 What do you think is the most popular one? Get to the chopper, Austin. Get to the chopper! I am with the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger. My dad and I's biggest idol growing up and we're in the kitchen here. We've been having an amazing conversation, talking about stuff we can't share, but let's talk about total recall. I have it recommended in my top best books. So good taste. Good taste. You know the first thing I would say about the book is we're just talking about this. What did you think? Do you think it was important your upbringing to reprogram your mind? Because in the beginning chapters you talk about how your dad made you work out before you ate. What was all about being useful? He also felt that you should earn your breakfast. So he had me go and do push-ups and do sit-ups and knee-pants and all kinds of things. All he would just send me down to the basement in the chopped wood for half an hour and then he says, now you can come up and have your stets, which is coming back as a breakfast dish that they serve in Austria in some hot chocolate or whatever I had in those days. And then we would go to school. So I mean you earn your breakfast. I think all of this stays with you for the rest of your life. Because so many people procrastinate. You don't seem to have a problem procrastinating. No, I don't procrastinate because I see very clearly a vision of certain things, a certain goal, and then I go after it because you snooze, you lose. So to me, there's no such thing as like, you know, I like to take a vacation and I like to go and rest and all those kind of things. But when I'm on a mission and then I go after something, I go after the inventions. I mean, there's no stopping. Yeah. Now, number two, three points. So number one, your upbringing. Number two, and we talked about this a little earlier, what is the secret for somebody watching? Because all throughout the book, you thought bigger than everybody else. When it was bodybuilding, you were saying you didn't just try to become Mr. Austria, you want to be Mr. Olympia. When it came to movies, you didn't just want to be in a movie, you wanted to be the biggest, highest grossing movie star of all time. What can somebody do watching to overcome the fear of thinking big? Most people are just too afraid to think big. Well, the reason why I was never really afraid of thinking big was because, I mean, how far can you fall? I mean, it's six feet down, it's the ground, so then you get up again if you fall, and you're going to start all over again. So that's number one. So I'm not afraid of failing. Number two, I think in bodybuilding, with the age of 20, I became Mr. Universe. I accomplished my course. I knew that through hard work and the various different rules that I applied to become the world champion and having a very clear vision that I'm going to be that world champion just like Reg Park, that was important to me. So when I did that, I realized that you can do this with anything. It takes just as much effort. It doesn't take any more effort. You just have to believe in yourself and you have to believe 100% on your goal. And then it becomes such a pleasure to work with that goal no matter how big the struggle is because you know that every struggle and every effort you put in takes you one step closer accomplishing that goal. That's amazing. Now, number three, my biggest takeaway from the book was reps and sets, repetitions. So many people want to do big things, but they're not willing to put in that repetition like obviously lifting weights, but how do you apply repetitions to other things you did? Like acting, you talk about things. What were some specific techniques? Let me just give you an example. I mean, you know, in bodybuilding and in lifting and in sports, you learn about the reps. The more often you do something, the better you get. So the same is also with the scene. If I study for a scene in a movie, then I do a rehearsal, not just three times. I do it 20, 30, 40 times that scene. So when I get to the set, I know the dialogue and I then can move around freely and just be at the character rather than having to worry about the dialogue and the sentence and the way the structure and all those kind of things. So it's reps. And the same thing is with everything else. Look, in skiing, the more you ski, the better you get in skiing, the more you play the piano. Look at these little girls that we see sometimes on stage. They practice seven hours a day, piano. I mean, it's reps. It's reps, reps, reps. That's why I say the people that said the key thing is in one of the rules of success is to work your ass off. Reps, reps, reps. There is no shortcut. Forget about the shortcuts. Just work your ass off and then you will come to something. It's amazing. Now, last bonus little point for somebody watching. You talk about this in the book. Daily routine. It's important that people have a good daily routine. What's a rough outline without getting into everything that you think a routine, when you talk about this in the book, total recall, a routine people can emulate that you kind of pioneered? Well, I just have a simple routine. They get up early in the morning. I believe what Ted Turner said, early debate, early to rise, work like hell and advertise. This is what I believe in. I go and debate early. It's around 10 o'clock. Then I wake up at four o'clock in the morning, which is six hours of sleep. That's all you need. If you need more, then just sleep a little faster and then just get going. Then I read. I read the newspaper. I read articles. I go on the Internet and I read. Then by the time comes six o'clock, I get on my bike. I ride down to the gym. I work out for an hour. Then I ride back again at my breakfast. This is a routine just to get the day going before I ever go to the office or before I start some serious work. It's a routine. An empty. You like the empty stomach workout? Yeah, because I have enough fat on my body. Trust me. I'm not one of those 5% body fat guys. I'm the 15% body fat kind of a guy. Therefore, I have enough fat that I will survive a one-hour workout in a one-hour bike ride. I know that for sure. So far, I've never fallen off the bike and never worried about that. Well, you're a mentor to millions of people and you told me you think mentors is one of the most important things. Well, mentors is extremely important. We talked earlier about reading books. I mean, it is great to read about great people, about great presidents, about great athletes, about great business leaders and so on. Because you can learn and you can emulate and you can shoot for the same kind of course because you know it has been already done. So therefore, why not do it the same thing again? And they may be going even beyond that. So I think that motivations and having idols, you know, to me, having like someone like Nelson Mandela that is a great idol of mine about forgiveness and about bringing people together. I mean, who is a better teacher than him? Yeah. Or the courage of a, you know, Gorbachev, for instance, the guy that grew up on the communism and then dismantled communism. I mean, he wasn't a top. Yeah. When he was president because he realized it didn't work. How great is that? How much balls does he take to do something like that? So to me, I admire people like that. Or Ronald Reagan, who was a conservative, but he was able to work with Democrats and Republicans in order to get things done. He brought people together. I admire that. So this is the kind of idols that I have. Or yesterday, we put the rest of Muhammad Ali. So I was there at the funeral. He was an idol of mine because he was not only the greatest in the ring, but he was the greatest also with the greatest heart, who was always giving, giving, giving, because he believed that they'd be going to be judged not by how much we make, but by how much we give. So let's give something back. So that's a great lesson for the rest of the world. So there's the islands of mine. Yeah. Well, you're an idol. I did, I have a TEDx talk. It's one of the top 15 and I named you as the top five mentors. So I appreciate this kitchen talk and this was amazing. My dad, my dad was a pro body builder. If he knew I was here, my dad would have a heart attack, but thank you so much. That was amazing. Now go out. I'm telling you this, people know me for having the biggest book club in the world. Top 10 books. Aaron Schwarzenegger wrote a book. It's called Total Recall. It's his autobiography from start to finish. I am not being paid to recommend this book. I am telling you it is one of the great ones out there. So click the link. I'll put a link straight to Amazon. Please buy it. Ask the Levista, baby. On you and I, we're going to the raw report. We're going to be judges. We're going to be driving the Guides and Ferraris and Fortunes and everything. So your favorite book is? My favorite book of all time. Cervantes, obviously. Why? I would just have this. His book is his life. His life is most incredible. Oh, what's the best book you've read in the last 10 years? Instrumentally, in the last 10 years. I can tell you something that I have written a difficult time and someone says it's the best. Someone says it's the best book I've ever done. I could never come up with one, but I can tell you, I enjoy general autobiographies. I enjoy reading about things that I'm interested in. I'm interested in political leaders, if it's Churchill, if it's Reagan, if it's Clinton, if it's no matter what the party is, I like to read history, American history and in general history. So, you know, and then I read a lot of books. Think big. My mind's still running through all the conversations I had with Arnold Schwarzenegger last night in his kitchen. Talked to him for about an hour. It was one of the greatest conversations I've ever had and that's one of the takeaways. Think big. You know, he told me, he said he always thought big. He said, don't worry about failure so much, Ty. How far can you really fall? We're all only a few feet from the ground and I was thinking mentors. You know, he told me about his mentor, Reg Park, his first mentor and I thought, that's what's wrong in the world. That's why it's so easy to feel lost. Who do we have guiding our way? You know, you got to go out and you have to find people. You have to find people who have done it before, who can shorten the path, who can keep you from failure. He told me, he said, don't fail too much. One of the reasons he doesn't procrastinate and can think big, he said, is because he at 20 years old won Mr. Olympia. So he said he got used to success and he tasted success. And so, you know, make sure you find some little wins in life. Don't always lose. It's a myth that you only want to learn from mistakes. What do you learn from mistakes? They don't have to be yours though. And you can also learn from wins. You know, Arnold learned from his wins. There's my dad. I told him, I said, my dad was a pro bodybuilder. My dad would love that. I'm in here talking with you, Arnold. There's Arnold. Seven-time Mr. Olympia, multimillionaire before he was 30 in real estate, two-time California governor, not a man without flaws. We all have flaws. Always think of that saying, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But what he's achieved is something you and I can learn from, you know? And so much of life becomes nitpicking and you bring up people's names and people go, oh, he's not perfect there. He's not perfect there. I'm like, yeah, but have some respect, have some respect for somebody who did stuff. Saw he's a philanthropist, you know? And he genuinely cares, took the time out to talk to me and have to talk to me. I wasn't paying him to talk, you know? He told me, he said, Ty, he likes to work out on an empty stomach. I said, why? He said, because he always figured he had a little bit too much fat. So I'm in here in the gym. He'll follow his level. He said he didn't procrastinate. He learned from his father the value of not just being lazy, always having something to do. He says he likes to wake up. He likes to read a lot, gets up, he gets active, always doing something, you know? Keep yourself, I wouldn't say entertained, it's important to sit back and think. And he told me he likes to do that early in the morning. People in the modern world with all this convenience we have, the next thing you know, all you're doing is just sitting around not accomplishing anything, you know? Go out, conquer the world, conquer your fears. Think big. It's all I could think, you know? He's a big dude, strong, but his life was big. Made some mistakes, made a lot of great attempts and successes. Yeah. I'm gonna propose the full talk we did here soon, but just thought I would post that while I was walking in here, get a little weights going. Whenever I learned something from a mentor, I tried to immediately put it in practice. Even if I won't do it exactly like, you know, perfectly, obviously people are different, but try to become an action taker. You hear something, you read a book, do it. Try it. Arnold Schwarzenegger tells me he likes to work out before he eats breakfast. Hey, can't get a better piece of advice from a, you know, man who achieved, like I said, seven-time Mr. Olympia. So who's your mentor? How big you think and how much do you fear falling? Watch from my video. I'm gonna post the full talk, most of it, some of it's private, but I'll post a good, good bit of it. All right. Oh, by the way, leave me a comment. Comment on something you've been putting off that you know you should do. Some area you're not thinking big that you know you can think big in now.