this is your life do what you love and
do it often if you don’t like something
change it if you don’t like your job
if you don’t have enough time stop
watching TV if you are looking for the
love of your life stop they will be
waiting when you start doing things you
love stop overanalyzing like this simple
all emotions are beautiful when you eat
appreciate every last button open your
mind arms and heart to new things and
people we are united in our differences
ask the next person you see what their
passion is and share your inspiring
dream with them travel often getting
lost will help you find yourself
some opportunities only come once seize
them life is about the people you meet
and the things you create with them so
go out and start creating life is short
live your dream and share your passion
[Music]
someone who starts something and doesn’t
finish something that is a loser someone
who starts something in always finishes
it
that is a closer you want to know why
most people can never get anywhere in
life why most people never live never
experience never build never do anything
worthwhile in life you know why because
most people’s egos are so
inflated and so fragile that they won’t
allow people to see them be bad at
something you’ve never done something
before you expect yourself to be awesome
at it you haven’t done the work you
haven’t put in the time you haven’t put
in the study hours you haven’t had the
experience but you expect to be good and
because you expect to be good but you
know you’re not gonna be good you don’t
do anything you want to be somebody who
succeeds you want to be somebody who
builds something you have to be okay not
being good as once you understand
that every time you lose is an
opportunity for you to not only learn
that lesson but take it a plus-one step
ok listen to what I just said a plus-one
step that’s the lesson you’ll start to
appreciate those lessons you’ll start to
be okay with not being good at
you’re gonna have to understand that
losing is a part of ultimately winning
and this rule by the way this applies to
everything in life this applies to
school whether you’re a painter or a
musician trying to write a song trying
to start a company entrepreneurship this
applies to when you run a marathon 26
miles the first 22 is only 20% of the
work it’s those last four miles that are
80% of the work when you refused to
allow any doubts in your own mind the no
doubts from others will ever cloud your
judgment when you create a strong mind
there can be no other that will defeat
you with their words or with their
judgments when you believe in you you
need no other to believe in you because
others really have no say in who you
will become only you
have that say only you can decide if
others opinions become reality or you
create your own fate
the greatest challenge and the greatest
obstacle any human will face is their
own doubts their own fears and their own
conditioned thoughts if you want to live
your dream you will have to fight for it
you will have to fight the greatest
battles of your life you will have to
battle the external enemy people who
don’t believe in you people who do you
wrong people
who put you down you will have to battle
the intimate enemy those close to you
who might do you wrong or maybe you
assume don’t believe in you those who
want the best for you but their idea of
support is to remind you of what can’t
be done or shouldn’t be attempted but
the worst of all is the internal enemy
you will have to battle it seems like an
army in your
an army of doubt fear of failure fear of
judgment lack of belief the voices
inside the head saying I am not good
enough I’m not worthy I want to do this
but I can I want to give to those I love
but I can’t I’m not worthy of love I’ll
never be able to do this I am hopeless
I’ve tried everything
the world is against me no one believes
in me my life’s not worth living there
is no greater pain that can be inflicted
on you than your own internal enemy your
own thoughts will cause you more pain
than anyone or anything they can be
likened to a terrorist living in your
soul
but when you learn to control and direct
your mind you can direct that internal
voice to work for human rather than
against you you get it to work for you
by creating a compelling future a future
you will be proud to achieve proud to
live through you do this by not just
having goals but having meaningful goals
goals that get you excited to wake up
every morning you do this by
understanding what your purpose in life
really is what are you doing it out for
when you know these things when you work
on yourself daily you can quiet that
voice in your head you can feel good
enough because you are good enough
but it does take a commitment
a commitment of daily practice to work
on yourself
cut out something that you spend a lot
of time on that does nothing good for
your life and replace it with daily work
on you
empower yourself such a life up to win
[Music]
all the big famous people that you hear
about you know Richard Branson and Steve
Jobs and and Zuckerberg and I write
they’re no different than you are
[Music]
seventy something percent of the world’s
billionaires are self-made so you can
achieve this now it’s not going to be
easy you don’t just wake up on Tuesday
and become rich on Wednesday but it
doesn’t take any more effort than going
to a job that you hate all you have to
do is think believe in your heart and
you’ll achieve it’s not true there’s a
lot of people who think wonderful great
thoughts they believe that I deserve
this and I can have this but they don’t
do one thing and this is what causes
their problem they don’t take consistent
action every day
most people aren’t willing to commit to
switching from what’s comfortable –
what’s not long enough for the new to be
comfortable
[Music]
I’ve been asked hundreds of times
why are you less right why aren’t you
the stereotypical like you’re abused you
went through this your dad’s an
alcoholic in opposition like why aren’t
you in that pool I made a choice that’s
it I made a choice
I made a choice that I didn’t want to be
that there’s nothing special about me
things are just happening and it’s
because of one choice and that’s it so
if you’re listening to this and you’re
thinking you’ve made all these different
choices and their life is in one
direction make one different choice just
like let’s see what
anything that we want to achieve starts
here first then we can get our bodies to
move into action to create
I believe our lives are controlled by
one force decisions I certainly believe
them force greater than myself
called God if you will embrace whatever
you want to call it the universe but I
also believe it gives us choices and the
decisions we make control us much more
than the conditions we need it’s not the
conditions at your decisions it’s not
the security this robbing ambition is an
illusion of security through ops
ambition so the biggest risk you could
take in life it’s not taking you if
you’re at that point where you’re a
middle career you lost your job then you
just out of college and starting or just
out of high school go talk to a senior
citizen about what they really regret
about their daughters and it’s not what
they fail that but they didn’t try it’s
due regard to why didn’t I
[Music]
we cannot let the fear of the opinion of
others influence your decisions
most people haven’t honored even half of
their dreams that stage and they have to
die knowing that it was due to choices
they had made or not made or due to fear
of the opinion of others that they’re
done for it is your life nobody else can
tell you what’s best for you and only
you will have to deal with the
consequences
so make your own decision is in order to
be successful at anything it has to be
at least really love because if you
don’t love it and you ain’t willing to
die for it don’t do it right sometimes
you have to do these transitional jobs
to get you where you have to go to but
it’s okay if you gotta sell bedsheets
sell these bed sheets do what you have
to do do it with pride but at the same
time do not let any job that you do kill
your dream because the only thing that
to make you feel alive is your dream
don’t let anybody steer you away from
where you want to do in life not your
parents not your teachers not your
guidance counselor’s if you have a
passion and you feel confident that you
can do it go after it
the hell with everybody else this is
your life you have the tools and
resources when you wake up every day you
know that you’re blessed you’ve been
given an opportunity than most people in
life have not you have the ability to
live your dreams your brain is like a
supercomputer and your self talk is a
program it will run so if you tell
yourself you’re not good at remembering
names you will not remember the name the
next person you meet because you program
your supercomputer not to yourself talk
is important and it is the program that
will run and always tell people to keep
it positive keep it empowering because
your mind is always eavesdropping on
your self-talk right and you have to be
careful what you say to yourself because
it’s this unconscious command so I’ll be
very careful like when I’m gonna get
want to get nervous or I feel like I’m I
think some of the most successful people
live at the edge of their limits
you know and they and they play there
also as well and so at whenever I feel
in my nervous system I feel like I can’t
do it then I feel like I really must do
it because I feel like how we do
anything is how we do everything well a
lot of people always wanted to make it
usually make a change on behavior they
want to get themselves to workout they
want to get them as and meditate they
want to get themselves to read more each
day and they want to get themselves to X
right or they want to stop some behavior
they want to stop smoking they want to
stop eating this food they want to stop
I always tell people stop checking your
phone in the first hour of the day I
love and I and I just that’s like sacred
time for me you know because I for me
that’s for I think that if you want to
be an elite mental performer or in a
real life superhero you don’t want to
start off by checking the phone we
talked about this in the past because
you’re training yourself to be reactive
right you’re getting your dopamine or
you’re frying your nervous system with
all these likes shares comments and
everything else like that you win the
first hour of the day to win the rest
you know they win
in the day right and so anything you
want to stop so I say you must stop
checking your phone right in the morning
then there’s certain like that’s a
behavior right but there’s so many other
elements to be able to change because
some most behaviors don’t stick right
and so like what I’m thinking about when
I want to transform or transcend or make
a real positive change I’m looking all
the other areas of ourself so I’m
looking at for example our environment
are you are people setting up their
environment to win and no social change
doesn’t just happen at this level of
behavior but what you have to change the
environment so for example if you want
to stop eating a certain food it helps
to be able to have not that not have
that food in your home right so you
change the environment if you want to
read more it helps to help set up your
environment where you have the books
readily available where you’re gonna
read it because they perform you know
how I how I approached habit change is
this area of motivation and this trigger
right you want to trigger to help remind
you to do the behavior right so are you
setting up the environment in a way that
triggers the behavior that you want but
not only the the environments like the
when and the where but it’s also
behaviors also the capabilities because
a lot of people want to change the
behavior but they’re not training in the
abilities I love a lot about your work
and your passion is the area of able to
like ability those acquisitions new
abilities for yourself and also the Cosa
benefit the rest of world but most
people aren’t training those habits and
those capabilities but also another
level of change that we need to address
let’s say every once someone’s watching
this they have thing that something they
want to change and it’s not it’s not
sticking then maybe it’s not it’s the
environment maybe you check about your
habits but maybe it’s your beliefs and
your values some people will not get
themselves to read every day because
they don’t value reading every single
day right some people won’t work let’s
say the behavior they want change is you
know we did a podcast how to remember
names I could teach them step by step on
how to remember the name
people that they meet yet they won’t do
it because they don’t value it or
because that’s not important to them or
they don’t believe that they can write
just like we talked about earlier saying
your brain is like a supercomputer and
you know your self-talk as a programmer
run so you tell yourself not go to
memory names you will not remain
nameless personally me coaching program
super novae or not – they don’t have a
belief that enables that when I say all
behaviors believe driven if you want to
do this behavior whatever it is journal
whatever it is and you need a belief
that allows that to happen because
that’s the program that allows that so
how do you get that belief because
you’re gonna feel like you’re faking it
all right that’s where most people stop
right they they think okay I get it I
hear what you were saying that if I am
able to shift my belief then I can get a
different behavior but I don’t believe
it
so now I’m just sort of faking it how do
you help people overcome it right and so
you mean so some people approach it by
they know that it’s quote where they
fake it so they make it right um so my
thing with belief is like when I do
trainings and groups or online my
favourite way of changing the belief is
getting them to do something they never
thought they could do because it opens
up another possibility right so so for
example in 1954 Roger Bannister he broke
the four-minute mile right and so which
is amazing right throughout human
history nobody can run a mile in less
than four minutes now if you if you look
into it how he was able to do it is he
would visualize himself crossing the
finish line looking at the clock and it
says 359 because he knew that success is
an inside out process that first it had
to happen in here in order for a banana
out there right um dr. Wayne Dyer has
the famous phrase where it’s not oh I’ll
believe it when I see it it’s like I’ll
see it when I believe it because it’s
the opposite right and so I always like
modeling the outliers where most people
kind of just like kind of dismiss them I
was like well what’s what’s going on
there that loves this person to get this
kind of results right and so with Roger
Bannister he saw it in here and be able
to produce it outside just like any
innovator or inventor or writer
any creator right but what was
interesting is after that would happen
nobody could do it from the beginning of
humanity all of a sudden one person does
it what happens after that
everybody yeah everyone starts doing it
and so that’s the thing now what what
happened was there a big change that
year and you know training methodology
and nutrition or no it was a change of
belief right because the belief back
then was if you ran a mile less than
four minutes not only would you die it
was your heart would explode in your
chest and like think about like that
would and I’m a runner right that would
keep me not just running that won’t keep
me from running for me that’ll keep me
from running period right right and so
my thing is like that was a change of a
reference I was just shook up a belief
so my goal with people and when it comes
to learning is get themselves to do
something they never thought they could
do and then it opens up another
possibility it literally opens up their
their nervous system for something what
else could be possible now I would also
say that it all plays together where
it’s not easy to say just to change a
belief overnight I mean now that could
be a belief it’s like a meta belief
about what beliefs are but people
there’s there’s technologies like
inception right like a dream of a dream
your dream but I do believe that we have
more we have more power to influence our
thoughts and our beliefs and so there
are a lot of tools and techniques out
there that are resources like when I
grew up I you know we didn’t have
anything we we had no money right I had
no education because I was a very
learning challenge I didn’t know any
anybody right so I feel like it’s not
when people are that’s where they’ll go
though when they when they hit them as a
gap stopgap between where they are where
they want to be they’ll say oh I don’t
have the money or and all the education
or on the intelligence out of the
network or anything else like that and
you know what would you know as for all
incredible success you’ve had and the
value of created for the world is that
it’s not about resources right because
we know a lot of people who who didn’t
have any resources that were able to
impact the world
it’s about our internal resources and
what I’m saying is optimizing our
environment optimizing our behaviors or
capabilities our beliefs and our values
and our identity great that at the
highest level our identity because you
can’t just change your belief or your
values or your behavior even if you
don’t believe you’re that
person and that’s why I kind of always
go to the superhero mythos because I
want people that get to claim that
identity I call it the superhero you
that version of ourselves and we’re not
waiting for Superman or Batman or Wonder
Woman it’s like you are Wonder Woman you
are Batman or Superman it’s just we we
have to commit ourselves to be able to
fishing yeah I think a lot of people I’m
super sensitized to it but I think one
of the success rituals people had it
should have is just going through and
keeping a consistent not to-do list and
I think the most successful genius-level
individuals one of the clues that they
leave is there not to-do list is bigger
than their to-do list right they don’t
check their phone in the morning they
don’t take him you know everything is
hell yes or it’s hell no all right
that’s their filter system they don’t
you know they say no to good so they
guess yes – great so the behaviors then
you have the habits which and then you
have that the beliefs and the values and
beliefs the values you know because I
want this is one of the reasons why I
watch your show because I’m just hearing
all the time you’re listening these
amazing beliefs about from achievers in
all every area I mean it’s amazing when
you have Wycliffe there and you’re not
and like the Mellen you have all these
amazing individuals but you see that
there’s a pattern that’s there right and
there’s an art and but there’s a science
to it there and there’s an art to it and
how they express themselves and then I
also do believe that some of those
successful geniuses and I say genius is
not just I come to have mod IQ right I’m
talking about an incredible you know
artist I’m talking about in half lead
I’m talking to have a kid you know in
some area is they haven’t they’re
they’re clear about their identity about
who they are and who they are to the
world and so but I know what they what
they do commit is they do the work and
they’re committed to lifelong learning
and I feel like that learning I always
tell people and we’ve taught this we had
this conversation that if knowledge is
power then learning is your superpower
and I think it’s a superpower that we
all have it’s just not word not taught
like recently we had Quincy Jones in our
audience and I had to pull him on stage
right and I was just like I was like I
have to ask you you know we are the
world and Michael Jackson Oprah like you
know what did you how do you overcome
these challenges that given these
problems that you had to be able to
create this and you know this legacy and
he looked at me he’s like Jim he’s like
I don’t have any problems
like what do you mean your Malik here 84
you have no problems and she’s like no I
have puzzles and I was like wow like
that little shift of vocabulary changed
everything for me
yeah because puzzles are like riddles
they can you could you could solve you
could solve them right there’s answers
for it it was a change of perspective
and now is the thing about growing up
with superheroes reading these comic
books late at night when I was so
impression about is for me a superhero
more than anything represents hope you
know what I mean that one person can
make a difference and a lot of
superheroes go through a lot of
challenges right when you think about
the most popular superheroes they’re all
orphans like Wonder Woman Batman
Superman Iron Man spider-man they all
lost their parents you know and they all
threw these big challenges but through
it they they found their their Dharma
they found their mission and I find that
if someone’s watching this they haven’t
found it quite yet maybe I have a belief
that that their mission and that
people’s mission their purpose and their
God is looking for them also but most of
us aren’t sensitized to it you know
because it’s coming in different forms
and we’re not open to it as much and so
my thing when it comes to success
rituals and high performance and making
an impact is that we all have that
sovereignty we all have that power and
whenever we put it out there and give it
out to somebody else like we’re a
thermometer right the metaphor I always
talk about it’s like we’re either thrown
thermometers or thermostats and a
thermometer you think about the
functionality of it it just reflects
what the environment is giving it right
it just reflects the temperature and
stuff but a thermostat is different it
sets a standard it sets a goal it sets
of vision and the environment changes
along with it I feel like our happiness
our joy our level of fulfillment our
success is all dependent on where we put
the locus of control and I feel like we
have more power than we realized in
these cases and it’s hard because we
have to fight media we defied marketing
that’s always telling us about all the
things that are going on in the world
but we live in an abundant universe
right I mean we talk about the matrix
you know which pillow people are going
to take and that determines everything
and every single morning you know you
determine what color pill you’re gonna
take how do you push in the dark times
that’s really my question because your
entire life is like yeah a story of grit
and pushing through like the darkest of
times and I would say what keeps me
going
I have a belief that everything could
get better
like that’s my self-talk when it comes
down to what my primary belief is is I
feel that that things could get better
because otherwise if I didn’t then I
would just give up right and I have too
many examples of friends and family and
just people I don’t know which are just
friends of my mind that have superseded
much more difficult situations than I
have the other thing it’s helped me to
do is really focus on the rituals and
the routines the habits the abilities
that really matter
you know the 80/20 rule because when I
have a certain amount energy I can only
do a certain amount of things and I want
to get more back and I’m still doing the
job quote unquote of most you know three
or four people you know going on stage
and traveling to do but you know like
the kind of things that we do but it
forces me to focus on the things that’s
gonna give me maximum return and you
know and I think we do teach the things
that we need to learn the most I think
the best teachers are the best students
and I know I’m going through this like I
had surgery recently to correct this and
so my sleep has jumped up from 90
minutes in two hours to about four hours
which doesn’t sound like a lot it’s not
perfect but it’s in progress and that’s
my standard like I’m just I’m not very
lucky for perfection because I don’t
think that the standard exists I’m just
looking to make incremental progress you
know when I wake up in the morning I
have my daily routine and it’s so fine
tuned because I think a lot of people
suffer from decision making fatigue
right that this is very strong research
saying that you can only make a certain
amount of good decisions a day and after
that is spent you can’t anymore and
that’s really been fine-tuned in the
medical field with surgeons and such in
terms of seeing their you know where
they’re making their errors and stuff
with early on in the day or later in
their days and stuff like that but we
also has entrepreneurs or as employees
and executives or as parents we all can
make a certain amount incisions and
that’s why you know people like Mark
Zuckerberg or Tony Hsieh they were the
same t-shirts and and sweatshirts all
the time because they don’t want to
spend
one of their decisions they get all our
am I gonna wear today right so my my
goal is to streamline my life put the
routines the first hour today and the
last hour today I really micromanage
it’s at a point where it’s vitual I
don’t even have to think about it and
then because those are the times a day
where I can really have the most impact
because later on it all day you know
team members need this there’s
firefighting this client needs that but
the first hour the last hour I really
want to control so all this really
helped develop grit and resilience you
know in my body so I can have the
ability to persevere you know so I stand
guard to my brain all the time what goes
in you know I don’t watch like a lot of
the negative news and all the other
market I really focus like you know I
watch and I listen to your show and
maybe a handful of little of things I
read each day because I need to keep it
positive
I want hope and I’m looking for help I’m
looking for inspiration and also
instruction I’m not gonna run fast but I
ain’t gonna stop running I might slow
down and have to breathe and catch my
breath but I’m not stopping because I
believe all things are available to all
of us and good people should do well
because when good people do well good
people just do more good in the world so
much of the fear that we see in life
comes from the fact that most of us
don’t feel like we’re in control we’re
running around trying to control all the
events of our lives and every single one
of us is going to experience multiple
situations in our life that no matter
how skillful we are
where you are right now literally your
circumstances from the job that you work
from the apartment or the house that you
live in is literally nothing more than a
definition of you we tend to think that
creating change has to be this big long
drawn-out process but listen to me every
minute of the day you can change
yourself you don’t have to just accept
that the fact that you’re overweight you
don’t have to accept the fact that
you’re not working the type of jobs that
you want to work and you’re working some
nine-to-five you don’t have to accept
that you’re choosing to accept it by
choosing not to understand that you can
redefine yourself in every second of the
day because something hasn’t happened
right away when you wanted it and design
didn’t work out doesn’t mean it’s not
gonna happen
most of us in life are so afraid
something’s gonna happen that we can’t
control and therefore we’re gonna get
pain that we try to avoid those things
we can’t control
try to shape our lives where we spend
our time who we spend our time with what
we do by environments that we feel
really comfortable in when we feel like
we’re really in control of them what
that does is it limits the shape and
quality of our lives
right now you can change your
circumstances you can change your life
by changing the definition of yourself
by redefining who you are your life is
comprised of your habits your routines
your rituals and the patterns that
you’ve been repeating in the last
several years you know time flies is
Halloween
you know this these day and time they’ve
already got the Christmas decorations
out to put out so you go straight from
Halloween into the holiday Christmas New
Year’s Thanksgiving season you know
traditions and this is a time of year I
love this is traditional holiday
celebrations family well I want you to
start a new tradition this year it’s the
fourth quarter it is the beginning of
the fourth quarter of 2017 you have this
power in you who you are right now today
is not who you have to be tomorrow
now think back to when you made New
Year’s resolutions whether you wrote
them down or not you made decisions of
things you were going to do this how you
were gonna live a better life how you
were gonna accomplish goals go back
write down and either think about those
or look at those maybe some of them pick
you missed okay
but I guarantee you a lot of things with
tremendous powerful effort in the fourth
quarter you can either get those goals
or you can scare the heck out of those
goals
well I can tell you this going into a
new year with tremendous momentum in
your personal life your business life in
every way in your thinking and what
you’re doing will give you a better 2018
so start 2008
right now every day between now and then
attack the day get up get after it have
tremendous momentum on your side go out
and kill it the rest of 2017
you have your greatest year ever in 2008
I’m just here to tell you job because
only three things can happen you’re
either gonna jump and fly are you gonna
jump and fall on something soft or are
you gonna fall down hard either way
you’re gonna get back up you already
know you got what it takes to get back
up you’re not your greatest fears not
that you will fall your greatest fears
that you will live a full life and never
fly that you never leaped you’re not
afraid of dying you’re afraid of dying
before the world sees who you really are
before they really get your fingerprint
before they really feel your breath
before they really get your contribution
if they really fill you that’s what you
don’t want to happen you don’t want to
leave this place without us knowing you
were here but in the end the most
important thing is what’s the purpose
your life
you’ve got two choices in life choice
one you can become somebody else choice
– you can become yourself now I really
wish that there was only one choice but
in truth there’s not in most people
choose to try to become someone else
because it’s a road map its points in
the direction you see someone you
respond to something you admire them you
want to be like them and in that process
you’ve made your decision in that
process you’ve decided to become
somebody else you have mistaken the
finger for the moon instead you need to
understand the being inspired by
somebody does not mean to become that
person to become that which inspires you
it is to understand fundamentally what
is it about that thing that excites you
what is it what is its essence and when
you can find its essence then you can
find out how it would apply to you
becoming you and as then she says flower
does not think about competing with the
flower next to it it just blooms and
that’s really your job is to see the
outside world to see the flower next to
you to understand the amazing things
that are happening all around you all of
the incredible people and the essence of
what they have and what it is that
they’ve done to bring inside yourself
and find out what does that look like
when it’s me not what do I look like
when I’m them and once you understand
the difference between that then you can
really begin to be something unique you
can become that thing that you were
meant to be that thing that makes you
feel alive and whole and that’s it
that’s the secret you’re just trying to
be something not that’s just inspiring
to other people but then you actually
want to wake up every day and
and that’s the thing about it so
escaping you whatever you become a lie
the truth somebody else yourself
whatever it is there’s been every day of
your life there and as Albert Einstein
said everybody is a genius but if you
judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it will live it’s whole life
believing that it’s stupid and that’s
what confuses people people believe that
they’re done because they’re not finding
their path they’re not defining things
based on what excites them and what they
want to live with every day they’re just
looking to what the outside world says
is good and I think it’s incredible that
there are other people doing things that
are so extraordinary that we aspire to
be like that but you have to understand
the difference between being like
someone and trying to actually be
so if what inspires you is that somebody
works hard work hard if what inspires
you is that somebody gets up every time
they fail to get up every time you fail
if what you like is that they’re
themselves with all their weird
eccentricities and quirks then be true
to your eccentricities and quirks but
don’t try to embody their eccentricities
and quirks that’s the surest way to
become the fish that thinks it’s stupid
because it’s being judged by trying to
climb a tree
so with Scott Belsky said when 99% of
the people doubt your idea
you’re either gravely wrong or about to
make history and that’s the terrifying
part you’re not gonna know you’re not
gonna know the difference but if you’re
chasing somebody else’s path if your
whole game is emulation if your whole
game is to mimic that which inspires you
you will never find the thing that’s
real about you and look I don’t know
about you but I can be wrong I can be
gravely wrong I can have people think me
an idiot and try something and fail as
long as it was true to me because then
the lesson that I’m gonna learn is going
to apply it’s gonna take me an ever step
closer to actually being the person that
I want to become that I want to live
with every day
I can’t be that if I don’t understand
who I want to be so look inward identify
your path identify what excites you and
go after it as if your life depends on
it
because in truth it does
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you
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do it often if you don’t like something
change it if you don’t like your job
if you don’t have enough time stop
watching TV if you are looking for the
love of your life stop they will be
waiting when you start doing things you
love stop overanalyzing like this simple
all emotions are beautiful when you eat
appreciate every last button open your
mind arms and heart to new things and
people we are united in our differences
ask the next person you see what their
passion is and share your inspiring
dream with them travel often getting
lost will help you find yourself
some opportunities only come once seize
them life is about the people you meet
and the things you create with them so
go out and start creating life is short
live your dream and share your passion
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someone who starts something and doesn’t
finish something that is a loser someone
who starts something in always finishes
it
that is a closer you want to know why
most people can never get anywhere in
life why most people never live never
experience never build never do anything
worthwhile in life you know why because
most people’s egos are so
inflated and so fragile that they won’t
allow people to see them be bad at
something you’ve never done something
before you expect yourself to be awesome
at it you haven’t done the work you
haven’t put in the time you haven’t put
in the study hours you haven’t had the
experience but you expect to be good and
because you expect to be good but you
know you’re not gonna be good you don’t
do anything you want to be somebody who
succeeds you want to be somebody who
builds something you have to be okay not
being good as once you understand
that every time you lose is an
opportunity for you to not only learn
that lesson but take it a plus-one step
ok listen to what I just said a plus-one
step that’s the lesson you’ll start to
appreciate those lessons you’ll start to
be okay with not being good at
you’re gonna have to understand that
losing is a part of ultimately winning
and this rule by the way this applies to
everything in life this applies to
school whether you’re a painter or a
musician trying to write a song trying
to start a company entrepreneurship this
applies to when you run a marathon 26
miles the first 22 is only 20% of the
work it’s those last four miles that are
80% of the work when you refused to
allow any doubts in your own mind the no
doubts from others will ever cloud your
judgment when you create a strong mind
there can be no other that will defeat
you with their words or with their
judgments when you believe in you you
need no other to believe in you because
others really have no say in who you
will become only you
have that say only you can decide if
others opinions become reality or you
create your own fate
the greatest challenge and the greatest
obstacle any human will face is their
own doubts their own fears and their own
conditioned thoughts if you want to live
your dream you will have to fight for it
you will have to fight the greatest
battles of your life you will have to
battle the external enemy people who
don’t believe in you people who do you
wrong people
who put you down you will have to battle
the intimate enemy those close to you
who might do you wrong or maybe you
assume don’t believe in you those who
want the best for you but their idea of
support is to remind you of what can’t
be done or shouldn’t be attempted but
the worst of all is the internal enemy
you will have to battle it seems like an
army in your
an army of doubt fear of failure fear of
judgment lack of belief the voices
inside the head saying I am not good
enough I’m not worthy I want to do this
but I can I want to give to those I love
but I can’t I’m not worthy of love I’ll
never be able to do this I am hopeless
I’ve tried everything
the world is against me no one believes
in me my life’s not worth living there
is no greater pain that can be inflicted
on you than your own internal enemy your
own thoughts will cause you more pain
than anyone or anything they can be
likened to a terrorist living in your
soul
but when you learn to control and direct
your mind you can direct that internal
voice to work for human rather than
against you you get it to work for you
by creating a compelling future a future
you will be proud to achieve proud to
live through you do this by not just
having goals but having meaningful goals
goals that get you excited to wake up
every morning you do this by
understanding what your purpose in life
really is what are you doing it out for
when you know these things when you work
on yourself daily you can quiet that
voice in your head you can feel good
enough because you are good enough
but it does take a commitment
a commitment of daily practice to work
on yourself
cut out something that you spend a lot
of time on that does nothing good for
your life and replace it with daily work
on you
empower yourself such a life up to win
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all the big famous people that you hear
about you know Richard Branson and Steve
Jobs and and Zuckerberg and I write
they’re no different than you are
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seventy something percent of the world’s
billionaires are self-made so you can
achieve this now it’s not going to be
easy you don’t just wake up on Tuesday
and become rich on Wednesday but it
doesn’t take any more effort than going
to a job that you hate all you have to
do is think believe in your heart and
you’ll achieve it’s not true there’s a
lot of people who think wonderful great
thoughts they believe that I deserve
this and I can have this but they don’t
do one thing and this is what causes
their problem they don’t take consistent
action every day
most people aren’t willing to commit to
switching from what’s comfortable –
what’s not long enough for the new to be
comfortable
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I’ve been asked hundreds of times
why are you less right why aren’t you
the stereotypical like you’re abused you
went through this your dad’s an
alcoholic in opposition like why aren’t
you in that pool I made a choice that’s
it I made a choice
I made a choice that I didn’t want to be
that there’s nothing special about me
things are just happening and it’s
because of one choice and that’s it so
if you’re listening to this and you’re
thinking you’ve made all these different
choices and their life is in one
direction make one different choice just
like let’s see what
anything that we want to achieve starts
here first then we can get our bodies to
move into action to create
I believe our lives are controlled by
one force decisions I certainly believe
them force greater than myself
called God if you will embrace whatever
you want to call it the universe but I
also believe it gives us choices and the
decisions we make control us much more
than the conditions we need it’s not the
conditions at your decisions it’s not
the security this robbing ambition is an
illusion of security through ops
ambition so the biggest risk you could
take in life it’s not taking you if
you’re at that point where you’re a
middle career you lost your job then you
just out of college and starting or just
out of high school go talk to a senior
citizen about what they really regret
about their daughters and it’s not what
they fail that but they didn’t try it’s
due regard to why didn’t I
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we cannot let the fear of the opinion of
others influence your decisions
most people haven’t honored even half of
their dreams that stage and they have to
die knowing that it was due to choices
they had made or not made or due to fear
of the opinion of others that they’re
done for it is your life nobody else can
tell you what’s best for you and only
you will have to deal with the
consequences
so make your own decision is in order to
be successful at anything it has to be
at least really love because if you
don’t love it and you ain’t willing to
die for it don’t do it right sometimes
you have to do these transitional jobs
to get you where you have to go to but
it’s okay if you gotta sell bedsheets
sell these bed sheets do what you have
to do do it with pride but at the same
time do not let any job that you do kill
your dream because the only thing that
to make you feel alive is your dream
don’t let anybody steer you away from
where you want to do in life not your
parents not your teachers not your
guidance counselor’s if you have a
passion and you feel confident that you
can do it go after it
the hell with everybody else this is
your life you have the tools and
resources when you wake up every day you
know that you’re blessed you’ve been
given an opportunity than most people in
life have not you have the ability to
live your dreams your brain is like a
supercomputer and your self talk is a
program it will run so if you tell
yourself you’re not good at remembering
names you will not remember the name the
next person you meet because you program
your supercomputer not to yourself talk
is important and it is the program that
will run and always tell people to keep
it positive keep it empowering because
your mind is always eavesdropping on
your self-talk right and you have to be
careful what you say to yourself because
it’s this unconscious command so I’ll be
very careful like when I’m gonna get
want to get nervous or I feel like I’m I
think some of the most successful people
live at the edge of their limits
you know and they and they play there
also as well and so at whenever I feel
in my nervous system I feel like I can’t
do it then I feel like I really must do
it because I feel like how we do
anything is how we do everything well a
lot of people always wanted to make it
usually make a change on behavior they
want to get themselves to workout they
want to get them as and meditate they
want to get themselves to read more each
day and they want to get themselves to X
right or they want to stop some behavior
they want to stop smoking they want to
stop eating this food they want to stop
I always tell people stop checking your
phone in the first hour of the day I
love and I and I just that’s like sacred
time for me you know because I for me
that’s for I think that if you want to
be an elite mental performer or in a
real life superhero you don’t want to
start off by checking the phone we
talked about this in the past because
you’re training yourself to be reactive
right you’re getting your dopamine or
you’re frying your nervous system with
all these likes shares comments and
everything else like that you win the
first hour of the day to win the rest
you know they win
in the day right and so anything you
want to stop so I say you must stop
checking your phone right in the morning
then there’s certain like that’s a
behavior right but there’s so many other
elements to be able to change because
some most behaviors don’t stick right
and so like what I’m thinking about when
I want to transform or transcend or make
a real positive change I’m looking all
the other areas of ourself so I’m
looking at for example our environment
are you are people setting up their
environment to win and no social change
doesn’t just happen at this level of
behavior but what you have to change the
environment so for example if you want
to stop eating a certain food it helps
to be able to have not that not have
that food in your home right so you
change the environment if you want to
read more it helps to help set up your
environment where you have the books
readily available where you’re gonna
read it because they perform you know
how I how I approached habit change is
this area of motivation and this trigger
right you want to trigger to help remind
you to do the behavior right so are you
setting up the environment in a way that
triggers the behavior that you want but
not only the the environments like the
when and the where but it’s also
behaviors also the capabilities because
a lot of people want to change the
behavior but they’re not training in the
abilities I love a lot about your work
and your passion is the area of able to
like ability those acquisitions new
abilities for yourself and also the Cosa
benefit the rest of world but most
people aren’t training those habits and
those capabilities but also another
level of change that we need to address
let’s say every once someone’s watching
this they have thing that something they
want to change and it’s not it’s not
sticking then maybe it’s not it’s the
environment maybe you check about your
habits but maybe it’s your beliefs and
your values some people will not get
themselves to read every day because
they don’t value reading every single
day right some people won’t work let’s
say the behavior they want change is you
know we did a podcast how to remember
names I could teach them step by step on
how to remember the name
people that they meet yet they won’t do
it because they don’t value it or
because that’s not important to them or
they don’t believe that they can write
just like we talked about earlier saying
your brain is like a supercomputer and
you know your self-talk as a programmer
run so you tell yourself not go to
memory names you will not remain
nameless personally me coaching program
super novae or not – they don’t have a
belief that enables that when I say all
behaviors believe driven if you want to
do this behavior whatever it is journal
whatever it is and you need a belief
that allows that to happen because
that’s the program that allows that so
how do you get that belief because
you’re gonna feel like you’re faking it
all right that’s where most people stop
right they they think okay I get it I
hear what you were saying that if I am
able to shift my belief then I can get a
different behavior but I don’t believe
it
so now I’m just sort of faking it how do
you help people overcome it right and so
you mean so some people approach it by
they know that it’s quote where they
fake it so they make it right um so my
thing with belief is like when I do
trainings and groups or online my
favourite way of changing the belief is
getting them to do something they never
thought they could do because it opens
up another possibility right so so for
example in 1954 Roger Bannister he broke
the four-minute mile right and so which
is amazing right throughout human
history nobody can run a mile in less
than four minutes now if you if you look
into it how he was able to do it is he
would visualize himself crossing the
finish line looking at the clock and it
says 359 because he knew that success is
an inside out process that first it had
to happen in here in order for a banana
out there right um dr. Wayne Dyer has
the famous phrase where it’s not oh I’ll
believe it when I see it it’s like I’ll
see it when I believe it because it’s
the opposite right and so I always like
modeling the outliers where most people
kind of just like kind of dismiss them I
was like well what’s what’s going on
there that loves this person to get this
kind of results right and so with Roger
Bannister he saw it in here and be able
to produce it outside just like any
innovator or inventor or writer
any creator right but what was
interesting is after that would happen
nobody could do it from the beginning of
humanity all of a sudden one person does
it what happens after that
everybody yeah everyone starts doing it
and so that’s the thing now what what
happened was there a big change that
year and you know training methodology
and nutrition or no it was a change of
belief right because the belief back
then was if you ran a mile less than
four minutes not only would you die it
was your heart would explode in your
chest and like think about like that
would and I’m a runner right that would
keep me not just running that won’t keep
me from running for me that’ll keep me
from running period right right and so
my thing is like that was a change of a
reference I was just shook up a belief
so my goal with people and when it comes
to learning is get themselves to do
something they never thought they could
do and then it opens up another
possibility it literally opens up their
their nervous system for something what
else could be possible now I would also
say that it all plays together where
it’s not easy to say just to change a
belief overnight I mean now that could
be a belief it’s like a meta belief
about what beliefs are but people
there’s there’s technologies like
inception right like a dream of a dream
your dream but I do believe that we have
more we have more power to influence our
thoughts and our beliefs and so there
are a lot of tools and techniques out
there that are resources like when I
grew up I you know we didn’t have
anything we we had no money right I had
no education because I was a very
learning challenge I didn’t know any
anybody right so I feel like it’s not
when people are that’s where they’ll go
though when they when they hit them as a
gap stopgap between where they are where
they want to be they’ll say oh I don’t
have the money or and all the education
or on the intelligence out of the
network or anything else like that and
you know what would you know as for all
incredible success you’ve had and the
value of created for the world is that
it’s not about resources right because
we know a lot of people who who didn’t
have any resources that were able to
impact the world
it’s about our internal resources and
what I’m saying is optimizing our
environment optimizing our behaviors or
capabilities our beliefs and our values
and our identity great that at the
highest level our identity because you
can’t just change your belief or your
values or your behavior even if you
don’t believe you’re that
person and that’s why I kind of always
go to the superhero mythos because I
want people that get to claim that
identity I call it the superhero you
that version of ourselves and we’re not
waiting for Superman or Batman or Wonder
Woman it’s like you are Wonder Woman you
are Batman or Superman it’s just we we
have to commit ourselves to be able to
fishing yeah I think a lot of people I’m
super sensitized to it but I think one
of the success rituals people had it
should have is just going through and
keeping a consistent not to-do list and
I think the most successful genius-level
individuals one of the clues that they
leave is there not to-do list is bigger
than their to-do list right they don’t
check their phone in the morning they
don’t take him you know everything is
hell yes or it’s hell no all right
that’s their filter system they don’t
you know they say no to good so they
guess yes – great so the behaviors then
you have the habits which and then you
have that the beliefs and the values and
beliefs the values you know because I
want this is one of the reasons why I
watch your show because I’m just hearing
all the time you’re listening these
amazing beliefs about from achievers in
all every area I mean it’s amazing when
you have Wycliffe there and you’re not
and like the Mellen you have all these
amazing individuals but you see that
there’s a pattern that’s there right and
there’s an art and but there’s a science
to it there and there’s an art to it and
how they express themselves and then I
also do believe that some of those
successful geniuses and I say genius is
not just I come to have mod IQ right I’m
talking about an incredible you know
artist I’m talking about in half lead
I’m talking to have a kid you know in
some area is they haven’t they’re
they’re clear about their identity about
who they are and who they are to the
world and so but I know what they what
they do commit is they do the work and
they’re committed to lifelong learning
and I feel like that learning I always
tell people and we’ve taught this we had
this conversation that if knowledge is
power then learning is your superpower
and I think it’s a superpower that we
all have it’s just not word not taught
like recently we had Quincy Jones in our
audience and I had to pull him on stage
right and I was just like I was like I
have to ask you you know we are the
world and Michael Jackson Oprah like you
know what did you how do you overcome
these challenges that given these
problems that you had to be able to
create this and you know this legacy and
he looked at me he’s like Jim he’s like
I don’t have any problems
like what do you mean your Malik here 84
you have no problems and she’s like no I
have puzzles and I was like wow like
that little shift of vocabulary changed
everything for me
yeah because puzzles are like riddles
they can you could you could solve you
could solve them right there’s answers
for it it was a change of perspective
and now is the thing about growing up
with superheroes reading these comic
books late at night when I was so
impression about is for me a superhero
more than anything represents hope you
know what I mean that one person can
make a difference and a lot of
superheroes go through a lot of
challenges right when you think about
the most popular superheroes they’re all
orphans like Wonder Woman Batman
Superman Iron Man spider-man they all
lost their parents you know and they all
threw these big challenges but through
it they they found their their Dharma
they found their mission and I find that
if someone’s watching this they haven’t
found it quite yet maybe I have a belief
that that their mission and that
people’s mission their purpose and their
God is looking for them also but most of
us aren’t sensitized to it you know
because it’s coming in different forms
and we’re not open to it as much and so
my thing when it comes to success
rituals and high performance and making
an impact is that we all have that
sovereignty we all have that power and
whenever we put it out there and give it
out to somebody else like we’re a
thermometer right the metaphor I always
talk about it’s like we’re either thrown
thermometers or thermostats and a
thermometer you think about the
functionality of it it just reflects
what the environment is giving it right
it just reflects the temperature and
stuff but a thermostat is different it
sets a standard it sets a goal it sets
of vision and the environment changes
along with it I feel like our happiness
our joy our level of fulfillment our
success is all dependent on where we put
the locus of control and I feel like we
have more power than we realized in
these cases and it’s hard because we
have to fight media we defied marketing
that’s always telling us about all the
things that are going on in the world
but we live in an abundant universe
right I mean we talk about the matrix
you know which pillow people are going
to take and that determines everything
and every single morning you know you
determine what color pill you’re gonna
take how do you push in the dark times
that’s really my question because your
entire life is like yeah a story of grit
and pushing through like the darkest of
times and I would say what keeps me
going
I have a belief that everything could
get better
like that’s my self-talk when it comes
down to what my primary belief is is I
feel that that things could get better
because otherwise if I didn’t then I
would just give up right and I have too
many examples of friends and family and
just people I don’t know which are just
friends of my mind that have superseded
much more difficult situations than I
have the other thing it’s helped me to
do is really focus on the rituals and
the routines the habits the abilities
that really matter
you know the 80/20 rule because when I
have a certain amount energy I can only
do a certain amount of things and I want
to get more back and I’m still doing the
job quote unquote of most you know three
or four people you know going on stage
and traveling to do but you know like
the kind of things that we do but it
forces me to focus on the things that’s
gonna give me maximum return and you
know and I think we do teach the things
that we need to learn the most I think
the best teachers are the best students
and I know I’m going through this like I
had surgery recently to correct this and
so my sleep has jumped up from 90
minutes in two hours to about four hours
which doesn’t sound like a lot it’s not
perfect but it’s in progress and that’s
my standard like I’m just I’m not very
lucky for perfection because I don’t
think that the standard exists I’m just
looking to make incremental progress you
know when I wake up in the morning I
have my daily routine and it’s so fine
tuned because I think a lot of people
suffer from decision making fatigue
right that this is very strong research
saying that you can only make a certain
amount of good decisions a day and after
that is spent you can’t anymore and
that’s really been fine-tuned in the
medical field with surgeons and such in
terms of seeing their you know where
they’re making their errors and stuff
with early on in the day or later in
their days and stuff like that but we
also has entrepreneurs or as employees
and executives or as parents we all can
make a certain amount incisions and
that’s why you know people like Mark
Zuckerberg or Tony Hsieh they were the
same t-shirts and and sweatshirts all
the time because they don’t want to
spend
one of their decisions they get all our
am I gonna wear today right so my my
goal is to streamline my life put the
routines the first hour today and the
last hour today I really micromanage
it’s at a point where it’s vitual I
don’t even have to think about it and
then because those are the times a day
where I can really have the most impact
because later on it all day you know
team members need this there’s
firefighting this client needs that but
the first hour the last hour I really
want to control so all this really
helped develop grit and resilience you
know in my body so I can have the
ability to persevere you know so I stand
guard to my brain all the time what goes
in you know I don’t watch like a lot of
the negative news and all the other
market I really focus like you know I
watch and I listen to your show and
maybe a handful of little of things I
read each day because I need to keep it
positive
I want hope and I’m looking for help I’m
looking for inspiration and also
instruction I’m not gonna run fast but I
ain’t gonna stop running I might slow
down and have to breathe and catch my
breath but I’m not stopping because I
believe all things are available to all
of us and good people should do well
because when good people do well good
people just do more good in the world so
much of the fear that we see in life
comes from the fact that most of us
don’t feel like we’re in control we’re
running around trying to control all the
events of our lives and every single one
of us is going to experience multiple
situations in our life that no matter
how skillful we are
where you are right now literally your
circumstances from the job that you work
from the apartment or the house that you
live in is literally nothing more than a
definition of you we tend to think that
creating change has to be this big long
drawn-out process but listen to me every
minute of the day you can change
yourself you don’t have to just accept
that the fact that you’re overweight you
don’t have to accept the fact that
you’re not working the type of jobs that
you want to work and you’re working some
nine-to-five you don’t have to accept
that you’re choosing to accept it by
choosing not to understand that you can
redefine yourself in every second of the
day because something hasn’t happened
right away when you wanted it and design
didn’t work out doesn’t mean it’s not
gonna happen
most of us in life are so afraid
something’s gonna happen that we can’t
control and therefore we’re gonna get
pain that we try to avoid those things
we can’t control
try to shape our lives where we spend
our time who we spend our time with what
we do by environments that we feel
really comfortable in when we feel like
we’re really in control of them what
that does is it limits the shape and
quality of our lives
right now you can change your
circumstances you can change your life
by changing the definition of yourself
by redefining who you are your life is
comprised of your habits your routines
your rituals and the patterns that
you’ve been repeating in the last
several years you know time flies is
Halloween
you know this these day and time they’ve
already got the Christmas decorations
out to put out so you go straight from
Halloween into the holiday Christmas New
Year’s Thanksgiving season you know
traditions and this is a time of year I
love this is traditional holiday
celebrations family well I want you to
start a new tradition this year it’s the
fourth quarter it is the beginning of
the fourth quarter of 2017 you have this
power in you who you are right now today
is not who you have to be tomorrow
now think back to when you made New
Year’s resolutions whether you wrote
them down or not you made decisions of
things you were going to do this how you
were gonna live a better life how you
were gonna accomplish goals go back
write down and either think about those
or look at those maybe some of them pick
you missed okay
but I guarantee you a lot of things with
tremendous powerful effort in the fourth
quarter you can either get those goals
or you can scare the heck out of those
goals
well I can tell you this going into a
new year with tremendous momentum in
your personal life your business life in
every way in your thinking and what
you’re doing will give you a better 2018
so start 2008
right now every day between now and then
attack the day get up get after it have
tremendous momentum on your side go out
and kill it the rest of 2017
you have your greatest year ever in 2008
I’m just here to tell you job because
only three things can happen you’re
either gonna jump and fly are you gonna
jump and fall on something soft or are
you gonna fall down hard either way
you’re gonna get back up you already
know you got what it takes to get back
up you’re not your greatest fears not
that you will fall your greatest fears
that you will live a full life and never
fly that you never leaped you’re not
afraid of dying you’re afraid of dying
before the world sees who you really are
before they really get your fingerprint
before they really feel your breath
before they really get your contribution
if they really fill you that’s what you
don’t want to happen you don’t want to
leave this place without us knowing you
were here but in the end the most
important thing is what’s the purpose
your life
you’ve got two choices in life choice
one you can become somebody else choice
– you can become yourself now I really
wish that there was only one choice but
in truth there’s not in most people
choose to try to become someone else
because it’s a road map its points in
the direction you see someone you
respond to something you admire them you
want to be like them and in that process
you’ve made your decision in that
process you’ve decided to become
somebody else you have mistaken the
finger for the moon instead you need to
understand the being inspired by
somebody does not mean to become that
person to become that which inspires you
it is to understand fundamentally what
is it about that thing that excites you
what is it what is its essence and when
you can find its essence then you can
find out how it would apply to you
becoming you and as then she says flower
does not think about competing with the
flower next to it it just blooms and
that’s really your job is to see the
outside world to see the flower next to
you to understand the amazing things
that are happening all around you all of
the incredible people and the essence of
what they have and what it is that
they’ve done to bring inside yourself
and find out what does that look like
when it’s me not what do I look like
when I’m them and once you understand
the difference between that then you can
really begin to be something unique you
can become that thing that you were
meant to be that thing that makes you
feel alive and whole and that’s it
that’s the secret you’re just trying to
be something not that’s just inspiring
to other people but then you actually
want to wake up every day and
and that’s the thing about it so
escaping you whatever you become a lie
the truth somebody else yourself
whatever it is there’s been every day of
your life there and as Albert Einstein
said everybody is a genius but if you
judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree it will live it’s whole life
believing that it’s stupid and that’s
what confuses people people believe that
they’re done because they’re not finding
their path they’re not defining things
based on what excites them and what they
want to live with every day they’re just
looking to what the outside world says
is good and I think it’s incredible that
there are other people doing things that
are so extraordinary that we aspire to
be like that but you have to understand
the difference between being like
someone and trying to actually be
so if what inspires you is that somebody
works hard work hard if what inspires
you is that somebody gets up every time
they fail to get up every time you fail
if what you like is that they’re
themselves with all their weird
eccentricities and quirks then be true
to your eccentricities and quirks but
don’t try to embody their eccentricities
and quirks that’s the surest way to
become the fish that thinks it’s stupid
because it’s being judged by trying to
climb a tree
so with Scott Belsky said when 99% of
the people doubt your idea
you’re either gravely wrong or about to
make history and that’s the terrifying
part you’re not gonna know you’re not
gonna know the difference but if you’re
chasing somebody else’s path if your
whole game is emulation if your whole
game is to mimic that which inspires you
you will never find the thing that’s
real about you and look I don’t know
about you but I can be wrong I can be
gravely wrong I can have people think me
an idiot and try something and fail as
long as it was true to me because then
the lesson that I’m gonna learn is going
to apply it’s gonna take me an ever step
closer to actually being the person that
I want to become that I want to live
with every day
I can’t be that if I don’t understand
who I want to be so look inward identify
your path identify what excites you and
go after it as if your life depends on
it
because in truth it does
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