out and I was a hustler.

There's there's no question.

I was a hustler.

>> Even in high school.

>> Oh, yeah.

And into business in a big way.

Um, but I don't I don't think people saw me.

It wasn't like people looked at me and go, "Oh,

he's he's destined to succeed."

>> So, in high school, you were a fun guy.

Were you Were you Were you always the the guy that made people laugh?

Were you very competitive when you're sports?

I was always competitive.

I was into sports.

Not I wasn't great at it.

I was just decent.

Um wasn't technology guy.

I mean, I I was into learning.

I was I was I was a business guy.

I was I was the guy reading about business all the time,

reading business books all the time, you know, going to Junior Achievement.

I was a junior achievement geek.

Um >> why though?

Why were you reading business books?

>> Because I want that's what I knew.

I mean, I was wired that I always, you know,

I started my first business when I was 12.

I was buying and selling um baseball cards, buying and selling stamps,

anything I could do to make money,

I I was hustling and trying to do so.

I was in the business,

but I not so much where it was all my friends were into it

with me so they wouldn't know.

Do you think there's a proven formula that if a brand rookie guy,

he's got a lot of ambition, he's got a lot of disrupt,

but not a lot of knowledge on how to.

Do you think if he follows a formula,

he's guaranteed to make it as an entrepreneur?

>> No.

No.

>> Okay.

So you don't believe there's a guarantee to make it.

>> No.

Because who knows who you're going to be competing with.

So if you put two two people both following the same formula,

both in the same industry, right?

Which one wins?

You know, maybe they both can win and both be successful, but you know,

so I don't I don't think there's a default default template for success.

But I think there's things

that you can do to put yourself in the best position to succeed.

>> All right, I'm going to tell you the story.

I got to get out of here.

And the story is about, you guys have probably heard about this before.

It was a it was a young man who, you know,

he wanted to make a lot of money.

And so he went to this guru, right?

And he told the guru, you know,

I want to be on the same level you on.

And so the guru said,

if you want to be on the same level I'm on,

I'll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4:00 a.m.

He like, the beach?

I said, I want to make money.

I don't want to swim.

So the young man got there at 4:00 a.m.

He all ready to rock and roll.

Got on a suit.

He should have wore shorts.

The old man grabs his hand, said,

"How bad do you want to be successful?"

He said, "Real bad."

He said, "Walk on out in the water."

So he walks out into the water.

Watch this.

When he walks out into the water, it goes waist deep.

So he like, "This guy crazy."

Adrian, he like, "I want to make money."

He got me out here swimming.

I didn't ask to be a lifeguard.

I want to make money.

He got me.

So he said, "Come out a little further."

Walked out a little further.

Then he had it right around this area, the shoulder area.

So this old man crazy.

He making money, but he crazy. said, "Come on out a little further."

Came out a little further.

It was right at his mouth.

My man like, "I'm about to go back in here.

This guy is mine."

So the old man said, "I thought you said you wanted to be successful."

He said, "I do."

He said, "Walk a little further."

He came, dropped his head in, held him down, hold him down.

My man didn't scratching, holding him down.

He had him held down.

Just before my man was about to pass out, he raised him up.

He said, "I got a question for you."

Somebody answer the question for me.

He said, "When you were underwater, what did you want to do?"

Said, "I wanted to breathe."

He told the guy, he said, "When you want to succeed,

as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful."

I don't know how many of y'all got asthma in here today,

but if you ever had an asthma attack before, you short of breath.

The only thing you trying to do is get some air.

You don't care about no basketball game.

You don't care what's on TV.

You don't care about nobody calling you.

You don't care about a party.

The only thing you care about

when you're trying to breathe is to get some fresh air.

That's it.

And when you get to the point where all you want to do is

be successful as bad

as you want to breathe,

then you'll be successful.

And I'm here to tell you number one

that most of you say you want to be successful,

but you don't want it bad.

You just kind of want it.

You don't want it bad than you want to party.

You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. you.

Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep.

Beyonce said once she was on the set doing her thing,

three days had gone by.

She forgot she didn't eat cuz she was engaged.

I never forget uh when 50 Cent was doing his movie.

I did a little research on 50.

And 50 said that when he wasn't doing the movie,

he was doing the soundtrack and they said, "When do you sleep?"

50.

Sleep.

He said, "Sleep.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

I don't sleep.

He said, "I got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality."

Most of you won't be successful because when you're studying and you get tired,

you quit.

And I'm here to tell you today,

if you got a Somebody came in my office the other day crying.

I said, "Look, don't cry to give up.

Cry to keep going.

Don't cry to quit.

You already in pain.

You already hurt.

Get a reward from it.

Don't go to sleep until you succeed.

Listen to me.

I'm here to tell you today that you can come here.

You can jump up.

You can do flips.

You can be excited when we give away money.

But listen to me.

You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to

do what you do.

You won't be successful until you say,

"I don't need that money cuz I got it in here."

But listen to me.

Emit Smith said this at the end of the commercial.

Emit Smith said, "All men are created equal.

Some work harder in preeason.

I'm going to say it again because you might have missed it.

All men are created equal.

Some work harder in pre-season.

So that means that there are some people who are going to see the

professor.

Going to see the TA.

And even when the professor says, "I don't meet with you.

My TA meet with you."

You say, "I don't want to talk to your TA."

>> I don't pay the TA.

I pay you to teach me.

So, you going to have to find some time to meet me.

If I got to meet you at the mall,

if I got to meet you at your house,

you are going to see me.

Listen to me.

All men are created equal.

Some work hard in preseason.

When I went to college, guys were way smarter than me.

4.0's, 3.0.

They went to the Ivy League high schools.

Came to Oakwood from these great high schools.

Most of them are not doing what I'm doing.

Why?

Cuz it's not about where you come from.

It's about hearts.

You come to a place where, you know, being smart ain't enough.

You got to have hearts.

That's number one.

Watch number two.

The important thing is this.

You're writing why I'm saying it.

The most important thing is this.

To be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you

will become.

That's the number two thing.

You got to catch that one.

To be able to listen to me at any moment.

Some of you, you can make sacrifices when Monday Night Football is not on.

You can make a sacrifice.

But when the game come on, for some reason you just attached to it.

For some of you, when your favorite show come on,

you you can be you can make sacrifices on Sunday

when ain't nothing going on.

But when your favorite show comes on Monday, bam.

Some of you, you focus until the phone ring and then you like,

I got to answer it.

If I don't answer the phone, I'm going to die.

I'm saying to you today that there are some of you,

if you give up your cell phone, you would be successful.

But your cell phone is more important to you than your success.

I'm going to say it again.

I'm going to hurt somebody.

I'mma hurt somebody.

Some of you need to give up your cell phone

because the time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your

success.

The time you could be using to be successful,

you're using it on the sale.

And the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill.

And somebody has told you you couldn't live without it.

I'm talking about going deep now. giving up stuff.

Watch what it says.

To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we

could be.

I don't do well in math.

You're right.

You ain't never studied.

I'm not good in writing cuz you have never written before.

But I dare you to fail in writing for a whole year to see

if you can get to the end.

I dare you to fail.

I dare you to take that same class over and over again.

I I dare you to stop dropping classes like you soft.

The way you begin the day profoundly sets up the way your day unfolds.

If we recite our excuses long enough, we actually believe they're true.

We are built to change.

We are built to grow.

We are built to own our heroic nature.

And society has brainwashed us

and heartwashed us into thinking

that the great ones are cut from a different cloth.

And it's not it's not true.

As a matter of fact, in the 5M Club, I say, you know,

genius is less about genetics and and much more about your daily habits.

Every visionary is initially ridiculed before they're revered.

>> And look at Yonas Sulk, Elon Musk right now.

I mean, >> Martin Luther King Jr., Look at Nelson Mandela.

Look at Mary Cury.

Look at Edison and Einstein.

Look at Galileo.

These were all ordinary people who followed their joy,

who came up with a vision.

And the very nature of a great vision means you're going to disrupt the

status quo.

It's going to scare people who are card carrying members of the status quo.

And ask yourself, how can I fortify my mindset?

How can I insulate my heart set?

How can I optimize my health set?

How can I escalate my soul set?

The four interior empires

that I've introduced in the 5 a.m. club

so that when I walk out in the world,

I'm creative.

I'm productive.

I'm compassionate.

I radiate positivity and I have resilience in case I get knocked down.

I would say give it a try.

I don't just give it a try for for a week, you know.

Give it a try for three weeks, four weeks, the 66 day minimum.

It's judged by your results.

We all have the ability

as human beings to arrive at our own original form of greatness.

Mhm.

>> We have not been schooled.

We have not been taught.

A lot of us have not been mentored on the mindsets, hard sets, routines,

rituals that will create and allow us to live our personal genius.