You vs You.

This ain't you, bro. Die. And if you do die, you won't care. Because you'll be dead. Best case, you win. Worst case, it won't matter. There's no luck in this game. It may be a little bit of luck. But the luck happens after you bust your ass. And you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn't happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might ******* happen. And that's what people don't know. If you believe it. If you really believe that you can be something. If you have that little voice in your head saying, hey, you got talent, you can do this, then follow that voice as discipline. Because motivation's not there every day. I'm missing motivation most days. Wow, really? Some days, yeah. Sometimes I got motivation. Sometimes I'm like, **** yeah, today I felt good. I can't wait to get to the gym. But a lot of days, like, gotta get to the gym. And then once I get going, then I feel great. And I feel great when it's over. But it's that beginning part that's hard. Because your body wants to stay comfortable. Your body will trick you. Like, man, today's just... Take the day off, Theo. Yeah. Feel good. Theo, what did you get, like six hours sleep last night? That's not enough. Extra mile. Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks. It's miserable. It's lonely. It's easy to give up. Hell yeah. It's easy. But what's hard is going, yo, yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could. Nothing happened from that. I'm going to do the same thing again today, but I'm going to try to go harder. That's the hardest thing in the world. To get up every day and give 100% and be in the same position that you were each day, but mentally know that you're trying and trying and trying. That's a real grind. How bad do you want this? If it's as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep, whatever the hell it may be. I can work with you, but a lot of people, most people don't want it that badly, which is why they always ask the question, man, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don't want to do it. Like, I want to see what you do when you're tired. Let me see how you push yourself. Come on, man. Get up. Get up again tomorrow. Get up again tomorrow. Get up again tomorrow. The next day. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up. Keep going. How long can you maintain a positive attitude? There's no hacks, bro. It's you against you. You against you. And if you misunderstand that, you have a real problem. You wake up right to work. Immediately, your mind is in action. No one wants to do that. No one. And I don't blame them. But don't be mad when you're laying there in your ******* bed and you're in the ******* hospital and you're 70, 80, 90 years old and you're thinking, I feel like I didn't ******* do something. Because you did. You didn't do it. You didn't do ----. You may live a great life, man, but you're always going to feel empty inside. I don't feel empty. The life you want is on the other side of a few hard conversations, and you're living a life you hate because you're too afraid to have them. I think about that a lot. Hard times create hard men. Hard men create soft times. Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times. There's a moment when every boy realizes no one's coming to save him. And that's when he becomes a man and some boys never get there and stay children forever. You should be a monster. He said you should be a monster, you should be ruthlessly ambitious, and then learn how to control it. And it's that old expression, it's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. Look at how good you are in anything, you don't have discipline, you ain't nobody. Right. You're nothing without discipline, because you give up on the slightest struggle without discipline. Tell me discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. Doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. That is a great quote. 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 if nothing changes, man. It's time to get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk. Get off the podcast. Don't be on social media too much. Cut out all the ******* noise. Get back to the ******* mental lab. I'd say one of the strongest mental frames that has gotten me through my hardest times is thinking this will be the story that I will one day tell. And that means the harder it is, the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story, and by consequence, the more epic the hero. The fear is never reaching your potential. That's it. That always falling short, always quitting before you're done, always procrastinating, always not doing the right thing. And then one day you're an old man. Yep. And you look back and go, God, I could have been great. Yep. I could have been great. 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 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 studying? 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're going to fly. 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 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 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 In the auditorium, for a very long period of time, it is a slow clap that's just you, rooting for you. Thank you. And that visual, I think, is one that you can kind of take, because it is, people struggle to do things alone. 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 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. Life isn't fair at all at all so what are you gonna do about it? I knew that no one was coming back to help me no one's gonna miracle me to be somewhere else to think that way so you should always have I've never arrived mentality. And the can't hurt me mentality is no matter where you come from, the sewer or wherever you think you're from. When I got out of the sewer, I got to the road and looked around and said, can't hurt me. Nothing should be able to hurt you. If you believe that, it starts to become true. Be the guy who embraces the miserable. Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don't be afraid of being hurt. Don't be afraid of sacrificing some blood. You know, there comes a day, man, everyone's going to have this day. There comes a day where being average, being mediocre, is just sickening to you. It's just sickening. It makes you want to throw up. Because you've seen people with far less talent than you. As you're growing up with them, they're childhood buddies or whatever else. They didn't have what you had. Yet now, they're ******* to become something that you haven't. There comes that day, it's either when you're young, you know, and it strikes you on the baseball field because you're sick of striking out. Or it's when you get fired from your fifth job, you know, and your wife and kids are on your ass because you don't have support anymore. There comes a ******* day where push comes to shove. Where being mediocre, being like average and ---- just ******* burns and sucks so much. You can't deal with it one more day and you get off your ******* ass and you create something that's always been there. It's always been inside of you trying to come out. But you've never wanted to unwrap it because it's too much ******* pain and commitment. I'm a big fan of power follows the blame finger. So like wherever you point the blame fingers where the power follows. And so it's like, if you point it, if you point it to the government, government has the power. If you point it at your, your spouse and say like, it's their fault that I'm not in shape. It's their fault. They never let me do anything. It's like, well, you're giving them all the power. And so it's like, until you're like, it's my fault. It's also becomes my responsibility. What is, what if it's not your fault? It doesn't matter. And like, I can't run marathons because I lost my leg at birth. And either you can just never try or you put the metal thing on and you do it anyways.