there's a popular quote going around atthe momentthe person you will be in five years isbased on the books you read and thepeople you hang around with todaythis is quite true but it applies toeverything else as wellthe person you will be in the future isbased on everything you do today thepeople you hang around with but more sothe people you listen to the opinionsyou believe the books you read or thevideos you watch all the information youtake in positive or negative will affectyour futurethe workouts you do or don't do thatwill show up in the future the foods youeat today will affect your future on avisual and energy level the same is truewith your thoughts and information whatyou feed your mind will shape yourfuture if all you do is take in garbageguess what your future is going to bemade up of commit to feed your mind withsuccessful thoughts and surroundyourself with those who have the sameambition it doesn't matter where you getyour information from you may read youmay get it from podcasts or videos itdoesn't matter just make sure you keepfeeding your mind every dayeverybody wants to be successfulbut virtually nobody understands thatsuccess is a pathit's a process it's not a finish lineit's not something that you do once andthen you finish it is literally thesystematic acquisition of skillsand as scott adams saidevery skill you acquire doubles yourodds of success and that's it that's thesecret if you really want to dosomething in your life if you reallywant to be great if you want to smash itif you want to berememberedthe key is to acquire as many skills asyou can because every thing that youbring into your world gives you anexponentially greater chanceof winning of doing the thing that youwant to do but you have to be totallyfocused and committed on gaining thoseskillsand as the rock pointed outsuccess at anything will alwayscome down to thisfocus and effortand we control bothonce you understand that that's what youhave to do you have to get control ofyourself you have to stay focused onsomething you have to learn thediscipline and apply it on your path tosuccess to acquire the skills that youwant to acquire that it is going todemand of you that you work harder youwork smarter and you work longer thananybody else and that's the [ __ ]secret there really is no grand mysteryif you want to be successful if you wantto do something other people can't dothen you have to become capableof the extraordinaryyou have to become capable of doingsomething that other people can't andthat is the bestpossible news i could give youbecause it doesn't matter what you'reborn with it doesn't even matter who youare what matters is who you want tobecome and the price that you're willingto pay to get there and let me tell youthisthe price is knownand that priceis the acquisition skills that priceis getting so good that people can'tignore you that price is being able tobeat anyone at the game that you'vechosen to play once you get to thatpoint once people stand back in awe whenthey watch what you're doing then youwill have won then success will be yoursbut it was in no uncertain terms theresult of the path that you walkedand as angela duckworth notesenthusiasm is commonbut endurance is rareso when you sneak out that first leadwhen you get ahead of people and youthink hey i've acquired the skill i'vedone something people are looking at melike i can't be stopped remember thatright now at this moment someone ispracticing while you're not doing thething that you need to be doing whileyou're sitting back in your laurels veryhappy with what you've accomplishedsomebody else is going to eat your lunchbecause they have a passion andenthusiasm that endures and at the endof the day if you can want something sobadly if you [ __ ] burn from theinside to do something to becomesomething to become capable of more thenyou will endure then you'll be able topush past other people then when otherpeople break and they lie in your wakeyou will push forward because that[ __ ] thing in you that you havecultivated is the ability to endure itis not the ability to be a badass it isnot the ability to think that you'recool it is the ability to kick your ownass to deal with what is boring to livein the pain to step towards anguish toknow that suffering is a choice and youchoose to turn it off because you knowon the other sideon the other side of enduranceon the other side of out lastingeverybody elseis a skill set that makes youunstoppableas daniel pink saidpeople fail to achieve masterynot because they aren't talentedbut because they aren't disciplinedthe wonderful news about the humancondition is you can get good atanything that you set your mind to it'sjust not going to be easy and it's notgoing to be fastbut the willingness to put in that workis what's going to separate you fromeverybody else and i'm begging you tosee yourself right now today as averageas no better than anyone elsebut i beg you with more force then iknow how to convey with this language tosee yourself as malleable to seeyourself as capable of becoming anythingyou want to become to become trulyextraordinary if you can find withinyourself the disciplineto stick with it long enough and assteve martin said perseveranceis a great substitute for talenteverybody wants to talk about who'stalented everybody looks at the personwith innate talent as if they havesomething magicalbut to meit's a gift it's a handoutit's a freebie it hasn't been earnedand no matter what it is it's only thebeginning even somebody that has talenteven if you get an early win if you letsomebody outwork you if you let somebodywho has more perseverance more grit thanyou then they are going to outperformyou on a long enough timeline the onlything i can guarantee is you will be outworked by somebody unless you pour yourheart and soul into getting great if youdon't take days off if you put yourselfinto it as if your life depended on itwhen you act like thatthen you've got a chance to be greatand as robert horey said pressure canbust pipesbut it can also make diamondsyou've got to want that pressure you'vegot to want things to be hard you can'tseek out the easy life you can't justhope and pray that you can uncoverinside of you some talent that's laiddormant that you didn't know aboutthat's going to let things be easy foryou don't want the easy want the hardwant the pressure want the thing that'sgoing to turn you into somethingbecause when it's easyyou don't work for itwhen it's easy you don't pushwhen it's easy you get surpassed by theperson who has to give it their allwho's prepared to do blood sweat andtears in order to become that thing thatthey want to be so badly because theyare so [ __ ] angry that they werenever given anything and with that chipon their shoulder they're determined tobecome anything that they set their mindtoso whether you have talentwhether you don'tthe only thing that matters is will youperseverewill you stick with it long enough toget great[Music]people want to know how to stop thelaziness and they want to know how tostop the procrastinationthey have some idea in their head youknow some kind of avisionwhat they want to dobut they don't know where to start theydon't know where to start it you knowthey don't know where to startwhere do i start and and when's the besttime to start and i have a very simpleanswer for thathereand nowthat's ityou want to improveyou want to get betteryou want to get on a workout program ora clean diet you want to start abusinessyou want to write a book or make a movieor build a house or a computer or puttogether somemobile applicationwhere do you start[Music]you start right hereand when do you start you start rightnowyou initiate the action aggressively yougobecause the idea isn't going to executeitselfand the book isn't going to write itselfand the weights out in the gym they'renot going to move themselves you have todo it and you have to do it nowyou got to stop thinking about it andstop dreaming about itand stop researching every aspect of itand reading all about it and debatingthe pros and cons of it just start doingittake that first stepand make it happenget after it hereandnowso what was that moment likelooking in the mirror the day you decideokay wait enough is enoughwell it was pretty crazy for me it um ittook a while to get to that pointwhere enough was enough i had to make achange in my lifehow do you find and cultivate that drivelike there is a kid right now watchingthis man and they feel like you feltthey feellost alone broken stupid lazylike they're never going to amount toanything and what you're talking aboutis the closest thing to a [ __ ]superpower that this kid has ever heardand right now he's on the edge of hisseat how does hehow does he like force himself to takethat first stepi'm very fortunate that i grew up in atime when there was no phonesand there was no social mediaand i suggest yes i'm on social media ona very limited basis because i have astory to telland it's a great platformuse it as a platform don't use that asyour lifemy biggest advice to give everybody inthe worldis like i say we live in an externalworldeverything is is you got to see it touchit it's externalif you can forthe rest of your life live inside ofyourselfstop listening to people who are callingyou fat gay transsexual [ __ ]everything that is makes no sense allthese insecure people putting theirinsecurities on you you got to flush itout[Music]you got to just be whoever the hell godor whatever the hell you believe in ifyou believe in nothing but yourself idon't care what it isyou got to take everything and throw itawayyou have to believe in one thing andthat is yourselfand and i'm not saying don't believe ingod or what you believe in but right nowfor you to findgreatness in yourselfyou're not going to find it by lookingin a bookor by even hearing me i may give you thesparkbut you've got to go inside yourself tofind it and that means you got to bequietshut the [ __ ] up go in a room stoptalking searchyour soul search your mind search yourabilities and you'll find itbut if you're not looking for ityou won't find itso you got to go start your journey andthe journey starts with you finding whythe hell am i here on this planet earthwhy am i hereif you don't know that you will live therest of your life searchingalways asking the question why[Music]foreign