then how you knew you’re coming out so
far
[Applause]
[Music]
statistics show that 95% of the people
that actually made a new year’s
resolution have already broken it by
today
[Music]
I mean think about it most people don’t
even make a resolution anymore why
because they’ve made them from years and
years and years and they know they’re
not going to follow through so after a
while who wants to disappoint yourself
who wants to be upset with yourself why
even bother to set a new standard for
this year you know it’s going to be the
same as last year so the question is you
know what is it that makes us even want
to make a resolution
it goes beyond tradition it’s something
inside of us that makes us want to make
things better and I think part of it is
the calendar gives us this idea that we
could have a fresh start that we can it
start from fresh and have this great
victory let’s use the calendar to serve
you today
let’s just see what does it really take
to make this thing happen because
there’s no denying that inside of you
the only thing that’s going to make you
happy and the your head and the decades
ahead it’s going to be having you of an
experience where on a regular basis
you feel like your life is making
progress so the secret to real happiness
is progress
progress equals happiness and if we can
make progress on a regular basis we feel
alive and that’s why at the beginning of
the year we get this thing like okay I
can have this fresh start I could really
do with my soul desires I can expand I
can grow I can improve I could change or
maybe better than change I could
progress so if you want to make real
progress then you really got to look at
your life in a different way you gotta
say I gotta take control of this process
and not just hope that’s going to work
out like people do who make a resolution
cuz really is that what they’re really
doing at the beginning of the year
they’re saying well here’s my
resolutions for the year and they really
basically tell you their wishes it’s
their wish list it’s what they hope it
all comes together and then they call it
a resolution but they don’t know what a
resolution is when you resolve something
to have a resolution as to resolve it
when you resolve this is how it’s going
to be that’s when you cut off any
possibility except the thing you’ve
committed to you’re going to find a way
to make things work and most people
they’re stating what they hope will come
together and if it doesn’t happen then
they’re disappointed but they’re not too
disappointed cuz they’re not too vested
what does it take to successfully create
a lasting change in your life to not
only have a new year’s resolution you
follow through on but really have a
lasting change the first step for
lasting James is very much like making a
new year’s resolution fundamentally it’s
the same the first step is you got to
have a vision a vision for what it is
you really truly want
I mean one of most people’s New Year’s
resolutions I’m gonna stop eating sugar
you know I’m gonna stop smoking I’m
gonna lose ten pounds
problem with that is it’s not very
inspiring for most people you know it’s
not telling you what you’re gonna get
it’s only what you’re not going to do
it’s kind of hard to have you move
forward with that a vision is about what
you’re here to create a vision that
really works is one that excites you if
you say well my you know my resolution
my goal my help come for this month this
week this year is to lose X number of
pounds that’s okay but it’s not very
compelling it has to be a compelling
visions gotta have something has the
power to pull you not something you have
to push yourself to do well the two
different kinds of motivation push
requires willpower and willpower never
lasts what will last is pull having
something so exciting so attractive so
something you desire so much that you
have a hard time going to sleep at night
and get so up early in the morning to
rock it and take it to the next level
that’s what you’re looking at great that
wasn’t easy to get
and the bottom line of our
follow-through comes down to our
emotional intensity
you gotta have strong enough reasons
that you’re going to follow through when
the going gets tough
they don’t have strong enough reasons to
push themselves through what’s going to
be necessary to get that dream to get
that goal when the inevitable challenges
come up when you’re starving hungry and
you’re trying to want to diet right
when you got no time you’re stressed out
you haven’t worked out still that’s what
you’re supposed to do when the economy
gets tight and what you thought you’re
going to do doesn’t work and so you give
up on the goal instead of finding
another way to get there you don’t let
the fear take you over if you got strong
enough reasons reasons come first
answers come second if you get a
compelling vision and you got strong
enough reasons that will push you
through the tough times you’re going to
do things that the people don’t do it’s
put a collapsing even if you get off
target you won’t go oh I blew it you’ll
get right back on target make the change
make things happen
[Music]
when you really get clear and it’s
compelling and you’re reviewing it every
day got strong reasons you’re reviewing
it every day and you’re feeling it the
brain becomes incredibly acute at
noticing anything to get you to move
forward you know what do people do with
New Year’s resolution they come up with
something they kind of want it’s not a
compelling vision they don’t really have
strong enough reasons and they never
review it again until to notice that
they broke what they said they really
want to have make happen because they
didn’t really resolve if you resolve you
got the vision it’s compelling review it
daily and you feel it you envision it
and you experience it simple as it
sounds
now ultimately what is this really about
ultimately if you’re going to have
lasting change in anything you’re really
talking about just raising your
standards
raise your standards
what does that mean corny as it sounds
raise your standards well thank you for
the breakthrough thought Tony
[Music]
lasting change is different than a goal
you don’t always get your goals but you
always get your standards
[Music]
but when you decide something is a must
for you an absolute must when you cut
off any possible you say I’m gonna find
the way I’m gonna make the way human
beings when they resolve things and they
have make a real resolution inside
themselves which is they raise the
standard they make it a must they find
the way
and you say septum a well unruly
work hard to stop smoking
I’m gonna smoke her my whole life and
I’m you know I am a smoker I know your
days are numbered you going to be back
smoking cigarettes again because we all
act consistent with who we believe we
are
I tell people the strongest force in the
whole human personality is this need to
stay consistent with how we define
ourselves
[Music]
if you define yourself as somebody who
is really conservative if you’re a
really crazy person you act crazy
outrageous playful you don’t act
conservative because it’s not who you
are
[Music]
very often people say well I can’t do
that I’m not that kind of person and I
always say to people really when did you
define yourself
very often we made decisions in our
youth or very young about what to
believe about what we were capable of
about who we are as a person and that
becomes the glass ceiling if you will
that controls us
willpower doesn’t last but rituals can
last a lifetime I bet you have some
rituals in your life right now you’ve
been doing for years even though some of
them don’t serve you once you lock in
that identity your brain finds a way to
keep you that
I’m just saying wake yourself up you
want a new year and a new life you don’t
need to start in January first start
today start with this little video
listen how’s your new your coming out so
far
when did you define yourself I mean
really how many years ago did you come
up with what you could and couldn’t do
in your life how many years ago most
people if they really look at how to
live in their life today it’s based on a
set of standards a set of beliefs that
they made choices about 10 20 30 or more
years ago
[Music]
[Music]
this is the draft report on you
basically it goes poor build
skinny lacks great physical stature and
strength lacks mobility and ability to
avoid the rush lacks a really strong arm
can’t drive the ball downfield does not
throw a loin tight spiral system type
player who can get exposed if forced to
add little
and gets knocked down these I kind of
get to be fired up because that big in
you know the hell these people know
does it bother you that so many people
are happy to see you fail
absolutely not
but at the end of the day all the people
that was rooting on me to fail identity
they gotta wake up tomorrow have the
same life that they had before they
rolled up today they got same personal
problems they had today you know and I’m
gonna continue to live the way I want to
live and continue to do the things that
I want to do with me and my family and
be happy with that so now they can get
a few days or a few months or whatever
the case may be on being happy about not
only myself
oh no you gotta get back to the real
world
[Music]
[Music]
you don’t pay a lot attention to reviews
and those kind of things well you know
you’re always affected by opinion but
the more opinions there are of you the
me the more I the less I look at them
because I just can’t live my life based
upon what other people think about me so
I can’t concern myself too much with
what other people think you know it’s
just not healthy I don’t think I can I
could continue to do what I do if I was
constantly worrying about what somebody
thought about it
[Music]
father Barras meant to be and was only
[Music]
I think every time I say I’m about to do
something people are waiting for me to
fumble that’s probably one of the
biggest motivations behind a lot of my
raps is the amount of people that want
me to fall or whatever I think that
should be the motivation for most
revolution the further you climb towards
the top the more
the more hands you have on your
pant leg dragging to the bottom
so many people I talked to at that time
for I’ll be play they say this is the
stupidest idea you have ever gotten but
I think I’d rather stupid a club as long
as people use it now we have a hundred
million people using this a loop a
[Music]
I want to do something I’ve never done
before and I don’t know how but I can
imagine it
I want to engage in the unknown I
truthfully want to pursue the unknown
and in the pursuit of the unknown
something comes to realization and I’m
never prepared for it so when I set out
to do what I set out to do I set out to
do the impossible everybody told me
you’re nuts you can’t do that you can’t
do that and that’s also consistent with
all entrepreneurs um there’s always a
legion of people who will tell them you
can’t do that and even if you could why
would you um there’s so many better
things to do
[Music]
[Music]
well the biggest struggle man was just
getting around other people that would
say I could do it I mean that’s the
biggest struggle just you get around one
guy says yeah you can do it and then you
talk to him tomorrow and he’s like now
it is freaking me he did it you know
there’s so few people telling you to do
it you know what there is a lot of save
your money
protect yourself conserve don’t spin
don’t take risk taking risk is the new
way to be risk adverse so we’re the
biggest struggle for me was my family
man the people closest to me was the
biggest trouble every time I went out to
do another deal everybody told me you
don’t need to do that
it wants to be accelerated on and then
you got somebody in the back seat saying
hey be careful
nobody likes a backseat driver okay so
they’re sitting there they’re putting
their putting mental pressure on the
brakes when you’re trying to accelerate
[Music]
I think I have an insatiable appetite to
make things and share things with the
world I have you know I’m compelled
beyond a reasonable doubt to do what I
do I don’t think that it can be a
reasonable or logical choice they get a
certain point you’re compelled to do it
it’s too painful too brutal too neurotic
of a path to take so I think that that
compulsion has to be there it has to be
something that you you can doubt all the
time but deep down inside you know that
this is something you have to do and you
know I think I’ve dealt with some of the
adversity some of the challenges of
which we’ve had many you know I started
a band in the world laughs that me
and we’ve had an incredible life as a
result so if I have listened to the
choir to the chorus of everyone I would
have stopped because that’s what people
want you to do for some reason some
people would rather kill your dream than
see you succeed I don’t know what that
is you know you know I think it’s
important to be stubborn and to to
follow your dreams no matter what
[Music]
the only prize is this one and what you
feel and what you want to accomplish and
if you can as you start out these what
could be lien yours or could be fat
hairs I feel that I very often watch a
lot of young people sort of meander
around without any idea about why
they’re doing what they’re doing
I mean to want and to be ambitious and
to want to be successful is not enough
that’s just desire to know what you want
to understand why you’re doing it to
dedicate every breath in your body to
achieve if you feel you have something
to give if you feel that your particular
talent is worth developing is worth
caring for then there’s nothing you
can’t achieve
if you want to even want to live in your
passion whatever your passion is you
have to be willing to not make money at
it you want to do what you love you got
to do yes do you people you have a
choice you can choose money or you can
choose what you love
my parents and I’m sure like most
people’s parents say get a good job try
and make some money make a good living
yeah
and because I think that’s secure if you
make go and make money but if you do a
job you make money lose that job you
know then you lose the money you have
nothing if you choose your passion X
doesn’t matter where you make money to
lose money because you’re always gonna
have your passion be happy so it doesn’t
actually matter that’s your circular
right and and but the challenge of that
is that it might be eight years or four
years before you’re actually making a
living at it versus versus something
else
and nilly when I wrote it I thought
nobody would read it I thought nobody
would read it I thought this story’s so
crazy I just have to tell this story
these things that seemed you can spend
all your time trying to engineer the
perfect thing and the truth is we have
no control we just don’t know what’s
going to work or what’s not going to
work
[Music]
we’re here cuz we’re meeting were a
little bit broken something to learn we
haven’t so as you do it you want to take
in all the criticism comes in and work
on what you need to work on so don’t
take it personally you have to have this
filter inside that takes in all
criticism not personally and not
judgmentally you taking the criticism
you think is that true and he took a
hard look at yourself and if it’s true
you work to solve it and change it it’s
not you just throw it out and move out
enjoy the journey not the destination a
lot of us delay our happiness when I get
to this level when I get my degree when
I get the kids when I get married I’m
going to be happy enjoy the journey
enjoy the whole step the whole process
every day that you get up to strive for
whatever it is you’re after you know I’m
a goal-oriented guy yeah so you don’t
celebrate when you get to the finish
line celebrate all
the way some we all
[Music]
how do I stay driven because I couldn’t
really comprehend the alternative the
biggest poison in us is regret you won
the ultimate ultimate lottery and you’re
not driven and you’re not fired up and
you’re not going for it and you’re
willing to sit like a lump and just wait
till you die success without fulfilment
is the ultimate failure success without
fulfillment is the ultimate failure
if you’re going to have an extraordinary
life one of the master skills for
actually creating that life is mastering
this
mastering the ability to take what you
envision and make it real
it’s always worth it to do your best
and to believe in something and to work
towards the attainment of the goal and
if it is that you have to expand your
vision
then you climb higher and you do that
and you don’t be afraid to
I’m sitting the plain intellect and
instinct intellect can describe it but
only instinctive
[Music]
and from the premise of that ideology I
begin to go back to all of my life and
begin to see not only me but others how
if they position themselves between
intellect and instant and no flame to
you to which one that makes big big for
there’s an elephant an entrepreneurial
pursuit or raising a family
it is simply over there if you’re
following instance I put in it what it
takes to withstand the pressure flap
your neighbors say you don’t know what
you got
you don’t know what you’ve got until all
hell breaks loose
you don’t know what you can take into
the pressure
you’re in people until people style
away from you you don’t know how much
courage you have until you villain the
bar and I’m the struggle and I’m the
trigger a shit you can’t learn what’s in
you sitting back in the lazy boy chair
get the remote control watching HBO and
sin
that’s when you get to see what you got
hope and creativity are two of the most
important things in the world to any
creative person who’s had a door slammed
in their face
[Music]
or actors who have had their auditions
cut off or waited for a callback that
didn’t come
[Music]
or anybody anywhere really that feels
like giving up sometimes but finds it in
themselves to get up
you
keep moving forward I share this with
you
[Music]
because the truth is if you want to be
an anomaly you’ve got a athlete
I love the climb through the setback is
exciting
I learn something is wrong it’s where I
sign the move
this is hard every day is hard and if
you don’t have the stomach to weather
the storm you will not be successful
what you got touch that even sound made
of something
we’re we strong we’re just doing sold
that we’re not because there’s a lot of
money a lot of money and telling us that
we’re not pretty enough thin enough
smart enough good enough that I want to
tell you you’re the best condition
if you really want to change you’re
really stuck I know nothing I’m letting
go of everything and I’m sort of going
to relearn as like a with a childlike
mind sort of being in touch with you and
going where you want to go and not being
afraid of leave people behind
is what’s gonna actually make you a
leader just choose one thing to move
toward and then the path and then just
go with the path and you’ll end up
somewhere if you stand here trying to
side what to do you’ll still be here in
a year two years three years four years
just choose something you’re kind of
like and don’t hate and then start
moving toward it and you’ll find that
the course and path of life will bring
you exactly we’re supposed to be and you
can make money doing anything and the
thing you’ll make the most money on is
the thing you like the most
don’t take it personally
not just for pickup and for life in
general everyone’s a jerk to you someday
and you and when someone’s been asshole
the student bumps into you and says
stuff it’s not about you it’s you know
he’s a jerk if you have a day and you
lose your job and your girlfriend breaks
up with you and you crash your car the
world doesn’t hate you you just had a
bad day
but if we don’t physically make a
decision how we’re going to live then
we’ll show up like everybody else
because the human mind is not going to
make you happy
this brain of yours won’t do it you have
to direct it and there’s no worse fate
than to achieve everything and not be
fulfilled
you
far
[Applause]
[Music]
statistics show that 95% of the people
that actually made a new year’s
resolution have already broken it by
today
[Music]
I mean think about it most people don’t
even make a resolution anymore why
because they’ve made them from years and
years and years and they know they’re
not going to follow through so after a
while who wants to disappoint yourself
who wants to be upset with yourself why
even bother to set a new standard for
this year you know it’s going to be the
same as last year so the question is you
know what is it that makes us even want
to make a resolution
it goes beyond tradition it’s something
inside of us that makes us want to make
things better and I think part of it is
the calendar gives us this idea that we
could have a fresh start that we can it
start from fresh and have this great
victory let’s use the calendar to serve
you today
let’s just see what does it really take
to make this thing happen because
there’s no denying that inside of you
the only thing that’s going to make you
happy and the your head and the decades
ahead it’s going to be having you of an
experience where on a regular basis
you feel like your life is making
progress so the secret to real happiness
is progress
progress equals happiness and if we can
make progress on a regular basis we feel
alive and that’s why at the beginning of
the year we get this thing like okay I
can have this fresh start I could really
do with my soul desires I can expand I
can grow I can improve I could change or
maybe better than change I could
progress so if you want to make real
progress then you really got to look at
your life in a different way you gotta
say I gotta take control of this process
and not just hope that’s going to work
out like people do who make a resolution
cuz really is that what they’re really
doing at the beginning of the year
they’re saying well here’s my
resolutions for the year and they really
basically tell you their wishes it’s
their wish list it’s what they hope it
all comes together and then they call it
a resolution but they don’t know what a
resolution is when you resolve something
to have a resolution as to resolve it
when you resolve this is how it’s going
to be that’s when you cut off any
possibility except the thing you’ve
committed to you’re going to find a way
to make things work and most people
they’re stating what they hope will come
together and if it doesn’t happen then
they’re disappointed but they’re not too
disappointed cuz they’re not too vested
what does it take to successfully create
a lasting change in your life to not
only have a new year’s resolution you
follow through on but really have a
lasting change the first step for
lasting James is very much like making a
new year’s resolution fundamentally it’s
the same the first step is you got to
have a vision a vision for what it is
you really truly want
I mean one of most people’s New Year’s
resolutions I’m gonna stop eating sugar
you know I’m gonna stop smoking I’m
gonna lose ten pounds
problem with that is it’s not very
inspiring for most people you know it’s
not telling you what you’re gonna get
it’s only what you’re not going to do
it’s kind of hard to have you move
forward with that a vision is about what
you’re here to create a vision that
really works is one that excites you if
you say well my you know my resolution
my goal my help come for this month this
week this year is to lose X number of
pounds that’s okay but it’s not very
compelling it has to be a compelling
visions gotta have something has the
power to pull you not something you have
to push yourself to do well the two
different kinds of motivation push
requires willpower and willpower never
lasts what will last is pull having
something so exciting so attractive so
something you desire so much that you
have a hard time going to sleep at night
and get so up early in the morning to
rock it and take it to the next level
that’s what you’re looking at great that
wasn’t easy to get
and the bottom line of our
follow-through comes down to our
emotional intensity
you gotta have strong enough reasons
that you’re going to follow through when
the going gets tough
they don’t have strong enough reasons to
push themselves through what’s going to
be necessary to get that dream to get
that goal when the inevitable challenges
come up when you’re starving hungry and
you’re trying to want to diet right
when you got no time you’re stressed out
you haven’t worked out still that’s what
you’re supposed to do when the economy
gets tight and what you thought you’re
going to do doesn’t work and so you give
up on the goal instead of finding
another way to get there you don’t let
the fear take you over if you got strong
enough reasons reasons come first
answers come second if you get a
compelling vision and you got strong
enough reasons that will push you
through the tough times you’re going to
do things that the people don’t do it’s
put a collapsing even if you get off
target you won’t go oh I blew it you’ll
get right back on target make the change
make things happen
[Music]
when you really get clear and it’s
compelling and you’re reviewing it every
day got strong reasons you’re reviewing
it every day and you’re feeling it the
brain becomes incredibly acute at
noticing anything to get you to move
forward you know what do people do with
New Year’s resolution they come up with
something they kind of want it’s not a
compelling vision they don’t really have
strong enough reasons and they never
review it again until to notice that
they broke what they said they really
want to have make happen because they
didn’t really resolve if you resolve you
got the vision it’s compelling review it
daily and you feel it you envision it
and you experience it simple as it
sounds
now ultimately what is this really about
ultimately if you’re going to have
lasting change in anything you’re really
talking about just raising your
standards
raise your standards
what does that mean corny as it sounds
raise your standards well thank you for
the breakthrough thought Tony
[Music]
lasting change is different than a goal
you don’t always get your goals but you
always get your standards
[Music]
but when you decide something is a must
for you an absolute must when you cut
off any possible you say I’m gonna find
the way I’m gonna make the way human
beings when they resolve things and they
have make a real resolution inside
themselves which is they raise the
standard they make it a must they find
the way
and you say septum a well unruly
work hard to stop smoking
I’m gonna smoke her my whole life and
I’m you know I am a smoker I know your
days are numbered you going to be back
smoking cigarettes again because we all
act consistent with who we believe we
are
I tell people the strongest force in the
whole human personality is this need to
stay consistent with how we define
ourselves
[Music]
if you define yourself as somebody who
is really conservative if you’re a
really crazy person you act crazy
outrageous playful you don’t act
conservative because it’s not who you
are
[Music]
very often people say well I can’t do
that I’m not that kind of person and I
always say to people really when did you
define yourself
very often we made decisions in our
youth or very young about what to
believe about what we were capable of
about who we are as a person and that
becomes the glass ceiling if you will
that controls us
willpower doesn’t last but rituals can
last a lifetime I bet you have some
rituals in your life right now you’ve
been doing for years even though some of
them don’t serve you once you lock in
that identity your brain finds a way to
keep you that
I’m just saying wake yourself up you
want a new year and a new life you don’t
need to start in January first start
today start with this little video
listen how’s your new your coming out so
far
when did you define yourself I mean
really how many years ago did you come
up with what you could and couldn’t do
in your life how many years ago most
people if they really look at how to
live in their life today it’s based on a
set of standards a set of beliefs that
they made choices about 10 20 30 or more
years ago
[Music]
[Music]
this is the draft report on you
basically it goes poor build
skinny lacks great physical stature and
strength lacks mobility and ability to
avoid the rush lacks a really strong arm
can’t drive the ball downfield does not
throw a loin tight spiral system type
player who can get exposed if forced to
add little
and gets knocked down these I kind of
get to be fired up because that big in
you know the hell these people know
does it bother you that so many people
are happy to see you fail
absolutely not
but at the end of the day all the people
that was rooting on me to fail identity
they gotta wake up tomorrow have the
same life that they had before they
rolled up today they got same personal
problems they had today you know and I’m
gonna continue to live the way I want to
live and continue to do the things that
I want to do with me and my family and
be happy with that so now they can get
a few days or a few months or whatever
the case may be on being happy about not
only myself
oh no you gotta get back to the real
world
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you don’t pay a lot attention to reviews
and those kind of things well you know
you’re always affected by opinion but
the more opinions there are of you the
me the more I the less I look at them
because I just can’t live my life based
upon what other people think about me so
I can’t concern myself too much with
what other people think you know it’s
just not healthy I don’t think I can I
could continue to do what I do if I was
constantly worrying about what somebody
thought about it
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father Barras meant to be and was only
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I think every time I say I’m about to do
something people are waiting for me to
fumble that’s probably one of the
biggest motivations behind a lot of my
raps is the amount of people that want
me to fall or whatever I think that
should be the motivation for most
revolution the further you climb towards
the top the more
the more hands you have on your
pant leg dragging to the bottom
so many people I talked to at that time
for I’ll be play they say this is the
stupidest idea you have ever gotten but
I think I’d rather stupid a club as long
as people use it now we have a hundred
million people using this a loop a
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I want to do something I’ve never done
before and I don’t know how but I can
imagine it
I want to engage in the unknown I
truthfully want to pursue the unknown
and in the pursuit of the unknown
something comes to realization and I’m
never prepared for it so when I set out
to do what I set out to do I set out to
do the impossible everybody told me
you’re nuts you can’t do that you can’t
do that and that’s also consistent with
all entrepreneurs um there’s always a
legion of people who will tell them you
can’t do that and even if you could why
would you um there’s so many better
things to do
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well the biggest struggle man was just
getting around other people that would
say I could do it I mean that’s the
biggest struggle just you get around one
guy says yeah you can do it and then you
talk to him tomorrow and he’s like now
it is freaking me he did it you know
there’s so few people telling you to do
it you know what there is a lot of save
your money
protect yourself conserve don’t spin
don’t take risk taking risk is the new
way to be risk adverse so we’re the
biggest struggle for me was my family
man the people closest to me was the
biggest trouble every time I went out to
do another deal everybody told me you
don’t need to do that
it wants to be accelerated on and then
you got somebody in the back seat saying
hey be careful
nobody likes a backseat driver okay so
they’re sitting there they’re putting
their putting mental pressure on the
brakes when you’re trying to accelerate
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I think I have an insatiable appetite to
make things and share things with the
world I have you know I’m compelled
beyond a reasonable doubt to do what I
do I don’t think that it can be a
reasonable or logical choice they get a
certain point you’re compelled to do it
it’s too painful too brutal too neurotic
of a path to take so I think that that
compulsion has to be there it has to be
something that you you can doubt all the
time but deep down inside you know that
this is something you have to do and you
know I think I’ve dealt with some of the
adversity some of the challenges of
which we’ve had many you know I started
a band in the world laughs that me
and we’ve had an incredible life as a
result so if I have listened to the
choir to the chorus of everyone I would
have stopped because that’s what people
want you to do for some reason some
people would rather kill your dream than
see you succeed I don’t know what that
is you know you know I think it’s
important to be stubborn and to to
follow your dreams no matter what
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the only prize is this one and what you
feel and what you want to accomplish and
if you can as you start out these what
could be lien yours or could be fat
hairs I feel that I very often watch a
lot of young people sort of meander
around without any idea about why
they’re doing what they’re doing
I mean to want and to be ambitious and
to want to be successful is not enough
that’s just desire to know what you want
to understand why you’re doing it to
dedicate every breath in your body to
achieve if you feel you have something
to give if you feel that your particular
talent is worth developing is worth
caring for then there’s nothing you
can’t achieve
if you want to even want to live in your
passion whatever your passion is you
have to be willing to not make money at
it you want to do what you love you got
to do yes do you people you have a
choice you can choose money or you can
choose what you love
my parents and I’m sure like most
people’s parents say get a good job try
and make some money make a good living
yeah
and because I think that’s secure if you
make go and make money but if you do a
job you make money lose that job you
know then you lose the money you have
nothing if you choose your passion X
doesn’t matter where you make money to
lose money because you’re always gonna
have your passion be happy so it doesn’t
actually matter that’s your circular
right and and but the challenge of that
is that it might be eight years or four
years before you’re actually making a
living at it versus versus something
else
and nilly when I wrote it I thought
nobody would read it I thought nobody
would read it I thought this story’s so
crazy I just have to tell this story
these things that seemed you can spend
all your time trying to engineer the
perfect thing and the truth is we have
no control we just don’t know what’s
going to work or what’s not going to
work
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we’re here cuz we’re meeting were a
little bit broken something to learn we
haven’t so as you do it you want to take
in all the criticism comes in and work
on what you need to work on so don’t
take it personally you have to have this
filter inside that takes in all
criticism not personally and not
judgmentally you taking the criticism
you think is that true and he took a
hard look at yourself and if it’s true
you work to solve it and change it it’s
not you just throw it out and move out
enjoy the journey not the destination a
lot of us delay our happiness when I get
to this level when I get my degree when
I get the kids when I get married I’m
going to be happy enjoy the journey
enjoy the whole step the whole process
every day that you get up to strive for
whatever it is you’re after you know I’m
a goal-oriented guy yeah so you don’t
celebrate when you get to the finish
line celebrate all
the way some we all
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how do I stay driven because I couldn’t
really comprehend the alternative the
biggest poison in us is regret you won
the ultimate ultimate lottery and you’re
not driven and you’re not fired up and
you’re not going for it and you’re
willing to sit like a lump and just wait
till you die success without fulfilment
is the ultimate failure success without
fulfillment is the ultimate failure
if you’re going to have an extraordinary
life one of the master skills for
actually creating that life is mastering
this
mastering the ability to take what you
envision and make it real
it’s always worth it to do your best
and to believe in something and to work
towards the attainment of the goal and
if it is that you have to expand your
vision
then you climb higher and you do that
and you don’t be afraid to
I’m sitting the plain intellect and
instinct intellect can describe it but
only instinctive
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and from the premise of that ideology I
begin to go back to all of my life and
begin to see not only me but others how
if they position themselves between
intellect and instant and no flame to
you to which one that makes big big for
there’s an elephant an entrepreneurial
pursuit or raising a family
it is simply over there if you’re
following instance I put in it what it
takes to withstand the pressure flap
your neighbors say you don’t know what
you got
you don’t know what you’ve got until all
hell breaks loose
you don’t know what you can take into
the pressure
you’re in people until people style
away from you you don’t know how much
courage you have until you villain the
bar and I’m the struggle and I’m the
trigger a shit you can’t learn what’s in
you sitting back in the lazy boy chair
get the remote control watching HBO and
sin
that’s when you get to see what you got
hope and creativity are two of the most
important things in the world to any
creative person who’s had a door slammed
in their face
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or actors who have had their auditions
cut off or waited for a callback that
didn’t come
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or anybody anywhere really that feels
like giving up sometimes but finds it in
themselves to get up
you
keep moving forward I share this with
you
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because the truth is if you want to be
an anomaly you’ve got a athlete
I love the climb through the setback is
exciting
I learn something is wrong it’s where I
sign the move
this is hard every day is hard and if
you don’t have the stomach to weather
the storm you will not be successful
what you got touch that even sound made
of something
we’re we strong we’re just doing sold
that we’re not because there’s a lot of
money a lot of money and telling us that
we’re not pretty enough thin enough
smart enough good enough that I want to
tell you you’re the best condition
if you really want to change you’re
really stuck I know nothing I’m letting
go of everything and I’m sort of going
to relearn as like a with a childlike
mind sort of being in touch with you and
going where you want to go and not being
afraid of leave people behind
is what’s gonna actually make you a
leader just choose one thing to move
toward and then the path and then just
go with the path and you’ll end up
somewhere if you stand here trying to
side what to do you’ll still be here in
a year two years three years four years
just choose something you’re kind of
like and don’t hate and then start
moving toward it and you’ll find that
the course and path of life will bring
you exactly we’re supposed to be and you
can make money doing anything and the
thing you’ll make the most money on is
the thing you like the most
don’t take it personally
not just for pickup and for life in
general everyone’s a jerk to you someday
and you and when someone’s been asshole
the student bumps into you and says
stuff it’s not about you it’s you know
he’s a jerk if you have a day and you
lose your job and your girlfriend breaks
up with you and you crash your car the
world doesn’t hate you you just had a
bad day
but if we don’t physically make a
decision how we’re going to live then
we’ll show up like everybody else
because the human mind is not going to
make you happy
this brain of yours won’t do it you have
to direct it and there’s no worse fate
than to achieve everything and not be
fulfilled
you
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