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This is What it Takes to Be Great – David Goggins’ Truth. · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So I was just failing. I kept failing and kept
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  Speaker 1: failing and kept failing. So I had to teach myself
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  Speaker 1: how to fail right. And what that means is when
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  Speaker 1: I fail, I can't spend much time in that fail zone.
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  Speaker 1: I have to be able to get up and get
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  Speaker 1: after the next day just as fast because my goals
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  Speaker 1: to be a Navy seal. I don't have time to
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  Speaker 1: stay here and feel back for myself for weeks and
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  Speaker 1: months and years because I'll lose that time. So the
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  Speaker 1: big thing is to know that if you have big
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  Speaker 1: goals and big dreams along the way, failure is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. So how fast do you get up from that?
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  Speaker 1: And you got to teach yourself that. But the biggest
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  Speaker 1: key to success in anything you do is you got
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  Speaker 1: to have an unlimited supply, a fucking fuck you, this
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  Speaker 1: drive and passion and it may come from nothing like
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  Speaker 1: for me, there was no passion, no driv no nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but I had this fire that I'm going to be somebody,
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  Speaker 1: and it has to be there because on all those
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  Speaker 1: bad days and all those days you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: do shit, you have to be your own motivator, your
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  Speaker 1: own coach, your own your own trainer, your own everything.
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  Speaker 1: So to do that, you have to come into work,
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  Speaker 1: and work is whatever your work may be ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: but you come to work like people like man, you
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  Speaker 1: just lost everything. How the hell are you just fucking
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  Speaker 1: damn motivator? Because this is what it takes. This is
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  Speaker 1: what the fuck it takes, and you got to get
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  Speaker 1: it from wherever you can. Whether you make up this
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  Speaker 1: illusion of your life or this false reality that gets
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  Speaker 1: you motivated, whatever gets you motivated, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: here at the tip of your brain at all times
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  Speaker 1: because in those dark moments, you gotta you gotta pull
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  Speaker 1: it out. So that's the big thing for me, Man,
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  Speaker 1: I was always fired up at all times. So every
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  Speaker 1: single day, I'm literally going with your mind and I'm painting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm creating this masterpiece, and a masterpiece is always myself.
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  Speaker 1: But to do that, you cannot have any distractions, because
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  Speaker 1: if you're talking to an artist and he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: think about the next painting, he can't. It's impossible to
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  Speaker 1: listen to you and listen to what your mind and
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  Speaker 1: body are telling you. We must do people don't do
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  Speaker 1: enough of they don't do any of it. You're they
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  Speaker 1: don't have passion. That they lack passion drive in termination
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  Speaker 1: because you haven't spent time with yourself. Your mind will
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  Speaker 1: tell you what is next, but you haven't spent the
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  Speaker 1: time to go. There's billions of people in this world,
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  Speaker 1: and they're all supposed to be individuals. We have a
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  Speaker 1: pack mentality. That's where you're so fucking lost. And I
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  Speaker 1: have thirty miles to go, and I end up finding
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  Speaker 1: a way to get through that thirty miles, and when
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  Speaker 1: I got done with that race, it's the worst pain
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  Speaker 1: I can ever even I can't even describe the pain
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  Speaker 1: of that last thirty miles to anybody, no one. It's
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  Speaker 1: very hard whole body. So when it ended, I'm literally dizzy.
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  Speaker 1: Going up my stairs to get to my house, I'm
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  Speaker 1: literally I have my arms wrapped around her going up
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  Speaker 1: the stairs, and every flight of stairs I have to
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  Speaker 1: lay down because I can't stay upright for too long.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pass out. So I finally get in the house,
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  Speaker 1: and I get in the house, I'm once again on
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  Speaker 1: the floor. I'm in the kitchen on the floor, just
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  Speaker 1: laying there. I finally make it to the bathroom into
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  Speaker 1: the tub. I get rolled in the tub and she
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  Speaker 1: puts the water on me. I'm just laying there with
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  Speaker 1: the water coming on me, and what I pee out
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  Speaker 1: looks like coca cola. And I'm laying there in the
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  Speaker 1: worst pain of my entire life. I'm shaking, jacked up,
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  Speaker 1: and all I could think about was I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I'd just done it. Because when you get to seventy
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  Speaker 1: miles of a race and you felt the way I
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  Speaker 1: did it, to me, it was humanly impossible to even
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  Speaker 1: think about going thirty more miles in that shape, and
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  Speaker 1: once you do, it came over me when that shower
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  Speaker 1: hit me and the reality hit that I just went
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and one miles and that last thirty one
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  Speaker 1: miles was something that I can't even describe to people.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, we got to get you to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: So at the time, my mom was seeing this doctor
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  Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, so she's describing to
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  Speaker 1: my mom I'm going through. He's like, you gott get
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital now, and I just said, just just
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  Speaker 1: shut up and let me enjoy this pain. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want anything to numb it. I don't want anything right now,
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  Speaker 1: because what I had done was I just in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: and people will take this wrong and take it as
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  Speaker 1: wrong as you want to, don't really care. I had
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  Speaker 1: just climbed a mental wall that was amazing, and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want anybody to take that pain away from me
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  Speaker 1: at that point, because that was all confirmation. Why am
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  Speaker 1: I so unique? I'm being exactly what the funk I
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be. I ain't fallow shit, And when
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  Speaker 1: I did follow shit, I was like everybody else. The
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  Speaker 1: second I said, okay, man, hang on, dude, you don't
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  Speaker 1: like this, you don't like this, you don't like this.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you? David Goggins? Who are you supposed to be? Miraculously?
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  Speaker 1: All these things just I couldn't even the list of
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  Speaker 1: shit I had to do, Just why am It's like, fuck, okay, wow,
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  Speaker 1: Once you sit down with yourself and say, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be like Michael Jordan or Jim Brown
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  Speaker 1: both be on my birthday. So I looked at their
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  Speaker 1: birthdays like, maybe can be one. I can't. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be David fucking Goggins, and that looks like this. It
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  Speaker 1: just came everything flooded. So every single day in my
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  Speaker 1: life there's a different thing that comes up that have
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  Speaker 1: to do, but no one knows what to do because
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  Speaker 1: everybody else is following steps. And I went to the
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  Speaker 1: mirror and the reflection in it revealed a lot of
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  Speaker 1: bad things, a lot of things that I was hiding
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  Speaker 1: behind the saggy pants. And I'm looking at myself in
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  Speaker 1: the mirror going like, god, dog, dude, you got you
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  Speaker 1: are something else, man, like you have created a character.
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  Speaker 1: I want to beat the cool guy table. And whatever
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  Speaker 1: I could do to get attention I did. It wasn't me,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't who I was inside, but I was scared
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  Speaker 1: for anybody to know who I was inside. So in
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  Speaker 1: that kindability mirror I call it, I got rid of myself.
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  Speaker 1: I said, you have a third grade reading level, which
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  Speaker 1: is hard to admit when you're a you're in high school,
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  Speaker 1: that you copied on every single thing you did because
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  Speaker 1: a fear they're gonna put me in a special school.
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  Speaker 1: We all know what special means. I'm gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: title on myself the rest of my life, and being cool,
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  Speaker 1: you want to have a title on yourself. So I
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  Speaker 1: started cheating. I was dumb and people say, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have learned this ability. I don't learned this disability.
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  Speaker 1: But I realized I was lazy. So I called myself
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  Speaker 1: out there. I called myself out every reach way possible.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't call myself out. I was just honest. I
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  Speaker 1: was honest. Look at yourself, man, look at yourself. And
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  Speaker 1: it was that day. In a couple of days after that,
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  Speaker 1: I just got real up myself, and every day I
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  Speaker 1: came home, I called the accountability mirror. What am I
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  Speaker 1: gonna do today to change what I see in this mirror?
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  Speaker 1: What am I gonna do today? And a lot of it?
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  Speaker 1: What was? I stopped sitting with the cool guys. I
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  Speaker 1: actually tucked my shirt in went the school looking like,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, this time I'm gonna look. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: like it, so be it. I had to really wear this,
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  Speaker 1: this this leg skin. I had to develop a really
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  Speaker 1: callous skin on me to take whatever you're gonna call me.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna call me whatever I'm gonna be. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I want a geek. But whoever I am, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see me. You're gonna see me for who I am.
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  Speaker 1: Because I need to change who I'm not, and that
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  Speaker 1: accounty billionaire just became raw. And when I became fat
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  Speaker 1: over the years, I fell back in the hole. I
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  Speaker 1: called myself fat because I was fat, and people don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do that. They want to say, Oh, don't
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  Speaker 1: call yourself fat, don't call yourself dumb. If you're not
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  Speaker 1: real and raw with who the fuck you are, nothing's
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  Speaker 1: gonna change. You're not even a human fucking being. Bro,
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  Speaker 1: No way, All you fuckers agree with all the same
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  Speaker 1: fucking shit, and I know I don't. So once you
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  Speaker 1: figure out yourself and who you are, all the answers come.
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  Speaker 1: So every night a different painting is being painted, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a beautiful painting for myself, and like, okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's it. It may look the same to most motherfuckers,
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  Speaker 1: but the end result is very fucking different. That's why
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  Speaker 1: my launch. If you look at what I've done in
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  Speaker 1: forty nine years, it's more than most people ever doing
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  Speaker 1: their life. Because they were a race car driver and
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  Speaker 1: that's what they did. They drove a fucking car. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: I was all kind of shit because that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: the painting was saying. To do, what the mind was
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  Speaker 1: saying to do. When I'm saying this, drive a car
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  Speaker 1: to them, that race car driven to know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: He retires from being a race car driver, and they're lost.
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  Speaker 1: How are you still? I don't get it, dude. You're
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  Speaker 1: never gonna fill your list. But you never found your
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  Speaker 1: list because it never was presented in front of you,
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  Speaker 1: because your head was cluttered with shit, because you never
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  Speaker 1: just stopped for lots of minutes, lots of years and
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  Speaker 1: this said all right, it's me, and you let it go,
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  Speaker 1: and it just damn, it's right there, right there,