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OUTWORK EVERYONE

  • Writer: Marcus Nikos
    Marcus Nikos
  • Mar 12
  • 41 min read

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Why not you okay well like you get a job like when do you become a man you become

a man when you become responsible for other people and part of that is taking accountability and so like I am very new

to this being a man thing and I'm still not there that told me going to war made

you a man going to prison coming back coming back makes you a man making a million dollars makes you a man you know

and and it doesn't and you don't know it till you done all these things and realize damn I'm still a little [ __ ]

boy been around people who've been there a bunch of times I would say ask her out no matter who she is whether she's a job

or a new city an opportunity or a fear or a actual person you know like

whatever she is man ask her out that you and I are capable of doing whatever we can see if we can hold it in her head we

can hold it in her hand don't waste your life set your goals high quit thinking

about what's wrong start thinking what's right love a little more hate a little less you have no idea what you're

capable of doing make up your mind today you're going to figure it out you are a man stand up and be a man make the hard

decisions make the sacrifices make the unpopular decisions and become

comfortable in your own skin and if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with that is the

one person in this universe that you have full power full right and full

responsibility to change if I carry on the trajectory I'm carrying on they're going to put me in jail because I'm too

to influential sacrifice temporary fun for permanent dreams or sacrifice your

permanent dreams for temporary fun those times when you get up early and you work hard those times when you stay up late

and you work hard those times when you don't feel like working you're too tired you don't want to push yourself but you do it

anyway that is actually the dream when there saw in the gym in the

Pumping Iron days they say why is it that you're working out so

hard 5 hours hours a day 6 hours a day and you have always a smile on your

face the others are working out just as hard as you do and they look sour and

they told people all the time I said because to me I'm shooting for a goal in front of me is the Mr Universe

title so every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal to make this score this Vision turn into

reality every single set that I do every repetition every weight that I live will

get me a step closer to turn this goal into reality so I couldn't wait to do another

500 lb squat I couldn't wait to do another 500 lb bench press I couldn't

wait to do another 2,000 reps of situps I couldn't wait for the next exercise

interesting about being alive is that you're all in no matter what you do you're all in this is going to kill you

so I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while you're waiting because do you have

anything better to do really why not pick the best thing possible that you could do why not do that maybe you could

justify your wretched existence to yourself that way I think you could because you're more powerful than you

think way more powerful than you think I mean God only knows what you are in the final

analysis you're blind to your own weaknesses but you're also blind to your own strengths and then it would be

better for the community it's like how far could you take that if you stopped wasting time and if you stopped lying

and if you oriented yourself to to the highest possible good that you could conceive of and you committed to that

how much good could you do well I would say why don't you find out I'm going to have setbacks I know

but if I'm feeling bad that doesn't mean I'm doing bad that doesn't mean I am bad that doesn't mean that I can't still

take some action because yeah nothing changes and nothing changes man in life

folks you cannot change your life unless you change something

if you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got the hardest thing in life is figuring

out who you are and what you want to do for the rest of your life and once you figure that out you wake up every day

and you work toward it it's impossible for you to fail if you know who you are

what you want to do and you wake up every day and work toward it when I seen that Bentley at the boxing gym and I

seen that diamond Rolex I said I want that and I knew what it took so I I know when my opponent is sleep I'm out there

at 4:00 or 5: in the morning chopping trees working to this day cuz I can

retire today I'm well off very comfortable but I got the will to win

you know you're the closest to getting what you want is always the hardest it's always the

feeling when you're getting ready you know people give up right before they get what they've always wanted to get

people quit and they give up so what I do in that one second cuz we all think about quitting it's hard but what you

have to do in that one second is hard to process information during

pain because that pain takes over and you can't think rationally you're

thinking about fight or flight save yourself that's not a rational thought

it's not a thought that's going to get you through hard times most people fail that one second

so what happens what I do in that one one second this and there's a bigger process to all this but in that one

second I physically stayed in that water because if I get out of the water

I quit it's an urge truth be told every

Champion has felt it every president has felt it every King has felt it every

lion has felt it every winner has felt it every Soldier has felt it every

Victorious person has is felt it the urge to

quit don't you give up on your dream everybody has a turn back over you

have a moment where you can go forward or you can give up but the thing you

have to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up the guarantee is

it will never happen that's the guarantee of that it will never happen nowhere Under

the Sun the only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you

never give up no matter what because God is always coming he's never too late the

time is now the time is now to express and for people to believe in themselves

the time is now for it to be okay to be great people in this world shun people

for being great for being a bright color for standing out but the time is now to

be okay to be the greatest you person and work and get to the top of whatever

it is that you want to get to the top of you know and and and and stand up for

yourself be a bit of a light on the world instead of a blight you know and you can tell young people that and they

haven't been told that by anyone now yeah it might so why don't you go do it that's what the damn universities were

supposed to be teaching people and they've forgotten that if you don't fail you're not even trying my wife told me

this great expression to get something you never had you have to do something

you never did is that hard times create Hard Men Hard Men create soft times soft

times create soft men soft men create Hard Times Les's Browns a motivational

speaker he made an analogy about this he says imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around around your deathbed are

the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas you

never acted on the ghost of the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed and

upset they say we we came to you because you could have brought us to life they

say and now we have to go to the Grave together so I ask you today how many

ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes you have to live in it you have to be comfortable in it and

then maybe some of that [ __ ] will help you a little bit along the way and if you don't have any of this you do not

get your character tested you do not advance in your own perception of who you are in this world and how you how

you engage with all the other people around your life was basically the perfect the perfect grounds for training

for where you need to go in your life all the beatings all the all the bullying all the you know you going

through uh learn disabilities all the the struggles it was the absolute perfect training ground for you to go to

where you need to go and that's how I started looking at my life versus what was me Poopy Pants kick a rock down the

street mentality it was no God just hooked you right the [ __ ] up I want to

see that guy who immersed himself in [ __ ] hell and he thought about

quitting and leaving and and his wife and his kids and why am I here him is this is it worth it all this crazy [ __ ]

it still said and found out a way to get through it so basically that's that's

the bottom line of it all we all want to read about how we can quickly get somewhere that's why the six- minute abs

and all sort of [ __ ] so powerful did you may get some results from it but they're not permanent

difficult things make regular life less difficult and that sounds so simplistic

but particularly physically difficult things because when you do things that are physically difficult the strain of

making yourself do those things it's very valuable it's not just valuable like exercise and fitness and martial

arts and running and whatever you're doing that's really difficult it's not just valuable in terms of like health and the way you look but it's also

valuable for your mind you're going to lose sleep you'll doubt whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet you

won't finish your to-do list you'll wonder whether you made the right call and have no way to know for years this

is what hard feels like and that's okay everything worth doing is hard and the more worth doing it is the harder it is

the greater the payoff the greater the hardship if it's hard good it means no one else will do it more for you I can't

catch a break guys get them the [ __ ] away from me I can't I can't be around those guys I don't want to hear that

 ] I don't want to hear that [  ] I don't buy it cuz everybody has bad breaks I've had a [ __ ] ton of bad breaks

but you know what I did I I stayed up and I thought through it and I and I figured out what the [ __ ] I did wrong

and then I went back it's like I [ __ ] up everything I've ever done 100 times there's no way other there's no other

way to do it and I've had a bunch of shitty breaks everybody has but you got to realize when you have those shitty breaks what that is it's an opportunity

for you to reassess reboot get better figure out another way find another way

through it's just just little challenges bro you got to [ __ ] stop you got to stop with all this I can't catch a break

[ __ ] all the time you're complaining you could be instead hustling you could be instead chasing your dream you could

be instead figuring out what you're doing wrong trying to prove certain as ects of your life getting your [ __ ] together reading a book meditating

something [ __ ] something I I make myself do things that are very uncomfortable that I don't want to do

and by doing that I develop this strength and perseverance and some people hear that and like I don't even want to do that I want take a [ __ ]

nap you're exhausting me like I'm not you I don't want to do that and they just like it takes them away from that

and I'm like you don't even have to do that just go for a [ __ ] walk every day it sounds like it's easy to do but

there's going to when that walk comes when the look your clock oh it's 8:00 time to go for that walk like I don't

want to walk I just rather play video games I don't want to walk I'd rather like read emails I I don't want to walk

I'd rather like scroll through Tik Tok but if you just force yourself to go for that [ __ ] walk every day you will

develop mental persever perseverance you will develop some tenacity you'll develop the ability to force yourself

into work you know some of y'all are motivated by broke I'm broke I'm stuck I'm [ __ ] up

I can't do nothing some of y'all are motivated by just wanting to accomplish the things

that you want to accomplish other folks are motivated by materialistic

things it's a very simple concept if you want it you got to go get

it I'm able to just extract dopamine the good dopamine whenever I want man I've

trained 99% of my life alone no one had me on the back I did

all of the work alone and while I'm still hard on myself

I know what I did so whenever times get bad for me people all this who's going to carry the boats and that's real I

hate that people know me for that guy CU that guy is not every [ __ ] day like

when they see me they want that energy that's not me every day I can extract it

immediately when I need to because when you train alone and I lived alone for so

many years in this misery and you're able to get out by yourself I can take myself to such a

level of real real passion and purpose and like the feeling I get is something

I can't even exp by I don't need anyone that's why that's why people come to me to motivate them no one can motivate me

the bottom line is no one's coming no one no one's coming to push you no one's

coming to tell you to turn the TV off no one's coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise nobody's coming to

tell you to apply for that job that you've always dreamt about nobody's coming to write the business plan for

you it's up to you and because you're only ever going to do the things that

you feel like doing right now or that feel good right now unless you

understand that you've got to parent yourself you got to push yourself you're not going to make your dreams come true

you're just not we're not wired that way you weren't born that way you weren't that way when you were growing up and

you're certainly not that way as an adult it's time to stay focused it's time to decide [  ] clubs [  ] partying

[ __ ] trying to fit in and socialize rub elbows with everybody so

people can stop calling you weird why are you so so antisocial because I'm trying to get it

why are you staying on the basketball court so much because I'm trying to get it why are you out there practicing in

the hot sun when ain't nobody else out there because I'm trying to get it why are you not clubbing like every time I

text you and invite you to go do something fun and cool you always study it because I'm trying to get it let me

tell you something homie these women ain't going nowhere these clubs these parties all

this [ __ ] ain't going nowhere the more weird you are is a reflection of how committed you

are to focusing on your [ __ ] molding and shaping and developing your ideas and

your craft so that when it's time for you to make your rounds you going to fly stop running around here trying to

live up to the hype homie you ain't got it you ain't got it stop

front and I'm not coming at y'all on any other level but keeping it real

the life that I live I deserve this life because I work my ass off to get it y'all out here running around creating

these this this Smoke on the brink of Destruction and

it's all self-inflicted you did it to

yourself trying to live up to the hype and create the smoke that you doing you

ain't doing it you still got work to do stay on that

basketball court stay on that football field [ __ ] all the homies texting and calling and trying to make you feel bad

about being so focused it's grind season homie it's not

about today it's about the future you do the work now now and like I promise you

every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you're

going through and it's the lonely chapter it's the chapter where you you're you don't fit in with your own

friends but you don't have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends and you're doing this thing you're consuming content on the internet you're

you're doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and where do I host this thing and then there and and and you're going

through this and you're like am I is this even worth it because you have no signs of success right but if there's

anything that you can take away from what we're saying right now is that the sign of success is the hate that you get

along the way and what you can't do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the Conformity because it's

comfortable and it's warm because like in The Matrix when Trinity opens the door when when Neo's about to go take

the red pill and he wants to get out of the car she says Neo you've been down that road and you know exactly where it

leads and I know that's not where you want to be and then he closes the door like right now this moment that you're

going through is Trinity opening the door and being like you could go back but then you'd have to remember exactly

what the reason was that you decided Ed not to go out to begin with just because you listen to this podcast and you consume this content you're like I can

[ __ ] do more than this like because you are starting to live in some of that how where you look in the mirror and you're like I can do more and you start

to see the person that you could be and you're like this does start to feel like hell so whenever sick get nasty David

goas Goes we had nobody anyway [ __ ] so see how I'm talking myself right now that's

me that [  ] fires me the [  ] up that [  ] makes me [  ] nuts you had

nobody anyway [  ] look around you there was no [  ] team it was you

there was no weight loss program or Mom and Dad waking you up saying you can do it you can be better trying to build

belief you built belief when you had nothing Rock Bottom you did that so as

times get hard for me the truth comes out and my truth is

powerful as [ __ ] it's real it's tangible

feeling it comes out of my brain as I speak about it I'm reliving every single

dark moment of my life to be here so that is what people don't get

that is what motivates David goggin is the Unseen work but everybody needs that

P on the back they need that training partner they they need that accountability coach I don't need that

[ __ ] and neither do they but it's what we've trained ourselves to to believe that we

need if you want to be great you want to be bad [ __ ] ever at what you do

you can be misunderstood by everybody because you're going to be so [ __ ] obsessed and so driven to get there

that's what it takes that's the TRU it takes every second of your [ __ ] life anybody says balance yeah balance is

important for a lot of [  ] people it is but if you want to [  ] go to that edge where people do not like you don't

understand you question everything you [ __ ] do you you've arrived when you are misunderstood to the point where

 ] people think you're psycho and you're nuts and you're this and that why are you in the [  ] gym at 1:00 in

the [  ] morning you got through doing an OP for [  ] 13 14 hours at the Ranger school man at the gym what's

wrong you will never understand what is wrong with me and that's why I'm so

 ] glad you don't cuz I'm in the right [  ] spot when people don't understand you anymore you're in that

spot of obsession and drive where people like what the [ __ ] is wrong with this guy I don't want to talk to you man

because you're not gonna get it you're not gonna get it boom that want you to get it yeah that want you to

get it people only root for people who don't need it like the amount of times when I was

on my lonely path where I was too different from the friends that I had

but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with

that's when that's when you want people to root for you that's when you want people to support you once you've

already won people are like he's amazing he's so good but like that's the time

when you need it the least and so you always have to be the person who

roots for you before everyone else does and it's usually a single clap in

the auditorium for a very long period of time it is a slow clap that's just you

rooting for you um and that visual I think is one that you can kind of take

because it is people struggle to do things a

lot and the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception which

means that you are not with other people and rather than fighting that or

bemoaning it see it as an indicator that you're on the right path because if everyone else

we cheering you on then it means you're not in the right place because it means you're just like everyone else and that's not where you want to be the one

thing that made me who I I'm today is being vulnerable is breaking myself down to the absolute rock bottom and being

able to tell people who I am and that's how I fixed it literally you know life

created this person me life life created me to be this [ __ ] up person that I was back in the day and I had to realize

man that's okay man man it's not my fault now I got to go back and fix this [ __ ] though M so a lot of this isn't

your fault why you do some things you do why you feel the way you feel but no one's coming back to save your ass you

have to go back to where the [ __ ] started wherever that place is for everybody and had the courage to go back

there and start fixing what broke you br you you you go back into your childhood and you go what was it that made me so

different that was so weird about me what was it that I was attracted to as you go through that process things will

start coming up it's like you're digging you're Excavating like you're an archaeologist into your own past what

would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week with pride okay maybe stop breaking

promises to yourself when you say I'm going to wake up tomorrow at 7:00 a.m.

and when the option comes to hit the snooze button don't do it there's one win that you've got for

the day that's action the path of the exceptional person is

one of an exception which means that you are not with other people and rather than fighting that or boning it see it

as an indicator that you're on the right path because if everyone else were cheering you on then it means you're not

in the right place because it means you're just like everyone else and that's not where you want to be when you were born you are a phenomenon you are

unique your DNA has never occurred in the history of the universe going back

billions of years it will never occur in the future your life experiences with your parents and everything that you

experienc in your early years going on up is unique it's yours you're one of a

kind right so that is your source of power to waste that is just the worst

thing you can do in your life and what what the power is is finding that uniqueness what makes you you and how

you can M that and how you can go deep into it and use that to create a career path when it when it comes to like

individuality right what is a good way for people to start to get to know

themselves does it make sense do you want I'm asking yeah it does well I keep coming back to something that I tell a

lot of people I think is very important is the desire to know yourself if you

cannot obtain from the world that which you really desire you must teach yourself not to want it if you cannot

get what you want you must teach yourself to want what you can get so

people are very good at faking it and you could be out there listening you go yeah I kind of want to know myself

better okay let me get online and get you know they just forget about it because the other forces are stronger

than that you have to have a level you know that if you're in recovery a level of disgust you have to hit bottom you

have to go I don't want to be like this anymore I want to find out who I am I want to touch that in core of

individuality that I know is still within me that soul that I believe is still there life is not going to get

easier you're going to lose your mother you're going to lose your father people

are also going to hurt you even though you don't even know what you did wrong things like this are going to happen in

this lifetime to wait for better times to come where the world will be completely in peace and you can walk

peacefully over the street never having the fear that somebody's going to come and do something to you it's not going

to happen the world is just the way as it is if we

don't create the better times nothing's going to happen once the cup is

empty now it can be filled up again the easy answer would right now be learn how

to meditate okay but to really bring it into perspective right now everybody

want to know what I would do if I didn't win

I guess we'll never know you know so many people are just so

[ __ ] obvious they don't even realize that when they box me in or try to verbally put me in some type of box or

put da in a box that they're really showing their level of ignorance they're putting themselves in a box and you know

people can write write write all they want but what are people doing and if there anybody that's out there doing

they know how hard it is to actually do and and I'm like a motivation of the

doers if if everything I did failed which it doesn't it actually succeeds

but if everything I did failed just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an

inspiration people are so scared to lose that they don't even try like one thing that people can't say is they can't say

I'm not trying it's crazy that we live in a world that if you're super positive

and super creative that it's scary so what does that tell you about the mentality of most people if you're

scared of like positivity and creativity like there's I have no intent to do

anything negative to any to anyone I only want you know more positive things

to happen it's crazy that we live in a world that if you're super positive and super creative that it's scary so what

does that tell you about the mentality of most people if you're scared of like

positivity and creativity like there's I have no intent to do anything negative

to any to anyone I only want you know more positive things to happen when she won the title the first time when I was

interviewing her one one of the things she was saying she just we have to be better people she like had this message

while I was interviewing her in the Gage after winning a fight and she's like we

got to be nicer to each other that was her message it's not it's about transcending

whatever you whatever you think you are and becoming something better that's

what it's about and when you move forward life may get better it may not

but somewhere along the lines is going to click and everything that I went through back here was supposed to happen

so that now that I'm here I'm able to go ahead with such a high level of

knowledge and I can make other people better I can make myself better I can do

more for my family something happens how are you doing H how are you

doing you can see me get out of here bu and you matter all right there's always going to be somebody that cares about

you and you're a good person no matter what people say you matter the thing is if you just do stuff

and nothing happens what's it all

mean what's the point all right this this whole thing is

about self-acceptance I would say ask her out no matter who she is whether

she's a job or a new city or or a actual

person you know whether whether she's an opportunity or a fear and when you move

forward life may get better it may not but somewhere along the lines is going to click and everything that I went

through back here was supposed to happen so that now that I'm here I'm able to go

ahead with such a high level of knowledge and I can make other people

better I can make myself better I can do more for my family something happens

when she won the title the first time when I was interviewing her one one of the things she was saying just we have to be better people she lik had this

message while interviewing her in the cage after winning a fight and she's

like we got to be nicer to each other that was her message it's not it's about transcending

whatever you whatever you think you are and becoming something better that's

what it's about you expect Perfection I don't know where this came from I don't know what happened that this is the

criteria for living my true understanding is all right you got one life and that one

life the goal for us is to live it to the best of our ability from the

beginning to what said the end in the middle in the beginning middle you're

going to do things you're going to make mistakes you're going to [ __ ] up you're supposed to learn and then move forward

with the understanding of what not to do and it's not just me that's got better

the world is is undeniably a better place because of the sort of person that I've become I'm a better friend I'm a

better son I'm a better boss I'm a better partner I've had the fortune of reaching tens of millions of people on

this podcast and I've given tedex talks and I've improved the texture of my own daily existence because of the process

that your work triggered you do not know the depth of impact that your work has

had and if the option had been there I and probably a lot of other people would

have happily taken on our show of your suffering over the last year if it would have somehow helped as a thank you for

how you've helped us so thank you now it's all disease of abundance we are Overexposed to everything so the way to

survive in modern society is to be an aesthetic it is to retreat from society there's too much Society everywhere you

go Society in your phone Society in your pocket Society in your ears when I was growing up there was this statement I

think it was Pascal he said you know all of man's problems arise because he cannot sit by himself in a room for 30

minutes alone ignore them they're losers the dingdong D you I'm just trying to say something nice like I don't know

what they're doing they're running away and stuff I'm just trying to say that you matter man or girl whoever you are

you matter to someone just keep that in mind don't forget that but I'm so grateful to be sitting

here with you and uh we got a nice little episode here and um and yeah I'm

just feeling full man I'm feeling full of Hope as much as I don't want to be

sometimes I don't want to be hopeful you know there's a part of there's a part of me sometimes don't want to be

hopeful you won't see me down there by a hope Pond putting hope meat on my hope

hook and just hoping I catch something you want I don't want to be hopeful

sometimes I just feel I I I just feel like I'm not alone like in the beginning

I don't know where I'm at but at the end I don't know where we're at and man it's a it's it sounds like we're still it

sounds like still lost but before I was lost by myself and now I'm

lost I'm lost as a group and that seems uh a lot more

hopeful failure has been achieved Thank God now the only place to go from

failure is to win you have to achieve failure you have

to take it that far nobody wants to go that far it's too scary but you know

something I got news for you that's where winning is it always has been nothing's changed since the 70s nothing

except people train not as hard I was going to rip his heart out I'm the best ever I'm the most brutal and vicious and

most ruthless Champion has ever been there's no one could stop me Lynx is a conqueror no I'm Alexander he's no

Alexander I'm the best ever there's never been anybody's roof I'm Sunny linston I'm Jack Dy there's no one like

I'm from their claw there's no one that can match me my style is impetuous my defense is impregnable and and I'm just

ferocious I want your heart I want to eat his children there was probably a 100 days where I didn't want to do

anything I wanted to stay in the poor stay in my in my bed and not get out um

but those were the days where you have to you have to get up and do something because I think that's really what

separates the good from the great the greats do things when they don't always want to do them I can't see my kid they

have 12 years old the mentality are not the same they are not suffer that what's the difference the anger I think the I

think that they have the things more easily everything it's easily they don't suffer because you have to understand

this next 5-year window is when you don't go practical and safe this is not

the time to get the job Mom wanted you too I've never been more

alone I have nothing no

one all right it's all gone I warn you you break your

heart already broken that will be my legacy instead of

me there will be money because for most of the people who are close to me that is what I

[Music] am I'm nothing why would you want me

huh maybe you just liked me when I was on my ass cuz it made you you feel better about

yourself I liked it I was good at

it and I

was really I was

alive when there's a breakup it's exceedingly hard especially if the person is Young why because the

relationship represents the whole future they have no concept that they're they know they're other people but it sort of

feels like the whole world is is shutting down why why what why don't you want to do it

anymore if you got separated from the tribe if you were alone you were depressed and anxious for a really [ __ ] good reason you were about to be

eaten you were in terrible danger if you got injured no one could help you you would die being acutely lonely is as stressful as being punched in the face

by a stranger you afraid of death by the way yes I I it's hard because

like what if you just die and then you just see nothing forever you know yeah nothing it just Fades the Blackness and

you're just like that for trillions upon trillions to billion squar years and accept the pain smile at the pain

embrace the pain pain is the gatekeeper of Destiny when I'm

hurt I I love it I love that feeling because it's real that's the most

realest feeling that you could ever have is being in pain go find pain most of the time you're going to find a reason

if if you think something is going to hurt or it's scary to you that's probably what you should be doing mhm

you know whether it's going to the gym if it's going to talk to that girl that nobody else will go talk to cuz she's

too pretty My Philosophy is why be normal when you can be the best I don't

want to be normal I want to make the difference so everything I do I want to make the difference because when I make

the difference I'm the best just did our job defending home Court you know last

two series we didn't do that put ourselves in uh put ourselves in Jeopardy having to go on the road and

win the game three and here we managed to do it now it's time to go to Orlando and uh see if we can't get one just

still waiting for a big smile out of you you're up 20 what's the story are you not happy or you're only half happy or

I'm still to be happy about you're up two job's not finished job

finished I don't think so every single single man of value went through trauma and they went through pain it's going to

be painful to get strong painful to get rich painful to become important be painful to become good with women your

hearts get broken a bunch of times you have to be prepared for the pain if you're not ready for pain you're never going to be anything that matters and

you know the mama mentality simply means trying to be the best version of

yourself that's what the mentality means it means every day you're trying to

become better and it's a constant Quest it's an infinite Quest it's just a matter of what's important to you mhm

what's important to you for for whatever reason you know I I felt like um I

didn't feel good about myself if I wasn't doing everything I could to be

the best version of myself if I felt like I left anything on the table um it

would eat away at me I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror right so the reason why I can retire now and be

completely comfortable about it because I know that I've done everything I could to be the best basketball player I could

be whenever I face anything that's challenging whenever anything

sucks I liked it I liked it it's going to make it's going to make me tougher it's going to

give me a good story to tell it's going to toughen my mind go do something that's painful whether it be from

physical pain or fear and most of the time if you can if you can find that and go towards it go looking for that pain

especially at that young age when your testosterone is so high then you probably doing the right thing you're probably on the right path do that so

whenever sick gets nasty David goas Goes we had no body anyway [ __ ] so

see I'm talking myself right now that's me that [  ] fires me the [  ] up that

 ] makes me [  ] nuts you had nobody anyway [  ] look around you there was no [  ] team it was you

there was no weight loss program Mom and Dad waking you up saying you can do it you can be better trying to build belief

you will believe when you had nothing I used to ask myself can I do this and

something said within me you're the one you're the one and let me tell you

something ladies and gentlemen while you're here and before you go back home to your respective

cities and communities write down at least five reasons on why you deserve your dream on

why you want give up what's going to make you Unstoppable why you must be unreasonable

because logical practical thinking says you can't do it today but if you want to

produce unreasonable results in your life like living your dreaming taking charge of your destiny you've got to be

an unreasonable person you've got to be an uncommon person you can see me get

out of your but and you matter all right there's always going to be somebody that cares about you and you're a good person no matter what people say you matter

the thing is if you just do stuff and nothing

happens what's it all mean what's the

point all right this this whole thing is about self-acceptance wanted a million

you know you're actually sitting down and talking to me you know there people don't give me that but it's all right

you know when it when it comes down to it I came in this world by myself and when I die I'm going to be the only one in that car off and uh so really all I

guess that matters is me I guess I don't know I think people matter but more I'm

starting to see less and less you matter bro I feel I way about you too I mean

you care it's sad to see that most people don't how are you doing H how are you

doing no one cared who I was till I put on the mask

if I pull that off will you die it would be extremely painful you're a big guy

for you Larry what do you think the meaning of life is H work it's important to be

useful look at me I got it all figured out I get up I shower I come to work I work all day I go home I go to sleep I

get up I shower I come to work I work all day I go home I go to sleep I get up I shower I come to

work Grant I heard a story about two farmers who desperately needed rain and both of

them prayed for rain but only one of them went out and prepared his fields to receive it which one do you think

trusted God to send the rain well the one who prepared his fields for

it which one are you God will send the rain when he's ready you need to prepare your field to

receive it I mean you can't it's it's look it's

a gift and encourage you can't want the the bells and whistles and not understand the

sacrifices that come with it the work that goes into building things sometimes you got to be Hands-On until you don't

have to be and the grind that goes with that is one that's necessary and what the you need to sit there and realize

whoa whoa whoa I have a few years of Consciousness and even less than that I have a few short years as a young man

because age will damage you I mean if you're a millionaire when you're 60 it's not nearly as good as being a millionaire at my age I became a

millionaire in 28 so you need to realize you got a few short years as a young man you're wasting him how you going to

knock somebody in the world for actually trying to do something trying since when has it become not cool to try [ __ ]

loser I'm not used to this man why is there so much people you're not used to what you're not used to you know why

people are with you right now there a natural Vibe man what you talking about you're not used to it by the way get

used to it it's called progression it's called an elevator that's going up bro

it's going to be trials and tribulations where it's going to test you to stop right here and what's going to separate you from everybody else is will you keep

going or will you just stop once I quit I literally work every single fing day

for a year and a half straight and even when I missed the day after that a year

and a half straight I felt like I [ __ ] let myself down and this man God is my witness when

I quit my 9o5 job I only worked there for 28 days I knew it went for me I quit

my 9 to-5 and from the moment I Ste foot out that from the moment I stepped foot

when I walked out I went a year and a half straight of working towards where I

am now and then when I missed the day the [  ] feel I felt sick like damn [  ]

you ain't doing enough [ __ ] how the you manage to miss today when you know what the you working towards you can do

whatever you want the world is yours and I'm telling the young cats Our Generation don't discriminate against

anybody cuz we're all one generation and that's some important [ __ ] yo I mean who

would have thought a ghetto kid with gold teeth and french braids from the hood will be in Vogue and GQ on the same

month in the same month at the same time about the same and that's when you got to figure out what's right for you you

know what I mean and you know just because that's my thing you know and if it is your thing you know figure it out do what you got to do you know I did but

I did and I made it in a positive way I feel like anybody could do it straight up don't give up cuz a year ago I was

going to quit this like it was going to be like a hobby instead of a passion you know cuz I mean I feel like after a

certain point in an artist whether they want to admit it or not if they not see your results they going to start doubting themselves but I'm glad I kept

going cuz look now like shit's paying off so I think the main advice I give myself is just to not give up and keep

keep striving this is hard work ch I got bro Chad I'm tired bro I'mma keep saying

it over and I'm tired bro I don't care I don't care never get tired bro never get

tired chat never ever whatever you want to do you can do it yall seen it happen

here first word to my mother you seen it happen here Day first you talk to people

and they're content they're like oh I'm happy with aloh I'm like why cuz there's people who have a whole bunch more than

you and I was never content having a normal life I want an exceptional life I

didn't want a normal car a normal house a normal girlriend I didn't want none of that I was like no no no no there's

dudes out here that have the best why do they deserve the best and I don't deserve the best I really believe that

and this is something I I've always had inside me I just didn't understand why I couldn't have the best stuff me me alone

in the gym me alone in the mirror me alone in my head no one did it for me I worked for it and I'm never going to let

someone else take that from me when your dreams is a lonely solitary scary

dangerous Pursuit you can't wait for somebody to think you can do it mhm and

it's like they they cuz they don't think you can do nothing they can't do exactly big you know what I mean it's like it

it's a lonely scary dangerous Pursuit and you got to be willing to risk

everything to become that seed of what you believe is in there you got to be

Fearless you got to be relentless if you think about the difference between winners and losers winners

Define themselves by what they made happen and losers Define themselves by

what happened to them and every single person who wants to do something with their life and has

done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you're going through and it's the lonely chapter it's the chapter where you

you're you don't fit in with your own friends but you don't have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends

and you're doing this thing you're consuming content on the internet you're you're doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a

podcast and where do I host this thing and then there and and and you're going through this and you're like am I is this even worth it because you have no

signs of success right but if there's anything that you can take away from what we're saying right now is that the

sign of success is the hate that you get along the way and what you can't do is

bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the Conformity because it's comfortable and it's warm because like

in The Matrix when Trinity opens the door when when Neo's about to go take the red pill and he wants to get out of

the car she says Neo you've been down that road and you know exactly where it leads and I know that's not where you

want to be and then he closes the door like right now this moment that you're

going through is Trinity opening the door and being like you could go back but then you'd have to remember exactly

what the reason was that you decided not to go out to begin with just because you listen to this podcast and you consume this content you're like I can can do

more than this like because you are starting to live in some of that how where you you look in the mirror and you're like I can do more and you start

to see the person that you could be and you're like this does start to feel like hell more time you spend alone with

yourself the more time that you will be able

to understand who you are when I mean understand who you are I'm talking about

without any outside interference without any friends without any uh peer pressure

of wanting to be like someone else the more time you spend

alone you're going to figure out okay what your purpose is and I say that

because of this God will talk to you you start seeking in those moments of not

having any outside distractions what happens is Things

become clear Clarity sets in and you're able to make decisions not based on what

you saw that day or what you heard that day or what that person have said to you you're able to make decisions based on

how you feel internally okay so number one we

have winners always show up they're willing to lose in order to gain big

mental thing there guys this body as great as you are as sharp as you make the Arsenal it can't do anything if you

don't have confidence in yourself We All Fall Down in life the question is who gets back up you go after and you give

it all you have if you lose at least you try man I failed it's 10 times more of a man

than someone said what if cuz what if never went to the arena when you guys find a fear that fear will either create

you or destroy you I love fear and the reason why behind every fear is the person you want to be fear is

self-imposed meaning it doesn't exist you create it you can destroy it too it's an intangible if you face your

fears guys you will realize it's not that big and once you face it you got my God Man spent all this time running from

it it was so small if I just faced it my God not only did I face it and I beat it back energy is

never lost transferred that negative energy that fear is destroyed it comes back in his confidence you're like what

else am I what else am I capable of what else am I hold my back from they're I'm capable of more where am I running from

I don't need to what else can I overcome you face your fears you become the person you want to be you run from your

fears you're not living you're alive it's funny cuz a lot of us want traits

right we want to be patient we want to be humble we want to be you know long-suffering whatever words you want to use um but in order to if I would say

hey how would you create if you had to create a human what would you put them through to make them

tough it probably wouldn't be a really chill life what would you put them through to make them patient we probably

wouldn't give them things immediately and so it's like we want these traits but each of the traits has a

price tag attached to it and it's just like do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing and so I think if if people reframed the the period of life

that they're going through as the price that they're paying out of their wallet but the wallet is their time it's the seconds of life that they're trading for

it then I think more people will be willing to make the trade because at least when I look at myself like when I'm 80 something years old and I'm

looking back on my life I want to have these traits but in order to have those traits I know I have to go through these things and I think for me that's given

me a lot of comfort in hard times get to you but what people call love is just a

chemical reaction that compels animals to breed it hits hard Morty then it slowly Fades leaving you stranded in a

failing marriage I did it your parents are going to do it break the cycle Morty rise above focus on

science the key in life is to lie to yourself about reality smile through everything all the bad things well you

just pile them away in a place that will come back one day in the form of I don't know

rage but everything's fine I'll see you in bed listen man you may have given up on

yourself but your friends haven't given up on you are you just going to turn your back

on them and sit and eat borch the rest of your life or are you going to get out there and jump through that tiny little

hoop it is impossible it was always impossible to

tell it that's why the people loved it that is why I loved it because I did the

impossible I was one a brave tiger and if I go down in

flames so be it the [  ] I don't I built this [  ] me Brick by

Brick and I'll be damn if I let you tear it down just cuz you don't like the way another [ __ ]

talk you spend time with your family sure I do good because a man who doesn't

spend time with his family can never be a real man but I can't go out on the track and do the same old thing it won't

work then change it up try something new I don't know Sally I don't fear failure

be afraid of not having the chance you have the chance doc didn't and you can

either take it or you can do what you've been doing sitting in here for months

can I ask you a question hell you got to ask me Mrs swiggy the one you got the questions

for how come you ain't never like me

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don't you eat every day answer me when I talk to you don't you eat every day yeah [ __ ] as long as

you in my house you put a sir on the end of it when you talk to me sir you eat every day got a roof over your head got

clothes on your back yes sir why you think that is cuz of you hell I know it's cuz of me but why do you think that

is cuz you like me like you I go out of here every morning I

bust my put with them prce every day

family son not cuz I like you cuz it's my duty to take care of you I owe a

responsibility to you you know they say we die twice once when the breath leaves our

body and once when the last person we know says our name her's life will be forgotten

like all the other poor [ __ ] I never had the glory of live

it just relax and enjoy it you know my father used to say whatever you do do it 100% when you

work work when you laugh laugh when you eat eat like it's your last meal you

want another piece here have a breast delicious thank you here you listen this

is what I learned everybody that you fight is not your enemy and everybody that helps you

is not your friend I said it last year we're not here just to take part we're here to take over if you don't want go

back to dagistan nobody going to ask you about yourself without you or with you there is is always going to be

Champions with your name this is your choice you want to put your name there okay work hard no bye-bye and secondly

if those BL hearts with their blow darts want to come at me they can send anybody

they want but don't send anybody you want back natez you just shook up the

world how's that feel hey I'm not surprised

[ __ ] the question Raymond was what did you want to

be answer him Raymond Jesus F animals

yeah animals so stuff yeah I got that that means you have to get more schooling too much school would you rather be dead no you

rather die here on your knees in the back of a convenience store if you're not on your way to

becoming a veterinarian in 6 weeks you will be

dead run Force run tomorrow will be the most beautiful day Ry Chaos's life his breakfast will

taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted I don't care how good you are and anything you don't have discipline you

ain't nobody right you're nothing about discipline cuz you give up under the slightest struggle without discipline

100% I mean discipline is doing what you hate to do but do it like you love it a true martial artist is a peaceful as a

peaceful mind a true martial artist is peaceful but don't [ __ ] push me but

yeah exactly don't [ __ ] push with and you want to become world champion it doesn't matter who's your opponent bring

King Kong if he can't make 155 I'm going to fight with him I'm not listen I'm not scared of These Guys these guys think

they intimidate me and they think they um they think I think that they're scared oh well if they're scared that's all no I'm bring the pain to them and

that's all it then we go see how tough you are tough guy I like tough guys all

the time in prison I always ran the guys they were tough when they was in they ain't tough when they get confronted they ain't tough when I bring that pain

to them they ain't tough they never they think they know they've been around crazy oh no

they don't know one they don't know crazy no they really don't as advertised

we we knew it was going to be a war was there anything about that fight that was surprising to you no no I knew exactly

what was he is a warrior we were we are living in the wrong times let me tell

you me and him should have been fighting to death in a Coliseum that's what should have happened you have to see

training for what it is training is about skill development not about winning on losing you've got to you've

got to understand that you don't need to win every battle you only need to win the battles that count and the the

battles that count are in the world championship finals okay that's the one that counts stripping that all back to

starve your career a man with a dream training in the gym day and day out if somebody said to you you'll have or

you'll be a successful as you are now what would have you had said back then

I believe you that's what I would have said because I did believe



 
 
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