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Wake Up and Get After It: Power Through and Make It Happen · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We want to believe that there are shortcuts to success.
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  Speaker 1: We want to believe we can take a drug or
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  Speaker 1: we can do something that will make it quick and easy.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is it takes grit, it takes persistence.
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  Speaker 1: So it's hard to understand what could happen to you
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  Speaker 1: in ten years in a visceral gut way of what
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  Speaker 1: it means to have failed in life. And to me,
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  Speaker 1: failure in life is not having money, it's not realizing
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  Speaker 1: your potential. You're sixty years old and you said I
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  Speaker 1: could have been this and I never did it. That's
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  Speaker 1: like the worst thought I think anybody can have. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't think about it in the moment because your
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  Speaker 1: life is okay. But you've got to wake up and
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  Speaker 1: understand that there's an urgency here and that if you're
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  Speaker 1: not practicing something now, if you're not aware, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a path towards something better, rotting on the vine,
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  Speaker 1: and the day of reckoning will come at some point
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  Speaker 1: and it will be painful. You're not gonna feel it suddenly.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be slow, but it'll come, and it won't be good.
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  Speaker 2: Getting successful it's not a magic trick.
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  Speaker 3: You have a say so in that you can decide
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  Speaker 3: to be rich, but you.
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  Speaker 4: First have to think it.
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  Speaker 3: The difference between successful people the non successful people is here.
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  Speaker 2: You have to change this.
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  Speaker 3: If you keep doing what you've been doing, you gonna
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  Speaker 3: keep getting what you've been getting. So if you at
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  Speaker 3: a place in your life and you ain't happy with it,
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  Speaker 3: you have to change some things. But you have to
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  Speaker 3: make a conscient interest decision that you're going to change.
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  Speaker 5: Commit means to make it happen no matter what. See,
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  Speaker 5: when you make a commitment, I'm going to become wealthy.
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  Speaker 5: When you make it important, when you decide, I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to do it no matter what, life.
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  Speaker 4: Changes for you.
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  Speaker 5: See, most people don't keep their commitments to their commitments.
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  Speaker 5: That's why they lead lives of poverty, lives of misery,
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  Speaker 5: lives of unhappiness.
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  Speaker 2: You all get what we tolerate in ourselves and other people.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're no longer willing to tolerate something, that's
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  Speaker 2: when your life changes. The difference in people is their
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  Speaker 2: standards periods.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes it's about consistency. Just keep doing it and keep
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  Speaker 4: doing it. You keep doing it, you can never stop.
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  Speaker 4: You never give up and never quit day after day.
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  Speaker 2: Play off the play suck it up the second minute
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  Speaker 2: five min don't even know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: No matter what you face, no matter how bad it
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  Speaker 6: is going to be, there is a challenge anything that
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  Speaker 6: you're facing. The only way to overcome the challenges that
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  Speaker 6: you face is to start walking.
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  Speaker 5: That all of us have something that we are supposed
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  Speaker 5: to do, That all of us have some goodness within us,
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  Speaker 5: and that goodness gives us a responsibility to manifest out greatness.
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  Speaker 7: How do you overcome the suffering of life?
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  Speaker 4: Is be a better person?
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  Speaker 7: That's how you do it. Well, that's hard. It takes responsibility.
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  Speaker 7: And I think you know, if you said to someone
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  Speaker 7: you want to have a meaningful life, everything you do matters.
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  Speaker 7: That's the definition of a meaningful life. But everything you
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  Speaker 7: do matters, it's gonna have to carry that with you.
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  Speaker 7: Or do you want to just forget about the whole
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  Speaker 7: meaning thing? And then you don't have any responsibility because
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  Speaker 7: who the hell cares? And you can wander through life
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  Speaker 7: doing whatever you want, gratifying impulsive desires for how useful
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  Speaker 7: that's going to be, and it's stuck in meaninglessness, but
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  Speaker 7: you don't have any responsibility. Which one do you want?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 7: Ask yourself, which one are you pursuing, and you'll find
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  Speaker 7: very rapidly that it isn't the majority of your soul
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  Speaker 7: that's pursuing the whole meaning thing, because well, look what
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  Speaker 7: you have to do. To do that, You have to
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  Speaker 7: take on the fact that life is suffering. You have
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  Speaker 7: to put yourself together in the face of that.
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  Speaker 9: The people in life that get what they want are
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  Speaker 9: the ones that aren't waiting for an external force to
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  Speaker 9: validate their dreams, to inspire them, to give them permission.
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  Speaker 9: It's the people that realize that success, that happiness, that
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  Speaker 9: control it comes from the internal force. And what is
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  Speaker 9: the internal force.
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  Speaker 4: It's you. It's you.
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  Speaker 9: It's you being able to realize that no one's going
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  Speaker 9: to do the work for you. It's you realizing that
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  Speaker 9: you're never going to feel ready. In fact, even as
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  Speaker 9: you start working toward the things that you really want
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  Speaker 9: to do, you're definitely not going to feel ready. You're
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  Speaker 9: going to feel outside your comfort zone. And that's normal.
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  Speaker 9: When you start to feel like you're stretching yourself and
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  Speaker 9: you're sticking your scrawny neck out there and you're taking
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  Speaker 9: some risks, that's amazing because you're.
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  Speaker 8: Growing people who earn large incomes aren't lucky, and they're
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  Speaker 8: not crooks as those without money are so fond of pretending.
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  Speaker 8: Nor are they endowed with more brains or talent necessarily
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  Speaker 8: than their friends and neighbors. Nor are they privy to
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  Speaker 8: occult secrets. And only a very few were lucky enough
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  Speaker 8: to have had rich fathers or grandfathers. Most of the
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  Speaker 8: people earning the big incomes today started the same way
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  Speaker 8: you and I did and most other people. The only
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  Speaker 8: difference between the men who earned big incomes and those
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  Speaker 8: who earned small incomes is that those earning big incomes
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  Speaker 8: decided to earn more. They're the people who made it
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  Speaker 8: their business to earn more. Is the people do what
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  Speaker 8: they make up their minds to do. So. Get rid
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  Speaker 8: of the ancient superstition once and for all that people
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  Speaker 8: who earn big money are special. People are lucky, or
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  Speaker 8: get the brakes, or had money to begin with, or
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  Speaker 8: use someone or smarter or anything else. These are alibis.
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  Speaker 8: They can all be disproved a thousand times. The reason
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  Speaker 8: there are so many of these alibis around is that
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  Speaker 8: men who fail to make the great financially are seldom
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  Speaker 8: honest enough to just admit that they really didn't try
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  Speaker 8: and keep trying so in order to justify their failure.
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  Speaker 8: In order to remain seated, they dream up and passed
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  Speaker 8: along these old alibis. We're all self made, but only
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  Speaker 8: the successful will admit it.
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  Speaker 4: Life's easy when you live it the hard way, and
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  Speaker 4: hard if you try to live it the easy way.
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  Speaker 4: Self discipline means living your life the hard way, resisting
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  Speaker 4: temptations and instant gratification in order to receive bigger and
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  Speaker 4: better rewards in the future. It's certainly easier to avoid
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  Speaker 4: all kinds of discomfort and indulge yourself whenever you want,
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  Speaker 4: But in the end, all that you get from that
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  Speaker 4: approach is fleeting pleasure now at the expense of your future,
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  Speaker 4: which otherwise could have been much better. Consider a weak
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  Speaker 4: willed person who, when faced with a challenge, immediately opts out.
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  Speaker 4: How likely is this person to achieve anything substantial in life?
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  Speaker 4: If their primary value is to feel comfortable? How is
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  Speaker 4: this person going to manage a crisis that they must face.
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  Speaker 4: Even a relatively insignificant problem can become an insurmountable obstacle
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  Speaker 4: for a person who's been living a sheltered life and
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  Speaker 4: always avoided what's difficult or disagreeable. Now contrasts that with
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  Speaker 4: a person who voluntarily makes his or her life harder.
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  Speaker 4: They seek out and welcome challenges as opportunities to grow.
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  Speaker 4: Each self imposed affliction strengthens them so that fewer and
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  Speaker 4: fewer difficulties in life overwhelmed them day by day. They
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  Speaker 4: immunize themselves against problems precisely because they seek them out.
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  Speaker 4: When life deals with them and una expected blow, they're
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  Speaker 4: ready to handle it because thanks to living their lives
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  Speaker 4: the hard way, they're always ready for hardships. When you
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  Speaker 4: look at some of the most successful high performers, it
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  Speaker 4: might be tempting to say that they were born this
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  Speaker 4: way their talented end of story. In fact, talent, while
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  Speaker 4: undeniably makes life easier, is but one part of the equation.
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  Speaker 4: I used to be a shy and fearful person. If
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  Speaker 4: you compared me, the awkward outsider, with the most successful
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  Speaker 4: guys at school, you could say they were born talented
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  Speaker 4: to be popular, liked, and as alpha male as you
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  Speaker 4: could get, while I didn't have such luck. However, my
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  Speaker 4: apparent misfortune turned out to be a source of strength
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  Speaker 4: because it provided a spark to introduce big changes in
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  Speaker 4: my life. By continuously pushing my comfort zone, I not
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  Speaker 4: only overcame social shyness and improved my communication skills, but
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  Speaker 4: also developed high self confidence and overcame other fears in
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  Speaker 4: my life. I might not have been born with the
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  Speaker 4: talent to be a people person. I still prefer solitude
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  Speaker 4: to crowds, but with self discipline and consistent work, I
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  Speaker 4: still achieved astounding results. Next time, before you complain that
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  Speaker 4: you don't have a talent for something or weren't born
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  Speaker 4: this way, remind yourself that self discipline in many situations
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  Speaker 4: can more than make up for a lack of inborn traits.
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  Speaker 4: Your choices are made in a moment, but their consequences
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  Speaker 4: will transcend a lifetime. Humans have the capacity to act
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  Speaker 4: against their urges in exchange for better future. Unfortunately, many
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  Speaker 4: people live by the principle of if it feels good,
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  Speaker 4: do it, and if it doesn't, don't do it. In
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  Speaker 4: to your temptations whenever you feel them emerge is like
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  Speaker 4: relinquishing your humanity in a way. As an intelligent human being,
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  Speaker 4: you have an ability and I dare say an obligation
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  Speaker 4: to make decisions that are based on rational thinking. Not
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  Speaker 4: on your instincts alone. Strive to be a better human
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  Speaker 4: and embrace your humanity by exercising your willpower muscle instead
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  Speaker 4: of succumbing to your most primal and least helpful for
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  Speaker 4: your long term goals part of the brain. Your most
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  Speaker 4: primal instincts may provide temporary comfort, but seldom are good
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  Speaker 4: for the long term, except when there is a direct
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  Speaker 4: threat to your survival.
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  Speaker 10: When I first got into endurance events, I loved the
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  Speaker 10: breakdown phase because the suffering made me feel alive and
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  Speaker 10: reminded me that I'd gone all out this time. I
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  Speaker 10: didn't relish it in the same way, but I knew
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  Speaker 10: that breakdown was a byproduct of an effort, and that
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  Speaker 10: if I explored the crevices of my mind, I would
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  Speaker 10: find valuable lessons which tend to spill out with any unraveling.
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  Speaker 10: Most people prefer to avoid breakdowns like this because the
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  Speaker 10: suffering can be so overwhelming it just might mark you forever.
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  Speaker 10: I embrace breakdown and welcome the scarring. There is a
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  Speaker 10: hell of a lot of information in scar tissue. Scars
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  Speaker 10: are proof that the past is real. Physical scars never
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  Speaker 10: go away, and when you look at them, they can
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  Speaker 10: bring you right back to a specific place in time,
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  Speaker 10: But the scar tissue that builds up around that old
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  Speaker 10: injury is weak. Professional fighters who've been hit in the
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  Speaker 10: face thousands of times bleed faster than those who have
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  Speaker 10: never been punched. Once you've been cut deep, you are
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  Speaker 10: forever vulnerable to bleeding. The same is true for the
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  Speaker 10: mental and emotional scars that we all carry with us,
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  Speaker 10: the scars we cannot see. They might be invisible, but
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  Speaker 10: they affect us much more severely than physical scars. Mental
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  Speaker 10: and emotional scars are our weak spots, and they can
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  Speaker 10: open up just as easily as physical scars unless we
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  Speaker 10: do the work to strengthen them. If you haven't dealt
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  Speaker 10: with your scars, they can alter your life's path. You
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  Speaker 10: will be prone to failure during difficult physical and emotional situations,
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  Speaker 10: whether that's during an athletic event, at work or in
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  Speaker 10: your home life. And eventually you will land back in
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  Speaker 10: front of your mirror that never lies. Breakdown is its
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  Speaker 10: own kind of mirror. Whatever you're made of is laid
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  Speaker 10: out in front of you, clear and plain. Your history
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  Speaker 10: and mindset become a weathered old map, ridged with your scars,
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  Speaker 10: and if you read them like an archaeologist on a dig.
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  Speaker 10: You might uncover the code you need to rise again
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  Speaker 10: and become better and stronger, because there is no transformation
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  Speaker 10: without breakdown, and there is always another evolution, another skin
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  Speaker 10: to shed, a better or deeper version of ourselves waiting
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  Speaker 10: to be revealed. I did a quick inventory of my
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  Speaker 10: scars as I faded into that slippery headspace between waking
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  Speaker 10: and dreaming. Psychopete's voice trailed off, and another familiar, yet
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  Speaker 10: faint voice that I couldn't quite place, called out to me, David,
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  Speaker 10: wake up. My memory convulsed and bled into my reality,
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  Speaker 10: and I couldn't tell where I was or what was
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  Speaker 10: real David, he said, gruffly, louder this time, time to
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  Speaker 10: get up, boy. It was the voice of my grandfather,
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  Speaker 10: Sergeant Jack Gardner. Unlike those who embrace affectionate nicknames like pop, Pop, Papa,
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  Speaker 10: or Grandpa, he'd instructed me to call him Sergeant Jack,
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  Speaker 10: and that set the tone for how things were going
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  Speaker 10: to be between us. Oh yes, he left more than
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  Speaker 10: a few scars etched in my brain, and he was
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  Speaker 10: shaking me awake, just like old times.