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Force Yourself to Get It Done: Stop Waiting, Start Acting · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Everything I've ever done in my life. I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do everything every day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a lazy piece of.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm one of the hardest working people that ever
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  Speaker 1: step from planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm saying that very proudly because I know what
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  Speaker 2: I do. It's not cocky.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you I'm stupid, and I also tell you
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  Speaker 1: the exact opposite of what I've done.
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  Speaker 2: It's the truth. It is the truth. So imagine how
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  Speaker 2: much I've developed in that timeframe. But it's the scary thing.
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  Speaker 1: Why most people don't want to do that build that
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  Speaker 1: will power is because it is scary.
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  Speaker 2: It unlocks a whole.
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  Speaker 1: Bunch of things about who you are and who you're not,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't want to go down
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  Speaker 1: that journey to discover who they are and who they're
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  Speaker 1: not because it's not a pretty journey. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 1: gone down it. It's not like I went down at once.
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  Speaker 1: I go down it all the time. And when you
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  Speaker 1: unlock that, you can't just turn it off. Like people say, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: how come you haven't retired yet?
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  Speaker 2: I build all this willpower? Do you think it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: let me just retire?
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  Speaker 1: Because my knees hurt. It's telling me every morning I
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  Speaker 1: wake up like, man, I don't. My knees hurt, my mouth,
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  Speaker 1: my legs.
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  Speaker 2: Hurt, my body hurts. But you can still run, So
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  Speaker 2: why aren't you running? If you can still run.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be a time when you can't lace them up anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but you can still run.
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  Speaker 2: So I still run.
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  Speaker 1: When the time comes I can't run, the body will
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  Speaker 1: say you just can't run.
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  Speaker 2: But if I can still do something that will power
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  Speaker 2: that I have.
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  Speaker 1: Created, it makes me do it every sking day.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what they don't get.
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  Speaker 1: What builds a human being is you start with the
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  Speaker 1: small building blocks and before you know it, man, you
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  Speaker 1: become something that it doesn't even make sense to most
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  Speaker 1: people because it's just who you are. Now, that's why
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  Speaker 1: I can still run at fifty we broke at fortnite,
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  Speaker 1: We broke down knees and broke down body because my
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  Speaker 1: body knows you still can.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore I do.
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  Speaker 1: Second you stop, the willpower is gone, and that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you brought that to me because I always.
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  Speaker 2: Wonder, what's this separation thing?
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  Speaker 1: Now, at twenty four years old, I started building something
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't even know was going to be what
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  Speaker 1: it is now forty nine, and that's all it was,
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  Speaker 1: was just.
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  Speaker 2: That everything was going well in my life.
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  Speaker 1: My career was fit, shine and gleaming. I made a
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  Speaker 1: name for myself in the sports world, and I had
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  Speaker 1: plans to get back onto the battlefield like a Navy
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  Speaker 1: seal should. But sometimes even when you are doing everything
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  Speaker 1: right in life, it storms appear and multiply.
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  Speaker 2: Chaos can and.
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  Speaker 1: Will descend without warning, and when not if that happens,
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  Speaker 1: there won't be anything you can do to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: If if you're fortunate, the issues or injuries are relatively minor,
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  Speaker 1: and when those incidents crop up, it's on you to adjust.
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  Speaker 2: And stay after it.
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  Speaker 1: If you get injured or other complications arise that prevent
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  Speaker 1: you from working on your primary passion, refocus your energy elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: The activities we pursue tend to be our strengths because
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  Speaker 1: it's fun to do what we're great at. Very few
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  Speaker 1: people enjoy working on their weaknesses. So if you're a
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  Speaker 1: terrific runner with a knee injury that will prevent you
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  Speaker 1: from running for twelve weeks, that is a great time
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  Speaker 1: to get into yoga. Increasing your flexibility and your overall strength,
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  Speaker 1: which will make you a better and less injury prone athlete.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a guitar player with a broken hand, sit
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  Speaker 1: down at the keys and use your one good hand to.
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  Speaker 2: Become a more versatile musician.
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  Speaker 1: The point is not to allow a setback to shatter
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  Speaker 1: our focus or our detours to dictate our mindset.
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  Speaker 2: Always be ready.
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  Speaker 1: To adjust, recalibrate, and stay after it to become better somehow.
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  Speaker 1: The sole reason I work out like I do isn't
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  Speaker 1: to prepare for and win ultra races. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: an athletic motive at all. It's to prepare my mind
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  Speaker 1: for life itself. Life will always be the most grueling
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  Speaker 1: endurance sport, and when you train hard, get uncomfortable and
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  Speaker 1: callous your mind, you will become a more versatile competitor,
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  Speaker 1: trained to find a way forward no matter what, because
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  Speaker 1: there will be times when life comes at you like
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  Speaker 1: a sledgehammer.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes life hits you dead in the locking heart.
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  Speaker 1: No matter who you are, life will present you similar
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  Speaker 1: opportunities where you can prove to be uncommon. There are
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  Speaker 1: people in all walks of life who relish those moments,
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  Speaker 1: and when I see them, I recognize them. Immediately, because
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  Speaker 1: they're usually that motherer who's all by himself. It's the
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  Speaker 1: suit who's still at the office at midnight while everyone
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  Speaker 1: else is at the bar, or the badass who hits
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  Speaker 1: the gym directly after coming off a forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 1: She's the wild and firefighter who, instead of hitting her
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  Speaker 1: bedroll sharp as are chainsaw after working a fire for
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 2: That mentality is there for all.
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  Speaker 1: Of us, man, woman, straight, gay, black, white or purple
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  Speaker 1: frecking polka dot. All of us can be the person
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  Speaker 1: who flies all day and night only to arrive home
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  Speaker 1: to a filthy house and instead of blaming family or roommates,
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  Speaker 1: cleans it up right then because they refuse to ignore
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  Speaker 1: duties undone. All over the world, amazing human beings like
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  Speaker 1: that exist. It doesn't take we're in a uniform. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about all the hard schools they graduated from, all
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  Speaker 1: their patches and metals. It's about wanting it like there's
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  Speaker 1: no tomorrow, because there might not be. It's about thinking
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  Speaker 1: of everybody else before yourself and developing your own code
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  Speaker 1: of ethics that sets.
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  Speaker 2: You apart from others.
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  Speaker 1: One of those ethics is to drive to turn every
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  Speaker 1: negative into a positive and then when shit starts flying,
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  Speaker 1: being prepared to lead from the front for.
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  Speaker 2: Several years, I gave myself away out.
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  Speaker 1: It was three hundred pounds when I was all UPTI
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  Speaker 1: I was twenty four years old. I would climb them
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  Speaker 1: out and I fall back down. I started climbing, I
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  Speaker 1: fall back down. For the first twenty four years in
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  Speaker 1: my life. I went to my first Hell Week, my
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  Speaker 1: second hell Week, and then my third Hell Week. Came
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  Speaker 1: in Steal training and the CEO, Captain Bowen, looked at me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on crutches, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: All jacked up.
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  Speaker 1: He says, hey, this is your last time you're going
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  Speaker 1: to go through.
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  Speaker 2: Buds Zick.
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  Speaker 1: I had several stress fractures. I had doubled them on you.
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  Speaker 1: I was jacked up, and he gave me a few
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  Speaker 1: months to heal, and he said, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is your last time going through. I shouldn't even let
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  Speaker 2: you go back through.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I started me to be steal.
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  Speaker 1: Training with stress fractures. Stress fractures, finish stress fractures. Starting
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  Speaker 1: the hardest training argue the hart training the world was
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  Speaker 1: stress fractures. And then said, and I started to not
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  Speaker 1: put a cap on the body if the mind is there.
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  Speaker 2: Every morning, I would.
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  Speaker 1: Wake up at three point thirty morning, four o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, go to my dive cage, go in there
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  Speaker 1: before anybody saw me. I'd get duct tape and I
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  Speaker 1: would tape from my fore foot all the way up
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  Speaker 1: to the middle of my calf, and I would put
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  Speaker 1: two black socks on.
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  Speaker 2: And so I ran, not.
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  Speaker 1: Using the pivot, oh my gosh, and I ran my inflexus.
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  Speaker 1: So for the first forty five minutes to an hour,
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  Speaker 1: I was in absolute, excruciating pain. But what motivated me
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  Speaker 1: through that whole process was the fact that this kid
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  Speaker 1: came from that. I'm in the hardest train in the world,
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  Speaker 1: in the worst shape of my entire life. What if
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  Speaker 1: I can graduate amongst these stuts. Wow, all these guys
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  Speaker 1: around me are stuts. They're stallions, They're gladiators in my class, they're.
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  Speaker 3: All hell most of them. They're not broken like this.
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  Speaker 3: Let me have some you know, everybody's sit going down training.
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  Speaker 3: But if I can graduate, it would change everything for me.
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  Speaker 1: If I can start the hardest training in the world
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  Speaker 1: broken and graduate.
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  Speaker 2: So my mind fed off of that.
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  Speaker 1: You are now from the weakest man, You're to have
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  Speaker 1: the hardest man to ever live. If you can do this,
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  Speaker 1: If you can do this, life is one big mind game,
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  Speaker 1: and you're playing it with yourself, Is it true?
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. It got me through the.
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  Speaker 1: Hardest training, starting out broken, where most people quit.
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  Speaker 2: I had just started.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. And when you take that mindset and you learn
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  Speaker 1: to flip that around, that's what made me powerful. And
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  Speaker 1: my body followed, and three months later my stress fractures
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  Speaker 1: were healed by running on it. That prejudice is everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: There is a piece of it in every person, in
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  Speaker 1: each and every organization, and if you are the only
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  Speaker 1: in any given situation, it's on you decide how you're
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  Speaker 1: going to handle it, because.
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  Speaker 2: You can't make it go away.
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  Speaker 1: For years, I used it to fuel me because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of power in being the only. It forces
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  Speaker 1: you to juice your own resources and to believe in
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  Speaker 1: yourself in the face of unfair scrutiny. It increases the
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  Speaker 1: degree of difficulty, which makes every success that much sweeter.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I continually put myself in situations where I
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  Speaker 1: knew I would encounter it. I fed off being the
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  Speaker 1: only one in a room. I brought the war to
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  Speaker 1: people and watched my excellence explode small minds. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: sit back and cry about being the only I took action,
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  Speaker 1: said go yourself and used all the prejudice I felt
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  Speaker 1: as dynamite to blow up the though walls. But that
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  Speaker 1: kind of raw material will only get you so far
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  Speaker 1: in life. I was so confrontational I created needless enemies
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  Speaker 1: along the way, and I believe that's what limited my.
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  Speaker 2: Access to the top seal teams.
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  Speaker 1: With my career at a crossroads, I didn't have time
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  Speaker 1: to dwell on those mistakes. I had to find higher
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  Speaker 1: ground and turn the negative I created into another positive.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't just accept land warfare duty. I was the
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  Speaker 1: best instructor I could possibly be, and on my own time,
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  Speaker 1: I created new opportunities for myself by launching my ultra quest,
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  Speaker 1: which revived my stalled career. When your mind, this is
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  Speaker 1: this whole forty percent rule that.
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  Speaker 2: I talk about all the time, that I made up
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  Speaker 2: a long time ago. I started making it up through pain,
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  Speaker 2: tell that you go.
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  Speaker 1: So basically the forty percent rule is I am a
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  Speaker 1: strong believer that we quit because why how the two
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  Speaker 1: or ninety seven pounds.
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  Speaker 2: Cockroachs guy who quit on everything?
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  Speaker 1: Is now considered one of as man as a planning
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  Speaker 1: How is that possible? It means I had to change
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  Speaker 1: one thing my mindset. So there's no way in hell
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  Speaker 1: that that was in But that was that guy was
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  Speaker 1: in me. One that god came down here and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, man, you're a fat ass, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: now make your badass.
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  Speaker 2: I want a miracle to be a badass. No, it
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  Speaker 2: was in me. I had to believe and make that
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  Speaker 2: belief work and do hard work. I did that. So
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  Speaker 2: the forty percent rules, Like we have like a car.
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  Speaker 2: Some cars have a governor on.
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  Speaker 1: It, and when you get like ninety two miles an hour,
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  Speaker 1: that car start doing this because it can't go any faster.
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  Speaker 1: Those cars that don't have governors on like a fast
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  Speaker 1: ass whatever, purse whatever, I'm a burier gone. We have
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  Speaker 1: that ability in this. But we have put this governor
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  Speaker 1: on our minds. And you have to the factory that
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  Speaker 1: put the governor on that car. The factory is now
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  Speaker 1: you that put this on your mind.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta take that off.
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  Speaker 1: Until you take it off, you're gonna constantly get to
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  Speaker 1: ninety two miles an hour and do this cause you
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  Speaker 1: can go faster.
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  Speaker 2: In matter of fact, you might even go slower.
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  Speaker 1: So basically I started realizing this through my life, going
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  Speaker 1: through all these times, this challenge for the unusual motherfuckers
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  Speaker 1: in this world. A lot of people think that once
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  Speaker 1: they reach a certain level of status, respect, or success,
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  Speaker 1: that they've made.
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  Speaker 2: It in life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you that you always have to
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  Speaker 1: find more. Greatness is not something that if you meet
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  Speaker 1: it once it stays with you forever. That evaporates like
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  Speaker 1: a flash of oil in a hot pan. If you
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  Speaker 1: truly want to become uncommon amongst the uncommon, it will
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  Speaker 1: require sustaining greatness for a long period of time. It
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  Speaker 1: requires staying in constant pursuit and putting out unending effort.
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  Speaker 1: This may sound a peening, but will require everything you
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  Speaker 1: have to give. And then some believe me, this is
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  Speaker 1: not for everyone because it will demand singular focus and
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  Speaker 1: may upset the balance in your life.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it takes to.
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  Speaker 1: Become a true overachiever. And if you're already surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: people who are at the top of their game, what
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  Speaker 1: are you going to do differently.
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  Speaker 2: To stand out?
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to stand out amongst everyday people and be
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  Speaker 1: a big fish in a small pond. It is a
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  Speaker 1: much more difficult task when you are a wolf surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by wolves. This means not only getting into Wharton Business School,
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  Speaker 1: but being ranked number one in your class. It means
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  Speaker 1: not just graduating BUZZ, but become an enlisted honorman and
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  Speaker 1: Army ranger school then going out and finishing bag water porch.
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  Speaker 1: The complacency you feel gathering around you your coworkers and
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  Speaker 1: teammates in that rare air. Continue to put obstacles in
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  Speaker 1: front of yourself, because that's where you'll find the friction
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  Speaker 1: that will help you grow even stronger.
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  Speaker 2: Before you know it, you will stand alone.