398. Q&AF： Promoting Healthy Competition Amongst Employees, Supporting Child's Entrepreneurial Ambition & Evaluating Your Circle Of Friends
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In this episode of the Real Talk Podcast, I sit down with my good buddy JT from Black Rifle Coffee to talk about how to become a better human being. We talk about what it takes to be a better person and how we can all be part of the solution to the problem.
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What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realest, say goodbye to
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the lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality
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guys. Today we have Q and AF, that is where you submit your Qs and I give you the AFs. You can
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submit your Qs at- Email those questions in to askandy at andyfracela.com. And they can be about
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anything. This is where we offer most of our personal development content on the show. This
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is an entrepreneur, personal development, business podcast, how to kick ass podcast at heart. Okay.
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So anything you guys want to know, anything you want to learn about, anything you want to get
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better at, this is where you ask. Sometimes when you tune in, you're going to hear about CTI. That's
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cruise the internet. That's where we put up issues of the day. We call them out on their bullshit. We
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make fun of them. We have a whole bunch of laughs. And then we talk about how we can all be part of
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the solution to the problem. Sometimes we have real talk. Real talk is five to 20 minutes of a rant
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or a lesson or however you want to see it. But basically what it is, is me sharing with you
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my internal dialogue about what it takes to actually win. Sometimes we're going to have full
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length. Full length is where we sit down like we just did with my good buddy, JT from Black Rifle
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Coffee. We just talk and we tell stories and we have conversations. And we talk about how we are all
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just regular people doing real shit and real life and how you can be one of them too.
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So the overarching purpose of this show is very simple. We want you to win. And if you don't win,
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you, in my opinion, are failing your obligation as an American citizen, as a steward of freedom,
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as someone who is entrusted to pass along the greatness that was given to you by the people that
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came before you and needs to be passed on from you to the next generation. So winning is important.
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Winning is the shit. Winning is awesome. If you don't like fucking winning, turn the channel.
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All right. With that being said, I think that's fair. Yeah, it is fair. It is fair. You know,
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I'm tired of this fucking bitch ass culture of villainizing wins. Yeah. You know, winning is good.
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And do you, do you really think after all of this time that culture villainizes winning on accident?
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Right. Right. After the last two and a half years where we've seen, uh, the amount of control that's
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come through the quote unquote elite down to the quote unquote peasants, by the way, that's us,
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that's you and me and everybody else that, you know, do you really think that they want us winning?
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Do you really think they want us smart? Do you really think they want us educated? Do you really
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think they want us healthy? Do you really think they want us wealthy? No, they don't. And the reason
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they don't is so that they can profit from our fucking destruction. So we are the anti of all
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of their shit. That's pretty much it. Okay. And they fucking hate me and they hate you. So let's
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talk as much shit as we can and make people the best that we possibly can. I think that's fair.
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That's also fair. Yeah. So what's going on, man? Oh, nothing much, you know, uh, yeah,
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it's been getting it in grinding. Yeah. You know, had a good, uh, good day yesterday with, uh,
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honey. Yeah. So yeah, good dude. Solid dude. Smart man. And, uh, great dude. Yeah. I fucking
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thought I was having a heart attack cause my arms are cramping. Yeah. So we one fucking exercise
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has changed everything. Yeah. He knows how I fucking train right, man. Yeah. It's good
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shit though, man. Yeah. That's good. What about you? Everything good? Yeah. Yeah, dude.
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I just, uh, I had a conversation with a, uh, specific local sports team that I had a rift
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with, uh, if you follow the show, you know what I'm talking about. Right. Um, where when
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they required vaccines, IDs to get into a certain sporting events, we yanked all of our advertising.
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Right. Um, had a good talk with them, had a great talk with them. Actually, uh, they gave
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me their point of view. Uh, it was imposed on them by the governing body of their league
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and the city of St. Louis. And I could see they've proved it to me how it was done. Um, and
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we signed a new deal to support them. I've been supporters of these guys forever and I'm
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excited to support them. And they did so with a special clause in the contract. And if they
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did any more communist shit, guess what? I get all my money back. Oh, no shit. Not just
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pull it, but you get it. That's right. All of it. I love it. So I think that's a, I think
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that's fair. I think it's fair. Fair is like the word around the podcast. Yeah. I think it
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was fair and it was reasonable and I got to give them credit for actually owning, uh, owning
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the situation. Yeah. So yeah, for sure. You know, unlike some of these bigger companies
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like, uh, you know, PayPal, right. Shit like that. Um, you know, and that was the reason
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I got so frustrated about it, bro, because these are local owners. Like I know these dudes,
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right. You know what I'm saying? Like, what are you guys doing? So anyway, you know, it
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was all good. I'm excited. It makes me feel like I can support, uh, what's going on again.
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And you know, I think if more of this communist bullshit comes down the pipe, I think there's
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going to be a different reaction. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. So that's the way
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to make a change and adjustment. I mean, I think that's an important business lesson
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though, right? Like, I mean, it doesn't have to fucking end all be all. Like, I mean, you've
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been very vocal on the cancel culture shit, right. And giving people the opportunity to
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right the wrongs. Well, I think that's, what's missing in the culture, right? Like, I think
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it's important that people stand up for the, the, what they believe is right. Uh, and we
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did that. I did that. I've always done that. Um, but I also think it's important to give
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people grace when things happen, you know, when things happen that are, uh, you know,
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maybe they make a decision out of fear or panic, or they just made a bad decision, right?
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Everybody makes bad decisions. There's consequences for all of them. That's right. I made a shit
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ton of bad decisions. And if other people that hadn't had grace on me, I wouldn't be here
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today. So that's, that's how I feel about it. So I, I'm a big believer in grace. I'm a big
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believer in second chances. And, uh, I'm a big believer in people recognizing what they've
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done and fixing it. And then, you know, celebrating those people for making those changes, you
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know, cancel culture is weak ass shit, bro. You know, this shit of like putting people
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on fucking blast and, you know, ruining their lives and, and, you know, taking everything
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from them because they did something that you don't like or agree with. That's not something
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I can get down with, bro. I think it's un-American. And to be fair, you know, I see that shift
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happening where, you know, now it's no more like everybody's rejecting the woke shit,
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right? From the far, the, the progressive left. And now it's like gotten over on the,
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on the, on the conservative right side. We're like, if you're not all the way in line with
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everybody's beliefs, you know, fuck you. And like, bro, that's dangerous too. And we don't
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need any of it. We don't need it from any direction on any side. Look, people are going
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to make mistakes. Um, it's up to us to handle them and change direction and correct them
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when they happen. And then I think people should, should get, you know, some grace.
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That's just what I've always believed. Um, and that's in any situation, bro. Cause the
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thing, the crazy thing is what I found is like the people who go the hardest on fucking people
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when they make mistakes, if that were them, they would have wanted all the fucking mercy
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you could ever offer. Not only that, bro, the people that go the hardest on people when
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they make mistakes also are the ones that are most guilty of other shit and they're trying
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to hide their own shit. Right. It's just, dude, it's just a gross thing in culture.
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And it's no different than, you know, political correctness being a self-censorship tool. Um,
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which is, that's what it is, right? Like don't, don't say to yourself, don't say that because
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it offends so-and-so and so-and-so. Yeah. And so you start to alter your language. You start
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to change how you say things. And eventually you start to just not speak the truth because
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you're like, fuck, I don't really want the smoke right now. I'm afraid of offending
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somebody. I have no idea they even exist. If people are offended by your own thoughts
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and opinions, when you know that, you know, you're doing the right thing, um, that's a
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them problem. That's not a you problem. And we have a situation in America now where it's
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just become too divisive. And, and, and, you know, just like, like I'm saying, like the,
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the political correctness, self-censorship, the silent majority, uh, censorship, the, um,
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you know, all of these psychological weapons that are introduced to society, which is what
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they are. Cancel culture is one of them. And until America gets over it and starts like
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canceling the cancelers, um, and says, Hey, fuck you, dude. You know what I'm saying?
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And like, it doesn't matter who it is or what they're like, bro, I can't get down with it.
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If it comes from the left or the right, right. You know what I'm saying? I'm just not about
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it. You know, um, now, now listen, if it's true communist shit, like what PayPal's doing,
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that's a different thing. Pedophile shit, pedophile shit's a different thing. Those
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things are off. Those things are out of my realm for grace. You know what I mean? Uh,
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but mistakes when they're mistakes and they're corrected, I believe in grace. I just do.
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It's not supposed to be. Yeah. And we won't ever have a healthy America again until that's
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back the way it was, you know, and, and the media propagates this shit. Uh, you know,
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social media propagates this shit. Um, and I think people need to become more aware of how
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they participate in it. You know, like when you see someone who's getting their, their
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fucking life ruined for some fucking simple mistake they may have made, maybe you should
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fucking stand up for them. You know, that's how the shit's going to stop. And I really hope
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like, honestly, like, you know, I don't, I know I don't post on social anymore, but it
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was encouraging the other day when, uh, that dude made that fake LinkedIn account. And, you
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know, I said, Hey, will you report this? And the fucker got reported in like literally
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less than an hour and it was gone. Yeah. Made me feel good. But I hope you guys, like
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when you see people fucking dogging out my shit, like, I hope you fucking come to my
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defense. Cause I would come to yours and I have been for fucking years. You get what
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I'm saying? Like, bro, I've been defending fucking people on this motherfucking show
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hard for the last two fucking almost three years. And before that I was giving you guys
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every fucking tool of how to win. And I'm going to continue to give you every tool, how to
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win. And you know, when you see some bullshit fucking address it, you know, cause I do it
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That's real, man. Well, let's get into these questions, Andy. Uh, Andy question number one,
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how do you, how do you, or how should you promote a healthy competition between your employees,
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uh, without turning it into a toxic environment? Currently, many of the employees, they try to
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sabotage each other or make each other look back in an attempt to make themselves look better. The
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result is an endless cycle of underperformance and passing blame. How do you shift the mindset to one
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where people root for each other, support each other, even though they are still competing?
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That is a deeper issue. Okay. The issue that in that scenario is not like hyper competitiveness,
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hyper competitiveness is really fucking good as long as it's still healthy. And
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where people get off track with it is they promote the individual success, uh, and don't,
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and forget to address the fact that we're all on the same team. You know, when your team understands
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that individual success is a benefit for the team. And while it's fun to win inside that team,
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it's still, you know, means like, these are your homies and these are your teammates. And we go to
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battle with these people. Um, even though like, you know, I might've scored four touchdowns today
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and this dude only got two fucking carries. I don't run over to his locker and say,
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Hey, you fucking shit bag. I scored four touchdowns. I go over and I say, Hey man,
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I had a, you know, I know, I know you didn't get what you wanted today, but you know what?
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You're capable of that. And I fucking appreciate you and let's fucking get better. And like, dude,
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there's a, there's a, there's a maturity aspect that needs to be had in a hyper competitive
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environment. That makes sense. Yeah. So like if you, so as a leader, the way to address this
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is to really make people understand that team is first and individuality is second. So it's okay
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to reward people and have competition and do this. But if you have people that are sinking the team
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for the sake of their own individual accomplishments, that's cancerous, that's bad. And, um, one person
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like that can ruin an entire organization. So it's really, really a more task. It sounds like
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cancer, bro. And so, yeah. And so what, what, what, what I've done in the past, this situation
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has happened because like, bro, I, uh, you know, in, in, in our organizations, we typically hire
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fucking winners, like people that are fucking, and some people are more driven than other people,
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even amongst the winners. And sometimes like people get too carried away with their own individual
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success. And so what you got to do is you got to pull those people in and you got to say, Hey bro,
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I know you're a winner. You're fucking kicking ass. You're doing a great job. I love it. Yeah. But
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here's where you could be a better leader and how you could win better. That will actually benefit you
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in the long run, because if the team wins and they all get better, you win bigger. Right. Right. And so
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tying that together for people is something that I think a lot of people forget to do. Um, and instead
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they just look at the person, whoever that is and say, Oh, they got the wrong attitude or there are this
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or there are that you have to remember. A lot of people aren't even aware they're doing that. Right. Right.
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In a competitive environment. So I think what makes a real, what makes a full well-rounded winner is
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not just their individual wins, but also how they help their teammates win. Yeah. You know,
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if you look at like guys, uh, in pro sports, like take Tom Brady, for example, right? The greatest
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fucking player in NFL history. And it's really hard to argue that. Yeah. Okay. Count it up. Yeah.
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For real, dude. For real. But that's not what makes him great. Right. What makes him great is he
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gets everybody else on the team to be great. And that allows him to be greater. And that's,
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that's the key, man. Yeah. So, so like when you guys, you know, you guys, everybody listening,
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this show is hungry. Like there's no pussies to listen to the show. Right. You guys have
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to remember that while you want to win and lead by example, you also want to reach back
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and pull motherfuckers with you. It's very important because some people do get frustrated
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when they see you win. Right. Yeah. Cause they're, cause it makes them feel bad and you have to be
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aware enough to recognize like, Oh shit. You know, I just fucking did this and it was great. And I
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see, you know, my homie over here, he's kind of soaking a little bit. I'm going to put my arm
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around and be like, Hey bro, you did a fucking good job, dude. Right. Here's where I think you
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could get better. And here's where we could get better as a team. And all of a sudden now it turns
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in from a guy who's rubbing his nose, rubbing other people's noses into some shit into a real
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fucking leader. Yeah. And there's a big difference there. You see what I'm saying?
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Oh yeah. And I can tell you this, the clout you're looking for as an individual performer
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is maximized times a hundred when you're winning as an individual performer and you're bringing
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your team with you. You know what I'm saying? Cause like the reason a lot of people toot their
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own horns so hard and rub people's face in it is because they feel like they haven't gotten
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enough fucking celebration. Nobody else is doing it. But the reason, but it's, it's a self-fulfilling
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thing. Right. The reason people aren't celebrating them is because you're treating them like shit
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when you fucking win big. Exactly. Okay. So it becomes this cycle that you can't break
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out of. And the best way to do it is just to like, take your wins in a humble, in a humble
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fat, like bro, in a humble fat, I'm not saying don't celebrate. I'm not saying like fucking
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don't get excited. I'm not even saying don't talk shit, but like follow that up with some
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love. You get what I'm saying? And that's, that's how you really become, I think a well-rounded
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high performance winning winner. Who's also a great leader with a lot of respect from the
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team. Yeah. I think there's something to be said too. Cause like, I see your, your departments
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here, like, let's just say in the first one, they also do a lot of things that like are
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massive equalizers for teams where everybody's fucking struggling. Everybody's fucking, you
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know what I'm saying? Like, like there's a lot to be said about that too, bro. And that's
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where like, as a leader, it's important to put yourself in positions to be humble enough
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to put yourself in positions where your team is actually better than you at certain
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things. You know, like one of the things that first form that I used to do a lot of
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that I haven't done a lot of the last couple of years, but I want to get back to is actually
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training with like getting out, like bro, a lot of these dudes are like super fucking
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amazing athletes. Oh yeah. And as good of an athlete I am, I'm also fucking 15 years
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older usually. Uh, and, and quite honestly, not as good as them. And so like when they see
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me, like, dude, one of the things we used to do is we used to go out in the back
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lot and do fucking sled pushes and shit. Right. Well, fucking, there ain't no fucking
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champion. There ain't no winner of sled pushes. Everybody fucking hurts. Everybody
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loses. Everybody's sick. This is why a jujitsu has such a great culture because
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it's the ultimate equalizer, right? Like the reason so many people are drawn to
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jujitsu is not like the physical skills that you gain. It's the camaraderie that's
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created through the mutual suffering. Right. It's the same thing. Like wrestlers have
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this, you know, uh, T great teams have this, the, the, the respect and the camaraderie
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is not built through the wind. It's built through the work and the suffering. And so
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like, if you could figure out inside your organization, how to put yourself. And by
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the way, you should do this. It will make you a much better leader and it will make
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you have more respect for people in your business. Because like when I go out, when I
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used to go out in that fucking back lot and be the fucking literal, literally the
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last person to finish me, I'm the fucking owner of the company bra is the last
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motherfucker. Right. You know, but like that makes them feel good. It makes me
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respect them more and they respect me more because they're like, okay, you did
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the work. That's right. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Yeah. And, and dude, it's an important thing
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to do. Yeah. I love it. It just takes a little humility. I think a lot of people are
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afraid that they'll be exposed, right? Like you're like a lot of leaders lead from a
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place of fear. They think that if they're vulnerable in any way that their team will
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lose respect. But the truth is that's the complete opposite. It's the
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vulnerability and the equalness that you create that creates the respect.
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Right. Right. Love it. Uh, any question number two, uh, my 12 year old son wants to
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be an entrepreneur. He is driven and I want to support him in any way that I can. What
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do you recommend that he listens to, reads, studies, does, learns, um, and prepare to
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prepare himself for becoming an entrepreneur? And what things did your parents do for you?
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Well, first of all, I think we all recognize that the education system, I think at least,
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you know, 70% of the people out there realize that the education system is not teaching our
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kids how to actually win. Yeah. And if you want evidence of that, if you want evidence of
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that, let's, let's have an honest discussion here. How much of the practical shit that you
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have to deal with on a day-to-day basis did you learn in high school? No, zero. Did you learn how
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to manage your finances? No. Did you learn how to buy a home? No. Did you learn how interest works? Nope.
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Did you learn how checking works? Nope. Did you learn how investing works? No. Okay. Did you learn
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about physical fitness properly? No. Did you learn about developing mental toughness? No. Did you learn
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about any of the success strategies, uh, in terms of, you know, how to be a leader? No. Okay. So
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these are the things that really matter, bro. Like these are the things that are going to make people
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or break people over the course of their life and our school system in America does not teach these
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things. And the reason they don't teach these things is because they want you to be weak. They
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want you to be poor. They want you to suffer. They want you to struggle because if you struggle,
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you need them. All right. So we have to all admit that that's the case right now. Now I'm not saying
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that there is not amazing teachers out there because there are, and I've had some. Okay.
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And funny enough, the ones I thought were the biggest assholes were the ones that did the most
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for me. Yeah. Okay. Uh, but for the most part, collectively, that's not the case. We have a lot
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of people who are teachers because they get three months off of the year and you know, it's really not
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that fucking big of a deal, right? They don't take it serious. And the reason they don't take it
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serious is because it's not a real fucking option for a career. These motherfuckers could be making
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two, three, $400,000. If we just managed, if we managed our budget properly, okay. And didn't send
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money and steal money and our government wash money through, you know, these fucking programs that they
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do. And we could still do that with 15% tax. It all, the math all works. All right. So the first
00:20:56.100
step is to correcting that is to get, build a better career option for people to attract better people
00:21:02.260
who care more, who realize, okay, I can dedicate my full time to this and be great at it. And the
00:21:07.940
greater I am at it, the more I get fucking paid. Right. Okay. So, and we could say that same thing for
00:21:13.380
police and all these things, but that's a way off. Okay. Like we're not getting that shit until
00:21:21.540
you guys elect me. All right. So, uh, so in the meantime, we have to look for alternatives
00:21:30.100
of how to teach our kids and our younger generation, how to be winners, because what's going to fix this
00:21:34.500
country and what's going to create the solution that we're all looking for, uh, which is health,
00:21:40.260
wealth, prosperity, uh, you know, proper balance, mentally happiness, right? Those things,
00:21:48.100
those things are going to be created through the education that you either serve to your children
00:21:53.620
or work with them on or educate them on yourself. They're not going to come from the school system.
00:21:57.620
So you have to rid yourself of that fucking idea. Uh, things that, when that, that were done for me,
00:22:03.620
when I was growing up, you know, I was encouraged to read and did I read a lot? No, but I read enough to
00:22:09.220
realize, Holy shit, man, there's some incredible stories out there. And you know, when I was a kid,
00:22:14.020
my dad made me read, um, uh, I forget what the book's called, but it's about Sam Walton. I think
00:22:19.700
it's called Walton's way or something. And then, or maybe it's Dave's way. There was another one
00:22:23.460
about Wendy's called Dave's way, I think. And then there was a Sam Walton book who was the founder
00:22:27.940
of Walmart. And you re I read those two books when I was a freshman in high school and they changed my
00:22:31.940
whole life. Um, there's a book called the magic of thinking big. Yeah. Sam Walton made in America is
00:22:38.180
the name of the book. Uh, but these are just simple stories of regular people like that.
00:22:42.900
That's not the Walmart that, you know, today, this is just a guy who went out and hustled and created,
00:22:49.060
and these are two amazing entrepreneur stories. And so they gave me, those gave me like,
00:22:54.260
as a young man, uh, 14 years old, some idea that like, Oh shit. Okay. There's a seed planted.
00:23:02.000
It's possible. Yeah. Right. Um, and then, you know, I was encouraged to listen to tapes like
00:23:09.360
Zig Ziglar and Tony Robbins and like these guys back then, that was all we fucking had.
00:23:14.480
So I definitely did that. Now, now we have a lot of personal development people out there in the
00:23:18.720
personal development space is much greater, but it's also much more diluted. You have a lot of people
00:23:24.320
in it that don't really know what they're talking about. Probably shouldn't be in there.
00:23:27.600
Well, well, well, look there, their intentions are good, but they just haven't produced any real
00:23:32.720
fruit. So they're not going to really understand how to teach it properly because they haven't done
00:23:36.800
it. All right. So while I can appreciate someone out there trying to grow their audience to be a,
00:23:43.920
you know, personal development teacher, uh, the reality is the best teachers are going to be the
00:23:49.040
teachers who have done. Okay. Um, and, and that's, that's a good thing for you guys, because
00:23:54.720
besides the books and the tapes and the audios and shit, there's actually good people out there
00:24:00.160
who are willing to teach, you know, teenagers how to fucking win. You know what I mean? For
00:24:04.880
relatively inexpensive too, instead of going and, you know, dropping fucking 300 grand on a college
00:24:10.720
education, it's going to get you a $65,000 a year job. If you're lucky, right? You, you could actually
00:24:17.360
afford these for, you know, a few hundred dollars a month or even sometimes less than that.
00:24:22.240
Yeah. So you have to think about it as real education, right? Like it's not, it's not this
00:24:30.800
extra thing. Like this is the education that you fucking actually need. And so once you start shifting
00:24:36.480
the perspective, we've never had more available knowledge for, for more affordable price ever in
00:24:42.880
the history of time. And it's one of the beautiful things about technology. Like we, we could, I hate
00:24:48.000
technology for the most part, but there is some good things and that's one of them. And, um,
00:24:52.880
I think that, well, and for, and thirdly, uh, you know, I have a solution for this that we're
00:24:58.160
building right now. That's almost done. Uh, and I'm going to talk to you guys about that. You know,
00:25:01.840
I'm getting ready to pour myself back into, uh, the MFCEO project. I'm going to continue,
00:25:06.800
we're going to continue to do this because I love this, right? It lets me get my fucking shit talking
00:25:10.480
out. But, uh, you know, I'm going to start doing my personal development content again,
00:25:15.440
because I feel like the, I feel like the market is ready, more ready for, for the truth of how to win
00:25:22.800
than they ever have been. You know, when I was doing MFCEO back in 2015, we were at the height of the,
00:25:29.360
of the, uh, you know, the fucking politically correct socialists, fucking everybody should be
00:25:35.520
equal equity, blah, blah, blah. That's when that trend was moving that way. Right. This country's
00:25:41.360
not about equity, bro. No, it's about equal opportunity. Okay. And we, and by the way,
00:25:47.040
we need to fix a lot of that. There's a lot of fixing to be done. However, the equity thing that
00:25:52.880
they're hoping for will never fucking happen. And so when you sit there and you think like, oh,
00:25:57.600
if I just wait around, eventually I'm going to have all the shit they have. No.
00:26:00.880
No. And even if it did work, you still wouldn't have the shit they have. It would just equally
00:26:06.240
be nobody has anything. Right. And that's what people fail to understand. But, uh, regardless
00:26:13.280
of all that, the point is you have to take your education into your own hands and you have to take
00:26:18.660
teaching your kids into your own hands and the teachers at school, uh, they're, they're friends
00:26:25.040
like that shit ain't going to get it done, bro. So you have to get your kids in the right opportunity
00:26:29.720
and the right place to learn from people who have actually done. And, uh, there's plenty of that.
00:26:34.120
And I'm not just saying like, for me, like, it's not just me, there's plenty of people out there
00:26:37.480
who've really done shit that are willing to teach it for relatively inexpensively. Um,
00:26:42.560
so I think that's, that's the play. Uh, but I'm excited to, to get this going again,
00:26:48.520
because like I was saying, the moment now people have come to the realization of, oh fuck,
00:26:53.760
this is a shit show. And there's lots of people out there waking up being like, fuck,
00:26:58.080
I better get to work or I better fucking start hustling. And this is the best opportunity for
00:27:03.040
any of you out there. I did a little story about this today. You know, when things are hard
00:27:09.660
and things are uncertain, most people go into their little turtle shell and they try to weather the
00:27:17.720
storm. And every person that I've personally known over the course of history and business,
00:27:22.740
which is extensive now, it's 24 years has lost that way. Okay. They went in their shell and they
00:27:29.200
never came to fuck out. And so how I would choose to look at it, if I were any of you, and this goes
00:27:36.020
for like your business or your career, or also like getting your shit together. Like, let's say
00:27:41.640
you're overweight or you're unhealthy, or you're trying to make a mental change. You want to, you want
00:27:45.640
to fucking pick yourself up from the shit show that you've built for yourself. Now is the fucking
00:27:52.100
time to do it. And I'm going to tell you why. Not only is there not going to be a better time,
00:27:56.400
you know, there's that old saying, like, what's the best time to plant a tree? Well,
00:27:59.460
that was 20 years ago, but when's the second best time? Well, the second best time is fucking right
00:28:03.960
now. No. All right. So we shouldn't agonize over the time that we wasted or spent or squandered.
00:28:10.780
And instead we should realize that right now, most people are going in defense mode. Most people are
00:28:18.020
going in their shell and that creates a tremendous opportunity for someone who wants to improve
00:28:23.240
everything. And if you want to improve everything and you want to rebuild your life, I suggest that
00:28:29.400
you start with your own mental toughness skillset. That means developing your mental fortitude,
00:28:35.920
developing your discipline, developing your grit, developing your ability to persevere,
00:28:42.300
doing that really hard shit in the really hard circumstances is what actually makes you into a
00:28:48.840
fucking warrior that's equipped to just dominate when conditions turn out to be good. Okay. So like
00:28:55.600
if any of you out there are waiting and you're like, Oh, I'm going to do fucking live hard this next
00:28:59.800
year. And you're broke. Start today. Okay. It's fucking free. Right. That's why it's fucking free
00:29:05.160
because it actually fixes people's shit. You know, I read an article today and they're like, Oh,
00:29:09.760
well, you know, most people don't complete it. No shit. That's the point. It's really fucking hard.
00:29:15.020
Right. But, but, and then they went on to say, do people make permanent changes on it? Probably not.
00:29:20.680
Well, I could tell you this. We got a whole bunch of motherfuckers to tell you. Otherwise
00:29:23.860
a whole bunch, but I've never been interviewing the fucking people who didn't do it. Listen, bro. It's one of
00:29:29.520
two things. It's either going to expose your fucking, you're not habitness. Okay. Or it's
00:29:36.640
going to make you a believer in yourself. And I give you the exact, I give you the exact
00:29:42.160
play to run. And I tell you exactly how to run it. And the problem that when it doesn't stick,
00:29:49.520
the reason it doesn't stick is because you compromise the fuck out of it the whole way.
00:29:53.360
And then be like, Oh, I did it. And it was so great. You didn't fucking do it. Right.
00:29:57.640
You made your own fucking rules. You compromise before you even started it. Right. And those
00:30:04.100
compromises that you're making, you are so unaware that you don't realize that those compromises are
00:30:09.360
the things that are keeping you the way that you fucking are. We don't have the luxury as adults or
00:30:15.340
humans or Americans or fucking anything to fix the circumstances to our liking. We don't get to,
00:30:22.900
when things get hard, turn the hardness down because it's too hard for us. So the better option
00:30:29.780
is to build yourself into someone who can weather the storms, who believes in himself, who has mental
00:30:36.340
toughness, who has confidence, who has grit, who has fortitude, and who is equipped to go through the
00:30:40.980
difficult times because we have no control over the difficult times. We only have control on how we
00:30:46.880
move through the difficult times and how we equip ourselves to be prepared for them. And the more
00:30:52.040
hardened you are mentally, the tougher you are mentally, the more inconvenient shit that you
00:30:57.340
put yourself through to get stronger, the better you're going to be when times get good.
00:31:02.980
Okay. And that's the whole game. So, you know, if I were, my recommendation is, is fucking do live
00:31:10.080
hard. Start that shit right now. You start with 75 hard and there's three following phases, commit the
00:31:14.000
whole fucking year to it. Your life will be different if you do it the way it's fucking outlined.
00:31:19.240
If you don't, I can't guarantee you shit. You know, I can always tell if people fucking
00:31:25.060
actually did it or not. It's very simple to tell because the people who did it, they get
00:31:30.180
in, they get, they get done with 75 real days and they're like, fuck, I don't want to fucking
00:31:35.160
stop. And the motherfuckers that compromise, you know what they do? They fuck your beer.
00:31:40.800
That's right. They're fucking drinking a celebratory beer. They have not learned their
00:31:44.620
lesson. They're fucking eating a celebratory fucking massive meal, bro. You just went
00:31:50.040
back to the same old version of your shitty self. That's gotten you into this place of
00:31:55.260
self fucking destruction and lack of satisfaction and unhappiness in your life. What the fuck
00:32:01.380
did you do? The only reason you didn't learn that is because you didn't do it right.
00:32:04.700
And I'll argue anybody with that. I fucking know what it does. You know why? Cause I
00:32:10.840
fucking live it. So anyway, guys, our third and final question, uh, any question number
00:32:17.160
three, how often do you evaluate your circle of trusted friends and those who have access
00:32:23.280
to you? Uh, we have all heard the saying you are the sum of the five people that surround
00:32:27.460
you. So how often do you, or should you monitor and adjust this?
00:32:33.360
Man, that's a, that's a, that's a kind of a hard question. Um, I don't have a set system
00:32:38.600
for like, there's no alarm that goes off my phone and say, Hey, it's time to evaluate
00:32:42.760
your friends. You know, um, I think, yeah. And by the way, like, bro, some of you guys overanalyze
00:32:50.260
things way too much. Like there's not a system for every single little thing. Sometimes there's
00:32:55.360
some nuance and you just got to feel your way through it. Uh, typically what I found,
00:33:03.260
you know, is that you are going to have very few friends. It's just reality. Um, you might
00:33:09.140
be able to count on one or one or two hands, people that are like actually happy for you.
00:33:14.660
And then you have a whole bunch of people that pretend to be happy for you that really
00:33:17.900
are indifferent. And then you have people that pretend to be happy for you that are actually
00:33:21.060
fucking hateful about it. And I think the way to look at this is that you want to identify the
00:33:28.920
people who are going to, you know, smile on your face, but then, uh, make it harder for you in the
00:33:33.480
background. Those are the people you really need to worry about getting rid of. Um, because that
00:33:38.740
shit will happen. You will have people that you do everything for. And by the way, I've also found
00:33:43.460
that the more I've done for certain people, the more entitled they become. And the minute I can't
00:33:48.960
give them whatever it is I help them out with, I'm the bad guy. And then those people will actually
00:33:54.200
literally try to sabotage your shit. And, and so like what I've learned, honestly, uh, is a couple
00:33:59.900
things. One, um, I've learned that not everybody's your friend. I've learned that a lot of people will
00:34:06.060
pretend to be your friend. Uh, and they want it, but really what they want is they want what you have.
00:34:12.740
Um, those people you should look at, like kind of like high school kids, bro, that like,
00:34:17.900
just want to be like you, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't get offended by that
00:34:20.640
shit. Like, like when, when, when, when, when people want to be in my proximity and I know that
00:34:25.760
they're, they're somewhat jealous or a little bit, it's not because they're really jealous. It's
00:34:30.680
because they don't have what I have. And so I look at it as an opportunity to kind of bring those dudes
00:34:34.880
up or those, those people up. Does that make sense? Um, because ultimately what they want to do is
00:34:40.740
they want to be like you. Uh, and then, you know, you have the problem, you have the friends,
00:34:44.980
like I said before that, that are not your fucking friends though. And they may, they're
00:34:49.520
really good at making you think they are, and then they'll fuck you. And so my solution there is to,
00:34:55.060
um, because every one of those scenarios, the big ones, the ones that were really fucking hurt,
00:35:01.840
um, they were created out of a situation where I was doing extra for that person. That person became
00:35:09.800
entitled. Then when I said no, or I couldn't fulfill whatever that was that I was doing before,
00:35:15.520
um, I was the bad guy. Do you think that's because you wasn't aware of the entitlement
00:35:20.160
like building up or no, it's because I, I do exactly what the Democrats are doing now.
00:35:25.280
I assume that everybody has the same intent as me and that they have a good heart and they won't do
00:35:29.160
that kind of shit to people. Right. Right. And that's, what's getting the Democrat,
00:35:32.800
the good Democrats in trouble right now. Um, so that's been a hard lesson for me. Yeah. So like
00:35:38.940
when I speak about that in a political scenario, I get it. Like it's a fucking hard lesson to learn,
00:35:43.320
but the truth is there's a lot of people out there that are just not good people and none of
00:35:47.520
them walk around saying, Hey, I'm not a good guy. There's no like fucking, no, they're usually
00:35:50.740
really good on their forehead. No, bro. Because they're such not a good person. They're usually
00:35:56.380
really good at pretending as if they are. And so like, that's that's what makes them hard to identify.
00:36:02.160
And so the, what the solution I found to this, because it is hard to identify who those people are
00:36:07.640
and who they become, because some people develop that after a while, you know what I'm saying?
00:36:11.780
Um, and if you eliminate everybody, you don't have any fucking people to hang out with or friends
00:36:17.320
and do the good people never even get a chance to come in or you call hearted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:22.020
You know what I'm saying? Like you miss so much of life by being like, fuck it. I'm keeping my
00:36:25.540
circle with the one person. Um, so what I've learned, bro, is that, you know, when scenarios happen,
00:36:32.480
uh, that people have, are about to result, they're about to reap the results of their own actions,
00:36:41.860
uh, I don't step in front of it anymore. So, oh man, I think people are going to miss that, bro.
00:36:49.580
Well, okay. So what I'm saying is when you start to have some means and you start to have some,
00:36:54.000
some ability to solve problems, right? Like for me to give someone $500, it, I don't feel that.
00:37:00.420
Right. Right. And so it might make the world of difference to this person,
00:37:05.020
but the reason it makes a world of difference to this person is because they haven't been
00:37:10.040
handling their shit. All right. And because I, I have a good heart, like everybody listening does,
00:37:16.840
we want to be generous and help those people. And then what happens is those people become,
00:37:21.740
you know, at first it's the greatest thing in the world. You save their life,
00:37:25.200
you pull them out of a hole, you did this, that, the other, but then all of a sudden now there's a
00:37:29.960
new hole. And then there's a new one. And, and, and then what happens is, you know,
00:37:36.840
the resentment kind of starts, you start feeling it, but now you don't know how to stop it.
00:37:40.880
Yeah. And it's very tough and it's a very difficult situation. It makes you feel really
00:37:45.260
shitty. Um, but I think what I've learned is that I only do those things for people that I really
00:37:53.900
trust and think are good people. Yeah. Right. Because years ago I would do it for, I was more,
00:38:00.540
uh, liberal with, with that right now I've gotten more selective with that to where like, you know,
00:38:07.760
like if I've known someone for a long time, they've paid their dues, you know, they've supported me,
00:38:13.040
they've done things that, and I trust them and I know who the fuck they are like at their core.
00:38:17.640
Those are the people who like when, when they get in a tight spot, I would be willing to help with
00:38:22.740
the solution, but I don't just do it indiscriminately. Like I used to. Yeah. Cause
00:38:26.780
what lesson are you preventing them from learning? That's correct. That's a big, that's a big thing
00:38:30.480
that people don't understand. It took me a long time to understand this. When you step in the way of
00:38:36.600
the karmic result of whatever actions they've been taking, right? You prevent them from learning the
00:38:44.040
lesson. And when they don't learn the lesson, they start to repeat the mistake over again.
00:38:48.220
And when they repeat the, when they repeat the mistake over again, um, they can't identify that
00:38:54.620
they did anything wrong because they didn't learn a lesson the first time and they get hit even harder
00:38:58.940
the next time. And then a lot of times they, they, they still can't figure it out because that one time
00:39:04.260
it worked out. Right. And it continues to become an issue. Does that, does that make sense?
00:39:08.720
Absolutely. And so, you know, I think it's important for us to be, uh,
00:39:12.680
and all that, that lesson has to get like that shit gets rolled down to, it has to get rolled
00:39:16.880
down to somebody. Well, when you step in front of someone's karma, like because you're protecting
00:39:23.380
them, you end up feeling the brunt of that karmic response. It has to go somewhere.
00:39:27.020
Yeah, exactly. Energy's not created or destroyed. That's right. And, and that's something that's
00:39:31.700
been hard for me. That's so powerful shit, man. Yeah. But bro, I've, I have a, I have a great
00:39:35.880
life. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So I try to take care of the people who have helped me,
00:39:39.460
you know what I mean? And those people, but like, uh, and in a lot of you guys, you know,
00:39:45.140
you're just at the beginning of the journey and you're hearing this and you're not really
00:39:47.820
understanding what I'm saying, but one day you will. Uh, because as you become successful,
00:39:52.980
as you build more and more success, a lot of people that you knew will start looking at you,
00:39:59.880
not as a person anymore, but as a potential solution to their problem. And that's, that's a
00:40:06.540
very lonely feeling. That's why people say, Oh, it's lonely at the top. Well, it's not really
00:40:10.260
lonely at the top. You're just bad at filtering out the people that shouldn't be at the top.
00:40:14.520
You see what I'm saying? Yeah. So like all my friends, if I scroll down through my fucking
00:40:18.360
phone list right now, like my recent calls, every fucking one of them is a winner. I don't
00:40:22.160
fuck with people that don't win. And that's an important thing. Like my relationships now are
00:40:27.860
much stronger, much better, much more fulfilling than they ever were at any other time, you know,
00:40:34.160
before, even all the way back to when I was born, you know, because these people are aligned with me
00:40:39.660
and that's not to say anything negative about anybody in the past, because bro, like, honestly,
00:40:44.860
the truth is, is like any one of them could have chose to come with me. Right. You know,
00:40:49.140
but the truth is a lot of people made fun of me. A lot of people questioned me. A lot of people put
00:40:53.440
doubt in my mind, you know, when they had the opportunity to fucking jump in and grab a shovel and
00:40:58.120
start fucking digging, you know what I'm saying? So, um, you know, the people that dig with me or the
00:41:03.800
people I try to fucking, you know, take care of. And, um, I think it's an important lesson for
00:41:09.920
people to really think about, you know, especially from the aspect of, if you really love someone,
00:41:13.680
I think parents really understand this. Right. Uh, and I, you know, it took me a long time,
00:41:18.840
probably because I never had kids. Uh, but you know, if you don't let your kid learn a fucking
00:41:23.380
lesson, that's dangerous, right? Like if you can tell them the stove hot, you can tell them that
00:41:28.140
the stove is hot. Yeah. But I'm just saying like, there's dangerous situations like, like,
00:41:32.660
you know, you would rather your kid, uh, walk to the edge of the, uh, swimming pool while you're
00:41:38.860
standing right there and have them fall in and you grab them. Okay. Then to do it when you're not
00:41:43.460
watching, you get what I'm saying? And, uh, and so I think it's important for everybody to realize
00:41:51.380
that not everybody fucking thinks the same. This is really a heart issue. Not everybody has the same
00:41:56.540
heart as you. And this is why so many people in America are being manipulated, right? You're
00:42:00.480
taking advantage of it. Right. Because the, and this is why I can't stand the, the, some of the,
00:42:04.960
the division happening in the streets or on the internet and hatred and the shit. Right. Because
00:42:11.020
like a lot of these people that have been going along with the narrative, they're just, they're
00:42:16.080
just trusting good people. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? And they've been taking
00:42:20.020
advantage of. We, we are doing what they've done all these years. That's right. We, as the people who
00:42:24.900
see what the fuck is going on, have to make a place for those people to come around. They're
00:42:28.200
on our team, you know? So I don't know, man. No, I'll fucking love it, man. That's some powerful
00:42:34.720
shit. Yeah. Guys, Andy, that's three. That's three, man. Yeah. Go pay the fee. So guys, real,
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real quick, uh, Arte Syndicate live Nashville, uh, November 5th. There's still a few tickets
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available. There is a live stream available. You can learn about that at artesyndicate.com. Um,
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I want to remind you that I do have the MS CEO project coming back. I've already recorded
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a few episodes. They're fucking really good. Uh, not that they wouldn't be. Um, but I'm
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really excited about this project that we have coming up because I think it's going to provide
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a big solution, uh, for, for, I think it was question two that you asked about the younger
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people kind of learning how to win. Um, I'm committed to that because I think that's what
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we fucking need. And I'm really excited about that. And honestly, the truth is the bread
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and butter of me is the personal development content. Anyway, that's where I'm fucking,
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that's where I'm my best. Uh, it's where I'm my happiest too. So I'm excited about that
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project. I'm excited about making that impact. Um, but, but yeah, man, uh, you know, I appreciate
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all you guys. I appreciate all the support you show the show. And, uh, if you feel so inclined,
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if you thought this was valuable, please share it on the floor. Now my jury box froze, fuck
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a boat, fuck a stove, counted millions in the cold, bad bitch, booted slow, got her on bank
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roll. Can't fold. That's a no headshot case. Close.