screamed to me the other night hey will
I want to be an active man I want to be
active just like you
you know usually people say stuff to me
like that I’m like yeah man you know you
doing this give them an encouraging word
but I was just sitting here thinking and
it dawned on me 99% of people that say
stuff like that are not willing to do
what it takes to make their dreams come
true
the Marines have a saying everybody
wants to go to heaven but nobody wants
to die and that’s just real at the
center of bringing any dream into
fruition is self-discipline you know
something something as simple as food
and eating it’s not about your body as
much as it is about your mind it’s
getting command of your mind to be able
to choose actions that are in your own
best interest every day we are choosing
that’s not in our own best interest
right so if the world is attacking you
and the world wants to fight you in the
world’s trying to hold you down so
you’re gonna kick yourself in the balls
so you will stop yourself from getting
what you dream self-discipline is the
center of all material success you
cannot win the war against the world if
you can’t win the war against your own
mind hugely important to me to maintain
a certain energy it’s a it’s it’s
healing it’s loving its kind and I’ve
learned really young that my energy was
infectious right so when you know I come
into the studio when I long after I
leave the energy that I bring is still
gonna be here and then people are gonna
take it home and are gonna affect their
families with it so you know for me it’s
hugely important to maintain just a
positive loving energy just release your
wife’s grateful yeah young
really happy it’s funny I worked with G
I work with Gene Hackman and we had a
thing every morning because Gene Hackman
wasn’t a morning person and he said this
is what I do in the morning you know so
every morning I would say I would say
day good morning mr. Hakman yeah yeah
yeah I don’t say anything how you doing
will I say hey man I’m just happy to be
here he would say no you’re lucky to be
here every morning but it became my way
of like just you know getting it getting
it up and getting it going it’s just I
love it fail early fail often fail
forward you know it’s always a little
bit frustrating to me when people have a
negative relationship with failure
failure is a massive part of being able
to be successful you have to get
comfortable with failure yet you have to
actually seek failure failure is where
all of the lessons are you know when you
go to the gym and you work out you’re
actually seeking failure you want to
take your muscles to the point where you
get to failure because that’s where the
the adaptation is that’s where growth is
successful people who fail a lot they
fail a whole lot more than they succeed
but they extract the lessons from the
failure and they use that the the energy
and they use the wisdom to come around
to the next phase of success you got to
take a shot you have to live at the edge
of your capabilities you got to live
where you’re almost certain you’re gonna
fail that’s the reason for a practice
practice is controlled failure you’re
getting to your limit getting to your
limit getting to your limit you can’t
lift that you can’t do that you until
you get to the point that all of a
sudden your body makes the adjustment
and then you can do it failure actually
helps you
to recognize the areas where you need to
evolve so fail early fail often fail
forward that your life on fire and seek
those who fan your flames the Phillie
translation of that is don’t be hanging
with no Jang casts Joker’s that don’t
help you shine the prerequisite for
spending time with any person is that
they nourish and inspire you they feed
your flame look at your last 5 text
messages are those people feeding your
flames or dowsing your fire put your
phone down for just a second and look
around look to the people around you are
those people throwing logs on your fire
or they pissin on it the people that you
spend time with are gonna make or break
your dreams everybody don’t deserve to
be around you you got to defend your
light with your life so who are the
people in your life that are fanning
your flames concept of improving lives
runs through the center of everything I
do and then I realize that the the way
to improve lives is to continually
improve yourself right so with that
every every morning when I when I get
out of the bed you know I I haven’t
fixed everything in the world yet so
there’s always something to do and in
this film I read an interesting quote
the Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha he
said that good people have to get out of
the bed every day and try to empty the
ocean with a ladle right and I thought
that was you know I knew that was
profound and I paused for a second and I
said all right what the hell is a ladle
right
right so there you know I just touched
it on my iPad is ladle oh oh it’s like a
big spoon a big spoon okay so try to
empty the ocean with a soup spoon you
know as the the mentality of how you you
wake up every day to try to do good in
the world so for me I’m I’m really
driven by continually trying to elevate
my elevate my mind and elevate my spirit
and care for my body and to be able to
love as many people as effectively as as
possible with this mystery of life that
I’ve been given I want to do good I want
the world to be better because I was
here I have a great time with my life
and I want to share it
I love living I think that’s infectious
greatness is not this wonderful esoteric
illusive godlike feature that only the
special among us will ever taste you
know it’s something that truly exists in
all of us it’s a very simple this is
what I believe and I’m willing to die
for it I want to represent the idea that
you really can make what you want one of
my favorite books is the The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho and that’s just I just
believe that I believe that I can create
whatever I want to create it’s that
simple
I Know Who I am I don’t know what I
believe I Know Who I am I know who what
that’s all I need to know that’s how
hard you know so from there you do what
you need to do you know and I think what
happens is we make this situation more
complex than it has because we’re
looking for complexities it’s got to be
something complex to understand it can’t
be that easy no we didn’t grow up with
the sense that where we were was where
we were going to be you know we grew up
with the sense that where we were almost
didn’t matter because we will becoming
something that came in Islands just got
finished doing a couple days of work and
you know I was I’m in the room I’m
finally by myself it’s quiet it’s no
people around I’m chilling and I’m like
you know if trying to figure out
something to do so you know I figured
I’d let me go turn the news on and then
it dawned on me I was like but did the
news agitates me it’s disruptive I get
aggravated and I was like nah and then I
felt this crazy urge like I couldn’t
stop myself from going to turn the news
on and I was like oh Sh and I realized
my mind was seeking disturbance by now
it’s too peaceful I knew I need to be
disrupted and and aggravated and then I
realized like we actually have to
cultivate a taste for peace we’re
actually addicted to things that agitate
and aggravate us you know you’re like
damn every time I see this person we
argue I’m just I don’t I don’t want to
argue with this food will stop what
happens is we actually get addicted to
the argument we’re addicted to the
aggravation addicted to the agitation I
just really made a decision to myself
today just sitting here in the Cayman
Islands that I’m gonna be quiet I’m
gonna be still and I’m gonna be alone I
mean we’re right after you listen to my
IG story and right after you you follow
me then then put it down and just just
feel be alone and quiet and still the
first step before anybody else in the
world believes it is you have to believe
it there’s no reason to have a plan B
because it distracts from plan egg
it was 94 or something like that they
were open to Planet Hollywood I found
myself in a room with Arnold
Schwarzenegger Bruce Willis and sly and
I was like oh my god I got these three
guys in the room and I was like okay I
want to be the biggest movie star in the
world and I need you guys to tell me how
to do it and Arnold Schwarzenegger he
said he said if your movie is only big
in America it doesn’t matter you’ll be a
movie star only when you’re a movie star
in every country in the world you have
to travel you have to kill you have to
meet the people Confucius said he who
says he can and he who says he can’t are
both usually right being realistic is
the most commonly traveled road to
mediocrity why would you be realistic
what’s the point of being realistic just
put up a barrier yeah I’m gonna do it
it’s done it’s already done the second I
decide is done it’s already done so now
we just gotta wait for y’all to see
I just launched a YouTube channel and
they I didn’t realize how great social
media was for the short-form content so
I have all of these ideas I have all of
these songs I have all of these skits I
have all of these things that I didn’t
think I’d ever get around to putting out
that I’ll be doing on my social media so
I’ll definitely be putting out records
I’ll definitely be doing skits and I’ll
definitely be creating content that has
been bubbling in me for usually I
believe that self discipline is the
definition of self-love that when you
say that you love yourself that means
that you have behavior towards yourself
that is loving it’s like you say to
yourself a man look I know you want to
eat that pizza and it’ll be really good
you know but I can’t let you eat that
man loved you too much to let you eat
that and I think the word discipline has
kind of gotten a bad name we think about
it in terms of punishment I’m not
talking about discipline in that way I’m
talking about discipline in the sense
that you you forego immediate pleasure
for the exchange of long term
it’s unrealistic to walk at the moment
for the switch and my travel as of
realism
fortunately the density thing so
unrealistic particular have been the
piece of metal and black people over an
ocean did that net that’s unrealistic
but fortunately the Wright brothers and
others they didn’t believe that and it
just seems it you seem like such a
ridiculous idea to me to embrace the
idea that it’s not what happened that’s
not real for that to happen assume you
dude screamed to me the other night a
will I wanna be active man I won’t be
active just like you
you know usually people say stuff to me
like that I’m like yeah man you know you
do is give them an encouraging word but
I was just sitting here thinking and it
dawned on me 99% of people that say
stuff like that are not willing to do
what it takes to make their dreams come
true the Marines have a saying everybody
wants to go to heaven but nobody wants
to die and that’s just real at the
center of bringing any dream into
fruition is self discipline you know
something as simple as food and eating
it’s not about your body as much as it
is about your mind it’s getting command
of your mind to be able to choose
actions that are in your own best
interest every day we are choosing
that’s not in our own best interest
right so if the world is attacking you
and the world wants to fight you in the
world’s trying to hold you down so
you’re gonna kick yourself in the balls
so you will stop yourself from getting
what you dream self-discipline is the
center of all material success you
cannot win the war against the world if
you can’t win the war against your own
our leaders are physical in the universe
that if we dream something we picture
something we could get ourselves to
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visible thrust towards realization
into the universe – the only thing that
I see that is distinctly different about
me is I’m not afraid to die on a
treadmill you might have more talent
than me you might be smarter than me but
if we get on the treadmill together
right there’s two things you’re getting
off first or I’m going to die
there’s a certain delusional quality
that all successful people have to have
you have to believe that something
different than what has happened for the
last 50 to 80 years of history you have
to believe that something different can
happen fail early fail often fail
forward you know it’s always a little
bit frustrating to me when people have a
negative relationship with failure
failure is a massive part of being able
to be successful you have to get
comfortable with failure yet you have to
actually seek failure failure is where
all of the lessons are you know when you
go to the gym and you work out you’re
actually seeking failure you want to
take your muscles to the point where you
get to failure because that’s where the
the adaptation is that’s where growth is
successful people who fail a lot they
fail a whole lot more than they succeed
but they extract the lessons from the
failure and they use that the the energy
and they use the wisdom to come around
to the next phase of success you got to
take a shot you have to live at the edge
of your capabilities you got to live
where you’re almost certain you’re gonna
fail that’s the reason for a practice
practice is controlled failure you’re
getting to your limit getting to your
limit getting to your limit you can’t
lift that you can’t do that you until
you get to the point that all of a
sudden your body makes the adjustment
and then you can do it failure actually
helps you to recognize the areas where
you need to evolve so fail early fail
often fail forward
I was just having a debate with a friend
of mine and we got stucked on the
difference between fault and
responsibility she kept talking about
how something was somebody’s fault
somebody’s fault and I was like it
really don’t matter whose fault it is
that something is broken if it’s your
responsibility to fix it not somebody’s
fault if their father was an abusive
alcoholic but it’s for damn sure their
responsibility to figure out how they’re
gonna do with those traumas and try to
make a life out of it it’s not your
fault if your partner cheated and ruined
your marriage but it is for damn sure
your responsibility to figure out how to
take that pain and how to overcome that
and build a happy life for yourself
fault and responsibility do not go
together it sucks but they don’t when
something is somebody’s fault we want
them to suffer we want them punished we
want them to pay and we want it to be
their responsibility to fix it but
that’s that’s not how it works
especially when it’s your heart your
heart your life your happiness is your
responsibility and your responsibility
alone the longest we’re pointing the
finger and and stuck in whose fault
something is we’re jamming and trapped
into victim mode when you’re in victim
mode you’re stuck in suffering the road
to power is in taking responsibility
your heart your life your happiness is
your responsibility and your
responsibility alone me a personal
confrontation with death made me see the
value of time and the fact that the only
elixir is love the time that you spend
has got to be in preparing yourself and
giving and receiving the most about a
love you can you know my mission is to
improve lives so I want to do things
that put positivity and positive energy
and love into the world you know I’ve
always been really product oriented you
know it’s like I want to win
when I do something I want to win I
wanted to be number one and I want to
smash it you know I have a daughter and
I was over 15 year old daughter and she
really she got me and shifted my focus
from product to people it took a couple
of years but as soon as I got knocked
off of product and started shifting to
people the whole world opened up for me
again and acting opened up in a whole
new way to not go into day one of a
movie trying to figure out what
everybody has to do so we win versus
opening up and every person’s a new it’s
a whole new world generally when I went
into a product when I went into a
meeting with director my focus was can
this guy win can this girl win a
pathology that got broken for me a
couple of years ago and then releasing
that and just wanting to connect with
people and wanting to grow and wanted to
get new ideas and have new experiences
that don’t have to have an outcome it
just opened up a whole new world for me
and I fell in love and then I couldn’t
imagine what else I could do in acting
that could add so much to my life other
than acting difference between
depression and joy right
and I think it’s purpose when you wake
up in the morning and your life means
something to somebody other than you
that you have a purpose if you don’t go
do the things that you’re going to do
people’s lives will suffer to live in
service not to you but to live in
service to humanity to live in service
to your family to live in service to
your church to your city to your country
to the world living in service is that I
feel like that is the purest form of joy
the taking responsibility accepting
responsibility is not an admission of
guilt but you’re not admitting that your
fault
taking responsibility is a recognition
the power that you cease when you stop
blaming people it’s not like you’re
letting somebody who wronged you off the
hook like taking responsibility is an
act of emotional self-defense
taking responsibility is taking your
power back I look at the world through a
lens of comedy my natural reaction is
always no matter when something happens
and I can’t even help it it’s why is
that funny
you know so even at a funeral I can’t
help but think why that’s funny
extremely helpful for me just
psychologically that no matter what’s
going on I can’t keep my mind from
finding jokes a beautiful way to stay
joyous and positive I live in complete
terror everything for me about this
business and a you know about what I’ve
been trying to build and what I’ve been
trying to do with my life keeps me in
terror
I am deeply motivated by fear I’m trying
to to develop a more realistic
perspective of what this business is
when I was 15 years old my first
girlfriend cheated on me oh and I
remember making a decision that nobody
would ever cheat on me again
and the way I was going to do that is by
being the biggest actor on earth ah
right so is there’s there’s been this
weird psychology that I’ve always felt
like if my movies are number one my life
is gonna work out great I’ve always been
the type of person who thought of I
thought of myself as resilient you know
that I could always make my way back
being stuck in the past is it makes it
extremely difficult to find your way out
and future thinking for me has always
been the way to get over difficult times
to be able to look over the darkness to
a potential time of light very rarely do
I look backwards I’m always looking
forward you know to me showbiz is not
separated
from the rules of the universe whether
you’re in show business or you know
you’re selling cars or you’re farming
you know you’re not you’re not separate
from the laws of the universe and all of
the rules are the same everywhere from
my children the most important thing is
that they be encouraged to fully and
thoroughly be themselves no matter what
when you when you have yourself and
you’re thorough and confident in who you
are you can survive anywhere
there’s a certain delusional quality
that all successful people have to have
you have to believe that something
different than what has happened for the
last 52 million years of history you
have to believe that something different
can happen it’s almost a kind of
innocence absolutely in other words if
you knew how difficult it was right you
have never gone down that path
absolutely no if Fowley somebody said to
ollie no one can beat this guy he’s this
much stronger this much bigger he’s got
that much bigger punch than you do and
he believed that he would have said
never you gotta have an innocence that
somehow absolutely no and I think they
dead that’s a huge part of me because
and I say to my friends all the time and
we laugh about it I truly honestly as I
sit here before you right now as
honestly as I can say to you I truly
believe that I could be the president if
I wanted to and as bizarre as that may
sound to people that have traveled the
path before me and to people who
actually know how difficult it is
foolish Will Smith honestly believes
I feel very strongly that we are who we
consider myself an alchemist an
alchemist is basically a mystical
chemist one of the great feats that
alchemists used to do is they would take
lead
just take a chunk of lead and they could
turn lead into gold being able to turn
lead into gold you know my grandmother
used to say you know life getting your
lemon you go ahead and make lemonade to
me that’s that’s alchemy that’s that’s
the same concept behind the the
alchemists
you don’t set out to build a wall you
don’t say I’m gonna bake this build the
biggest baddest greatest wall that’s
ever been built you don’t start there
you say I’m gonna lay this brick as
perfectly as a brick can be laid there
will not be one brick on the face of the
earth that’s gonna be laid better than
this brick that I’m gonna lay in this
next ten minutes and you do that every
single day and so you have a soon you
have a walk it’s difficult to take the
first step when you look how big yeah
the task is the task is never huge to me
it’s always you mean one brick I don’t
want to be an icon
I realized that when you to have the
level of success that I want to have
it’s difficult to spread it out and do
multiple things you know it’s in order
to to be world-class and I’ve made a
decision I want to be world-class and it
just it takes such a desperate obsessive
focus to to excel on a certain honor
on the level that I want to make movies
you know I was a Star Wars when I was
young i sat in the movie theater and
watched Star Wars and I just couldn’t
believe that that movie made me feel
like that just floored and just stunned
by the creativity and just I’m realizing
that in order to move people in that way
in order to touch people in that way you
really got to focus with all of your
fiber and all of your heart and all your
creativity we didn’t grow up with the
sense that where we were was where we
were going to be you know we grew up
with the sense that where we were almost
didn’t matter because we were becoming
we were becoming something greater as a
child my parents always told me you
could be whatever you want to be you
could do whatever you want to do it was
something I heard my parents saying it
but I didn’t totally believe it yet I
went out in the world and I carried
myself and I held my head high and I
stood there and I look people in their
eyes and I talked to people as if I was
deserving of everything that this planet
has to offer Confucius said one time he
who says he can and he who says he can’t
are both usually right so I want to
stand here before you and as I hold this
award I want to give love to my wife and
I want you to keep in your heart just
know that you can no road to success is
through commitment and through the
strength to drive through that
commitment when it gets hard and it is
going to get hard and you’re gonna want
to quit sometimes but it’ll be colored
by who you are and more who you want to
be I definitely found that wanting to be
an actor stems from wanting to be
somebody
separation of talent and skill is one of
the the the greatest misunderstood
concepts for people who are trying to
excel who have dreams that want to do
things talent you have naturally skill
is only developed by hours and hours and
hours of beating on your crap for me it
it has been the to be that guy that does
what people say can’t be done you know
and I think it started with trying to
please my mother and trying to please my
grandmother and they always wanted
higher for me they always wanted more
for me and it got to the point that I
wanted to be something I wanted to be
somebody and it it made me choose
certain roles it made me turn down
certain roles there is more than an
image that I want to project I want to
be the person that is the first person
there and the last person to leave never
really view myself as particularly
talented where I excel is ridiculous
sickening work ethic you know while the
other guys sleeping I’m working what
other guys eaten I’m working
anytime you inject extremes into the
universe you can expect extremes to to
come back I think that you know one of
the best pieces of advice I ever got was
don’t let your successes go to your head
and don’t let your failures go to your
heart do you follow that I try it’s
absolutely a difficult even more so now
with my my wife and my children
expanding into it the the scope of it is
actually becoming more difficult to
manage the things that almost in a
spiritual sense the things that you
attract to yourself and also if you
think about it in terms of altitude the
higher you go the harder it is to
breathe there’s less oxygen and I think
within that phrase what I get from that
with marlon brando but what happens is
if you think about it in terms of
mountain climbing mountain climbing the
higher and the higher you get the less
oxygen there is the harder it is to
breathe as you get to this successful
space and the first thing people want to
do is get down and what you do by
getting down is self-destructive and i’m
just working hard to make sure that i
don’t allow the lack of oxygen to dull
my appreciation for the gifts I’ve been given
I want to be an active man I want to be
active just like you
you know usually people say stuff to me
like that I’m like yeah man you know you
doing this give them an encouraging word
but I was just sitting here thinking and
it dawned on me 99% of people that say
stuff like that are not willing to do
what it takes to make their dreams come
true
the Marines have a saying everybody
wants to go to heaven but nobody wants
to die and that’s just real at the
center of bringing any dream into
fruition is self-discipline you know
something something as simple as food
and eating it’s not about your body as
much as it is about your mind it’s
getting command of your mind to be able
to choose actions that are in your own
best interest every day we are choosing
that’s not in our own best interest
right so if the world is attacking you
and the world wants to fight you in the
world’s trying to hold you down so
you’re gonna kick yourself in the balls
so you will stop yourself from getting
what you dream self-discipline is the
center of all material success you
cannot win the war against the world if
you can’t win the war against your own
mind hugely important to me to maintain
a certain energy it’s a it’s it’s
healing it’s loving its kind and I’ve
learned really young that my energy was
infectious right so when you know I come
into the studio when I long after I
leave the energy that I bring is still
gonna be here and then people are gonna
take it home and are gonna affect their
families with it so you know for me it’s
hugely important to maintain just a
positive loving energy just release your
wife’s grateful yeah young
really happy it’s funny I worked with G
I work with Gene Hackman and we had a
thing every morning because Gene Hackman
wasn’t a morning person and he said this
is what I do in the morning you know so
every morning I would say I would say
day good morning mr. Hakman yeah yeah
yeah I don’t say anything how you doing
will I say hey man I’m just happy to be
here he would say no you’re lucky to be
here every morning but it became my way
of like just you know getting it getting
it up and getting it going it’s just I
love it fail early fail often fail
forward you know it’s always a little
bit frustrating to me when people have a
negative relationship with failure
failure is a massive part of being able
to be successful you have to get
comfortable with failure yet you have to
actually seek failure failure is where
all of the lessons are you know when you
go to the gym and you work out you’re
actually seeking failure you want to
take your muscles to the point where you
get to failure because that’s where the
the adaptation is that’s where growth is
successful people who fail a lot they
fail a whole lot more than they succeed
but they extract the lessons from the
failure and they use that the the energy
and they use the wisdom to come around
to the next phase of success you got to
take a shot you have to live at the edge
of your capabilities you got to live
where you’re almost certain you’re gonna
fail that’s the reason for a practice
practice is controlled failure you’re
getting to your limit getting to your
limit getting to your limit you can’t
lift that you can’t do that you until
you get to the point that all of a
sudden your body makes the adjustment
and then you can do it failure actually
helps you
to recognize the areas where you need to
evolve so fail early fail often fail
forward that your life on fire and seek
those who fan your flames the Phillie
translation of that is don’t be hanging
with no Jang casts Joker’s that don’t
help you shine the prerequisite for
spending time with any person is that
they nourish and inspire you they feed
your flame look at your last 5 text
messages are those people feeding your
flames or dowsing your fire put your
phone down for just a second and look
around look to the people around you are
those people throwing logs on your fire
or they pissin on it the people that you
spend time with are gonna make or break
your dreams everybody don’t deserve to
be around you you got to defend your
light with your life so who are the
people in your life that are fanning
your flames concept of improving lives
runs through the center of everything I
do and then I realize that the the way
to improve lives is to continually
improve yourself right so with that
every every morning when I when I get
out of the bed you know I I haven’t
fixed everything in the world yet so
there’s always something to do and in
this film I read an interesting quote
the Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha he
said that good people have to get out of
the bed every day and try to empty the
ocean with a ladle right and I thought
that was you know I knew that was
profound and I paused for a second and I
said all right what the hell is a ladle
right
right so there you know I just touched
it on my iPad is ladle oh oh it’s like a
big spoon a big spoon okay so try to
empty the ocean with a soup spoon you
know as the the mentality of how you you
wake up every day to try to do good in
the world so for me I’m I’m really
driven by continually trying to elevate
my elevate my mind and elevate my spirit
and care for my body and to be able to
love as many people as effectively as as
possible with this mystery of life that
I’ve been given I want to do good I want
the world to be better because I was
here I have a great time with my life
and I want to share it
I love living I think that’s infectious
greatness is not this wonderful esoteric
illusive godlike feature that only the
special among us will ever taste you
know it’s something that truly exists in
all of us it’s a very simple this is
what I believe and I’m willing to die
for it I want to represent the idea that
you really can make what you want one of
my favorite books is the The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho and that’s just I just
believe that I believe that I can create
whatever I want to create it’s that
simple
I Know Who I am I don’t know what I
believe I Know Who I am I know who what
that’s all I need to know that’s how
hard you know so from there you do what
you need to do you know and I think what
happens is we make this situation more
complex than it has because we’re
looking for complexities it’s got to be
something complex to understand it can’t
be that easy no we didn’t grow up with
the sense that where we were was where
we were going to be you know we grew up
with the sense that where we were almost
didn’t matter because we will becoming
something that came in Islands just got
finished doing a couple days of work and
you know I was I’m in the room I’m
finally by myself it’s quiet it’s no
people around I’m chilling and I’m like
you know if trying to figure out
something to do so you know I figured
I’d let me go turn the news on and then
it dawned on me I was like but did the
news agitates me it’s disruptive I get
aggravated and I was like nah and then I
felt this crazy urge like I couldn’t
stop myself from going to turn the news
on and I was like oh Sh and I realized
my mind was seeking disturbance by now
it’s too peaceful I knew I need to be
disrupted and and aggravated and then I
realized like we actually have to
cultivate a taste for peace we’re
actually addicted to things that agitate
and aggravate us you know you’re like
damn every time I see this person we
argue I’m just I don’t I don’t want to
argue with this food will stop what
happens is we actually get addicted to
the argument we’re addicted to the
aggravation addicted to the agitation I
just really made a decision to myself
today just sitting here in the Cayman
Islands that I’m gonna be quiet I’m
gonna be still and I’m gonna be alone I
mean we’re right after you listen to my
IG story and right after you you follow
me then then put it down and just just
feel be alone and quiet and still the
first step before anybody else in the
world believes it is you have to believe
it there’s no reason to have a plan B
because it distracts from plan egg
it was 94 or something like that they
were open to Planet Hollywood I found
myself in a room with Arnold
Schwarzenegger Bruce Willis and sly and
I was like oh my god I got these three
guys in the room and I was like okay I
want to be the biggest movie star in the
world and I need you guys to tell me how
to do it and Arnold Schwarzenegger he
said he said if your movie is only big
in America it doesn’t matter you’ll be a
movie star only when you’re a movie star
in every country in the world you have
to travel you have to kill you have to
meet the people Confucius said he who
says he can and he who says he can’t are
both usually right being realistic is
the most commonly traveled road to
mediocrity why would you be realistic
what’s the point of being realistic just
put up a barrier yeah I’m gonna do it
it’s done it’s already done the second I
decide is done it’s already done so now
we just gotta wait for y’all to see
I just launched a YouTube channel and
they I didn’t realize how great social
media was for the short-form content so
I have all of these ideas I have all of
these songs I have all of these skits I
have all of these things that I didn’t
think I’d ever get around to putting out
that I’ll be doing on my social media so
I’ll definitely be putting out records
I’ll definitely be doing skits and I’ll
definitely be creating content that has
been bubbling in me for usually I
believe that self discipline is the
definition of self-love that when you
say that you love yourself that means
that you have behavior towards yourself
that is loving it’s like you say to
yourself a man look I know you want to
eat that pizza and it’ll be really good
you know but I can’t let you eat that
man loved you too much to let you eat
that and I think the word discipline has
kind of gotten a bad name we think about
it in terms of punishment I’m not
talking about discipline in that way I’m
talking about discipline in the sense
that you you forego immediate pleasure
for the exchange of long term
it’s unrealistic to walk at the moment
for the switch and my travel as of
realism
fortunately the density thing so
unrealistic particular have been the
piece of metal and black people over an
ocean did that net that’s unrealistic
but fortunately the Wright brothers and
others they didn’t believe that and it
just seems it you seem like such a
ridiculous idea to me to embrace the
idea that it’s not what happened that’s
not real for that to happen assume you
dude screamed to me the other night a
will I wanna be active man I won’t be
active just like you
you know usually people say stuff to me
like that I’m like yeah man you know you
do is give them an encouraging word but
I was just sitting here thinking and it
dawned on me 99% of people that say
stuff like that are not willing to do
what it takes to make their dreams come
true the Marines have a saying everybody
wants to go to heaven but nobody wants
to die and that’s just real at the
center of bringing any dream into
fruition is self discipline you know
something as simple as food and eating
it’s not about your body as much as it
is about your mind it’s getting command
of your mind to be able to choose
actions that are in your own best
interest every day we are choosing
that’s not in our own best interest
right so if the world is attacking you
and the world wants to fight you in the
world’s trying to hold you down so
you’re gonna kick yourself in the balls
so you will stop yourself from getting
what you dream self-discipline is the
center of all material success you
cannot win the war against the world if
you can’t win the war against your own
our leaders are physical in the universe
that if we dream something we picture
something we could get ourselves to
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visible thrust towards realization
into the universe – the only thing that
I see that is distinctly different about
me is I’m not afraid to die on a
treadmill you might have more talent
than me you might be smarter than me but
if we get on the treadmill together
right there’s two things you’re getting
off first or I’m going to die
there’s a certain delusional quality
that all successful people have to have
you have to believe that something
different than what has happened for the
last 50 to 80 years of history you have
to believe that something different can
happen fail early fail often fail
forward you know it’s always a little
bit frustrating to me when people have a
negative relationship with failure
failure is a massive part of being able
to be successful you have to get
comfortable with failure yet you have to
actually seek failure failure is where
all of the lessons are you know when you
go to the gym and you work out you’re
actually seeking failure you want to
take your muscles to the point where you
get to failure because that’s where the
the adaptation is that’s where growth is
successful people who fail a lot they
fail a whole lot more than they succeed
but they extract the lessons from the
failure and they use that the the energy
and they use the wisdom to come around
to the next phase of success you got to
take a shot you have to live at the edge
of your capabilities you got to live
where you’re almost certain you’re gonna
fail that’s the reason for a practice
practice is controlled failure you’re
getting to your limit getting to your
limit getting to your limit you can’t
lift that you can’t do that you until
you get to the point that all of a
sudden your body makes the adjustment
and then you can do it failure actually
helps you to recognize the areas where
you need to evolve so fail early fail
often fail forward
I was just having a debate with a friend
of mine and we got stucked on the
difference between fault and
responsibility she kept talking about
how something was somebody’s fault
somebody’s fault and I was like it
really don’t matter whose fault it is
that something is broken if it’s your
responsibility to fix it not somebody’s
fault if their father was an abusive
alcoholic but it’s for damn sure their
responsibility to figure out how they’re
gonna do with those traumas and try to
make a life out of it it’s not your
fault if your partner cheated and ruined
your marriage but it is for damn sure
your responsibility to figure out how to
take that pain and how to overcome that
and build a happy life for yourself
fault and responsibility do not go
together it sucks but they don’t when
something is somebody’s fault we want
them to suffer we want them punished we
want them to pay and we want it to be
their responsibility to fix it but
that’s that’s not how it works
especially when it’s your heart your
heart your life your happiness is your
responsibility and your responsibility
alone the longest we’re pointing the
finger and and stuck in whose fault
something is we’re jamming and trapped
into victim mode when you’re in victim
mode you’re stuck in suffering the road
to power is in taking responsibility
your heart your life your happiness is
your responsibility and your
responsibility alone me a personal
confrontation with death made me see the
value of time and the fact that the only
elixir is love the time that you spend
has got to be in preparing yourself and
giving and receiving the most about a
love you can you know my mission is to
improve lives so I want to do things
that put positivity and positive energy
and love into the world you know I’ve
always been really product oriented you
know it’s like I want to win
when I do something I want to win I
wanted to be number one and I want to
smash it you know I have a daughter and
I was over 15 year old daughter and she
really she got me and shifted my focus
from product to people it took a couple
of years but as soon as I got knocked
off of product and started shifting to
people the whole world opened up for me
again and acting opened up in a whole
new way to not go into day one of a
movie trying to figure out what
everybody has to do so we win versus
opening up and every person’s a new it’s
a whole new world generally when I went
into a product when I went into a
meeting with director my focus was can
this guy win can this girl win a
pathology that got broken for me a
couple of years ago and then releasing
that and just wanting to connect with
people and wanting to grow and wanted to
get new ideas and have new experiences
that don’t have to have an outcome it
just opened up a whole new world for me
and I fell in love and then I couldn’t
imagine what else I could do in acting
that could add so much to my life other
than acting difference between
depression and joy right
and I think it’s purpose when you wake
up in the morning and your life means
something to somebody other than you
that you have a purpose if you don’t go
do the things that you’re going to do
people’s lives will suffer to live in
service not to you but to live in
service to humanity to live in service
to your family to live in service to
your church to your city to your country
to the world living in service is that I
feel like that is the purest form of joy
the taking responsibility accepting
responsibility is not an admission of
guilt but you’re not admitting that your
fault
taking responsibility is a recognition
the power that you cease when you stop
blaming people it’s not like you’re
letting somebody who wronged you off the
hook like taking responsibility is an
act of emotional self-defense
taking responsibility is taking your
power back I look at the world through a
lens of comedy my natural reaction is
always no matter when something happens
and I can’t even help it it’s why is
that funny
you know so even at a funeral I can’t
help but think why that’s funny
extremely helpful for me just
psychologically that no matter what’s
going on I can’t keep my mind from
finding jokes a beautiful way to stay
joyous and positive I live in complete
terror everything for me about this
business and a you know about what I’ve
been trying to build and what I’ve been
trying to do with my life keeps me in
terror
I am deeply motivated by fear I’m trying
to to develop a more realistic
perspective of what this business is
when I was 15 years old my first
girlfriend cheated on me oh and I
remember making a decision that nobody
would ever cheat on me again
and the way I was going to do that is by
being the biggest actor on earth ah
right so is there’s there’s been this
weird psychology that I’ve always felt
like if my movies are number one my life
is gonna work out great I’ve always been
the type of person who thought of I
thought of myself as resilient you know
that I could always make my way back
being stuck in the past is it makes it
extremely difficult to find your way out
and future thinking for me has always
been the way to get over difficult times
to be able to look over the darkness to
a potential time of light very rarely do
I look backwards I’m always looking
forward you know to me showbiz is not
separated
from the rules of the universe whether
you’re in show business or you know
you’re selling cars or you’re farming
you know you’re not you’re not separate
from the laws of the universe and all of
the rules are the same everywhere from
my children the most important thing is
that they be encouraged to fully and
thoroughly be themselves no matter what
when you when you have yourself and
you’re thorough and confident in who you
are you can survive anywhere
there’s a certain delusional quality
that all successful people have to have
you have to believe that something
different than what has happened for the
last 52 million years of history you
have to believe that something different
can happen it’s almost a kind of
innocence absolutely in other words if
you knew how difficult it was right you
have never gone down that path
absolutely no if Fowley somebody said to
ollie no one can beat this guy he’s this
much stronger this much bigger he’s got
that much bigger punch than you do and
he believed that he would have said
never you gotta have an innocence that
somehow absolutely no and I think they
dead that’s a huge part of me because
and I say to my friends all the time and
we laugh about it I truly honestly as I
sit here before you right now as
honestly as I can say to you I truly
believe that I could be the president if
I wanted to and as bizarre as that may
sound to people that have traveled the
path before me and to people who
actually know how difficult it is
foolish Will Smith honestly believes
I feel very strongly that we are who we
consider myself an alchemist an
alchemist is basically a mystical
chemist one of the great feats that
alchemists used to do is they would take
lead
just take a chunk of lead and they could
turn lead into gold being able to turn
lead into gold you know my grandmother
used to say you know life getting your
lemon you go ahead and make lemonade to
me that’s that’s alchemy that’s that’s
the same concept behind the the
alchemists
you don’t set out to build a wall you
don’t say I’m gonna bake this build the
biggest baddest greatest wall that’s
ever been built you don’t start there
you say I’m gonna lay this brick as
perfectly as a brick can be laid there
will not be one brick on the face of the
earth that’s gonna be laid better than
this brick that I’m gonna lay in this
next ten minutes and you do that every
single day and so you have a soon you
have a walk it’s difficult to take the
first step when you look how big yeah
the task is the task is never huge to me
it’s always you mean one brick I don’t
want to be an icon
I realized that when you to have the
level of success that I want to have
it’s difficult to spread it out and do
multiple things you know it’s in order
to to be world-class and I’ve made a
decision I want to be world-class and it
just it takes such a desperate obsessive
focus to to excel on a certain honor
on the level that I want to make movies
you know I was a Star Wars when I was
young i sat in the movie theater and
watched Star Wars and I just couldn’t
believe that that movie made me feel
like that just floored and just stunned
by the creativity and just I’m realizing
that in order to move people in that way
in order to touch people in that way you
really got to focus with all of your
fiber and all of your heart and all your
creativity we didn’t grow up with the
sense that where we were was where we
were going to be you know we grew up
with the sense that where we were almost
didn’t matter because we were becoming
we were becoming something greater as a
child my parents always told me you
could be whatever you want to be you
could do whatever you want to do it was
something I heard my parents saying it
but I didn’t totally believe it yet I
went out in the world and I carried
myself and I held my head high and I
stood there and I look people in their
eyes and I talked to people as if I was
deserving of everything that this planet
has to offer Confucius said one time he
who says he can and he who says he can’t
are both usually right so I want to
stand here before you and as I hold this
award I want to give love to my wife and
I want you to keep in your heart just
know that you can no road to success is
through commitment and through the
strength to drive through that
commitment when it gets hard and it is
going to get hard and you’re gonna want
to quit sometimes but it’ll be colored
by who you are and more who you want to
be I definitely found that wanting to be
an actor stems from wanting to be
somebody
separation of talent and skill is one of
the the the greatest misunderstood
concepts for people who are trying to
excel who have dreams that want to do
things talent you have naturally skill
is only developed by hours and hours and
hours of beating on your crap for me it
it has been the to be that guy that does
what people say can’t be done you know
and I think it started with trying to
please my mother and trying to please my
grandmother and they always wanted
higher for me they always wanted more
for me and it got to the point that I
wanted to be something I wanted to be
somebody and it it made me choose
certain roles it made me turn down
certain roles there is more than an
image that I want to project I want to
be the person that is the first person
there and the last person to leave never
really view myself as particularly
talented where I excel is ridiculous
sickening work ethic you know while the
other guys sleeping I’m working what
other guys eaten I’m working
anytime you inject extremes into the
universe you can expect extremes to to
come back I think that you know one of
the best pieces of advice I ever got was
don’t let your successes go to your head
and don’t let your failures go to your
heart do you follow that I try it’s
absolutely a difficult even more so now
with my my wife and my children
expanding into it the the scope of it is
actually becoming more difficult to
manage the things that almost in a
spiritual sense the things that you
attract to yourself and also if you
think about it in terms of altitude the
higher you go the harder it is to
breathe there’s less oxygen and I think
within that phrase what I get from that
with marlon brando but what happens is
if you think about it in terms of
mountain climbing mountain climbing the
higher and the higher you get the less
oxygen there is the harder it is to
breathe as you get to this successful
space and the first thing people want to
do is get down and what you do by
getting down is self-destructive and i’m
just working hard to make sure that i
don’t allow the lack of oxygen to dull
my appreciation for the gifts I’ve been given
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