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#160 - Your Breakthrough Feels Insane—Until It Doesn’t · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  So when, at what point are you insane and just smashing your head against the wall?
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  And at what point do you actually break through to what you're trying to achieve?
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  When you're on the other side of the wall and you've made it through,
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  you realize that everything that you went through was ultimately building you
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  up and creating you and helping you to once you get to that other side stand
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  and be the person that you need to be.
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  I think of a lot of people that it seems like an overnight success.
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  It's actually they've built up about,
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  put in about 10 years or however many years, and you don't see all the things
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  that that person has gone through that you might yourself be going through,
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  and you're just wanting to get to what you have in your mind created as I've made it kind of thing.
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  But when will you ever actually make it?
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  Is there a point? Have you set that point? have you set that benchmark?
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  I think you need to put goals, big-term goals, and then short-term goals because
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  you got to achieve something along the way.
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  You don't have to make it all the way through.
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  And then finally, I've done it. It's all over. Good night, folks.
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  I think of Matt Reif about this because he was a person that had been putting it in his time.
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  He's a hilarious comedian, but he went through his struggles.
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  And I want to actually take a look at this.
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  This is a from him being on Jimmy Fallon this was maybe years ago a couple years ago and,
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  And him giving like he was about to give up and what he was going through.
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  And then he he just said, heck, I'm just going to post this video that I've been I've edited.
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  I've made it. But like I'm not seeing any of the fruits of my labor labor.
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  And he talks about him. He was invited or his friend was invited to go to this
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  to perform in this comedy tour.
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  And he's like, I'm not going without Matt. I'm without my friend.
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  And they're like, well, I'll let him just describe it. It's really cool. but they didn't want me.
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  They wanted Paul and not me. And Paul being a good friend was like,
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  I refuse to do the show without him. Absolutely not.
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  So they said, well, we're not going to pay him. We're not going to pay for his
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  travel, but if he wants to perform, he can perform.
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  So I was like, you know what? I'll swallow my pride. I want to experience what
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  this festival was about.
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  We went, it was arguably the best show of the festival.
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  But before that show, the same night, we were at dinner and I was about to post
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  this clip called the lazy hero, which I had already edited.
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  It was at a show in Phoenix, Arizona for like 75 people.
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  And I was just sitting there. I I was so depleted and depressed at,
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  you know, being at a place I wasn't even invited to perform at.
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  And I was like, this is so stupid. Why am I even bothering posting this stuff?
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  It's not going to do anything.
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  And my friend was like, you already edited it. Just post it and then we'll have a fun time tonight.
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  And then that video over the next couple of days went insanely viral,
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  like 20 to 30 million views.
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  And then that made every other view, every other video on my profile go viral.
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  And everything just kind of exploded out of nowhere. 30 million views.
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  Yeah. So it's insane. That is a good reminder to anyone, to whatever you're doing.
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  If you are in the kind of space of content creation, you're making stuff and
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  you're trying to put it out there for entertainment, for bringing value to somebody,
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  you never know what is going to pop off.
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  You never know what is going to go viral.
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  You never know what is actually going to actually just like hit the airwaves
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  and just resonate with people because your life is, it's an amazing thing that
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  is happening. But a lot of times it's just happening behind closed doors and in your own world.
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  And until you actually start expressing it and showing it to the other people out there,
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  you don't know the impact that you could be having on other people's lives.
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  Not everybody is wanting that. Not everybody's wanting to make stuff like that.
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  But I would say that a lot of people, I think of it being made in the image of God.
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  That God wants to create things. He could have just been God forever and just
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  been himself forever and not expressed it.
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  But he wanted to bring value to his creation. And it's like a painter.
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  A painter just write something, make something amazing or artist,
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  unless someone is viewing it, unless someone is seeing it, you don't really
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  get that full fulfillment of what it could be doing.
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  So just like in your own life, you have so many things that you could be showing
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  to other people and could be bringing value to them.
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  And I think that that is what we all have in us.
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  We have that like innate feeling and just drive that we want to be making something.
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  We want to be creating something that is valuable and it is going to last,
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  you know, not just for today or tomorrow, but it's going to last for a long
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  time, you know, and even extend past our lives and how long that we're going to be here.
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  You know, it's going to be, it's, it's going to be over in an instant.
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  We want to have something that's going to carry on, you know,
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  leave a legacy for our children and for anybody that comes after us, you know?
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  So Matt Reif, he had been putting in his time years, years, and like just not
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  seeing the success of it.
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  One video just goes crazy.
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  And it's never the one you expect.
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  It's never the one that you've put in your blood, sweat, and tears into and
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  you've poured everything into it.
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  People don't care about that a lot of times. It doesn't end up resonating sometimes.
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  It's the things that you least suspect.
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  And like, I think that is like, it's an awesome reminder for me as well as anyone
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  else, like whatever you are just putting your time into and your energy towards,
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  you know, I would say just keep grinding.
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  It might feel like you're in a sane asylum, just smashing your head against
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  a wall, but you don't know maybe that God is keeping you in that sane asylum
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  for a while to build up your character,
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  to make you so that you don't just lose, go off the rails when you do see some success.
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  You need to be humbled a lot of times or I need to be humbled a lot of times,
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  before because if I if I just start getting everything that
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  I would want I would probably not execute and do
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  it like be the good a good person once I have that if somebody if everything's
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  handed into you into your lap and just thrown at you and you just have whatever
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  you want in an instant you're not going to appreciate it it's it's corny to
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  say I always but it's the journey You got it.
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  You got to go through the bumps, the bruises and everything so that when you
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  do see some light, when you do see some light, you'll you'll learn to just.
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  Hey, I, I had to, I had to, I had to fight for this. I had to claw for this.
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  I, and the thing that's going to go off and just, just reach people and just
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  touch people and, and actually bring the value. Cause that is what it is about.
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  It's like, what am I going to do that is going to bring value to someone else?
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  Give, like brighten their day, help them in some part of their life,
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  you know, give them something to think about.
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  Because a lot of times it's never, it's about just things become easy when you understand what to do.
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  Like this, this is going to probably sound stupid to a lot of people.
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  It's going to be, it's actually really stupid. The morning that I think about
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  it and more that it starts coming out of my mouth. I know how stupid it's going to sound.
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  Sometimes I go work out in the morning and I have a, I have a,
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  whatever you put, you know, protein powder in, you, in those things you shake up,
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  they have like, kind of like a spiral thing inside of it that just make this
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  makes the contents of it just dissolve and all that, you know,
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  those shakers for months, I had been trying to just open it, open it.
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  And just, I, I don't know. Sometimes I could open it easy. Sometimes I couldn't.
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  And it wasn't until that I had this little thing that I pushed and then it opened.
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  And you might think you are the stupidest man in life.
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  Yeah, I don't care. But it was a life lesson to me that I, you can just be smashing
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  your head against something until you get a little bit of wisdom that just unlocks everything.
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  Something that might seem insanely hard to you, but you get that little bit
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  of wisdom or something happens by luck or whatever.
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  And then everything clicks that key that unlocks everything.
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  So I would say, keep your eyes open that open for that. Pray for wisdom, pray for wisdom.
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  Cause I think that that is the biggest thing that we all we need and everyone
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  needs because that unlocks everything.
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  And then I also wanted to end on this. Have you ever, this is,
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  I come home from working out and my wife, she asked me, how was your workout?
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  Anything that a lot of times when I get asked about stuff.
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  I don't know how to answer that. I don't know what to say to that.
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  It's like the same thing. Like if somebody asks you, how's your day going? Or how was your lunch?
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  How was your, like, for me, I don't know what to say to those things.
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  And I know to the normal person, because most of you are out there,
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  you're normal. You're normal.
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  But for me, like if someone asks me something, I don't, if it was bad,
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  I don't want to talk about it.
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  If it was good, I don't really care.
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  I just don't know how to answer those types of things. Have you ever been asked
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  that? Like, how was your workout? What would you say?
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  That might sound, I'm just going to show you who I am because that,
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  I mean, I don't know what to say to those things.
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  I don't know conventionalities. Like it's hard for me to be conventional and
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  say just the normal things.
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  I don't know how to respond. And those, I think that is just maybe societal
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  and being socially acceptable and able to blend in and able to like have that
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  conversational nature with anybody.
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  Maybe you got that and I hope you do. But like, have you, have you been asked
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  that? And what would you say to that?
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  If you've had a good workout or not, I've never been able to do that.
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  I've never been able to do that.
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  That's why I think I've never been able to just, just talk normally with my
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  wife or with anybody really, because it's like, it's a struggle to actually
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  just say things that are regular.
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  I don't know how it's, it's, if something is conventional, I am like,
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  I am almost repulsed by it, gagged by it. I don't know.
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  It's like, it goes against me. Like I have to, I have to be original.
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  I have to, you can't just say the, what is in that regular conversational tone,
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  what you say in that. It's hard for me to say that. I'm having a great day.
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  What does that even mean? What is having a great day? I had a good workout.
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  What does that even mean? I think I'm, I tend to overthink and overanalyze. All right.
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  So if you've enjoyed this video, I hope you did. Smash that like button,
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  subscribe to this channel, and hit this link over here and I'll see you on the other side. Peace.