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HOW TO ACHIEVE SELF-DISCIPLINE - Best Motivational Speech · Motivation study

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  Speaker 1: And in the introduction, you say discipline gives us freedom,
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  Speaker 1: which again feels like that's typically not what people think
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  Speaker 1: of discipline. We think of discipline as taking our freedom
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  Speaker 1: and making our lives, as you say, more rigid. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You were saying then like more rigid and less choices,
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  Speaker 1: less optionality. But in the introduction of your book, you
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  Speaker 1: say discipline gives us freedom.
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  Speaker 2: I think that a lot of the discussions about motivation
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  Speaker 2: can cause people to believe that there's some magical state
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  Speaker 2: that they need to be in before they do something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and as I've said since day one, it's motivation
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  Speaker 3: is a feeling that comes and goes and it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: matter whether it's there or not. Discipline is infinitely more important.
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  Speaker 3: So no matter how you feel, get up and do
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  Speaker 3: what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's discipline. It's not motivation. If you only did
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  Speaker 3: what you were supposed to do when you were motivated
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  Speaker 3: to do it, that's leaving it to chance. But if
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  Speaker 3: you're disciplined, you go do what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 4: That's the way it works.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you want to be a little bit better
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  Speaker 5: in some way tomorrow than you are today. But it's
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  Speaker 5: not gonna be in a linear path. You have to
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  Speaker 5: really do the work. Like you have to back it
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  Speaker 5: with hard work.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care how you perceive David Goggins. I walk
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  Speaker 6: in the room now and I know the hours and
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  Speaker 6: years and decades I put into David Goggins.
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  Speaker 5: It's not on the wall.
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  Speaker 6: It's not a trophy on the wall. It's not a
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  Speaker 6: medal on your neck.
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  Speaker 3: It is actually a feeling.
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  Speaker 7: In your heart.
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  Speaker 6: Through my journey, I figured out.
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  Speaker 1: The one piece I was missing.
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  Speaker 6: The one piece I was missing was me having the
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  Speaker 6: courage to face myself. Wake up every single day thinking
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  Speaker 6: about how can I change my life?
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  Speaker 8: Because what you want, it haunts you every single night.
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  Speaker 5: See, the big dogs, they won't give you the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to have to take it.
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  Speaker 8: I need you to tell yourself right now, there is
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  Speaker 8: no other way.
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  Speaker 5: There is no other way.
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  Speaker 3: There is no other way. Future belongs to the discipline.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying? And you're very undisciplined. And
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  Speaker 4: you're emotionally undisciplined. And if you could develop this discipline now,
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  Speaker 4: you will get much further ahead in a much faster way.
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  Speaker 6: We want to talk so soft to ourselves. We're looking
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  Speaker 6: for that recovery day. And that recovery day is everything
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  Speaker 6: in your life. Everything in your life is a recovery day.
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  Speaker 3: We're looking for it.
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  Speaker 6: It's not coming.
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  Speaker 3: It's not coming.
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  Speaker 6: Get over that recovery day.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think it's important to note that the Stokes
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  Speaker 7: are talking about self-discipline.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 7: So discipline is not, you know, the Marine sergeant telling
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  Speaker 7: everyone else what to do, how to be right. The
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  Speaker 7: Stoics are talking about the virtue of self-discipline, which is
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  Speaker 7: you have your standards that you selected for yourself, that
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  Speaker 7: you are living up to. It's not a weapon that
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  Speaker 7: you wield against other people. Right. And I think so
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  Speaker 7: often when we hear discipline, we think disciplinarian, right?
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  Speaker 1: Someone who's really strict.
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  Speaker 7: One of the beautiful lines in meditations, Mark's really says, um, Remember,
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  Speaker 7: tolerant with others, strict with yourself. And actually that itself
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  Speaker 7: demands so much more discipline, right? To be like, I
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  Speaker 7: never accept being late for me or for other people, right?
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  Speaker 4: I work hard.
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  Speaker 7: I judge people that are not in shape, right? I
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  Speaker 7: expect long hours from everyone that works for me. You know,
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  Speaker 7: there's that sort of rigid, strict form of discipline, right?
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  Speaker 7: I have found in my own journey, my own life,
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  Speaker 7: that it actually requires more discipline to go, this is
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  Speaker 7: what I expect of myself. And this is how I'm wired.
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  Speaker 7: This is how I operate best. And then I understand
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  Speaker 7: that other people, not only do I not control them,
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  Speaker 7: but they have different proclivities, different ways of living, different
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  Speaker 7: ways of being. And that my job is to figure
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  Speaker 7: out how to adapt myself to them instead of forcing
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  Speaker 7: them to be like me.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, that's kind of how I look
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  Speaker 4: at it. It's just the numbers. Like nobody's perfect all
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  Speaker 4: the time. Nobody's great all the time. But people will
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  Speaker 4: remember you for your greatness when they get to witness it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's something that, you know, people have
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  Speaker 4: to understand. Like no matter how good you get, you're
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  Speaker 4: still going to have days that are bad. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that's the advice that I would have focused on
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  Speaker 4: there because I didn't really figure that out until I
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  Speaker 4: was about 36 years old. I would have sat myself
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  Speaker 4: down and had to talk about my own discipline and
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  Speaker 4: what it meant to be disciplined in all areas. Because
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  Speaker 4: you weren't as disciplined. No, I was at that time
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  Speaker 4: at 33, I was 330 pounds. You know, I, I,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of, I was drinking all the time, partying
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  Speaker 4: all the time. I thought it was cool to be
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  Speaker 4: the wild guy, you know, and you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Wild man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that's how I was always that way growing up. And, um,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I wish I would have had someone that
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  Speaker 4: sat me down and said, Hey bro, you know, that's
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  Speaker 4: not as cool as you've thinking is. You know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying? And you're very undisciplined and you're emotionally undisciplined.
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  Speaker 4: And if you could develop this discipline now, you will
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  Speaker 4: get much further ahead at a much faster rate. Discipline,
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  Speaker 4: once you learn it, can be applied to all areas.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's the thing that I wish I would
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  Speaker 4: have understood at a younger age, that had I had
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  Speaker 4: the skills to not only be disciplined in the physical, now,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I struggle with my physique. Like it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: like I had never been in shape before. I had
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  Speaker 4: just become on this one. Right. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: think if I had understood at 33, what that could
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  Speaker 4: actually do for me, I would have bought it hook, line,
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  Speaker 4: and sinker and dedicated my entire life to it.
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  Speaker 1: And gone all in on it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. The amount of progress that has happened
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  Speaker 4: in my life in all areas from the time I
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  Speaker 4: started figuring that out to now, I got 20 years
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  Speaker 4: worth of results in like four and a half years.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying? And so that's the impact
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  Speaker 4: of taking true control over your existence is that it
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  Speaker 4: greatly accelerates everything else. I could have saved myself probably
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  Speaker 4: two thirds of the success journey that I was on
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  Speaker 4: just from the shit that I know now that I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know then. But more importantly, I could have saved
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  Speaker 4: myself tons of mental agony because I could have reassured that, hey, look,
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  Speaker 4: this is just the way it goes. And this is
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  Speaker 4: just part of the deal. And you signed up for this.
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  Speaker 4: And nobody ever tells you those things. You know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Like.
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  Speaker 8: Okay. So how, how does my day look like? So
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  Speaker 8: I wake up early in the morning. I wake up
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  Speaker 8: four o'clock in the morning. The reason why four o'clock
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  Speaker 8: in the morning, man, it's a struggle waking up at
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  Speaker 8: four o'clock in the morning. It's not, you know, it's
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  Speaker 8: not easy and I still want to be challenged. So, uh,
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  Speaker 8: you know, now it's just, it's going to happen. So
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  Speaker 8: the monster, the laziness in me, it's not there anymore.
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  Speaker 8: You know, when I say that, the laziness, we all
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  Speaker 8: have it. The procrastinator, right? The guy who doesn't want
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  Speaker 8: to do shit. The alarm goes off at four o'clock
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  Speaker 8: in the morning. You're like, oh, my leg's kind of
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  Speaker 8: hurting this morning. Maybe I shouldn't run. That guy. See,
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  Speaker 8: that guy in me, he's gone because he knows that
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  Speaker 8: it doesn't work. The thing is, it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 8: So when you say, what is my discipline? I've done
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  Speaker 8: it for so long. I've been doing it since I
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  Speaker 8: was nine. Discipline is your lifestyle. What is your lifestyle, man? Like, okay,
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  Speaker 8: so I could teach you to go to the gym
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  Speaker 8: and you and I, we could get totally jacked in
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  Speaker 8: the gym, right? And then, and you and I, we
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  Speaker 8: have a good two-hour sessions in the gym. We burned
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  Speaker 8: it down. And you go home and you drink a
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  Speaker 8: milkshake and eat like crap.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that is the thing that separates the achievements on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of it, right? If it was easy,
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  Speaker 2: everyone would do it. If it was easy, everyone would
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  Speaker 2: achieve it. So this is one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I try and rely on. I ruptured my Achilles a couple.
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  Speaker 6: Of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: That sucked. I wouldn't advise it as an injury. The
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  Speaker 2: discomfort that you feel and the fear of it re-rupturing,
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  Speaker 2: which is the number one thing you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: have happen, the thing that I went back to in
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  Speaker 2: my mind was, this is why I'm here. The discomfort
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  Speaker 2: that I was feeling, the effort, the pain, the sweat,
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  Speaker 2: this is why you're here, was the reminder. It's like, look,
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  Speaker 2: this is the reason why the re-rupture rate is 5%
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  Speaker 2: to 10% because people don't want to do this thing.
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  Speaker 2: People don't want to do the thing because it hurts,
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  Speaker 2: because it takes half an hour every single day for
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  Speaker 2: nearly 12 months. It's a full 12-month recovery.
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  Speaker 6: That's why.
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  Speaker 2: This is why you're here. And I think that you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the selection is important. People deep down
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  Speaker 2: know that picking up heavy things physically, psychologically, existentially, culturally
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  Speaker 2: is good for us. And I think that that's why
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  Speaker 2: it's attractive.
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  Speaker 3: Life is one big mind game. And you're playing it
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  Speaker 3: with yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Is it true?
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  Speaker 6: I don't care. It got me through the hardest training,
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  Speaker 6: starting out broken. Where most people.
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  Speaker 8: Quit, I had just started.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: And when you take that mindset and you learn to
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  Speaker 6: flip that around, that's what made me powerful. God put
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  Speaker 6: me in a very interesting spot of life where he
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  Speaker 6: made hell my teacher. He made hell my teacher. And
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  Speaker 6: a lot of people don't understand that. So I'm trying
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  Speaker 6: to give people a different thought process of life where failure, hell, disappointment,
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  Speaker 6: discomfort is a great learning tool. And many people don't
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  Speaker 6: understand that. And a lot of people won't even understand
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  Speaker 6: this interview when we get done with it. But it's
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  Speaker 6: these few moments in life that you have. Like for me,
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  Speaker 6: I always talk about it. Rocky won round 14. That
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  Speaker 6: one two minute and 13 second clip of Rocky getting
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  Speaker 6: up when Apollo knocked him down. That one clip when
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  Speaker 6: I was going through a very bad time in my life.
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  Speaker 6: I saw what I wanted to be. And it wasn't
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  Speaker 6: a guy that won. It wasn't a guy that won
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  Speaker 6: everything he did. It was a guy that kept getting
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  Speaker 6: up after being knocked down. So I realized if that
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  Speaker 6: two minutes and 13 seconds changed my life, so I was.
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  Speaker 6: I saw something that I needed to be in the
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  Speaker 6: world I was living in. Means that people live in
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  Speaker 6: a very comfortable place.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Don't listen to me.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of people are looking for that two minutes
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  Speaker 6: and 13 seconds.
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  Speaker 3: So again, I would love to be able to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: give you this profound anchor that people need to have.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like, oh, do you want to do this
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  Speaker 3: or not? Do you actually want to do this or not?
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  Speaker 3: Because if you actually want to do it, what's going
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  Speaker 3: to stop you? Nothing. And if you don't really want
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  Speaker 3: to do it, what's going to stop you? Just about
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  Speaker 3: anything that comes up. Just about any obstacle that gets
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  Speaker 3: in your way becomes an excuse. It becomes a reason.
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  Speaker 3: It becomes a rationale for not proceeding down that path.
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  Speaker 3: And this is interesting too. When you talk to people
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  Speaker 3: that went to SEAL training that didn't make it, most
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  Speaker 3: of the time it's, Some reason. There's a medical reason.
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  Speaker 3: There's a family problem. There's very few people that look
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  Speaker 3: at you and say, oh, I quit because it sucked.
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  Speaker 3: Which is what, by the way, which is what happens
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  Speaker 3: to the vast majority of people. They don't usually say that.
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  Speaker 3: And even in their mind, they probably don't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: They probably believe, well, you know, it was my leg.
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  Speaker 3: And once my leg was hurting, I knew I was
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  Speaker 3: going to have a hard time on the runs. I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't going to be able to make the runs. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I quit. But it wasn't really quitting. It was
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  Speaker 3: because of my leg.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, it's a very strange and really kind
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  Speaker 3: of a mystical thing.
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  Speaker 1: Excuses. You're talking there about people making excuses. What have
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  Speaker 1: you come to learn about the nature of excuses and
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  Speaker 1: if they are our friends, our enemies, if they're ever useful?
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  Speaker 3: Your excuses will destroy you and take everything that you
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  Speaker 3: ever wanted from you if you let them.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like a friend.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's definitely not a friend.
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  Speaker 3: So when your excuses make you feel a little bit
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  Speaker 3: better about the fact that you didn't execute on what
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  Speaker 3: you needed to execute on, then they can make you
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  Speaker 3: feel better. But they're not helping you. They're not helping
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  Speaker 3: you at all. Is that what you think when you
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  Speaker 3: think about extreme ownership? Are excuses the opposite? Excuses and blame,
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  Speaker 3: is that the opposite of extreme ownership? That is the
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  Speaker 3: opposite of extreme ownership. Extreme ownership is... This went wrong.
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  Speaker 3: This failed. Didn't accomplish this. And it's not the fault
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  Speaker 3: of my boss. It's not the fault of my girlfriend.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the fault of my parents. It's not the
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  Speaker 3: fault of the weather.
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  Speaker 1: It's my fault.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to take ownership of it and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to fix it. That's what extreme ownership is. And
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  Speaker 3: this is a very difficult thing to do because it hurts.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you look around at your life and you
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  Speaker 3: look around at your job and your financial situation and
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  Speaker 3: your relationship and your physical health, and when you look
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  Speaker 3: at all those things and all the problems that you
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  Speaker 3: may have with those things, and you say, the reason
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  Speaker 3: I have all those problems is because of me, that
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  Speaker 3: can hurt. That can sting. And a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: our ego rejects that and makes excuses and lies. And
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  Speaker 3: then we don't have to change anything. And then nothing changes.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for watching!