I can’t fight for you I put on my shoes
I put on my clothes like everyone in
here I have good days I have bad days
and go on and gone and this last 2 or 3
or 4 repetitions that’s what makes
actually the muscle think row and that
divides them one from a champion and one
from not being a champion if you can’t
go through this pain period you make it
to be a champion
if you can’t go through forget it and
that’s what most people like isn’t this
having the guts to guts to go in and
just say I go through and I don’t care
what happens you know it aches and if I
fall down I have no fear of fainting in
a gym because I know it’s it could
happen I threw up many times while I was
working out but it doesn’t matter
because it’s all worth it
because they want to become legends it
was written in the history books for all
of us the beer today
but if you want to begin to move into
your own personal greatness if you want
to begin to really enjoy a happy
successful healthy life you’ve got to be
willing to go against the tide you’ve
got to be willing to harness your will
and say in spite of this I’m in control
here
you don’t truly appreciate relaxation
unless you’ve worked hard and that is
the yin and the yang of life I think
what you should try to do is try to earn
comfort and if you if you can get a day
off where you you you’ve worked hard and
you accomplish goals that day off will
be so sweet I think you have to feel
quite compelled to do it and have a
fairly high pain threshold the actual
path is going to be some sort of
zigzagging thing in that direction you
try not to deviate too far from the path
that you want to be on but you’re gonna
have to do that some degree that
difficulty is an opportunity to get
stronger to develop character to gain
new confidence anybody can give up
anybody can let it overwhelm you but you
know what that’s doing wasting your pain
that pain is not there to stop you it’s
there to prepare you to increase you to
develop you
what we do in our times of pain pain
will change us heartache loss
disappointment defeated giving up on
your dreams or you can come out with a
new passion a new fire excited about the
new opportunities in front of you all of
us experience pain my challenge don’t
just go through it grow through it get
through it but you will be different now
how the pain changes you is up to you so
it’s understanding what your skill set
is finding the right place to use those
skills and then going for that ability
to get myself up in the morning no
matter how tight I was to push myself
through those paying pennies you know
hard work pays you know I have the same
work like someone’s trying to take it
all away from you you can’t actually
save time you can just find different
ways to spend it so when you say you
don’t have time to do something you’re
really saying that you’re using your
time for other things one cool thing
about time is that it continues on at
the same pace despite how busy we go
don’t know who you are I don’t know what
you’re going through I’m not here to
pretend that you know I understand what
you’re going through or how you feel in
your life I think the biggest disability
that we have as human beings is unbelief
everything starts with a vision and the
man without vision dies
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hate the idea of potential being wasted
in this world you know how it is if you
didn’t go what you’ve gone through you
wouldn’t be who you are today
is it as I kept trying new things new
doors kept opening because you don’t
know what your future is you just don’t
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you’ll never know what’s gonna happen
you never know what the future holds for
you go for it try it because another
thing I am no different than anyone else
out there I am NOT here to say I have a
superpower and it was all this
it was just tryin go home let’s see what
happened
patience let’s say don’t complain when
you’re waiting in a line you ain’t going
to growing patience until you put in a
place to wait
there there is some times where you’re
going to wish that you could rewind and
and do things all over again there are
times where you just wish you could
forget memories and you try to drown
those memories in alcohol or different
pleasures and maybe get distracted by
the goals and ambitions of your life and
try to put the past behind and move
forward
a closed mindedness that amounts to an
imprisonment so total that the prisoner
doesn’t even know he’s locked up
the most powerful tool that you have
right now in your life in your body is
your mind
give me a new perspective give me a new
way of looking at my situation give me a
new way of looking at my circumstances
get my mind ready for this year
you can’t please everybody but they’re
people who have the fear of rocking the
boat oh yes it’s going to be some
struggles it’s gonna be some challenges
it’s gonna be some tests but even the
struggles are an opportunity for me to
show off the victory if my mind can
handle the change the life is too sharp
for that too short and unpredictable
posing through
not trying to disturb anything not
trying to shake anything up not trying
to make any waves unless younger than
I’m ever going to be I can’t get any
younger
I can’t roll the clock back
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you are wasting time you have to let the
past go and step over to the future
when you set goals when you have an
intention on something that you want to
change about your life your brain helps
you what it does is it opens up a
checklist and then your brain goes to
work trying to remind you it was cold it
was winter in Boston and for the first
time in three months I had beaten my
habit of hitting the snooze button
[Music]
and it’s really important to develop the
skill before you are boxed and buried
decide that you’re going to box and bury
your fears decide that you’re going to
begin to live life on a new level
seeking out new horizons that you’re
gonna find more love and more joy and
more ways to give I wanted to change my
life and I think most people that are
miserable or that are that are really
like dying to be great and dying to have
more we want to change we want to live a
better life we want to create more for
our families we want to be happier
the designer is there again it’s about
how do you go for knowledge to action
so the first thing in the story that’s
important is realizing that the answer
was in me and my mind was telling me pay
attention
[Music]
so when you begin to say what is it that
I want to leave what contribution that I
want to begin to make what difference do
I want to make in life what is it that I
want to do with the rest of the life
that I have left what what chances I
need to take what risks do I need to
begin to embrace what fears do I need to
step on what areas of my life am i dead
right now what dream
you can even live your dreams or live
your fears you have got to get to a
point where you say I’m sick and tired
of living like this has got to be more
let’s see that’s when people go out and
strike out on their dreams how you going
to make it I don’t know but I will I’m
gonna keep on kicking I’m gonna cock
them off is people want to know how to
stop the laziness and they won’t know
how to stop the procrastination and you
know they have some idea in their head
you know some kind of a vision what they
want to do
but they don’t know where to start in
order to start it you know they don’t
know where to start and say they say hey
where do I start
and and when’s the best time to start
and I have a very simple answer for that
year and now that’s it you want to
improve you want to get better you want
to get on a workout program or a clean
diet you want to start a business you
want to write a book or make a movie or
build a house or a computer or put
together some mobile application where
do you start
you start regular and when do you start
you start right now
I had beaten my habit of hitting the
snooze button
I couldn’t believe it and I thought wait
a minute counting backward citizen
dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my
entire life
well the next morning I used to get in
at work the next morning I used it again
and a fourth time the next morning I
used it again and it worked and then I
started to notice something really
interesting there were moments all day
long all day long just like that
five-second moment in bed where I knew
knowledge what I should do and if I
didn’t move within five seconds my brain
would step in and talk me out of it
every human being has a five-second
window might even be shorter for yoga
you have about a five-second window in
which you can move from idea to action
before your brain kicks into full gear
and sabotages any change in behavior
[Music]
because remember your brain is wired to
stop you from doing things that are
uncomfortable or uncertain or scary it’s
your job to learn how to move from those
ideas that could change everything into
acting on
[Music]
four o’clock in the morning I wake up
4:30 4:45 I’m doing some sort of cardio
open these garage doors it’s still dark
outside I do this and then I’ll have
breakfast and then I will go do all my
strength and conditioning training at a
gym for about an hour and then I’ll go
to set we all have it’s probably about
five hours of sleep it’s 4:45 a.m. it’s
still dark outside look at that lights
just went out and I’m getting ready to
kill this a.m. cardio you can’t even see
me but it’s gonna be so good it’s bad
you do anything you never want to do
anything half-ass especially when it
comes to your training get in the
intense execute on it and get out
for a lot of guys out there and I was
certainly one of those guys in my 20s I
thought I had all the answers didn’t
know shit by the way in my 30s I’m still
trying to find myself and a lot of guys
are out there hopefully when you hit the
40’s you’re hitting a nice stride I’m
gonna do it they need to do this job
right I need to stay focused on it I
need to give the best effort that
possibly can we live down here in South
Florida it’s hurricane season
but it’s time to go to the gym we got to
get to the gym and there ain’t no
stopping us like I’m gonna be the
baddest motherfucker walking all right
empty gym the way we’d like it it’s
Sunday just finished my warmup this pain
out of respondents I workout twice
before everyone wakes up all right
workout number two I’m out working all
my competition
all right Saturday afternoon empty gym
the way we like it
it’s leg day which means it’s gonna be
sweaty painful and fun as far as role
models I think you know obviously the
obvious role models I think Edison was
certainly a role model for I probably
one the biggest role models yeah I read
books about him absolutely and ifs
interesting contrast like Edison versus
Tesla was interesting you know the car
companies called Tesla and the reasons
called Tesla’s because we use an AC
induction motor which is an architecture
that Tesla developed and the guy
probably deserves a little more play
than he gets in current society but on
balance I’m a bigger fan of Edison and
Tesla because Edison brought his stuff
to market and made those inventions
accessible to the world whereas Tesla
did didn’t really do that so that’s so
you certainly be a big one and you know
I think you know the great technologists
you know Steve Jobs at Apple Bull Gates
actually thought Disney was a pretty
good innovator if you don’t know now you
know it’s true
your friends family and loved ones will
be the first ones to try and talk you
out of greatness
when you’re ready to do something and
try something new
that’s out of your comfort zone that’s
out of your norm it’s always the one
you’re dating the one you’re married to
the one that’s in your family your
friends in your immediate circle that
will always try and talk you out of
doing something special and significant
without having fear and rejection
without having fear of the word know do
you know how many people have had
visions ideas and huge career moves that
they were about to make and they allowed
the word no to stop them from changing
the landscape of their life and their
family lives so many people are afraid
of rejection and the word no it is the
saddest shit up of a witnessed in my
life
boldly walking to the room which a head
held up high
and if they don’t get it laugh about it
don’t disown your ideas because they’re
disowning your ideas don’t lose
confidence in your ideas because they
don’t have confidence in your ideas keep
the faith
don’t be afraid to walk into the
unfamiliar don’t be afraid to do what’s
deep inside of you to do I can do 18 22
hours a day easily just keep banging on
to thrive in whatever you do please
understand your terrain now all your
target is don’t guess it fears Crudup is
the next one because that’s that’s
that’s your petrol that’s your you fuel
to get you moving
if you don’t know where you’re going
what your targets are you never any
other I’m not afraid to fail I’m not
afraid to fall over make a mistake that
often time cripples people on the onset
of getting too into anything I’m not
afraid of that feeling it actually
propels me works quite the opposite
work hard sleepless just imagine myself
collecting awards just imagine myself
you know I mean getting big parts
imagine myself working with the great
actors my imagination is the one life
yeah but I see myself driving that car
long day and I get that I mean that’s as
part of my inner magic is that actually
if I can see myself doing it keep your
head down like when I swim 25 laps
guaranteed if I look up and start
counting those laps and peak it out by
15 if I put my head down and keep
walking away and work a technique work
it internal rhythm work it mmm I hit
that length I don’t even know what loan
come on guarantee you I’ll look up it’ll
be twenty and two more three more to go
and that’s a very simple device but I
hope people find themselves incremental
each ekang how far they’ve gone
and that you know when you compare to
anybody else or whatever it’s just a
it’s a recipe for disaster just keep
banging on achievement achievement is
inspirational people are doing it
someone that on Monday didn’t know how
to do this by Friday can do it that is
an inspiration to me I’ve always worked
hard you know I mean like I said I’m not
I’m not afraid of failing
IVA you know I’m saying like I I’ve
thought that so many times that this is
it I’m never gonna work again and it
just kept going
I’ve just never stopped working you know
and I mean even when you know I had four
years of not actually booking jobs I was
out on the streets trying to edge work
hard sleepless people talk about aiming
for the skies sometimes even aiming for
the skies is in Thibodaux just dull give
yourself pound ease lose the boundaries
lose the conformity and just go for it
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I study streets thinking about you know
one day I’m going to be on in New York
and New York was that you know sort of
big pinnacle mountain and Here I am and
if you can’t enjoy the journey which
means the step you are taking at this
moment it’s really the most important
thing yes of course you know you’re
going that way but this step is still to
be enjoyed because that’s ultimately
your whole life consists of the step you
are taking at this moment that is never
anything else be that fulfillment notice
when I started noticing that fulfillment
of it I just finished well that’s enough
that’s it I don’t know if they’re saying
I don’t know if it’s even coming out
enjoyed 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 gonna 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 and so you
don’t celebrate when you get to the
finish line celebrate all along the way
so they all along
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I’m not gonna let this get me down I’m
not gonna let this destroy me
I’m coming back and I’ll be stronger and
better because of it
you have got to make a declaration but
I’ve been working out consistently since
I was 14 years old and I’m 44 I’m 33
years of hardcore two-hour workout 30
years yeah
so it doesn’t happen overnight you just
have to enjoy the process learn to enjoy
it because I’m sure there was a point
where you started to enjoy using a
hundred thirty-eight huh yep yeah that’s
only way you’re gonna keep going for me
inspiration is a is a journey it is not
a destination okay
it is a self you know motivated
internally motivated process it’s not
this glamorous thing it is mundane
[Music]
find inspiration on blank pages I found
inspiration you know in my habits okay a
moments of quiet that intimacy on a
heavy bag alone sweating
you know if it’s me and a kettlebell or
me taking a walk and just breathing in
okay literally breathing in
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something that just because you arrived
at the gates of success that somehow is
a new experience it’s different than
when you were not not successful it is
exactly the same people say you you have
to have a lot of passion for what you’re
doing and it’s totally true and the
reason is is because it’s so hard that
if you don’t any rational person would
give up it’s really hard and you have to
do it over a sustained period of time so
if you don’t love it if you’re not
having fun doing it you don’t really
love it you’re gonna give up and that’s
what happens to most people actually if
you really look at at the ones that
ended up you know being successful
unquote in the eyes of society and the
ones that didn’t oftentimes it’s the
ones that were successful loved what
they did so they could persevere well
you know when it got really tough and
and the ones that didn’t love it quit
because they’re saying right who would
want to put up with this stuff if you
don’t love it so it’s a lot of hard work
and and it’s a lot of worrying
constantly and if you don’t love it
you’re gonna fail so you got to love it
you got to have passion and I think
that’s the high-order bit the second
thing is you’ve got to be you’ve got to
be a really good talent scout because no
matter how smart you are you need a team
of great people and you’ve got to figure
out how to add a size people up fairly
quickly make decisions without knowing
people too well and hire them and you
know see how you do and refine your
intuition and be able to to help you
know build an organization that can
eventually just you know build itself
because you need great people around you
you want to get better you want a
self-improve stop looking for a shortcut
and go find your alarm clock and find
your discipline and fling your guts and
your passion and your drive and find it
you will and then and then you will find
your freedom
if you’re afraid of heights work on some
rock climbing climbing if you’re afraid
of the water the time to swim it’s time
to surf is trying to get out there if
you’re afraid of pull-ups if if you’re
prey to pulps do poles if you’re in
squats do squats if you’re afraid of
public speaking go speak in public if
you’re afraid to start a business start
a business and eventually you will
overcome that fear but the hard part is
you gotta take that first step you’ve
got to take that first step
got to take that first step against the
fear against the fear of the thing
if you die today
what dreams what ideas what books what
leadership what voice what story would I
of the dreams the ideas the abilities
the talents given to you by life but you
for whatever reason
you never pursued those dreams you never
use those talents you never use those
gifts you never use those abilities and
there they are standing around your bed
looking at you with large angry eyes
saying we came to you only you could
have given us life and now we must die
with you forever and the question is if
you died today what dreams what ideas
what books what leadership what voice
what story will die with you you should
wake up worried terrified every morning
but don’t be worried about our
competitors because they’re never gonna
send us any money anyway let’s be
worried about our customers and stay
heads down focused one of my jobs as the
leader of Amazon is to encourage people
to be bold
and people love to focus on things that
aren’t yet working and that’s good it’s
human nature that kind of divine
discontent can be very helpful but you
really you know it’s incredibly hard to
get people to take bold bets and you
need to encourage that and if you’re
going to take bold bets they’re gonna be
experiments and if they’re experiments
you don’t know ahead of time though
they’re going to work experiments are by
their very nature prone to failure but
big success is a few big successes
compensate for dozens and dozens of
things that didn’t work
I’ve made billions of dollars of
failures at amazon.com literally
billions of dollars of failures because
we know from our past experiences that
big things start small
the biggest oak starts from an acorn and
you’ve gotta recognize you want to do
anything new you’ve got to be willing to
let that acorn grow into a little
sapling and then finally into a small
tree it may be one day it’ll be a big
business on its own the Amazon started
as a very small company it was me and a
few other people I was driving all the
packages to the post office myself in my
1987 Chevy Blazer you can’t skip steps
you have to put one foot in front of the
other things take time you there are no
shortcuts and but but you want to do
those steps with you know passion and
ferocity
it’s easy to have ideas it’s very hard
to turn an idea into a successful
product there a lot of steps in between
it takes persistence relentlessness
[Music]
is the stress primarily comes from not
taking action over something that you
can have some control
do something you’re very passionate
about I wanted to project myself forward
to age 80 and say okay now I’m looking
back on my life I want to have minimized
the number of regrets I have and you
know what I knew that when I was 80 I
was not going to regret and having tried
this I was not gonna regret having
wanted you know trying to participate in
this thing called the Internet that I
thought was gonna be a really big deal I
knew that if I failed
I wouldn’t regret that
I put on my clothes like everyone in
here I have good days I have bad days
and go on and gone and this last 2 or 3
or 4 repetitions that’s what makes
actually the muscle think row and that
divides them one from a champion and one
from not being a champion if you can’t
go through this pain period you make it
to be a champion
if you can’t go through forget it and
that’s what most people like isn’t this
having the guts to guts to go in and
just say I go through and I don’t care
what happens you know it aches and if I
fall down I have no fear of fainting in
a gym because I know it’s it could
happen I threw up many times while I was
working out but it doesn’t matter
because it’s all worth it
because they want to become legends it
was written in the history books for all
of us the beer today
but if you want to begin to move into
your own personal greatness if you want
to begin to really enjoy a happy
successful healthy life you’ve got to be
willing to go against the tide you’ve
got to be willing to harness your will
and say in spite of this I’m in control
here
you don’t truly appreciate relaxation
unless you’ve worked hard and that is
the yin and the yang of life I think
what you should try to do is try to earn
comfort and if you if you can get a day
off where you you you’ve worked hard and
you accomplish goals that day off will
be so sweet I think you have to feel
quite compelled to do it and have a
fairly high pain threshold the actual
path is going to be some sort of
zigzagging thing in that direction you
try not to deviate too far from the path
that you want to be on but you’re gonna
have to do that some degree that
difficulty is an opportunity to get
stronger to develop character to gain
new confidence anybody can give up
anybody can let it overwhelm you but you
know what that’s doing wasting your pain
that pain is not there to stop you it’s
there to prepare you to increase you to
develop you
what we do in our times of pain pain
will change us heartache loss
disappointment defeated giving up on
your dreams or you can come out with a
new passion a new fire excited about the
new opportunities in front of you all of
us experience pain my challenge don’t
just go through it grow through it get
through it but you will be different now
how the pain changes you is up to you so
it’s understanding what your skill set
is finding the right place to use those
skills and then going for that ability
to get myself up in the morning no
matter how tight I was to push myself
through those paying pennies you know
hard work pays you know I have the same
work like someone’s trying to take it
all away from you you can’t actually
save time you can just find different
ways to spend it so when you say you
don’t have time to do something you’re
really saying that you’re using your
time for other things one cool thing
about time is that it continues on at
the same pace despite how busy we go
don’t know who you are I don’t know what
you’re going through I’m not here to
pretend that you know I understand what
you’re going through or how you feel in
your life I think the biggest disability
that we have as human beings is unbelief
everything starts with a vision and the
man without vision dies
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hate the idea of potential being wasted
in this world you know how it is if you
didn’t go what you’ve gone through you
wouldn’t be who you are today
is it as I kept trying new things new
doors kept opening because you don’t
know what your future is you just don’t
[Music]
you’ll never know what’s gonna happen
you never know what the future holds for
you go for it try it because another
thing I am no different than anyone else
out there I am NOT here to say I have a
superpower and it was all this
it was just tryin go home let’s see what
happened
patience let’s say don’t complain when
you’re waiting in a line you ain’t going
to growing patience until you put in a
place to wait
there there is some times where you’re
going to wish that you could rewind and
and do things all over again there are
times where you just wish you could
forget memories and you try to drown
those memories in alcohol or different
pleasures and maybe get distracted by
the goals and ambitions of your life and
try to put the past behind and move
forward
a closed mindedness that amounts to an
imprisonment so total that the prisoner
doesn’t even know he’s locked up
the most powerful tool that you have
right now in your life in your body is
your mind
give me a new perspective give me a new
way of looking at my situation give me a
new way of looking at my circumstances
get my mind ready for this year
you can’t please everybody but they’re
people who have the fear of rocking the
boat oh yes it’s going to be some
struggles it’s gonna be some challenges
it’s gonna be some tests but even the
struggles are an opportunity for me to
show off the victory if my mind can
handle the change the life is too sharp
for that too short and unpredictable
posing through
not trying to disturb anything not
trying to shake anything up not trying
to make any waves unless younger than
I’m ever going to be I can’t get any
younger
I can’t roll the clock back
[Music]
you are wasting time you have to let the
past go and step over to the future
when you set goals when you have an
intention on something that you want to
change about your life your brain helps
you what it does is it opens up a
checklist and then your brain goes to
work trying to remind you it was cold it
was winter in Boston and for the first
time in three months I had beaten my
habit of hitting the snooze button
[Music]
and it’s really important to develop the
skill before you are boxed and buried
decide that you’re going to box and bury
your fears decide that you’re going to
begin to live life on a new level
seeking out new horizons that you’re
gonna find more love and more joy and
more ways to give I wanted to change my
life and I think most people that are
miserable or that are that are really
like dying to be great and dying to have
more we want to change we want to live a
better life we want to create more for
our families we want to be happier
the designer is there again it’s about
how do you go for knowledge to action
so the first thing in the story that’s
important is realizing that the answer
was in me and my mind was telling me pay
attention
[Music]
so when you begin to say what is it that
I want to leave what contribution that I
want to begin to make what difference do
I want to make in life what is it that I
want to do with the rest of the life
that I have left what what chances I
need to take what risks do I need to
begin to embrace what fears do I need to
step on what areas of my life am i dead
right now what dream
you can even live your dreams or live
your fears you have got to get to a
point where you say I’m sick and tired
of living like this has got to be more
let’s see that’s when people go out and
strike out on their dreams how you going
to make it I don’t know but I will I’m
gonna keep on kicking I’m gonna cock
them off is people want to know how to
stop the laziness and they won’t know
how to stop the procrastination and you
know they have some idea in their head
you know some kind of a vision what they
want to do
but they don’t know where to start in
order to start it you know they don’t
know where to start and say they say hey
where do I start
and and when’s the best time to start
and I have a very simple answer for that
year and now that’s it you want to
improve you want to get better you want
to get on a workout program or a clean
diet you want to start a business you
want to write a book or make a movie or
build a house or a computer or put
together some mobile application where
do you start
you start regular and when do you start
you start right now
I had beaten my habit of hitting the
snooze button
I couldn’t believe it and I thought wait
a minute counting backward citizen
dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my
entire life
well the next morning I used to get in
at work the next morning I used it again
and a fourth time the next morning I
used it again and it worked and then I
started to notice something really
interesting there were moments all day
long all day long just like that
five-second moment in bed where I knew
knowledge what I should do and if I
didn’t move within five seconds my brain
would step in and talk me out of it
every human being has a five-second
window might even be shorter for yoga
you have about a five-second window in
which you can move from idea to action
before your brain kicks into full gear
and sabotages any change in behavior
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because remember your brain is wired to
stop you from doing things that are
uncomfortable or uncertain or scary it’s
your job to learn how to move from those
ideas that could change everything into
acting on
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four o’clock in the morning I wake up
4:30 4:45 I’m doing some sort of cardio
open these garage doors it’s still dark
outside I do this and then I’ll have
breakfast and then I will go do all my
strength and conditioning training at a
gym for about an hour and then I’ll go
to set we all have it’s probably about
five hours of sleep it’s 4:45 a.m. it’s
still dark outside look at that lights
just went out and I’m getting ready to
kill this a.m. cardio you can’t even see
me but it’s gonna be so good it’s bad
you do anything you never want to do
anything half-ass especially when it
comes to your training get in the
intense execute on it and get out
for a lot of guys out there and I was
certainly one of those guys in my 20s I
thought I had all the answers didn’t
know shit by the way in my 30s I’m still
trying to find myself and a lot of guys
are out there hopefully when you hit the
40’s you’re hitting a nice stride I’m
gonna do it they need to do this job
right I need to stay focused on it I
need to give the best effort that
possibly can we live down here in South
Florida it’s hurricane season
but it’s time to go to the gym we got to
get to the gym and there ain’t no
stopping us like I’m gonna be the
baddest motherfucker walking all right
empty gym the way we’d like it it’s
Sunday just finished my warmup this pain
out of respondents I workout twice
before everyone wakes up all right
workout number two I’m out working all
my competition
all right Saturday afternoon empty gym
the way we like it
it’s leg day which means it’s gonna be
sweaty painful and fun as far as role
models I think you know obviously the
obvious role models I think Edison was
certainly a role model for I probably
one the biggest role models yeah I read
books about him absolutely and ifs
interesting contrast like Edison versus
Tesla was interesting you know the car
companies called Tesla and the reasons
called Tesla’s because we use an AC
induction motor which is an architecture
that Tesla developed and the guy
probably deserves a little more play
than he gets in current society but on
balance I’m a bigger fan of Edison and
Tesla because Edison brought his stuff
to market and made those inventions
accessible to the world whereas Tesla
did didn’t really do that so that’s so
you certainly be a big one and you know
I think you know the great technologists
you know Steve Jobs at Apple Bull Gates
actually thought Disney was a pretty
good innovator if you don’t know now you
know it’s true
your friends family and loved ones will
be the first ones to try and talk you
out of greatness
when you’re ready to do something and
try something new
that’s out of your comfort zone that’s
out of your norm it’s always the one
you’re dating the one you’re married to
the one that’s in your family your
friends in your immediate circle that
will always try and talk you out of
doing something special and significant
without having fear and rejection
without having fear of the word know do
you know how many people have had
visions ideas and huge career moves that
they were about to make and they allowed
the word no to stop them from changing
the landscape of their life and their
family lives so many people are afraid
of rejection and the word no it is the
saddest shit up of a witnessed in my
life
boldly walking to the room which a head
held up high
and if they don’t get it laugh about it
don’t disown your ideas because they’re
disowning your ideas don’t lose
confidence in your ideas because they
don’t have confidence in your ideas keep
the faith
don’t be afraid to walk into the
unfamiliar don’t be afraid to do what’s
deep inside of you to do I can do 18 22
hours a day easily just keep banging on
to thrive in whatever you do please
understand your terrain now all your
target is don’t guess it fears Crudup is
the next one because that’s that’s
that’s your petrol that’s your you fuel
to get you moving
if you don’t know where you’re going
what your targets are you never any
other I’m not afraid to fail I’m not
afraid to fall over make a mistake that
often time cripples people on the onset
of getting too into anything I’m not
afraid of that feeling it actually
propels me works quite the opposite
work hard sleepless just imagine myself
collecting awards just imagine myself
you know I mean getting big parts
imagine myself working with the great
actors my imagination is the one life
yeah but I see myself driving that car
long day and I get that I mean that’s as
part of my inner magic is that actually
if I can see myself doing it keep your
head down like when I swim 25 laps
guaranteed if I look up and start
counting those laps and peak it out by
15 if I put my head down and keep
walking away and work a technique work
it internal rhythm work it mmm I hit
that length I don’t even know what loan
come on guarantee you I’ll look up it’ll
be twenty and two more three more to go
and that’s a very simple device but I
hope people find themselves incremental
each ekang how far they’ve gone
and that you know when you compare to
anybody else or whatever it’s just a
it’s a recipe for disaster just keep
banging on achievement achievement is
inspirational people are doing it
someone that on Monday didn’t know how
to do this by Friday can do it that is
an inspiration to me I’ve always worked
hard you know I mean like I said I’m not
I’m not afraid of failing
IVA you know I’m saying like I I’ve
thought that so many times that this is
it I’m never gonna work again and it
just kept going
I’ve just never stopped working you know
and I mean even when you know I had four
years of not actually booking jobs I was
out on the streets trying to edge work
hard sleepless people talk about aiming
for the skies sometimes even aiming for
the skies is in Thibodaux just dull give
yourself pound ease lose the boundaries
lose the conformity and just go for it
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I study streets thinking about you know
one day I’m going to be on in New York
and New York was that you know sort of
big pinnacle mountain and Here I am and
if you can’t enjoy the journey which
means the step you are taking at this
moment it’s really the most important
thing yes of course you know you’re
going that way but this step is still to
be enjoyed because that’s ultimately
your whole life consists of the step you
are taking at this moment that is never
anything else be that fulfillment notice
when I started noticing that fulfillment
of it I just finished well that’s enough
that’s it I don’t know if they’re saying
I don’t know if it’s even coming out
enjoyed 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 gonna 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 and so you
don’t celebrate when you get to the
finish line celebrate all along the way
so they all along
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I’m not gonna let this get me down I’m
not gonna let this destroy me
I’m coming back and I’ll be stronger and
better because of it
you have got to make a declaration but
I’ve been working out consistently since
I was 14 years old and I’m 44 I’m 33
years of hardcore two-hour workout 30
years yeah
so it doesn’t happen overnight you just
have to enjoy the process learn to enjoy
it because I’m sure there was a point
where you started to enjoy using a
hundred thirty-eight huh yep yeah that’s
only way you’re gonna keep going for me
inspiration is a is a journey it is not
a destination okay
it is a self you know motivated
internally motivated process it’s not
this glamorous thing it is mundane
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find inspiration on blank pages I found
inspiration you know in my habits okay a
moments of quiet that intimacy on a
heavy bag alone sweating
you know if it’s me and a kettlebell or
me taking a walk and just breathing in
okay literally breathing in
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something that just because you arrived
at the gates of success that somehow is
a new experience it’s different than
when you were not not successful it is
exactly the same people say you you have
to have a lot of passion for what you’re
doing and it’s totally true and the
reason is is because it’s so hard that
if you don’t any rational person would
give up it’s really hard and you have to
do it over a sustained period of time so
if you don’t love it if you’re not
having fun doing it you don’t really
love it you’re gonna give up and that’s
what happens to most people actually if
you really look at at the ones that
ended up you know being successful
unquote in the eyes of society and the
ones that didn’t oftentimes it’s the
ones that were successful loved what
they did so they could persevere well
you know when it got really tough and
and the ones that didn’t love it quit
because they’re saying right who would
want to put up with this stuff if you
don’t love it so it’s a lot of hard work
and and it’s a lot of worrying
constantly and if you don’t love it
you’re gonna fail so you got to love it
you got to have passion and I think
that’s the high-order bit the second
thing is you’ve got to be you’ve got to
be a really good talent scout because no
matter how smart you are you need a team
of great people and you’ve got to figure
out how to add a size people up fairly
quickly make decisions without knowing
people too well and hire them and you
know see how you do and refine your
intuition and be able to to help you
know build an organization that can
eventually just you know build itself
because you need great people around you
you want to get better you want a
self-improve stop looking for a shortcut
and go find your alarm clock and find
your discipline and fling your guts and
your passion and your drive and find it
you will and then and then you will find
your freedom
if you’re afraid of heights work on some
rock climbing climbing if you’re afraid
of the water the time to swim it’s time
to surf is trying to get out there if
you’re afraid of pull-ups if if you’re
prey to pulps do poles if you’re in
squats do squats if you’re afraid of
public speaking go speak in public if
you’re afraid to start a business start
a business and eventually you will
overcome that fear but the hard part is
you gotta take that first step you’ve
got to take that first step
got to take that first step against the
fear against the fear of the thing
if you die today
what dreams what ideas what books what
leadership what voice what story would I
of the dreams the ideas the abilities
the talents given to you by life but you
for whatever reason
you never pursued those dreams you never
use those talents you never use those
gifts you never use those abilities and
there they are standing around your bed
looking at you with large angry eyes
saying we came to you only you could
have given us life and now we must die
with you forever and the question is if
you died today what dreams what ideas
what books what leadership what voice
what story will die with you you should
wake up worried terrified every morning
but don’t be worried about our
competitors because they’re never gonna
send us any money anyway let’s be
worried about our customers and stay
heads down focused one of my jobs as the
leader of Amazon is to encourage people
to be bold
and people love to focus on things that
aren’t yet working and that’s good it’s
human nature that kind of divine
discontent can be very helpful but you
really you know it’s incredibly hard to
get people to take bold bets and you
need to encourage that and if you’re
going to take bold bets they’re gonna be
experiments and if they’re experiments
you don’t know ahead of time though
they’re going to work experiments are by
their very nature prone to failure but
big success is a few big successes
compensate for dozens and dozens of
things that didn’t work
I’ve made billions of dollars of
failures at amazon.com literally
billions of dollars of failures because
we know from our past experiences that
big things start small
the biggest oak starts from an acorn and
you’ve gotta recognize you want to do
anything new you’ve got to be willing to
let that acorn grow into a little
sapling and then finally into a small
tree it may be one day it’ll be a big
business on its own the Amazon started
as a very small company it was me and a
few other people I was driving all the
packages to the post office myself in my
1987 Chevy Blazer you can’t skip steps
you have to put one foot in front of the
other things take time you there are no
shortcuts and but but you want to do
those steps with you know passion and
ferocity
it’s easy to have ideas it’s very hard
to turn an idea into a successful
product there a lot of steps in between
it takes persistence relentlessness
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is the stress primarily comes from not
taking action over something that you
can have some control
do something you’re very passionate
about I wanted to project myself forward
to age 80 and say okay now I’m looking
back on my life I want to have minimized
the number of regrets I have and you
know what I knew that when I was 80 I
was not going to regret and having tried
this I was not gonna regret having
wanted you know trying to participate in
this thing called the Internet that I
thought was gonna be a really big deal I
knew that if I failed
I wouldn’t regret that
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