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Whether you're battling failure, starting over, or chasing greatness—**this is your comeback season.**
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00:00Download Mindset Daily Motivation today and start taking control of your life.
00:08When I ruptured my Achilles, I knew the severity of the injury and I didn't know if I was going to come back from it.
00:13Like, this is it. Like, my career could be over right now.
00:17You know, I went home and I was just really angry.
00:18I worked so hard for us to get to the playoffs and to have a chance to win another championship and then this happened.
00:24So I had a lot of anger.
00:25Then from the anger, then I was sad.
00:27And then you say, what am I going to do now?
00:30I mean, it's just, it's an obsessiveness that comes along with it.
00:34You want things to be as perfect as they can be.
00:36Understanding that nothing is ever perfect.
00:38But the challenge is try to get them as perfect as they can be.
00:41And what can you do? It's in your control.
00:44So control what you can.
00:46You're not as good as Magic Johnson. You're not as good as Larry Bird.
00:49You're good, but you're not as good as those guys.
00:51You know, I had to listen to all this.
00:53And that put so much will on that fire that it kept me each and every day.
00:58I'm trying to become the best that I can.
01:01It became personal with me.
01:04Tough life?
01:05That's what life is.
01:07Life is going to always be tough.
01:10But just remember, it's up to you to carry on.
01:16Remember you owe you something.
01:18Continue to believe that.
01:19We all have desires and dreams.
01:24Make your dream a reality.
01:26You look for any kind of messages that people may say or do to get you motivated to play the highest level.
01:33You have the power to lose the lead and still come back and win.
01:40Get back up.
01:43If you don't get up, when the count is at nine, you don't want it enough.
01:49I've had many rejections.
01:52I had many doors slammed in my face.
01:56But I didn't give up.
01:58I didn't quit.
01:59And neither should you.
02:01I know you're bleeding, but get up.
02:03I know it hurt, but get up.
02:04I need you in this moment to get up and try again.
02:08Every word I say is the sound of a comeback.
02:11You have this innate ability, this instinct on the inside, that you can come back from anything.
02:23Good times create weak people.
02:26Weak people create bad times.
02:29Bad times create strong people.
02:32Strong people create good times.
02:35This comeback is personal.
02:38Because I owe it to myself.
02:41It's like Muhammad Ali once said, he goes, it's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up to win.
02:48And can't nobody stop me but me.
02:51That's how bad you got to want it.
02:55Tired don't mean nothing.
02:59Tired is only in the mind.
03:01You tell yourself you're tired, you're going to be tired.
03:04I don't get tired.
03:06I'm going to beat you.
03:08I'm going to let you know I beat you.
03:10I'm going to want you to reconsider your professional life choice.
03:13My father who raised me, his thing was, son, you may not be the best, but leave everything on the floor.
03:18You put 120%.
03:19120%.
03:20I'm just asking you to do 120.
03:21Like every day when you come in, 120.
03:24You got to want it so bad.
03:26You got to give all of yourself to get it.
03:29You got to be obsessive.
03:31Because I didn't grow up with things being handed to me.
03:35I had to work hard.
03:36I had to dedicate myself.
03:37And I had to be determined.
03:39And I was.
03:41The bottom line is that if you're talking about beating everybody else on the planet to a thing,
03:46what you're actually talking about is what are you prepared to sacrifice psychologically, physically, existentially, relationally, socially,
03:54in terms of your self-esteem, your comfort in everything, right?
03:58All of that.
03:58That pain you feel, that's a pain of success.
04:02You must be willing to shoulder that pain to get success.
04:07Success is something that's a very lowly path in this world.
04:12Because few are willing to make that down payment of pain, that futurement of success, a better life.
04:16Very few are.
04:18So if you want to be the top, you got to move differently.
04:22There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with me out there.
04:26There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with Michael Jordan.
04:28There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Kobe Bryant.
04:31There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Tiger Woods.
04:33Even when I watch sports today and see these guys on the range, like they're all buddies.
04:38And I'm like, that's not the killer instinct.
04:41That's just not.
04:42I don't think Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson were trying to be friends with anybody.
04:45I think they were going out there on a mission.
04:48And if there was someone in their way, they had to crush them.
04:51There's never any doubt in my mind because I'm the best in the world.
04:53Even though a lot of you don't like to hear it.
04:55I just, it's fact, I'm the best.
04:57You know what I mean?
04:57I sometimes, I don't want to believe in myself, but it's the truth.
04:59I'm the best.
05:01You can love me.
05:03You can hate me.
05:05I'm not here to make friends.
05:08I'm here to win.
05:09At the end of the day, even Alexander, one of his famous quotes is, I have met the enemy.
05:14It is I, right?
05:16And although that is one element of an enemy, that's great.
05:22We need that.
05:23Michael had it.
05:24Brady had it.
05:25Kobe had it.
05:26But there's a crazy, psychologically, you can call it, you know, psycho competitor that they're constantly in the search of recruiting their next enemy.
05:41It's like, you know, life is boring if I don't have my next target.
05:46You know, I'm almost, you know, bad for myself if I don't have the next target, the next enemy.
05:52And if I choose it the right way, then I'm able to bring out a side of me I've never seen before.
05:58Success is the only revenge.
06:00As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance.
06:03As you get louder, no one can hear them.
06:05You don't beat them.
06:06You cast a shadow so big, no one can see them to begin with.
06:11And that's what, it comes down to, like, what are you willing to sacrifice at the end of the day?
06:14You know, people don't understand the level of sacrifice it's going to take.
06:18And there's been moments where I realized that I compete because I want to win.
06:21I love winning.
06:22I love being the best in the world.
06:23I've sat many times trying to find the balance of what I want within all this.
06:27If I was losing, I wouldn't be competing.
06:28I'm here to win.
06:30It is hard.
06:33It's hard when you're young to wake up in the offseason at 6 a.m. to go train and work out,
06:39knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes.
06:42It's hard when you're on your way to practice, way down with all your gear,
06:47and it's 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach.
06:51No matter who you are, there are bumps and hits and bruises along the way.
06:57And my advice is to prepare yourself because success and achievement come from overcoming adversity.
07:05When the rest of the world says no to you, you say yes to yourself.
07:13You say yes, I believe.
07:17You say yes, I can do it.
07:20You say yes, nothing can stop me.
07:23If you want to be a great player, if you play every single day, two, three hours,
07:28every single day, over the course of a year, how much better are you getting?
07:31Most kids will play maybe, you know, an hour and a half, two days a week.
07:41It's not going to get it done.
07:42You have to be obsessive.
07:47You have to be obsessive.
07:48You have to be addicted.
07:50You have to be disciplined.
07:51The key there is you.
07:53Everyone else is looking for other individuals to do stuff for you.
07:57Stop looking for f***ing help from everybody else.
08:02Okay?
08:02It starts and it ends with you.
08:05Your identity starts and it ends with you.
08:09Every day is an opportunity based on your choices, on how you look at things,
08:16the choices you make every day.
08:19That is what you are in the mirror today.
08:22From the captain to the cashier, there is more in you.
08:26Stay-at-home father, stay-at-home mother, lawyer, doctor, hygienist, author.
08:31I don't know who you are, where you're from, but there's more in you that becomes a part of who you are,
08:38that changes how you think, that changes how you move, that changes how you behave.
08:44If you could become an executor, if you could execute, I'm talking about learn it.
08:49I'm talking about putting deep within.
08:51Now you hear it.
08:52You have to realize that there's always work to do and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do
08:58and you'll put yourself in position to be successful.
09:01Muhammad Ali said, suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion.
09:06Because he knew that the training wasn't killing him.
09:10The training was making him.
09:12It was forging him in fire.
09:15I've got to trust that nothing out there can stop who I am inside.
09:23You've got to stand on your faith.
09:26You've got to stand on your strength.
09:28You've got to stand on who you are.
09:31I will rise again and I will push.
09:35I will be the victorious one.
09:38I will conquer.
09:40Listen to me.
09:40If you work for it, if you're willing to put in that sweat, that blood and those tears, baby, I'm telling you,
09:46you can have what you want, be what you want, do what you want.
09:49Are you hearing me?
09:50Don't give up.
09:51Don't give in.
09:52You hang in there.
09:53You hang in there because if you quit right now, you ain't going to never see it.
09:57You ain't going to never get it.
09:58But if you hold on, baby, but if you hold on, if you hold on, everything you dreamed of,
10:05everything you envisioned, everything you worked for, it's coming.
10:08If you work hard, you can't have it.
10:11It ain't nothing you can't have.
10:12You deserve it.
10:14It ain't nothing you can't have if you're willing to work for it.
10:19Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, how much more can you take?
10:26What tried to kill you only made you stronger.
10:30I was born David Goggins.
10:41David Goggins wasn't good enough.
10:43He was a scared, bullied, abused kid who struggled in life.
10:49And that kid, whenever something got tough, no matter how hard I trained, no matter how
10:55ready I was, whenever something got tough for me, David Goggins, the real David Goggins
11:02would come out and he would quit.
11:03So I realized this over a period of time.
11:07So I had to build Goggins.
11:10And in that process, that's where I get better.
11:14You get to face a lot of s***, young man.
11:17You got a long journey ahead of you because you're going to find out that while your dad
11:20did a lot of s*** to you, you're going to have to make it on your own.
11:24Because this world we live in is tough.
11:27It's tough.
11:28It will beat you down.
11:30The world and the life that we live in is the ultimate competitor.
11:33The world's tough.
11:35The world's tough.
11:38It will try to take you out.
11:39It will find your weakness and it will just hammer you.
11:46So it's time to get back to work.
11:48Get back to work.
11:50Stop hearing yourself talk.
11:52Get off the podcast.
11:53Don't be on social media too much.
11:55Cut out all the f***ing noise.
11:57Get back to the f***ing mental lab.
11:59Because that's where the knowledge came from.
12:01It is hard.
12:03It's hard when you're young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m.
12:08to go train and work out.
12:10Knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes.
12:15It's hard when you're on your way to practice.
12:18Way down with all your gear.
12:20And it's 90 degrees out.
12:21And all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach.
12:25It's hard to throw, catch, block and tackle.
12:28And hit kids when they're way bigger and way more developed than you.
12:32Only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained.
12:35But knowing you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again.
12:41But understand this.
12:45Life is hard.
12:50No matter who you are, there are bumps and hits and bruises along the way.
12:57And my advice is to prepare yourself.
12:59Because football lessons teach us that success and achievement come from overcoming adversity.
13:06I remember being downstairs for like the fourth round and that came and gone.
13:13And the fifth round, you know, was coming and going.
13:17And all these other guys were getting picked.
13:19And it was hard.
13:22I remember taking a walk with my dad and mom around the block.
13:26Sorry about that.
13:28It was just a tough day, you know.
13:29You know, finally when the Patriots called, I was so excited, you know.
13:34I was like, I don't have to be an insurance salesman, you know.
13:40All those experiences that we think are the hardest things in our life end up being the best experiences in our life.
13:48Because if you approach it with humility and you look inward, they become the best opportunities for growth and learning.
13:56Because I developed this work ethic in high school and I realized, man, if I want to be good, I got to wake up in the morning and I got to do the extra work.
14:04And I got to show up when other guys aren't.
14:06And I've got to learn.
14:07I've got to continue to be open to learning.
14:10To be successful at anything, the truth is you don't have to be special.
14:16You just have to be what most people aren't.
14:20Consistent, determined, and willing to work for it.
14:24Integrity, purpose, determination, and discipline that it takes to be a champion in life.
14:31No shortcuts.
14:33It was a tough battle for me.
14:35It was a tough go.
14:36It was tough in high school.
14:37It was really tough in college.
14:40If I want to be the best, I got to beat the best.
14:43And this is where the best are.
14:45I said I wasn't the prodigy.
14:46I learned about work ethic.
14:48I learned about resilience.
14:49I learned about gaining the trust and the respect of my teammates and coaches.
14:54I learned about how to dig deep within myself a long way from home without a ton of support
14:59to still try to find a way to succeed in this situation that I really wanted to be in because
15:04it was the best for me anyway.
15:06Focus on what you can control.
15:07Focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting.
15:10Go out there and treat practice like no one else does.
15:13And I did that every single day.
15:15I didn't care about going to all these different places and doing those things.
15:19I just wanted to be my best.
15:21The team believed in me.
15:22I didn't want to let them down.
15:24What's the choice you get to make every day to wake up and say, all right, this is where
15:28I'm going to focus my time and energy.
15:29How disciplined are you to maintain that routine over a period of time?
15:34And I think that will determine your level of success.
15:38Be proud of that man that wakes up every day and does the best that you could do with
15:44his priorities.
15:47Did you always have an absolute killer instinct where I'm going to show you, I'm going to
15:52prove the way to see what I'm going to do.
15:54I'm going to kill this guy when we face him.
15:56Was it always like that when you were in high school or that kind of developed later on?
16:00Yeah, I think it developed over a period of time.
16:03I think there was a work ethic that was in me, but I was never, I would say like a prodigy.
16:08I didn't have the arm that could throw the ball 80 yards.
16:11I didn't have the speed that Michael Vick had.
16:14I didn't have the size that a lot of guys had, but I did have something inside of me
16:20that no one could see from the outside.
16:23This level of discipline that I could accomplish something that was really important and really
16:28special.
16:30I wanted to be a great football player.
16:32If I was going to be a great football player, I wanted to compete against these other guys
16:35and they were all better than me.
16:38Don't worry about all these things that are out of your control.
16:42Focus on what you can do.
16:43Focus on the two reps you got.
16:46Fuck your tired body.
16:48Fuck that unmotivated mind and get out there and do it anyway.
16:53And the mindset is me versus me.
16:55It's no bullshit.
16:57It was all about not making excuses.
16:59It was about how do we go out and get it done?
17:02I was so motivated to be the best I could be that it wasn't I wasn't motivated to be the
17:07starter.
17:07I wasn't motivated to win the Super Bowl.
17:10I just was motivated to give my best, do the best with the opportunity I got and to
17:16never let my teammates down.
17:18Those were my motivations.
17:22I think you wake up every day and hopefully you can look at yourself and say, did I give
17:28it my best?
17:29I wanted to be the best I could be, period.
17:33That's all I wanted.
17:34I just think winning Super Bowls was the result of a lot of great process.
17:42Like my view is like you can't control the outcome all the time, right?
17:46Like the ball's going to bounce the other team's way.
17:48Like it shouldn't always go your way.
17:50So you get motivated by the losses.
17:52You stay motivated through the winning.
17:54What you can control is your process.
17:56You can control those intangibles.
17:58You can control the work ethic, the consistent discipline, your attitude, your culture, how
18:03much you care.
18:04All those things are in you.
18:05They just need to be drawn out of you.
18:07And really when you're in that position that you feel like you've got those pretty well
18:11under control, then you start passing those on to the other people that you're working
18:15with that are parts of your team.
18:17Because I don't care how good any one of you are sitting out there.
18:20It doesn't matter unless you've got a great team around you.
18:24You know, you could be great.
18:25You probably are great.
18:26You need a lot of other great people to support you.
18:30It takes so many people to get to where we get in our life.
18:34Yeah, I was there doing some of the work, but couldn't have done it if I didn't have
18:37them.
18:39When I was a quarterback, I was just playing quarterback.
18:41Yeah, it was me, the person, but it was, it was me, the quarterback that was out there
18:46because I was doing a job.
18:48I wasn't the father.
18:49I wasn't the dad out there.
18:51I wasn't, you know, the husband out there.
18:53I was the quarterback out there on the field.
18:55I was a quarterback when I went to work.
18:57Nothing was going to get in the way of that.
19:01You've got to create a lot of different emotion to, to, to heighten your sense of awareness
19:07and focus.
19:07Like for me, anger was good.
19:10Anger was good because it was motivating.
19:12The more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go out and kill those guys.
19:17Now I knew I was going to kill them physically, but man, if I could just, what did they say?
19:24You know, and what did they look like?
19:27Do they disrespect me at all?
19:28Those are little, little, little, little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind
19:34that when I ran out on the field and I said, let's get go.
19:38It was really, let's go kick some ass.
19:42That's what we were doing.
19:43This is the moment right now.
19:47Let's get to work.
19:48The fundamental belief is I'm giving myself to something greater than myself, something
19:53greater than me as an individual.
19:55If I look at that journey from where I was as a kid, I had my parents that were in my
20:02life to support me every step of the way.
20:04I had my junior varsity football coaches, my throwing coach and mentor.
20:10I went to Michigan.
20:11I had coach Carr challenged me to say, those who stay will be champions.
20:15So I stayed, but don't think that you're going to have a lot of success.
20:19If you, all you do is care about yourself.
20:21You don't work that hard.
20:22No one's that accountable.
20:23But in the end, what does culture mean to me?
20:26Do we care about each other?
20:28And do we care about what we're trying to accomplish?
20:32Most people just care about themselves.
20:36Well, that's a lot.
20:37That's a lot of consistent discipline.
20:39It means that you got to do a lot more right than wrong.
20:42It means that you got to make a lot more good choices than bad choices.
20:45It means you have to be more disciplined than not disciplined physically, mentally, emotionally.
20:51All those little things add up.
20:53The man in the glass, that's the one that motivated me.
20:58He's the guy I was accountable to.
21:00Nothing that anyone did took away from me.
21:02The only person that could take away from me is me.
21:05Everyone believes in the American dream until it comes true.
21:08And I remember because what had happened was everybody, when I was sleeping on the gym floor, right?
21:14Like, you know, I was the underdog.
21:16You know, my clients were all like, oh, good for you.
21:19You know, you're going after your dream.
21:20They'd see my blanket and my pillow in the corner of the gym and they knew I was sleeping there.
21:24And it was evident.
21:25You know, I lived there.
21:26And everybody was like pro me.
21:29And then people come in.
21:30They sign up like, I'm going to support you, right?
21:32And then within nine months, I had hired people and I had a manager.
21:36And I pulled up and I remember I walked in the lobby and all the same people were like, ah, boss man's here.
21:45Oh, you're not too good for us now, right?
21:48And I remember being so jarred by the experience.
21:51And I was like, you guys rooted for me.
21:55And I was like, and now I did what you said you were rooting for me to do.
22:00And that was when I realized that people want you to do well, but not better than them.
22:06The reason the goal isn't coming at you fast enough is because every person you've seen accomplish the goal, you only see it the moment they accomplish it.
22:16And the reason that it hurts so much when people are like, must be nice.
22:22Oh, that happened overnight is because every time you fail, no one cares and no one sees.
22:29But when you finally win, people take notice.
22:32Disgrudged it.
22:32But it's the only time they notice is when you actually win.
22:36And so to even further reinforce the point, the fact that everyone looks like an overnight success means that the 10 years where they sucked, no one saw.
22:47And so the fear that you have about people noticing the fact that you fail is ridiculous because they're barely going to notice when you succeed.
22:56The difficulty with personal development and entrepreneurship is that you don't know when the end is coming, but you still need to fight.
23:04And the only certainty that I can give you is that it's the same thing that every other person who got through that period went through.
23:10But I think the thing that everyone who's listening lacks is the context on how hard hard work is, not in that it's complex, but just in that it's a continuous and unending focus on one thing and noticing the details that separate mediocrity from greatness.
23:30And if you're like, I don't know what the difference between those two things is, that is the opportunity that hard work reveals.
23:36And most people expect that is hard work because that's the hardest they've worked, not the amount of hard work that is required in order to get the level of outcome that they say they want or that they expect.
23:54And until you get great, because as soon as you get great at one thing, you realize just the tremendous amount of hours and work that it takes to be great at one thing.
24:04And then there's this oh shit moment that I can express personally, which is you realize that there's so few things that you can be great at.
24:09And then the discipline comes down to saying, what are the two or three things that I can be really good at in my life?
24:15Because it will take me five to seven years to be exceptional at this one thing.
24:21I am okay being a beacon of relentless hard work.
24:29And that's the never ending cycle of excellence.
24:34Oh, I just have to figure out what to do.
24:40When I wake up every day, there's only one voice I have to listen to.
24:46And so then it's like, just do it for me.
24:51Yeah, we need to be reminded more than we need to be taught.
24:54It's one of my favorites.
24:55There have been so many times in my life where I knew I needed to do something, and then I filled all this extra time not doing that thing.
25:05And then the moment I did it, I was like, wow, that took way less time than I thought it was going to take.
25:11And not only that, it took way less time than it took me to delay to actually get to this point.
25:16And if I had only started with just doing what I was supposed to do, I could have done four or five other things that I was also supposed to do by this exact same point.
25:25The vast majority of business owners work a fair amount.
25:52They just work on the wrong stuff, and they do it the wrong way.
25:56And so they get so little for their effort that they wonder when they're at home, empty-handed, in bed, why isn't this working when I am working?
26:06But if you define work, at least the way I do, which is output, and in order to get output, it's volume times leverage.
26:13So how many times you do the thing times how much you get for each time you do it.
26:17And so that is the, do you work smart or do you work hard?
26:20It's you do both. You do as many reps as you possibly can, and you do it with the most leverage possible.
26:25So if I make 100 phone calls, the leverage that I can have there would be how skilled I am.
26:31So if I make 100 calls, I might get 10 times more.
26:33And so I worked more. I had more output than somebody who has less skill.
26:36But the only way you get skilled is by working more.
26:39And so it's this virtuous cycle of doing more and getting better, and then you get more for what you do.
26:42I talk about the rule of 100 on steroids, which is something that I learned from a guy who owned 13 or 14 really successful gyms, and he called it open to goal.
26:54And he said, yeah, yeah, yeah. He said, my managers work open to goal.
26:57And I was like, what does that mean?
26:58It's like, so they work open until they hit their goal.
27:02And so sometimes that means they hit their goal by noon and they can cut out.
27:06Or that means that they have to go from 5 a.m. until midnight that night, because that's how long it took them to hit the goal.
27:13And so I've seen this across a lot of high achievers across domains.
27:18So like, I'll keep shooting free shots until I hit 100 free shots.
27:22I will run until this happens.
27:24I will practice my presentation until I do zero mess-ups, right, or whatever that output is that you want for quality or quantity.
27:33And the more times you do what is required to get what you want, the more times you get what you want.
27:39But when no one's watching, I work harder than when they're watching.
27:44Thinking about it like that has given me this persistent and ever-present scorecard or third party that's like, no one's watching, which means now you have to work, because otherwise you're full of shit.
27:58And so it's this continuous reinforcing cycle of me and other me holding the whip behind me to see how much I can take.
28:07But with each lash of the whip that I take, learning that I can take it and continue to trudge on.
28:15As long as you keep going, you bear witness to yourself of what you are capable of.
28:20And I find that incredibly satisfying in the trenches of misery when you have to go through it.
28:30Hard work is the goal.
28:33And so it's not like work hard, so that, X.
28:36Because as soon as you have a so that, then the X is the thing.
28:40But if the goal is to work as hard as you possibly can, then the only real output we have is who we become along the way.
28:50Then it's something that I can win or measure myself against every day in real time throughout the day, which is how hard am I working?
28:59Because that is the goal.
29:00Because I know that when I look back on my life, the days that I loved the most were days when I had nothing left in the tank.
29:06And so then the goal becomes to empty the tank, not what where I drive, but just to drive the car as hard as I possibly can.
29:14And that means that in the beginning, it's just straightaways and just seeing how high I can rev the engine.
29:18But as I become more advanced, it's like, all right, well, now we've got turns and then it's turns and elevation and then it's turns and elevation without guardrails because we have risk.
29:27And so when I think about how hard I want to work, the interesting thing about that is that the only person who can judge you on your success is you because you're the only one who knows how much left in the tank you really had.
29:37And there's this huge time delay between when we start behaving in a way that a winner behaves and when we start winning.
29:47And the problem is that the bigger the mountain you're trying to climb, the bigger the W you're trying to get, typically the more delayed it is between when you start behaving like a winner and when you start being a winner.
30:00And most people don't get the fast enough feedback loop to know that they're on the right path when they are taking these first steps in the right direction because they have this really big goal.
30:12But they forget that with that really big goal comes the even longer delay that it takes to get there.
30:20Those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway.
30:36That is actually the dream.
30:40That's the dream.
30:41It's not the destination.
30:43It's the journey.
30:43And if you guys, if you guys can understand that, then what you'll see happen is that you won't accomplish your dreams.
30:53Your dreams won't come true.
30:55Something greater will.
31:00It's an amazing thing about passion.
31:03If you love something, if you have a strong passion for something, you would go to the extreme to try to understand
31:12or try to get it.
31:16Whatever you have a love for, if you have to walk, you will go get it.
31:21If you have to beg someone, you will go get it.
31:25I don't think you guys understand how present you guys were with me.
31:28You know, you guys were there with me at 5.30 in the morning when I was running the track and I was midway through my workout.
31:34And I didn't know if I could make it through.
31:36And I thought about the expectations you guys have for me and you have for our team.
31:40And it pushed me through.
31:42It got me through those 800s and 400s and 100s at 5.30 in the morning.
31:47So I thank you.
31:48We're not on this stage just because of talent or ability.
31:52We're up here because of 4 a.m.
31:54We're up here because of two-a-days or five-a-days.
31:57We're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way.
32:02If anything tried to bring us down, we used it to make us stronger.
32:06We were never satisfied, never finished, we'll never be retired.
32:12My high school English teacher, Mr. Fisk, he had this beautiful quote and it read,
32:17Rest at the end, not in the middle.
32:20And I took that to heart.
32:22I believe there's time for resting at the end.
32:24But for me, that time is not now.
32:27Thank you for this tremendous honor and acknowledge my basketball career.
32:30But I'm far from done.
32:31My next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes
32:35to have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never, ever rest in the middle.
32:43Rest at the end, not in the middle.
32:48Be yourself.
32:50That's it.
32:51Be you.
32:52Be you.
32:53There's no gimmick.
32:54There's no...
32:55You don't have to contrive anything.
32:57Who are you?
32:58Where are you today?
32:59What is your story?
33:00Where does that come from?
33:02And if you guys can understand that, and I'm doing my job as a father,
33:06thank you guys so much.
33:07I love you.
33:11Mamba out.
33:24Because if you play with the fear of failing,
33:27you'll have the pressure on yourself to play, you know, to capitulate to that fear.
33:32If you play with the sense of, I want to win, I want to win,
33:35then you have the fear of what happens if you don't.
33:37But if you find common ground in the middle, in the center,
33:41then it doesn't matter.
33:42You're unfazed by either, right?
33:44And that enables you to really just stay in the moment,
33:46stay connected to it,
33:47and not feel anything other than what's in front of you.
33:49So, you know, I try to just be dead center.
33:55You start with what do you want your game to be,
33:58what would make your game most unstoppable or hard to deal with,
34:03and now you work backwards from there.
34:05And you start building it one piece at a time,
34:08one at a time, one counter at a time.
34:14Who would Shaq be if he had your work ethic?
34:17He'd be the greatest of all time.
34:20If Shaq had your work ethic?
34:21He'd be the greatest of all time.
34:22Greatest of all time by myself.
34:23He'd be the first to tell you that, for sure.
34:26I mean, this guy was a force, like, I have never seen.
34:31I mean, he was crazy.
34:33You know, a guy at that size,
34:34generally guys at that size are a little timid,
34:37and they don't want to be tall.
34:40They don't want to be big.
34:42Man, this dude was, he did not care.
34:45He was mean.
34:46He was nasty.
34:48He was competitive.
34:49He was vindictive.
34:51I mean, he was, yeah.
34:53I wish he was in a gym.
34:54I would have had 12 rings.
34:59He had the work ethic.
35:01My God, yeah.
35:03We ain't been close.
35:08If you're lazy, man, I don't want to talk to you.
35:10I want to deal with you.
35:11You're going to make me feel dumber.
35:15You know, you're going to lower my level.
35:17I don't think so.
35:18You can go over there.
35:20There's plenty of teams in here where you'll fit right in.
35:23I don't deal with people that don't commit at that level,
35:30but then act as if they do.
35:33I don't deal with that.
35:35I don't.
35:36It's real shit.
35:37I mean, listen.
35:38So, like, we used to get into stuff all the time because it was like, you know, he would say,
35:44okay, Kobe's not throwing me the ball.
35:45And, you know, media would take it and run with it and all this other stuff.
35:50And I'm like, well, bruh, if you were in shape, by the time I run down on a fast break and run back and then run down,
35:58you're still coming down the first time, bruh.
36:00Like, what the hell do you want me to do?
36:03Right?
36:04So, a lot of our contention came from that.
36:07Came from that.
36:08And even though he was older, you were still confronting him.
36:10You didn't kill him.
36:11Oh, I didn't care.
36:12Man, listen.
36:12From day one?
36:13Bro.
36:13From day one.
36:14I knew for sure Rick Fox, my teammates, they all thought I was absolutely crazy the day me and Shaq got in a fist fight.
36:24After that day, they were like, okay, Kobe, you're certifiable.
36:28Fist fight.
36:29Oh, yeah.
36:30Fist fight.
36:30I'm not backing down.
36:31Listen, either you want to whoop my ass or we want to have a night.
36:34But, you know, there's a level of respect.
36:44And for Shaq, too, by the way, I know he's told me that that day was a big turning point for him because it was like, you know, he's generally used to talking trash and saying what he wants and nobody really stepping up and challenging him on that.
37:00And when he saw me challenge him on that, he was like, this kid's crazy.
37:04All right.
37:05I can win with that.
37:07You know?
37:07And so that was kind of the beginning of our relationship, I think.
37:10That's probably never happened to him.
37:11That's probably not something that's common to him.
37:13No.
37:14I mean, he's seven feet tall since he was three years old or something, right?
37:17This is all coming back to me right now.
37:21It was also a game in Phoenix my first year we were playing.
37:25And he kept posting up.
37:28But they kept fouling him.
37:29So he kept going to the free throw line and kept missing him.
37:32And so he'd throw the ball out to me.
37:35I'm not throwing that back in there.
37:37So I kept shooting him, right?
37:39So we're getting the timeout.
37:40He's like, hey, hey, I'm open.
37:43I'm like, okay.
37:45And so we go out and same thing coming.
37:47Hey, hey, hey, I'm open.
37:48Okay.
37:49There you go.
37:50Come back in.
37:51Hey, dude, you got to throw me the ball.
37:52I said, man, that get it off the rebound if I miss, bro.
37:54You told him this.
37:58First year.
37:5918 years old, man.
38:0018 years old.
38:02I must have been out of my damn mind.
38:05The story continues.
38:07The story continues.
38:08So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure on Monday is if you decide to not progress from that.
38:16Right?
38:16So to me, that's why failure is not existing.
38:20Because, you know, if I fail today, okay, I'm going to learn something from that failure.
38:23And I'm going to try again on Tuesday.
38:28Those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway.
38:34That's the dream.
38:35It's not the destination.
38:36It's the journey.
38:41Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.
38:46Like, success is getting what you want.
38:49Fulfillment is living what you're made for.
38:53Fulfillment and success, they're not even in the same universe.
38:58People ask me all the time, what does it take to be happy?
39:01And I always tell them it's really simple.
39:03One word, progress.
39:06Progress equals happiness.
39:07If you keep growing, you're going to feel alive.
39:10And if you keep growing, you're going to have more to give.
39:14It doesn't matter how many statues, Oscars they give you, or Emmys, or how much money you have in the bank.
39:20We've all seen people at all those things, and I get the phone call because they're depressed, or somebody commits suicide in that area.
39:29It's really an inner game, and I think that's what's missing for us today.
39:33Everybody's focusing on the outside world, and hell, there's a lot of things in the outside world you'll never be able to control.
39:41You can influence, but you can't control it.
39:43This, your mind, your emotions, your body, you have 100% control over what you do with these things, and that's where the game is won.
39:55You win the inner game, then you win the outer game.
39:57But a lot of people spent their life trying to win the outer game, and they won, and they're miserable.
40:00Someone can tell your whole life you're a piece of crap, but you can say, screw you, read between the lines, and make your life work.
40:07Someone can tell your whole life you're beautiful, you're intelligent, you're the smartest person in the world, and you don't believe it.
40:13Because self-esteem doesn't come from what people say about you.
40:15Self-esteem is earned within yourself.
40:18It's esteem for yourself, which only comes by doing things that are incredibly difficult, and then your brain goes, this is who I am.
40:26You really got to figure out what you're made for, and nobody knows in the beginning.
40:30So you start where you are, and you do what's in front of you, you do what's next, and you keep growing until you start to discover, hey, this is my real passion.
40:39So identity is the number one thing I work to change with people, to expand it.
40:43Expand your own sense of who you really are, and what you're capable of.
40:46And the mindset has to be, destroy any limitation, and move forward, move forward, move forward.
40:54I think passion is the genesis of genius.
40:57If you've got enough passion, you're going to find answers nobody else does.
41:01But most people run out of fuel, meaning they get tired, they get exhausted, they get burnt out, they get, you know, the law of familiarity.
41:09They're around something so much, they take it a little bit for granted.
41:13And I've managed to see something in myself that I've found in every great leader that I've ever respected.
41:19And that is, I value intelligence immensely.
41:23But I know really smart people can't fight their way out of a paper bag pragmatically, right?
41:27What I see as the one common denominator of people that are successful over a lifetime is the sustained hunger.
41:34Hunger is the number one factor.
41:37You need to be good at pattern recognition, and that's what gets somebody strong at anything.
41:42I mean, look at, you know, why is Amazon doing so well?
41:46You realize one pattern was valued over anything else, convenience, right?
41:50If you look at Tom Brady, a friend of mine, he's got pattern recognition like nobody else at 43 years old.
41:55He's able to do things no one dreamed could be done.
41:57He's got more Super Bowl rings than any team.
42:00See, what do they see that none of us see?
42:03What's the pattern?
42:04Then you've got to learn pattern utilization.
42:06It's one thing to see it.
42:07It's another thing to use it.
42:08And then if you're good after a while, you get to pattern creation.
42:10It's like if you learn to play the piano, most people play other people's music.
42:14And there's a point you've learned so much that you're able to create.
42:19It really comes down to anyone can learn anything if it's important enough to you.
42:24So it's like my drive is not just for me.
42:27That wouldn't be enough because it's easy to meet your own needs.
42:29It's not that difficult.
42:30But if you can find something that you care about more than yourself, your daughter, your son, your family, your business, your mission, your community, whatever it is,
42:38that's really the secret to energy and vitality and strength and really learning.
42:42One of the things I want to do with people during this challenge is take things that seem so complex and make them so simple so you do it.
42:53Get it really simple.
42:54Things you can do right now to change your life.
42:56You can go to experience it that day.
42:58And then you get momentum.
43:00Day one, day two, day three, day four.
43:01And all of a sudden now what used to be hard to do is easy to do.
43:06And I think for anyone, you've got to understand anyone can learn anything if you can just break it down to its simple core.
43:12And that's what I try to do most.
43:13And I'm just not willing to settle for a life without passion and aliveness.
43:21That's just like there's so much to learn.
43:22There's so much to grow.
43:23There's so much to give.
43:25And I'm wired to grow and give.
43:27And I think anybody gets wired to grow and give is going to have a really fulfilling life.
43:31It doesn't matter what you choose to do.
43:33You're going to be alive.
43:35A year ago, people thought we were coming out of, you know, we've got vaccines now and we're coming out of COVID and it's going to be all over now.
43:42People are excited.
43:43But now after going through two years of this, there's a lot of people now that no longer have a compelling future.
43:50Like, you know, people talking about New Year's resolutions.
43:52Most people don't even have one because it's like they never followed through anyway.
43:56Right.
43:56But at least they had something to look forward to.
43:58They're starting to get into learned helplessness.
44:01Learned helplessness is when something is so bad over and over again.
44:04You start thinking the problem is permanent.
44:05No problem is permanent.
44:07Or you start thinking the problem is pervasive because I haven't handled my finances.
44:10My whole world's over.
44:11Or because my relationship's bad, my whole world's over.
44:14Your life is bigger than that.
44:15My goal right now is to shake that up for people.
44:17People need a new perspective.
44:19And you can't do it by just sitting and thinking.
44:21You've got to move your body.
44:23You've got to change your energy and your focus.
44:24But if I get you into a higher state of being mentally, emotionally, physically, then all
44:31of a sudden you start remembering who you are and you start coming up with answers that
44:34you never even thought were possible before.
44:35The idea of remembering who you are is something incredibly powerful.
44:41There was a Batman cartoon where he gets amnesia and he gets put in like a camp, basically, a work camp, and he can't get out.
44:52And he feels stuck and weak and, you know, afraid.
44:56And then something happens.
44:58I don't remember what triggers his memory.
44:59And he remembers that he's Batman.
45:03Just in remembering that he's Batman, he then takes the actions to fight his way out.
45:08And look, I know it's a cartoon.
45:09But that has always resonated with me.
45:12And whenever I'm feeling anxious about something, I always tell myself, remember who you are.
45:17But you're really talking about the most important concept in lasting change, identity.
45:22We all define ourselves in certain ways.
45:26So you start where you are and you do what's in front of you, do what's next.
45:29Then you keep growing until you start to discover, hey, this is my real passion.
45:34And it can change.
45:35People go for five, six, seven years and then they usually question.
45:39Their business, their career, their body, their relationships.
45:44And then one of two things happens.
45:45They change direction and feel renewed.
45:47Or they go, no, I got a great deal here.
45:49What the hell is wrong with me?
45:50And they recommit and they get stronger.
45:52But that's life.
45:54And if you don't grow, I don't give a damn how much you got going for you, you're going to be miserable.
46:00I think as early on, I realized, you know, one of the things you have to understand about life is everything changes and everything ends.
46:07And that kind of sounds heavy on the front end, but it's a truth.
46:12If everything changes and everything ends, number one, it should make you appreciate what you have right now.
46:16And then my view is what's next is always better.
46:20If I make it so, it's my job to make it so.
46:24And I think that's how we have to navigate.
46:26But most of us, most of us have been conditioned not to take a risk.
46:31People ask me all the time, what does it take to be happy?
46:33And I always tell them it's really simple.
46:36One word, progress.
46:37And I always tell them it's really simple.
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