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setting on the same football field at
you 1993 and I made a quote and then
some people call controversy I call the
confidence I said that I might be the
greatest player to ever walk about a
university of mine I did not say that
because I thought I was better than
everybody else
I said that’s simply because I was
willing to put in the work to now be
back here
eighteen years later
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when I asked him nobody here for nothing
today I’m not I’m just sharing my story
to tell y’all every time you think
somebody got a good man and always good
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I said insane chairs you got us a tin
man i sat around the greatest athletes
in the world there’s no other man out
there willing to give her what I’m
willing people I said that in 1993 but I
said I wanted to be the greatest
hurricane and the only thing that I got
in the middle of all of that distance
it’s the only thing in the farmers work
there’s results there’s no other food I
ain’t got no other city to tear out of
it I ain’t come here for nothing else
but to tell you if you want to do
something work in you want a better
relationship with God
there’s not a person on my team in 16
years that has consistently beat me to
the ball every plate that ain’t gonna do
a town that’s just got everything to do
it effort
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nothing else
15 straight years 12 hobos later and the
only thing that’s kept me around is my
effort so you put on this all I ever
knew with effort will get me seen on
take effort don’t get me noticed to get
to lead effort the one day take care my
mom and my kid effort which is between
you and you nobody else can get you
after health efforts with the side
and I’m still granted because the next
clip is talking about begin to own keep
watching me if I
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nobody ain’t got to convince me of what
I do I feel what I do because I do what
I do because I’m built from something
and man then created every one of you
meaning you have that opportunity man
but ask yourself the question personally
how much time you really wish
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question is what are you going to at
your time
what drives you
[Music]
know what you carry me you carry your
legs
legacy grapes
greatness is a lot of small things done
with okay after day workout at the
workout obedience mo beans
day after day
[Music]
greatness is a lot of small things done
will
gotta say I gotta say something before
we get out of here I gotta say some
today is my 25th birthday for those who
don’t know now I used to daydream in
class all the time and I had a teacher
Rochelle not know if I loved him she
gave me a journal and on the cover that
journal it said go confidently in the
direction of your dreams and live the
life that you’ve imagined
that’s a quote from an American author
Henry David Thoreau now I want everybody
to take a look in the room right now
because if you don’t know we don’t under
dogs
Straight Outta Compton was my first
taste of being the underdog I had to
audition for over two years to get my
role and a lot of people who work on the
movie didn’t want me to get it but he
wanted me to get him that’s really all
that I did
the best advice I can give you is being
tenacious be aggressive don’t be polite
if you’re polite you’ll be one of the
many people standing in the large you
have to be a little pushy you have to be
prepared to say you’re sorry that you
were wrong or you possibly have made a
mistake
but on the whole you got to go for it
you ain’t never gonna round the bases
unless you swing it
you just have to want it so desperately
that you can go without food then you’re
on your way
and so everybody to all the underdogs to
everybody who’s has somebody tell them
they can’t do what they want to do
family members even tell them they can’t
do what they want to do the people who
look in the mirror and when you look in
the mirror all you got is that one
person that believes in you I’m here to
tell you that’s all you need baby so to
the underdogs
I don’t care what it is you do I don’t
care if you can’t I don’t care what job
you have you got a boss that’s seen it
doesn’t see the hundred CEO type 1000
times but let them know they see you yet
am I
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and so all you’re looking for new
breakthroughs to practice and practice
and practice you’ll get better and
better and better
you can always better your best you can
always go beyond anything that you have
ever done you never hit a state of
perfection
you’re always bigger than what you do
you’ll get knocked down but you won’t be
knocked out
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when I look around I always learn
something that is to be always yourself
and to express yourself to have faith
feel do not go out and look for
successful personality and duplicate
them like they always copy mannerism but
they never start from the very root of
his being and that is how can I be me
for me what some healthy and unhealthy
life to me what some healthy was getting
up and don’t do the same day every day
alike 9:00 to 5:00 in an officer in it
and got that’s on help that beats your
mind I don’t I don’t work I do I look
what I do and that’s why I’m doing what
I love
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he seemed to hit the right time when he
pushes down at the last few yards he can
get that Lee he’s got nothing up to me
wasn’t that much greater than all the
people in the world was sometimes he won
by just that much this little champion
is just one who can come out at the
batsman close the show and say the start
close the show
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sometimes the wheel cannot be the steel
sometime of fellows wheel is stronger
than the man exactly better physically
and the determination weakens the other
man just the CMC Turner mama Dolly was a
guy dad don’t what had not been done
before change the face not not only the
face of his game but the face of the
world you know
was outspoken he fought he fought for
what he believed in and that he was
charismatic he was amazing the hero
okay
my thing is this I keep my eyes on the
front
I never focus on things
focuses the Gydesen
because if we try to get to it I stand
focus
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always had a dream
and watching must be the
and it comes down to boxing
I’m the best at this
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I train for every fighter the same way
I believe in my skills I believe more
you stare at your past and you’ll end up
staying there
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just in the same way as you don’t focus
your attention on how you make your
thyroid gland function so in the same
way you don’t have any attention focused
on how you shine the Sun so then let me
connect this with the problem of birth
and death which puzzles people enormous
Lee of course because in order to
understand what what the self is you
have to remember that it doesn’t need to
remember anything just like you don’t
need to know how you work your thyroid
gland so then when you die you’re not
going to have to put up with everlasting
non-existence because that’s not an
experience a lot of people are afraid
that when they die they’re going to be
locked up in a dark room forever and I’m
sort of undergo that
but one of the most interesting things
in the world this is a yoga this is a
way of realization try and imagine what
it will be like to go to sleep and never
wake up
think about that children think about it
it’s one of the great wonders of life
what will it be like to go to sleep and
never wake up and if you think long
enough about that something will happen
to you we’ll find out among other things
that it’ll pose the next question to you
what was it like to wake up after having
never gone to sleep that was when you
were born
you see you you can’t have an experience
of nothing nature abhors a vacuum so
after you are dead the only thing that
can happen is the same experience of the
same sort of experiences when you were
born
in other words we all know very well
that after people die other people are
born and they’re all you only you could
only experience it one at a time
everybody is I you all know you you and
wheresoever beings exist throughout all
galaxies it doesn’t make any difference
you are all up and when they come into
being that’s you coming into being you
know that very well only you don’t have
to remember the past in the same way you
don’t have to think about how you work
your thyroid gland or whatever else it
is in your organism
you don’t have to know how to shine the
Sun you just do it
like you breathe is there doesn’t it
really astonish you that you are this
fantastically complex thing and that
you’re doing all of this and you never
had any education in how to do it never
learn the picture this miracle well the
point is that from a strictly physical
scientific standpoint this organism is a
continuous energy with everything else
that’s going on and if I am my foot I am
the Sun
try and imagine what it will be like to
go to sleep and never wake up
think about that children think about it
it’s one of the great wonders of life
what will it be like to go to sleep and
never wake up
and if you think long enough about that
something will happen to you
opposed the next question to you what
was it like to wake up after having
never gone to sleep that was when you
were born
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I can explain how I became successful in
who I am today by going through what I
call dr. Schwarzenegger six rules of
success but before I start that’s just
one of the stages of my rules and I
think that they can apply to anyone but
that is for you to decide because not
everyone is the same there’s some people
that just like to kick back and coast
through life and I just want to be very
intense and want to be number one and
want to be successful that’s like me I
always wanted to be very intense I
always wanted to be number one I took it
very seriously in my career so this was
the same when I started with
bodybuilding I didn’t want to just be a
bodybuilding champion I wanted to be the
best body build of all times the same
was in the movies I didn’t want to just
be a movie star I wanted to be a great
movie star that’s the highest paid movie
star has above the title building and so
this intensity always paid off for me
this commitment always paid off for me
so here are some of the rules the first
rule is trust yourself what I mean but
that is is so many young people are
getting so much advice
from the teachers from everyone but what
is most important is did you have to dig
deep down dig deep down and ask
yourselves who do you want to be not
what but who and I’m talking about that
with your parents and teachers no need
to be but you I’m talking about figuring
out for yourselves what makes you happy
no matter how crazy it may sound to the
people so rule number one is of course
trust yourself no matter how what anyone
else thinks
you
and of course who never do is break the
rules we have so many rules in life
about everything I said break the rules
not the law but break the rules it is
impossible to be a maverick or true
original if you’re too well behaved and
don’t want to break the rules you have
to think outside the box that’s what I
believe after all what is the point of
being on this girl if all you want to do
is be like for everyone and avoid
trouble the only way that ever got any
place was the breaking some of the rules
which of course brings me the rule
number three don’t be afraid to fail
anything I’ve ever attempted I was
always willing to fail you can’t be
paralyzed by fear failure or you will
never push yourself you keep pushing
because you believe in yourself and in
your vision and you know that it’s the
right thing to do and success will come
so don’t be afraid to fail
which brings me the rule number four
which is don’t listen to the naysayers I
mean how many times have you heard that
you can’t do this you can’t do that and
it has never been done before just
imagine if Bill Gates had quit when
people say it can’t be done I heard this
all the time as a matter fact I love it
when someone says that never no one has
ever done this before because they mean
I do it that means that I’m the first
one that has done it so pay no attention
to the people who say you can’t be done
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that brings me to rule number five which
is the most important rule of world of
all work your butt off you never want to
fail because you didn’t work hard enough
I never wanted to lose a competition or
lose an election because it didn’t work
hard enough I always believed leaving no
stone unturned
Muhammad Ali one of my great heroes and
a great line in the 70s when he was
asked how many sit-ups do you do he said
I don’t count my sit-ups I only start
counting when it starts hurting when
they feel pain that’s when I start
counting because that’s when it really
counts
that’s what makes you a champion that’s
the way it is with everything no pain no
gain
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so many of those lessons that I apply in
life I have grown from squats let me
tell you and especially that one and let
me tell you it is important to the fun
in life was but when you’re out there
partying horsing around someone out
there at the same time is working hard
someone is getting smarter and someone
is winning just remember that
now if you want to coast through life
don’t pay any attention to any of those
rules but if you want to win there’s
absolutely no way around hard hard work
none of my rules by the way of
successful work unless you do I’ve
always figured out that there’s 24 hours
a day you sleep six hours and if
eighteen hours left now I know there’s
some of you out there now says well wait
a minute I sleep eight hours or nine
hours well then just sleep faster I
would recommend because you only need to
sleep six hours and if eighteen hours
left there’s a lot of things you can
accomplish as a matter of fact dead
churner used to say always early to bed
early to rise Brooke like hell and
advertise just remember you can’t climb
the ladder of success with your hands in
the pocket that takes me to rule number
six which is a very important or it’s
about giving back whatever path did you
take in your lives you must always find
time to give something back something
back to your community give something
back to your state or to your country
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here down deep mirror tear down that
mirror that makes you always look at
yourself
and you will be able to look beyond that
mirror and you will see the millions of
people that need your help
let me tell you something reaching out
and helping people who bring you more
satisfaction than anything else you have
ever done
remember those six rules trust yourself
break some rules don’t be afraid to fail
ignore the naysayers work like hell and
give something back
you
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the only thing that stops you from
getting what you want in life is the
store and you tell yourself of
why you can’t have it all people care
about is how much power you have and
people will respect you for going out
there and trying your hardest it’s not
how you actually perform that earns you
the respect of your peers it’s the fact
that you went out and actually did it
that’s the difference not being scared
to fail not having fear of failure and
not having fear of looking stupid we
have this awful fear as human beings we
don’t want to look like news sometimes
you got to look
name of progress
by drilling it into your head again and
again and again and again and again
until your brain just clicks and all the
sword and using the unconscious part of
your mind which is infinitely more
powerful than your conscious mind
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there’s no embarrassment in struggle
it’s just not the embarrassment the
embarrassment is not drawing your horse
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you gotta get off don’t blame the boss
leaves don’t blame your jobs on the
industry you’re in
there’s three things you know where you
are where you want to go and how you’re
going to get there those are the three
things you must have and take advantage
of any opportunity
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you can’t influence you can’t persuade
good luck trying to get your business
off the ground you’re an entrepreneur
you transport a business you’re
excluding people or you’re selling
people on your vision for the future
visions for this company if you can’t do
that good luck trying to get great
people working
part of being a great entrepreneur is
having that vision be able to create the
vision and then sell that vision to
other people to get them to want to
inspire buy into it to put in their time
they’re all worth it elbow grease help
you achieve your vision but there’s
gotta be something above your goals and
that’s your vision and that’s inspiring
to you and you when you truly have a
vision for your future that inspires you
you’re going to jump up out of bed in
the morning and feel great about going
at life
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defining your circle of confidence is
the most important aspect of investing
it’s not how important how large your
circle is
don’t have to be an expert on everything
but knowing where the perimeter of that
circle of what you know and what you
don’t know is and staying inside of it
is all important
I don’t regard what I do is the most
important thing in the world at all but
it’s right for me I mean I happen to be
wired in a certain way that’s what I do
works
well I can certainly define happiness
because that’s what that’s what I am and
I get to do what I like to do every
single day of the year I get to do it
with people I like other than I tap
dance to work and it doesn’t diminish if
it’s it’s tremendous funding so success
is getting what you want and happiness
is wanting what you get well I don’t
know which one applies in this case but
I you know that I wouldn’t be doing
anything else something I do advise you
you know when you like to work go to go
to work for an organization that you
hire people to admire because it’ll
it’ll turn you on
to make money they didn’t have and
didn’t need they risked what they did
have and did me and that’s foolish that
is just plain foolish if you if you is
something that is important to you for
something that is unimportant to you it
just does not make any sense I don’t
care whether the odds are 100 to 1 that
you succeed or a thousand wonders you
see
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he gets into behaving in a rational
manner it’s not letting not getting in
your own way as I say everybody here has
the ability absolutely to do anything I
do and much beyond and some of you will
and some of you won’t the ones that
won’t be because you get in your own way
don’t because the world doesn’t
because you don’t allow yourself to it’s
not necessary to have huge amounts of
money in order enjoy yourself I enjoyed
myself when I was at my $10,000 and I
live in the same house that I lived in
when I was making when I had about that
I bought it 41 years ago I like the
house then I like the house now what
astounds me is how many young people
come up to me and say Conan some dang to
be on your show
then I say me too
what do you what is it you do yeah they
don’t know that’s the crazy thing most
people it’s the Paris Hilton phenomenon
they just want to be famous and they’ve
actually seen it work they’ve seen a
number they’ve seen someone get we’ve
been read a big famous for just being
famous
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what I would say to people is you’ve got
to go to where they’re making the thing
that you like and then work there in any
capacity if you have to get coffee for
somebody if you have to hold a cable if
you have to stand there and volunteer go
to where they’re making the thing that
you that moves you that gets you excited
and try and get close to it I mean I
remember for years I was aware that I’m
not doing the thing that is going to be
my life’s work but I’m explose I
couldn’t you know I couldn’t even tell
you exactly what it was but I knew I was
close do not I mean I was I knew when I
was a writer at CERN out live is even
quite it but I’m close I knew when I was
a writer in the Simpsons this is further
away from it than I was at CERN out live
so I knew when I was close I just and
that’s what I tell them is just go there
and don’t have an ego about it there’s
so many channels now so many stations
get in there and do it
and and eventually it’s just the
Brownian movement of molecules
eventually you getting in there and
doing putting yourself out there if you
have something to offer someone’s going
to see it at some point
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Larry Willis a great pianist told me
once if you take care of the music it
will take care of you
if you true to it you’re gonna get you
what you need you just have to put all
it you can’t just put a little bit you
got to put it all in there listen any
young aspiring musicians out there if
music is what you want to do and music
is what you love and your passion it
doesn’t take a fragrance it’s not about
the tabloids it’s about you putting in
the work practicing every day practicing
your vocals practicing your instrument
track practicing songwriting and
hopefully one day you write the song you
know the whole world wants to get down
to
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honestly if you’re good at what you do
people will recognize that I really
believe it I really believe that going
out and playing good songs live as a
great live band will make you successful
I’d really think it will and it doesn’t
matter if you’re at the hold down
the street or you’re on the side stage
at Bonnaroo or you’re headlining well up
loser if you’re a great band with great
songs people will notice it that’s it
that’s all it is
it’s sit that simple
product placement and labels and
ANR people and all that it
doesn’t matter I swear to god it
doesn’t matter and if you back that up
with the idea that just playing those
great songs in your great live band is
enough reward for you when you’re
set but you’ve got to be badass
you just have to be really good it’s the
other things that make up for your
musical inability
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that’s what it takes you don’t have to
stand in line at the song contest on TV
to become a popular musician you
know to stand in front of some judge
that doesn’t even play an
instrument on their own goddamn records
till you know you’re not gonna know
right that you know go blow people
away in front in their face and so it’s
gonna you know it’s it’s I honestly
believe it’s that simple I just do that
if you put me on stage without a
PA or floor monitors in a small club
that I would beat the out
of my drums so much that people go
goddamn did you see that drummer
whoa and I’d walk away from every show
like there you go I just beat the
piss out of those things and
people saw it I think that that should
go for pretty much every part of the
process
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well it’s easy for you to say Mike man I
was in the same position you are
in 24 years ago that was it I worked in
a Furniture Warehouse and I
wanted people to like my music so I
played out as much as I could you know
and if you really honestly I’d like I
said if you’re passionate and driven and
focused in what you do if you’re really
good at it people will take
notice
setting on the same football field at
you 1993 and I made a quote and then
some people call controversy I call the
confidence I said that I might be the
greatest player to ever walk about a
university of mine I did not say that
because I thought I was better than
everybody else
I said that’s simply because I was
willing to put in the work to now be
back here
eighteen years later
[Music]
when I asked him nobody here for nothing
today I’m not I’m just sharing my story
to tell y’all every time you think
somebody got a good man and always good
[Music]
I said insane chairs you got us a tin
man i sat around the greatest athletes
in the world there’s no other man out
there willing to give her what I’m
willing people I said that in 1993 but I
said I wanted to be the greatest
hurricane and the only thing that I got
in the middle of all of that distance
it’s the only thing in the farmers work
there’s results there’s no other food I
ain’t got no other city to tear out of
it I ain’t come here for nothing else
but to tell you if you want to do
something work in you want a better
relationship with God
there’s not a person on my team in 16
years that has consistently beat me to
the ball every plate that ain’t gonna do
a town that’s just got everything to do
it effort
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nothing else
15 straight years 12 hobos later and the
only thing that’s kept me around is my
effort so you put on this all I ever
knew with effort will get me seen on
take effort don’t get me noticed to get
to lead effort the one day take care my
mom and my kid effort which is between
you and you nobody else can get you
after health efforts with the side
and I’m still granted because the next
clip is talking about begin to own keep
watching me if I
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nobody ain’t got to convince me of what
I do I feel what I do because I do what
I do because I’m built from something
and man then created every one of you
meaning you have that opportunity man
but ask yourself the question personally
how much time you really wish
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question is what are you going to at
your time
what drives you
[Music]
know what you carry me you carry your
legs
legacy grapes
greatness is a lot of small things done
with okay after day workout at the
workout obedience mo beans
day after day
[Music]
greatness is a lot of small things done
will
gotta say I gotta say something before
we get out of here I gotta say some
today is my 25th birthday for those who
don’t know now I used to daydream in
class all the time and I had a teacher
Rochelle not know if I loved him she
gave me a journal and on the cover that
journal it said go confidently in the
direction of your dreams and live the
life that you’ve imagined
that’s a quote from an American author
Henry David Thoreau now I want everybody
to take a look in the room right now
because if you don’t know we don’t under
dogs
Straight Outta Compton was my first
taste of being the underdog I had to
audition for over two years to get my
role and a lot of people who work on the
movie didn’t want me to get it but he
wanted me to get him that’s really all
that I did
the best advice I can give you is being
tenacious be aggressive don’t be polite
if you’re polite you’ll be one of the
many people standing in the large you
have to be a little pushy you have to be
prepared to say you’re sorry that you
were wrong or you possibly have made a
mistake
but on the whole you got to go for it
you ain’t never gonna round the bases
unless you swing it
you just have to want it so desperately
that you can go without food then you’re
on your way
and so everybody to all the underdogs to
everybody who’s has somebody tell them
they can’t do what they want to do
family members even tell them they can’t
do what they want to do the people who
look in the mirror and when you look in
the mirror all you got is that one
person that believes in you I’m here to
tell you that’s all you need baby so to
the underdogs
I don’t care what it is you do I don’t
care if you can’t I don’t care what job
you have you got a boss that’s seen it
doesn’t see the hundred CEO type 1000
times but let them know they see you yet
am I
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and so all you’re looking for new
breakthroughs to practice and practice
and practice you’ll get better and
better and better
you can always better your best you can
always go beyond anything that you have
ever done you never hit a state of
perfection
you’re always bigger than what you do
you’ll get knocked down but you won’t be
knocked out
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when I look around I always learn
something that is to be always yourself
and to express yourself to have faith
feel do not go out and look for
successful personality and duplicate
them like they always copy mannerism but
they never start from the very root of
his being and that is how can I be me
for me what some healthy and unhealthy
life to me what some healthy was getting
up and don’t do the same day every day
alike 9:00 to 5:00 in an officer in it
and got that’s on help that beats your
mind I don’t I don’t work I do I look
what I do and that’s why I’m doing what
I love
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he seemed to hit the right time when he
pushes down at the last few yards he can
get that Lee he’s got nothing up to me
wasn’t that much greater than all the
people in the world was sometimes he won
by just that much this little champion
is just one who can come out at the
batsman close the show and say the start
close the show
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sometimes the wheel cannot be the steel
sometime of fellows wheel is stronger
than the man exactly better physically
and the determination weakens the other
man just the CMC Turner mama Dolly was a
guy dad don’t what had not been done
before change the face not not only the
face of his game but the face of the
world you know
was outspoken he fought he fought for
what he believed in and that he was
charismatic he was amazing the hero
okay
my thing is this I keep my eyes on the
front
I never focus on things
focuses the Gydesen
because if we try to get to it I stand
focus
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always had a dream
and watching must be the
and it comes down to boxing
I’m the best at this
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I train for every fighter the same way
I believe in my skills I believe more
you stare at your past and you’ll end up
staying there
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just in the same way as you don’t focus
your attention on how you make your
thyroid gland function so in the same
way you don’t have any attention focused
on how you shine the Sun so then let me
connect this with the problem of birth
and death which puzzles people enormous
Lee of course because in order to
understand what what the self is you
have to remember that it doesn’t need to
remember anything just like you don’t
need to know how you work your thyroid
gland so then when you die you’re not
going to have to put up with everlasting
non-existence because that’s not an
experience a lot of people are afraid
that when they die they’re going to be
locked up in a dark room forever and I’m
sort of undergo that
but one of the most interesting things
in the world this is a yoga this is a
way of realization try and imagine what
it will be like to go to sleep and never
wake up
think about that children think about it
it’s one of the great wonders of life
what will it be like to go to sleep and
never wake up and if you think long
enough about that something will happen
to you we’ll find out among other things
that it’ll pose the next question to you
what was it like to wake up after having
never gone to sleep that was when you
were born
you see you you can’t have an experience
of nothing nature abhors a vacuum so
after you are dead the only thing that
can happen is the same experience of the
same sort of experiences when you were
born
in other words we all know very well
that after people die other people are
born and they’re all you only you could
only experience it one at a time
everybody is I you all know you you and
wheresoever beings exist throughout all
galaxies it doesn’t make any difference
you are all up and when they come into
being that’s you coming into being you
know that very well only you don’t have
to remember the past in the same way you
don’t have to think about how you work
your thyroid gland or whatever else it
is in your organism
you don’t have to know how to shine the
Sun you just do it
like you breathe is there doesn’t it
really astonish you that you are this
fantastically complex thing and that
you’re doing all of this and you never
had any education in how to do it never
learn the picture this miracle well the
point is that from a strictly physical
scientific standpoint this organism is a
continuous energy with everything else
that’s going on and if I am my foot I am
the Sun
try and imagine what it will be like to
go to sleep and never wake up
think about that children think about it
it’s one of the great wonders of life
what will it be like to go to sleep and
never wake up
and if you think long enough about that
something will happen to you
opposed the next question to you what
was it like to wake up after having
never gone to sleep that was when you
were born
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I can explain how I became successful in
who I am today by going through what I
call dr. Schwarzenegger six rules of
success but before I start that’s just
one of the stages of my rules and I
think that they can apply to anyone but
that is for you to decide because not
everyone is the same there’s some people
that just like to kick back and coast
through life and I just want to be very
intense and want to be number one and
want to be successful that’s like me I
always wanted to be very intense I
always wanted to be number one I took it
very seriously in my career so this was
the same when I started with
bodybuilding I didn’t want to just be a
bodybuilding champion I wanted to be the
best body build of all times the same
was in the movies I didn’t want to just
be a movie star I wanted to be a great
movie star that’s the highest paid movie
star has above the title building and so
this intensity always paid off for me
this commitment always paid off for me
so here are some of the rules the first
rule is trust yourself what I mean but
that is is so many young people are
getting so much advice
from the teachers from everyone but what
is most important is did you have to dig
deep down dig deep down and ask
yourselves who do you want to be not
what but who and I’m talking about that
with your parents and teachers no need
to be but you I’m talking about figuring
out for yourselves what makes you happy
no matter how crazy it may sound to the
people so rule number one is of course
trust yourself no matter how what anyone
else thinks
you
and of course who never do is break the
rules we have so many rules in life
about everything I said break the rules
not the law but break the rules it is
impossible to be a maverick or true
original if you’re too well behaved and
don’t want to break the rules you have
to think outside the box that’s what I
believe after all what is the point of
being on this girl if all you want to do
is be like for everyone and avoid
trouble the only way that ever got any
place was the breaking some of the rules
which of course brings me the rule
number three don’t be afraid to fail
anything I’ve ever attempted I was
always willing to fail you can’t be
paralyzed by fear failure or you will
never push yourself you keep pushing
because you believe in yourself and in
your vision and you know that it’s the
right thing to do and success will come
so don’t be afraid to fail
which brings me the rule number four
which is don’t listen to the naysayers I
mean how many times have you heard that
you can’t do this you can’t do that and
it has never been done before just
imagine if Bill Gates had quit when
people say it can’t be done I heard this
all the time as a matter fact I love it
when someone says that never no one has
ever done this before because they mean
I do it that means that I’m the first
one that has done it so pay no attention
to the people who say you can’t be done
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that brings me to rule number five which
is the most important rule of world of
all work your butt off you never want to
fail because you didn’t work hard enough
I never wanted to lose a competition or
lose an election because it didn’t work
hard enough I always believed leaving no
stone unturned
Muhammad Ali one of my great heroes and
a great line in the 70s when he was
asked how many sit-ups do you do he said
I don’t count my sit-ups I only start
counting when it starts hurting when
they feel pain that’s when I start
counting because that’s when it really
counts
that’s what makes you a champion that’s
the way it is with everything no pain no
gain
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so many of those lessons that I apply in
life I have grown from squats let me
tell you and especially that one and let
me tell you it is important to the fun
in life was but when you’re out there
partying horsing around someone out
there at the same time is working hard
someone is getting smarter and someone
is winning just remember that
now if you want to coast through life
don’t pay any attention to any of those
rules but if you want to win there’s
absolutely no way around hard hard work
none of my rules by the way of
successful work unless you do I’ve
always figured out that there’s 24 hours
a day you sleep six hours and if
eighteen hours left now I know there’s
some of you out there now says well wait
a minute I sleep eight hours or nine
hours well then just sleep faster I
would recommend because you only need to
sleep six hours and if eighteen hours
left there’s a lot of things you can
accomplish as a matter of fact dead
churner used to say always early to bed
early to rise Brooke like hell and
advertise just remember you can’t climb
the ladder of success with your hands in
the pocket that takes me to rule number
six which is a very important or it’s
about giving back whatever path did you
take in your lives you must always find
time to give something back something
back to your community give something
back to your state or to your country
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here down deep mirror tear down that
mirror that makes you always look at
yourself
and you will be able to look beyond that
mirror and you will see the millions of
people that need your help
let me tell you something reaching out
and helping people who bring you more
satisfaction than anything else you have
ever done
remember those six rules trust yourself
break some rules don’t be afraid to fail
ignore the naysayers work like hell and
give something back
you
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the only thing that stops you from
getting what you want in life is the
store and you tell yourself of
why you can’t have it all people care
about is how much power you have and
people will respect you for going out
there and trying your hardest it’s not
how you actually perform that earns you
the respect of your peers it’s the fact
that you went out and actually did it
that’s the difference not being scared
to fail not having fear of failure and
not having fear of looking stupid we
have this awful fear as human beings we
don’t want to look like news sometimes
you got to look
name of progress
by drilling it into your head again and
again and again and again and again
until your brain just clicks and all the
sword and using the unconscious part of
your mind which is infinitely more
powerful than your conscious mind
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there’s no embarrassment in struggle
it’s just not the embarrassment the
embarrassment is not drawing your horse
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you gotta get off don’t blame the boss
leaves don’t blame your jobs on the
industry you’re in
there’s three things you know where you
are where you want to go and how you’re
going to get there those are the three
things you must have and take advantage
of any opportunity
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you can’t influence you can’t persuade
good luck trying to get your business
off the ground you’re an entrepreneur
you transport a business you’re
excluding people or you’re selling
people on your vision for the future
visions for this company if you can’t do
that good luck trying to get great
people working
part of being a great entrepreneur is
having that vision be able to create the
vision and then sell that vision to
other people to get them to want to
inspire buy into it to put in their time
they’re all worth it elbow grease help
you achieve your vision but there’s
gotta be something above your goals and
that’s your vision and that’s inspiring
to you and you when you truly have a
vision for your future that inspires you
you’re going to jump up out of bed in
the morning and feel great about going
at life
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defining your circle of confidence is
the most important aspect of investing
it’s not how important how large your
circle is
don’t have to be an expert on everything
but knowing where the perimeter of that
circle of what you know and what you
don’t know is and staying inside of it
is all important
I don’t regard what I do is the most
important thing in the world at all but
it’s right for me I mean I happen to be
wired in a certain way that’s what I do
works
well I can certainly define happiness
because that’s what that’s what I am and
I get to do what I like to do every
single day of the year I get to do it
with people I like other than I tap
dance to work and it doesn’t diminish if
it’s it’s tremendous funding so success
is getting what you want and happiness
is wanting what you get well I don’t
know which one applies in this case but
I you know that I wouldn’t be doing
anything else something I do advise you
you know when you like to work go to go
to work for an organization that you
hire people to admire because it’ll
it’ll turn you on
to make money they didn’t have and
didn’t need they risked what they did
have and did me and that’s foolish that
is just plain foolish if you if you is
something that is important to you for
something that is unimportant to you it
just does not make any sense I don’t
care whether the odds are 100 to 1 that
you succeed or a thousand wonders you
see
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he gets into behaving in a rational
manner it’s not letting not getting in
your own way as I say everybody here has
the ability absolutely to do anything I
do and much beyond and some of you will
and some of you won’t the ones that
won’t be because you get in your own way
don’t because the world doesn’t
because you don’t allow yourself to it’s
not necessary to have huge amounts of
money in order enjoy yourself I enjoyed
myself when I was at my $10,000 and I
live in the same house that I lived in
when I was making when I had about that
I bought it 41 years ago I like the
house then I like the house now what
astounds me is how many young people
come up to me and say Conan some dang to
be on your show
then I say me too
what do you what is it you do yeah they
don’t know that’s the crazy thing most
people it’s the Paris Hilton phenomenon
they just want to be famous and they’ve
actually seen it work they’ve seen a
number they’ve seen someone get we’ve
been read a big famous for just being
famous
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what I would say to people is you’ve got
to go to where they’re making the thing
that you like and then work there in any
capacity if you have to get coffee for
somebody if you have to hold a cable if
you have to stand there and volunteer go
to where they’re making the thing that
you that moves you that gets you excited
and try and get close to it I mean I
remember for years I was aware that I’m
not doing the thing that is going to be
my life’s work but I’m explose I
couldn’t you know I couldn’t even tell
you exactly what it was but I knew I was
close do not I mean I was I knew when I
was a writer at CERN out live is even
quite it but I’m close I knew when I was
a writer in the Simpsons this is further
away from it than I was at CERN out live
so I knew when I was close I just and
that’s what I tell them is just go there
and don’t have an ego about it there’s
so many channels now so many stations
get in there and do it
and and eventually it’s just the
Brownian movement of molecules
eventually you getting in there and
doing putting yourself out there if you
have something to offer someone’s going
to see it at some point
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Larry Willis a great pianist told me
once if you take care of the music it
will take care of you
if you true to it you’re gonna get you
what you need you just have to put all
it you can’t just put a little bit you
got to put it all in there listen any
young aspiring musicians out there if
music is what you want to do and music
is what you love and your passion it
doesn’t take a fragrance it’s not about
the tabloids it’s about you putting in
the work practicing every day practicing
your vocals practicing your instrument
track practicing songwriting and
hopefully one day you write the song you
know the whole world wants to get down
to
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honestly if you’re good at what you do
people will recognize that I really
believe it I really believe that going
out and playing good songs live as a
great live band will make you successful
I’d really think it will and it doesn’t
matter if you’re at the hold down
the street or you’re on the side stage
at Bonnaroo or you’re headlining well up
loser if you’re a great band with great
songs people will notice it that’s it
that’s all it is
it’s sit that simple
product placement and labels and
ANR people and all that it
doesn’t matter I swear to god it
doesn’t matter and if you back that up
with the idea that just playing those
great songs in your great live band is
enough reward for you when you’re
set but you’ve got to be badass
you just have to be really good it’s the
other things that make up for your
musical inability
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that’s what it takes you don’t have to
stand in line at the song contest on TV
to become a popular musician you
know to stand in front of some judge
that doesn’t even play an
instrument on their own goddamn records
till you know you’re not gonna know
right that you know go blow people
away in front in their face and so it’s
gonna you know it’s it’s I honestly
believe it’s that simple I just do that
if you put me on stage without a
PA or floor monitors in a small club
that I would beat the out
of my drums so much that people go
goddamn did you see that drummer
whoa and I’d walk away from every show
like there you go I just beat the
piss out of those things and
people saw it I think that that should
go for pretty much every part of the
process
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well it’s easy for you to say Mike man I
was in the same position you are
in 24 years ago that was it I worked in
a Furniture Warehouse and I
wanted people to like my music so I
played out as much as I could you know
and if you really honestly I’d like I
said if you’re passionate and driven and
focused in what you do if you’re really
good at it people will take
notice
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